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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

Update: 2025-09-18
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A special edition of Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language Festival, the BBC's annual celebration of poetry, performance and the spoken word.

With live music from Antony Szmierek.

Jeremy Dyson on his new Radio 4 drama High Cockalorum which spins a new tale out of a visit to Yorkshire made by Hollywood legend James Mason.

Poet Emma Conally-Barklem and Kristina Diprose, one of the writers for the Wandering Imaginations project at the Brontë Parsonage, discuss the Brontë sisters as a source of poetic and literary inspiration.

Edward Hogan on his shortlisted story, Little Green Man, for this year's BBC National Short Story Award.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

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