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John Bird talks to Oliver Balch

Literary Briefs: Chapters & Verse

Hay Festival 2019, 

The superhero social entrepreneur, founder of the Big Issue and now member of the House of Lords, brings his new literacy campaign to Hay to launch the second edition of Literary Briefs: Chapters & Verse, championing 50 great books. Join him to talk about the power of libraries, stories and imagination, and to help build a new ‘Wider Reading Alliance’.

John Bird talks to Oliver Balch