Launch!
Fri 24th Nov '23, 7:30pm
Chapel FM celebrates the launch of ‘Missing’, its first-ever literature publication, with poetry and music from writers featured in the anthology.
WRITING ON AIR 2023
Writing On Air is back again for 2023! This years theme is MISSING.
Come listen in and join us live for our largest Writing On Air festival yet.
Spanning over 7 days and including over 80 programmes, live events and workshops.
Schedule
November 24-26th, November 30th & December 1st-3rd
Next programme
When: Show schedule currently unknown
MISSING MEDIA
Fri 24th Nov '23, 9:30pm
Elliott Moon and his technical wizards attempt to recover lost shows, films and tracks previously assumed lost in cyber-ether. Can they do it?
WORDPLAY
Sat 25th Nov '23, 10:30am
Writers from online workshop WordPlay, led by writer Barney Bardsley, read prose and poetry on the missing and the missed.
SAVE THE WORDS
Sat 25th Nov '23, 11:30am
Writer and historian Colin Speakman talks about his passion for Yorkshire dialect and his mission to keep it alive for young people.
VOICES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Sat 25th Nov '23, 12:30pm
A journey into the East Leeds Community Radio Audio Archives to revisit much-missed voices of writers who are no longer living.
FLIGHT 93
Sat 25th Nov '23, 1:30pm
Silence and the missing plane: an English woman in Berkeley, California, witnesses the real life media drama of 9/11. Gripping docu-drama from Caroline Noh.
THE HAWK’S GARDEN
Sat 25th Nov '23, 2:00pm
What happens in the back garden of a housing estate over four seasons when the hawk is not hovering. Or is. Audio poem by Gareth Rhodes.
DREAM CATCHER
Sat 25th Nov '23, 3:00pm
Dream Catcher editors Hannah Stone and Joe Williams present poems from recent issues of this lively journal which ‘tell it slant’ on the theme of ‘missing’.
WHISPERS OF THE PAST
Sat 25th Nov '23, 4:00pm
What secrets are suppressed within the Harrison family? What are the three children about to find out? Live storytelling by by Sonja Miller
MISSING, OR NEVER THERE
Sat 25th Nov '23, 4:30pm
Chapel FM welcomes back storyteller Vickie Orton to perform her brand new tale. What’s it like to be missing in plain sight?
ADDING THE MISSING PIECE
Sat 25th Nov '23, 5:00pm
Could you be the missing piece in a story? Performed collaboration between Chapel FM participants and Leeds Conservatoire students.
NORWEGIAN SUMMER
Sat 25th Nov '23, 6:00pm
Evocative prose by writer/artist Linn Schiffmann, from Leeds’ sister city Dortmund, about collective memories and missing what might have been
MISSING YOU IN 20 MINUTES
Sat 25th Nov '23, 6:30pm
Who do we forget? What do we forget? Performance, installation, soundscape, life. By The Performance Ensemble.
WHAT HAVE WE GOT?
Sat 25th Nov '23, 7:30pm
Young people who meet at the fabulous LS14 Trust in Seacroft, East Leeds, reflect on reality now and their dreams for the future
SCRIPT YORKSHIRE PRESENTS
Sat 25th Nov '23, 9:00pm
A selection of winning plays from Script Yorkshire’s acclaimed annual audio-drama competition, chosen by BBC Radio 4 producer Gary Brown.
POETRY AND POISONS, Part 1
Sun 26th Nov '23, 11:00am
Are poetry and poisons related? Four programmes on past herbal remedies with a poet GP and a Professor of Prescribing Practice.
MISSING PIECES
Sun 26th Nov '23, 11:00am
Encounter the heart-wrenching voids replacing the once taken-for-granted everyday comforts in the lives of incarcerated women. With Pamela Bircumshaw.
LOST PASSPORT
Sun 26th Nov '23, 11:30am
Lost in truck, recovered at the next police station. Miraculous turns in epic journeys. One man and his motorcycle, with Geoffrey Huck.
