Covid 19. Lockdowns. What actually happened? While we were dealing with it, we didn’t have time to process it. So, Chapel FM asked Jimmy Andrex to try.

Older people from a group formed by Age UK Leeds at Chapel FM present highlights from their Writing For Radio course, plus Venice, a short story by Melissa Wuidart Phillips.

Two punchy short plays from Script Yorkshire directed by Stefan Escreet, plus two episodes in Bob McBurney's charming Sgt.Grimshaw series.

Three American experts discuss the literature of Chicago in respect to a ground-breaking new book, Chicago: A Literary History. Expect lively mentions of Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandberg, Studs Terkel.

Leyla Josephine (poet, screenwriter, facilitator) talks about her work, plus the final extended episode of In Our Element with poet Linda France.

Writer David Napthine interrogates Jerusalem: the city, the idea, the metaphor, the poem, the song, with poet Lydia Kennaway, researcher and creator of Leeds Black History Walk Joe Williams, and writer, politician, actor Roger Harington.

Writers in Barney Bardsley's WordPlay workshop read their work themed around Darkness and Light, plus an interview with Seacroft poet Jaimes Lewis Moran about his forthcoming collection of poetry, Sea Words.

Ep 2 of Sgt.Grimshaw by Bob McBurney, Ep 9 of In Our Element, and the first two short plays in a series from Script Yorkshire with more to follow.

Episode 8 of In Our Element with Linda France; Molly Magrath from The Leeds Library on digital lit; and the very first Sgt. Grimshaw story from Bob McBurney.

Poet Emma Storr and photographer Bob Hamilton talk about their sumptuous new collaboration (poetry and images of Yorkshire) , Offcumdens, with Lydia Kennaway; plus Pamela Crowe on 23Press, a community publishing project for Leeds 2023.