Hull is the 2017 City of Culture with a range of wondrous things happening including the premiere of native son Richard Bean's play The Hypocrite.
Helen Dunmore's latest novel Birdcage Walk is set in burgeoning 18th century Bristol
Radio 4's Mars Season includes a short series following in the footsteps of the martians (do martians have feet?) after their invasion of Earth began in Woking, in HG Well's War Of The Worlds
Isabel Huppert recently won a Cesar for her role as the victim of sexual violence in Paul Verhoeven's prizewinning noir thriller Elle

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Deborah Moggach, Nihal and Joolz Denby. The producer is Oliver Jones. Show less