First Story
Fri 1st Oct '21, 10:30am
Young writers from West Yorkshire schools return to Chapel FM. First Story is a national organization bringing professional writers to secondary schools.
Writing on Air 2021 Part 2
Writing on Air is a festival of words on the radio broadcast on East Leeds FM. The theme this year is Vision and features a host of programmes including radio dramas, readings, live music, all created by local writers and also mostly live from the Chapel FM Arts Centre Studios.
Schedule
From Friday 1st October - Sunday 3rd October
Next programme
When: Show schedule currently unknown
Step Up and Out
Fri 1st Oct '21, 12:30pm
Students from Rodillian High present stories and poems about seeing and being seen.
Red Kite: Writing On Air 2021
Fri 1st Oct '21, 1:30pm
Red Kite is Chapel FM’s regular show made by and for young people.
Womb Stories
Fri 1st Oct '21, 2:30pm
An exploration of stories from the womb by Charlotte Carrick and Holly Early, accompanied by experimental audio
Wild Geese
Fri 1st Oct '21, 3:30pm
Repentance? Despair? John Irving Clarke and the Agbrigg Writers discuss what they see in Mary Oliver’s vivid poem.
What Did Jane Eyre See?
Fri 1st Oct '21, 4:30pm
Geraldine Beattie talks about Jane Eyre's visions/vision: Bronte's Jane had fascinating perspectives to bring to that marriage, Reader!
The Great Debate
Fri 1st Oct '21, 5:45pm
Chapel FM’s radio theatre turns mini-parliament for a free-spirited debate about Seacroft, past, present and future
Leeds Creatives United
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 10:00am
Playwright Jonathan Hall talks about new ways to bring Leeds theatre makers together, post-pandemic
Vickie and DB
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 11:00am
Vickie Orton welcomes guest storyteller, disability rights activist, musician and author, DB, who premieres his latest stories and musical compositions
Served with a Runcible Spoon
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 12:00pm
Runcible Spoon poets gives us their angle on where we are, who we are, and what exactly we’re doing here
Through the Eyes of a Child.
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 1:00pm
Lydia Kennaway reads poems about her early visual impairment, with poet and GP Emma Storr.
In-Tense
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 2:00pm
In Stefan Grieve’s drama, three people are trapped. One can only see the past, one the future, the other the present. How to escape?
A Ship, A Dream
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 2:45pm
It’s 1934 and Lawrence of Arabia is secretly designing super-fast ships for the Navy. Really? True story from Nicholas Bielby.
The Blanket
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 3:45pm
The blanket is a birthday present, a love story, a fifty year old memoir and a revelation. From Jane Kite
A View From Here
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 6:00pm
The Performance Ensemble tell us in poetry, dance and song how the world looks from an older perspective. Art with the wisdom of experience
Oasis
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 6:45pm
Nick Ellerby, from Oasis School of Human Relations, is quizzed by young activists from Chapel FM about his vision for the future
High Risk
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 8:00pm
What’s prison really like? An eloquent and powerfully affecting interactive spoken word performance by ex-offenders, plus Q&A.
Loudspeaker Live
Sat 2nd Oct '21, 9:30pm
D3 and Sarah Autumn present a Live version of this monthly spoken word show
The Way We See It
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 11:30am
Otley Poets respond to Antony Gormley’s 'Earth Above Ground' and 'Brick Man' in Leeds Art Gallery
Who Sees? Who Says?
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 12:30pm
Writers from the Northern Short Story Festival Academy explore point of view and perspective.
Seeing Through The Mask
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 2:00pm
What if the mask is a wheelchair or a white stick, or make-up? Storyteller Vickie Orton with guests.
Organ-ised
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 3:30pm
In Helen Shay’s play, a girl comes to Seacroft to sort out a late relative’s estate and discovers strange, unexpected music in her family’s past
Yaffle Presents
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 6:00pm
Local independent press Yaffle bring together a gaggle of poets under their publishing wing.
I Am The Landscape
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 6:45pm
Poems inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, from poet Clare Wigzell.
It’s a Miracle
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 7:30pm
An old secret between two old ladies finally comes to light. Short story by Neil Rathmell, performed by Pam Hilton
Tower of Song
Sun 3rd Oct '21, 8:30pm
Well-versed in the art of writing to theme, regulars of fabulous songwriters’ night Tower of Song perform Vision songs to round off Writing on Air 2021