Festivals

• Hay Festival unveils bumper online programme

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  Wednesday, 21st April 2021

  Over 300 speakers confirmed for 2021 Hay Festival: last year's online offering reached over two million people
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• LoveReading Litfest partners Newport Live

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  Tuesday, 20th April 2021

  Event for locally published novel about refugees Many Rivers To Cross
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• Appledore festival announces 2021 line-up

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  Wednesday, 14th April 2021

  Ann Cleeves, Revd Richard Coles, Sara Cox, Gill Hornby, Kate Mosse and Susannah Constantine confirmed as headliners for September's hybrid Appledore Book Festival
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• Live events for Norwich festival in May

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  Monday, 12th April 2021

  Literature programme with National Centre for Writing
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• Bologna goes digital-only

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  Friday, 9th April 2021

  Third wave of coronavirus on the Continent rules out physical part of Bologna Children’s Book Fair in June
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• Hay announces 2021 schools programme

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  Tuesday, 6th April 2021

  Free programme from 24-28 May
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• Stratford Literary Festival reveals Spring Festival line-up

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  Thursday, 1st April 2021

  May event will mix digital and live events: Maggie O’Farrell, David Baddiel, Tim Marshall, Cressida Cowell, Sir Michael Morpurgo and Liz Pichon amongst names on the bill
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• Huddersfield festival surpasses expectations

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  Tuesday, 30th March 2021

  Ticket sales income 25% ahead of budget
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• Folkestone Festival makes real-life return

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  Friday, 26th March 2021

  Physical event in June will include strands on Samuel Beckett's secret wedding in the town, long-term resident HG Wells, and guests including Laura Bates, Nick Bryant,...
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• Chalke Valley back this summer

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  Thursday, 25th March 2021

  History festival to return in physical form on 23 June, just two days after the government's proposed lifting of Covid rules: 'the public, currently starved of real-life...
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