Cornish people although regular broadcast in Cornish is limited to a weekly bilingual programme on BBC Radio Cornwall. Daily life in Cornwall therefore is conducted in the English language, albeit with some regional peculiarities. "Legends of the Fall", a novella by American author Jim Harrison, detailing the lives of a Cornish American family in the early 20th century, contains several Cornish language terms. These were also included in the Academy Award winning film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins as Col. William Ludlow and Brad Pitt as Tristan Ludlow. Early medieval Cornwall was associated with the Matter of Britain, a national
Ludlow Dunne was born in Ludlow in 1958. The author P.D.James, Baroness James of Holland Park (1920-2014) spent part of her youth in Ludlow, and attended the British School there. Fr. John Fitzgerald (1927–2007) was a Carmelite friar, priest, poet and philosopher from Ludlow. Kate Charles (born 1950) is an American crime writer who now lives in Ludlow. Dick Heckstall-Smith (1934–2004) from Ludlow was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. Sheena Porter (born 1935) a British author of children's novels lives in Ludlow. The actor John Challis (born 1942) who played Boycie in "Only Fools & Horses" lives near Ludlow, as