Melissa Wuidart Phillips reads her short fiction 'Trinket', plus Part 2 of Sonic Stops from Better Songs Productions on the history of music in Leeds, commissioned by Music:Leeds.

In this 150th episode, singer, choir-whisperer Em Whitfield Brooks talks about change, presence, & her work in Voice; Joe Williams on his new poetry collection.

Singer, choir-whisperer, life coach Em Whitfield Brooks talks about change, 'presence', & her work in Voice; plus Joe Williams on his new poetry collection, The Taking Part.

Verity Britton and Rosie Parsons from Better Songs present Part I of Sonic Stops, their recent commission from Music Leeds for Abbey House Museum.

Andrew McMillan, winner of The Guardian First Book Award for his first collection physical, talks about Pandemonium, his visceral new collection with Cape - & reminisces about Chapel FM.

A piratical love-story from Melissa Wuidart Phillips, the final Pandemical from Jimmy Andrex, & an archive Wordybirds.

Rob Cowen talks to Peter Spafford about his extraordinary new book The Heeding, out later this month. The Heeding, illustrated by Nick Hayes (The Book of Trespass), is a moving meld of autobiography, pandemic journal, nature observation, prophecy, remedy.

Presenters and writers D3 and Sarah talk about Loudspeaker, a brand new monthly words show on ELFM, plus 2 highlights of Writing On Air 2021: Blend, a bittersweet meditation on make up and makeovers by Charlotte Carrick and Lydia Allison, and dystopian radio drama The Future is Already Here by James Fernie.

Brian Williams talks about his two new novels, a Luddite drama from Calderdale and a rite of passage story set in the sizzling summer of ’76.