LIVE at the Hay Festival - Hugh Bonneville, Martha Kearney, Matt Haig, and the Inheritance Tracks of Prue Leith

About this episode

The episode features discussions with Martha Kearney, Matt Haig, and Hugh Bonneville, along with Prue Leith's Inheritance Tracks.

Martha Kearney is a titan of news and political broadcasting who these days takes a more relaxed approach to her work, swapping the campaign trail for a nature trail. Matt Haig can do it all, fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books - and we’re all aboard for his latest novel the Midnight Train - but it's Winnie the Pooh that Ian Fletcher, Earl Grantham, Mr Brown…are but some of the much loved characters of Hugh Bonneville - he’s now turned his hand to a children’s book where, as we’ll hear, the most unbelievable stories within it are true! All that, plus the Inheritance Tracks of Prue Leith. Presenter: Adrian Chiles Producer: Ben Mitchell Assistant Producer: Lowri Morgan Researcher: Jesse Edwards and Josie Hardy Editor: Andrea Kennedy

People in this episode

Host: Adrian Chiles

Guests: Martha Kearney, Matt Haig, Hugh Bonneville

Topics covered

• news
• politics
• literature
• children's books
• inheritance tracks
• nature

Keywords

• Martha Kearney
• Matt Haig
• Hugh Bonneville
• Inheritance Tracks
• children's literature
• BBC Radio 4

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Radio 4

Books & works: the Midnight Train, Winnie the Pooh, children’s book

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