MIND OVER MATTER
Sun 26th Nov '23, 12:00pm
Poets are on The Dark Side of the Moon. Some have been there before, some not. Responses to Pink Floyd’s classic album on its 50th anniversary, with Oz Hardwick.
FRANKIE’S AWAY
Sun 26th Nov '23, 1:00pm
Haunting short fiction by Leeds writer Gareth Rhodes in collaboration with Conny Franken from Leeds’ sister city Dortmund, Germany
MISSING IN ACTION
Sun 26th Nov '23, 1:30pm
Reunion of locals who visited First World War battlefields in 2014 to find the Seacroft men who went missing one hundred years before, with Geraldine Beattie.
THE WRITE STUFF
Sun 26th Nov '23, 2:30pm
Members of the U3A (University of The Third Age) Writing for Pleasure Group try out brand new poetry, prose, and flash fiction.
THE EMOTIONLESS COLA ROASTER
Sun 26th Nov '23, 3:30pm
Writing On Air veteran John Hepworth collides with some things that aren’t where they should be, or perhaps even aren’t there at all.
WHAT WE DON’T INCLUDE
Sun 26th Nov '23, 4:00pm
Free workshop led by poets Caitlin Mckenna, Aqeel Parvez and Alex Callaghan on the space both on and off the page.
YAFFLE’S NEST
Sun 26th Nov '23, 5:30pm
Writers from the legendary Wordship, a regular online and occasionally live workshop, read their responses to the theme of ‘Missing.’
THE VOICENOTE TRIBE
Sun 26th Nov '23, 6:30pm
Four women, three friendships and one life-changing diagnosis. Powerful audio drama by Jacky Burton.
TOWER OF SONG
Sun 26th Nov '23, 7:30pm
Regulars from this fabulous monthly night for songwriters perform musical musings on the theme of ‘Missing’, in celebration of Tower’s 10th birthday
Write Across the Lines: Poets From Kharkiv, Ukraine
Wed 29th Nov '23, 8:00am
Poetry and conversation with four poets from Kharkiv, Ukraine: Ivan Senin, Kateryna Khailo, Nataliia Marynchak and Svitalan Horbunova-Ruban.
INVISIBLE GIFTS: WE ARE SEACROFT
Thu 30th Nov '23, 11:00am
A panel of people from We Are Seacroft network of community organisations working to make Seacroft a stronger community have a lively discussion about what gets missed.
A PRESENT PAST
Thu 30th Nov '23, 12:00pm
In the fallout from the pandemic, some lives never went back to normal. Has living in the past become the new present? A prescient reflection by Rayyah McCaul.
LIT IN LEEDS
Thu 30th Nov '23, 1:00pm
Leeds City Council recently commissioned a review from New Writing North to develop a better understanding of the literature ecology in Leeds. What did it find?
FOUND
Thu 30th Nov '23, 2:00pm
Lyrical and other-worldly new short fiction from regular Writing On Air contributor, Melissa Wuidart Phillips.
A DELICATE PROPOSAL TO MR. KHAMENEI
Thu 30th Nov '23, 2:30pm
An impassioned plea for humanity in the treatment of women in Iran, from Jaspreet Mander.
EXTRA OR ESSENTIAL?
Thu 30th Nov '23, 3:00pm
People of Seacroft at a Chapel FM Health Awareness Day reflect on what would provide added value to their health and happiness.
LINGUA
Thu 30th Nov '23, 3:30pm
To have another language is to possess a second soul’ (Charlemagne). Nicola Good makes the case for the importance of language-learning in our education culture.
WAITING
Thu 30th Nov '23, 4:00pm
Will the boyfriend ever arrive? Suspicion takes her on a very disturbing journey. Dark audio drama from Sophie McWhannell.
A FATHER’S VOICE
Thu 30th Nov '23, 4:30pm
Jaimes Lewis Moran presents poetry, prose, and live reflection on the subject of fathers, both missing and present.
CHANGE, NOW!
Thu 30th Nov '23, 5:00pm
David Price OBE, with Elizabeth Powell, Fran Cairns and Naomi Roxby Wardle, discuss what we urgently need in our education system.
