Joanna Lumley and Tulisa confirmed

Dame Joanna Lumley and Tulisa Contostavlos are among the many celebrities to be introduced on this 12 months’s line-up on the Cheltenham Literature Pageant.

First held in 1949 and considered the world’s oldest literature pageant, the occasion will characteristic talks and discussions from authors, journalists and public figures.

Greater than 400 occasions are deliberate between 10-19 October, together with talks from Graham Norton, Katie Piper, Sir Michael Palin, and BBC director basic Tim Davie.

Dame Joanna, star of Completely Fabulous, will likely be interviewed about her forthcoming e book, and Contostavlos, of The X Issue and N-Dubz fame, will discuss Judgement, her new e book detailing the highs and lows of her profession.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls’s Prize for Fiction winner, kids’s writer Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Ian McEwan, writer of Atonement, may also be a part of the occasion.

Quite a few TV and movie stars will collect in Cheltenham over the ten days, together with Richard Curtis, creator of Love Truly, and Gavin and Stacey actors Joanna Web page and Larry Lamb, with the latter additionally showing together with his son, George, to current his debut novel All Wrapped Up.

A number of the talks will have a look at social points, with Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens questioning if masculinity is in disaster alongside writers Laura Bates and James Bloodworth.

Different names introduced embody meals author Nigel Slater, former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg, wildlife photographer Hamza Yassin, Olympic gold medallist Sir Bradley Wiggins, and French chef Raymond Blanc.