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Haymakers Imagine a party for everyone – young and old, right and left, the country and the city; a party with a thousand stories rather than a manifesto; a party where poetry trumps rhetoric, and where curiosity and discovery trump certainty and conviction; a party where dreams are dearer than promises, where we revel in dissent, and where to change your mind is a strength and a pleasure. Imagine a party where we celebrate the possibility of art, the adventure of science and the deep understanding of humanity that comes from close attention to the lessons of history. Imagine a party that is first and foremost a party. There’s food and music and laughter; there’s time and there’s the best company you could hope for. That’s our party in Hay. Please join us. Happy festival.

Â’r etholiad cyffredinol ar bob sianel ac ymhob papur newydd, dyma wahoddiad i chi ddychmygu cyd-destun lle mae yna groeso i bob un – yr hen a’r ieuanc, y rheiny ar y dde ac ar y chwith, trigolion y wlad a’r ddinas. Cytgord o straeon dirifedi yn hytrach na maniffesto, a gofod lle mae barddoniaeth yn drech na rhethreg, a chwilfrydedd yn drech na sicrwydd ac argyhoeddiad. Gofod lle mae breuddwydion yn werth mwy nag addewidion, a gofod hefyd sydd yn caniatáu i ni ymhyfrydu mewn anghytuno; lle mae newid meddwl yn bleser pur ac yn arwydd o gryfder. Dychmygwch fan lle gallwch chi ddathlu posibiliadau celfyddyd, anturiaethau gwyddoniaeth a’r dealltwriaeth ddofn o ddynoliaeth a ddaw yn sgil astudio gwersi hanes. Dychmygwch hynny i gyd mewn cyd-destun sydd, yn y lle cyntaf, yn ddathliad ac yn barti. Bydd yma fwyd a cherddoriaeth a chwerthin, amser i hamddena a’r cwmni gorau posib. ˆ yl y Gelli. Ymunwch â ni, da chi. Dyna gynulliad Gw ˆ yl i chi. Holl hwyl yr w

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PROGRAMME UPDATES ONLINE We often add exciting extra events after this programme goes to print – these will all be listed under ‘new events’ at hayfestival.org/programme. During the festival we’ll also send links to any venue and event changes on a daily email circulated to ticket-holders. WORKSHOPS & OFFSITE VISITS Our workshops are all listed briefly among the main events here, but you can also find more information about them online at hayfestival.org/workshops. Offsite visits and events are listed at hayfestival.org/wales/extras.

DIWEDDARIADAU I’R RHAGLEN AR-LEIN Yn aml, byddwn yn ychwanegu digwyddiadau cyffrous at y rhaglen wedi i’r rhaglen bapur fynd i’r wasg – caiff y rhain i gyd eu rhestru dan y pennawd ‘digwyddiadau newydd’ ar we-fan ˆ yl byddwn hefyd yn hayfestival.org/programme. Yn ystod yr W rhoi gwybod i ddefnyddwyr am newidiadau i leoliadau a digwyddiadau, mewn e-bost dyddiol i ddeiliaid tocynnau. GWEITHDAI & YMWELIADAU Â MANNAU ERAILL Caiff ein gweithdai i gyd eu rhestru’n fras ar y brif restr o ddigwyddiadau ond gallwch gael mwy o wybodaeth amdanynt ar-lein, yn hayfestival.org/workshops. Rhestrir ymweliadau a digwyddiˆ yl yn hayfestival.org/wales/extras. adau oddi ar brif safle’r W

CONTENTS Events Hay Fever On site extras

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Off site extras Maps Travel

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Hay on Earth Index Booking info

Details correct at time of going to press. Amendments and additions may be posted at hayfestival.org/programme. Cover design by AineVenables.com

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KEY LOCATIONS

LEGALS

Most venues are on the Festival Site on Brecon Road, and are no more than 2 minutes’ walk from each other. St Mary’s Church is behind the Swan Hotel. There are pedicabs and a shuttle bus running between the site and the town throughout the day. It’s a ten-minute walk.

HAY FEVER EVENTS Events for children & families are included in the main listings – look out for the events in coloured text. Please see the Hay Fever pages 86-87 for more info on the Hay Fever venues.

DURATION

SOLAR PROVIDERS

Most ‘talk’ events on site last between 50 and 65 minutes and are followed by book signings. Concerts and comedy shows last 70–90 minutes.

PUNCTUALITY We try to start all events on time. Doors will open between 5 and 15 minutes before the start time. If you are queuing please talk to the people standing next to you.

PRINTERS VENUE CHANGES It is sometimes necessary to switch venues. We don’t unless we really need to. Please consult the screens at the festival entrance when you arrive and in each of the venues on the pre-show roll for updated news.

CERTIFICATION

FUNDERS

We don’t impose age restrictions, although a standard watershed of 9pm for anyone of primary school age is advised. Many comedy performances may not be suitable for anyone easily offended.

CHARITY PARTNERS We work with a number of local and global charity partners: Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Brecon Samaritans, Concern Universal, PEN International, Macmillan Cancer Support, Oxfam, Medical Aid For Palestinians, Sri Lanka Rebuild, The North Weir Trust and Hay2Timbuktu. We also raise money for local schools and libraries. There are occasionally collections after certain sessions. Hay Library has had a 30% funding cut. Please help us raise £7K to keep the library open.

PHOTOGRAPHS The photographs in the brochure were taken in previous years at Hay by Finn Beales. All details are correct at time of going to press.

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THURSDAY 21 MAY

THURSDAY 21 MAY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

12pm

The festival opens with the Schools Programme (Thursday 21 May and Friday 22 May) – two days of free events attended by 5,000 children from 100 schools. The Primary Schools day features Michelle Paver, Joseph Coelho, Elen Caldecott, Gill Lewis, Megan Rix, Jeff Norton and Into Film. Performers on the Secondary Schools day include Sarah Crossan, Tony De Saulles, Sita Brahmachari, Into Film, Robert Muchamore, Sophie McKenzie and David Almond. To find out more and for a full list of Schools Programme events, please visit hayfestival.org/schoolsprogramme.

[W2] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

HAY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

10am [W1] 10AM–11.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Body Clothed Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities.

Drawing and Poetry Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities.

1pm [3] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Rob Yorke, Tim Lang and George Freeman Hay on Earth 2015 Forum Can we reduce the need for food banks while also paying more for our food and trying to conserve the environment? George Freeman, Chairman of the All-Party Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture, discusses with Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University London.

2.30pm [4] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Jane Davidson and David Thorpe Hay on Earth 2015 Forum One Planet Living: A Measure of Sustainability Can the pioneering Welsh policy One Planet Development be used as a template for governments and planners? Could it bring in a new attitude to development, planning and land management, to take into account the full environmental impact of human activities? Jane Davidson of INSPIRE talks to author and consultant David Thorpe.

11.30am 3pm [1] 11.30AM–8PM OXFAM MOOT £20

Hay on Earth 2015 Forum This year’s Forum will broadly ask ‘What policies should the new government be pursuing to build a sustainable Britain?’ Full day ticket allows entry to all 6 sessions: events 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. [2] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £5

Mark Shorrock and Patrick Begg talk to Andy Fryers Hay on Earth 2015 Forum Summon the Energy Getting to grips with the energy sector, new technologies and moving to a low-carbon supply – Mark Shorrock, Chief Executive of the Swansea Bay Tidal Barrage, and Patrick Begg, the National Trust’s energy expert discuss with the Hay on Earth Director.

[W3] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing Out and About Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities.

4pm [5] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £10

Andrew Simms, David Boyle and Carl Nichols Hay on Earth 2015 Forum Delivering the Circular Economy Cloudy with a chance of compost – forecasting the circular economy with the New Weather Institute. Author and campaigner Andrew Simms talks to author and journalist David Boyle and Carl Nichols, Head of WRAP Cymru.

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5.30pm Steve Melia talks to Andy Fryers Hay on Earth 2015 Forum Urban Transport Without the Hot Air Dispelling the myths about transport and presenting a sustainable vision for the future. Steve Melia from the University of Bristol talks to the Hay on Earth Director.

7pm [7] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Mick Collins talks to Andy Middleton

THURSDAY 21 MAY

[6] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Hay on Earth 2015 Forum The Unselfish Spirit We have been treating the Earth as an object to be exploited, and have consequently cut ourselves off from evolving co-operatively with nature. We have to find new ways of doing, knowing and being so that we can live in harmony with all life. Mick Collins, author and occupational therapist, talks to Andy Middleton. [8] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5

The Massed Choirs The Gwernyfed Minibus Concert Talgarth Male Voice Choir are joined by Hay Community Choir and bands and choirs from schools in the Gwernyfed area. They sing a celebration concert of popular choral works to raise money for the school minibus. The concert will be compèred by Chris Davies. Please join us.

8.30pm [9] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Battle of the Bands Up and coming local bands and solo artists battle it out to be crowned Best Band. An evening of live, original music; come along and cheer for your favourite as the judges decide who is worthy of the crown. Head judge is BBC Wales’ Bethan Elfyn. In partnership with The Music Pool.

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FRIDAY 22 MAY

FRIDAY 22 MAY 10am

2.30pm

[W4] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

[13] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Drawing the Head Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities.

12pm [W5] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Unexpected Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities.

1pm [10] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Tim Finch, Julie Meyer and Warren East talk to Guto Harri The Magic of Diasporas Diaspora: a scattered population with a common origin. Diaspora engagement is changing the fortunes of nations and exerting huge influence over many aspects of public life and economic development. Moreover it is claimed that 20 non-resident Welsh people could bring wealth and prosperity to Wales. So what is, as The Economist puts it, the ‘Magic of Diasporas’? Finch – former Head of Migration at IPPR, Meyer – entrepreneur, investor and business advisor, and Warren East – former CEO of ARM Holdings, talk to Guto Harri. Supported by GlobalWelsh [11] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

From the structure of clouds to shopping-trolley helices of DNA and sculpting in stardust, the Consultant Psychiatrist examines artworks by established artists who, wittingly or not, have conveyed scientific concepts through their art. [14] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Andrew Boucher, Luke Craddock-Bennett and Tegan Daly The Hereford Knight The editor of Death in the Close is joined by the archaeologist who led the excavations under Hereford Cathedral and the osteologist who studied the remains discovered there. They reveal extraordinary details of medieval life in Hereford, and the Saxon history of the cathedral site. In association with Hereford Cathedral [15] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Jane Davidson, George Marshall, Saci Lloyd and David Thorpe Can We Change the World With Imagination? Can climate fiction ever change minds, or does it merely confirm existing attitudes in the mind of the reader who chooses to read a book of that nature? Are more climate-related books aimed at children because their enquiring minds are supposed to be more open? Author and founder of Climate Outreach Information Network George Marshall talks to INSPIRE’s Jane Davidson, and authors Saci Lloyd and David Thorpe.

3pm

Chris Tweed

[W6] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Cardiff University Series 1 Reducing Energy Consumption

Royal Drawing School Class

Chris Tweed explores how people interact with the designed world, and how we can use this knowledge to make systems to assist with energy reduction most effectively. In association with Cardiff University [12] 1PM–4PM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM FREE – ALL WELCOME

Wynne Evans BBC Radio Wales LIVE Wynne Evans brings his Big Welsh Weekend to the Festival. Expect big name guests, laughs and live music. Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales every Friday, 1pm–4pm.

Henrietta Bowden-Jones The Art of Science

Drawing Out and About Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities.

4pm [16] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Martin Hughes-Games A Wild Life The intrepid Springwatch presenter tells the tales of deadly piranhas, vampire bats, fighting pandas and feral camels from thirty years of producing wildlife documentaries around the world.

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4pm

5.30pm

[17] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

[21] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow

Cambridge University Series 1 Dyslexia and the Brain

The Shed That Fed a Million Children

How can neuroscience help us to understand the sensory processing differences that can give rise to learning difficulties like dyslexia? Goswami is Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience. In association with Cambridge University [18] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7

John Lewis-Stempel talks to Kitty Corrigan Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field What really goes on in the long grass? Lewis-Stempel offers a hymn to pastoral beauty with an intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December. He records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-making of summer and grazing in autumn, and the lives of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren, the skylark brood and the curlew pair.

5.30pm

The extraordinary story of Mary’s Meals: after watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, two brothers agreed to take a week’s hiatus from work to help. What neither of them expected is that what began as a oneoff road trip in a beaten-up Land Rover rapidly grew to become Magnus’s life’s work – leading him to leave his job, sell his house and direct all his efforts into feeding thousands of the world’s poorest children. He talks to Sarah Crompton.

FRIDAY 22 MAY

Usha Goswami

[22] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Tim Parker talks to Francine Stock Trust What and who do we trust with our sense of nationhood? The NHS, the BBC, the PM, the EU? The new chair of the National Trust has been a CEO and board director of many of Britain’s most successful international companies, and he owns the British Pathé Film Archive. He discusses the ideas of ownership, national identity, the interplay of the public, private and third sectors, and the ethical concerns that drive business in an age of social media. In association with The National Trust, Wales

[19] 5.30PM TATA TENT £8

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor talks to Rosie Boycott

6.30pm

In conversation

[W7] 6.30PM–9PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £15

At the age of 68, with the Catholic Church worldwide engulfed by the sexual abuse crisis, Murphy-O’Connor was a surprise appointment as Archbishop of Westminster. He reflects frankly on the mistakes he himself made and on how he responded to the crisis, and he speaks poignantly of how he navigated the tempestuous first decade of the twenty-first century. His memoir is entitled An English Spring.

Life Drawing Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. 18+ years, all abilities.

7pm [23] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

[20] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Anthony Arlidge and Igor Judge

Robert Tombs

Magna Carta Uncovered

Cambridge University Series 2 The English and their History

The 1215 Runnymede Charter was both radical, in the way subjects tried to limit the power and conduct of government, and conservative, in following the form of Anglo Saxon Charters and trying to return government to the ways of early Norman and Angevin kings. The QC and the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales examine what brought King John to the table, and the impact it’s had on the law of the land.

If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative institutions, then the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. They first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. In association with Cambridge University

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FRIDAY 22 MAY

FRIDAY 22 MAY 7pm

8.30pm

[24] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[28] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Claire Wilcox

Richard Goldstone talks to Nik Gowing

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? The Rule of Law

The curator of the V&A’s spring blockbuster exhibition introduces the visionary body of work of one of fashion’s most inspiring and adventurous spirits. ‘People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality,’ – Alexander McQueen. Chaired by Tamsin Blanchard. In association with the Victoria & Albert Museum [25] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Arne Hintz, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Lina Dencik, Jonathan Cable

A conversation with one of the world’s foremost jurists. The ruling in the Groups Areas Act and the Goldstone Commission were fundamental to the transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy in South Africa. At the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Goldstone prosecuted Radovan c and Ratko Mladi´ c. In 2009, he led a Karadzi´ fact-finding mission created by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the Gaza War.

Cardiff University Series 2 In An Age of Mass Surveillance

[29] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

The leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have transformed our understanding of our daily communication through social media, email and mobile phones. Scholars from Cardiff University’s research project Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society will discuss the practices, implications and broader meanings of mass surveillance. Does it work? How does it work, and who and what is monitored? How does it affect civil rights? Have we been properly informed, and how should the media report? How can we protect ourselves? In association with Cardiff University, School of Journalism

Breakthrough

Jack Andraka The multi-award-winning teen innovator and scientist overcame the skepticism of the academic world, depression and homophobic bullying to invent, at the age of 15, an early-detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. It has the potential to be over four hundred times more effective than the medical standard and it costs only 5p per use. Chaired by Alice Key.

9.30pm [30] 9.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £10

[26] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

King Charles

Jay Griffiths

In concert

Imagine the World

We kick off the music sessions with a glorious blend of glam-rock, psychedelic folk and indie-pop from one of London’s rising cult stars. ‘King Charles is an extraordinary man. He doesn’t look like anyone you know, he doesn’t think like anyone you know and he doesn’t make music like anyone you know. How often, in these days of near-fatal oversaturation, days where you feel that, perhaps, there’s just nothing new out there to spark your imagination, can you say that?’

Griffiths will be the International Hay Festival Fellow for the next 12 months, visiting all our festivals around the world. Her visionary and poetic work explores her interest in nature, anthropology and art. Her books include Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, Wild: An Elemental Journey, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, and her fictionalised hymn to Frida Kahlo, A Love Letter to a Stray Moon. She talks to Peter Florence. In association with the Arts Council of Wales

[419] 9.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

8.30pm [27] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Steven Knight talks to Alan Yentob Peaky Blinders

The screenwriter and creator of the hit gangster drama talks about the Selby family, tribal war, and the crime-world of post-war Birmingham. Knight is screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things and Locke. We will also be screening all six episodes of Series 2, starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory and Tom Hardy, from 12.30pm at Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema in Hay. Book online at hayfestival.org/programme – event 425.

Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski QI Presents: No Such Thing As A Fish Live recording of the hit podcast from the writers of the BBC show QI who serve up a feast of bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts. Prepare to be amazed and amused in equal measure. iTunes Best New Podcast 2014, Chortle Award-winner 2015. ‘The QI Elves drop so many facts your head will spin’ – Guardian.

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9am

10am

[31] 9AM–11.15AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

[35] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7

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CD Review BBC Radio 3 LIVE

Daisy Hay

Join the lively debate as our expert critics discuss the latest classical recordings live. Andrew McGregor presents an edition of Radio 3’s CD Review with guests live from the Hay Festival. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 every Saturday, 9am–12.15pm.

Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance

10am [HF1] 10AM TATA TENT £8

Cressida Cowell How To Train Your Dragon Join the bestselling author-illustrator of the wildly popular How To Train Your Dragon series. Take behind-the-scenes sneak peeks of the new book Cressida is writing, learn some Dragonese and get the scoop on seeing book characters brought to life for the big screen. 7+ years [32] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Shami Chakrabarti On Liberty On 11 September 2001 our world changed. The West’s response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of ‘exception’. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. The Director of Liberty explores why our fundamental rights and freedoms are indispensable and examines the unprecedented pressures those rights are under today. She talks to Susie Symes, economist and chair of 19 Princelet Street.

The award-winning biographer describes the passionate relationship between Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli and shows how they rose to the top of the British establishment in an age of conformity – in spite of their lack of it. She was twelve years older than Benjamin, eccentric, liable to misbehave, and overdressed for grand society. He was a mid-ranking novelist of Jewish descent, and often mired in debt. They were fiercely devoted to one another. Hay has used the passionate letters they wrote to each other, held by the Bodleian Library, to piece together their story. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. [HF2] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Joseph Coelho Performance Poetry and Werewolf Club Rules Performance poet Joseph Coelho (CBeebies Rhyme Rocket) reveals the mysterious rules of the Werewolf Club, how to look like a rainbow, and how to fold up your gran, in a dynamic session sure to delight the whole family. 8+ years [HF3] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Nicola Davies Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes

Helen Lederer talks to Georgina Godwin

Nicola Davies was one of the original presenters of BBC children’s wildlife programme The Really Wild Show and is the author of A First Book of Nature and Everything You Need To Know About Animals. Here she explains the complex science of micro-organisms simply and clearly in a clever and friendly way for the very young.

Fictions – Losing It

5+ years

When Millie’s asked to be the front woman for a new diet pill, she naively believes that all her troubles will be solved… The actress and comedy writer introduces her desperately funny first novel.

[W8] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £8

[34] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Under 12 years

[33] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Peter Moore talks to Daniel Hahn

SATURDAY 23 MAY

Drawing the Circus Royal Drawing School Class

The Weather Experiment In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God’s great wrath, C19th meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of mavericks set out to explain the secrets of the atmosphere and learned to predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the first to classify the clouds, Francis Beaufort who quantified the winds, James Glaisher who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon, Samuel Morse whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings, and Admiral Robert FitzRoy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer and founder of the Met Office.

11.30am [36] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9

AC Grayling The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times The philosopher considers the troubled times we live in, when war and conflict are never far away. While describing the dark side of modern life, he explores ways out of the habits and prejudices that threaten to trap us into conflict.

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SATURDAY 23 MAY

SATURDAY 23 MAY 11.30am

11.30am

[37] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8

[HF5] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Polly Toynbee and David Walker

David Almond, Sarah Crossan, Jenny Valentine

Cameron’s Coup The team who gave The Verdict on the last Labour administration audit the devastating effectiveness of the Coalition government. ‘Margaret Thatcher sold off the nationalised industries. Her political heirs are intent on leaving an even more radical legacy – selling off the state itself.’ [HF4] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Liz Pichon and Tom Gates Yes! No… (Maybe) Expert doodler, maker of excuses and hilarious storywriter Tom Gates is back in Yes! No… (Maybe), the eighth amazing instalment in this brilliant and multiple-award-winning series. Test your knowledge with Liz Pichon as she takes you on a tour of the brilliant and crazy world of Tom Gates – and learn how to doodle just like Tom. In association with Lovereading4kids 7+ years [38] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Beth Shapiro

David Almond’s latest novel A Song for Ella Grey is a brilliant retelling of the Orpheus myth by way of contemporary Tyneside. Sarah Crossan uses both poetry and prose to tell her stories, most recently in Apple and Rain. They are joined by Jenny Valentine who previews her eagerly-awaited new novel Fire Colour One, a highly original story with an extraordinary twist. These three acclaimed writers talk about how they pack such an emotional punch into their novels. 12+ years/YA

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[HF6] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Atinuke Atinuke collects stories, writes stories and tells stories, all of which originate in Africa. You will be spellbound by Atinuke’s traditional storytelling as she conjures up the sights, sounds and hustle and bustle of life in Nigeria, where she was born. 4+ years [W62] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

How To Clone a Mammoth

Sita Brahmachari Storytelling

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. The evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ‘ancient DNA’ research guides us through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores the extraordinary cutting-edge science that is being used to resurrect the past.

Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series

[39] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Caroline Criado-Perez talks to Rosie Boycott Do it Like a Woman From Chilean revolutionaries and Russian punks to Iranian journalists, one of the most vocal and tenacious campaigners of her generation introduces inspiring stories from all around the world. Women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male.

In the pockets of Sita’s multi-sensory patchwork quilt are treasures from all her stories. Sita explores with young readers and aspiring writers the material of which stories are formed. Supported by Arts & Business Cymru 8+ years

12pm [40] 12PM–1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Imagine… Colm Tóibín BBC One Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC, talks

to acclaimed writer Colm Tóibín about making an edition of the flagship BBC One television arts documentary strand Imagine… together as Tóibín published his poignant and perhaps most personal novel yet – Nora Webster. The session will be illustrated with clips from Imagine… Colm Tóibín: His Mother’s Son, which was first shown on BBC One in December 2014. Not for broadcast. [W9] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing a Story Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

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1pm

[41] 1PM TATA TENT £8

[HF8] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Thomas Buergenthal talks to Philippe Sands

Sam McBratney in conversation

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Guess How Much I Love You

Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood Buergenthal became a judge at the International Court in The Hague, investigating modern day genocides. He returns to the festival with a new postscript to his memoir. Sponsored by Gabbs Solicitors

Sam McBratney has won many awards for his children’s books and is best known as the author of the multimillion selling family classic Guess How Much I Love You. He talks about his life and career and what it means to have created one of the world’s most famous picture books – which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. 9+ years

[HF7] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Tony De Saulles

[HF9] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Horrible Science

Tim Bowler, Sam Hepburn and Ken Oppel

Join Horrible Science illustrator Tony De Saulles in one of his horribly enjoyable events. Get tips on how to make things look like they are smelly, cut in half, exploding or even dead. You’ll return home with a headful of horrible ideas about what to draw next! 8+ years [42] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Kamal Munir, Ornit Shani, Bhaskar Vira and Joya Chatterji Cambridge University Series 3 India and Pakistan, The Common Ground The news tends to focus on the antagonism between India and Pakistan. A distinguished panel of academics looks at the common ground between the two countries, in terms of environmental resources and challenges, trade and economic growth, and state formation and geo-politics. In association with Cambridge University [43] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

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Adventure, Thrills and Terror Carnegie Medal-winner Tim Bowler’s new novel Game Changer is a tense thriller, as is Sam Hepburn’s If You Were Me. They are joined by the internationallyacclaimed Ken Oppel on a rare visit to the UK to promote his new adventure The Boundless. They share with us the secret of keeping their readers turning the pages. 11+ years [W63] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Sita Brahmachari Storytelling Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series In the pockets of Sita’s multi-sensory patchwork quilt are treasures from all her stories. Sita explores with young readers and aspiring writers the material of which stories are formed. Supported by Arts & Business Cymru 8+ years

Andrew O’Hagan talks to Rosie Boycott Fictions – The Illuminations How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? O’Hagan’s fifth novel is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact. [44] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Steve Peters The Chimp Paradox The consultant psychiatrist to Liverpool FC, Sky ProCycling, Ronnie O’Sullivan and the England football team introduces The Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness. Chaired by Martin Chilton.

2pm [45] 2PM–3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The Verb BBC Radio 3 Poet Ian McMillan presents Radio 3’s ‘cabaret of the word’, featuring award-winning writers alongside the most innovative up-and-coming performers. ‘If there’s a more entertaining show than The Verb then I don’t know it’ – Stuart Maconie. Broadcast on Fridays at 10pm. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 29 May.

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2.30pm

[46] 2.30PM TATA TENT £9

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Antony Beevor

MG Harris and Jamie Anderson

Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble

Beyond Gemini Force 1

On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in western Europe. It was the battle that finally broke the Wehrmacht. We are delighted to launch the new book by the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.

The authors present an audio-visual tour of the background, design and influences behind GF1. This is your chance to hear all the behind-the-scenes publishing secrets, including the exciting story of how the worldwide community of Thunderbirds fans helped to bring the final Gerry Anderson project to the page.

[47] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Edith Hall Introducing the Ancient Greeks What did the Greeks ever do for us? They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. But what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? Who were they? Edith Hall is the first woman to win the Erasmus Medal, awarded by the European Academy for her work in Classics.

8+ years [HF11] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Maggie Harcourt and The Bookshop Band The Last Summer of Us Maggie Harcourt’s YA novel is the story of a road trip. Of three friends on a journey that will change their lives forever. Set in South Wales, it captures the hazy beauty of a Welsh summer, and what it’s like to grow up in a close-knit community. The Bookshop Band perform a song inspired by the book, and the author and musicians discuss the relationship between literature and music, and how they capture moments and memories. 12+ years/YA

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Greg Jenner A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history Greg Jenner, historical consultant to Horrible Histories, explores the gradual and often unexpected evolution of our daily routines. [49] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Susan Neiman Why Grow Up? As you grow up, you are told to renounce most of the hopes and dreams of your youth, and resign yourself to a life that will be a pale dilution of the adventurous, important and enjoyable life you once expected. But who wants to do any of that? No wonder we live in a culture of rampant immaturity, when maturity looks so boring. The moral philosopher discusses childhood, adolescence, sex, and culture, and asks how the idea of travel can help us build a model of maturity that makes growing up a good option and leaves space in our culture for grown-ups. Chaired by Sarah Crompton.

[HF12] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Ben Cort, Claire Freedman & guests! Monsters Love Underpants The Aliens stole them, the Dinosaurs fought over them, the Pirates got rich with them…now it’s time for the BIGGEST underpants adventure of them all. Meet the creators of the bestselling series and a very BIG special guest who loves hugs. Can you guess who? Bring your zaniest underpants! 4+ years [HF13] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

Vanessa Wolf Sensory Story-time with Guess How Much I Love You Join our special guest storyteller Vanessa Wolf for this delightful version of Sam McBratney’s family classic Guess How Much I Love You, which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. Free goody bag for every child. 3+ years

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4pm

[W10] 3PM–4.30PM MEET AT BACK OF HAY CASTLE £10/£8 UNDER 16S

[54] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Walk and Draw Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

4pm [50] 4PM TATA TENT £20

Stephen Fry More Fool Me Ultra-high-functioning addict meets gravity in this latest volume of autobiography. The writer and actor talks to Peter Florence. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

Anita Anand Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Sophia was born to Maharajah Duleep Singh, heir to a huge territory that stretched from the Kashmir Valley to the Khyber Pass. The territory was plundered by the British and the Maharajah was exiled to Britain. Sophia was raised a society lady and goddaughter to Queen Victoria. However, after a secret trip to India she returned a revolutionary to fight for Indian independence, the welfare of Indian soldiers in World War I, and, above all, for the cause of female suffrage. [55] 4PM–5PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

SATURDAY 23 MAY

3pm

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Get Creative and Write a Poem A BBC Event at Hay

[51] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Irvine Welsh talks to Andrew O’Hagan Fictions – A Decent Ride In his funniest and filthiest novel yet, Welsh celebrates an unreconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent – and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy…

Never written a poem before? Now’s your chance. Poet Ian McMillan will show you how, and you will leave with a poem. Not for broadcast. [HF14] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Atinuke

[52] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Atinuke is a mesmerising storyteller as well as the author of The No.1 Car Spotter and Anna Hibiscus series and a number of picture books. You will be spellbound as she conjures up the sights, sounds and hustle and bustle of life in Africa and brings her stories to life.

Abdel Bari Atwan talks to Nik Gowing

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Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate The Palestinian editor of Rai al-Youm offers a comprehensive review of the group’s organisational structure and leadership, strategies, tactics and diverse methods of recruitment. He traces the salafi-jihadi lineage of IS, its ideological differences with al-Qa’ida, and the deadly rivalry that has emerged between their leaders. Atwan also shows how the group’s rapid growth has been facilitated by its masterful command of social media platforms, the ‘dark web’, Hollywood ‘blockbuster’-style videos, and even jihadi computer games, producing a powerful paradox where the ambitions of the Middle Ages have re-emerged

[HF15] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown Celebrate the reissue of this classic picture book about adventurous Emily Brown and her toy rabbit companion, Stanley. Learn Cressida’s real life inspiration behind the books, and watch Neal Layton recreate the illustrations. 3+ years [HF16] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

in cyber-space.

Vanessa Wolf

[53] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Sensory Story-time with Guess How Much I Love You

Hannah Critchlow Cambridge University Series 4 Busting Brain Myths, or Explore Your Mind

A repeat of event HF13. Free goody bag for every child. 3+ years

Are you intrepid enough to explore your own sense of reality? Dr Critchlow invites you to take a journey through your brain, using mind-boggling experiments to strip down the neuroscience myths making the headlines and explore how brain research is shaping our society. In association with Cambridge University

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SATURDAY 23 MAY 5.30pm

5.30pm

[56] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9

[60] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Germaine Greer talks to Martha Kearney

Hannah Rothschild talks to Rosie Boycott

The Annual Hamlin Lecture Liberation

Fictions – The Improbability of Love

A conversation with the teacher, writer and grand provocateur about what would make life better. ‘I’m a liberation feminist, not an equality feminist. Equality is a profoundly conservative aim and it won’t achieve anything.’ This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC World News programme Talking Books. Sponsored by ORConsulting, The Art of Seeing Differently [57] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Roly Keating The Mechanical Curator and Other Stories The Director of the British Library browses the infinite possibilities for Libraries and Creativity in an Age of Data. ‘These are times of historic disruption in the whole global system of information and publication, and it seems right that the great knowledge institutions – with their historic remit to think and act with a view far into the future – should play a full part in shaping the changes that lie ahead.’ Chaired by Gaby Wood, Head of Books at The Telegraph. In association with The British Library

This debut novel is a wicked satire of London society, a redemptive and captivating love story, and a journey into the darker corners of European history. Rothschild, who is also chair of the National Gallery, has created one of the most spectacular villains of recent times. ‘Every painting has a story – and if it could speak, what would it tell us?’ [HF17] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Stephan Pastis Timmy Failure Stephan Pastis is a lawyer-turned cartoonist, and creator of the New York Times bestselling series, Timmy Failure. In this lively event Stephan talks about his career, from lawyer to cartoonist. Expect lots of live drawing and cartooning from Stephan, and plenty of laughs. 8+ years [HF18] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Holly Webb The Water Horse

[58] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

When the waters start to rise, flooding the streets of Venice and causing chaos, Princess Olivia realizes that only her magic can prevent disaster befalling the city. A magical tour of historic Venice.

