Hearing the Voice (part 1)
Thu 21st Mar '19, 10:00am
Researchers from Durham University introduce their interdisciplinary study of voice-hearing.
Writing on Air 2019
WOA ’19 is a broadcast festival of writing. It will happen over four days, 21st-24th March at Chapel FM Arts Centre, our beautiful state-of-the-art studio and performance complex in East Leeds set in a restored Methodist chapel. East Leeds FM, which started in 2003, broadcasts to an annual local and global listenership of over 35,000 people.
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Programme First Story
Thu 21st Mar '19, 10:30am
First Story brings professional writers to secondary schools to work with pupils and teachers. The young writers return to Chapel FM to share their work.
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Programme Let them Speak
Thu 21st Mar '19, 12:00pm
Stu Hennigan from Leeds Libraries reads the winning entries from a short story competition for schools in the Leeds East Primary Partnership.
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Programme Scattering Sounds
Thu 21st Mar '19, 12:20pm
Silence and speaking out; Chapel FM’s young Associate Writers sow their ideas in our ears.
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Programme Who’s Listening?
Thu 21st Mar '19, 12:45pm
Young people from Chapel FM’s Next Generation Foundation course teach us the art of conversation.
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Programme Runcible Spoon
Thu 21st Mar '19, 1:00pm
Kathleen Strafford reads from her new collection Tell it to the Moon, with guest Andrea Hardaker.
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Programme Seven Ages of Humankind
Thu 21st Mar '19, 2:00pm
From mewling in nurse’s arms to sans everything, The Agbrigg Writers give their take on Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man.
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Programme Maturing the Voice
Thu 21st Mar '19, 3:00pm
What’s it like to find your writing voice later in life? Alison Lock and Rachel Kerr review their journey.
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Programme Odd Jobs
Thu 21st Mar '19, 3:45pm
Mike Thompson’s dreams of being a professional footballer were dashed. How did he fill the void? He tells Linda Sage.
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Programme When Caring Ends
Thu 21st Mar '19, 4:20pm
Your life’s been about looking after a loved one. Now they’re gone, what next? Helen Thompson shares her thoughts.
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Programme Writing in Style
Thu 21st Mar '19, 5:30pm
Leeds Beckett Writers speak about finding their voice in a populated writing community. What’s it mean to be a writer now?
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Programme Drama at the Chapel
Thu 21st Mar '19, 6:15pm
Chapel FM’s Next Generation Drama Group give us a sneaky peek into their world.
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Programme Stories from Stone
Thu 21st Mar '19, 6:30pm
Five authors share poetry and prose from ‘Stories from Stone’, inspired by Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford.
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Programme Goddess Summons
Thu 21st Mar '19, 6:45pm
Capitalism and Nationalism against Nature and Humanity? Only poetry can save us! Antonio Martínez Arboleda is interviewed by Mike Baynham.
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Programme The Winter Wind
Thu 21st Mar '19, 7:00pm
How did Shakespeare sound when he spoke his own sonnets? Find out with Professor Richard Rastall and lutenist Helen Atkinson.
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Programme Unborn
Thu 21st Mar '19, 8:00pm
A play by Neil Rathmell about gender inequality in India, first performed by students at Punjabi University, Patiala.
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Programme The Food of Love
Thu 21st Mar '19, 9:00pm
Jacqueline Saville, Rosalind York and Emily Devane, with Keely Hodgson (cello) and Karen Vaughan (violin),show the ways music can speak for and to us.
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Programme Savages Out Loud
Thu 21st Mar '19, 10:00pm
Open Mic hosted by The Leeds Savage Club, featuring poet Amy Kinsman.
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Programme Hearing the Voice (part 2)
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 10:00am
HtV is the interdisciplinary study of voice-hearing at Durham University which inspired WOA19’s festival theme.
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Programme Specially Selected
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 10:30am
A gathering of poetic spoken word and nostalgic music from Jaimes Lewis Moran’s first poetry collection.
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Programme The Voice of Reason (1)
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 10:45am
Aladdin Green is amazed that rubbing an old lamp produces a genie wearing overalls, a hard hat, and hiviz jacket. What to wish for? Story by Geoff Reiss.
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Programme A Proper Conversation
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 11:00am
Hearing voices is often associated with ‘madness’. A short drama by John Martin that challenges the stigma.
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Programme The Voice of Reason (2)
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 11:15am
Sleeping Beauty’s 100-year sleep is nearing its end. Her carer dusts her off every day. Will a prince arrive in time? Story by Geoff Reiss.
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Programme An Otley Run
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 11:45am
Jimmy Andrex talks to Joe Williams about his recent verse novella narrated in the multiple voices of drinkers on the famous Otley Run.
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Programme Double Story 1
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 12:15pm
After everyone you love melts away, there’s no one left to lose; short fiction from Amaylia Dewis. Plus Chapel FM resident storyteller, Vickie Orton.
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Programme Double Story 2
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 1:00pm
Short fiction from Monica Dickson. What would a bag of sweets sound like if they spoke to you?
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Programme Speak up!
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 1:15pm
The Deli team deliver their inimitable smorgasbord of poetry, comedy, discussion and music.
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Programme In the Dark
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 2:30pm
A man wakes up with a hangover. Pitch dark, unknown room. Where is he? What happened? Dark drama by James Fernie.
