18–21 Sep 2025
BBC Contains Strong Language
The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival comes to Bradford.
Date 18–21 Sep 2025
Location To be announced
Ages All ages
The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival for new writing is coming to Bradford for the first time.
Contains Strong Language is the BBC’s annual celebration of poetry, performance and spoken word – and next year, it’s coming to Bradford for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
There’ll be four days of performances, readings, events and activities at venues across the city, and a host of BBC radio programmes will be recorded or broadcast live from Bradford – including The Verb, BBC Radio 4’s ‘cabaret of the word’. Much of the weekend will be free.
Check back in 2025 for full programme details.
Lead image: © BBC
