Sixty Years On

The long-running literary festival celebrates its sixtieth birthday this year with a special 'George Webber Memorial Evening' to pay tribute to the man who founded JBW back in 1952. Since then it has gone from a modest four days of talks, to a nine-day series of lectures, film screenings and workshops. Tonight, British historian and author Simon Schama, along with novelist Linda Grant, Emily Maitlis and more, discuss literature's past and future.