Andrea Sella

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How the Zebra Got its Stripes: An Experimental Lecture Everyone loves a Zebra. But where do its stripes come from? A simple answer might be DNA; a more fanciful one that they’re painted on, like the leopard in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. In this lecture, Professor Sella takes us beyond the superficial, through complex and spectacular chemical reactions, and into the very fabric of our universe, where pattern and structure emerge as if by magic. Chaired by Dan Davis. In association with The Royal Society [59] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Danny Dorling and Mary O’Hara

6pm [61] 6PM–7PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Start The Week BBC Radio 4 Tom Sutcliffe presents Radio 4’s flagship programme

of ideas, and will be joined on stage by a panel of guests for stimulating, entertaining and lively discussion. Broadcast on Mondays at 9am and repeated at 9pm. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 25 May.

Inequality and Austerity Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%, examines who is most harmed by these injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit. O’Hara, author of Austerity Bites, takes us on a journey to the sharp end of the cuts in the UK. Hard-hitting and uncompromising in its call to action, this analysis is essential for everyone concerned with social justice.

7pm [62] 7PM TATA TENT £8

Sally Wainwright and Sarah Lancashire talk to Alan Yentob Happy Valley to Halifax What’s the relationship between a writer and a lead actor? Screenwriter Sally Wainwright and her star Sarah Lancashire have collaborated on Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. They talk to the BBC’s Creative Director. Sponsored by Soho House

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7pm

[63] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9

[HF19] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Ian Bostridge

Liz Kessler, Lisa Williamson and Keren David

Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession Franz Schubert’s Winterreise is one of the most powerful and enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. One of the work’s finest interpreters, Bostridge, focuses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work that is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. He unpicks the enigmas and subtle meaning of each of the twenty-four songs to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, bringing the work and its world alive for connoisseurs and new listeners alike. [64] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Graham Swift Fictions – England and other Stories Through the 25 stories in Swift’s most recent anthology, we are steered effortlessly from the Civil War to the present day, from world-shaking events to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, homes. With his remarkable sense of place, he charts an intimate human geography and, in doing so, he moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for comedy. He reads from the collection and discusses his work with Peter Florence.

Most Talked About YA Fiction Meet the authors of three of the most talked-about Young Adult novels of 2015, Read Me Like a Book, The Art of Being Normal and This is Not a Love Story. If you struggle with what you feel is expected of you by family, school and society, these books will be a breath of fresh air. 12+ years/YA

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[67] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

SATURDAY 23 MAY

7pm

Peter Horrocks, AC Grayling, Sarah Churchwell and Karen Usher Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? The Best Universities More people are going to university in Britain than ever before, and they’re paying to do so. But are the institutions themselves fit for purpose? How could they be better? Horrocks is the new Vice Chancellor of the Open University, Grayling is Master of the independent New College of the Humanities in London, Churchwell is Professor for the Public Understanding of the Humanities at UEA, Usher is the co-leader of the newest university in Britain, the New Model in Technology and Engineering in Hereford.

[65] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

David Brooks The Road to Character You could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world: résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your CV, the skills that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They’re what get talked about at your funeral and they are usually the virtues that exist at the core of your being – whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful; what kind of relationships you formed over your lifetime. We live in a culture that encourages us to think about how to be wealthy and successful, but which leaves many of us inarticulate about how to cultivate the deepest inner life. Brooks connects us once again to an ancient moral tradition, a tradition that asks us to confront our own weaknesses and grow in response, rather than shallowly focus on our good points. He talks to Sarfraz Manzoor. [66] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Irvine Welsh, Andrew O’Hagan and John Mullan Fictions – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic short thriller has replaced To Kill a Mocking Bird and Of Mice and Men on the GCSE English syllabus. The novelists discuss the book and Stevenson’s exploration of duality with UCL Professor of English, and author of How Novels Work, John Mullan.

8.30pm [68] 8.30PM TATA TENT £15

Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? Equality Eight hundred years after a gang of barons met in a tent by a river, which rights do we want to fight for today? A fortnight after what looks like a rough old election, let’s dream about what a better world might look like and talk about how that might be achieved. The festival President is joined by international guests to discuss equalities. [69] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Elif Shafak, Rachael Jolley, Sarah Churchwell and David Aaronovitch The Index Debate Diss My Mother: Expect a Punch What are the limits of free speech and civility? What is the nature of ‘offence’? What earns ‘respect’? If words can hurt you, are sticks and stones and broken bones the answer? In association with Index on Censorship

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SATURDAY 23 MAY

SATURDAY 23 MAY 8.30pm

9.45pm

[70] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

[74] 9.45PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £10

Rosie Harding

The Staves

Dementia and Vulnerability

If I Was

‘You can have a dog put to sleep but my mother had to go through hell.’ End of life issues are especially difficult for people with dementia and their family carers, as the person themself is often unable to make and communicate their views in a way that would be respected by our autonomy-centred healthcare decision-making frameworks. Drawing on empirical data from a socio-legal study funded by the British Academy, Harding explores the social, ethical and legal challenges of maximising dignity for those dying with, and of, dementia. In association with Birmingham University

The beautiful, breaking folk-rock trio play their new album. The Staves are Emily (vocals), Jessica (vocals/guitar) and Camilla Staveley-Taylor (vocals/ukulele). If I Was is produced by Justin Vernon, who’s added a rich instrumental power to the sisters’ lyrics and superbly harmonised voices. The songs carry a huge emotional impact, while their onstage charisma creates an intimacy that is completely captivating.

10pm [75] 10PM TATA TENT £13

[71] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Jason Byrne

Dylan Jones talks to Mark Ellen

Stand Up

Access All Areas: Stories of the Gods of Rock

A riotous evening of comedy with the madcap, best-selling-act-ever at the Edinburgh Fringe. An impro genius, Jason is one of the most exciting live performers you will ever see. His live shows are part of comedy folklore. Watch comedy history being written by ‘the outright King of Live Comedy’ – The Times.

The rock writer and GQ editor talks about the life, death and the enduring legends of Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison. These two men changed the course of popular music and culture forever and are the subjects of his two biographies Elvis Has Left The Building and Mr Mojo. He is joined by Mark Ellen, author of Rock Stars Stole My Life. [72] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Peter Oswald Three Folktales In a magical evening of storytelling, the playwright and poet performs his fabulous tales: ‘Indeed the world is two worlds – one for lovers, / Another for the loveless altogether…’ [73] 8.30PM–10.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

René Griffiths, Jon Gower, Jorge Fondebrider Homage to Patagonia An evening to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh passage to Argentina aboard the Mimosa. Gower sets the scene with his Gwalia Patagonia – a tale of legendary giants and Andean condors, devil spirits and chapel-worshippers. He is joined by Argentinian writer Jorge Fondebrider, author of The Spaces Between. The evening is completed with the fascinating anecdotal and geographical ramblings of one of Wales’ best-loved guitarists, singers and actors, René Griffiths. Full of emotion and passion, Ramblings of a Patagonian is the revelation of one-man’s unrelenting love for his own Andean desert. Chaired by Oliver Balch.

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SUNDAY 24 MAY

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9.15am

10am

[76] 9.15AM –9.45PM OXFAM MOOT £3

[79] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 24 May at key historical moments over the past 150 years are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to mention fashion through the decades and legendary stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting.

Carol Black Cambridge University Series 5 Is Work Making Us Ill? Do our workplaces promote health and well-being? And, if they did, what difference would it make? Dame Carol Black is an Expert Adviser to the Department of Health, the Chair of Nuffield Trust, the leading independent advisory body for healthcare policy in the UK, and the Principal of Newnham College. She was author of a 2008 report for the government on well-being at work. In association with Cambridge University

SUNDAY 24 MAY

Andrew Pettie

10am [80] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 [HF20] 10AM TATA TENT £5

Sarah Winman talks to Georgina Godwin

Jacqueline Wilson

Fictions – A Year of Marvellous Ways

The Butterfly Club

The author of When God was a Rabbit – selected for World Book Night 2015 – introduces her second novel. Marvellous Ways is 89 years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she’s taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She’s waiting for something – she’s not sure what, but she’ll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man’s last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous’ creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. As an unlikely friendship grows between the two, can Drake give Marvellous what she needs to say goodbye to the world, and can she give him what he needs to go on?

Join the much-loved, bestselling author as she discusses her career and latest books, Opal Plumstead and The Butterfly Club. You also get a sneak preview of her new book, Katy, which is published in July 2015. There will be no book signing after the talk, but there will be an opportunity for children to ask questions. Pre-signed copies of some titles will be available to buy from the Festival Bookshop. 10+ years [77] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Peter Hennessy talks to Susie Symes Establishment and Meritocracy The interlocking themes of Establishment and Meritocracy form a crucial part of the intellectual compost that made Hennessy’s generation of post-war Britons. The Establishment and the concept of a growing and eventually self-propelling meritocracy were always at odds, and the policies that brought it about dramatically altered British society. He talks to economist Susie Symes, Chair of 19 Princelet Street. [78] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Good Energy Series 1 Does Anyone Really Care Where Their Energy Comes From? Wind, coal, solar, gas, wave, oil, nuclear – there are numerous sources of energy within the UK and yet still 61% of our electricity generation is from imported fuels. Does it matter where it comes from? What are the pros and cons of choosing one over another? How do you guarantee the electricity coming down your wire is from the source you choose? Our panel of experts discuss. In partnership with Good Energy

[HF21] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

The King of the Sky With actors, puppets and music An Italian boy comes to live in a Welsh mining village, where his parents own a café. He misses his home but the cooing of Mr Evans’ racing pigeons reminds him of a sunlit Roman piazza, and draws him into an unlikely friendship with the old man. Together, they pin their dreams on a race across Europe and the special bird they hope can win it, ‘The King of the Sky’. This is a story about the meaning of home and finding friends where you don’t expect to. An inventive adaptation with actors, puppets and music, created by Pontardawe Arts Centre. 7+ years [HF22] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Claire Freedman and Sue Hendra Dragon Jelly Hear all about Max and his disgusting party-time antics in Dragon Jelly. Come prepared to get creative and make your own creepy-crawlies. 4+ years

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SUNDAY 24 MAY

SUNDAY 24 MAY 10am

11.30am

[W11] 10AM –1PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

[84] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Drawing the Graphic Novel Workshop Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

11am [81] 11AM –12.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Jamie Owen BBC Radio Wales LIVE Join Jamie on Sunday lunchtime for conversation, laughter and music. How’s your week been? Broadcast on BBC Radio Wales every Sunday, 11.30am–12.30pm.

11.30am [82] 11.30AM TATA TENT £10

Andrew Solomon The Wellcome Book Prize Lecture Far From the Tree The winner of the 2014 Wellcome Book Prize introduces his wise and compassionate book Far From The Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love. Ten years in the writing, it tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Chaired by Hay Festival President Stephen Fry. In association with the Wellcome Book Prize [83] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

John Mullan Fictions – Emma The author of What Matters in Jane Austen celebrates the bicentenary of John Murray’s publication of Austen’s playful and profound masterpiece of self-knowledge.

Paul St George with Polly Stenham and Jessie Burton Slow Fiction Slow Fiction is inspired by the predella, the sequence of four or five pictures under a Renaissance altarpiece that tell the story of the annunciation, the adoration, or the pietà. If the large altarpiece painting is one moment in time, the predella shows the moments leading up to that key frame and sometimes what happens after. The artist Paul St George works with writers, translating selections of their writing into small sequences of sculptures making three-dimensional stories. Two of the first authors to be excited by this new way of bringing readers to writing are Polly Stenham, author of Hotel, and Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist: ‘To see my written words reimagined for a different audience, giving another take on the story-telling process – what we omit, what we emphasise, and what we leave behind – in a newly-configured presentation, is a true thrill.’ [HF23] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Simon Mayo Itch Author and BBC broadcaster Simon Mayo talks about his latest book Itchcraft and how he came to write a series about a chemistry-mad teenager. He shares some of his favourite (which tends to mean explosive) scientific discoveries, made while researching for the series, and there is a chance to ask questions about the books, science, and anything else you can think of, at the end. 9+ years [85] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Colm Tóibín talks to Sarah Churchwell Nora Webster and On Elizabeth Bishop Set in 1960s Ireland, Tóibín’s new novel Nora Webster introduces one of the most complex and captivating heroines of contemporary fiction. He discusses the book and his new study On Elizabeth Bishop. He creates a vivid picture of the American poet while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. [HF24] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Nicola Davies Animal Conservation: Heroes of the Wild Nicola Davies is an award-winning author, whose many books for children include Ice Bear, Big Blue Whale, Extreme Animals and Gaia Warriors. She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children’s wildlife programme The Really Wild Show and is the author of the classics A First Book of Nature and Everything You Need To Know About Animals. Join her to hear about her latest books in her Heroes of the Wild series, and about her animal conservation work. 7+ years

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1pm

[HF25] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[HF26] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £9

Sarah J Maas

Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe

New YA Series Launch: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Do you have what it takes to be a top-secret agent of F.A.R.T.A? Matt Brown, author of the hilarious time travel adventure series Compton Valance, will put you through your paces. From finding out your agent identity to code breaking and a quickfire quiz: will you pass the time travel test to join Compton Valance and his best friend Bryon Nylon? 7+ years

YA sensation Sarah J Maas, author of the number one international bestseller Throne of Glass, makes a rare visit to the UK to launch her eagerly anticipated new series, A Court of Thorns and Roses. An unmissable event for YA fans of romantic high fantasy adventure. If you like Cassandra Clare, you’ll love this. Sarah talks to Katherine Woodfine. 12+ years/YA #hayYA

[W64] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Read The Game Quiz Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series Join children’s author Tom Palmer for a quiz about reading sport in newspapers, books and online, followed by a penalty competition, with one team winning the trophy. Supported by Arts & Business Cymru 8+ years

SUNDAY 24 MAY

Matt Brown

[88] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £8

Dennis Lehane talks to Jon Gower Fictions – World Gone By One of America’s most powerful and feared gangsters is about to face up to his past… On a rare public appearance in Britain, the cult thriller writer of The Wire, author of Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River discusses his work and his new novel. [89] 1PM –1.55PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

1pm

Jacqueline Wilson Introduces Hetty Feather

[86] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Screening CBBC

Yuval Noah Harari talks to Anita Anand Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind In Sapiens, Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC World News programme Talking Books. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series [87] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Jacqueline Wilson introduces an exclusive screening of CBBC’s new adaptation of her popular children’s novel Hetty Feather. A fast-paced and thrilling story, featuring a feisty new heroine, Hetty Feather brings the realities of the Victorian age to life through the eyes and adventures of the children who inhabit the Foundling Hospital. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with cast and crew. Not for broadcast. [HF27] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Jim Smith Barry Loser Join Jim Smith, author and illustrator of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning Barry Loser series, for an hour of very silly fun. Fast becoming a humour classic, the Barry Loser books are packed full of humour, quirky plots and doodles. 6+ years

Peter Hennessy, Ruth Scurr, Leanne Wood, Rosie Boycott

[HF28] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? A New Kind of Politics

The Secret Kitten

Is six-party politics here to stay? Is first-past-the-post a bulwark against extremism? What’s the value of a campaign promise in a coalition context? International broadcaster Nik Gowing chairs. Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary’s; Scurr lectures in Politics at Cambridge; Wood is leader of Plaid Cymru; Boycott is Food Advisor to the Mayor of London.

Holly Webb Join author Holly Webb for an event based on her bestselling animal stories. Find out all about the real kittens, puppies and other animals behind the books, and take part in a craft activity based on the series. 6+ years

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SUNDAY 24 MAY

SUNDAY 24 MAY 1pm

2.30pm

[W65] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

[93] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Read The Game Quiz

Galina Timchenko, Mikhail Zygar, Oliver Bullough and guests talk to Nataliya Vasilyeva

Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series Join children’s author Tom Palmer for a quiz about reading sport in newspapers, books and online, followed by a penalty competition. Supported by Arts & Business Cymru 8+ years

2.30pm [90] 2.30PM TATA TENT £10

Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Martha Kearney The Buried Giant ‘There’s a journey we must go on, and no more delay…’ The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. A couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war. This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC World News programme Talking Books. [91] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Martin Wolf The Shifts and the Shocks The chief economics commentator of the Financial Times explains that further shocks could be ahead for the economy because governments have failed to deal with fundamental problems in the world’s financial systems. Wolf traces the causes of the great recession to the complex interaction between globalisation, destabilising global imbalances and fragile financial systems. He argues that management of the Eurozone in particular guarantees a future political crisis and he offers far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than are presently being considered. Chaired by Susie Symes. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series [92] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

David Bainbridge Cambridge University Series 6 Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape

Why is the human female the only female animal to have curves, and how do these curves rule our lives by influencing not only sexual selection but also social hierarchy and self-image? The Clinical Veterinary Anatomist at the University of Cambridge applies the science of evolutionary biology and cutting-edge psychology to the female shape. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. In association with Cambridge University

We Need To Talk About Putin Timchenko is the executive editor of the independent news platform Meduza. Zygar is the editor-in-chief of TV RAIN, Russia’s only independent television channel. Bullough is author of The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great and has reported over the last two years from the Ukraine. Vasiliyeva writes about press freedom and politics for Associated Press in Moscow. In association with Associated Press [94] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Andrew Scull Madness in Civilisation A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. Chaired by Stephanie Merritt. [417] 2.30PM–3.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The Essay BBC Radio 3 For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay five writers ask themselves ‘why I write’. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 10.45pm on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May. [HF29] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Nick Butterworth Q Pootle 5 Nick Butterworth is a bestselling and award-winning picture book creator. He is author of Q Pootle 5, now a popular CBeebies animated series. In this family event, Nick talks about how he made the Q Pootle 5 books. You’ll see a glimpse of the CBeebies series, plus live drawing from Nick. 5+ years [HF30] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet I Need a Wee! The creators of Barry, the Fish with Fingers and Norman, the Slug with the Silly Shell share their latest book I Need A Wee and assist you in making your very own character from the book using nothing other than…a toilet roll! 3+ years

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4pm

[W12] 3PM –4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

[98] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Drawing the Head Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

4pm [95] 4PM TATA TENT £9

Bettany Hughes and Hannah Critchlow The Raymond Williams Dialogue The Ideas That Make Us A classicist and a neuroscientist explore the Ancient Greek words Liberty, Comedy, Charisma, Xenia, Wisdom and Peace and travel both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and have made an impact on history and the human experience. Hughes is the author of Helen of Troy – Goddess, Whore and The Hemlock Cup. [HF31] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Helen Skelton Amy Wild: Amazon Summer Join the TV presenter as she introduces her children’s book. Helen reveals how her own incredible real-life experiences and adventures have influenced her writing, from cycling to the South Pole to tightrope walking between the towers of Battersea Power Station. Amazon Summer is based on Helen’s own experiences travelling through the Amazon. 8+ years [96] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Mick Ebeling Not Impossible: Technology for the Sake of Humanity Project Daniel was launched in January 2014 in Sudan with the establishment of the world’s first 3D-printing prosthetic limb lab, creating artificial limbs for victims of war. As Mohammed Ali Humanitarian of the Year and named in the Top 50 Most Creative People 2014, Mick Ebeling is the founder and driving force of Not Impossible; making DIY, accessible, tech-based solutions for people around the world and powerfully telling those stories to inspire others to do the same. In association with Jaguar Land Rover [97] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Elif Shafak Fictions – The Architect’s Apprentice Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie… The Turkish author of The Forty Rules of Love and Honour discusses her mesmerizing new novel with William Sieghart.

Steve Hilton talks to John Mitchinson More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First Humans don’t always behave as you expect them to. Sometimes their responses and actions are completely irrational – we don’t always make perfect decisions – but the model we base everything on is a rational one. Why? If we design our systems, our government, and all the products and services we use for perfect, rational people, is it any wonder they aren’t working? The Stanford academic and political advisor believes that change is possible and necessary: that we can create a more local, more accountable, more human way of living that will make us more productive, more fulfilled and ultimately happier.

SUNDAY 24 MAY

3pm

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[HF32] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Aneirin Karadog and Martin Daws Bilingual Poetry, Rap and Spoken Word Aneirin Karadog and Martin Daws – Bardd Plant Cymru and Young People’s Laureate for Wales – meet in an interactive performance and discussion, taking the audience on a bilingual journey of poetry, rap and spoken word, through anecdotes and banter. Language will be no barrier to enjoyment, and beware, as you may be called upon to become a poet yourself! 9+ years [HF33] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Dylan’s Amazing Dinosaurs It’s time for another Dino-Mission with Dylan and his trusty time-travelling pterodactyl. Come and help gather dinosaur facts as we travel to Roar Island with a herd of inflatable dinosaurs and a lot of imagination. 3+ years

4.30pm [99] 4.30PM–5.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme comes to Hay to record a special edition. Presenter Rana Mitter and guests from the festival discuss the concept of humility – vice or virtue? Was Ralph Waldo Emerson right to say that a great person is always willing to be little? Broadcast Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10pm. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 27 May at 10pm.

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SUNDAY 24 MAY

SUNDAY 24 MAY 5.30pm

5.30pm

[100] 5.30PM TATA TENT £10

[104] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Karen Armstrong

Susan Golombok

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Cambridge University Series 7 Modern Family: Are the Kids Alright?

The former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to interrogate the link between religion and bloodshed. Religion is as old as humanity: Fields of Blood goes back to the Stone Age hunter-gatherers and traces religion through the centuries, from medieval crusaders to modern-day jihadists. Today we regard faith as a personal and private matter, but for most of history faith has informed people’s entire outlook on life, and has often been inseparable from politics. Fields of Blood is a celebration of the ancient religious ideas and movements that have promoted peace and reconciliation across millennia of civilization.

How is the modern family changing and what impact do alternative family structures led by gay fathers, donor siblings or mothers who are single by choice have on their children? The Director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge talks about her latest research. In association with Cambridge University

[101] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Charlotte Rampling talks to Francine Stock The actress discusses her 50-year career, from Georgy Girl and The Night Porter to Broadchurch. [102] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Martin Rees Can the Next Generation Inherit a Better World? A Scientist’s Hopes and Fears In 1902 HG Wells wrote ‘Humanity has come some way, and the distance we have travelled gives us some earnest of the way we have to go. All the past is but the beginning of a beginning; all that the human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.’ The astronomer boldly explores post-human evolution and offers a SWOT analysis of mankind’s short- and longer-term futures. He considers the risks of asteroid impact, climate change and, most worrying of all, the downsides of biotech, AI and other fast-advancing technologies. ‘Eternity is very long; especially towards the end’ – Woody Allen. Chaired by Dan Davis. [103] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Owen Sheers talks to Alex Clark Fictions – I Saw a Man The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. Moving from London and New York to the deserts of Nevada, Sheers’ new novel is a brilliant exploration of violence, guilt and attempted redemption, written with the pace and grip of a thriller. He takes the reader from close observation of the domestic sphere to some of the most important questions and dilemmas of the contemporary world. Sheers is a poet and playwright whose latest works include the National Theatre of Wales’ Mametz, the award-winning poem Pink Mist and Calon. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop

[HF34] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Clive Gifford and Anil Seth Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing Astound your eyes and boggle your brain, as awardwinning author Clive Gifford and neuroscientist Anil Seth take you on a journey through fascinating optical illusions and the science behind them. They talk to Martin Chilton. In association with the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 9+ years [105] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

John Hemming Naturalists in Paradise Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. All three explored an unknown river and had many thrilling adventures: violent attacks of malaria, fearful rapids, murder attempts, encounters with newly contacted indigenous peoples, shipwrecks, and many other hardships. In addition to their huge contributions to knowledge of the Amazonian environment, each is particularly famous for one discovery. Wallace is acknowledged as a co-discoverer, along with Charles Darwin, of the theory of evolution. Bates discovered protective mimicry among insects, a phenomenon named after him. Spruce transported the quinine-bearing Cinchona tree, the most important medicinal plant of the nineteenth century, to India, where it saved countless lives from malaria. Sponsored by RM Jones Pharmacy

6.30pm [W13] 6.30PM–9PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £15/£12 UNDER 16S

Drawing From Film Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

01497 822 629

hayfestival.org

7pm

[106] 7PM TATA TENT £10

[111] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Ruth Scurr talks to Peter Stothard

The inspiring and provocative writer and scholar talks about Juliet, Beatrice, Ophelia, Cleopatra, Ann Hathaway and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets with festival director Peter Florence.

John Aubrey: My Own Life

[107] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Thomas Buergenthal, Brian Leveson, Richard Goldstone talk to Philippe Sands Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? International Law Four internationally acclaimed jurists discuss which rights might be argued into a new charter for the C21st. Buergenthal serves as a judge at the ICJ in the Hague; Goldstone served as a prosecutor at the ICT after running the Goldstone Commission in South Africa; Leveson is President of the Queens Bench Division and chaired the public inquiry into press ethics in the UK; Sands is Professor of Law at UCL. Sponsored by RPC [108] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Simon Singh The John Maddox Lecture Fermat’s Last Theorem ‘I have discovered a truly marvellous proof, which this margin is too narrow to contain…’ Twenty years after a mild-mannered Englishman solved Pierre de Fermat’s 350-year-old theorem, Singh tells the true story of how mathematics’ most challenging problem was made to yield its secrets in a thrilling tale of endurance, ingenuity and inspiration.

John Aubrey loved England. From an early age, he saw his England slipping away and, against extraordinary odds, committed himself to preserving for posterity what remained of it – in books, monuments and life stories. His Brief Lives would redefine the art of biography yet he published only one rushed, botched book in his lifetime and died fearing his name and achievements would be forgotten. Scurr’s biography is an act of scholarly imagination: a diary drawn from John Aubrey’s own words, displaying his unique voice, dry wit, the irreverence and drama of a literary pioneer.

SUNDAY 24 MAY

Germaine Greer Shakespeare’s Women

[HF35] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Melinda Salisbury and Catherine Doyle New Voices in YA Fiction Vendetta by Catherine Doyle is an intense Romeo and Juliet story that combines love, mystery and adventure. The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury is a high fantasy romantic adventure set in a world that is strange and yet completely familiar. Find out about these two young writers’ paths to getting published, their influences and what the future might hold for them and their characters. 12+ years/YA

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8.30pm [112] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

Jo Caulfield [109] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £9

Marina Warner talks to the Winner Fictions – The Man Booker International Prize The chair of judges interviews the winner of this global prize, who will be announced in London on 19 May. Previous recipients of the lifetime achievement award have included Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, Philip Roth and Lydia Davis. In association with The Man Booker Prize [110] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Simon Armitage Walking Away The poet swaps the moorland uplands of the north (Walking Home) for the coastal fringes of Britain’s south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish. From the surreal pleasure-dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula, then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we’ve come to expect of one of Britain’s best loved and most popular writers.

Under the Influence of Books The award-winning stand-up comedian takes an irreverent look at some of her favourite books, some well-known biographies and some recent best-sellers. From Baudelaire to Rankin, from Brontë to Bukowski, she combines literary banter, stand-up comedy and storytelling. Jo reimagines some classic literary scenes, placing herself at the centre of the action. What would Jo have done differently if she had been the stranger on Patricia Highsmith’s train, or if she’d been on the road with Jack Kerouac? And, most importantly, how would Jo Caulfield have rejected Mr Darcy’s advances? [113] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Peter Hitchens and Johann Hari A Rational Debate About Drugs It’s 100 years since drugs were first banned, and drug use and drug crime have continued to grow steadily across the world. What are people addicted to? Are any of the policies adopted around the world based on scientific data? Are any of them working? Hari is the author of Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War Against Drugs; Hitchens is the author of The War We Never Fought. Chaired by Hernando Alvarez, editor of BBC Mundo.

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SUNDAY 24 MAY

SUNDAY 24 MAY 8.30pm

9.45pm

[114] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[280] 9.45PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

David Aaronovitch, Rachael Jolley, Tom Holland and guests

The Secret Life of Your Mobile Phone

The Index Punch Ups Five short arguments about flashpoints in the Freedom of Speech debates – porn, blasphemy, Israel, national security. Where do we draw the lines? And why? In association with Index on Censorship Magazine [115] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Christopher Frayling The Yellow Peril The cultural historian demonstrates the rise of Chinaphobia in popular culture with the help of some film clips. Frayling chronicles the entry of Dr Fu Manchu, known as ‘the yellow peril incarnate in one man’, into world literature a century ago and asks why the idea developed unfairly that China was a threat to Western civilization, and why such images continue to distort our image of its people. Frayling also explains how we neglect the history of popular culture at our peril if we are to understand our deepest desires and fears. Chaired by Sarah Crompton.

Geoff White and Glenn Wilkinson A unique and fascinating journey into the private life of a gadget you thought was on your side. Afterwards, you’ll never look at your phone in the same way again… The brainchild of Channel 4 News’ award-winning technology journalist Geoff White and security researcher Glenn Wilkinson: welcome to a live stage performance using cutting-edge interception technology to reveal the people, places and companies your phone is talking to behind your back – and what it’s telling them.

10pm [118] 10PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Sasha McVeigh In concert The Herefordshire singer and songwriter with the spectacular voice is a rising star of Country music in America. She’s returning from Nashville with her first full-band album to perform at Hay.

[116] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

Robert Irwin and Azar Nafisi

[119] 10PM OXFAM MOOT £8

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Comedians’ Cinema Club

Dating from at least a millennium ago, the earliest known Arabic short stories survive in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, swordwielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune. Robert Irwin’s books include For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages and The Arabian Nights: A Companion. Azar Nafisi taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. She is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I’ve Been Silent About.

9.45pm [117] 9.45PM TATA TENT £22

Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton Night Dances Acclaimed actor Charlotte Rampling and renowned cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton bring together Sylvia Plath’s poetry and Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello in a unique evening of haunting poetry and powerful music.

Eric Lampaert We are thrilled to welcome the inspired and hilarious improv show in which Eric and a cast of comics act out a famous movie. They’ve done Die Hard, Pretty Woman, all the Harry Potters, and for tonight they want the Hay audience to choose the movie. Let us know what you’d like them to take on – we’ll go with the best nomination on our Facebook page. Sponsored by TotalProduce

11.30pm [120] 11.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £12

SANS Candlelit Concert A meditative late-night treat. Uniting the powerful, ancient Karelian runo-songs that became Finland’s Kalevala with the sad, lingering duduk laments of Armenia and ghosts of British folk-song melody, SANS makes an atmospherically wide-screen new music surging between glacial stillness and passionate power. The magnificent singing of Finland’s Sanna Kurki-Suonio, the heart-pausing sound of Armenian Tigran Aleksanyan’s duduk, the deep woodiness of Ian Blake’s bass clarinet, the dark, glassy chiming of Andrew Cronshaw’s electric zither and unique marovantele, and the man-high fujara’s breathy, shivering harmonics.

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9am

[121] 9AM–9.45AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

[125] 9AM–9.45AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Bronwen Maddox, Peter Hitchens, David Aaronovitch, Johann Hari

Rena’s Promise

Election 2015: How Was It For You? Four of our leading commentators analyse the election results and their aftermath. They look at the leadership issues and futures for each of the parties. In association with Prospect Magazine [122] 9AM–9.45AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Melissa Harrison and Laline Paull Fictions – Nature Discover two of the most thrilling new voices in fiction. Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, Harrison’s second novel At Hawthorn Time is both a clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss. Paull’s debut The Bees is set entirely in a beehive. It is the story of a heroine, Flora 717, a sanitation bee who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world. They read and talk to Mary Loudon. [123] 9AM–9.45AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Iain Overton talks to Oliver Balch Gun Baby Gun There are almost a billion guns across the globe today. There are 12 billion bullets produced every year and as many as 500,000 people are killed by them annually. Meeting people affected by guns from all walks of life in 25 countries – porn starlets who appear as snipers in XXX films, Zionist anti-terror gun trainers, El Salvadoran gangland killers – Overton unearths some hard truths about the terrible realities of war and gun crime. Overton is Director of Investigations at the London-based charity Action on Armed Violence and an investigative journalist who has worked in over 80 countries around the world.

Heather Dune Macadam Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to fulfill the promise Rena made to her mother when the family was forced to split apart – a promise to take care of her sister. New research informs this event, based on the original transport list that Macadam found in the archives of Yad Vashem with all 998 names of the first women in Auschwitz on it — 297 of whom were teenagers. Chaired by Sarah Crompton.

MONDAY 25 MAY

9.15am [126] 9.15AM–9.45AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £3

Mark Skipworth What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 25 May at key historical moments over the past 150 years are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to mention fashion through the decades and legendary stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting.

