Guest artists during his time included John Mansfield, Gustav Holst, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot (whose 1935 drama Murder in the Cathedral was commissioned by Bell for the festival).
The Bruce Valpy play Hornby was performed in the 2007 Canterbury Festival by pupils from Dover College.
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