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Front Row: Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction

Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction

Anthony Horowitz, Alex Wheatle, Manon Steffan Ros and Frances Hardinge.

Anthony Horowitz, Alex Wheatle, Manon Steffan Ros and Frances Hardinge discuss young adult fiction in front of an audience of teenagers at Hay Festival.

In a special edition of Front Row recorded at this year's Hay Festival, school children and young people put questions to four giants of Young Adult Fiction.

Anthony Horowitz has written books for both adults and younger readers, but here discusses his iconic creation Alex Rider. Manon Steffan Ros won last year's Carnegie Medal, the first translated book to read the prize having originally been written in Welsh. Alex Wheatle is the author of the hugely popular Crongton Knights series, having written his first novel Brixton Rock in prison. And Frances Hardinge is the only children's author other than Phillip Pullman to win the Costa Prize Book of the Year with the Lie Tree, as well as being the other behind other much loved YA novels including Fly By Night.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

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