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Carol Kirkwood talks to Sian Williams

The Next Chapter

Hay Festival 2026, 

How do you become a writer? And how do you find the courage to give up a job you love to do it? In an exclusive conversation for Hay Festival, the nation’s favourite weather presenter and best-selling author Carol Kirkwood talks to her former BBC Breakfast co-host, the broadcaster and chartered psychologist Dr Sian Williams, about making life-changing decisions and writing her way around the world, one book at a time.