The Verb - The Hay Festival

The Hay Festival

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This week The Verb comes from The Hay Festival, recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Tent.

Ian's guests are the writer John Lanchester on his new dystopian novel 'The Wall' (Faber), poet Hannah Sullivan who recently won the TS Eliot Prize for her debut collection 'Three Poems' (Faber), comedian and 'Mash Report' star Rachel Parris on the art of the musical parody and Nina Stibbe whose novel 'Reasons to Be Cheerful was awarded The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen

Published on Friday, 31st May 2019.

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