Michael Heseltine speaking at the Hay Festival:

“Racism is basically what underpins UKIP and Reform. I’m just over 90, I have lived through some of the most tumultuous events of our time, and anyone who is looking for the common theme: it’s racism.”

Excellent paid £££ opportunities (for writers living in the areas mentioned) including one for a screenwriter in residence at my old haunt the Tyneside Cinema. 📽️

If you’re into a bit of Kafka or a bit of Orwell (but especially if you’re into a bit of Kafka), check out this BBC Press Office release, to see what a bumper fun-packed month June will be for you! 🪳❤️🐷

Our Carolin Duttlinger will be on two programmes as part of this amazing takeover!
On 9 June she will discuss The Trial with Ed Harris 🥽🐥🌸, followed by Ed's own radio adaptation of the novel📻
And on 16 June Carolin and Ed will be exploring The Man Who Disappeared, aka Amerika📚

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Only 2 days to go until 'Kafka: Making of an Icon' opens. Will it be finished in time or remain fragmentary?

If you missed this, you missed the whole Hay Festival! I had the cold-sweat-inducing honour of speaking at the BBC Radio 4 panel debate w/ Robin Brooks (who has just abridged 1984 for R4). So many of the perks of being a writer scare me to the bone, and this was no exception! 🤯😳

Hi folks 👋 I’m off to the Hay on Wye Fest this weekend. Never been before. What can you tell me about what to pack, what to expect, and will you basically, in some way or another, hold my hand for me? So long as my lunch money isn’t stolen by the bigger writers, I should be okay

I’ll be taking part in what sounds like a literary gladiatorial grudge match (“Kafka vs Orwell!”) at the BBC tent at the Hay Festival this Sunday - if you fancy watching me slug it out to the bitter end against Robin Brooks, in the Orwell Corner. (Boo!) 🪳
hayfestival.com/p-22061-bbc-ra…

What a beautiful day!

Some dates for your diaries! From the pen of Ed Harris 🥽🐥🌸 - these promise to be fantastic

Congratulations Ed, can't wait for this!

Very excited for these *three* new radio plays based on Kafka’s work and life by the amazing Ed Harris 🥽🐥🌸!!

Now this is very exciting! A June filled with Kafka courtesy of Ed Harris 🥽🐥🌸 and BBC Radio 4? Yes please and thank you very much!

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Eek!! 🤩

“Like Dot through a Kafkaesque prism”!! Wowzers, thank you!! 🤩