9.30am [127] 9.30AM–10.30AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The Life Scientific [124] 9AM–9.45AM OXFAM MOOT £6

BBC Radio 4

Iain Finlayson

Jim Al-Khalili talks to some of our most fascinating

Tangier: City of the Dream No city in the world has quite the exotic allure of Tangier. From the C17th, it has been a place on the edge, beyond the normal disciplines of government, a city of refuge and excitements where sex is cheap, drugs are plentiful and where the outcasts of the world can breathe easily. The golden years of Tangier began after World War I and barely survived World War II. Among those who sought sanctuary in or inspiration from this legendary city were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles, Ronnie Kray, Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Cecil Beaton and Truman Capote. It is this ‘last resort of the living dead, alive but not madly kicking’ that Finlayson explores in his witty, enthralling study. Sponsored by Mostlymaps – www.mostlymaps.com

and admirable scientists: from Nobel Prize-winners to unsung heroes and the next generation of beautiful minds. Broadcast on Tuesdays at 9am. This programme will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 23 June at 9am.

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MONDAY 25 MAY

MONDAY 25 MAY 10am

10am

[128] 10AM TATA TENT £9

[131] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Stuart Cade, Juliet Aston, Julian Munby, Camilla Finlay

Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Peter Stothard

Hay’s Castle

Fictions – Mary Renault

Hay Castle’s rich history reaches back to the time of the Norman Conquest, and is intertwined with events that have shaped the evolution of the country as a whole. Legend has it that in the early C13th the stone castle rose overnight out of the low woodlands next to the River Wye. In the C17th it was transformed from ruined defensive castle to country seat for the gentry. More recently it has been the seat of the King of Hay, Richard Booth. The C21st has seen Hay Castle owned in trust for the public for the first time, and the creation of an exciting future vision for the buildings and grounds. The architects for the realisation of the vision are Rick Mather Architects, who, with representatives from their team of archaeology and conservation specialists, will describe the history and proposed future for the Castle – the creation of the next chapter in its story. Chaired by Francine Stock. In association with Hay Castle Trust For further details about Hay Castle, please visit the stall on site or www.haycastletrust.org

We celebrate the republication of Renault’s fabulous Greek historical novels – The Bull from the Sea, The King Must Die, Fire From Heaven, Funeral Games, Lion in the Gateway and The Persian Boy. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop

[129] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Azar Nafisi talks to Sarah Churchwell The Republic of Imagination From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favourite novels, the scholar and teacher invites us to join her as citizens of her ‘Republic of Imagination’, a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. In association with The Open University in Wales

[HF36] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Minecraft Love Minecraft? Want to know more about how to construct the most awesome builds? Come along to this session for tips and tricks from the experts on how to be a Minecraft creative genius. 7+ years [HF37] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Piers Torday The Wild Beyond Piers Torday’s bestselling first book, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2014. Join Piers as he shares the passion for nature that inspired the trilogy, and find out if Kester can save the world from disaster. 9+ years [HF38] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Chris Judge Robots and Beasts Meet award-winning illustrator Chris Judge and hear all about his robot character Tin and his favourite Beast stories in this fun-filled picture book event packed with interactive storytelling and live drawing. 4+ years

[130] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Göran Rosenberg talks to Philippe Sands

[W36] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz

RSPB Workshop

On 2 August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having survived the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. In his intelligent and deeply moving book, Rosenberg returns to his own childhood in order to tell the story of his father; walking at his side, holding his hand, trying to get close to him again. It is also the story of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past.

Wild Garden Safari. Familes welcome [W14] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £8

Illustration for Under 12s Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Under 12 years

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11.30am

[132] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[136] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Nick Stern talks to Alok Jha The British Academy Lecture Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change The risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006; and far worse than implied by standard economic models. The science warns of the dangers of neglect; the economics and technology show what we can do and the great benefits that will follow; an examination of the ethics points strongly to a moral imperative for action. Why are we waiting? Chaired by the science correspondent of ITV News. In association with The British Academy [133] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Charles Handy talks to Andrew St George The Second Curve The bracing manifesto of a radical thinker. His books on management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends – such as Beyond Certainty – has changed the way we view society. In The Second Curve, Handy builds on a life’s work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential.

Matthew Kramer Cambridge University Series 8 Torture, Morality and Law Despite recent assertions to the contrary, the Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge argues that there can never be any moral justification for torture. Chaired by Philippe Sands, author of Torture Team. In association with Cambridge University [HF39] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Dan Smith and Paul Dowswell

MONDAY 25 MAY

11.30am

Big Game and Bomber Nail-biting tension and compelling storytelling feature in both these books, delivering an edge-of-the-seat reading experience. Dan Smith’s Big Game, recently brought to the big screen, stars a young hero hunting in a Finnish wilderness, who stumbles upon an escape pod from a burning airplane. Soon he and the President of the United States are on the run from terrorists. Paul Dowswell’s Bomber is the meticulouslyresearched story of a young gunner in WW2 whose dreams of flying turn into nightmares as the Nazis sweep over Europe and war rages. Share the thrills and the tension, and get some top writing tips from these two masters of their craft. 10+ years [HF40] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £12

Shaun the Sheep Model making with Aardman Animation.

[134] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

7+ years

Emma Rothschild Family Histories and Social Networks An exploration of C18th social networks looking at the Johnstone family, the Scottish siblings at the heart of her book The Inner Life Of Empires, and an interconnected group of French families in the first ‘age of information’. Rothschild is Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. [135] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8

Jessie Burton talks to Georgina Godwin

[W37] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop Wild Garden Safari. Familes welcome

12pm [137] 12PM–2PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Fictions – The Miniaturist

Vanessa Feltz

On an autumn day in 1686, 18-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. The novelist discusses her multi-award-winning debut novel.

BBC Radio 2 LIVE Vanessa Feltz will be presenting the Jeremy Vine Show live from Hay Festival. As well as reporting on the highlights of the festival she will be interviewing a leading author as part of the popular series What Makes Us Human. Broadcast weekdays on BBC Radio 2.

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MONDAY 25 MAY

MONDAY 25 MAY 12pm

1pm

[W15] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

[140] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Drawing the Body Clothed Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

1pm [138] 1PM TATA TENT £9

Tom Holland The Christopher Hitchens Lecture De-radicalising Muhammad What do the Charlie Hebdo murders and the rise of the Islamic State owe to Islam? It would be comforting to insist, as many have done, that they owe nothing at all; but Holland, in the inaugural Christopher Hitchens Lecture, argues that the truth is more complex. The best way to combat jihadism, he proposes, is to recognise the centrality of Muhammad to Islam – and that he comes in many forms. There is the moral leader who swallowed abuse peaceably; and there is the war leader who ordered people who insulted him put to death. How best, then, to de-radicalise the Prophet? Tom Holland is author of In The Shadow of the Sword, Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and the new translation of The Histories by Herodotus. Chaired by Katrin Bennhold of the International New York Times. [139] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Alok Jha The Water Book Water pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn’t live without it. Yet on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Water is crucial to our survival, and it was also fundamental in the origins of life on Earth. The millions of gallons of water that make up our rivers, lakes and oceans originated in outer space. How it arrived here and how those molecules of water were formed is a story that takes us back to the beginning of the universe. Indeed, we know more about the depths of space than we do about the furthest reaches of the oceans.

Lynsey Addario talks to Rosie Boycott It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War The frontline photographer discusses her memoir of post-9/11 photo-journalism and shows her pictures. She travels with purpose and bravery, photographing the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. [HF41] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

David Baddiel The Parent Agency The author, screenwriter and comedian invites you into the hilarious world of The Parent Agency. Barry has always hated being called Barry. In fact, it’s number 2) on the list of things he blames his parents for, along with 1) ‘being boring’ and 3) ‘always being tired’. But then one day Barry makes a fateful wish, and finds himself in a world where everything is Upside Down… 9+ years [141] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Daniel Kehlmann and Dorthe Nors Fictions – Laughter Two international superstars read and discuss their stories with Daniel Hahn. Kehlman presents his new novel F: the Friedland brothers have nothing in common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an artist with no integrity. Eric is a financier – now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss. Nors introduces her glitteringly funny and acute stories of Danish life collected in Karate Chop / Minna Needs Rehearsal Space. Blending compassion with dark delight, Nors conjures up a flawed, unsettlingly familiar world with each cautionary glance as fresh moments of wonder, romance and frail beauty are unexpectedly infiltrated by depravity, isolation and despair. [HF42] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Katherine Woodfine and Robin Stevens Dastardly Villains (and Iced Buns for Tea) Robin Stevens’ Wells and Wong schoolgirl detective stories are thrilling books for tween detectives who adore solving dastardly murders. Think St Trinians meets Miss Marple. Katherine Woodfine’s readers of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow enter a world of bonbons, perfumes and mysteries around every corner. Gasp as our bold heroines vow to bring the villains to justice before devouring another iced bun. 9+ years

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1pm

2.30pm

[HF43] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £12

[145] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins

Model making with Aardman Animation.

Memory and Mental Time to Travel

7+ years

Memories are not only about the past; they also affect the future. Nicola and Clive, a scientist and a fine artist respectively, explore the complex relationships between memory and human experience. Join them for a fascinating discussion incorporating science, literature, magic and dance. In association with The Royal Society

1.30pm [HF44] 1.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

Elli Woollard Poetry Workshop with Woozy and Elli Rhyming is fun! Join poet extraordinaire Elli Woollard to hear all about the adventures of Woozy the Wizard and his pet pig, and take part in a workshop to create your own poetry. 7+ years

2.30pm [142] 2.30PM TATA TENT £9

Amartya Sen The Eric Hobsbawm Lecture Marx and the Power of Ideas This year’s lecture is given by the Nobel Prize-winning economist, author of The Idea of Justice and Identity and Violence – The Illusion of Destiny. Chaired by Nik Gowing. [143] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Sheila Hancock talks to Francine Stock Fictions – Miss Carter’s War It is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite Carter has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black shoes, and sets out towards her future as an English teacher in a girls’ grammar school. Outside the classroom Britain is changing fast, and Miss Carter finds herself caught up in social upheaval, swept in and out of love and forging deep, enduring friendships. The first novel from the actress and award-winning author of The Two of Us and Just Me. [144] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Theodore Zeldin talks to Daniel Hahn The Hidden Pleasures of Life What is the point of working so hard? What can replace the shortage of soulmates? What else can one do in a hotel? Zeldin, the author of Conversations and An Intimate History of Humanity, shows how our lives can be enriched by the realisation that it is only by truly relating to others that we get a taste, even just a nibble, of what it is possible to experience as a human being.

[HF45] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5

David O’Doherty and Chris Judge

MONDAY 25 MAY

Shaun the Sheep

Danger is Everywhere Do you enjoy enjoyment? Do you find danger dangerous? Come and join award-winning comedian David O’Doherty and illustrator Chris Judge for a hilarious lesson in Dangerology. Inspired by the notebooks of the enigmatic and ultra-cautious Dangerologist, David and Chris prepare you for many of life’s dangers through Docter Noel Zone’s unique BSTs (Basic Safety Tips) and many other useful acronyms. Come and discover what to do if a shark comes out of the loo or a volcano erupts underneath your house. Perfect for worriers, young and old. 7+ years [HF46] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Charlotte and Adam Guillain George’s Amazing Adventures Come and meet Charlotte and Adam as they perform their latest hilarious picture book, Pizza for Pirates, illustrated by the award-winning Lee Wildish. Set off with George on a high seas adventure in search of pirates! There’ll be strange noises, scurrilous sea dogs, marine monsters, a feathered friend, a bit of silly dressing up and funny songs! 5+ years [HF47] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Tamsyn Murray Cassidy Bond: Completely Cassidy’s Big Sleepover Onesies at the ready! Join Tamsyn Murray for a super sleepover where she’ll introduce you to the disasterprone Cassidy Bond, the star of her new Completely Cassidy series, and help you find your undiscovered talent. There’ll also be plenty of secret sharing and popcorn snacking, so put your best bedhead on and get ready to be amazeballs. 8+ years

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MONDAY 25 MAY

MONDAY 25 MAY 2.30pm

4pm

[HF162] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

[HF48] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6

Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband

Malorie Blackman, James Dawson and Non Pratt

The Story of Life Workshop

Love Hurts

Award-winning illustrator Amy Husband and local authors Catherine Barr and Steve Williams will take children on the extraordinary journey of evolution. You will draw, cut and colour all kinds of creatures to create your own timeline of life on Earth.

An unmissable line-up of YA talent for your delectation. Three fabulous writers range over many topics that concern their readers, including love. Love Hurts is a new collection of writing, edited by Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman, to which James and Non have both contributed. Chaired by Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust. In association with Lovereading4kids

6–10 years

3pm

12+ years/YA [146] 3PM–4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Free Thinking: New Generation Thinkers BBC Radio 3 The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of the talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds at the start of their careers, who have the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts. Hear them discuss their fascinating research with presenter Rana Mitter. Broadcast Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10pm. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 28 May at 10pm.

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[148] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Andrew Keen and Robert Phillips talk to Sarah Churchwell What’s the Question?

Royal Drawing School Class

Keen’s incisive critique The Internet is Not the Answer traces the development of the net through the waves of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity. He shows how the Web has had a deeply negative effect on our culture, economy and society. Phillips’ Trust Me, PR is Dead asks whether we can ever really trust companies and their stories in an age when technology not only allows transparency, but demands it. Keen is executive director of the Silicon Valley salon FutureCast and the author of Digital Vertigo and The Cult of the Amateur. Phillips was CEO of Edelman, the world’s largest PR company, before leaving to set up Jericho Chambers.

Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

[149] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

4pm

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

[W16] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing Out and About

Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden

[147] 4PM TATA TENT £12

Sandi Toksvig The Hay Library Lecture A celebration of reading and books from the comedian, broadcaster and writer whose books include the novels Hitler’s Canary, Flying Under Bridges and Valentine Grey, children’s stories The Littlest Viking and The Troublesome Tooth Fairy, non-fiction best-sellers Peas & Queues and Girls Are Best and the play Bully Boy. Introduced by Sue Wilkinson. In association with The Reading Agency

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments around the world, they show how photosynthesis relies on subatomic particles existing in many places at once, while inside enzymes, those workhorses of life that make every molecule within our cells, particles vanish from one point in space and instantly materialize in another.

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4pm

5.30pm

[150] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[153] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Nick Cohen

1519: Journey to the End of Time

What Do We Do Now?

In 1519 an arrogant and unscrupulous man sailed from the Caribbean with orders to find a missing Spanish expedition. He immediately set about carving himself an empire in modern Mexico, while the governor of Cuba sent a force out to kill him. Hernán Cortés explored the coast to Veracruz then struck inland, seduced by tales of a great empire rich in gold. He found the largest and best-run city on earth and reduced it to rubble. Award-winning travel writer and historian John Harrison followed in his footsteps for four months, finding the jungle ruins and sophisticated hilltop cities which put the lie to the popular image of the Aztecs and their neighbours as bloodthirsty savages.

The Spectator and Observer journalist looks back at the General Election, and discusses the future of political alignment and the relationship between politics and the media. Chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor. In association with The Open University in Wales

[151] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Carwyn Jones talks to Guto Harri What Next For Wales? The First Minister of Wales responds to the UK election results, detailing how Wales will respond to the new Westminster Parliament, whether he will be seeking any new powers, who he will be collaborating with and what he hopes to achieve for Wales over the next five years. [HF49] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Benji Davies and Elli Woollard The Giant of Jum Look out children, the Giant of Jum is grumpy and hungry and he’s off in search of a tasty snack! And the tastiest of all is a boy known as Jack… Join major new picture book pairing Elli Woollard and Benji Davies as they bring this brilliant, big-hearted twist on a classic fairy-tale to life in an interactive story-telling adventure.

[154] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £9

Steve McCurry talks to Tim Marlow From These Hands The great Magnum photographer discusses his 30 years shooting conflicts, vanishing traditions and contemporary culture with the Artistic Director of The Royal Academy. He presents his latest book From These Hands: A Journey Along the Coffee Trail. Sponsored by The Coffee Cart Company Ltd

MONDAY 25 MAY

John Harrison talks to Francesca Rhydderch

[155] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Julia Fan Li, Alexandra Grigore and Divya Venkatesh Cambridge University Series 9 Global Health in the Twenty-first Century Three young female scientists who are recipients of the University of Cambridge’s most prestigious scholarship, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, talk about their research. Julia Fan Li is director of the Global Health Investment Fund, which funds research and development for some of the most pressing global health challenges; Divya Venkatesh researches African sleeping sickness and does cross-disciplinary work in biotechnology; Alexandra Grigore works on an innovative fingerprint identity system for accessing medical records in developing countries. In association with Cambridge University

6+ years

[156] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

5.30pm

My Family and Other Superheroes Boy Running: A Reading

Jonathan Edwards and Paul Henry

[152] 5.30PM TATA TENT £7

Diarmaid MacCulloch The British Academy Platform Sex and the West As society becomes more liberal, the Churches often seem more entrenched. The Oxford historian explores how Western Christianity’s complex and often divisive ideas about sex, marriage and gender have their roots in a story that began 3,000 years ago. Chaired by Anita Anand. In association with The British Academy

Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. Edwards marries an authentic colloquial voice with sound technique to produce poems that recognize the exotic in everyday life, and a first collection that, remarkably, has won the Costa Prize for Poetry 2014. Henry’s new collection explores his marital break-up, his childhood in Aberystwyth, and in the final sequence we meet ‘Davy Blackrock’: washed-up songwriter and modern-day alter ego of Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock), alias David Owen (1720–1749), the blind, 18th-century harpist and composer who fell asleep on a hill and dreamt the famous song which bears his name.

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MONDAY 25 MAY

MONDAY 25 MAY 5.30pm

7pm

[HF50] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6/FREE TO LOCAL CHILDREN*

[159] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Catherine Barr and Steve Williams The Story of Life Authors Catherine and Steve bring evolution alive for a young audience, with an illustrated talk and the children’s help in creating a timeline exploring the fascinating story of life on Earth. 6+ years

* Call 01497 822 629 to reserve free tickets [HF51] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £12

Shaun the Sheep Model making with Aardman Animation. 7+ years

Will Hutton How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country The journalist and economics commentator examines the state of Britain today and looks forward to a Britain of tomorrow. Hutton argues that allowing the market to decide, irrespective of justice and equity, has led to a capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it – in turn leading to an unequal society organised for the benefit of the top 1%. Hutton is author of many influential books including The State We’re In, The World We’re In and Them and Us: Changing Britain – Why We Need a Fair Society. In association with The Open University in Wales [160] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

7pm [157] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Jon Ronson So, You’ve Been Publicly Shamed… A powerful and sometimes humorous look at the phenomenon of artificial high dramas and public shamings that are characteristic of a world dominated by social media. Why do we do it and how does it affect the shamed? Ronson was prompted into looking at public shaming after his own online identity was stolen in 2012. He met famous shamers and shamees to discover how public ridicule and vitriol can devastate the victim, and to uncover the true reasons behind the rise in public shaming. Ronson is a documentary maker and author of many bestselling books including The Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Lost at Sea and Them: Adventures with Extremists. Chaired by John Mitchinson.

Philip Gross and Valerie Coffin Price A Fold in the River A beautiful collaboration between TS Eliot Prizewinning poet Philip Gross and visual artist Valerie Coffin Price. Gross once lived on the banks of the River Taff in Wales and his journals are the source for the powerful poems. Price revisited the walking route along the river, from which evolved the prints and drawings that accompany the poems. [161] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Justin Griffiths-Williams Baby Doc Duvalier and Fort Dimanche The award-winning photo-journalist has been documenting the island of Haiti for the past 15 years and has produced an astonishing record of one of the world’s most extreme cultures and natural environments, racked by civil war, climatic catastrophe and violent deprivations. He shows his images and discusses his work with Oliver Balch.

[158] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

Andre Geim talks to Roger Highfield

[162] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

The Royal Society Platform Random Walk to Graphene

Daniel Hahn introduces Llyˆr Gwyn Lewis, Valerie Fritsch, Marco Parlato and Elske Rahill

In 2010 Sir Andre Geim FRS was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work on the material graphene. More unusually, he’s also known for inventing an adhesive tape based on geckos and for levitating live frogs. Geim talks about his prize-winning work and how his atypical approach to science and life led him to it. In association with The Royal Society

Scritture Giovani 2015 – Home Four writers under the age of 30 are commissioned to write a story on the same theme of ‘home’ that is then translated into Italian, German and English. The writers visit four festivals (Mantova and Berlin in September, Hay in May, Kells in June,) to discuss their work. In collaboration with Festivaletteratura, Mantova and Literaturfestival, Berlin Supported by Ireland Literature Exchange and Austrian Cultural Forum

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7pm

8.30pm

[163] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10

[166] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

John Bulmer

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1

Wind of Change

Warmly described by Harris Goldsmith in New York Concert Review as ‘a truly fine musician’, Daniel Martyn Lewis is a pianist who is achieving recognition for the purity and beauty of his Bach interpretations. He will perform one of the greatest masterpieces in the whole of western keyboard literature, the complete WellTempered Clavier. Its two books of 24 Preludes and Fugues cover every major and minor key, and display a breathtaking diversity of styles and genres. Concert 1 covers The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One nos 1–12. BWV 846-857. Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. See also events 204, 244 and 279.

In 1962 the pioneering Sunday Times photographer embarked on a project to photograph the profound social and political changes sweeping across the world, from the slow disintegration of the Middle East, the early collapse of the Communist bloc and the rise of African nationalism, to the totalitarianism of China and North Korea, and the disparities of wealth and poverty in the Americas. Fifty years on, he shows his photogaphs and discusses them with filmmaker Corisande Albert.

8.30pm

Finding Her Place

[164] 8.30PM TATA TENT £30

Texas 25th Anniversary Concert With the release of White On Blonde in 1997 the Glasgow alt-rockers became major stars, propelled by huge pop hits such as Say What You Want and Black Eyed Boy. Many groups could be destroyed by such success, but Texas have continued writing and recording, sustained by their very particular love of music, and listeners can still enjoy the classic mix of Sharleen Spiteri’s distinctive vocals with an experienced band who know exactly what they’re doing.

MONDAY 25 MAY

Daniel Martyn Lewis

[167] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Jasmine Donahaye talks to Francesca Rhydderch The poet is publishing two books this spring: the first biography of Lily Tobias, a courageous, idealistic Welsh woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the twentieth century; and a memoir, Losing Israel. In 2007, in a chance conversation with her mother, a kibbutznik, Donahaye stumbled upon the collusion of her family in the displacement of Palestinians in 1948. When she set out to learn the story of what happened, what she discovered challenged everything she thought she knew about the country and her family, and transformed her understanding of the place, and of herself.

10pm [165] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £14

Nina Conti

[168] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

In Your Face

Mark Watson

Groundbreaking ventriloquist, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and British Comedy Award-winner Nina Conti welcomes you to see her new improvised show. With the help of Monkey and a bag of tricks, truly anything can happen in this unmissable improvised adventure of hilarious witchery. The smash hit, total sell-out show of the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 from the star of Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, QI, Sunday Night at the Palladium and HBO’s Family Tree. Sponsored by Holdsworth Foods

Flaws – Stand-Up Flaws is Mark’s darkest, most personal show yet, but luckily also his funniest. Watson rips up his parental crisis, his relationships with Madonna (non-existent) and alcohol (over familiar), his contempt for tapas and his fondness for drunk-giving to charities. He makes glorious fun of himself, and spins comedy gold out of his return to health and happiness. It’s a life-affirming triumph of physical and verbal stand-up. Sponsored by Communikate

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TUESDAY 26 MAY

TUESDAY 26 MAY 6am

10am

[169] 6AM–9AM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM FREE – ALL WELCOME

[HF52] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5

Good Morning Wales BBC Radio Wales LIVE and travel information to start your day, broadcasting live from the festival. Broadcasts every weekday morning on BBC Radio Wales from 6am–9am and on Saturdays from 7.30am.

Join Robin and Lorenzo for the most amazing show you’ll ever see. You’ll laugh. You’ll laugh again. Then you’ll laugh some more! And in between the chuckles the Etherington Brothers will take you on a roller coaster journey through the mystical arts of storytelling and character creation, showing you how to explore the power of your imagination. Don’t miss this high-octane show packed full of belly laughs and surprises.

9am

6+ years

[423] 9AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

[172] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Louise Elliott presents all the news, sport, weather

How to Break into the Media A BBC Event at Hay A masterclass on how to get started, featuring a discussion with researchers and producers from radio, television and online. Not for broadcast.

10am [170] 10AM TATA TENT £7

Daniel Hahn, John Boyne, Jenny Valentine The New Golden Age We are revelling in an exhilarating time for young readers, fired by the richest imaginable field of novelists creating work for teenagers. The editor of the new Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature hosts this celebration of great contemporary YA writing with two superstars of the genre, who pick a library of ten essential reads for teenagers. All ticketholders will be entered into a draw to receive the ten books they choose as well as copies of Boyne’s The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas and the forthcoming Valentine novel Fire Colour One. #hayYA [171] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Eileen Younghusband talks to Martin Chilton One Woman’s War Ninety-three-year-old Eileen Younghusband served as an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in WW2. She decided to volunteer at the age of 18, and her mathematical abilities led to her training as a Clerk Special Duties, a vital part of the Radar chain. She found herself working in the Filter Room, the lynchpin between the coastal Radar Chain and the successful defence of Britain. After losing two fiancés, she eventually married; only to be posted overseas six weeks later to Second Tactical Air Force in Belgium. There she became part of a team tracking and destroying V2 launching vehicles, responsible for the devastating raids on Antwerp – the Allies’ vital port for landing troops and supplies. She tells her story to The Telegraph’s Martin Chilton.

The Etherington Brothers The Greatest Comic-Making Show on Earth!

Adele Nozedar and Lizzie Harper The Garden Forager Many of our own gardens contain an abundance of edible and medicinal plants, grown mainly for their ornamental appearance. Most gardeners are completely unaware that what they have actually planted is a rather exotic kitchen garden. The Garden Forager explores some of the most popular garden plants that have edible, medicinal or even cosmetic potential. Nozedar’s recipes and remedies are exquisitely illustrated in watercolours by Lizzie Harper. She talks while Harper illustrates live. Sponsored by Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages [HF53] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £5

Tom Palmer Premier League Reading Stars Join bestselling author Tom Palmer for a Premier League Reading Stars session. Find out about football reading and writing with quiz questions, a penalty shoot out and a trophy for the winner! 7+ years

In association with National Literacy Trust [HF54] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Thomas & Friends All aboard! Put your party hats on as we celebrate Thomas the Tank Engine’s birthday. Join brilliant storyteller Liz Fost as she takes you on a fun adventure into the world of Thomas & Friends. 3+ years [HF55] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Chris Haughton Shh! We Have a Plan Chris Haughton is the creator of highly-acclaimed, award-winning picture books A Bit Lost, Oh No, George! and most recently Shh! We Have a Plan. He is also the co-founder of NODE, a fair trade social business. In this interactive family event, Chris will read from his books, show trailers and images, use some very clever props, and play drawing games. 4+ years

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10am

11.30am

[W38] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

[175] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Noel Malcolm

Wild Garden Safari.

Brunis and Brutis

Familes welcome

Malcolm describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterland by an eminent Venetian-Albanian family – among them an archbishop in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at the Porte – previously almost invisible to history. Through them he casts the world between Venice and Istanbul in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, slave-ransoming and the grain trade. It is a masterpiece of both scholarship and storytelling, creating a panoramic picture of interrelations between the Christian and Ottoman worlds.

[W17] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Figure Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities [173] 10AM THE SUMMER HOUSE £3

Hay Writers’ Circle New Work 2015 A reading of new work by the local writers’ group.

TUESDAY 26 MAY

RSPB Workshop

[176] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

David Lagercrantz

10.30am [174] 10.30AM–11.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster BBC Four In 2007 Sophie Lancaster was attacked in a park because of her appearance. Writer and poet Simon Armitage and director Susan Roberts discuss the making of the film and will be showing clips. Not for broadcast.

11.30am [HF56] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8

John Boyne talks to Peter Florence The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process. The author revisits his 2008 novel, which is now read around the world. His latest book Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is the moving story of a boy’s search for his missing father during the First World War. 10+ years

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Fictions – Fall of Man in Wilmslow The journalist introduces his fictionalised thriller about the death of Alan Turing. He is the ghostwriter of Sweden’s fastest-ever-selling book I am Zlatan Imbrahimovic, though he’s likely to top that in August with the publication of his newest novel – the authorized sequel to Stieg Larsson’s Girl With A Dragon Tattoo / Millenium series. He talks to SJ Parris. [177] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Bharat Malkani Capital Punishment On the 50th anniversary of the last execution to take place in the UK, Malkani, a lecturer at Birmingham Law School, discusses why we are better off without the death penalty and why British efforts to promote the worldwide abolition of capital punishment should be supported. UN statistics suggest the five countries with the highest number of state executions annually are, in order, China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United States of America. In association with Birmingham University [178] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Shireen Jilla and Mark Watson talk to Georgina Godwin Fictions – Couples Jilla explores friendships unravelling and ravelling as old university friends set out on a Kalahari journey in The Art of Unpacking your Life. Graham, the concierge of Watson’s novel Hotel Alpha, has been behind the front desk since the day the hotel opened and has witnessed every stage of its history. Chaz, the founder’s blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside its walls. Both of them view the Alpha as their sanctuary, the place that gives them everything they need. But both of them must now accept that the Alpha no longer offers them the life they most want…

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TUESDAY 26 MAY

TUESDAY 26 MAY 11.30am

1pm

[HF57] 11.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

[179] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Angie Sage Araminta Spook

Tessa Dunlop and Pamela Rose

Araminta is a girl who lives in a haunted house, has ghosts and ghouls for friends, and gets up to all sorts of spooky adventures. In this fiendishly fun event, find out where Araminta came from, where this feisty Goth girl is going next, and how you can create your own stories. Black clothes and stripy tights optional!

The Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss

7+ years [HF58] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Yasmeen Ismail Specs for Rex Time for Bed, Fred! is Yasmeen Ismail’s award-wining debut picture book. Join her for storytelling and find out how to draw Rex, a young lion character from her newest book Specs for Rex. 4+ years

Dunlop weaves together the lives of fifteen women selected to work in Britain’s most secret organisation – Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female involvement in Britain during the Second World War was unmatched in any other country. From 8 million working women just over 7,000 were hand-picked to work at Bletchley Park and its outstations and soon they outnumbered the men three to one. Dunlop is joined by one of the women featured in the book. They talk to publisher and QI elfmaster John Mitchinson.

[W39] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop

[180] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Wild Garden Safari.

Martin Kemp

Familes welcome

Art in History 600BC–2000AD

12pm [W18] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Contemporary Portrait Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it’s also an historical document, part of a living world. The Oxford art historian takes us on an extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works to the revolutionary techniques of the Renaissance, from the courtly Masters of the C17th through to the daring avant-garde of the C20th and beyond. Sponsored by NFU Mutual [181] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

12.45pm [418] 12.45PM–1.45PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The Essay BBC Radio 3 For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay five writers ask themselves ‘why I write’. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 10.45pm on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 May.

How do we measure how we’re doing, economically and demographically? What are the ‘facts’ about migration and the tax base, National Debt, growth, borrowing and GDP and how should they be interpreted? The Chief Economist and the Director of Population Statistics at the Office of National Statistics give us the un-spun skinny on what the numbers mean and where the truth lies… Chaired by Rosie Boycott. In association with The Office for National Statistics

1pm

[182] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[HF59] 1PM TATA TENT £6

Alun Lewis: The Syllable of Love

Malorie Blackman Children’s Laureate Talk

In this first event celebrating the centenary of the Welsh poet Alun Lewis, Owen Sheers will read the poetry and Juliet Ackroyd will reveal how he and her mother, Freda, fell in love in India during World War II. Lewis’s letters to Freda, published in A Cypress Walk, prove him to be one of the great letter-writers.

