Ian McMillan presents Radio 3’s ‘cabaret of the word’, featuring award-winning writers alongside the most innovative up-and-coming performers. This year, guests include The Last Poets – legends in the world of spoken word performance in the U.S. Join us for our special Hay edition of the programme, “a linguistic leftfield joy that manages to be cosy and surreal, and which Ian McMillan presides over like a kindly pub landlord” – Radio Times.

Broadcast on Friday 1 June at 10pm on BBC Radio 3.