Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island
Jul 01, 2025•43 min
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Episode description
Comedian and poet Tim Key on writing and starring in The Ballad of Wallis Island which has become one of the surprise film hits of the year.
Novelists Saima Mir and Marcia Hutchinson on setting their stories in Bradford.
Playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni on reimagining the 5th Pan African Congress which took place in Manchester in 1945 for her new play, Liberation.
As the Japanese art form, Manga, makes its presence felt at this year's Bradford Literature Festival, writer and comic specialist Paul Gravett who has curated the exhibition, Make Mine Manga, and Manga artist, Eira Richards, discuss the visual vocabulary of this distinctive art genre.
Presented by Nick Ahad Produced by Ekene Akalawu
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