This year’s festival will take place from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th September.
The Smithdown Litfest is thrilled to welcome Sir Michael Palin for a special event on Friday 26th September 2025 at 7pm. Tickets go on sale very soon. To be among the first to get notified when tickets are released, please sign up to our free mailing list.
Our full programme:
THURSDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER: KEEGAN – THE MAN WHO WAS KING. Author and journalist Anthony Quinn analyses the peaks and troughs of Kevin Keegan’s career.
FRIDAY 26tTH SEPTEMBER: AN EVENING WITH SIR MICHAEL PALIN
SATURDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER: LIVERPOOL MEMORIES. A Century of Liverpool on Film. The films of renowned film maker and archivist the late Angus Tilston MBE.
SUNDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER: LET ME IN: THE BRONTËS IN BRICKS AND MORTAR with Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, and Sharon Wright, author of the bestselling biography of Maria Branwell Brontë.
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