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Hull’s annual Freedom Festival is still taking place across the weekend. It’s been a regular fixture on the festival circuit since 2008 and this year, it’s taken everything that a pandemic could possibly throw at it but even so – it’s still happening.

Â鶹Éç Radio Humberside is the official broadcast partner of the . We are hosting a special live festival launch show right here on Â鶹Éç Radio Humberside on Friday 4 September. 6 til 10pm. The show will highlight some of the rich and varied programme that’s lined up for the weekend.

William Wilberforce was one of the driving forces behind the abolition of slavery back in the early 1800s. We like to think that he’d be quietly pleased that the City that was his home still honours his name and his work some 200 years on with The Freedom Festival 2020.

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