John Pikoulis, Juliet Ackroyd, Owen Sheers

Join Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman in her final Laureate event as she discusses her award-winning books, including the bestselling Noughts and Crosses series and her most recent collection, Love Hurts. Malorie will talk about her Laureate highlights and about the legacy she hopes to leave behind. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop 10+ years

Joe Grice and Jay Lindop Truths and Statistics

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1pm

2.30pm

[HF60] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

[186] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

William Hall Brick

Join AF Harrold and Emily Gravett as they tell you all about their brilliant, somewhat creepy book: The Imaginary. Pictures will be drawn. Words will be spoken. Imaginary Friends welcome. 9+ years

A fresh, insightful and surprising look at one of the world’s most familiar and popular building materials. From the strange remains of the Ziggurat of Ur dating from 2100 BC, to the formidable mills of the industrial revolution, the humble brick has been an architectural staple for centuries. The world’s best architects have explored the qualities of brickwork. Alvar Aalto, Antoni Gaudí, Jørn Utzon, Frank Gehry, and Mies van der Rohe all built with the material, and bricks were integral to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision for an American vernacular in his Prairie Houses. Sponsored by Ty-Mawr Lime Ltd

[HF61] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

Phoenix Comics Workshop How to make awesome comics.

7+ years

[W49] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

TUESDAY 26 MAY

AF Harrold and Emily Gravett

Engineering Creativity Workshop How to transform ideas into solutions, with design and innovation company Tata Elxsi. 12+ years

[HF62] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Frank Cottrell Boyce The Astounding Broccoli Boy

[183] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8

Rachel Podger BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 1 The violinist plays Giuseppe Tartini Sonata in B minor No13, Johan Helmich Roman Assaggio for violin solo, Nicola Matteis Part II from Other Ayrs, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Passacaglia and Giuseppe Tartini Sonata in A minor. Clemency Burton-Hill presents. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive in good time.

2.30pm [184] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8

Juliet Barker Agincourt: The King, The Campaign, The Battle On St Crispin’s Day 1415, Henry V and his exhausted army of 9,000 long-bowmen and infantry defeated the 20,000 massed cavalry and nobility of France. It was a turning point in the Hundred Years War, and in the advance of weaponry. [185] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Amitav Ghosh talks to Alex Clark Flood of Fire We are thrilled to launch the conclusion to the Ibis Trilogy with a rare interview with the novelist. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China’s devastating defeat, to Britain’s seizure of Hong Kong.

What would you do if your skin suddenly turned a bright, broccoli shade of green? Join multi-awardwinning author Frank Cottrell Boyce as he introduces the colourful cast of characters in his fantastic new book, The Astounding Broccoli Boy. Frank is a successful scriptwriter who, along with Danny Boyle, devised the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Super-powers, suspicious vegetables and penguin sidekicks all play a part in this not-to-bemissed event. 9+ years Sponsored by Tiger [187] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Gillian Clarke The Gwyn Jones Lecture: Love and War The National Poet of Wales celebrates the centenary of Alun Lewis, with a close reading and exploration of his poems. Raiders Dawn and other Poems was published in 1942. Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, which contains his masterpiece All Day It Has Rained was published posthumously in 1945. Introduced by Tom Anderson. In association with Literature Wales and The Welsh Academy [HF63] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Cerrie Burnell Mermaid Join CBeebies’ Cerrie Burnell for a very special storytelling session about being different, about new beginnings and, most of all, about friendship. Cerrie will share her books Snowflakes and Mermaid, with music and a little bit of magic. 5+ years [HF64] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

Phoenix Comics Workshop How to make awesome comics.

7+ years

[W50] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Engineering Creativity Workshop How to transform ideas into solutions, with design and innovation company Tata Elxsi. 12+ years

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TUESDAY 26 MAY

TUESDAY 26 MAY 3pm

4pm

[W19] 3PM–4.30PM MEET AT BACK OF HAY CASTLE £10/£8 UNDER 16S

[191] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Walk and Draw Royal Drawing School Class

Martin Driscoll and guests Innovation and Skills

4pm

New challenges need new skills. How do we ensure that we provide young people with the skills they’ll need to deal with the rapid developments in engineering? How can we help them adapt to unforeseen innovations? Martin Driscoll is HR Director for Tata Steel. In partnership with Tata Steel

[188] 4PM TATA TENT £9

[HF65] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £4

Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Jonathan Sacks

Christopher Lloyd

Not In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence

Magna Carta and the Story of Freedom

There are many conflicts around the world at present that claim to be in the name of God – in Iraq, in Syria, in Gaza, and elsewhere. The Rabbi argues forcefully that a true understanding of religion will enable and inspire the world to bring peace, not war; that far from leaving religion on the sidelines, it should be put at the heart of peacemaking efforts. Chaired by James Harding, head of BBC News.

Join Christopher Lloyd on an epic ride through eight centuries in the fight for freedoms and liberties, from the sealing of Magna Carta by King John in 1215, to the present day. Using a giant eight-metre-long timeline, Christopher will stop off at 10 key moments in the last 800 years, showing how today’s ideas of freedom and liberty have emerged through time. 8+ years [HF66] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

[189] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Anne Enright talks to Anita Anand Fictions – The Green Road A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion – a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. The Man Booker-winning novelist (The Gathering) is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing – who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters’ lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass. This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC World News programme Talking Books.

9+ years

[190] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[W51] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Derek Smith Cambridge University Series 10 Pandemic Research and the Ethics of Creating a Deadly Flu Strain The 1918 global flu pandemic wiped out around 50 million people. In the last 300 years there have been around three flu pandemics every century. We must constantly be on alert for the next one. How can we best understand how they are caused and how they spread? Professor Derek Smith’s work controversially involves creating a deadly flu strain for research purposes. He will talk about the ethical issues this raises. Chaired by Dan Davis. In association with Cambridge University

Angie Sage and Jonathan Stroud Septimus Heap author Angie Sage takes TodHunter Moon on a magykal new adventure in Pathfinder. Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus trilogy, opens up the world of suspense and the supernatural with the Paranormal Detection Agency Lockwood & Co. Join them for a conversation about creating fantastical and supernatural worlds, complete with spectral howls and narrow squeaks.

[HF67] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

Phoenix Comics Workshop How to make awesome comics. 7+ years

Engineering Creativity Workshop How to transform ideas into solutions, with design and innovation company Tata Elxsi. 12+ years

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5.30pm

[192] 4.30PM–6.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

[196] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

In Tune BBC Radio 3 LIVE In Tune is Radio 3’s award-winning daily drive-time show. Presented by Sean Rafferty, this live broadcast show will feature an eclectic mix of live music, plus interviews with some of the featured writers at the festival. After the recording, there will be an opportunity for a Q&A with the presenter. @BBCInTune Broadcast weekdays at 4.30pm–6.30pm on BBC Radio 3.

5.30pm [193] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9

Alexander McCall Smith talks to SJ Parris Fictions – The Master A conversation with the prolific master storyteller whose latest books are the comic masterpiece Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, The Novel Habits of Happiness in his Isabel Dalhousie series, the 15th Ladies No.1 Detective Agency book The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Café and the gorgeously romantic The Forever Girl. [194] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Denise Lievesley, Claire Melamed, Mark Goldring Measuring the World We Want In 2000, the member countries of the United Nations set themselves a challenge: achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015, to improve the lives of the world’s citizens. What’s next for our global ambitions, our post-2015 goals? How can we describe the world we want, to achieve sustainable development, track our progress and hold governments everywhere to account? The former head of statistics at UNESCO, an adviser to the United Nations, and the CEO of Oxfam talk to Hetan Shah, the chief executive of the Royal Statistical Society. In association with The Royal Statistical Society [195] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Janice Hadlow The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians George III wanted to be a new kind of king, one whose power was rooted in the affection and approval of his people. And he was determined to revolutionise his private life. He was sure that as a faithful husband and a loving father, he would be not just a happier man but a better ruler as well. As the children grew older, and their wishes and desires developed away from those of their father, it became harder to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony. The king’s episodes of madness undermined the bedrock of their marriage; his disapproving distance from the bored and purposeless princes, especially the dissolute Prince of Wales, alienated them; and his determination to keep the princesses at home, protected from the potential horrors of the European marriage market, left them lonely, bitter and resentful.

TUESDAY 26 MAY

4.30pm

[197] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Per Petterson and Gerbrand Bakker talk to Daniel Hahn Fictions – The Prizewinners A conversation with two giants of European Literature, both of whom have won both the IMPAC Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Petterson follows Out Stealing Horses with his new novel I Refuse. Tommy’s mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship. Bakker follows The Detour with June. On a hot summer’s day in June 1969 everyone is gathered to welcome Queen Juliana. The young boys and girls wave their flags enthusiastically. But just as the monarch is getting into her car to leave, little Hanne Kaan and her mother arrive late – the Queen strokes the little girl’s cheek and regally offers Anna Kaan her hand. It would have been an unforgettable day of celebration if only the baker hadn’t been running late with his deliveries and knocked down Hanne, playing on the roadside, with his brand-new VW van…

Katherine Freese The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe, from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars, constitute only five percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail is the inside story of the epic quest to solve one of the most compelling enigmas of modern science: what is the universe made of? Freese is Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan and one of today’s foremost pioneers in the study of dark matter.

[HF68] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Emily Gravett, Chris Haughton and Yasmeen Ismail Words and Pictures Three of the most talented picture book artists working today will share and swap ideas with each other and the audience to give a fascinating insight into their working methods, and the other creative projects they get involved in when not making picture books. 10+ years

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TUESDAY 26 MAY

TUESDAY 26 MAY 5.30pm

7pm

[HF69] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[201] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Phil Earle Demolition Dad

Matthew Barzun talks to Alec Ross

Join Phil Earle as he talks superheroes, comics, funny books and wrestling and introduces the hilarious, heart-warming adventures of Jake and his wrestler Dad: the Demolition Man! It’s like Danny, the Champion of the World in spandex, and Phil will introduce Demolition Dad to the Hay audience – and the world – for the first time! 8+ years

The United States of Innovation

7pm

The Housman Lecture 2015 The Name and Nature of Poetry

[198] 7PM TATA TENT £10

This year’s lecture is given by the editor of the best-selling and fabulous anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry. 100 men – distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights – confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. In association with The Housman Society

[202] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Anthony Holden

Mary Portas Shop Girl The Queen of Shops talks about her new memoir in which she describes how she rose from humble origins to become one of the world’s leading advisers on retail strategy and brand. She is credited with turning Harvey Nichols from a staid department store into a fashion powerhouse. Portas travels the world advising on retail strategy and frequently lectures on brands and retail. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series [199] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Maajid Nawaz talks to Oliver Bullough Radical Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading and international role in the shaping and dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. Arriving in Egypt the day before 9/11, his views soon led to his arrest, imprisonment and mental torture, before being thrown into solitary confinement in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. There, while mixing with everyone from the assassins of Egypt’s president to Liberal reformists, he underwent an intellectual transformation and, on his release after four years, he publicly renounced the Islamist ideology that had defined his life. This move would cost him his marriage, his family and his friends as well as his personal security. Nawaz now works all over the world to counter Islamism and to promote democratic ideals through his organisation, the Quilliam Foundation, and is standing for Parliament. Sponsored by Shepherds Ice Cream [200] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Noah Charney The Art of Forgery The art crime expert and investigative journalist explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world’s most famous forgeries – investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike. Chaired by Francine Stock. Sponsored by NFU Mutual

The US Ambassador to the UK discusses entrepreneurship and enterprise with Secretary Clinton’s senior advisor on innovation. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

[HF70] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Chris Priestley and Dave Shelton talk to Paul Magrs Modern Gothic Chris Priestley’s acclaimed Tales of Terror series are chilling stories rooted in the tradition of MR James, Saki and Edgar Allan Poe. Mister Creecher is a novel inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and his latest, Through Dead Eyes, is set in a haunted hotel in Amsterdam. Award-winning Dave Shelton turns to the gothic with Thirteen Chairs, an anthology in which twelve ghostly figures tell stories of death and horror. They talk to writer Paul Magrs about their fascination with the Gothic and its influence on their fiction. 12+ years/YA

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[203] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

Ellah Allfrey introduces Nadifa Mohammed and Zukiswa Wanner Fictions – Africa39 The editor of the Africa39 anthology, honouring 39 of the best writers from sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 40, talks to two of the writers celebrated in the project. Wanner, a South African now living in Kenya, is author of Men of the South, Maid in SA – 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam, and London Cape Town Joburg. Somalia-born Mohammed is the author of Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. Supported by Arts Council of England

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7pm

8.30pm

[204] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10

[208] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £16

Melissa Cole

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 2

Let Me Tell You About Beer

Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. This second concert in the series features The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One nos 12–24. BWV 858-869. See also events 163, 244 and 279.

An hour of beer tasting with one of Britain’s most entertaining connoisseurs. Cole writes extensively about the world’s favourite drink, and is lead partner in London’s only dedicated beer tasting business, lovebeer@borough in Borough Market. She is currently writing a book on beer and blogs at girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com. Sponsored by Tomatitos Tapas Bar

8pm [205] 8PM–10PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The BBC Wales Patrick Hannan Lecture BBC Radio Wales LIVE Laura McAllister, Chair of Sport Wales and Professor

of Governance at the University of Liverpool’s School of Management delivers the fourth annual Welsh affairs lecture dedicated to the late BBC Wales broadcaster. Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales.

8.15pm [206] 8.15PM FOR 8.30PM RELISH FESTIVAL RESTAURANT £25*

Charity Gala Quiz Night Supper Please come and join us for a light supper and some lighter competitive quizzing with rounds on vice and virtue, passion and progress. Bring your own team of four, or come and scratch together with new friends. There are sumptuous prizes, scrummy food and the (really not so fiendish) questions spun by Peter Florence. * Price includes 2 courses. Pay bar. All profits to fund our Schools Programme.

[209] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Terence Blacker My Village Somewhere between song and story, and between fiction and truth, is the world of Terence Blacker, a place of secrets, surprises and humour. His songs have been compared to those of Jake Thackray, and his stories to those of Roald Dahl. Combining the two for this guided tour around his private village – developed from his successful Edinburgh Fringe show My Village and Other Aliens – he offers a view of our world that is sharp-eyed, funny and affectionate. [210] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

Lewis Dartnell The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Dartnell is a UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, in the field of astrobiology and the search for signs of life on Mars.

8.30pm

9.30pm

[207] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[211] 9.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £13

Chris Woods and Chris Hunter talk to Nik Gowing

Tides

Homeland Security? How are wars conducted today? What happens when you only see your enemy onscreen or driving past an IED? And what effect does digital warfare have on the long-term security of the West? Woods is the author of Sudden Justice – America’s Secret Drone Wars. The investigative journalist charts the deployment of the CIA Predator drones for targeted counterterrorism killings in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. He challenges with damning evidence the assertion that drones minimize civilian casualties and are ‘the most precise weapon ever invented’. Major Hunter is the author of Eight Lives Down and Extreme Risk. He was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for his work in Iraq as a bomb disposal operative. Sponsored by FW Golesworthy

TUESDAY 26 MAY

Daniel Martyn Lewis

Catrin Finch The world-renowned classical harpist, arranger and composer from Wales is hailed for her versatility and musical fearlessness. Her new album Tides marks the first time her own material has appeared as a body of work on stage and on record. It reveals a new side of an exceptional artist, driven to explore the possibilities of the harp and a lifetime of musical influences. As Catrin says, ‘All my musical life is here.’ Catrin plays harp and piano. She is joined on stage by a string section and other guest musicians. In association with Theatr Mwldan

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 10am

10am

[212] 10AM–12PM TATA TENT £5

[HF72] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6

Abigail Rokison and Erin Sullivan

Steve Cole How Bond Are You?

Romeo & Juliet

Steve Cole introduces his first explosive Young Bond adventure, Shoot to Kill, and gives a unique insight into 1930s gadgets, gangsters and Hollywood. Join Steve for a highly entertaining event. He explains how he became such a fan of Ian Fleming’s super-spy, shares the research behind his creation, introduces new characters, including a sinister villain, and tests the audience’s spy skills to find out: ‘How Bond are you?’

The Shakespeare Institute scholars examine the text, sources and context of Shakespeare’s most popular play, looking at how the earliest performances worked and how subsequent productions over the centuries have reflected its themes. In the Q&A they address the most commonly examined syllabus questions. In association with Birmingham University

9+ years [HF71] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5

Kjartan Poskitt

[HF73] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Murderous Maths

Magic Animal Friends

Back by popular demand, Kjartan Poskitt will have parents and children in fits of laughter as he introduces the people who really did put the Murder into Maths. He’ll also show off some amazing tricks and weird facts but NO NASTY SUMS – guaranteed! Creator of the bestselling Murderous Maths series, Agatha Parrot and Borgon the Axeboy, Kjartan is a brilliant entertainer – and you’ll learn some maths facts along the way.

Welcome to an enchanting world full of animals, magic and friendship, from the creator of Rainbow Magic. When best friends Jess and Lily follow a mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest, their holidays become much more magical! There are riddles to solve, games to play and magic to create.

7+ years [213] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5

James Ward Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex. Exploring these everyday objects, Ward reveals tales of invention – accidental and brilliant – and bitter rivalry. He also asks the difficult questions, like who is Mr Pritt, and what are the thousands of uses claimed for Blu-Tack? Sponsored by Bartrums Stationery and Fine Pens [214] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis talk to Andy Fryers

5+ years [HF74] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

Phoenix Comics Workshops How to make awesome comics. 7+ years [W40] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop Wild Garden Safari. Familes welcome [W20] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Figure and the Still Life Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Rebuilding Britain Britain faces extraordinary challenges, from climate change to growing inequality and global economics, but as a nation has no plan for the future. This unique book asks a simple question: how can it organise itself, not just for survival, but to build a fairer and more sustainable society? The Town and Country Planning Association’s Henderson and Ellis talk to the Hay on Earth Director.

11.30am [HF75] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Chris Bradford Bodyguard Following his phenomenally successful Young Samurai events, Chris Bradford returns to the stage for his Bodyguard series with an adrenaline-fuelled show. Chris brings the action in his books to life with an interactive performance and explosive content linked to his own research and training. During his bodyguard training, Chris acquired skills in unarmed combat, defensive driving, tactical firearms, threat assessments, surveillance, and even anti-ambush exercises; all of which he relates in one breath-taking, high-energy event. 9+ years

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11.30am

[215] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[W41] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

Eddie Butler talks to Peter Florence

RSPB Workshop

The Head of Gonzo Davies

Wild Garden Safari.

Gonzo Davies, back-row forward and builder, knows the highs and lows of life; but as political and industrial corruption conspire to give parochial violence a national and international dimension, is he prepared to become the target of dark forces? The bestselling author of The Greatest Welsh XV Ever, best known now as the BBC’s voice of international rugby, brings us his first novel and looks forward to this autumn’s Rugby World Cup. Sponsored by Welsh Venison Centre

Familes welcome

[216] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

12pm [W21] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

The Theatre and Drawing Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

11.30am

Andrew Duff and John Keay Beneath the Himalayas Narendra Modi’s pilgrimage to Tibet heralds a new warmth in Sino-Indian relations, but the emerging superpowers have a long and complex history of contested priorities in the Himalayas. Keay is author of Midnight’s Descendants, a sweeping history of South Asia; Duff ’s Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom tells the remarkable true story of India’s annexation of Sikkim in 1975. It’s a tale of love, intrigue and the Cold War in Asia. [217] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £4

Guto Harri and Dylan Jones The News Academy Join Dylan Jones, author and award-winning editor of GQ magazine, and Guto Harri, former BBC Chief Political Correspondent, Communications Director for Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and now Communications Director for News UK, in a special Q&A on their career insights, experiences and advice for entering the world of journalism. For students aged 16–18 years

In association with News Academy [HF76] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Emily Gravett 2015 marks the ten year anniversary of Emily Gravett’s acclaimed and much-loved debut novel, Wolves. Join Emily as she talks about all her beloved characters, from Wolf to Little Mouse to Bear and Hare – and help her create a brand new story live on stage!

1pm [HF78] 1PM TATA TENT £10

Dick and Dom Join Dick and Dom, authors of Slightly Naughty But Very Silly Words and their gut-splitting new handbook, Whoopee Book of Practical Jokes, for a big handful of comedy nuts and babbling guff! An interactive and very funny show which includes a practical joke master class, stuffed with gags, brilliant practical jokes and sage and onion. If this event doesn’t tickle your funny bone, you’re probably dead! 7+ years [218] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Victoria Hislop talks to Georgina Godwin Fictions – The Sunrise In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city just two families, the Georgious and the Özkans, remain. The best-selling author of The Thread, The Return and The Island introduces her new novel.

5+ years

[219] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

[HF77] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

From NIMBY to IMBY

Phoenix Comics Workshops

Energy generation has to take place somewhere – what would you prefer in your backyard? Is policy determined by those who shout loudest rather than those with the strongest argument? What would it take for communities to say yes rather than no to new energy developments? Our panel of experts discusses. In partnership with Good Energy

Good Energy Series 2 How to make awesome comics. 7+ years

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 1pm

1pm

[220] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

[W46] 1PM–3PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10

Alison Light

Kaloi k’agathoi Drama Workshop

Common People: The History of an English Family

Oedipus – exposed!

Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times, but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work. Original and eloquent, it is a timely rethinking of who the English were – but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and on our constant need to know who went before us and what we owe them.

10–17 years

[221] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

In association with Hereford Cathedral School

Ivana Gavri´ c

[223] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 2 The pianist plays Leoš Janác˘ek In the Mists, Cheryl Frances-Hoad Two Lyric Pieces and Edvard Grieg Ballade Op 24 and Selection from Slåtter Op 72. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive in good time.

Simon Szreter Cambridge University Series 11 Why We’ve Lost the Way on Welfare The provision of an effective and trusted collective social security system always faces threats to its integrity from potential mismanagement and free-riders on both sides – those supposed to be paying in and those supposed to be benefiting. Problems with the welfare state today are addressed by the government as primarily the latter; but history shows that it is the former that requires more scrutiny. In association with Cambridge University

[224] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8

Juliet Barker England Arise

Find out about life behind the scenes in Ambridge with the Editor of The Archers, Sean O’Connor, and other guests. Not for broadcast.

In the summer of 1381 England erupted in a violent popular uprising as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Sceptical of contemporary chroniclers’ accounts, Barker draws on the judicial sources of the indictments and court proceedings that followed the rebellion to offer a new perspective on the so-called Peasants’ Revolt. She introduces us to the loyal rebels who believed they were acting in the king’s best interests, and suggests that the boy-king Richard II sympathised with their grievances. Had it been implemented, their radical agenda would have transformed English society and anticipated the French Revolution by four hundred years.

[HF79] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

[225] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

[222] 1PM–2PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Inside The Archers BBC Radio 4

David Melling

William Fotheringham

Hugless Douglas

Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling

The world’s most huggable bear, Hugless Douglas, and his creator David Melling return to Hay to celebrate Hugless Douglas Goes to Little School. Douglas is very excited to be going to Little School. There is so much to do – and lots of hugs to be given out! Come along to learn how to draw Douglas, and even have a hug with Douglas himself! 3+ years [HF80] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8

Phoenix Comics Workshops How to make awesome comics. 7+ years

2.30pm

Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the only man to have won each of the Grand Tours on more than one occasion. Hinault is the last ‘old-school’ champion: a larger-than-life character from a working-class background, capable of winning on all terrains, in major Tours and one-day Classics. Nicknamed ‘The Badger’ for his combative style, he led a cyclists’ strike in his first Tour and instigated a legendary punch-up with demonstrators in 1982 while in the middle of a race. Hinault’s battles with teammates Laurent Fignon and Greg LeMond provide some of the greatest moments in Tour history. Sponsored by Acre Accountancy Limited

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2.30pm

[226] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[HF83] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

John Boyne talks to Gaby Wood

Lucy Letherland

Fictions – A History of Loneliness

Globe-trotting Through an Atlas of Adventures

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran’s devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people’s faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. When a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and to recognise his own complicity in their propagation.

Illustrator Lucy Letherland brings the penguins of Antarctica, the Carnival in Brazil and crocs from the Zambezi River to children’s fingertips as they help her create their own adventure around the world in this fun-filled workshop.

[227] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Rob Penn, Jill Butler and Justin Albert Woodland Trust Series 1 The Country Living Debate Why Aren’t Special Trees Valued Like Monuments? A Victorian urinal and the Beatles’ childhood home have been given national protection, but there is no legal safeguard for our ancient trees. The Woodland Trust expert and director of the National Trust in Wales discuss whether buildings receive greater recognition than the landmarks of the natural world. Chaired by Kitty Corrigan. In association with Country Living Magazine and the Woodland Trust [HF81] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £6

Lydia Monks Drawing with Lydia Monks Watch as the brilliant illustrator brings the characters in some of your favourite books to life. Help her with some suggestions of your own. There will definitely be live drawing of mermaids, ladybirds, wizards – and of course Mungo Monkey. 5+ years [HF82] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Ali Sparkes Monster Mother/Genius Child You’re probably clever, but are you a genius? Or a genius’s mum? Find out how Jack – a 12-year-old with an IQ of 170 – ends up on the run with a bank robber in Car-Jacked. Ali explores whether being a child genius is good for you. And – as a mum of brilliantly talented kids – whether Jack’s monster mother is actually inspired…by herself… 10+ years

5+ years

3pm [W22] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

2.30pm

Drawing Out and About Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

4pm [228] 4PM TATA TENT £7

Bryony Gordon, Mary Riddell, Michael Deacon, Allister Heath The Telegraph Question Time From Farage and the future of Europe to feminism and family life. A stellar team of Telegraph talent – columnists Bryony Gordon and Mary Riddell, parliamentary sketch-writer Michael Deacon, and Deputy Editor Allister Heath – tackle the great (and not-so-great) issues of the day. Come along to have your say. Chaired by Emma Barnett, the Telegraph’s award-winning women’s editor. In association with The Telegraph [229] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Jerry Brotton Band of Brothers: Shakespeare’s Agincourt, 1599 On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, Jerry Brotton shows how Shakespeare’s Henry V now defines how we see this momentous event in English history. The play is often regarded as a straightforward celebration of English nationalism, the story of England’s tiny ‘band of brothers’ defeating the overwhelming might of the French. Brotton questions this assumption by recreating the historical moment in which Shakespeare wrote his play, with military disaster in Ireland, Queen Elizabeth’s power in decline, and the Essex Rebellion just about to engulf her. He argues that the result allows politicians on the left and the right to lay claim to the play and its account of Agincourt, along the way explaining how Olivier, Branagh and Spielberg are all part of the story.

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 4pm

4pm

[230] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[HF85] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Gillian Beer

Paul Magrs and Moira Young

Alice in Space

Epic Science Fiction Dystopia

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Beer sets the Alice books in a number of different contexts in the Victorian period – what was going on in Punch, in maths, in language theory, in evolutionary theory, in child development – and asks how the books both thrive on these presences and wriggle free of them. Beer is also the editor of Carroll’s poems Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense.

Blood Red Road, the first part of Moira Young’s famous Dustlands trilogy, has been described as ‘The Hunger Games meets The Road’. It is being developed for film by Ridley Scott. Paul Magrs has written several critically acclaimed YA novels including Exchange and Diary of a Dr Who Addict. His new novel Lost on Mars tells the story of Lora and her family, third generation human settlers on the red planet living in increasingly bleak and hostile circumstances. Join them for a discussion about the essential elements of epic sci-fi adventures and what makes a true science fiction geek.

[231] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Peter Davies and Andy Middleton talk to Andy Fryers

12+ years/YA

The Wales We Want

[HF86] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

‘The Wales We Want’ conversation mirrors a global initiative by the United Nations, asking people what sort of Wales they want for their children and grandchildren. The final report was launched in March 2015 and we discuss the outcomes and how this will feed in to Welsh Government policy. Davies, Climate Change Commissioner for Wales, and Middleton, entrepreneur, designer and maverick thinker, discuss with Hay on Earth Director Andy Fryers. [HF84] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £6

Chris Jarvis Dinosaurs and Fossils Step into the late Cretaceous period with intrepid dinosaur expert Chris Jarvis from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Find out lots of fascinating dinosaur facts, examine fossils and learn how palaeontologists interpret their finds. 7+ years [232] 4PM–5PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

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Steve Antony Pandas, Doughnuts, and the Queen’s Handbag Steve Antony is one of the hottest talents around – his first book, The Queen’s Hat, has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book Prize. Learn to draw a panda who loves good manners (and doughnuts!), read stories together, and get a sneak peek of Steve’s next book, The Queen’s Handbag. 3+ years [HF87] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

Easy Chinese Workshop Come along to get a Chinese name, make Hay Festival postcards (in Chinese) and learn how to say 你好! Elinor Greenwood introduces you to China right here in Hay. Learn some simple Chinese words and phrases, find out how to write Chinese characters and decorate postcards with step-by-step Chinese painting, stickers and stencils. Finish with ‘The Great Quiz of China’ to find out what you know. 7+ years

The Kitchen Cabinet BBC Radio 4 For anything you ever wanted to know about food or cooking, but didn’t know whom to ask… Come and be part of the audience for BBC Radio 4’s culinary panel programme, The Kitchen Cabinet with Jay Rayner. You’ll have the opportunity to put your questions on everything to do with food and drink to a panel of experts, and you may even find that the show changes the way you think about cooking and eating. Broadcast on Saturdays at 10.30am and repeated on Tuesdays at 3pm. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 6 June.

5.30pm [233] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9

Levison Wood Walking the Nile The adventurer’s journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers. He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis. He traverses seven, very different, countries and comes face to face with the story of Africa. No one has ever made this journey on foot. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

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5.30pm

[234] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

[HF89] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Rose Tremain

Steven Camden and Nick Lake

Fictions – The American Lover

Keeping it Real

The award-winning novelist, author of Restoration, The Road Home, Music and Silence, and The Colour, awakens the senses in this diverse collection of short stories. In her precise yet sensuous style she lays bare the soul of her characters – the admirable, the embarrassing, the unfulfilled, the sexy and the adorable – to uncover a dazzling range of human emotions and desires. She reads, and talks to Peter Florence.

Steven Camden is also known as Polarbear, one of the UK’s foremost Spoken Word artists. His debut YA novel, Tape, was one of the biggest debuts of 2014. He will talk about It’s About Love, his latest book, with Nick Lake, who is his editor as well as a brilliant and Printz Award-winning YA novelist himself, with highly acclaimed novels such as the bold and brilliant In Darkness to his name. Nick’s latest book, There Will Be Lies, is out now. Find out how they work together and if they ever steal each other’s ideas.

[235] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Farah Faizal and Ahmed Shaheed talk to Philippe Sands

12+ years/YA

Paradise Lost: The Maldives Experience

[HF90] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

When long-standing dictatorships fall and democracies are born, without economic support these countries will struggle. And when they do, it can breed extremism. We need a Marshall Plan for these countries to ensure that they are economically supported. Former Maldives High Commissioner Farah Faizal and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran talk to international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands.

Abi talks about the childhood adventures that inspired her book, the magic behind the fast-disappearing Romany gypsy culture, and the wild research trips she went on to build up the Dreamsnatcher world. Passionate about outdoor adventure, Abi also shows children how to carve catapults, build dens, and throw the oracle bones… 9+ years

[236] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

[HF91] 5.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

Julie Summers Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War From the young woman who avoided the dreaded ‘forces bloomers’ by making knickers from militaryissue silk maps, to Vogue’s indomitable editor Audrey Withers, who balanced lobbying government on behalf of her readers with driving lorries for the war effort, Julie Summers weaves together stories from ordinary lives and high society to provide a unique picture of life during the Second World War. As a nation went into uniform and women took on traditional male roles, clothing and beauty began to reflect changing social attitudes. For the first time, fashion was influenced not only by Hollywood and high society but by the demands of industrial production and the pressing need to ‘make-do-and-mend’. Sponsored by Hay Does Vintage [HF88] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Harry Potter: Calling All Fans Have you ever wanted to explore the magical world of the Harry Potter books? Join our ‘Professor of Potter’ and his plucky assistant as they bring to life the characters, creatures, spells and adventures from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. A fun and interactive event for all the family, whether you’re new to the books or a dedicated fan. Prizes for best costume. Certificates and postcards for keen muggles! Come and share the magic! 7+ years

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

5.30pm

Abi Elphinstone Dreamsnatcher

Easy Chinese Workshop A repeat of event HF87.

7+ years

6.30pm [237] 6.30PM–7PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Arts Show BBC Radio Wales LIVE Nicola Heywood-Thomas presents highlights

and guests from the Hay Festival in this live programme broadcast. Broadcast every Wednesday, 6.30pm–7pm.

