Stratford Festival Faces

The spring festival welcomed Alison Steadman, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Reeta Chakrabarti, John Boyne, Sally Phillips, Cecelia Ahern, Juliet Stevenson, Jeremy Vine and Charlie Higson. The record-breaking autumn programme expanded to four days for the first time, headlined by Sir Philip Pullman, John Cleese, Graham Norton, Lyse Doucet, Nicola Sturgeon, Sir Tony Robinson, Dame Denise Lewis and Gyles Brandreth.