BBC Launches Campaign Promoting Reading - Publishing Perspectives

The campaign kicks off in spring with the BBC Shakespeare Festival 2016 - a major season celebrating the genius of William Shakespeare, 400 years after his death.

Over the summer there will be a season of children's books on the BBC, at the heart of which will be programming to mark the centenary of one of the UK's most famous children's authors, Roald Dahl.

In the autumn, a landmark season on BBC Two: The Book That Inspired Me and an accompanying nationwide social media campaign led by BBC Learning, created to encourage everyone to share their favorite books.

And throughout the year BBC Two and BBC Four will be celebrating the work of famous authors such as the Brontës and Rudyard Kipling, while Radio 4 will explore the work of contemporary figures such as Alex Garland, Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson.