Front Row - Live from Hay with Jack Thorne and Val McDermid
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Live from Hay, celebrating reading and writing in many different forms, Samira is joined on stage by Jack Thorne - multi-award-winning screenwriter of the TV sensation Adolescence and his newest drama Falling, about a nun and a priest who fall in love.
Also, Tartan Noir titan Val McDermid speaks about crime fiction and her 40 years of writing.
The Ian Fleming estate has granted novelist Vaseem Khan permission to write a book in the Bond-iverse. This time, it's set in the world of Q, Bond's gadget supplier.
And Hanan Issa, the National Poet of Wales, joins us to explore Welsh/Iraqi storytelling and poetry.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Published on Monday, 25th May 2026.
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