May 30
The program for the 2008 London literature festival was announced last week. It will be hosted at venues across the Southbank Centre in July.
Highlights will include readings of new fiction from Colm Toibin and Jenny Diski, Sir Ian McKellen in discussion with Bishop Gene Robinson, and Tony Benn and David Davis debating democracy. Comedienne Josie Long will provide an evening of live comedy. While Zaha Hadid and Antony Gormley will take part in a discussion of urbanism. Poetry will be provided by Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Lavinia Greenlaw.
The London literature festival at Southbank Centre runs from Saturday 5 - Saturday 19 July 2008. For further event details see www.southbankcentre.co.uk/literaturefestival
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