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 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.
Wed 23rd - Sunday 27th Nov 2022
When: Show schedule currently unknown
Wed 23rd Nov '22, 7:30pm
Chapel FM Director Tony Macaluso in conversation with Jeremy Poynting, Founder of Peepal Tree Press
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.
Wed 23rd Nov '22, 9:45pm
From her Trinidad home, Samantha talks about her vivid new poetry collection The Animated Universe (Peepal Tree Press).
Thu 24th Nov '22, 11:45am
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present. Fascinating exploration of therapeutic recipes.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 12:00pm
Harehills locals challenge media narratives about Harehills with poetry written alongside writer Suhaimymah Manzoor-Khan
Thu 24th Nov '22, 1:00pm
Geraldine Beattie talks about how books can make a home, wherever you live.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 2:00pm
Martin Riley’s miracle-realist short story unpacks a Jewish Boy’s Primitive Catholic upbringing.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 2:30pm
Blue grit, skirting and mixed grass seeds come together in this prose poem by Jaspreet Mander.
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.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 4:00pm
A variety of characters journey to celebrate Pride. Melissa Wuidart Phillips’ powerfully emotive short fiction.
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.
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.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 6:00pm
Children from Allerton CE Primary dig deep into the history of Moortown with Matthew Bellwood and Emma Baim..
Thu 24th Nov '22, 6:00pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
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.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 7:30pm
Poppy Jennings and Jack Collins chat poetry with Leeds writers about home comforts and an ever-changing city
Thu 24th Nov '22, 9:15pm
Queer House Party showcases the best queer poetic talent, proving that through poetry everyone has a home.
Thu 24th Nov '22, 10:45pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
Fri 25th Nov '22, 11:00am
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present prepared at home. Therapeutic recipes mined.
Fri 25th Nov '22, 11:15am
Young writers from West Yorkshire schools return to Chapel FM. First Story brings professional writers to secondary schools
Fri 25th Nov '22, 12:15pm
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present prepared at home.
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.
Fri 25th Nov '22, 1:00pm
Interview with Ukrainian journalist Olha Pravdenko about her work in Poltava before the war, and now in Leeds.
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.
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.
Fri 25th Nov '22, 3:30pm
Poetry evoking the warmth of home by Jaimes Lewis Moran, performed by Jaimes with Caroline Noh.
Fri 25th Nov '22, 3:45pm
Is home all it’s cracked up to be? And this isn’t Oz? Jimmy Andrex has Questions.
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
Fri 25th Nov '22, 5:30pm
Learn how to feel more comfortable on stage, with poet/performer Caitlin McKenna: microphones, hosting, audience engagement
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
Fri 25th Nov '22, 10:15pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
Sat 26th Nov '22, 12:00pm
Pamela Crowe's seductive poem-comedy about a neighbourly dispute over a tree.
Sat 26th Nov '22, 12:30pm
Atmospheric drama by Grace Joy Howarth exploring sisterhood, memory loss, and gentrification.
Sat 26th Nov '22, 1:30pm
Otley poets explore what home means through their own poetry and that of favourite writers.
Sat 26th Nov '22, 2:45pm
Return to the scariest of places to spend a lifetime? Crazy! Short fiction from Dortmund writer Conny Franken.
Sat 26th Nov '22, 3:00pm
Three adventures under canvas in autumnal New England in the 80’s, by rag artist Phil The Willow.
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
Sat 26th Nov '22, 4:45pm
Shotgun and blood-spattered pinny: Irene Lofthouse remembers her Mam, Bradford housewife
Sat 26th Nov '22, 5:45pm
Window into the rich and varied lives of Leeds’ older community, presented by members of The Performance Ensemble
Sat 26th Nov '22, 6:45pm
Musicians from Mexico, Zimbabwe and the UK with words and music celebrating sense of place.
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
Sat 26th Nov '22, 10:00pm
Comedy monologue about the body: through motherhood, menopause and paralysis, by Pamela Crowe
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.
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.
Sun 27th Nov '22, 1:15pm
Four women, three friendships and one life-changing diagnosis. Funny, powerful drama by Jacky Burton.
Sun 27th Nov '22, 2:00pm
A man makes his home in a graveyard. Dramatised reading of this powerful medieval story by Neil Rathmell.
Sun 27th Nov '22, 2:30pm
Past and present mingle into one single mealtime. Lyrical poem by Jaspreet Mander.
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.
Sun 27th Nov '22, 5:00pm
Plague, pain and palsy: herbal remedies from past and present.
Sun 27th Nov '22, 5:15pm
Ian Harker, William Thirsk-Gaskill and Joe Williams take us on a whirlwind poetry tour of Leeds.
Sun 27th Nov '22, 6:15pm
New and established writers published by the fabulous and local Yaffle Press read work fresh from the oven.
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.
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.