Leyla Josephine, poet, is performing at Chapel FM Oct 29th 2022 as part of her national tour. Here she talks about her new book and the range of work she does in education and community. Plus Mags Grinnell from LS14 Trust, Seacroft, East Leeds, on the challenges of communication.

By way of a trailer for the Home theme of Writing On Air 2022 (Nov 23-27), women from the Italian and Caribbean communities in Harehills, Leeds, tell their extraordinary stories of arriving - and staying - in Britain in the 1950's.

Pennine Platform is one of the north’s longest established and best-beloved poetry titles, in print for over 50 years. Writers from Issue 91 read and chat with editor Julia Deakin.

Suhaimymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet, educator and activist. In this LTW of the new season, she talks about her work to Peter Spafford and her residency at Leeds Playhouse.

As part of Peepal Tree Press's residency at Chapel FM, poet Samantha Thornhill speaks from Trinidad about her scintillating new collection, The Animated Universe.

As part of the Peepal Tree Press residency at Chapel FM's Local Writers' Library, Bermudian writer Angela Barry talks about her powerful new novel, The Drowned Forest.

Ira Mathur is an Indian-born writer and journalist living in Trinidad. Here she talks about her new novel with Peepal Tree Press, Love The Dark Days, a powerful book about 'accrued intergenerational damage between mothers and daughters in post-colonial worlds'. Chapel FM is delighted to be hosting Peepal Tree Press as our first Publisher in Residence.

Stu Hennigan talks about Ghost Signs, a blistering first-hand account of delivering essential food and medicines in Leeds during the first months of the pandemic. Warning: With echoes of The Road To Wigan Pier, Stu's readings tell a shocking story of poverty in our city.

Lesley Sharp from Script Yorkshire, this region's fantastic script development organisation, introduces four brand new short radio dramas by Yorkshire writers, recorded at Chapel FM and edited by Rosie Parsons.

Tom Juniper is an autistic, non-binary performance poet based in South Yorkshire, interviewed here by Juwairia and Henry for our ELFM's regular show Disabled Table. Plus 2 startling radio dramas from Script Yorkshire.