BLF 2024

Festival Highlights

The 10th anniversary Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) welcomed over 155,900 audiences from 24 countries. The festival featured 699 events, including a Doha Debates Town Hall with an international panel of journalists, broadcasters, authors and students.

453 artists delivered incredible performances, talks, tours, workshops and more, including Miriam Margolyes, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaparak Khorsandi, Sara Pascoe, Lemn Sissay, Ruby Wax, Mary Beard, and Corinne Bailey Rae.

A partnership with Network Rail helped raise national awareness through ‘BLF takeovers’ at nine major railway stations across the UK, including five in London.