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Programme 1977
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 2:45pm
A girl’s life explodes in puberty. Forty years later the hormones disappear overnight after a hysterectomy. Bitter transition comedy in diaries and song by Ali Bullivent
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Programme Speechless
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 3:45pm
What’s it like not to be able to speak? How do we hear the speechless? Jimmy Andrex interviews poet Jane Kite.
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Programme Strangers in a Strange Land
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 4:30pm
What does home mean? Poems by adults discovering their creativity in English, with Pascha Taylor.
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Programme Half Moon Spoken
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 5:15pm
Eleven Half Moon poets read and talk about each other’s poems.
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Programme Poetry DNA
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 6:15pm
Poets Tom Weir and Nick Allen reveal to James Fountain how their key influences have shaped their poetic DNA.
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Programme Jo Berry
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 7:15pm
Jo’s father was killed in the Brighton bombing of 1984. She has spent the last 18 years in dialogue with the ex-IRA combatant who planted the bomb. She talks to Mike Winter.
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Programme Stupidity is not the problem
Fri 22nd Mar '19, 8:30pm
Poetry with music hosted by Jimmy Andrex to provoke debate about economic inequality, based on Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman.
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Programme Hearing the Voice (part 3)
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 10:00am
The final instalment in our series from Hearing The Voice, the research project at Durham University.
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Programme Poetry of Art
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 11:30am
Poets give voices to their favourite works of art in Leeds Art Gallery, introduced by Sandra Burnett.
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Programme Origins of a Writer: Kevin Phillips
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 11:30am
In the latest in his series, Jaimes Lewis Moran talks to writer Kevin Phillips about his experiences.
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Programme Haiku Half Hour
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 12:15pm
Poet Joe Williams challenges a selection of local writers to create micro-poetry using the 5-7-5 haiku form.
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Programme Learning to be Heard
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 1:15pm
Gill Lambert brings her students from Swarthmore to read their poems and stories.
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Programme The Importance of Being Indie
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 2:00pm
A panel discusses independent publishers and marginalised voices in contemporary literature, with Kevin Duffy (BlueMoose), Jeremy Poynting (PeePal Tree) and author SJ Bradley.
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Programme Community Voice
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 3:00pm
How do local people get heard? Linda Sage hosts a panel of representatives from the Police, the Health Service and the Council.
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Programme The Continuing Stories of People We Used to Know
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 3:45pm
Two friends dip into their memories (real and imagined) to tell sweet surreal stories about people they used to know before they knew each other.
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Programme Unexpected Voices
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 4:30pm
How to find your voice when you have a disability? Vickie Orton and guests present stories told through art, song and symbols.
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Programme Forget Me Knot
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 5:30pm
Three female writers search the world for the lost heart of communication. What else will they find on the journey?
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Programme Our Voice Matters
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 5:45pm
Children from Fun Face Drama tell us what matters to them, and why they won’t be silenced.
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Programme Inkwell: Transforming with Poetry
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 6:00pm
Resist, heal, engage, transcend; words from the heart making a difference in people’s lives.
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Programme Yaffle
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 7:00pm
New local poetry publisher Yaffle showcase both new and familiar voices reading from their forthcoming pamphlets and collections.
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Programme Studio 12
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 8:15pm
A selection of spoken word performances from the Manifesto in Verse project, exploring how borders affect our personal, public and political lives.
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Programme Windrush
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 9:00pm
Malika Booker, Khadijah Ibrahiim, and Vahni Capildeo talk about Colonizinin Reverse, their poetic response to Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land
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Programme Angles of Light (Part2)
Sat 23rd Mar '19, 9:45pm
Juleus Ghunta introduces a panoply of poets from The Caribbean in this bumper follow-up to Part 1 which aired on Love The Words.
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Programme Tune in and Turn on
Sun 24th Mar '19, 10:00am
Poet Helen Burke with Phil Pattinson dial up voices of protest, from Beethoven to The Beats.
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Programme The Fear
Sun 24th Mar '19, 11:00am
Challenge the irrational beliefs that give fear its foundations, with Linda Sage
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Programme InValids
Sun 24th Mar '19, 11:30am
Set in a support group, this play by Fay Kesby explores the commonalities of oppression and the deep, meaningful love of biscuits.
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Programme The Prose Poem
Sun 24th Mar '19, 12:15pm
Prose Poetry is surging in popularity. Oz Hardwick and Hannah Stone offer a celebration of the form, along with a discussion of its characteristics and potential.
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Programme Walking on Air
Sun 24th Mar '19, 1:15pm
Maggie Mash chats with Anglo-American poet Lydia Kennaway about her new pamphlet, A History of Walking.
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Programme Phenomena: The Forgotten Works
Sun 24th Mar '19, 2:00pm
Word, music and electronic sound in which time stretches, space becomes permeable, and lost voices speak again
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Programme Savages on Air
Sun 24th Mar '19, 3:00pm
The oldest-established writing group in Yorkshire read pieces exploring the theme of Voices.
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Programme Laura Potts
Sun 24th Mar '19, 4:30pm
Laura talks about the musical and literary influences which have shaped her work from childhood verse to adult voice.
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Programme Queens of Dawson City
Sun 24th Mar '19, 5:00pm
Meet Slitherbi, Gloit, Mucky Carol, Agatha Hard-Boiled Gelding III, and Reverend Pike. Meanwhile a Naculator is up to no good.
Full Programme for W.O.A - 2019
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