The line-up of the 2018 Hay Festival includes stage and screen actors Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale, as well as screenwriter Andrew Davies.
Davies, with producers Laura Lankester and Faith Penhale, will talk about his new Les Misérables TV series, and Creative Director and co-founder of Aardman Animations Peter Lord will talk about "the UK's favourite animation studio" and its latest film Early Man.
Actors Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale will also visit Hay on Wye, Broadbent to talk about his first graphic novel collaboration, Dull Margaret, and Beale to join with Shakespeare scholar Abigail Rokison to discuss Hamlet. There is also a promise of an "all-star Letters Live cast" performing at the festival.
There will also be appearances from comedians including Russell Kane, James Campbell, Shazia Mirza, David Baddiel, Rachel Parris, Dara O’Briain, James Acaster, Bridget Christie, Deborah Frances-White and “Scummy Mummies” Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson, plus music from Jake Bugg, Hackney Colliery Band, Laura Mvula, Seckou Keita and Catrin Finch, Nicky Clayton, Clive Wilkins, Les Amazones d'Afrique, Sam Lee, Gabrielle Aplin, Imelda May, Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie, Show of Hands, Paul Henry, Brian Briggs, Josephine and the Artizans and Humphrey Burton.
Other headliners at the festival include Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Asne Seierstad, Michael Morpurgo, Judith Kerr, David Walliams, Jacqueline Wilson, Lauren Child, Jilly Cooper, André Aciman, Rose Tremain, Marian Keyes, Chelsea Clinton, Donna Brazile, Maurice Gourdault Montagne, Michael Wolff, Gordon Brown, Michael Gove, David Miliband, Ehud Barak, Shashi Tharoor, Akala, Afua Hirsch, James O'Brien, Laura Bates, David Olusoga, Rose McGowan, Ruby Wax, Edmund de Waal, Germaine Greer, Kate Brandt, Monty Don, Bear Grylls and Goldie.
Hay Festival runs at Hay on Wye in Wales from 24 May to 3 June 2018.