7pm [239] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Ian Jenkins Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art For centuries the ancient Greeks experimented with ways of representing the human body, both as an object of beauty and a bearer of meaning. The remarkable works of art in the British Museum’s blockbuster exhibition range from the abstract simplicity of prehistoric figurines to breathtaking realism in the age of Alexander the Great. The exhibition’s curator introduces the images and sculptures. In association with The British Museum

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 7pm

8.30pm

[240] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £20 INCLUDES WINE TASTING

[245] 8.30PM TATA TENT £16

Oz Clarke Known throughout the world for his phenomenal palate, irreverent style, accurate predictions and enthusiasm for life in general and wine in particular, Oz Clarke is Britain’s most popular wine writer. His latest book is The History of Wine in 100 Bottles. Sponsored by Tanners Wines [241] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[246] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £16

Wine Talk and Tasting

Kevin Maher and Vesna Goldsworthy

The Unthanks

Fictions – An Old Friend From Home

In concert

Maher introduces his wonderful novel Last Night On Earth, in which his protagonist Jay, a separated husband but committed father, has his life disrupted by the arrival of ‘The Clappers’, an old friend from Ireland. Goldsworthy’s Gorsky is a contemporary spin on The Great Gatsby set in a London of Russian oligarchy collecting beauty and books. They talk to Rosie Goldsmith.

The Mercury Prize-nominated folk stars play Hay with their new album Mount The Air. The Unthanks is a family affair for Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank. Rachel is married to pianist, producer, arranger and composer Adrian McNally. Using the traditional music of the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of Steve Reich, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard in the band’s seven albums to date. Definable only by their restless, peerless eccentricity, The Unthanks see folk music less as a style of music and more as an oral history that offers perspective on our own time. Staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure may seem like polar opposites, yet they are easy bedfellows in the gentle hands of The Unthanks. ‘Rachel and Becky’s voices are one of the true wonders of 21st-century music’ – NME.

[242] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Chris Ellis, Rosie Toll, Hugh Ellis, Kate Henderson and guests Land of Promise An exploration, through words and music, of Britain’s radical utopian tradition. This rich legacy of hope was the dominant strand of political thought for five centuries, but in the last 40 years we have stopped asking the question: how are we going to live? With a cast of actors, musicians and authors Land of Promise aims to reignite our utopian aspirations for a better Britain. In association with the Town and Country Planning Association and the Webb Memorial Trust [243] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

Caroline Lear and Rhoda Ballinger Cardiff University Series 3 Global Resilience to Rising Sea Levels Is sea level rise the most destructive environmental force in our future? The inevitability of major sea level rise will have profound impacts on coastal societies, mega-cities and global onshore and offshore resources. Cardiff University’s Earth and Ocean Sciences Deputy Director of Research and Senior Lecturer discuss. In association with Cardiff University [244] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10

Daniel Martyn Lewis JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 3 Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. This third concert in the series features The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two nos 1–12. BWV 870-881. See also events 163, 204 and 279.

Jack Dee’s Help Desk Got a problem? Need a sympathetic ear? Jack and his panel of experts are here to help. Whether it’s relationships, career advice, personal worries or something as simple as how to tell your emotionally stunted in-laws you no longer want them in your life. Come along and share your troubles with Jack – and in no way have them ridiculed in front of a live audience. Sponsored by Baskerville Hall Hotel & Clyro Court

[238] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Monty Don talks to Peter Florence Eight Poems in a Garden The gardener and writer could transform the flora of any desert island into a magical paradise, but which works of literature would he choose to accompany him? In his 2006 conversation with Sue Lawley his track to save was The Beatles’ Hard Day’s Night, his book was The Collected Poems of Henry Vaughan and his luxury was the painting Hendrickje Bathing by Rembrandt…

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10am

[247] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

[HF92] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £5

Wendy Scase

Harry Potter: Calling All Fans

Beyond the Bling

Have you ever wanted to explore the magical world of the Harry Potter books? Join our ‘Professor of Potter’ and his plucky assistant as they bring to life the characters, creatures, spells and adventures from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. A fun and interactive event for all the family, whether you’re new to the books or a dedicated fan. Prizes for best costume. Certificates and postcards for keen muggles! Come and share the magic!

The Simeon manuscript is one of the most exceptional books of English literature ever made. It measures 590 x 390 mm, and is carefully copied and lavishly decorated with gold leaf on almost every page. It was made around 1400 AD. Containing songs, prayers, homilies, legends, and classic works of spiritual guidance, it is a massive compendium of literature for pious readers. Even more remarkable is that, unlike most books that survive from this period, it is written in English. Professor Scase examines the illustrations and brushwork to unlock its many secrets and disclose how, for whom and why it was made. In association with Birmingham University [424] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

BBC Writersroom/Get Creative: Writing for Children This session focuses on creating drama for the BBC’s younger audience and includes an extended interview with Emma Reeves, one of the most prolific children’s writers working in British television today. Not for broadcast.

7+ years [HF93] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Lyn Gardner Stage School, Theatre and Circuses Stage school – it’s got it all! Drama (both on and off stage), pushy parents, fiercely competitive pupils and sooooo much more. Come and hear Lyn Gardner talk all about her best-selling Olivia series. Forget your stage-fright; with all the movie stars, circus skills, drama and excitement, you’ll be shouting ‘encore’! 9+ years [HF94] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[248] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Steve Antony

Martin Scurr and Jayne Haynes

Betty Goes Bananas

Doctors Dissected This is a storybook about medicine, body, mind, doctors and caprices of human nature. It’s written by an experienced doctor who has seen every untidy vagary of disease and a psychotherapist who has listened to personal narratives that rival the visceral emotions of King Lear. Doctors, at their most profound, are mercurial messengers between life and death. At a more comedic level they must suffer our jiggling body parts. They are also vulnerable men and women struggling to make sense of their existence.

THURSDAY 28 MAY

Have you ever thrown a tantrum? Betty has! Join Steve Antony for an interactive storytelling of his funny picture book, about a toddler gorilla named Betty. Steve teaches everyone how to draw Betty and gives sneak peeks into his next book. 4+ years [W42] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop Wild Garden Safari. Familes welcome

[249] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Kate Humble, Charlie Westhead, Alison Lea-Wilson, Nick Tonkin Meet The Makers How can a family business withstand the pressures from supermarkets and the demand for cheap food? Meet three producers from Neal’s Yard Creamery, Anglesey Sea Salt, and Coedcanlas Honey who discuss with broadcaster and smallholder Kate Humble what it takes to earn a slice of the pie. Chaired by Kitty Corrigan. Sponsored by Hay Deli

[W23] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Body Clothed Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities [250] 10AM THE SUMMER HOUSE £7

Clare Woods and Helen Sear Landscapes and Contexts The artists discuss the importance of their location on the English/Welsh borders, their creative approaches and their international practice. Sear is representing Wales at Venice Biennale 2015. Chaired by Emma Geliot, Editor of CCQ Magazine. In partnership with PEAK, a contemporary art initiative from Arts Alive Wales

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THURSDAY 28 MAY

THURSDAY 28 MAY 11.30am

11.30am

[251] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8

[254] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Raymond Tallis

Jenny Lees talks to Corisande Albert

The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life

Arabian Dreams

Tallis is inspired by EM Forster’s thought that ‘Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him’. He looks back on his world from the standpoint of his future corpse. He reflects on the senses that opened up his late world, the elements they reveal, the distances, divisions and intimacies of space, the multifarious activities that occupied his days; his possessions, his utterances, his relationship to others, the extinguished flame that was his self, his journey towards the end, and his afterlife either side of the grave. [252] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Sarah Arrowsmith Mappa Mundi: Hereford’s Curious Map Who made the Mappa Mundi? How and why? Arrowsmith looks at the map through the eyes of a medieval visitor to the cathedral. She explains how a map that is very unfamiliar to us, with East rather than North at the top, populated with semi-human figures who may have four eyes or one foot and beasts like the defecating Bonnacon, would have made complete sense. You could tell your children the story of your pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, point out the winding trail taken by Moses and the Israelites and tell the Bible stories illustrated there and elsewhere. Or you could impress other bystanders with your knowledge of Alexander’s campaigns and the three races of Ethiopians illustrated near the map’s edges. [253] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Gareth Stedman Jones Cambridge University Series 12 Inventing Necessity: The Strange Genesis of C20th Political Authoritarianism Ideas about states of emergency went back to the politics of Ancient Rome in which it was said that ‘necessity knows no law’. This idea took on a series of different meanings during the early modern period and was employed by the Jacobins during the invasion scare of 1793–94. In 1848 the idea was employed again to justify emergency rule after the June uprising in Paris, but in its later usages, particularly by Marx, the idea was inverted. It was no longer emergency that justified dictatorship. Rather, dictatorship was posited as a desirable outcome in a transition to new forms of society. In association with Cambridge University

A conversation with the owner of Pearl Island Arabians based in Herefordshire, one of the most successful stud farms in the world, breeding from pure Bahraini bloodlines. She talks about her work with horses and her racy novels in the Seven Bands of Gold series, which recall the bestselling tales of Harold Robbins. Jenny is a member of the Hay Writers Circle. She talks to Corisande Albert, producer of the Horsetales documentaries. [HF95] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £6

Danny Wallace and Jamie Littler Hamish and the Worldstoppers What would you do if the whole world stopped? Yes, the whole world, except you? Come and meet writer, TV and radio presenter and now children’s author Danny Wallace with his new book. Danny is joined on stage by illustrator Jamie Littler and together they introduce you to Hamish, his trusty gang – the PDF, the baddies or the Terribles and their world – the one that keeps stopping! 7+ years [HF96] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Holly Smale and Arabella Weir Geek Girl and Tabitha Baird Holly Smale, creator of the award-winning and bestselling Geek Girl books, talks about All That Glitters, the latest in the series starring accident-prone heroine Harriet Manners. She is joined by actress, writer and comedian Arabella Weir whose novel The Endless Trials of Tabitha Baird, second in this popular series, has also recently been published. A lively and irreverent discussion guaranteed. In association with Lovereading4kids 10+ years

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Aby King A Right Royal Adventure Meet Lupo: favourite palace pet and companion to the baby prince. Join Aby King as she introduces you to the loveable Lupo and his friends; hear all about their adventures in the royal residences; and get top tips for creating your own adventure stories. 8+ years [W43] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop Wild Garden Safari. Familes welcome

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1pm

[255] 12PM–1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

[258] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Dominic Sandbrook

Charles Jencks

BBC Two

The Architecture of Hope

The cultural historian talks about and shows clips from his latest BBC Two series on post-war culture, Modern Britain. In it he argues that Britain’s cultural contribution has been second to none, from music and fashion to art, film, literature and theatre, James Bond to Agatha Christie, Andrew Lloyd Webber to John Lennon, and it is through our culture that the world now sees us. Not for broadcast.

The architect introduces the Maggie’s Centres, a revolutionary building project providing new cancer caring centres designed by some of the world’s greatest architects that offer a fresh approach to both architecture and health. Complementary to NHS hospitals, they present an environment that is welcoming, risk-taking, aesthetic and life affirming; and with their commitment to the other arts, including landscape, they bring in the full panoply of constructive means. Sponsored by Mark Stephens Furniture

[W24] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing and Poetry

[HF98] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £5

Royal Drawing School Class

Heroes: Pilots and Paramedics

Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool.

Meet real-life heroes from the Wales Air Ambulance team and hear their amazing true life stories in this illustrated talk about some of the life-saving rescue operations they have carried out in extraordinary and difficult situations. All the people featured in this session are heroes in their own way. There’s a chance to ask them questions too. 8+ years

All ages and abilities

1pm [256] 1PM TATA TENT £8

Patrick Barkham

THURSDAY 28 MAY

12pm

Coastlines Barkham reflects on the long campaign to protect our shoreline from tidal erosion and human damage. He weaves together fascinating tales about every aspect of the coast – from ancient conquests and smugglers’ routes, to exotic migratory birds and bucket-and-spade holidays – to tell a more profound story about our island nation and the way we are shaped by our shores. Chaired by Horatio Clare. In association with The National Trust, Wales

[259] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

William Waldegrave talks to Sarfraz Manzoor A Different Kind of Weather

[257] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

A beautifully weighted memoir of political success and failure from the son of an Earl, who after Eton and Oxford found himself in cabinet and at the heart of Margaret Thatcher’s government. Just as his star was in the ascent, Waldegrave became embroiled in a scandal that tarnished his reputation but could not dampen his voracious enthusiasm for the political game.

Rosie Boycott, Vanessa Griffiths, Simon Blackmore

[HF99] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? Fairer Farming

Laugh Your Socks Off

We look at the future of farming in Britain and ask what ‘better’ might look like: better for farmers, better for people who need food. What are the issues that matter most? Diversification, ‘big-agri’ ownership, the relationship with supermarkets, the mental health of the people who work the land, the land itself or the quality of produce? Griffiths runs farming for the National Trust, one of the largest landowners in Britain, Blackmore (Harper Adams) specializes in farm engineering, Boycott is Food Advisor to the Mayor of London. In association with The National Trust, Wales

Jonathan Meres Eight books into the bestselling, award-winning, ‘laugh-out-loud’ World of Norm series, life is still totally unfair for poor old Norm! Come and meet Norm’s creator, Jonathan Meres. Hear him say stuff. Ask him anything you like. He might even sing. May contain nuts. 9+ years [HF100] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Emma Dodd I Love You Emma won the Booktrust Early Years Award with I Love My Mummy. In this session, celebrating the release of I Love My Granny, Emma reads stories, draws pictures of your pets and family, and helps you to design your own card for someone you love. 3+ years

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THURSDAY 28 MAY 1pm

2.30pm

[HF163] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

[263] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Abi Elphinstone

Christianne Glossop and Glyn Hewinson

Inventing Villains

Bovine TB: The Cattle, the Farmers, the Vets and the Badgers

The author of The Dreamsnatcher will help you create the scariest, ghastliest, vilest villain you can think of. Look at classic rogues like Voldemort, Miss Trunchbull and the Child Catcher for inspiration; invent monstrous names stolen from old maps and rummage through all sorts of props to get the sinister appearance of your villains just right. Mwah ha ha… 7–12 years [260] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8

Guy Johnston and Tom Poster BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 3 The cellist and pianist play Felix Mendelssohn Variations concertantes in D Op 17, Anton Webern Drei kleine Stücke Op 11 and Serge Rachmaninoff Sonata in G minor Op 19. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive in good time.

2pm [261] 2PM–3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Sounding It Out BBC Radio Drama

BTB can be harmful to humans and is fatal for cattle. Managing a breakdown can be economically disastrous and extremely stressful for farmers. The campaign to eradicate bTB combines challenging diagnostic science, field-by-field biosecurity, veterinary monitoring and political will. Glossop is Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales, and has made the implementation of a comprehensive TB eradication programme her highest priority. Hewinson is a globally respected scientist in the field of TB immunology and diagnostics, who worked on the collaborative project that led to the sequencing of the M Bovis genome. They talk to Peter Florence. [264] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Martin Rowson and Jean-Pierre Filiu After Charlie Hebdo How do we understand and respond to what happened in Paris on 7 January? What is the nature of ‘respect’ and ‘offence’ for a satirist? The cartoonist and ‘visual journalist’ Martin Rowson discusses with the writer and Professor of Political Science, Jean-Pierre Filiu. Filiu has collaborated with the French graphic artist David B. on two volumes of Best of Enemies – a graphic history of US–Middle East relations. Chaired by Daniel Hahn, chair of the Society of Authors.

Alison Hindell, the BBC’s Head of Audio Drama, in

conversation with two leading writers of radio drama. Come for some tips on creating memorable stories and characters out of words and sound. Not for broadcast.

2.30pm [262] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8

John Sergeant Barging Round Britain The political commentator and sometime dancer explores the people and places that have forged this national treasure, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the leisure explosion on our waterways today. He talks to Mark Skipworth. In association with Canal & River Trust [HF101] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant and Beyond The Skulduggery Pleasant series has drawn to a close, having sold in the millions and won too many prizes to list. Will Derek Landy let us in on what’s coming next? Don’t count on it, but come along anyway as it’s bound to be way more fun than, erm, not coming. 11+ years

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[HF102] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Rob Eastaway Maths, Magic and Mystery Rob Eastaway returns with more engaging ways to make maths more fun at home in this lively, interactive session. Entertaining and enlightening for everyone. 7+ years [HF103] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

Mairi Kidd Breaking Down The Barriers Mairi Kidd is MD of Barrington Stoke, which commissions and publishes a wide range of books intended to help kids ‘crack’ reading. What can be done to help young people who may be dyslexic or appear to be ‘reluctant’ to read? How can we help every child develop a love of reading? Mairi is joined by guest panellists to discuss why our children don’t want to read and what to do about it. 11+ years

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4pm

[HF104] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[267] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Helen Peters The Farm Beneath the Water

Phil Hammond

Helen Peters is author of The Secret Hen House Theatre and its sequel, The Farm Beneath the Water. As well as sharing the story of how Hannah has to save the family farm with her theatrical talents, she explains how her real-life experiences growing up on a family farm inspire her stories and how she turns the farm itself into a ‘character’ in her novels – with lots of authentic mud-squelching, pig-oinking, and chicken-clucking happening in the background. 7+ years

Staying Alive: How To Get the Best Out of the NHS – Advice From a Doctor

[HF157] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

Rosie Wellesley Moonlight Bear Bring your favourite teddy bear along to this fun storytelling session. Hear all about Eva’s favourite bear, who turns into a real bear one night and takes her on a night-time adventure around town. Imagine your own teddy bear adventure and create a Hay Hullabaloo drawing to take home. 4+ years

3pm [W25] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing Out and About Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

4pm [265] 4PM TATA TENT £12

Pam Ayres An Afternoon With Pam Ayres We toast the 40th anniversary tour of the consummate comedienne and poet. Pam has the rarest gift of exquisite timing and a fond eye for the absurdities of everyday life. Her latest books are the hilarious memoir The Necessary Aptitude and her poetry collection You Made Me Late Again! Bliss… [266] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Cedric Villani Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure The rock-star mathematician takes us on a mesmerising journey as he wrestles with a new theorem that will win him the most coveted prize in mathematics. Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith and even brushes with madness. His story is one of courage and partnership, doubt and anxiety, elation and despair. Blending science with history, biography with myth, he conjures up an inimitable cast of characters including the omnipresent Einstein, mad genius Kurt Gödel, and Villani’s personal hero, John Nash. Chaired by Marcus du Sautoy. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

The NHS is our most treasured institution, but even caring doctors have too many patients and too little time, while patients often feel too overwhelmed, embarrassed, intimidated or ill to ask the right questions. Dr Hammond will show you how to get your GP to listen to you and take your symptoms seriously, how to get hold of your patient records so you can ensure they’re correct, how to get a second opinion and, most importantly, how to get better (and in turn help make the NHS better too). Sponsored by Borders Hideaway Holiday Home Park

THURSDAY 28 MAY

2.30pm

[HF105] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Virginia McKenna and Lauren St John Born Free Foundation For Virginia McKenna OBE, saving animals is a passion that started when she starred in Born Free and continued with the formation of the Born Free Foundation. For Lauren St John, it began with rescuing orphaned warthogs, monkeys and other wild animals on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe. They talk about their love of writing, Africa, and animals, and launch the brand new series of Born Free Foundation stories that share the message: keep wildlife in the wild! Support the Born Free charity and join Virginia McKenna and her team behind the scenes in this first book about an amazing lion rescue. Sponsored by Bowie Gallery 10+ years [268] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Rae Langton Cambridge University Series 13 Bad Speech vs Good? Defenders of free speech sometimes express the hope that bad speech can be fought with good. But there can be constraints on our power to talk back. Race and gender slurs present distinctive challenges, as do the related phenomena of hate speech and propaganda. How can we fight back? In association with Cambridge University [HF106] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Sarah McIntyre Dinosaurs, pizza, police! The wonderful Sarah McIntyre brings her new picture book Dinosaur Police to Hay. Dinoville Police Station was having a perfectly quiet morning until the phone rang. ‘Red alert!’ hollered Sergeant Stig O’Saurus. ‘There’s a rampaging T-Rex at the pizza factory!’ So join Sarah as she solves the case and gets the audience drawing, roaring and laughing! 6+ years

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THURSDAY 28 MAY

THURSDAY 28 MAY 4pm

5.30pm

[HF107] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

[271] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Tom Moorhouse

William Banks-Blaney

The River Singers

25 Dresses: Iconic Moments in Twentieth Century Fashion

Research ecologist Tom Moorhouse demonstrates how he translated his ecological expertise into two children’s stories about water voles. He describes the lives of water voles and the dangers they face. He shows you why stories involving animals are special, and what you need to think about if you ever want to write your own. 7+ years [W47] 4PM–6PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10

Kaloi k’agathoi Drama Workshop Oedipus – exposed! In association with Hereford Cathedral School 10–17 years

5.30pm [269] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9

Bill Oddie Bill Oddie Unplucked From a less-than-satisfactory press trip to the Galapagos Islands to encounters with orcas in Argentina and Iceland and an invisible tiger in India, the former Goodie and Springwatch presenter gives a humorous take on some of his experiences animaland bird-watching around the world. [270] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Åsne Seierstad talks to Francine Stock One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just beginning their adult lives. In the devastating aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How could this happen? Why did it happen? And who was Anders Breivik? A gripping, shattering and vital book, One of Us is the story of a massacre and a study of evil. It is also a story about community versus isolation, hope versus rejection, love versus bigotry – and a powerful memorial to those who lost their lives. Seierstad is the author of The Bookseller of Kabul and The Angel of Grozny.

The founder of the iconic vintage clothing company WilliamVintage and Global Style Ambassador to American Express introduces his history of C20th couture, told through the designers who made the dresses and the women who wore them. His talk is illustrated with slides and he brings with him mannequins modelling some of the dresses featured. Banks-Blaney is Vogue’s ‘Vintage King’, and the Fashion Patron of Oxfam. [272] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Luke Clements and Anne Cottringer Cardiff University Series 4 Does Your Carer Take Sugar? There are 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK. There’ll be more soon as the demography changes. The Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Health and Social Care Law examines the reality of today and implications for the future with film-maker Anne Cottringer. In association with Cardiff University [273] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £6

Hayden Gabriel The Annual INSPIRE/ASLE-UKI Lecture Animal Lives, Binary Opposition, and Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Prodigal Summer’ Environmental crisis entails profound and often catastrophic changes to animal habitats as well as to human lives. This year’s winning lecture explores the complex and dynamic relationships between humans and animals in both the lecturer’s own work and Kingsolver’s bestselling novel. Hayden Gabriel is a novelist and also Programme Leader for Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. The INSPIRE Lecture explores how literature, in any of its forms, responds to and is shaped by our contact with other creatures in the context of debates around sustainability. In association with INSPIRE and ASLE-UKI [HF108] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Steven Camden and Alex Wheatle Getting Creative with Rap, Rhyme and Reality Steven Camden, aka Polarbear, one of the top Spoken Word artists on the circuit today, loves rap, rhyme and stories that feel real. He talks about getting creative with words in different ways and shows you how he does it with some Spoken Word performance. Alex Wheatle’s first YA novel, Liccle Bit, about dreaming big when the odds are stacked against you, draws on his experience of council estate life in Brixton. A journalist, broadcaster, novelist and playwright, Alex also teaches creative writing. Join them for a session that will inspire you to be creative, be brave and dream big.

12+ years/YA

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7pm

[HF109] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

[276] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Katie Scott

Jamie Bartlett talks to Sarfraz Manzoor

Animalium

The Dark Net

Join illustrator Katie Scott as she unravels the wonders of the natural world with the bestselling book Animalium, winner of the Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Year. Marvel at tiny insects and the giant blue whale as Katie brings amazing animals to life in a live drawing session.

The dark net is an underworld that stretches from popular social media sites to the most secretive corners of the encrypted web. It is a world that frequently appears in newspaper headlines, but one that is little understood, and rarely explored. The Dark Net is a revelatory examination of the most innovative and dangerous subcultures of the online world: trolls and pornographers, drug dealers and hackers, political extremists and computer scientists, Bitcoin programmers and self-harmers, libertarians and vigilantes. Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos.

6+ years

7pm [274] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

John Julius Norwich Sicily: A Short History, From the Greeks to Cosa Nostra

[277] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

The stepping stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation post, Sicily has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards and the French for thousands of years. It has belonged to them all – and yet has properly been part of none. John Julius Norwich was inspired to become a writer by his first visit in 1961 and this study is the result of a fascination that has lasted over half a century. In tracing its dark story, he attempts to explain the enigma that lies at the heart of the Mediterranean’s largest island.

Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?

[275] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £9*

[278] 7PM–10PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Katrine Marçal When Adam Smith wrote that all our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain he brought to life ‘economic man’. But every night Adam Smith’s mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love. Today, our economics focuses on self-interest and excludes all other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking. It insists that if women are paid less, then that’s because their labour is worth less. How could it be otherwise? Marçal tackles the biggest myth of our time and invites us to kick out economic man once and for all.

Mary McCartney talks to Monty Don

The Mark Forrest Show

At My Table: Vegetarian Feasts for Family and Friends

BBC Local Radio LIVE

There are moments in our lives, and throughout the year, when we come together with our friends and family, and food plays a huge part in turning these moments into something special. Traditionally, many of these occasions call for meat – whether it’s roast beef for Sunday lunch, or burgers at a BBQ – but Mary wants to show us that vegetarian cooking can be just as celebratory and special. * The Relish Festival Restaurant will be serving a vegetarian feast from the cookbook from 8.30pm. To book call Relish on 01285 658 444.

THURSDAY 28 MAY

5.30pm

Mark goes behind the scenes at the Hay Festival. He’ll talk to authors and festival-goers, bringing a flavour of Hay to listeners from Cumbria to Cornwall. Broadcast on 40 local radio stations every weekday evening. [HF110] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £8

Young, Gifted and Published Lucy Saxon is just 20 years old and the author of

Take Back the Skies. She signed her contract with Bloomsbury when she was just 16. She’s a cosplayer, Con-goer and fangirl of all things sci-fi and fantasy. Taran Matharu’s The Summoner became a Wattpad sensation with over three million reads in three months, leading to a publishing deal with Hachette. And Helena Coggan saw her debut novel The Catalyst published at the age of only 15. Find out what makes three extraordinary young writers tick, and be inspired to write a novel before you are 20. 12+ years/YA

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THURSDAY 28 MAY

THURSDAY 28 MAY 7pm

8.30pm

[279] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10

[283] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Daniel Martyn Lewis

June Andrews

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 4

Dementia: The One-Stop Guide

Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. The fourth and last concert in the series features The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two nos 13–24. BWV 882-893. See also events 163, 204 and 244.

Across the world, 44.4 million people live with dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings or friends. And as much of the world struggles with an aging population, dementia is set to become ever more of a challenge for societies and individuals. But still most people who are diagnosed, or who are dealing with the diagnosis of a loved one, feel as though they are alone. Professor Andrews, one of the most distinguished clinicians in the UK, aims to fill this gap, providing practical information and support for living with, or caring for, dementia.

8.30pm [281] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Gareth Thomas talks to Mike Calvin Proud Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero, a sporting icon. He was a leader of men, captain of Wales and the British Lions. To him, rugby was an expression of cultural identity, a sacred code. It was no mere ball game. It gave him everything, except the freedom to be himself. This is the story of a man with a secret that was slowly killing him. Something he feared might devastate not only his own life but the lives of his wife, family, friends and teammates. His fear that telling the truth about his sexuality would lose him everything he loved almost sent him over the edge. The deceit ended when Gareth became the world’s most prominent athlete to come out as a gay man. His gesture has strengthened strangers, and given him a fresh perspective.

[284] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Caroline Lucas Honourable Friends From the NHS to corporate tax evasion, from climate change to immigration, Honourable Friends? tells the story of five years in Westminster and offers bold and practical suggestions for a fairer British political system. Caroline Lucas is MP for Brighton Pavilion (at time of writing). She was the leader of the Green Party from 2008 to 2012 and was voted MP of the Year in 2014. Caroline talks to Hay on Earth Director Andy Fryers.

9pm

[282] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £8

[285] 9PM TATA TENT £16

Tony Hawks

BBC Radio 3’s World on 3 presents

Once Upon a Time in the West Country

Tinariwen

The comedian and bestselling author gives an hilarious account of his move from London life to deepest Devon. Hawks is a townie but, as we know from his entertaining exploits hitchhiking around Ireland with a fridge and taking on the Moldovan football team one by one at tennis, he is up for a challenge. He takes part in a calamitous tractor run, chairs a village meeting, and finds time for one last adventure as fatherdom beckons – cycling coast to coast with a mini pig called Titch. Sponsored by Herdman Coaches

In concert The great Malian ‘desert blues’ band has always been politically driven as they tell their stories of nomadic life in the Sahara. This concert celebrates Hay’s twin town of Timbuktu, once Tinariwen’s home city. The band have been in exile since 2013 and recorded their latest albums Emmaar and Inside/Outside in the Joshua Tree desert in California. World on 3’s Lopa Kothari hosts the evening, which includes support from emerging world music talent Maelog, a Welsh-Galician roots collective whose uplifting songs feature traditional pipes from both shores with an array of strings and percussion. The concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 29 May at 11pm. In association with Hay2Timbuktu, Hay-on-Wye’s twinning organisation

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10am

[286] 10AM TATA TENT £7

[HF112] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Peter Rabbit Puppet Show

The Two Johnnies Do Emma

Hop along to this charming interactive puppet show where The Tale of Peter Rabbit is brought to life. See Peter escape from Mr McGregor’s garden and help him on his journey, and meet the mischievous rabbit in person! 3+ years

Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece was published 200 years ago by John Murray. Our awareness of her heroine’s limitations is one of the great joys of the book. The Guardian’s Digested Read satirist is joined by UCL’s Emeritus Professor of English, John Sutherland – co-author of The Connell Guide to Jane Austen’s Emma, Lives of the Novelists and How To Be Well Read – to celebrate the book. [287] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Peter Gray Wings of Modernity From the Avro 504 reconnaissance planes first used in 1914 to the Stealth Bombers and Predator Drones of today, the Director of the Centre for War Studies charts the technological innovation that developed aeroplanes into super-effective war machines. Chaired by Con Coughlin, Defence Editor of The Telegraph. In association with Birmingham University [288] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal The Herbalist’s Bible: John Parkinson’s Lost Classic Rediscovered Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson was a master apothecary, herbalist and gardener. His magnum opus was published in 1640 and in this new edited version the authors have printed his clear and lively descriptions of the chosen plants’ healing qualities, with a modern commentary and contemporary take on his almost-forgotten herbal recipes. [HF111] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Dennis the Menace with Steven Butler Becoming the master of menacing is not easy. If you want to learn the rules, join the author of the hilarious Diary of Dennis the Menace series for a sneak peek into the mischievous life of the naughtiest boy in The Beano (and therefore the World’s wildest boy!). Expect lots of fun and games and maybe even a prank or two! 7+ years [289] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6

Caroline Ingraham How Animals Heal Themselves From the humble caterpillar to mighty elephants, animals have innate ability to forage for plant and mineral extracts, in order to look after their own emotional and physical health. If, however, an animal’s environment is devoid of these substances you can enrich their lives by offering many of these extracts for self-selection.