MISSING VOICES
Thu 30th Nov '23, 6:00pm
Whose voices are missing in our lives? Poets explore the experience of loss and grief in daily life and the necessity of calling it what it is.
Write Across the Lines: Jonathan Pryor Leeds Councillor Deputy Leader
Fri 1st Dec '23, 12:10am
As part of Chapel FM Arts Centre's collaboration with Leeds Department of International Relations' twinned cities poetry + radio project, we speak with Councillor Jonathan Pryor.
Write Across the Lines: Poets From Lille, France
Fri 1st Dec '23, 9:00am
Poetry and conversation with three poets from Lille, France: Martine Delannoy, Ndrix and Valérie Ketels (aka Féal) with translation from Nick Wanklyn.
FIRST STORY SPECIAL
Fri 1st Dec '23, 10:30am
First Story places writers in schools throughout the UK. Young people from First Story residencies in West Yorkshire talk about their love of writing.
I MISS YOU, SPAGHETTI!
Fri 1st Dec '23, 12:00pm
Students from Leeds East Academy present work from Chapel FM writing workshops they took part in earlier this year.
PASS THE VERSE
Fri 1st Dec '23, 1:00pm
Two poets, Gareth Rhodes and Jaimes Moran, exchange associated ideas, random phrases, and hallucinatory fragments in this freshly experimental work.
POETRY AND POISONS, Part 2
Fri 1st Dec '23, 1:30pm
Are poetry and poisons related? Four programmes on past herbal remedies with a poet GP and a Professor of Prescribing Practice.
THE DIFFICULT CONVERSATION
Fri 1st Dec '23, 1:45pm
Two older people sit on a bench. What are they choosing not to say? Intriguing audio dialogue by Mally Harvey.
WHAT IF’S AND MAYBES
Fri 1st Dec '23, 2:00pm
Prison is a mystery to most, but what happens when you get out is the story no one tells. Drama from Writing On Air regulars, Standfast Productions.
ANITA AND AUNTY JI
Fri 1st Dec '23, 3:00pm
Though very different, Anita and her employer have a common link: their missing husbands who they do not miss. Audio drama from Jaspreet Mander.
WHO’S MISSING FROM THE CLASSICS?
Fri 1st Dec '23, 3:30pm
The British Library with students from Elliott Hudson College, Beeston, unearth absent characters and themes in classical literature.
WORDS LEFT UNSAID
Fri 1st Dec '23, 4:00pm
Leeds-based literary affinity group, Bone Down, host an intimate session of secret sharing. Part poetry showcase, part discussion, hosted by Caitlin McKenna
WHAT IS PRISON RADIO?
Fri 1st Dec '23, 5:00pm
Sam Taylor and Verity Britton from Prison Radio talk about their fascinating work, broadcasting across UK prisons.
EY UP! THE MISSING NORTHERN VOICE
Fri 1st Dec '23, 6:00pm
Discussion between publisher Rebecca Kenny and four Northern writers on publishing in the North.
HIBISCUS RISING: THE LEGACY OF DAVID OLUWALE
Fri 1st Dec '23, 7:00pm
An evening of discussion, performance and art reflecting on the life and tragic death of David Oluwale.
Write Across the Lines: Poets From Brno, Czech Republic
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 8:00am
Poets from Brno, Czech Republic (one of Leeds' Twinned Cities) inlcuding a conversation with Ondřej Hrabal and work by Jan Těsnohlídek and Apolena Vybíralová.
OULIPO: A guide to potential literature and what it brings that is missing
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 8:30am
The second American member of legendary literary group the OULIPO, Daniel Levin Becker, introduces this fascinating cohort of writers that includes Italo Calvino & Georges Perec.
POETRY AND POISONS, Part 3
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 10:00am
Are poetry and poisons related? Four programmes on past herbal remedies with a poet GP and a Professor of Prescribing Practice.
WRITE ACROSS THE LINES
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 10:30am
A gathering of poets/guests from Leeds’ sister cities Brno and Lille, with writers/ guests from Kharkiv (Ukraine), in solidarity with that city’s pursuit of peace and freedom.
