Common Ground #6
Sun 25th Mar '18, 10:00am
After being sun-kissed during a short vacation to Costa Rica, Common Ground’s Jake Wright brings ELFM listeners music to will on the season of spring
Programmes
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The Ukulele Show #10
Sun 25th Mar '18, 11:00am
Stuart and Tracey Cameron show us the power of the Ukulele and we return to Tracey's Ukulele lesson
Club Dance #6
Sun 25th Mar '18, 1:00pm
From the 90s with N-trance to the 21st century with Wiley, enjoy the best dance anthems brought to you by Adam Firth
Blind Dead McRadio Podcast #10
Sun 25th Mar '18, 2:00pm
The Blind Dead Boys reach the tenth episode of their podcast with special guest Kaninchen
That Sunday! #2
Sun 25th Mar '18, 2:00pm
Today's guest is country and blues singer-songwriter Emma Flowers, who performs under the stage name Unnatural Blonde
Open Day: Mental Health Awareness
Sat 24th Mar '18, 2:00pm
Linda Sage presents a programme all about mental health, featuring Holistic Therapist Christine Butterfield and Chapel FM's Zoe Carty
NGB: The Review Show
Sat 24th Mar '18, 3:00pm
As part of our March Open Day the Next Generation Broadcasters discuss the highs and lows of this year's course
Give a Gig 2018
Sat 24th Mar '18, 4:00pm
Our Next Generation Foundation and Music groups perform as part of Youth Music's Give a Gig initiative
SHARKEY III—Part 2
Fri 23rd Mar '18, 8:15pm
The second half of the Chris Sharkey/Chapel FM Jazz Collective collaboration
Sharkey III—Part 1
Fri 23rd Mar '18, 7:30pm
The first half of Chris Sharkey's collaboration with the Chapel FM Jazz Collective
Giggly Afternoon
Wed 21st Mar '18, 1:30pm
Our new Find Your Frequency cohort present their first practice show on the theme of 'feel good'
Love the Words #73
Tue 20th Mar '18, 7:30pm
Jimmy Andrex' Seminal Outburst; poet Josie Walsh; and the Seacroft Scroll
The Music Institute #4
Tue 20th Mar '18, 9:30pm
In this month's Music Institute with Radley and Wags expect to hear only the best sounds
From the Edge
Sun 18th Mar '18, 10:30am
Hosted by Horror writer Janine-Langley Wood, emerging writers read their individual takes on being trapped between two worlds
The Play What I Wrote
Sun 18th Mar '18, 12:15pm
Playwrights Charley Miles, Chris O’Connor and Charlotte Carrick discuss their varied experiences of theatre writing
Thin Line: Writers and Mental Health
Sun 18th Mar '18, 1:15pm
What links creativity and depression? Helen Shay in discussion with Char March and Laurence O’Reilly
Leeds Savage Club
Sun 18th Mar '18, 2:15pm
A peek into the workings of the oldest-established writing group in Leeds as they gnash over the Borderlands theme
War on Our Doorstep
Sun 18th Mar '18, 4:30pm
What do the housewife, theatre buff, and rookie soldier have in common? They all lived in Leeds in 1939. Text and music from Trio Literati
The Village Voice
Sun 18th Mar '18, 5:30pm
On 31st December 2017, strangers were spotted in an English village on the east coast. A live reading of the villagers’ conversation on social media, before the post was deleted
Tipping the Iceberg
Sat 17th Mar '18, 9:30am
What lies concealed beneath the words we say? Poet and word-juggler John Hepworth takes a peek
Origins of a Writer: Peter Spafford
Sat 17th Mar '18, 10:15am
In the latest in his series, Jaimes Lewis Moran talks to poet and playwright Peter Spafford about the writing life
Heartline
Sat 17th Mar '18, 11:00am
Change affects us in ways we struggle to understand. Helen Thompson’s uplifting story faces it out
Touchline
Sat 17th Mar '18, 11:15am
On one side, dreams are shattered; on the other, they are fulfilled. Mike Thompson’s tale of triumph over disappointment
Town
Sat 17th Mar '18, 11:45am
Love is a beautiful thing but often dresses badly. Words and music from Wakefield’s finest: Jimmy Andrex and Jane Steele
Reading Out
Sat 17th Mar '18, 12:30pm
Does hearing your own poem read aloud by another poet yield insights? Five poets find out, with James Fernie
Between Water and Air
Sat 17th Mar '18, 1:30pm
Musical Arc present stories and music inspired by magical merdogs and shape-shifting kelpies
The Space Between
Sat 17th Mar '18, 2:45pm
Poets Sandra Burnett and Gill Lambert ponder the female perspective on physical and emotional borders
Live from The Leeds Library: Rob Cowen
Sat 17th Mar '18, 3:30pm
As part of the Wild Lines festival with Big Bookend, Rob Cowen talks about his landmark nature book, Common Ground
250!
Sat 17th Mar '18, 4:45pm
The Leeds Library is one of the city’s best-hidden gems. Staff take us on a tour as they celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding
Tom Tit
Sat 17th Mar '18, 5:30pm
Mark Connors and John Lake from Armley Press preview Mark’s forthcoming second novel, Tom Tit and the Maniacs