VETERAN journalist and TV presenter John Humphrys will be venturing out of the studio and heading north next month.

The Mastermind quizmaster and Radio Four Today show stalwart will be in York to take part in the city’s literature festival on March 29.

He will visit St Peter’s School to talk to festival director Miles Salter in front of an audience about his love of language, his Welsh background and his work on Mastermind and the Today programme.

The event begins at 6pm. Tickets are £13 from York Theatre Royal on 01904-623568 or online at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk