Writing On Air 2022: PEEPAL TREE PRESS
Wed 23rd Nov '22, 7:30pm
Chapel FM Director Tony Macaluso in conversation with Jeremy Poynting, Founder of Peepal Tree Press
WRITING ON AIR 2022
Writing On Air is back! Writing On Air is a literature festival on the radio. Now in its 8th year, all programmes are conceived and created by upwards of 200 writers, readers, and performers from across Leeds and West Yorkshire, supported by the Chapel FM team.
Schedule
Wed 23rd - Sunday 27th Nov 2022
Next programme
When: Show schedule currently unknown
Writing On Air 2022: UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Wed 23rd Nov '22, 8:30pm
Moving performance of Seni Seneviratne’s poems inspired by her father who served as a radio operator in World War Two.
Writing On Air 2022: SAMANTHA THORNHILL
Wed 23rd Nov '22, 9:45pm
From her Trinidad home, Samantha talks about her vivid new poetry collection The Animated Universe (Peepal Tree Press).
THE KITCHEN DISPENSARY (Part 1)
Thu 24th Nov '22, 11:45am
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present. Fascinating exploration of therapeutic recipes.
Writing On Air 2022: WRITING OUR HAREHILLS
Thu 24th Nov '22, 12:00pm
Harehills locals challenge media narratives about Harehills with poetry written alongside writer Suhaimymah Manzoor-Khan
Writing On Air 2022: WHEREVER I LAY ME HAT
Thu 24th Nov '22, 1:00pm
Geraldine Beattie talks about how books can make a home, wherever you live.
Writing On Air 2022: GOING TO THE DEVIL
Thu 24th Nov '22, 2:00pm
Martin Riley’s miracle-realist short story unpacks a Jewish Boy’s Primitive Catholic upbringing.
Writing On Air 2022: BRINGING UP HOME
Thu 24th Nov '22, 2:30pm
Blue grit, skirting and mixed grass seeds come together in this prose poem by Jaspreet Mander.
Writing On Air 2022: MUCK/WHITE
Thu 24th Nov '22, 3:00pm
Different takes on Home: Marg Greenwood on the isle of Muck and Susan Darlington’s visceral poetry on womanhood.
Writing On Air 2022: RAINBOW
Thu 24th Nov '22, 4:00pm
A variety of characters journey to celebrate Pride. Melissa Wuidart Phillips’ powerfully emotive short fiction.
Writing On Air 2022: HMPRIDE
Thu 24th Nov '22, 4:30pm
How many officers does it take to organise the first-ever prison Pride event? Standfast Productions return to Chapel FM.
Writing On Air 2022: THE FUTURE, IT’S A FIX!
Thu 24th Nov '22, 5:30pm
How’s it going to be? Twenty years on at home with the family? Soundscape by Caroline Noh with Jaimes Lewis Moran.
Writing On Air 2022: MOORTOWN
Thu 24th Nov '22, 6:00pm
Children from Allerton CE Primary dig deep into the history of Moortown with Matthew Bellwood and Emma Baim..
150 WORDS AS I WAIT FOR A TREE TO GROW BACK (Part 1)
Thu 24th Nov '22, 6:00pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
THE KITCHEN DISPENSARY (Part 2)
Thu 24th Nov '22, 7:15pm
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present prepared at home, an exploration of therapeutic recipes in 6 parts.
Writing On Air 2022: ANATOMY OF A CITY
Thu 24th Nov '22, 7:30pm
Poppy Jennings and Jack Collins chat poetry with Leeds writers about home comforts and an ever-changing city
Writing On Air 2022: QUEER HOUSE PARTY
Thu 24th Nov '22, 9:15pm
Queer House Party showcases the best queer poetic talent, proving that through poetry everyone has a home.
150 WORDS AS I WAIT FOR A TREE TO GROW BACK (Part 2)
Thu 24th Nov '22, 10:45pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
THE KITCHEN DISPENSARY (Part 3)
Fri 25th Nov '22, 11:00am
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present prepared at home. Therapeutic recipes mined.
Writing On Air 2022: FIRST STORY
Fri 25th Nov '22, 11:15am
Young writers from West Yorkshire schools return to Chapel FM. First Story brings professional writers to secondary schools
THE KITCHEN DISPENSARY (Part 4)
Fri 25th Nov '22, 12:15pm
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present prepared at home.
Writing On Air 2022: EVERYTHING IS bO2B
Fri 25th Nov '22, 12:30pm
The adventures of a single molecule from the big bang to infinity with all of human history in between.
Writing On Air 2022: AT HOME IN LEEDS?
Fri 25th Nov '22, 1:00pm
Interview with Ukrainian journalist Olha Pravdenko about her work in Poltava before the war, and now in Leeds.
Writing On Air 2022: COMING HOME
Fri 25th Nov '22, 2:00pm
Madeleine Wuidart explores in words and sound what it means to have a diagnosis of autism at the age of 69.
Writing On Air 2022: LIFTING THE LAMP
Fri 25th Nov '22, 2:30pm
Roots to grow and wings to fly. Writers John Irving Clarke and Viv Longley mull over the implications with Jimmy Andrex.
Writing On Air 2022: COSY SPACES
Fri 25th Nov '22, 3:30pm
Poetry evoking the warmth of home by Jaimes Lewis Moran, performed by Jaimes with Caroline Noh.
Writing On Air 2022: NO PLACE
Fri 25th Nov '22, 3:45pm
Is home all it’s cracked up to be? And this isn’t Oz? Jimmy Andrex has Questions.
Writing On Air 2022: IRA MATHUR
Fri 25th Nov '22, 4:30pm
Indian-born writer and journalist living in Trinidad, on her recent novel Love The Dark Days (Peepal Tree Press
Writing On Air: HOME ON STAGE WORKSHOP
Fri 25th Nov '22, 5:30pm
Learn how to feel more comfortable on stage, with poet/performer Caitlin McKenna: microphones, hosting, audience engagement
Writing On Air: HOME ON STAGE OPEN MIC
Fri 25th Nov '22, 7:00pm
A chance to put skills learned in the Home on Stage workshop into action for an in-house and radio audience
150 WORDS AS I WAIT FOR A TREE TO GROW BACK (Part 3)
Fri 25th Nov '22, 10:15pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
150 WORDS AS I WAIT FOR A TREE TO GROW BACK (Part 4)
Sat 26th Nov '22, 12:00pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
Writing On Air 2022: UNTIL WE CAN’T SEE THE SKY
Sat 26th Nov '22, 12:30pm
Atmospheric drama by Grace Joy Howarth exploring sisterhood, memory loss, and gentrification.
Writing On Air 2022: HOME AND BELONGING
Sat 26th Nov '22, 1:30pm
Otley poets explore what home means through their own poetry and that of favourite writers.
Writing On Air 2022: CROSSROADS
Sat 26th Nov '22, 2:45pm
Return to the scariest of places to spend a lifetime? Crazy! Short fiction from Dortmund writer Conny Franken.
Writing On Air 2022: THE NEW ENGLAND TRILOGY
Sat 26th Nov '22, 3:00pm
Three adventures under canvas in autumnal New England in the 80’s, by rag artist Phil The Willow.
Writing OnAir 2022: SINGIN’ JERUSALEM
Sat 26th Nov '22, 3:30pm
Jerusalem, as in City and the Blake poem, mapped in words and music by playwright David Napthine and friends
Writing On Air 2022: YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUT OF IRELAND
Sat 26th Nov '22, 4:45pm
Shotgun and blood-spattered pinny: Irene Lofthouse remembers her Mam, Bradford housewife
Writing On Air 2022: HOME FOR US IS
Sat 26th Nov '22, 5:45pm
Window into the rich and varied lives of Leeds’ older community, presented by members of The Performance Ensemble
Writing On Air 2022: IN CONCERT: FOLI DELALA
Sat 26th Nov '22, 6:45pm
Musicians from Mexico, Zimbabwe and the UK with words and music celebrating sense of place.
Writing On Air: ARTS AT THE ARMS
Sat 26th Nov '22, 8:00pm
Theatre, poetry, music: Arts at the Arms, returning in triumph to Chapel FM, hosts an evening of original performance by local creatives
Writing On Air 2022: RECTAL PROLAPSE
Sat 26th Nov '22, 10:00pm
Comedy monologue about the body: through motherhood, menopause and paralysis, by Pamela Crowe
THE KITCHEN DISPENSARY (Part 5)
Sun 27th Nov '22, 9:45am
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present with Dr. Emma Storr and Prof. Barry Strickland-Hodge.
Writing On Air 2022: A PLACE TO CALL HOME
Sun 27th Nov '22, 12:15pm
Young care leavers and disabled people discuss the challenges of finding a place to call home, with Vickie Orton.
Writing On Air 2022: THE VOICE NOTE TRIBE
Sun 27th Nov '22, 1:15pm
Four women, three friendships and one life-changing diagnosis. Funny, powerful drama by Jacky Burton.
Writing On Air 2022: THERE WAS A MAN
Sun 27th Nov '22, 2:00pm
A man makes his home in a graveyard. Dramatised reading of this powerful medieval story by Neil Rathmell.
Writing On Air 2022: GRANDMA’S KITCHEN
Sun 27th Nov '22, 2:30pm
Past and present mingle into one single mealtime. Lyrical poem by Jaspreet Mander.
Writing On Air 2022: SUNDAY WORDSHIP
Sun 27th Nov '22, 4:00pm
Writers from the vibrant Sunday Wordship workshop with Gill Lambert and Mark Connors read work generated from earlier in the day.
THE KITCHEN DISPENSARY (Part 6)
Sun 27th Nov '22, 5:00pm
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present.
Writing On Air 2022: THE POETRY SUPERTRAM
Sun 27th Nov '22, 5:15pm
Ian Harker, William Thirsk-Gaskill and Joe Williams take us on a whirlwind poetry tour of Leeds.
Writing On Air 2022: YAFFLE
Sun 27th Nov '22, 6:15pm
New and established writers published by the fabulous and local Yaffle Press read work fresh from the oven.
Writing On Air 2022: HOME OF STORIES – Shandy Hall & Laurence Sterne
Sun 27th Nov '22, 7:15pm
How did Yorkshire writer Laurence Sterne use his home, Shandy Hall, as inspiration for his experimental novel Tristram Shandy? Tony Macaluso talks with curator Patrick Wildgust.
Writing On Air 2022: TOWER OF SONG
Sun 27th Nov '22, 8:00pm
Regulars of popular songwriters' night Tower Of Song return in glory to close Writing On Air 2022. A fabulous night.