Bradford Literature Festival's guest appearances

Bradford Literature Festival

Front Row

Radio 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross

Barrie Rutter

Louis Theroux

Laurie Anderson

David Baddiel

Helen Mirren

Lemn Sissay

Michaela Coel

George MacKay

Wolfgang Tillmans

Jarvis Cocker

Val McDermid

Juliet Stevenson

Jon Favreau

Derek Walcott

Samira Ahmed

OwlTail

Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis talks to John Wilson about  The Beatles, the rom-com and time itself.  He's written Yesterday, a musical fantasy comedy directed by Danny Boyle in which a musician, after an accident, finds himself in another world. Here he is the only person who remembers The Beatles, a fact he turns to his advantage. He takes the credit and becomes famous for writing and performing their songs. Himesh Patel stars as the singer and  Lily James, Kate McKinnon, and Ed Sheeran also appear. Several writers and commentators have now withdrawn from the Bradford Literature Festival because of the funding of a pre-festival programme by Building a Stronger Britain Together, a Home Office counter extremism programme.  Front Row hears from one of them, Hussein Kesvani, author of Follow Me, Akhi : the Online World of British Muslims, and discusses the reasons for the withdrawals.It's the summer solstice and Radio 4 has been celebrating with new poems throughout the day. In Front Row Mona Arshi reads her specially written midsummer song. She talks, too, about her new collection, Dear Big Gods, in which she explores both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Presenter: John WilsonProducer: Julian May

Richard Curtis talks to John Wilson about The Beatles, the rom-com and time itself. He's written Yesterday, a musical fantasy comedy directed by Danny Boyle in which a musician, after an accident, finds himself in another world. Here he is the only person who remembers The Beatles, a fact he turns to his advantage. He takes the credit and becomes famous for writing and performing their songs. Himesh Patel stars as the singer and Lily James, Kate McKinnon, and Ed Sheeran also appear. Several writers and commentators have now withdrawn from the Bradford Literature Festival because of the funding of a pre-festival programme by Building a Stronger Britain Together, a Home Office counter extremism programme. Front Row hears from one of them, Hussein Kesvani, author of Follow Me, Akhi : the Online World of British Muslims, and discusses the reasons for the withdrawals. It's the summer solstice and Radio 4 has been celebrating with new poems throughout the day. In Front Row Mona Arshi reads her specially written midsummer song. She talks, too, about her new collection, Dear Big Gods, in which she explores both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Julian May

Richard Curtis's Film Yesterday, a summer solstice poem, Bradford Literature Festival protests

Jonathan Ross

Jemima Dury

Jonathan chats Buried Treasures, Golf Memorabilia &amp; Running Wild in Regents Park Theatre.

Juliet Stevenson, David Baddiel, Jemima Dury, Running Wild in Regents Park and Bradford Literature Festival with Jonathan Ross