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Broadcaster Cathy Newman talks to novelist and poet Jackie Kay, British graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg and acclaimed actor and director Adjoa Andoh, about Anne, the ‘genius’ of the Brontë family.

This is an extract from a special Big Book Weekend session to mark the 200th anniversary of Anne Brontë’s birth. Discussion of this feminist pioneer is interspersed with readings from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Adjoa Andoh, and Isabel Greenberg’s artworks inspired by the Brontës.

Presented by the Charleston Festival. Big Book Weekend is brought to you by MyVLF, and supported by 91Èȱ¬ Arts and Arts Council England.