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Highlights from the many ´óÏó´«Ã½ programmes broadcast from Contains Strong Language this year.

Southern Africa meets Coventry on the spoken word scene.

Radio 4's Front Row comes live from the Contains Strong Language festival.

Nihal Arthanayake's afternoon show comes live from Coventry's Belgrade Theatre.

Ian McMillan is live in Coventry with Loyle Carner, Grace Nichols, John Agard and Roy McFarlane.

Kate Molleson with a special live edition of Radio 3's Music Matters, featuring live music and discussion of the parallel rhythms of music and language.

Cerys welcomes poets from the Contains Strong Language festival to transport you to Coventry via prose and poetry.

Adventures in underground and experimental music live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6Music from the Contains Strong Language festival.

Philippa Gregory and Profs Nandini Das, Susan Doran and Adam Roberts join Matthew Sweet and a Coventry audience to discuss the way historical fiction shapes our view of history.

Ian McMillan explores Coventry's green places and the river and music that ghost through the city ​with poets David Morley, John Bernard, Sujana Crawford and Olga McDermott.

Find out more about the four-day festival that showcased some of the best spoken word artists from the UK.

Five artists' perspectives on the future of the city. First up, playwright and director Chris O’Connell asks: If Coventry was a character, who would it be?