INTERVIEWS THROUGH HISTORY, NOW!
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 11:30am
DJ Brandy has somehow wangled interviews with Socrates, Nefertiti, DaVinci, and Houdini. Let’s hear what each have to teach us.
FORGET ME NOT
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 12:00pm
A runaway, infant mortality, a fissure in a new relationship. It’s the absence that causes the ache. Three mini audio dramas from John I. Clarke.
BICYCLE THIEF
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 12:30pm
Young boy goes for a ride on his bicycle, meets a girl, loses his bicycle. Dramatised short story by Neil Rathmell.
THE SLEEPING
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 1:00pm
Experimental soundscapes from extraordinary East Leeds composer, singer, producer Alex Rushfirth.
ONE OF OUR ACTORS IS MISSING
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 1:30pm
Stumbling mess of a radio play that desperately tries to make itself happen despite the principal actor being absent. From poet/musician Jimmy Andrex.
THE LOST AND THE LIVING
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 2:30pm
Waymaker-General Harriet and her apprentice Vicky battle bad weather to bring a mysterious vessel in from the storm. Atmospheric audio drama by S.J.Bradley
GREY OWLS AND PICKLEBALL
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 3:30pm
Two of Chapel FM’s resident music ensembles, one featuring inventive teenagers, the other made up of adults, present their original compositions.
MISSED STITCHES
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 4:00pm
LS14’s famous Hookers knitting group reflect on socks, cardies, and the meaning of life in Boggart Hill, Leeds, LS14.
RED KITE LIVE!
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 5:00pm
Chapel FM’s youth radio broadcasters explore what the world misses when trying to understand the lives of teenagers. Prepare to be surprised.
THE DELI
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 6:00pm
New writing, music, witty banter from Chapel FM’s longest-running radio show and team of volunteer broadcasters, est. 2012.
CLEAR OUT YOUR CLOSET
Sat 2nd Dec '23, 7:00pm
A vibetastic night of spoken word, interviews, performance and open mic presented by the amazing CYOC collective with Michelle Scalley Clarke
POETRY AND POISONS, Part 4
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 10:45am
Are poetry and poisons related? Four programmes on past herbal remedies with a poet GP and a Professor of Prescribing Practice.
MISSING MUSIC
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 11:00am
Silent films selected by The Chapel FM Live Events Group. Audience are invited to provide the music with on-site instruments. Or bring your own!
Home From Home Spaces in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 11:00am
Stories and reflections from two projects in northern Italy that seek to bring human connections that might be missing from larger society.
GOREJA
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 1:00pm
I am a woman. I am an immigrant. I am a cricketer. My life is too complicated to be confined in the neat lines of a pretty poem’. Home, passion, freedom. By Zainab Goreja.
MISSING LINKS
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 1:30pm
A conversation with Chapel FM regular Phil Harvey about a life long-lived as farmer’s boy, oilman, china man, and woodsman.
RAAVI, RIVER OF TWO PUNJABS
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 2:00pm
A Punjabi song about missing the river Raavi and the old province of five rivers. Audio poem by Jaspreet Mander.
THE GREAT WALL OF LEEDS
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 2:30pm
Could it ever happen? Chapel FM young writers from 2017 on the theme of walls, physical, psychological, and emotional.
BLACK DAISIES FOR THE BRIDE
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 3:00pm
A film by legendary Leeds poet Tony Harrison about dementia and memory, introduced by East Leeds MP Richard Burgon.
THE SILENCE OF ALONENESS
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 4:30pm
Clare Wigzell and Hannah Stone present the fruits of their workshop inviting writers to adopt silence as a prompt for writing poetry.
IN CONCERT: THROUGH OUR EYES
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 6:00pm
A resident Chapel FM ensemble that ensures musicians with disabilities have a place to make adventurous music. Featuring the premiere of several new compositions.
THE DELI, LIVE!
Sun 3rd Dec '23, 7:30pm
The Deli team round off Writing On Air 2023 with their first-ever show in the radio theatre. Expect original poetry, music, and zany humour.