[HF113] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Emma Dodd The Entertainer A hilarious session about an entertainer whose bear impression is just a little too convincing... The awardwinning author-illustrator starts by reading her unbearably funny tale before bringing the story to life with a live drawing session. 4+ years

FRIDAY 29 MAY

John Crace and John Sutherland

[W44] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop Wildlife photography. 4–12 years [W26] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Head Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

11.30am [HF156] 11.30AM TATA TENT £9

Neil Gaiman Enter the magical mind of the bestselling author. Find out where his genius ideas spring from and how he writes his books. From fairy tale twists to alien abductions over milk, there is a whole world to explore. 8+ years [290] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Chris Laoutaris Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to The Globe In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare… Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare’s life? Never far from controversy when she was alive – she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping – Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of public memory, yet the chain of events she set in motion would be the making of Shakespeare as we all know him today. In association with Birmingham University

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FRIDAY 29 MAY 11.30am

11.30am

[291] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[HF115] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Andrew Simms, David Boyle and Caroline Lucas

Max the Brave

A People-Powered Economy What is causing the logjam between central economic policy-makers and the energy of local economic activists? Stormy with a sunny local banking outlook – the economic forecast with the New Weather Institute. New Economic Foundation fellows and authors Andrew Simms and David Boyle discuss with Green MP Caroline Lucas. Sponsored by Hay & District Chamber of Commerce [292] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Peter Korn

Ed Vere Meet Max the Brave, a funny and loveable new character from acclaimed author and illustrator Ed Vere. Join Ed as he tells you about Max’s adventures and teaches you how to draw Max as well as some of his other characters. 4+ years [W45] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop Wildlife photography. 4–12 years

Why We Make Things and Why it Matters An introspective and revealing look at the nature of the creative process. This is not a ‘how to’ book in any sense: Peter Korn wants to get at the ‘why’ of craft in particular and the satisfactions of creative work in general to understand their essential nature. Korn is a furniture-maker and is founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Furniture Craftsmanship. Sponsored by the American Hardwood Export Council [293] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Michelle Moram, Clare Burrage, Jane Reid and Debra Skene The Royal Society Platform The Next Big Thing Every year the Next Big Thing session at Hay profiles some of the most extraordinary and visionary research work being adventured in the UK. From brain imaging to materials discovery, four Royal Society Research Fellows discuss their work in cutting edge science with broadcaster Claudia Hammond. In association with The Royal Society [294] 11.30AM–12.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Front Row BBC Radio 4 Radio 4’s daily arts programme Front Row will be discussing the future of publishing with authors, critics and industry insiders as they grapple with the creative and economic challenges of the digital world. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 every day at 7.15pm–7.45pm. This programme will be broadcast on Friday 29 May at 7.15pm. [HF114] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Che Golden Meadow Vale Ponies The horse-mad author tells you all about the Meadow Vale ponies and how Mulberry is based on a very special pony, which she owns herself. Find out all about Che’s real life horse and pony adventures and how they inspired this series in a talk jam-packed with horsey facts and fun. 7+ years

12pm [W27] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Unexpected Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

1pm [295] 1PM TATA TENT £8

Ben and David Crystal The Shakespeare Dictionary Shakespeare is the best and most creative writer of the English language of all time. He deploys the widest and most thrilling vocabulary, drawing on classical and biblical scholarship and the keenest ear for human speech ever bent. And where the words he needed didn’t exist, he invented them. The classical actor and his father, the great Linguistics professor, entertain us with the most vital language ever used. Sponsored by the Society of Indexers [296] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Dieter Helm talks to Horatio Clare Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet The trailblazing economist, author of The Carbon Crunch, shows the commonly held view that environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress to be false. He explains why the environment must be at the very core of economic planning. He presents the first real attempt to calibrate, measure and value ‘natural capital’ from an economic perspective and goes on to outline a stable new framework for sustainable growth.

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[297] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[HF158] 1PM–1.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4

Narrative and Proof How does narrative shape the sciences and the arts? Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road, Astonishing the Gods and The Age of Magic, is joined by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, in conversation with novelist and academic Elleke Boehmer. With thanks to the Mathematical Institute and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities [298] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

James Clackson Cambridge University Series 14 Migration and Language: Ancient Perspectives What can we learn from the ancient Romans and Greeks about the impact of migration on language? And how is this relevant to contemporary concerns about immigration and language change? In association with Cambridge University

Elias Quartet

FRIDAY 29 MAY

Ben Okri, Marcus du Sautoy and Elleke Boehmer

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 4 The quartet play Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major Op 33 No 3 ‘The Bird’ and Benjamin Britten String Quartet No 3 Op 94. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive in good time.

2.30pm [HF116] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £6

Daniel Morden and Oliver Wilson-Dickson

[301] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

The Fiery Dragon: Storytelling

David Mitchell talks to Clemency Burton-Hill

Daniel, one of the most popular storytellers in the UK, tells traditional stories with passion, wit and gusto. Accompanied by Oliver on fiddle, he will tell a hairraising Welsh gypsy tale featuring giants, dragons and dwarves. Storytelling for the stout of heart! 7+ years [299] 1PM–4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Wynne Evans BBC Radio Wales LIVE Wynne Evans brings his Big Welsh Weekend to the festival. Expect big name guests, laughs and live music. Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales every Friday, 1pm–4pm. [HF117] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Jennifer Gray Atticus Claw, Chickens and More Find out about the world’s greatest cat burglar, and be introduced to the hen-sational Amy Cluckbucket, heroine of Jennifer’s new Chicken Mission series. Answer a quiz, hear all about the characters and help plan the next part of the story. 6+ years [HF118] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Where’s Spot? Have you seen him? Come along and join in the fun with this storytelling session featuring games, dancing and singing, plus a chance to meet the world’s most lovable puppy! 3+ years

Fictions – The Bone Clocks This dazzling new novel is the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman’s life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival. And it’s brilliant. Mitchell’s previous books are Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. [HF119] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Cathy Cassidy The Chocolate Box Girls: Fortune Cookie Join much-loved author Cathy Cassidy as she introduces The Chocolate Box Girls series finale. Cathy is an award-winning author who writes about difficult subjects in a touching yet humorous way. Discover which of the Tanberry sisters you are most like, and get Cathy’s tips on friendship, daydreaming and chocolate. 8+ years [302] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Brendan Simms Cambridge University Series 15 Did the Germans Win the Battle of Waterloo? In 1815, after Europe had been at war for over 20 years, two large, hastily-mobilised armies faced each other at the small Belgian village of Waterloo to decide the future of Europe. Unknown to Napoleon or Wellington, the battle would be decided by a small, ordinary group of British and German troops given the task of defending the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte. In association with Cambridge University

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FRIDAY 29 MAY

FRIDAY 29 MAY 2.30pm

4pm

[303] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £6

[HF123] 4PM–5.15PM TATA TENT £15

Fern Smith, Juliet Davenport, Lucy Neal and Marcus Brigstocke

The Mozart Question Concert

Good Energy Series 3 Where Are All The God Damn Operas? The Arts have played a major role in changing views around gender, racial equality, poverty, etc. – but what have they done to change views about climate change? What role should the Arts play in telling stories, raising awareness and challenging the status quo? Smith – co-founder of Emergence, Neal – author and theatre-maker, and Davenport – director of Good Energy discuss with Marcus Brigstocke. In partnership with Good Energy [HF120] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

John Dougherty Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Evilness of Pizza Join John Dougherty and his guitar for a trip around the little island of Great Kerfuffle. Why is the army just one small cat? Why does the king have such a silly name? And what is the evilness of pizza? Whatever happens, laughter is guaranteed, and singing too.

Michael Morpurgo Author Michael Morpurgo is joined by actress Alison Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s Ensemble (a quartet of strings). Together they interweave words and music to tell his haunting tale of survival against the odds, set against the background of the Holocaust. Adapted and directed by Simon Reade. Duration 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval. 8+ years [304] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

John Gray The Soul of a Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will. And yet the most enormous forces – biological, physical, metaphysical – constrain our every action. Instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a ‘human dominion’ almost comically at odds with our true state. The philosopher talks to Francine Stock.

8+ years [305] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF121] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Rob Biddulph Blown Away Penguin Blue and his friends go on a gloriously illustrated adventure full of good ideas, kite-flying larks and new experiences in Blown Away, the very first picture book from Rob Biddulph. Join Rob for some blustery fun and arty activities. 4+ years [HF122] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10

Meek Family Bush Craft Skills Meet the amazing Meek family and learn some bush craft skills – find out how to make a cord from nettle (it’s how rope used to be made), and how to make a raft. 8+ years

3pm [W28] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing Out and About Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Tony Juniper What Nature Does for Britain From the peat bogs and woodlands that help to secure our water supply, to the bees and soils that produce most of the food we eat, Britain is rich in ‘natural capital’. For years we have damaged the systems that sustain us under the illusion that we are keeping prices down, through intensive farming, drainage of bogs, clearing forests and turning rivers into canals. As the ecologist shows, there are better ways to meet our economic needs. [306] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Marc Morris Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta The historian introduces his biography of King John – a ruler managing the aftermath of another ruinous Crusade, conflicts with France, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, excommunication, taxation and some very demanding Nobles. King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood – greedy, cowardly, despicable and cruel. But who was the man behind the legend? Was he truly a monster, or a capable ruler cursed by ill luck? In this talk, the historian draws on contemporary chronicles and the king’s own letters to bring the real John vividly to life.

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5.30pm

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[309] 5.30PM TATA TENT £10

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Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests

Cambridge University Series 16 Literary Fiction in the Age of Information

Something’s Going Funny with the Climate Climate change is no laughing matter, but when all else fails, perhaps it’s time to take humour a bit more seriously? We really do need something to laugh about. Sponsored by GL Events Snowdens

Leading novelists Barker and Levy discuss how the internet has impacted today’s literature and what the future might hold. Malachi McIntosh, from the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of English, chairs. In association with Cambridge University

[310] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

[HF124] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £12

Quite a Good Time to be Born

David Lodge talks to Georgina Godwin Meg Rosoff Picture Me Gone One of the finest writers for young adult readers, Meg Rosoff is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, the Printz Award and the Branford Boase Award, became an international bestseller and was then adapted for cinema. Her work is always layered, subtle and thoughtprovoking and her latest novel Picture Me Gone is one of her finest. Come and hear her speak about her writing life and what’s coming next.

The novelist discusses his wartime childhood, his early married life and academic career, and the development of his fiction – all of which he explores in his memoir, which covers the years up to the publication of Changing Places. [HF126] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

James Campbell Comedy For Kids

[HF125] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Back by popular demand, it’s James Campbell, with a show for children over six, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words. James might or might not discuss scooters, Scottish country dancing and what we’ll do with all these gregarious giraffes.

Topsy and Tim Go Camping

6+ years

Have fun with Topsy and Tim as they leap from book to screen! Join your favourite twins on a camping adventure for storytelling, games and a make-and-do craft session.

[311] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

12+ years/YA

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4+ years [W48] 4PM–6PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10

Kaloi k’agathoi Drama Workshop Oedipus – exposed! In association with Hereford Cathedral School 10–17 years

FRIDAY 29 MAY

Nicola Barker and Deborah Levy

Kamila Shamsie, Philip Jones, Helena Kennedy and guests The Norwich Writers’ Centre presents The National Conversation, Part 5: The Invisible Women Novelist Kamila Shamsie leads this conversation about gender imbalance in publishing, in reviewing, on prize shortlists and across the book world. Are women under-represented? And if so, why? And how might that be changed? In association with The Writers’ Centre, Norwich

5pm [308] 5PM–6PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Writing the BBC Story: Lessons from History Professor Jean Seaton, BBC historian and author, talks about her recent book on the turbulent history of the BBC during the Thatcher period, Pinkoes and Traitors, and discusses the challenges of writing a corporate history of a contemporary broadcaster constantly in the public eye. Not for broadcast.

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FRIDAY 29 MAY

FRIDAY 29 MAY 5.30pm

7pm

[312] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[314] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Bryan Sykes talks to Rosie Boycott

Jules Pretty

The Nature of the Beast

The Edge of Extinction

The Oxford DNA expert tested three hair samples from the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The hair samples were from the miogi – the Bhutanese yeti – that legendary creature of the high snows that has haunted the imagination of travellers for centuries. The miogi hairs did not surrender their secrets easily, but eventually two were identified as known species of bear. The third remained a mystery, and the mystery got weirder. Only the increasingly specific evidence of the DNA matters. Sponsored by The Great English Outdoors

The natural world is rapidly diminishing. Traditions and cultures are dying out. Extinction has denied many human groups and languages a future and it now even threatens the ways of life of the affluent. Pretty takes us on a personal journey to show why we should look again at those marginal communities who still live close to nature, the land and sea. The lessons these disappearing societies have to teach us may well be ones that we later come to rely on. Chaired by Andy Fryers.

[HF127] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

[315] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Rob Biddulph, Rebecca Cobb, Sophy Henn and Ed Vere

The Road Beneath My Feet

Words and Pictures Four of the most exciting names in picture books give us an insight into how they make their words and pictures work together to tell a story. Do they use computers to make art? Do the words or the pictures come first? Will they all agree? Highly recommended for anyone interested in art, design and illustration. 10+ years

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[HF128] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Meek Family 100 Family Adventures Meet the Meek family (Tim, Kerry, Ella and Amy) whose mission is to encourage families to get outside, have adventures and enjoy the outdoors. They will share their own adventures, demonstrate some of the bushcraft skills they’ve picked up along the way and answer your questions. 8+ years

6.30pm [W29] 6.30PM–9PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £15

Life Drawing Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. 18+ years, all abilities

7pm [313] 7PM TATA TENT £12

Dan and Peter Snow The Battle of Waterloo

Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of Napoleon’s 100 Days Campaign, from his Elba escape to his defeat at Waterloo, and provide what no other book on the battle contains – removable facsimiles of historic archival documents. You can relive this extraordinary moment in history by holding and examining rare or previously unpublished sketch maps, letters, orders, official papers and proclamations which up until now have been filed away in the National Army Museum’s collections or in other archives and museums around Europe.

Frank Turner talks to Bethan Elfyn The singer talks about his memoir. On 23 September 2005 at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, Million Dead. On the laminates that listed the tour dates, the entry for 24 September simply read: ‘Get a job.’ Deflated, jaded and hung-over, Frank returned to his hometown of Winchester without a plan for the future. A thousand-and-some shows later he was headlining a sold-out gig at Wembley Arena with his band The Sleeping Souls. See also event 326. [316] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Damian Walford Davies and Richard Beard Judas and the Assassins A reading and conversation with the authors of poetry collection Judas and the ‘gospel noir’ Acts of the Assassins. They talk to Rhidian Brook. [317] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Karrie Fransman Death of the Artist: A Graphic Novel On 13 August 2013 graphic novelist Karrie Fransman invited four old friends from university to an isolated cottage on the misty moors of the Peak District to join her for a week of hedonism and creativity. Like Shelley and Byron before them, they would use the retreat to tell stories. Except these would be comics, collected together in this very book. The theme: the Death of the Artist. None of the five friends realised how appropriate this theme would become. The book weaves a single narrative across watercolour, digital art, photography, collage and illustration, exploring the themes of creation, destruction, and how we kill our inner artists as we grow up. It takes the graphic novel into entirely new realms. She talks to Stephanie Merritt.

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8.30pm

[HF129] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[322] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

John Crace

True Face

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

An inspirational, informative and practical talk designed to help girls and women overcome the pressures placed on them by society, to be something that they’re not. Siobhan’s new book True Face helps girls overcome their fears and insecurities and identify their passions and strengths. Come along to hear more and join the discussion.

The parliamentary sketch-writer looks back at the Coalition government more in ridicule than in sorrow. Horrible, hilarious truths about Westminster, the greasy pole and the indiscreet charm of the chamber…

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8.15pm [318] 8.15PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £16

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita Clychau Dibon – In Concert A stunning shared musical journey with two world class virtuosos – Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and West African kora player Seckou Keita. The harp occupies a vital place in the cultures of both Senegal and Wales. The West African harp, the kora, is made from a dried gourd and fishing line; the Welsh harp is one of the most potent icons of a nation steeped in music. Both nations share a centuries-old bardic tradition of intricate oral history, expressed through music, verse and song.

8.30m [319] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Neil Gaiman talks to Claire Armitstead

[323] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

Steven Fowler, Nia Davies, Zoe Skoulding, Eurig Salisbury, Joe Dunthorne, Rhys Trimble

FRIDAY 29 MAY

Siobhan Curham

Gelynion: The Enemies Project A groundbreaking exploration of contemporary poetry in Wales through the potential of collaboration across our two languages. Six poets have worked with one another to create original poetic works. They’ve been touring these pieces in rolling pairs around Wales, drawing in poets in each location, and inviting them to create their own collaborations. Their tour culminates here in Hay with a showcase performance and Q&A. Gelynion is supported by Arts Council of Wales and Poetry Wales [324] 8.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10

Nosferatu Screening Come and join us in the late Georgian-Gothic setting of St Mary’s Church for a special screening of FW Muranu’s great 1922 classic silent movie, with live organ accompaniment by Richard Williams. The screening raises money for the church organ. Numbers are limited. See also event 369.

A Conversation The prolific creator of books, comics, films and songs talks about his work and pays tribute to his friend Terry Pratchett, who died on 12 March. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design [320] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £9

Clive Anderson Woodland Trust Series 2 The Oliver Rackham Memorial Lecture Woodland Trust president Clive Anderson pays tribute to the life and legacy of prolific ecologist and author Oliver Rackham, who died in February. This inaugural memorial lecture will explore Professor Rackham’s profound influence, both on the work of the Trust and Clive’s own love of the nation’s trees and woods. In partnership with The Woodland Trust [321] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £8

Harvey Goldsmith talks to Dylan Jones Live Onstage The legendary promoter has been at the heart of the music industry for 40 years. He talks to the editor of GQ. Sponsored by Castle House Hotel, Hereford

9.45pm [325] 9.45PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

David Mitchell and Tiffany Murray Fictions – Halloween Comes Early A late-night reading of ghost stories as Mitchell previews his new story to be published in October, Slade House, and Murray reads from her acclaimed Sugar Hall. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith.

10pm [326] 10PM TATA TENT £18

Frank Turner The Road Beneath My Feet Tour An acoustic solo gig with the impassioned and compelling folk singer-songwriter whose recent albums include Tape Deck Heart, The Third Three Years and England Keep My Bones. Please join us earlier in the evening for an onstage conversation about his memoir The Road Beneath My Feet with the BBC’s Bethan Elfyn – see event 315.

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SATURDAY 30 MAY

SATURDAY 30 MAY 9.15am

10am

[327] 9.15AM–9.45AM OXFAM MOOT £3

[331] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Con Coughlin

Polly Samson and Kate Hamer

What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive

Fictions – Truths

Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 30 May at key historical moments over the past 150 years are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to mention fashion through the decades and legendary stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting.

Lyrical, haunting and exquisitely rendered, Samson’s second novel The Kindness explores a deception that comes wrapped as a gift, a betrayal clothed in kindness, and asks if we can ever truly trust another. The result is an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told. In Hamer’s The Girl in the Red Coat Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. The authors talk to Georgina Godwin.

10am [328] 10AM TATA TENT £8

Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan, Andre Vincent and Tim Telling

[416] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The Early Edition

CBBC

Sub-editors and journos beware…the comedians mock facts and folly in today’s papers. The home team is joined by Daily Mash editor Tim Telling.

Join Blue Peter and Book Trust to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Blue Peter Book Awards. CBBC presenter and former awards judge Katie Thistleton will host this special event, with appearances from this year’s winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham (The Spy Who Loved School Dinners) and Andy Seed (The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff ). Not for broadcast.

[329] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Laura Bates Everyday Sexism 2015 The online Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a dayto-day basis. It shares stories from women around the world. The founder reports on the last year’s work. [330] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Suzanne O’Sullivan It’s All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness A third of men and women visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained. In most, an emotional root is suspected and yet, when it comes to a diagnosis, this is the very last thing we want to hear, and the last thing doctors want to say. The consultant neurologist takes us on a journey through the very real world of psychosomatic illness. [HF130] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6

Chris Riddell Chris Riddell is the genius behind a vast range of children’s books that children and adults revisit time and time again. There’s Alienography, the Ottoline and Goth Girl series, and for older readers The Graveyard Book, and The Sleeper and the Spindle, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Chris. He also illustrated The Edge Chronicles and Russell Brand’s Pied Piper of Hamelin. He has twice won the coveted Greenaway Medal. See him in action in a live drawing tour around the wonderful world of Chris Riddell. In association with Lovereading4kids 8+ years

Blue Peter Book Awards

[HF131] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Alice in Wonderland Storytelling with the Mad Hatter Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is celebrating its 150th anniversary and it’s time for you to join the party! Meet the Mad Hatter, who will take you on a fun adventure through Wonderland to find the White Rabbit, with an imaginative story-trail retelling of the classic novel and creative craft activities. Why not come dressed as your favourite character and make the Cheshire Cat smile? 5+ years [HF132] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Sophy Henn Pom Pom Gets the Grumps Meet Pom Pom the panda, he’s a bit of a grump! Enjoy a fun, interactive storytelling and arts and crafts session with author and illustrator Sophy Henn as she teaches you how to create your own Pom Pom and some of her other bear characters. 4+ years [W52] 10AM–10.45AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years

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[W30] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £8

[334] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Drawing the Circus

Rosamond McKitterick

Royal Drawing School Class

Cambridge University Series 17 Charlemagne, Rome and the Management of Sacred Space

Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Under 12 years

11.30am [HF133] 11.30AM TATA TENT £10

Michael Morpurgo Listen to the Moon Michael Morpurgo’s much praised novel Listen to the Moon was inspired by a gruesome medal commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania 100 years ago off the coast of Co. Cork, and a newspaper report he came across during his research about a small child being spotted on top of a piano floating among the wreckage. Michael shares this extraordinary story and answers questions from the audience. He also talks about Dreams of Freedom – In Words and Pictures, for which he wrote the introduction. All royalties go to Amnesty International. There won’t be a signing after this talk but printed bookplates will be available in the bookshop. 9+ years [332] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Shashi Tharoor and Sonia Faleiro India’s Hard Truths Tharoor is a renowned politician and author of The Great Indian Novel, Pax Indica and From Midnight to the Millennium. His latest collection of essays, written during Narendra Modi’s premiership, is India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in Our Time. Faleiro is author of Beautiful Thing and 13 Men – a report on gang rape in West Bengal. Chaired by Oliver Balch.

Srđa Popovic´ talks to Jon Snow

[333] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Blueprint for Revolution: How To Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World How do ordinary people become revolutionaries? In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srđa Popovi´ c found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world. Popovi´ c was one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement Otpor! that overthrew dictator Slobodan Miloševi´ c and established democracy in Serbia all by avoiding violence and opting for something far more powerful: a sense of humour.

In the age of Charlemagne, Rome gained a prominent position in the cultural memory of the Frankish elites. This city was not just associated with the glory of classical and late antique empire, but above all with an authentic Christianity represented by the apostles and the martyrs. North of the Alps, rulers and aristocrats created a virtual Rome by importing relics as well as liturgical practices that were thought of as typically Roman. Chaired by Claire Armitstead. In association with Cambridge University

SATURDAY 30 MAY

10am

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Sarah Hall talks to Sarah Crown Fictions – The Wolf Border For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. Hall investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. The novel seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth. Hall’s other novels include The Electric Michelangelo, The Beautiful Indifference and Mrs Fox. [HF134] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Nicholas Allan My Dad’s the Best Nicholas Allan, author and illustrator of The Queen’s Knickers and Father Christmas Needs a Wee, reads from his latest book, My Dad’s the Best. This warm and witty story is a celebration of dads everywhere. Nicholas also performs magic tricks… Don’t forget to bring your dad. 4+ years [HF135] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Catherine Rayner Have fun counting with Abigail and search for new smells with Smelly Louie in this friendly interactive event with an award-winning writer and illustrator. There is live drawing between storytelling, and children get the chance to create their own masterpieces with Catherine’s help. 5+ years

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SATURDAY 30 MAY 11.30pm

1pm

[W53] 11.30AM–12.15AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

[339] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years

12pm [336] 12PM–1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Behind the Scenes: Broadcasting House BBC Radio 4 Presenter Paddy O’Connell talks about life behind the scenes at the BBC and programme-making. Plus he’ll give the audience a chance to contribute and influence the running orders of future editions of Broadcasting House. Not for broadcast. [W31] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing a Story Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Paul Dolan Happiness by Design Following on from the success of last year, Paul is back for part two of his book Happiness by Design. Through ‘Decide, Design and Do’, he reveals the ways in which we can actually become happier without having to think too hard about it. Change what you do, not how you think, to get more pleasure and purpose in everyday life. Sponsored by Wiggly Wigglers [340] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Thomas Asbridge The Greatest Knight The historian draws upon an array of contemporary evidence, including the C13th biography, to present a compelling account of the life and times of William Marshal, from rural England to the battlefields of France, the desert castles of the Holy Land and the verdant shores of Ireland. He lays bare the brutish realities of medieval warfare and the machinations of the royal court. Asbridge draws us into the heart of a formative period of our history when the West emerged from the Dark Ages and stood on the brink of modernity. It is the story of one remarkable man, the birth of the knightly class to which he belonged, and the forging of the English nation. Chaired by Peter Florence. [HF136] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

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Finding Wonderland Cathy Cassidy, who loved Alice in Wonderland above

[337] 1PM TATA TENT £9

Steve Punt, Will Smith and Marcus Brigstocke Talking Funny Just because you can say funny things doesn’t mean you can write funny things. Three of the best comedy writers spill the beans on what makes a good script. The writers Will Smith (The Thick of It and Veep) and Steve Punt (The Now Show, The Mary Whitehouse Experience) talk to Marcus Brigstocke.

all other books as a child, has re-imagined the story for a modern audience in Looking Glass Girl. Chris Riddell learned about the relationship between words and pictures by copying Sir John Tenniel’s famous illustrations. They are joined by Julia Eccleshare of the British Library to talk about Lewis Carroll, his legacy, and how it feels to walk in his footsteps. 10+ years

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Pig

Polly Vernon talks to Bryony Gordon

Meet famous diarist Pig – like Samuel Pepys, only smellier – as he invites you to read The Super Amazing Adventures of Me, Pig. Emer will take you around the farmyard, introducing you to his pal Duck and those evil chickens, as well as Kitty who is oh so lovely…or is she? Emer’s event is packed with fun and drawing – not to be missed!

Hot Feminist A trip through feminism, fashion, the righteous pursuit of a sexy vibe, and what it means to be a woman when you’re on the receiving end of modern media’s hilariously / bizarrely / insanely contradictory / restrictive / reductive / sometimes just straightforward revolting notions of womanhood. This isn’t about what women can’t do, this is a new-age guide to what you can do, what you can think, what you can wear and what you can wax. Gordon is the author of The Wrong Knickers.

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2.30pm

[HF138] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[343] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9

Pip Jones

Vikram Seth

Daddy’s Sandwich

A Summer Requiem

If you were going to make a sandwich with all your favourite things, what would you include? Join the Squishy McFluff author in a fun-filled event to find out what happens when one little girl makes a sandwich just a bit out of the ordinary for her daddy.

‘I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind | That I am forever waking in a lost country...’ Seth’s new book of poems traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both ‘gifts and harms’. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, ‘the hour of rust’, when memory is haunted by loss and decay. But in the silence that follows, as the soul is cast adrift, there is also reconciliation with the transience of all things; the knowledge that there is a place, ‘changeable, that will not betray’. Seth is author of A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate, The Rivered Earth and Two Lives. Chaired by Claire Armitstead.

4+ years [W54] 1PM–1.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years

2pm [341] 2PM–3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Four Thought BBC Radio 4 Four Thought is a series of exciting and often provocative personal talks in which speakers explain new thinking about the big trends and questions in culture and society. Broadcast on Wednesdays at 8.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Four Thought will record four speakers at Hay Festival 2015 for broadcast in June.

SATURDAY 30 MAY

1pm

[HF139] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Peter Lord Shaun The Sheep: The Movie The Aardman founder and stop-motion genius takes us behind the scenes of Shaun’s blockbusting big-screen adventure. When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home. You’d be baahmy not to join in! 7+ years [344] 2.30PM TATA TENT £7

Antonia Fraser talks to Simon Jenkins My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

2.30pm [342] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £9

Eric Schlosser The Joseph Rotblat Lecture 2015 The American journalist and author is best known for his investigative journalism and his books Fast Food Nation, Chew on This and Reefer Madness. His latest book Command and Control is about the effort to control nuclear weapons, to prevent the launch of a thermonuclear weapon by accident, by mistake or by any other unauthorised means. He explores the precarious balance between nuclear weapons safety and readiness to fire, the mixture of human fallibility and technological complexity that can lead to disaster. In association with the WMD Awareness Project

Antonia Fraser’s memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of history. The fascination began as a child, and developed into an enduring passion and a globally successful career from her first biography Mary Queen of Scots to her intensely personal and riveting portrait of her second marriage Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter. Supported by Lawrence & Elizabeth Banks

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SATURDAY 30 MAY 2.30pm

3pm

[345] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[346] 3PM–4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Will Smith and Roberto Ampuero

Four Thought

Fictions – Thrillers

BBC Radio 4

Mainlander is the thrilling debut set on Jersey from comedy writer Will Smith (Veep, The Thick of It) – a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets. Evocative and romantic, Ampuero’s The Neruda Case spans lies and truth, travelling between uneasy peace and political coup, from life to death. Brulé, a daydreamer and reluctant detective, is lost among Latin America’s uncertainties, venality and corruption while his first case introduces one of the great characters of international crime fiction. They talk to Rosie Goldsmith.

Four Thought is a series of exciting and often provocative personal talks in which speakers explain new thinking about the big trends and questions in culture and society. Broadcast on Wednesdays at 8.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Four Thought will record four speakers at Hay Festival 2015 for broadcast in June.

[HF140] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Jacqueline Mitton

[W32] 3PM–4.30PM MEET AT BACK OF HAY CASTLE £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Walk and Draw Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Journey to the Planets Space holds a fascination for everyone. What exactly is out there? Take a journey around the planets with astronomer Jacqueline Mitton, who delivers a talk illustrated with amazing facts and stunning images that all the family will enjoy. 8+ years [HF141] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Rebecca Cobb The Something When a little boy’s ball disappears down a mysterious hole in the garden, he can’t stop thinking about what could be down there – a little mouse’s house? The lair of a hungry troll? Whatever it may be, he’s determined to find out! Join Rebecca for some storytelling and drawing, and maybe find out if there’s a Something down that hole after all… 5+ years [W55] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years

4pm [347] 4PM TATA TENT £10

Helen MacDonald The Samuel Johnson Prize Lecture H is for Hawk When her father dies and MacDonald is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey – an unflinchingly honest account of MacDonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it’s a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist TH White, best known for The Once and Future King. The author talks about her masterpiece with Stuart Proffitt, chair of the Samuel Johnson Prize. Sponsored by Castle House Hotel, Hereford [348] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9

Alan Cumming talks to Clemency Burton-Hill Not My Father’s Son Deep secrets emerge when confronting family history. At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, the actor’s memoir is a powerful story about embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.

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[349] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[HF144] 4PM MAKE & TAKE TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Peter Jukes and guests Beyond Contempt

Nick Cope

You know all about the phone hacking trial, don’t you? Rebekah Brooks was acquitted and Andy Coulson went to jail. But why? Why was Brooks, the public face of the phone hacking scandal, found not guilty on all charges? Why did Coulson’s expensive defense not impress reporters? What impact did Rupert Murdoch’s millons have on the trial? And why did the jurors reach the decisions they did?

Music for Little People

[350] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

[W56] 4PM–4.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Matt Haig

Monkeys, bears, socks and mud! Nick Cope sings about everything children are really interested in. The former indie-rocker frontman of The Candyskins, Nick brings his own brand of acoustic folk-rock to the world of children’s music, creating interactive concerts for families. Come and join in. 3+ years

Reasons to Stay Alive

Chess Workshop

Aged 24, the writer’s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how Haig came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. Chaired by John Mitchinson. Sponsored by Liz Pinches Dip. Vib. Med. Health Matters

With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust

SATURDAY 30 MAY

4pm

6–106 years

5pm

[HF142] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £5

Gary Northfield

[351] 5PM–6.15PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

The Big Draw

Time for One More Question

Gary Northfield, cartoonist for The Phoenix, Beano, Dandy and Horrible Histories, is joined by special guests to stage a Big Draw with plenty of noisy audience interaction.

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7+ years [HF143] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Gillian Cross, Emma Carroll and Linda Coggin Poet, writer and performer Linda Coggin’s debut novel The Boy With The Tiger’s Heart explores our relationship with nature and animals in an unusual fantasy adventure. The Girl Who Walked on Air is an historical adventure with a circus theme from Emma Carroll, who wrote the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall. Multiple award-winner Gillian Cross has written yet another thrilling and thought-provoking adventure with Shadow Cat. Join them for what is sure to be an entertaining and interesting conversation about writing adventure stories. 10+ years [HF159] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE FREE BUT TICKETED

Rastamouse Prepare to make some noise and bust some moves as Rastamouse co-creator Michael De Souza presents a reading adventure exploring the riddims and rhymes of Mouseland. Get ready to jam along as CBeebies star Rastamouse makes a special appearance at the festival.

