THE BBC will celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday with a special broadcast of its Book Club show.
The BBC World Book Club, due to be recorded in London on April 14, will focus on Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre.
Guests will include novelist Tracy Chevalier, a leading light in this year’s bicentenary celebrations, and Charlotte’s biographer Claire Harman.
Brontë enthusiast Tracy, writer of Girl With A Pearl Earring, is the ‘creative partner’ of the Brontë Parsonage Museum throughout 2016.
She has curated a year-long exhibition at the Haworth museum, entitled Charlotte Great And Small, which showcases the wealth of items connected with the famous writer.
Keighley people are being invited to the Radio Theatre at New Broadcasting House in London to pose questions to Tracy and Claire during the 12.30pm recording the radio programme.
Anyone interested should e-mail worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk. The programme is part of the BBC World Service.
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