Hay Festival's Peter Florence: 'A Huge Canvas To Work On'

Literature is the most dissenting and un-clubbable art form. Writers aren't ever luxury entertainment like classical music or art. They pose questions, they destabilize, they're provocative. Anyone who gets that and embraces it will be a great city host.

The great advantage of multiple locations is the scale and scope of the stories you can explore and the range of voices that can be heard. We program 2,000 events a year. That's a huge canvas to work on.