A lights-down-and-listen session and Q&A with writer Glyn Maxwell and BBC Radio Drama producer Nadia Molinari. Love is put through the toughest Q&A in Glyn Maxwell’s comedy of festival manners. Come and listen to this 45-minute original drama recorded on location at this year’s Hay Festival, followed by a discussion about how it was created. This session is not for broadcast, but the original recording of Time for One More Question will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 29 May at 2.15pm.

5.30pm [352] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9

Meera Syal talks to Sarfraz Manzoor Fictions – The House of Hidden Mothers Little India, East London: Shyama, aged 44, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise their dreams. But will fate guarantee them both happiness? The author of Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee launches her new novel.

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SATURDAY 30 MAY 5.30pm

5.30pm

[353] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

[HF145] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Robert Macfarlane talks to Horatio Clare

Kate Saunders

Landmarks

Five Children on the Western Front

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. The author of The Old Ways, Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. In association with The Woodland Trust

Join the Costa Award-winning author to hear all about her sequel to E. Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It stories. Witty, tender and full of insights into life, love and politics, this is a brilliant book in its own right as well as a worthy tribute. Find out about Kate’s inspirations for the book and her love for the original novels. She talks to literary critic Julia Eccleshare.

[354] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Camila Batmanghelidjh, Helena Kennedy and Sue Berelowitz talk to Jon Snow Why Does it Happen? The sexual abuse of children by adult men is a global problem. It appears to happen in every sector of society and the exposure of paedophile rings is a daily news story. But why does it happen at all? Batmanghelidjh runs Kids Company, Kennedy is a human rights lawyer, Berelowitz is the UK’s Deputy Commissioner for Children’s Services.

9+ years [HF146] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Mary Evans Story Stew for Two Kids? Parents driving you mad? Looking for something to keep them entertained? Then bring them along to Story Stew for Two, a parent and child creative writing workshop with Who Let the Gods Out? author Mary Evans. Using wit, charm and an inflatable hammer, Mary will help you to work together to create a tasty tale for two. Guaranteed to cook up creativity in everyone. 7+ years

7pm [355] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

George Zarkadakis

Michael Morpurgo

We explore AI’s history, technology and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness, as well as – perhaps most tellingly – what AI reveals about us as human beings. Zarkadakis is the author of In Our Own Image: Will Artificial Intelligence Save or Destroy Us? Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

The Mozart Question Concert

[356] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Paul Dolan, Shashi Tharoor and guests Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? We know that, as individuals, we often ‘miswant’ – that is, want things that will not improve our wellbeing. How can we miswant as citizens, policymakers, or societies? How might some of the ‘good’ desires also have a darker side to them? Desires around hope, choice, and achievement, for example, can all make things worse as well as better. Dolan is a Professor of Behavioural Science at LSE. Tharoor is an Indian MP with over 1 million constituents in Thiruvananthapuram, and 3 million Twitter followers.

[HF147] 7PM–8.15PM TATA TENT £15

Artificial Intelligence

Author Michael Morpurgo is joined by actress Alison Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s Ensemble (a quartet of strings). Together they interweave words and music to tell his haunting tale of survival against the odds, set against the background of the Holocaust. Adapted and directed by Simon Reade. Duration 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval. 8+ years [357] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9

Emily Bell, Richard Sambrook, Tony Phillips and guests Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? A Free Press Do we need a First Amendment? What’s the best we can argue for in terms of independence, regulation, ownership, and authority? Bell is a member of the Scott Trust and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Sambrook was Director of the BBC World Service and now runs Cardiff School of Journalism; Tony Phillips is Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, World Service. Chaired by Jon Snow.

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7pm

[358] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[362] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Amanda Palmer

Jessica Bumpus, Margareta van den Bosch, Catarina Midby and Dilys Williams

The Art of Asking Rock star, crowd-funding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world’s most successful music Kickstarter. In her groundbreaking book, she explores the barriers to asking for help in her own life and in the lives of those around her. Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the C21st, both on and off the internet. Chaired by Francine Stock. [359] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Gavin Francis Adventures in Human Being We have a lifetime’s association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. The doctor takes us on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: the explorer and author of Empire Antarctica leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human. [360] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Just Fashion After a week-long workshop with leading designers, 12 students will have created unique items from H&M’s Garment Recycling Programme. The workshops will have encouraged students to use and consider sustainable sourcing and techniques in the production of their garments as well as ensuring the finished product is beautifully designed and presented. Discover the results here… Margareta van den Bosch is H&M’s former design director and now creative advisor, Catarina Midby is their Sustainable Fashion Advisor, and Dilys Williams is Director of the London College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion. They talk to Green Vogue blogger Jessica Bumpus. In collaboration with H&M, London College of Fashion and the Environmental Justice Foundation

SATURDAY 30 MAY

7pm

[HF160] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Julia Churchill How To Get Your Children’s Book Published Children’s books agent Julia Churchill from AM Heath Ltd shares everything you need to know about getting your children’s book published, from what an agent does and the qualities that make a submission stand out from the slushpile, to what a publisher looks for and what drives their decisions. It is a 360-degree look at writing, pitching and publishing your children’s book – from picture books right through to young adult fiction. 11+ years

Dominic Lieven Cambridge University Series 18 Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia The Russian decision to mobilise in July 1914 may have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. Russia’s rulers thought they were acting to secure their future, but in fact – after millions of deaths and two revolutions – they were consigning their entire class to death or exile and their country to a uniquely terrible generations-long experiment under a very different regime. Chaired by Oliver Bullough. In association with Cambridge University

8.30pm [363] 8.30PM TATA TENT £10

Marcus Brigstocke, Ed Coleman, Milly Thomas, Thom Tuck, Rachel Paris and Andre Vincent Makey Uppey It’s comedy improvisation night – we’ve no idea what they are going to say…and neither have they. It’s a match made in heaven.

[361] 7PM–10PM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM FREE – ALL WELCOME

Bethan Elfyn BBC Radio Wales Bethan Elfyn presents the best new music from Wales and beyond with highlights, guests and performances, broadcasting live from the festival. Broadcast every Saturday evening on BBC Radio Wales from 7pm–10pm.

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SATURDAY 30 MAY 8.30pm

8.30pm

[364] 8.30PM–10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

[368] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7

Simon Schama Night Will Fall – Screening The historian and author of The Story of the Jews introduces a screening of André Singer’s documentary. When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened. Using British, Soviet, and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi’s unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US governments, the film was shelved.

Tracey Thorn talks to Xan Brooks Naked at the Albert Hall The riveting follow-up to her Bedsit Disco Queen. Part memoir, part wide-ranging exploration of the art, mechanics and spellbinding power of singing, Naked at the Albert Hall takes in Dusty Springfield, Dennis Potter and George Eliot; Auto-tune, the microphone and stage presence; The Streets and The X Factor. Including interviews with fellow artists and portraits of singers in fiction as well as Tracey’s real-life experiences, it offers a unique, witty and sharply observed insider’s perspective on the exhilarating joy and occasional heartache of singing. [369] 8.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10

[365] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Laura Bates, Nimko Ali, Sonia Faleiro and guests Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? Equality Is equality law working to deliver equality for women? If not, what’s it going to take? Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism project. Ali is a social activist, an FGM survivor and campaigner, co-founder of Daughters of Eve. Journalist and writer Sonia Faleiro is the author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars and 13 Men. [366] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Brenda Lozano, Daniel Saldaña París, Laia Jufresa with Gaby Wood México20 2015 is the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK in Mexico. To celebrate we’re working with the British Council and Conaculta to present México20, a project that promotes 20 new voices of Mexican writers under the age of 40 and brings their work to an international readership. Come and join three of the emerging superstars of the anthology for an evening of Mexican stories, music and drink. With music from the stunning mariachi band Las Adelitas. [367] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

The Devil’s Violin presents The Forbidden Door What would you sacrifice for the sake of the one you love? The Forbidden Door tells passionate, funny and hauntingly interwoven stories. Twisting human nature’s need to disobey the rules into beautiful tales of love and loss, this is storytelling for adults; there are no big eyes or nursery rhymes. Expect impossible quests, heart-stopping twists, love, loss, high drama, low comedy and pure moments of total abandonment from the real world. The Devil’s Violin is Daniel Morden – story, Oliver Wilson-Dickson – violin, Sarah Moody – cello, and Dylan Fowler – guitar.

A Cottage on Dartmoor Screening Come and join us in the late Georgian-Gothic setting of St Mary’s Church for a special screening of Anthony Asquith’s great 1929 classic silent movie, with live organ accompaniment by Richard Williams. The film is a psycho-thriller replete with obsession and jealousy, much influenced by German Expressionism, and is one of British cinema’s most highly regarded silent films, the last to be made in the silent period. The screening raises money for the church organ. Numbers are limited. See also event 324.

10pm [370] 10PM TATA TENT £19

Tommy Tiernan Stand-Up Now entering his 20th year as a stand up comedian, having won every award going and still as passionate as ever about the adventure of storytelling and comedy, Ireland’s number one comedian is also starting to take some very exciting risks. There’s no manners on him. Profound, dark, and silly too, his performance mesmerises in a way that is joyful, uplifting, inspirational and, most importantly, always breathtakingly funny. [371] 10PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £19

Courtney Pine and Zoe Rahman Song (The Ballad Book) The legendary jazz hero plans to strip everything right back for the most intimate shows of his long and celebrated career, as he takes to the stage playing bass clarinet accompanied only by the fellow Mercury nominee and MOBO award-winning pianist. A vibrant and highly individual pianist/composer, her style is deeply rooted in jazz and also reflects her classical background and British/Bengali heritage. ‘I have always wanted to record a collection of my favourite ballads and there is nothing like performing in a duet format for bringing out the intimacy of great songs.’

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[377] 9.15AM–9.45AM OXFAM MOOT £3

Nell Leyshon Fictions – The Dipper ‘There’s different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too close to theirs. Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross the line.’ Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again. But Gary is also fiercely intelligent – he often knows more about the antique furniture he is stealing than the people who own it, and is confident in his ability to trick his way out of any situation, always one step ahead. But all that changes when he falls for Mandy… Nell talks to Sarah Crown. [374] 9AM–9.45AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £5

Maggie Ross talks to Rachael Kerr Silence: A User’s Guide The Anglican solitary describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unawares; how the work of silence was once understood to be a foundation of Western Christianity. [375] 9AM–10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Broadcasting House BBC Radio 4 LIVE On Sunday 31 May, BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House comes live from Hay Festival with presenter Paddy O’Connell, for an hour of interviews and entertainment. Broadcast every Sunday morning on BBC Radio 4 at 9am. [376] 9AM–9.45AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Con Coughlin What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 31 May at key historical moments over the past 150 years are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to mention fashion through the decades and legendary stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting.

SUNDAY 31 MAY

9am

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Alex Salmond talks to Helena Kennedy ‘Yes’ The inside story of the campaign for Scottish independence, told in Salmond’s diary – The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days That Changed Scotland Forever. There may well be UK politics on the agenda too… [379] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Celia Imrie and Terry Waite talk to Georgina Godwin Fictions – Not Quite Nice/Golden Handshake Two fiction debuts from best-selling non-fiction writers. Not Quite Nice is a gloriously funny and charming debut novel about the joys and challenges of living abroad from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses, star of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and author of the witty memoir The Happy Hoofer. The Voyage of the Golden Handshake is a warm and charmingly funny ocean-going story, which reminds you that life is for living, and in which Terry Waite shows an unexpected talent for comic fiction. In association with Saga magazine

Edward Wakeling Lewis Carroll: The Man and his Circle Wakeling draws upon his personal database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never before published, to fill the gaps left by earlier biographies and resolve some of the key myths that surround Lewis Carroll, such as his friendships with children and his drug-taking. [HF161] 9AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE FREE BUT TICKETED

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[W57] 10AM–10.45AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Sara Bevan Art From Contemporary Conflict Bevan delves into the Imperial War Museum’s contemporary art collection, which reflects experiences of and responses to a wide range of recent and ongoing conflicts. She examines art created in response to fighting in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, and work by contemporary artists like Steve McQueen, Roderick Buchanan, and Langlands & Bell. In association with The Imperial War Museum

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years [W33] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing the Body Clothed Royal Drawing School Class

[381] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Mark Miodownik

Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Stuff Matters Everything is made of something, and that stuff is changing all the time. Find out what is on the horizon for our material world and how it shapes everything around us, from our landscapes and cities, to our homes and hospitals, our art, our literature, and even our behaviour. In association with The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books [382] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Esther-Miriam Wagner Cambridge University Series 19 How Language Shapes Our Identity The way we speak and write is a major part of our identity. Wagner explores what dialects tell us about our social networks, whether alphabets really mean anything, and why youth speak is not all that terrible. ‘K? In association with Cambridge University [HF148] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Pip Jones Squishy McFluff Meet Ava and her mischievous invisible cat, Squishy McFluff. During this interactive event children help create the ultimate imaginary pet and hear some of Ava and Squishy’s adventures. 4+ years

11.30am [383] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8

Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan, Andre Vincent and guest The Early Edition The home team satirists read the Sunday papers. Sponsored by Dai & Chris Davies, The Newsagents [384] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Simon Schama The Demon That Won’t Die The historian examines the persistence of AntiSemitism in the contemporary world. Schama’s latest project is the book and documentary series The Story of the Jews. Volume 2 – When Words Fail will be published in November. [385] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Robert Crawford with readings by Miranda Richardson The London Library Lecture TS Eliot, Poets and Libraries Professor Robert Crawford’s biography Young Eliot traces the life of one of the C20th’s most important poets from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis up to the publication of his most famous poem The Waste Land. He discusses Eliot’s relationship with the London Library, as one of its former Presidents, and the relationship between poets and libraries in the wider context. The event opens with a reading of Eliot’s poems by actress Miranda Richardson. In association with The London Library

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Rick Stroud Kidnap in Crete On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of fearless partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnapped a high-ranking Nazi general on the German-occupied island of Crete. Stroud is the author of The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who Hoodwinked Rommel and The Book of the Moon. Chaired by Con Coughlin. [387] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Mona Eltahawy talks to Laura Bates Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution The campaigner and commentator explains that since the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have had two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats women as second-class. Her illuminating and incendiary book is a plea for outrage and action on women’s behalf, confronting the ‘toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend.’ [HF150] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Nick Cope Music for Little People Monkeys, bears, socks and mud! Nick Cope sings about everything children are really interested in. The former indie-rocker frontman of The Candyskins, Nick brings his own brand of acoustic folk-rock to the world of children’s music, creating interactive concerts for families. Come and join in. 3+ years [W58] 11.30AM–12.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Chess Workshop

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11.30am

With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years

12pm [W34] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Drawing a Story Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

Alex T Smith Claude & Foxy Author of Claude and 2014 World Book Day illustrator Alex T Smith has been called the ‘boy wonder of children’s book illustration’. Join Alex as he draws his favourite characters and introduces a new picture book, Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion, a funny new spin on a well-known fairytale. Hear how Alex gets inspiration for his hilarious characters (he might even ask for your suggestions) and learn Top Secret illustrator tips, including how to draw Claude himself. 5+ years [HF151] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4

Pamela Butchart Blue Peter Best Story Award Winner Pamela will share the brilliantly bonkers world of Izzy in a lively session based on her book The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award. The latest in the series is My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat. 7+ years

1pm [388] 1PM TATA TENT £8

Jenny Agutter, Heidi Thomas, Pippa Harris Call The Midwife The star, screenwriter and producer of the television drama discuss the stories and period of Jennifer Worth’s best-selling books with Virginia Nicholson. [389] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Andrew Roberts Napoleon the Great After seizing power in a coup d’état, Napoleon Bonaparte ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful Empire Style in the arts. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel. 2015 marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. Chaired by Geordie Greig, editor of The Mail on Sunday. Supported by Mr & Mrs Robin Herbert

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SUNDAY 31 MAY 1pm

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[390] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[HF154] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

Maria Loh

Gareth P Jones

Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master

Steam Punk Pirates

He was one of the biggest international art stars of his time; but being Michelangelo was no easy thing. He was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorised portraits. Still Lives traces the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, Dürer, and Titian became early modern celebrities. Loh teaches art history at University College, London, and is also author of Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art. [391] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders is the second in the gloriously daft series The Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates by Blue Peter Award-winner, Gareth P Jones. Dropping anchor in Hay with his trusty ukulele, his musty accordion and his rusty cutlass, Gareth gives us an event like no other. Prepare for clashing cutlasses, rowdy readings, raucous sea shanties, and other such shenanigans. Piratical attire optional. 6+ years [W59] 1PM–1.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

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Chess Workshop

Cambridge University Series 20 China’s D-Day: The Ichigo Offensive of 1944 and the Future of Asia

With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust

In 1944, at the same time that the Germans faced defeat after defeat, the Japanese launched their largest land operation of the entire war. Involving 500,000 soldiers and fighting over a 1,500 km front, the Japanese cut through Chinese defences. The consequences were fatal for Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalists and they laid the basis for the rise to power of Mao Zedong’s Communists. Using battle reports, memoirs, and the writings of popular intellectuals at the time, the Professor of Modern Chinese History analyses the campaigns, and their consequences for China and for international relations. In association with Cambridge University [392] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Marian Keyes

6–106 years

2pm [393] 2PM–4PM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM FREE – ALL WELCOME

Lynn Bowles BBC Radio Wales LIVE Lynn Bowles brings all the flavours of the festival live, with good music, a sprinkling of celebrity sparkle and much, much more. Broadcast every Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Wales, 2pm–4pm.

Fictions – The Woman Who Stole My Life Keyes’ stunning new novel The Woman Who Stole My Life is about losing the life you had and finding a better one. Her international bestselling novels include Rachel’s Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky and The Mystery of Mercy Close. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design [HF153] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

Mary Evans Story Stew Join children’s author Mary Evans for a fun, anarchic and downright daft introduction to story writing. Using a host of ingredients, a dollop of imagination and a side helping of silliness, you can learn a basic recipe that will enable anyone to write a story. That’s right. Anyone. Especially you. Back by popular demand, Story Stew helps you to write stories that leave a great taste in the imagination. 7+ years

2.30pm [394] 2.30PM TATA TENT £15

Bear Grylls Ghost Flight The adventurer launches his thriller, in which his hero is sent deep into the Amazon jungle on the hunt for a WW2 secret. Grylls’ recent non-fiction includes True Grit, Extreme Food and Your Life – Train For It. He talks to Clemency Burton-Hill. [395] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Richard Eyre What Do I Know? The theatre and film director writes about people, politics and the arts with candour and wit. He talks about Thatcher and Pinter, Brando and Winslet. He has an acute eye for the telling detail that reveals truths about his subjects, and a warm generosity that celebrates the brilliance of his colleagues.

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[396] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

[W35] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S

Chris Rapley 2071: The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren Climate change is a matter of importance to everyone, but what to do about it is mired in controversy. What’s needed is a conversation. What do we owe future generations? How can we protect our children and grandchildren? Rapley is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. He was previously director of the Science Museum, Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Director of the British Antarctic Survey. [397] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Elizabeth Morgan and Richard Harrington

Drawing Out and About Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

4pm [399] 4PM TATA TENT £10

Helen McCrory, Lisa Dwan, Richard Harrington, Miranda Richardson

SUNDAY 31 MAY

2.30pm

The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour We celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats with this reading of his poetry.

Fictions – Ticket to Paradise Morgan’s novel tells the story of Welsh emigration to Patagonia in 1865 with a wealth of characters brought to life, populating a story that illustrates the fight against injustice and the terrible forces of nature. Readings by Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland and Bleak House. Chaired by Horatio Clare.

[400] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9

David Starkey Magna Carta The historian examines the context of the 1215 charter and its lasting impact on democracy today. Sponsored by Christ College, Brecon

[398] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

William Nicholson Fictions – The Lovers of Amherst Nicholson introduces his new novel. It has a dual narrative set in both 2013 and 1881, when the treasurer of Amherst College, Austin Dickinson’s affair with a young married woman is observed by his daughter Emily, a poet. Nicholson’s plays include Shadowlands and Life Story. He co-wrote the script for the film Gladiator and he has scripted Les Misérables and Mandela. With readings by actress Lisa Dwan. [HF155] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Gary Northfield Julius Zebra. Rumble with the Romans! Meet the cartoonist and graphic novelist who created The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! graphic novel and is a cartoonist for phenomenally successful comics and series including The Phoenix, The Beano, The Dandy and Horrible Histories. Gary introduces his hilarious brand new series Julius Zebra. Rumble with the Romans! and dazzles with lots of images, live drawing and plenty of Roman facts. 7+ years [W60] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust

[401] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

David and Harry Rich Rich Landscapes The multi-award-winning landscape designer brothers come straight to Hay from Chelsea. They talk to Francine Stock about their recent projects and their philosophy. ‘We believe in a fusion between landscape and architecture. An important relationship that encourages a more rounded approach to an outdoor lifestyle, creating not only beautiful but practical spaces, inspiring people to use their gardens. Reconnecting people with nature is something we are very passionate about. With a recent increase in urbanisation, our connection with “the wild” is slowly becoming lost. We aim to give people their own patch of nature but set within a sympathetic and structured design.’ Sponsored by Wyevale Nurseries Ltd [402] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Charles W Calomiris Fragile by Design Calomiris offers a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. He combines political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form; why some endure while others are undermined; and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Charles W Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School.

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SUNDAY 31 MAY 4pm

5.30pm

[403] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7

[406] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8

Raffaello Pantucci

John Mitchinson, John Lloyd and James Harkin

We Love Death as You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellowbelievers into London on the morning of 7 July 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West’s treatment of Muslims worldwide, ideas fed to them by foreign extremists, and a sense of extreme rejection of the society in which they were born, they sought to reshape the world in an image they thought would be pleasing to God. Pantucci offers an insight into the motivations behind Khan and his group, as well as the hundreds of young British Muslims who have been drawn by jihadist ideas to fight on battlefields at home and abroad. Pantucci is Director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. [404] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Jackie Morris Queen of the Sky The amazing story of Ffion Rees and the peregrine falcon she rescued from the sea off the remote coast of west Wales. It’s the story of how Ffion nursed the falcon back to life and back to the wild, and about the bond that grew between the two. Beautifully illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, sketches and magnificent paintings in watercolour and gold leaf by Jackie Morris. [405] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Susan Abulhawa Fictions – The Blue Between Sky and Water Spanning generations and continents, The Blue Between Sky and Water is a story of powerful, flawed women; of relocation, separation and heartache; of renewal, family, endurance, and love. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastatingly beautiful tale. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. [W61] 4PM–4.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED

Chess Workshop With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust 6–106 years

QI’s Greatest Hits QI’s very core is ‘the astonishing fact’: painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. To celebrate the reissue of their backlist, join us for a canter through their best ever discoveries: Jeeves wasn’t a butler. Coffee isn’t made from beans. Woodlice drink through their bottoms. Light is invisible. Mount Everest isn’t the tallest mountain. Florence Nightingale spent 50 years in bed. There are 613 commandments in the bible. Monkeys pay to look at porn. An hour of endless fun with the QI writing team. [407] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Michael Pennington Let Me Play the Lion Too: How To Be An Actor How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What’s the effect of a long tour on your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a matinée? What’s the difference between transitive and intransitive corpsing? What is stage fright? One of our greatest and wittiest classical actors gives us the skinny on ‘the business’. He talks to Lisa Dwan. [408] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

Fred Pearce The New Wild The veteran environmental journalist used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine ‘natural’ ecosystems. New ecologists, looking afresh at how species interact in the wild, believe we should celebrate the dynamism of alien species and the novel ecosystems they create. In an era of climate change and widespread ecological damage, we must find ways to help nature regenerate. Chaired by Andy Fryers. [409] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Peter Hain Back to the Future of Socialism What’s gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulating for the common good? Hain revisits Anthony Crosland’s classic text and presents a stimulating political prospectus for today.

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6.45pm

[410] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

[412] 6.45PM OXFAM MOOT £7

Satish Kumar talks to Andy Fryers

Engel’s England

Satish Kumar, a former monk and long-term peace and environmental activist, talks us through his life: his 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, co-founding the Schumacher College, and his hopes for the future.

England is the most complicated place in the world. And, as the journalist and humorist travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that’s just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of history: still a unique slice of a nation that has not quite lost its ancient diversity. He finds the well-dressers of Derbyshire and the pyromaniacs of Sussex; the Hindus and huntsmen of Leicestershire; the goddess-worshippers of Somerset. He tracks down the real Lancashire, hedonistic Essex, and the most mysterious house in Middlesex. In Durham he goes straight from choral evensong to the dog track. As he seeks out the essence of each county – from Yorkshire’s broad acres to the microdot of Rutland – Engel always finds the unexpected. Chaired by Justin Albert. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop

7pm [372] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5

Virginia Nicholson Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

SUNDAY 31 MAY

Matthew Engel

Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. She is the author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900–1939, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War and Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives During the Second World War. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith.

[415] 5.30PM–7.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Paul Fischer

[413] 7PM–7.45PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History

Francine Stock, Tom Robey, William Nicholson and Bruce Robinson

Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Hollywood. Then he hit on the perfect solution: order the kidnapping of South Korea’s most famous actress and her ex-husband, the country’s most acclaimed director. In a jawdropping mission the couple were kidnapped, held hostage and then ‘employed’ to make films for the Dear Leader, including a remake of Godzilla. They gained Kim’s trust – but could they escape?

6.45pm

Nobody’s Perfect: Golden Words From the Silver Screen What makes a great screenplay? Structure? Dialogue? Can it take us places a novel can’t reach? Francine Stock of The Film Programme, Tim Robey, The Telegraph film critic, the Oscar-winning (Gladiator) playwright of Mandela, Shadowlands and Les Miserables, Bill Nicholson, and the legendary director and screenwriter of Withnail and I, Jennifer 8 and The Rum Diaries debate the strengths of their favourite film scripts and recommend a top ten screenplays of all time list. To join the conversation and make your own arguments for favourite movie scripts, please post on Hay Festival’s Facebook page or Twitter @hayfestival #nobodysperfect.

[411] 6.45PM–7.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £4

Nigel Kennedy in conversation with Clemency Burton-Hill

8pm

In an informal pre-concert interview, the violinist talks about his approach to music, his Polish band, his 1732 violin made by Carlo Bergonzi of Cremona, jazz, Villa and Vivaldi.

[414] 8PM TATA TENT £35

Nigel Kennedy Closing Night Concert Violin maverick Nigel Kennedy and his band bridge musical boundaries in an evening of brilliance, improvisation and showmanship. Expect the unexpected and come prepared for breathtaking performances of works new and old, including music written by Kennedy himself. Sponsored by Gypsy Castle Camping

Welcome to Hay Fever What riches are in store for you this year! The programme is packed full of great names from children’s fiction, such as David Almond, Malorie Blackman, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cressida Cowell, Derek Landy, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Chris Riddell and Jacqueline Wilson.

Comedy is a big theme this year, with Dick and Dom, James Campbell, David O’Doherty and Danny Wallace all guaranteed to make you laugh. And if creating your own cartoons is more your style, the fabulous team behind Phoenix Comics are running a series of awesome workshops.

We have a spectacular line-up of events with illustrators, including Rebecca Cobb, Emily Gravett, Chris Haughton, David Melling, Lydia Monks

and Ed Vere, who will do live drawing and tell stories for their young fans. Some of them will also take part in our Words and Pictures events, exploring how they work for older children and adults – a delight for anyone interested in art and illustration.

Sam McBratney reflects on over 20 years of Guess How Much I Love You (one of the world’s biggest-selling picture books) and picture book legend Nick Butterworth tells us about Q Pootle 5’s journey from page to screen.

Teenagers will find plenty to get their teeth into with our line-up of events starring some of the top names in Young Adult writing today, including Meg Rosoff and Holly Smale.

The wonderful Zak SimmondsHurn, best known for his Sky Drifters and Simon Swift illustrations in The Phoenix weekly story comic, has created our 2015 artwork. Follow our intrepid readers as they jump through worlds of the imagination on the pages of the Hay Fever programme, which you can view at hayfestival.org/hayfever.

Our Schools Programme takes place 21–22 May, with inspiring events for local school children. Find out all about it at hayfestival.org/ schoolsprogramme.

Add to all of this a dazzling array of workshops from wonderful organisations like Aardman Animations and the RSPB, Magna Carta quizzes and Alice in Wonderland trails, and you will be spoilt for choice. Visit hayfestival.org/ workshops for full listings.

Whether you are interested in magic, maths or the Magna Carta, you’ll find something to inspire you here at Hay.

Most of all, it’s going to be fun!

Mary Byrne Programme Director Hay Fever

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Visit the Hay Fever Courtyard

Most of our Hay Fever events take place in the Starlight Stage and Elmley Foundation Cube venues. The Make & Take Tent and the Mess Tent are back, so you can get crafting between 10am and 5pm each day and take part in a wide range of exciting activities including the Lovereading4kids Book Zone. For more info on workshops and extra events, visit hayfestival.org/hayfever. There’s also a lovely central garden area so you and your kids can just hang out and have a Shepherds ice cream or coffee in between events. And you’ll also find baby-changing facilities and a pram park there.

Bookshop

Books and signings by all the children’s and Young Adult authors on the programme are available at the Hay Festival Bookshop on the main site, just a step away from the Hay Fever venues.

Safety Policy

Children aged 12 years and under must be accompanied at all times by a parent or guardian, including during events, unless otherwise stated.

The lost child point is located in the Make & Take Tent in the Hay Fever Courtyard between 10am and 5pm every day. Outside these hours it is located in the Admin Office, next to the Box Office.

For information on accessibility visit hayfestival.org/access.

Visitors to Hay Festival may be filmed and/or photographed for future promotions of the festival.

Croeso

Croeso i Hay Fever, rhaglen Gw ˆ yl y Gelli i blant a theuluoedd! Dydd Iau 21 Mai–Dydd Sul 31 Mai 2015.

Archebwch ar-lein ar hayfestival.org/hayfever Ffoniwch y swyddfa docynnau ar 01497 822 629.

Thanks

Zak is a Phoenix comic artist: thephoenixcomic.co.uk.

Hay Fever and Schools Programme coordination by Nessie Mason. Hay Fever is supported by:

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ON SITE EXTRAS

ON SITE EXTRAS Hay Festival Bookshop

Shepherds

This year, the bookshop will be bigger than ever before, with plenty of room to relax and browse. We will be stocking all books by authors attending the festival, and holding book signings after every event. Please note that a maximum of one book per person that is not purchased from us will be accepted for signature. We are open from 9am daily.

If you are looking for irresistible ice-creams, sublime sundaes and toppings that are just topping, you’re in the right place. We are artisan ice-cream makers since 1987 and we have a unique recipe based on sheep’s milk. Come and visit our on-site stall or visit our café/ice-cream parlour at 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye, recently chosen in Condé Nast Traveller as one of the World’s Best Local Ice-Cream Shops. You can follow us on Facebook or Twitter @shepherdsices. So don’t be a lost sheep. Flock to Shepherds.

FOOD & DRINK Bloody Oyster Bus

Tapas Bar

Fancy a shuck at The Bloody Oyster? We’ll be shaking and shucking our signature Oysters, Bloody Marys and cocktails aboard our iconic London double-decker bus. Open all day – stop by for a drink or take a table on the top deck. Private parties welcome during the festival too. To book call 07939 960 717 or email hello@thebloodyoyster.com.

Join us at Tapas España for a gastronomical tour of Spain brought to you by the Spanish Tourist Office. You will have the chance to taste the best that Spain has to offer. Pop in and say Hola! #SpainatHay | @Spain_inUK

Festival Bar

FESTIVAL FOOD HALL

For a pint of real ale, a glass of wine or a jug of Pimms to enjoy in the sunshine.

Friends Café A hub of activity during the festival, where you’ll catch those sold-out events relayed live from the Tata Tent on screen. The café is open early for your first shot of coffee through to the call for last orders. Join your friends or make new ones here.

Graze Graze will once again be serving up superb Welsh and locally-sourced food, from tapas, sharing platters, steaks, fresh fish and salads to desserts to die for. Champagne, wines and Welsh ales also available, as well as posh pizza from the bar. Graze was previously BLAS and is run by Capital Cuisine from just outside Cardiff: visit capitalcuisine.co.uk for the full menu.

