Writing on Air 2021 Part 1

A two and a half day festival with over 30 programmes of literature on the radio, all made by writers and readers in Yorkshire. This year's theme is Vision.

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    Red Kite Writing on Air Special

    Fri 26th Mar '21, 5:00pm

    The Red Kite youth explore the theme of vision as part of the 2021 Writing on Air Festival and feature a chat with new Chapel FM Cafe Manager Vik Perrett about her vision.

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    Red Kite Writing on Air Special

    Fri 26th Mar '21, 5:00pm

    The Red Kite youth explore the theme of vision as part of the 2021 Writing on Air Festival and feature a chat with new Chapel FM Cafe Manager Vik Perrett about her vision.

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    Blend

    Fri 26th Mar '21, 6:30pm

    Can we really create our own image? Sound collage from Charlotte Carrick and Lydia Allison.

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    Open Eye 1

    Fri 26th Mar '21, 7:30pm

    Open Mic opportunity for writers to share work on the theme of Vision.

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    Blind Father Blues

    Fri 26th Mar '21, 9:00pm

    Blind teenager Matt Rizzo became a poet after being mentored in jail by a famous murderer. True tale from Tony Macaluso.

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    The Medical Eye, Part 1

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 1:00pm

    Emma Storr explores the history of eye disease and innovative treatments over the centuries.

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    Memento Mori

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 1:15pm

    Tony Macaluso talks to Better Songs about their podcast series on legendary photographer, Peter Mitchell.

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    The Melody & The Darkness

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 2:00pm

    Trapped in her tower, a girl begins to believe another life is possible when she hears music. From John Biglands.

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    The Psychology of Visual Perception

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 2:15pm

    Doug Sandle explains how visual sensations become a 3D picture of the world around us.

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    Through The Looking Glass

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 3:00pm

    Delft 1666. Phil Pattinson and Tanya Parker peer through the lens of Van Leeuwenhoek, father of microbiology.

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    All Quiet on the West Riding Front?

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 4:00pm

    What really happened at Barnbow on the 5 th December 1916? Docu-drama from Claire Crossdale.

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    The Medical Eye, Part 2

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 4:45pm

    Emma Storr explores the history of eye disease and innovative treatments over the centuries.

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    Director’s Vision

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 5:00pm

    Chapel FM Co-Director Adrian Sinclair talks to Jaimes Lewis Moran in an interview recorded in 2019.

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    Tower of Song: The Story So Far

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 6:00pm

    Nicky Bray and Carl Flattery tell us about this popular monthly night for songwriters.

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    Oasis

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 6:45pm

    Nick Ellerby from Oasis School of Human Relations talks about change to young people at Chapel FM.

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    Leeds/Dortmund 50

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 7:15pm

    Writers from The LiteraturRaum in our German twin city send us a glimpse into their lives.

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    Tower of Song Presents

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 8:00pm

    Nicky Bray and Carl Flattery introduce tracks on past Tower Of Song themes alongside brand new songs on Vision.

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    The Medical Eye, Part 3

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 9:00pm

    Emma Storr explores the history of eye disease and innovative treatments over the centuries.

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    Mirror, Mirror

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 9:15pm

    A fairy tale by Melissa Wuidart Phillips. How do we see ourselves? How do others see us?

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    The Future’s Already Here

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 9:30pm

    Someone’s coming between Eleanor and her boyfriend. But the third party isn’t human. Drama from James Fernie.

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    The Visionary Lawrence

    Sat 27th Mar '21, 10:00pm

    Laura Potts explores the lust and the fury of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. With music by Keely Hodgson and Dan Wilcox.

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    Attention

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 9:00am

    Writers from Chapel FM Writing Group and Associate Writers about the art of looking.

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    The Deli

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 9:45am

    Deli. Poetry, comedy, music, discussion from Chapel FM’s much-loved and longest-standing regular show.

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    Director’s Vision

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 11:00am

    Chapel FM Co-Director Tony Macaluso talks to Jaimes Lewis Moran in an interview recorded in 2019.

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    The Medical Eye, Part 4

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 11:45am

    Emma Storr explores the history of eye disease and innovative treatments over the centuries.

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    Unrequited

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 12:00pm

    After months of making tea for departed lovers, the realisation comes: ghosts aren’t grey. Short fiction from Amaylia Dewis.

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    Do You Want An Apple?

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 12:15pm

    At age sixty seven, Madeleine Wuidart goes off to university. What does she discover there?

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    Bacon’s Perspective

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 12:30pm

    Keen Oxford student Roger Bacon urges the top brass to fund his innovative eye-glasses. Comedy drama by Pam Hilton.

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    Is That You?

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 12:45pm

    A woman lies dying in Swedish snows. An eerie dream from writers on Chapel FM’s Next Generation Music Course.

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    Sound and Vision

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 1:00pm

    A bumper audio anthology of poetry, flash fiction and music edited and presented by Joe Williams.

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    The Great Yorkshire Buffet

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 2:30pm

    A wedding, a scandal. Tabitha dreams nothing can possibly go wrong. Comedy with sauce.

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    Open Eye 2

    Sun 28th Mar '21, 3:30pm

    Open Mic opportunity for writers to share work on the theme of Vision.

Writing on Air 2021 Schedule

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Meet Slitherbi, Gloit, Mucky Carol, Agatha Hard-Boiled Gelding III, and Reverend Pike. Meanwhile a Naculator is up to no good.

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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.