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Bradford UK City of Culture 2025

Find out all about Bradford City of Culture 2025 – 12 months of creativity, culture and arts. Plus see how you can get involved.

Showcasing all the exciting ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ stories and events that have happened in Bradford so far.

Festival Hub

  • Bantam of the Opera: Latest

    Find out more about a new choir coming to the city formed of Bradford City AFC fans. Listen to the series on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Sounds.
  • Join us in Bradford

    Take part in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ events and recordings as part of the Bradord UK City of Culture 2025 celebrations.

Time well spent

  • Dance Passion

    Dancers take over the city and countryside to celebrate the joy of dance - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four.
  • The Adverb

    Testament presents poetry in performance at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
  • Loose Ends

    Amit Dhand, Mark Gatiss and Kate Fox join Edith Bowman live in Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
  • The Archers Podcast

    Recorded at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Contains Strong Language festival, with Emma Freud - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
  • Front Row

    Nick Ahad presents a special edition of Front Row from St George's Hall in Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
  • Beyond Belief

    Giles Fraser leads the panel as they discuss 'have religions forgotten the working class?', recorded in Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
  • The Verb

    Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Introducing

    The best under-the-radar local musical talent from South and West Yorkshire - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leeds & ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Sheffield.
  • Start the Week

    The historian Catherine Clarke, writer Saima Mir and poet Andrew McMillan explore the culture and history of Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
  • Contains Strong Language

    Revisit the 2025 poetry and performance festival that took place in Bradford's St George's Hall - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arts.
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Bradford

    Angélique Kidjo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra bring the Proms to Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3.
  • Antiques Roadshow: Bradford

    The roadshow visits Lister Park and Cartwright Hall in Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One.
  • Bargain Hunt: Bradford

    The programme goes to Bradford to celebrate the award of UK City of Culture 2025 - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
  • Song of Summer: Frederick Delius

    How Eric Fenby helped a blind Delius set down the unfinished scores he heard in his head - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four.
  • Delius: Composer, Lover, Enigma

    Documentary exploring the contradictions of Frederick Delius's colourful life - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four.
  • Hidden Bradford

    Explore fascinating stories from Bradford - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leeds.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ in Bradford

Curators explore the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Archives to share this special collection celebrating Bradford.

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Lasting legacy

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ coverage of previous UK City of Culture winners.

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