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"Global issue" debates at literary festival

Mary Berry is speaking at the festival over the weekend Credit: Georgia Glynn Smith

One of the region's biggest literary festivals is highlighting "global issues" for its latest line-up.

Organisers of The Stratford Literary Festival say they're returning to their original roots with the theme of ‘Sharing Stories’. Talks range from the Romantic poets to the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria, wartime spies to The Great British Bake Off.

TV chef Mary Berry is among the guest list of speakers at the festival, which this year celebrates their 10-year anniversary. The event runs in Stratford until the 30th April.

"'The programme is packed to bursting.....I really hope that people will give some events a try that they might not believe are for them".

– Annie Ashworth, Festival Director