Frieda Hughes

This time twenty years ago Poet Laureate Ted Hughes held an audience spellbound in The Forum at the first Bath Literature Festival. This year's Festival pays tribute to Hughes’ genius and the role of poetry in our lives with poet Frieda Hughes (daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath), Downton Abbey actor David Robb, acclaimed broadcaster and writer Melvyn Bragg, Mercury Prize-shortlisted performance poet Kate Tempest and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby. Hosted by writer Bel Mooney, one of the original founders of the Festival.

Part of a 10 day festival of talks, performance and events featuring novelists, poets, political observers and others at venues throughout the city.