Festival of Words Series: From Dickens to Okri: Why Stories Still Matter

Fri 15 May 2026,
6:00PM - 7:00PM

Join Booker Prize winning novelist Sir Ben Okri and producer Daniel West for a discussion of the enduring appeal of A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’ epic exploration of love, war, and revolution has given us the theme for this year’s Festival of Words – The Age of Wisdom and Foolishness – and is the subject of a new BBC adaptation later this year, which Kent is executive producing.