Contains Strong Language

We’re partnering with the BBC and Bradford 2025 City of Culture to bring the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival to Bradford.

Contains Strong Language is the BBC’s annual celebration of poetry, performance and spoken word – and this year it’s coming to Bradford for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. 

There’ll be four days of performances, readings, events and activities at venues across the city, and a host of BBC radio programmes will be recorded or broadcast live from Bradford – including The Verb, BBC Radio 4’s ‘cabaret of the word’. Much of the weekend will be free.  

Check back in August for full programme details. 

BBC Contains Strong Language 2025 is a partnership between the BBC, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture Trust and Word Up North. It is supported by Arts Council England. Image: © BBC.