Episodes
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Rob Cowen's book Common Ground (2015) radically broke with the 'nature writing' genre. Here, in this final LTW of Season 6 (returning in September) Rob talks about The Heeding, his moving collection of lockdown poems.
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Young writers from Leeds East return to read new work, plus Ethel, Maddy and Maffo from Mafwa Theatre on their lively & uplifting Kuluhenna Drama group for women.
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A 3-item LTW: Orb present their mini-bus-dramas, plus another chance to hear Melissa Wuidart Phillips' story 'Found', and an interview with the wise & extraordinary Philip Harvey.
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Highlights from Anyone's a Green Thumb, an audio installation about green spaces & urban gardens in Leeds, feat. Orb (Knaresborough), The Lincoln Greeners (Mafwa Theatre) and others. This installation was part of Chapel FM's Home From Home 2024 project in which all our available spaces at Chapel FM Arts Centre were animated by a range of sound, theatre, and music created by participants.
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Cast members with director Ben Hopwood from Leeds Arts Centre's brand new 'urban' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream talk about the joy and zest of Shakespeare.
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Gareth E. Rees talks about Car Park Life, his epic exploration of Britain's neglected retail car parks, the book chosen for the Chapel FM/Leeds Lit Fest Readathon 2024.
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Artist/poet Jamie Scrutton on naturism, being proud as a multi-form artist, and his book The Vision of Storytelling, plus Chris Berry on the inaugural Aberford Literature Festival.
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Poet Lydia Kennaway talks with fellow poet Emma Storr about Sh@nty, her fascinating collaboration with folk musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, and reads poems about betrayal, loss, and recovery.
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Ben Eaton of Invisible Flock talks about the company's recent piece This is a Forest for Leeds 2023 & the importance of sound in their acclaimed work.
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A sound art documentary about Moon Palace, a social sculpture/working observatory touring with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, plus poetry and refections on the blue spaces in our city from the Canals & Rivers Trust.
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Following his death last week, another chance to hear my friend & mentor Dave Price OBE talking about his life's work in music & radical progressive education.
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Rommi Smith talks movingly about writing the libretto of Cusp, with music by Roderick Williams, a piece about grief and grieving, for the Royal Festival Hall & The Bach Choir.
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Sean Street, poet, talks about and reads from his new collection, Running Out of Time, published by Shoestring Press. Sean was the UK's first ever Professor of Radio and has written extensively about sound and the history of sound.
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Poet Emma Storr reads from her new collection The Year of Two Winters and talks about the influence of her mother, writer Catherine Storr, author of the extraordinary and disturbing novel, Marianne Dreams.
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Comedy from the Joyful Drama Group based at Heart, Headingley, & another chance to hear the astounding Billy Myers voice all characters in Gareth Rhodes' Interviews Through History.
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A preview of the amazing Leeds International African Arts Festival 2024 (July 6-12) and blistering new writing from young writers at Leeds East Academy.
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Rachel Vernelle from Leeds Arts Centre talks about the theatre company's new production of Caryl Churchill's radical play Escaped Alone, and Zodwa Nyoni on her new musical with Testament, Chisholm for President.
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A tribute by Jimmy Andrex & friends in words and music to Alec Clegg, a West Riding education pioneer whose largely forgotten legacy could save us from cultural poverty.
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Composer, punk rocker, mayor, teacher and so much more. Tony Macaluso talks to Phillip Bimstein who shares stories and examples of his many music compositions that weave in oral history voices.
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David Harmer was in the original line up of Circus of Poets. His most recent book for children was published in 2021. Stu Hennigan, who came into Chapel FM for a meeting one week early, serendipitously joins David for a chat about writing for, and by, children.
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