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Live from Hay Festival

Jo is live from Hay Festival with special guests including poet laureate Simon Armitage, novelist Jessie Burton and a special edition of the Radio 2 Book Club with Juno Dawson.

Jo is live from Hay Festival with special guests from across the festival joining her on stage.

Jo will host a special edition of the Radio 2 Book Club with author Juno Dawson, discussing her latest young adult novel, Meat Market. Juno is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, journalist and columnist whose books include This Book Is Gay, The Gender Games and Doctor Who: The Good Doctor.

Jo will also be joined by poet Simon Armitage. At the start of May it was announced that he would succeed Carol Ann Duffy as the UK's poet laureate - Britain's highest literary honour. The position lasts for a fixed term of ten years and other previous laureates have included Andrew Motion, Ted Hughes and William Wordsworth. From West Yorkshire, Simon burst on to the literary scene in 1989 with his first collection Zoom! He now has 28 collections to his name and is one of the UK's bestselling poets.

Plus Jo will be joined by bestselling novelist Jessie Burton whose books include The Miniaturist, The Muse and The Restless Girls. And Monisha Rajesh talks about the globe-trotting adventures that inspired her travel book Around The World In 80 Trains.

There will also be poetry from Welsh writers Jonathan Edwards and Rhiannon Hooson. All alongside Jo's usual handpicked selection of music.

Hay Festival is an annual literature festival and this years takes place 23 May to 2 June in "the town of books", Hay-on-Wye in Wales. Featuring over 600 speakers across 11 days, it's known as "the Woodstock of the mind" for good reason. Nobel Prize-winners, novelists, politicians, poets, scientists and performers pour in to share stories and ideas with hundreds of thousands of readers from all over the world. First dreamt up thirty-two years ago, it has travelled to over 30 different locations with editions over the next year in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Spain and Croatia.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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Mon 27 May 2019 19:00
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Music Played

  • The Beatles

    Paperback Writer

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 014.

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

    Red Right Hand

    • Mute.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Oxford Comma

    • XL.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    I Could Write a Book

    • Essential Ella.
    • Verve.

  • The Smiths

    Cemetry Gates

    • Rough Trade.

  • Billie Eilish

    bad guy

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 103 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • Prince

    Alphabet St.

    • 4Ever.
    • Paisley Park.

  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Blackalicious

    Alphabet Aerobics

    • Mo Wax.

  • Tom Tom Club

    Wordy Rappinghood

    • (Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Katy Perry

    Firework

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Buzzcocks

    Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Loyle Carner

    Loose Ends (feat. Jorja Smith)

  • Emmy the Great

    Swimming Pool

    • Bella Union.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Hut Music.

  • Bobby Womack

    Across 110th Street

    • Screen Cuts (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 May 2019 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2