Cheltenham Literature Festival 2025 line-up announced

Dame Joanna Lumley and Tulisa Contostavlos are among the many celebrities to be introduced on this 12 months’s line-up on the Cheltenham Literature Competition.First held in 1949 and regarded as the world’s oldest literature competition, the occasion will function talks and discussions from authors, journalists and public figures.Greater than 400 occasions are deliberate between 10-19 October, together with talks from Graham Norton, Katie Piper, Sir Michael Palin, and BBC director basic Tim Davie.Dame Joanna, star of Completely Fabulous, might be interviewed about her forthcoming guide, and Contostavlos, of The X Issue and N-Dubz fame, will speak about Judgement, her new guide detailing the highs and lows of her profession.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls’s Prize for Fiction winner, kids’s creator Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Ian McEwan, creator of Atonement, may also be a part of the occasion.Quite a few TV and movie stars will collect in Cheltenham over the ten days, together with Richard Curtis, creator of Love Truly, and Gavin and Stacey actors Joanna Web page and Larry Lamb, with the latter additionally showing along with his son, George, to current his debut novel All Wrapped Up.A number of the talks will have a look at social points, with Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens questioning if masculinity is in disaster alongside writers Laura Bates and James Bloodworth.Different names introduced embody meals author Nigel Slater, former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg, wildlife photographer Hamza Yassin, Olympic gold medallist Sir Bradley Wiggins, and French chef Raymond Blanc.