Take a bite out of Brighton Festival 2008 (3-25 May). This year offers another exhilarating 3 weeks of world-class art and entertainment. Make sure you don’t miss out on the 42nd biggest and best mixed arts festival in England.

This year's Festival features 12 premieres, 9 exclusives and 30 free events in venues, parks and unusual spaces across the city.

Festival podcasts

Click here for our series of podcasts which will help you get behind the scenes of some of this year’s events. You can also catch up on some you may have missed with extracts from the Books & Debate programme including Mike Leigh!

Programmer Vodcasts

Hear about our highlights direct from the programming team. Watch a short video for each of our Festival artforms: Performance, Theatre, Music, Classical, Books & Debate, The Free Outdoors, 26 Letters and Family Friendly.

Festival Hub

In the heart and soul of Festival-land, The Hub (outside the Pavilion Theatre) is the place to make a meal of it with lovingly prepared, locally sourced, globally themed organic cuisine.

Sky Arts programme

National Broadcast Supporter Sky Arts have filmed a 10 minute programme all about the festival which will be screened from Fri 2 May throughout May on channel 267.

Make a Festival Break of it

We've got 35 hotel, restaurant and attractions offers to help you, your family and friends make a real break of it at Festival time.

Festival Night Train

Head to Brighton Festival and zip back late to London with our special night train service from Southern. Brighton 23.19 to Victoria 00.13 throughout the Festival (back in time to catch most last tubes from Victoria)