Hay Fever Coffee Child-friendly, no-nonsense sandwiches and drinks served in the garden. Parents, we haven’t forgotten you either. We have fresh organic coffee, iced drinks, pastries and comfortable seating to rest those weary legs.

Relish Festival Restaurant Café – Bar – Restaurant Relish return to Hay Festival 2015, bringing you the Festival Restaurant, Café and Bar. The restaurant will open each day of the festival for lunch and dinner, serving delicious dishes using only the best local, seasonal ingredients. The bar will serve draft beers, wine and cocktails, including the best Bloody Marys on site. The café will feature light bites, barista coffees and other deli treats to eat in or take away. ‘We have developed our Relish Café, Bar and Restaurant on focused, timely and endearing customer service, making your festival experience a memorable one.’ Private parties welcome during the festival. To book call 01285 658 444 or email info@relishmail.co.uk.

Locally produced food to feast on.

The Bridge Inn, Michaelchurch Escley on Tour Coming down from the hills above Hay-on-Wye to bring you a selection of our most loved dishes. We will be serving our Escleyside beef and ale pies with mash or chips and freshly steamed vegetables. Our proper pies are made with Herefordshire’s favourite Butty Bach beer and stuffed full of chunks of Herefordshire’s best beef. For great vegan, vegetarian and gluten free dishes check out our full menu online: www.thebridgeinnmichaelchurch.co.uk.

Buon Gusto Pizza Authentic Italian pizza made fresh daily in the Food Hall. Buon Gusto are pleased once again to attend Hay Festival. Choose from the quirky festival themed menu and enjoy fresh stone-baked pizza, using their own unique dough recipe and cooked to order.

Café Môr The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company proudly presents Café Môr, winner of the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards 2014 for Best UK Street Food! Come and enjoy the unique seafood menu at the Beach Shack. Sample famous seashore-inspired delights such as freshly-baked seashore wraps filled with fantastic Welsh seafood, fish chowder with Ship’s Biscuits, and the fabulous Beach Brownies. The Lobster & Crab Shack offers divine Pembrokeshire lobster and crab served with salad and frites. All new for this year: the pop-up Fish ‘n’ Chip Shop! #luckypeople

Coffee Cart Co. Coffee Cart Co. are proud to be serving our own signature organic espresso blend alongside a delicious cold summer drinks menu including iced teas and frappés. Time to beat the heat in the tents? Then come join us!

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The Bowie Gallery The Bowie Gallery is delighted to bring its on-site gallery to the festival for the eighth year, with an exciting and innovative range of the very best in ceramics, jewellery, sculpture and print. Come and browse our beautiful collection between events in a relaxing, friendly environment and take home something to remind you of Hay! www.hayclay.uk | 01497 821 026 | #bowiegallery

The Granary The Granary Vegetarian Kitchen is in the Food Hall serving vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. Soups, chilis and curries, delicious salads, veggie bean burgers, falafels, cashew bake with beetroot and mint relish, and veggie breakfasts. Enormous meringues and scones with homemade jam and cream to follow. Gluten-free cakes available also.

Lotty’s Pure Indulgence Lotty’s, still serving a delicious range of homemade food, including full breakfasts, savoury tarts, salad selection, Thai veg/vegan curry, steak & kidney stew, Italian stone-baked pizza slices, decadent puds, cakes and brownies. Plus gluten-free options for mains and puddings. Come and indulge!

Slate of Cheese A selection of Welsh cheeses on a variety of handprepared platters. Each cheese has been specially selected for the Hay Festival and will be accompanied by homemade chutney and crackers. Also a selection of tapas – olives, hummus, vegetable crisps and cured meats including venison salami. Handmade venison scotch eggs and pies.

Welsh Venison Centre We are a local farming family, butchers and farm shop. Welsh Venison Centre is delighted to offer festivalfollowers the healthy venison option and will be open every day with a varied menu including our famous gourmet venison burgers, chilli, meatballs, salads and wedges. Our farm shop is also worth a visit, stocked with Welsh produce, local bread and gifts for the home. www.beaconsfarmshop.co.uk

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The Bow Top Company of Hay-on-Wye Builders of traditional Bow Top Gypsy Caravans. Visit our beautiful caravan on the festival site. Perfect as a dreamy garden retreat, a spare bedroom, B&B, glamping, festival or summer holiday hire. Built to your budget and specification. www.thebowtopcompany.com hugh@thebowtopcompany.com | 07557 048 208

Cambrian Mountains Wool Using fleece farmed in the heart of Wales, Cambrian Mountains Wool has challenged textiles designers around the world to ‘create and inspire’. Our celebratory showcase of beautifully crafted wool pieces is their response. We are delighted to be at Hay Festival – opening our exhibition, sharing our story and challenging you to rethink Welsh wool. www.cambrianmountainswool.org

Cardiff Metropolitan University At Cardiff Metropolitan University we specialise in courses that are career orientated. Our focus on employability has ensured that 94% of our graduates enter employment or further study within six months of graduation (DLHE 2013). Visit us at Hay Festival to find out more about the range of courses we offer in Creative Writing, English Literature, Drama, Media, Education and more. www.cardiffmet.ac.uk | @cardiffmet

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An HMC Independent Boarding and Day School for Boys and Girls aged 7–18 years. At Christ College, education is about learning with enthusiasm and enjoyment; living and growing in a culture where every individual counts and where staff and pupils are passionate about what they do. It is about challenges and adventures of every sort – all conducted around our inspiring campus on the outskirts of Brecon. Please visit www.christcollegebrecon.com for details.

There is nothing quite like the AGA cooker; the feeling it creates in the home and, of course, the delicious food it helps to produce. And now our latest models have been designed with controllable features to suit the 21st-century lifestyle. Visit the AGA team at Hay Festival to learn more. www.agaliving.com

Come and visit us at the festival entrance to purchase a copy of the daily newspaper along with your free festival canvas bag. Read our daily coverage of events and talk to our friendly staff for more information about how to obtain a digital subscription.

XOX will be serving Welsh lamb and beef from local farms in a range of stir-fries, wraps and burgers.

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Dylan Thomas Boathouse Bar A pint of traditional Welsh Cask and bottled ales, locally produced cider and perry or a glass of chilled fizz at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse Bar located in the Food Hall.

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European Commission in the UK staff are looking forward to meeting with members of the public and will be on hand to answer and discuss questions about the EU. This may include the role of the EU in Wales and the UK; employment opportunities in the EU institutions; opportunities for students to study in another European country; and linguistic and cultural opportunities.

Visit Hay Does Vintage to rummage through the rails in search of glorious one-off vintage treasures. Find plenty of clothes, accessories and jewellery with Jo (Hay Does Vintage) and Kelli (Vintage Tramp). Previewing a small collection from the forthcoming Hay Does Vintage fayre in Hay on Sunday 28 June. Follow events on Facebook or Twitter @haydoesvintage and @vintagetramp.

First News First News is the award-winning weekly national newspaper for children, with over two million readers every week. Experienced First News journalists provide up-to-date articles on a range of subjects from entertainment to politics, sport to science, as well as major news stories from the UK and around the world. Come and meet us on the stand for fun and games. For updates follow us on Twitter @First_News.

Great English Outdoors & Still Ethical The Great English Outdoors and Still Ethical are sharing a stand – Shopping with a Soul – Welsh and world textiles, fine leatherwork and useful but beautiful objects for you and the home, alongside a carefully curated collection of stunning clothing, the culmination of artisanal projects in India. Visit us on our stand, or in the shop at 19 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DF. www.greatenglish.co.uk | 01497 821 205 www.stillethical.com | 07983 552 217

H&M From the cotton fields to the clothes in our stores, H&M is working to make fashion more sustainable. To learn more about our conscious actions visit www.hm.com/conscious.

Hay Castle Fire, battle and centuries of decay have left Hay Castle in peril, with much of it long closed and inaccessible. Find out about an ambitious and unique vision for its future, check out a 3D model, and share in the adventure. www.haycastletrust.org | @haycastle

Hay & District Chamber of Commerce Friendly volunteers from the Hay & District Chamber of Commerce will be on site from 10am to 6pm daily with all you need to know about Hay and the surrounding area. Whether it’s advice on a favourite bookshop, where to find a cash machine, or info on bus timetables, we’ll have a local voice on hand to help! Hay is lucky enough to have a thriving town centre filled with bookshops, quirky independent boutiques, cafés and other businesses, with barely a chain store in sight. Our Chamber of Commerce volunteers will be able to help you make the most of your visit to our incredible town.

Horizons Airstream Horizons/Gorwelion is a scheme delivered by BBC Cymru Wales in partnership with Arts Council Wales to develop new, independent contemporary music in Wales. Look out for the Horizons airstream with acoustic performances from a whole host of Welsh acts throughout the festival. More information and the full schedule will be available at the Airstream on site. Many of the performances are filmed: go to www.bbc.co.uk/horizons for footage from the Hay Festival. Follow us here for up-to-date blogs, photos and performances: http://horizons-gorwelion.tumblr.com. Tweet us here: @horizonscymru.

Lovereading4kids Book Zone Situated in the Make & Take Tent in the Hay Fever Courtyard throughout the entire festival. It is a fun and cool place for children and their families to chill out during breaks between events. There are Lovereading4kids members of staff on hand to encourage children and parents to browse books, explore the website, register as members and recommend suitable books for age groups, ability and interest. Visiting authors, editors, publishers and reviewers will drop in to offer advice and guidance in their areas of expertise. The Lovereading4kids Book Zone has special shelves to inspire a love of reading, including books for reluctant readers, dyslexia-friendly books, great books for boys, classics, picture books and contemporary novels by age range and interest age. Lovereading4kids is also co-sponsoring several dyslexiafriendly and reluctant reader workshops in the Scribblers Hut and there will be 1:1 sessions available in the Lovereading4kids Book Zone after these events in order to encourage, support and inspire a love of reading.

Mark Stephens Furniture Mark Stephens Furniture is delighted to be exhibiting at Hay Festival for the first time. Come and see our beautifully designed and made bespoke furniture; contemporary but timeless and completely unique. An opportunity to think in a relaxed atmosphere about organising your newly purchased books or simply different ways you want to enhance your home with individually designed pieces of furniture. www.markstephensfurniture.co.uk markstephensfurn@aol.com | Twitter @marksbespoke 07771 782 621 | 01874 625 900

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Oxfam Visit the Oxfam Bookshop at Hay – you’ll find it packed with great books, cards, CDs and more. From contemporary fiction to history, cookery to kids’ titles, we’ve got it covered. Better yet, every purchase helps poor communities around the world. Buy just three books and Oxfam could give a youngster a school kit including pens, books, paper and classroom equipment – everything they need to go to school.

Prospect Magazine Prospect brings together the sharpest minds on the ideas that define the modern world. What results is an entertaining and informative magazine combining compelling argument and clear-headed analysis. At Hay Festival 2015 you can try 3 issues for £1 and receive a free bottle of wine. Visit our stand for more information. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk | Twitter @prospect_uk

RSPB Cymru Visit RSPB Cymru and discover the amazing world of wildlife in Wales. Our friendly team can give you a glimpse into some practical and unusual ways you can give nature a home where you live, as well as sharing with you what opportunities there are for you and your family to enjoy a day out at your local RSPB nature reserve while supporting the incredible work we do.

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Wales Millennium Centre – Under the Spelling Wall In 2004, Wales Millennium Centre commissioned poet Gwyneth Lewis to create an inscription for the front façade of the now iconic arts centre. To celebrate the Centre’s 10th anniversary year, join Gwyneth and staff from the Centre to have a go at writing your own 21st-century inscription for the front of the national arts centre for Wales. Suitable for all ages. http://wmc10.org | Twitter @theCentre Instagram @walesmillenniumcentre

Woodland Trust ‘Without trees it’s a different story…’ Many of our greatest stories and books feature woodland. Visit our engaging, interactive exhibit and step into a pop-up storybook woodland to discover why woods and trees matter. Our friendly team will inspire you to start your own enchanting woodland story.

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Experience the festival through drawing at the Royal Drawing School Pop-Up, hosted throughout the festival in the NFU Mutual Studio. Drawing can be direct, incisive, intimate, surprising, funny or confrontational. It is a primary language natural to all human beings. Everyone can draw. Drawing from observation encourages an active engagement with the visual world around us, connecting what we see with how we think; it can help us get our thoughts in order or open up the imaginative mind. This year at Hay, the Royal Drawing School will be running drawing classes every day, from Drawing a Head or Drawing the Figure to Drawing the Graphic Novel and Drawing from Film. Sessions are taught by faculty of the Royal Drawing School, all of whom are practising artists. Sessions are open to all levels and all ages (unless otherwise stated) and paper, drawing boards, pencils and rubbers are provided. So whether you’re 8 or 80 pick up a pencil and draw with us at Hay. Full listings are included in the main programme. Formerly known as the Prince’s Drawing School, the aim of the Royal Drawing School is to raise the standard and profile of drawing through teaching and practice. We are one of only a few institutions in the world offering in-depth, quality tuition in drawing from observation. www.royaldrawingschool.org

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INSTALLATIONS Hereford College of Arts Hereford College of Arts Foundation Students have once again decorated the Hay Fever Courtyard, producing a variety of 2D and 3D outcomes in response to stories, magic, and mythical inspiration. Inspired by the journey a book can take you on, students have incorporated a range of materials including textiles, wood, ceramics and metal, creating colourful and interactive works for children to enjoy.

House of Illustration ‘Pushing the Envelope’ is a specially commissioned exhibition of decorated envelopes, designed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the introduction of the first ever postage stamp, the Penny Black, which began a relationship between stamps and illustration that continues to this day. This exhibition, curated by staff and students of the Illustration BA course at Hereford College of Arts and involving 100 internationally acclaimed illustrators, reminds us of the simple joys of sending and receiving personalised mail.

Magna Carta Chronicle Trail Test your knowledge of the Magna Carta with the Magna Carta Chronicle Trail on site at the Hay Festival. Follow the trail to ten different points around the site and answer the quiz questions for a chance to win a prize. The Magna Carta Trail will run from Tuesday 26 May to Thursday 28 May. Pick up your activity sheet from the Make & Take Tent and get started! Suitable for 8+ years.

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IN TOWN

RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £55 TUESDAY 26 MAY & SATURDAY 30 MAY 10AM–4PM

Fair on the Square 2015 23, 24, 25 MAY, HAY MARKET SQUARE

Three days of cheerful, free entertainment, in the heart of Hay. Fabulous live music programme noon-6pm daily, showcasing some of the best bands from the area, plus vintage market, food stalls and colourful fresh flowers. The beautifully restored Cheese Market hosts art and crafts, and exhibitions about the history of Hay and the railway. Guided living history walks too, from www.haytours.org. More information on Hay Tours below.

Castle Street Food Market in the Honesty Bookshop OPEN DAILY DURING THE FESTIVAL

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Children’s Traditional Printmaking Workshop RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £22.50 THURSDAY 28 MAY 10AM–1PM

Perfectly adapted to be safe and thoroughly engaging, in this workshop children will learn all about design and printmaking to create their own artworks. All materials and refreshments provided. Suitable for 8+ years.

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Step through the stone archway on the High Street and you are in Hay Castle’s attractive walled garden. Sit at wooden tables under canvas canopies, eat delicious street food and soak up the festival atmosphere in the town centre. Bon appétit!

RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP EVENTS During Hay Festival 2015, films are shown every evening at Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema, as well as weekend matinees. There is also a range of events in the Bookshop Studio as below. To book tickets for these events, and for full cinema listings, please visit www.boothbooks.co.uk.

Papercutting Workshop RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £20 SATURDAY 23 MAY & SUNDAY 24 MAY 10AM–12PM

Learn the ancient craft of papercutting with artist Yasemin Wigglesworth. Explore other artists’ work, different papers and the techniques involved in designing and cutting. Create a final piece of work to be proud of. Materials provided. Suitable for all abilities.

The Stroud Silhouette Company The Secret Garden Screen RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £35 SATURDAY 23 MAY & SUNDAY 24 MAY 1PM–5PM

This unique, handcrafted backdrop by papercut artist Yasmin Wigglesworth transports the silhouette of your children into a scene from The Secret Garden. Captured by professional photographer Kate Beer. Email or call to book: cutsafinefigure@gmail.com | 07941 181 498.

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Create beautiful prints in these practical workshops with renowned book-cover artist, illustrator, and printmaker, Hannah Firmin. Book one or multiple sessions to really advance your techniques. All materials and lunch provided.

WALKS SUNDAY 24 MAY & SUNDAY 31 MAY 11.45AM–3PM MEET AT HAY CASTLE BUS STOP, OXFORD ROAD £8 ADULT, £4 CHILD (INCLUDES BUS FARE)

Hay Ho! Bus Walk Join local walking guidebook authors Les Lumsdon and Mike Ledlie on a beautiful walk in the borders. You’ll catch the 11.50am Hay Ho! bus from Hay Castle, alight in England and then walk back to Hay on footpaths offering superb views of the Black Mountains. Learn a little local history and the story of the Hay Ho!, a rural Sunday bus service saved from extinction by the community. Easy walking with gentle climbs, 4–5 miles, several stiles, sorry no dogs. Walk ends in Hay at 3pm. See www.haywalking.org for more info and to book.

River Walks River Walks can be booked online at hayfestival.org or with the Box Office on 01497 822 629. For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. TUESDAY 26 MAY [420] 9.30AM–2PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE FOR BUS £10

River Walk 1 Join the Wye & Usk Foundation trip around the Wye and its tributaries near Hay to see the rare and unusual creatures that live in the river, and to see what progress is being made to restore the run of salmon. Please bring a packed lunch.

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Hay Heritage Trail

Join the Wye & Usk Foundation trip around the Wye and its tributaries near Hay to see the rare and unusual creatures that live in the river, and to see what progress is being made to restore the run of salmon. Please bring a packed lunch.

This tour takes in all the main historic features of Hay, including the Cheese and Butter Markets, some of the town’s former public wells and many of its pubs (there used to be 40 inns in Hay back in the good old days). It also covers the three gateways to the original medieval walled town, Hay Castle, and the place where people would ford the River Wye before the first bridge was built in 1763. Tour begins and ends in the centre of Hay outside the Cheese Market, Memorial Square, HR3 5AF.

Primrose Earth Awareness Trust: Site Visit with Paul Benham The permaculture pioneer guides us around his sustainable food centre, which has won 12 True Taste of Wales awards in three years – including gold for Sustainable Development – and as the most productive acre and a half in the UK is a blueprint model for future food security.

HAY TOURS Hay Tours run guided walking tours around the town that are about people, places and past events in the history of Hay. They aim to provide a colourful overview to the town and its cultural heritage. They are designed to be fairly short, informative and fun. We strongly recommend booking tour places in advance. Tickets can be purchased online at www.haytours.org or call 01544 327 598. SATURDAY 23 MAY 10AM-12PM MEET AT CHEESE MARKET £6

Explore Hay’s Old Railway The railway formed an important part of life in Hay for over 100 years, preceded by a horse-drawn tram that followed the same route from Brecon to Kington. An exact replica model of the railway was recently discovered and restored by members of Hay History Group. This tour begins with a demonstration of the working model before heading across town to follow the route of the railway line from Hay Station to The Warren. This scenic walk of c.3 miles is mostly flat and incorporates town pavements and farmland footpaths with some stiles. Tour begins and ends in the centre of Hay outside the Cheese Market, Memorial Square, HR3 5AF.

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 6PM-8PM MEET AT BLUE BOAR

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Historic Pub Crawl A guided historical tour of Hay’s pubs, with a half pint or equivalent at each stop. The tour will give a potted history of each of the five pubs visited, plus an overview of Hay when it boasted 41 inns. Tour begins at the Blue Boar, Oxford Road, HR3 5DF and ends at the Swan Hotel, Church Street. FRIDAY 29 MAY 2PM-4PM MEET AT HAY CLOCK TOWER

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Armstrong Murder Trail Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong was the only solicitor in the UK ever to be hanged, on 31 May 1922. He was convicted of murdering his wife with arsenic. He worked in Hay and lived in Cusop. This 2-mile walk takes in relevant sites to explain the story of events. The walk leader will suggest Major Armstrong should not have been convicted upon the basis of the evidence given at his trial. Tour begins at Hay Clock Tower, Broad Street, HR3 5BU and ends at Cusop Church, with an optional group walk back into Hay. SUNDAY 31 MAY 2PM-3PM MEET AT SWAN HOTEL

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Swan Loop This is the perfect one-hour tour if you want a summary of Hay. Starting at the Swan Hotel, this route stops off at the site of the original Motte and Bailey Castle that existed before the Hay Castle we know today. It incorporates Carles Gate, one of the three original gateways into the former medieval walled town of La Haie, and makes a stop in the grounds of Hay Castle en route back to the Swan. Tour begins and ends outside main entrance of the Swan Hotel, Church Street, HR3 5DQ.

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Getting to Hay

Car Parking

Hay-on-Wye is situated just off the A348 between Brecon and Hereford. The Festival is well signposted. The nearest railway station is Hereford, twenty miles away, and Hereford bus station is served by National Express coaches.

There is all-weather parking at the Macmillan Car Park directly opposite the Festival site (off Llanigon Road). The cost is £6 per day.

Railway enquiries nationalrail.co.uk 08457 48 49 50 Coach information from nationalexpress.com 08705 80 80 80 Public transport information from traveline.info 08712 00 22 33

Festival Bus Link Hereford to Hay

There is further all-weather parking at Clyro Court (Baskerville Hall Hotel), HR3 5LE. A direct free shuttle bus service will operate between Clyro Court and the Festival site. The shuttle bus stop is by the main gate by the road. Please allow up to 30 minutes for journey time. All festival-goers can pre-book parking spaces. Parking costs £6 per day, which includes shuttle bus tickets. The last shuttle buses leave the Festival site for Clyro Court after the last event each day. Disabled parking will continue to be available on the Festival site. Please book a disabled parking space at the time of booking tickets.

Our special festival bus service linking with trains and coaches at Hereford’s train and bus stations runs for the duration of the Festival. There is also a scheduled bus service (Service 39) from Hereford and Brecon to Hay-onWye operating six days a week, Mondays to Saturdays. The 39A Hay Ho! bus runs on Sundays at 11.50am, 2.50pm and 5.20pm from the Oxford Road bus stop in Hay. Detailed timetable at hayfestival.org/travel.

A regular shuttle bus service will be running between the Festival site and the town centre throughout the Festival. Day tickets for the shuttle bus are £1. Pick up and drop off points are Oxford Road Car Park and the Festival site.

Special Festival Bus Service Tickets

The shuttle bus is supported by Richard Booth’s Bookshop and the Hay and District Chamber of Commerce.

Adults £7 single £10 return Children £3 single £5 return Family of up to 4 persons (max. 2 adults) £20 return Through tickets all the way to Hay (train and bus) can be purchased at train stations nationwide.

The Village Shuttle Bus Service Avoid the queues and choose the greener way to travel – leave your car at home this year and take the Village Shuttle Bus. We will be running bus services on two routes this year, linking up local villages to the festival site. The buses will call at stops including Llanigon, Felindre, Glasbury, Talgarth, Bronllys, Llowes and Clyro. Tickets cost £2 per journey. To find out more go to hayfestival.org/shuttlebus.

Car Share Scheme Hay Festival partners with goCarShare, BlaBlaCar.com and Liftshare to help connect drivers with spare seats and those needing help getting to Hay. It’s a great way to meet likeminded people, as well as being a big help in reducing carbon emissions and congestion – and it also saves everyone money.

Local Taxis Taxi share scheme is available from: A2B Taxis 01874 658 899 Julie’s 07899 846 592 Radnor and Kington Taxis 07831 898 361

Self Drive Hire LT Baynham, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 273 298

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Cycle Park A cycle park is available on the Festival site.

Accommodation For the Hay Festival Bedfinder Service call Maria on 01497 821 526 until 21 May, email beds@hayfestival.org or visit hayfestival.org/beds. Please note, we do not independently vet properties offered through our Bedfinder Service. Alternatively try our sponsor hotels and campsites. They are all excellent. Visitors may also try the following Tourist Information Services: Hay-on-Wye 01497 820 144 Talgarth 01874 712 226 Brecon 01874 622 485 Crickhowell 01873 812 105 Hereford 01432 268 430 Kington 01544 230 778

Camping Gypsy Castle Campsite Visit gypsycastlecamping.co.uk Tangerine Fields Campsite 07821 807 000 or visit tangerinefields.co.uk Wye Meadow Camping 07836 500 021 or visit peak-performanceconsultancy.co.uk/haycamping Pillow Camping & Glamping 01666 504 601 or email contact@pillow.co.uk

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We have pledged to apply the green principles we discuss on stage to our own practices at Hay Festivals worldwide. For eight years we have been engaged in a programme of managing and mitigating our environmental impact through the Hay on Earth programme. We have focused on three key areas: our own direct impacts; the impacts of our audience; and the programming of events that will stimulate debate and discussion about key issues. We use BS8901 as our management guide and some of our key achievements are listed below.

With our direct impacts we have focused on the core areas of energy, waste, transport, procurement and venues. Achievements include: Reduced use of resources including printed materials (down by 35%), diesel (down by 25%) and electricity (down by 25%). Recycling 75% of the waste produced on site including in 2014: 6 tonnes of cardboard, 4 tonnes of dry mixed recyclates and 4 tonnes of glass. Composting 9.7 tonnes of food waste and other compostables. In partnership with local company Caplor Energy, installing solar heating for our staff hot water requirements. Providing water standpipes across the site so that people can fill their own bottles. We continue to use ISO 20121 as a management tool to help us in assessing our direction.

HAY ON EARTH

Hay on Earth is Hay Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing sustainability programme. The Hay on Earth Forum on Thursday 21 May is a series of sustainability-focused events exploring current global issues and, in particular, asking what the new UK government should be doing to deliver truly sustainable policies. There are also many related events taking place throughout the week.

Sustainability also includes financial and social impacts and a few examples of these are: Free tickets for students in tertiary education. Free loan of our thermal imaging camera for local communities to assess heat loss from buildings. We purchase from local businesses where feasible and encourage our contractors to do the same. Our hope and belief is that each year the standard of debate increases as people become more informed and involved, with an awareness that they individually can make a difference, as well as collectively lobby for change â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in business, in government, in society. For more information on Hay on Earth, please visit hayfestival.org/hay-on-earth.

Our biggest indirect impact is caused by people visiting the festival, with transport, accommodation, etc. While this has a huge benefit economically, we look for ways to reduce the environmental impacts. Examples include: Provision of a public bus service from our nearest train station to Hay, which runs up to ten times a day with a total of 2,900 passengers in 2014. Provision of minibuses which link festival-goers with local B&Bs and the surrounding villages and towns, with 1,112 passengers in 2014.

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69, 114, 121 Susan, 405 ACKROYD, Juliet, 182 ADDARIO, Lynsey, 140 AGUTTER, Jenny, 388 AIKINS, Kingsley, 10 AL-KHALILI, Jim, 127, 149 ALBERT, Justin, 227, 410 ALBERT, Corisande, 254 ALEKSANYAN, Tigran, 120 ALLAN, Nicholas, HF134 ALLFREY, Ellah, 203 ALMOND, David, HF5 ALVAREZ, Hernando, 113 AMPUERO, Roberto, 345 ANAND, Anita, 54, 86, 152, 189 ANDERSON, Clive, 320 ANDERSON, Jamie, HF10 ANDERSON, Tom, 187 ANDRAKA, Jack, 29 ANDREWS, June, 283 ANTONY, Steve, HF86, HF94 ARLIDGE, Anthony, 23 ARMITAGE, Simon, 110, 174 ARMITSTEAD, Claire, 319, 334, 343 ARMSTRONG, Karen, 100 ARROWSMITH, Sarah, 252 ASBRIDGE, Thomas, 340 ASTON, Juliet, 128 ATINUKE, HF6, HF14 ATWAN, Abdel Bari, 52 AYRES, Pam, 265 BADDIEL, David, HF41 BAINBRIDGE, David, 92 BAKKER, Gerbrand, 197 BALCH, Oliver, 73, 123, 161, 243, 332 BALLINGER, Rhoda, 243 BANKS-BLANEY, William, 271 BARKER, Juliet, 184, 224 BARKER, Nicola, 307 BARKHAM, Patrick, 256 BARNETT, Emma, 228 BARR, Catherine, HF162 (page 34), HF50 BARTLETT, Jamie, 276 BARZUN, Matthew, 201 BATES, Laura, 329, 365, 387 BATMANGHELIDJH, Camila, 354, 365 BEARD, Richard, 316 BEER, Gillian, 230 BEEVOR, Anthony, 46 BEGG, Patrick, 2 BELL, Emily, 357 BENNHOLD, Katrin, 138 BERELOWITZ, Sue, 354 BEVAN, Sara, 380 BIDDULPH, Rob, HF121, HF127 BLACK, Carol, 79 BLACKER, Terence, 209 BLACKMAN, Malorie, HF48, HF59 BLACKMORE, Simon, 257 BLAKE, Ian, 120 BLANCHARD, Tamsin, 24

BOSTRIDGE, Ian,

CONTI, Nina,

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297 63 BOUCHER, Andrew, 14 BOWDEN-JONES, Henrietta, 13 BOWLER, Tom, HF9 BOWLES, Lynn, 393 BOYCOTT, Rosie, 19, 39, 43, 60, 87, 140, 181, 257, 312 BOYLE, David, 5, 291 BOYNE, John, 170, HF56, 226 BRADFORD, Chris, HF75 BRAHMACHARI, Sita, W62, W63 BRIGSTOCKE, Marcus, 309, 328, 337, 363, 383 BROOK, Rhidian, 316 BROOKS, David, 65 BROOKS, Xan, 368 BROTTON, Jerry, 229 BROWN, Matt, HF25 BRUTON-SEAL, Julie, 288 BUERGENTHAL, Thomas, 41, 107 BULLOUGH, Oliver, 93, 199, 360 BULMER, John, 166 BUMPUS, Jessica, 362 BURNELL, Cerrie, HF63 BURRAGE, Clare, 293 BURTON, Jessie, 84, 135 BURTON-HILL, Clemency, 183, 223, 260, 300, 301, 348, 394, 411 BUTCHART, Pamela, HF151, 416 (page 70) BUTLER, Eddie, 215 BUTLER, Jill, 227 BUTLER, Steven, HF111 BUTTERWORTH, Nick, HF29 BYRNE, Jason, 75 CABLE, Jonathan, 25 CADE, Stuart, 128 CALOMIRIS, Charles W, 402 CALVIN, Mike, 281 CAMDEN, Steven, HF89, HF108 CAMPBELL, James, HF126 CASSIDY, Cathy, HF119, HF136 CAULFIELD, Jo, 112 CHAKRABARTI, Shami, 32 CHARNEY, Noah, 200 CHATTERJI, Joya, 42 CHILTON, Martin, 44, HF34, 171 CHURCHILL, Julia, HF160 CHURCHWELL, Sarah, 67, 69, 85, 129, 148 CLACKSON, James, 298 CLARE, Horatio, 256, 296, 353, 397 CLARK, Alex, 103, 185 CLARKE, Gillian, 187 CLARKE, Oz, 240 CLAYTON, Nicola, 145 CLEMENTS, Luke, 272 COBB, Rebecca, HF141, HF127 COELHO, Joseph, HF2 COFFIN PRICE, Valerie, 160 COGGAN, Helena, HF110 COHEN, Nick, 153 COLE, Melissa, 208 COLE, Steve, HF72

7 165 COPE, Nick, HF144, HF152 CORRIGAN, Kitty, 18, 227, 249 CORT, Ben, HF12 COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank, HF62 COTTRINGER, Anne, 272 COUGHLIN, Con, 287, 327, 377, 386 COWELL, Cressida, HF1, HF15 CRACE, John, 286, 322 CRADDOCK-BENNETT, Luke, 14 CRAWFORD, Robert, 385 CRIADO-PEREZ, Caroline, 39 CRITCHLOW, Hannah, 53, 95 CROMPTON, Sarah, 21, 35, 48, 92, 115, 125 CRONSHAW, Andrew, 120 CROSSAN, Sarah, HF5 CROWN, Sarah, 335 CRYSTAL, Ben, 295 CRYSTAL, David, 295 CUMMING, Alan, 348 CURHAM, Siobhan, HF129 DALY, Tegan, 14 DARTNELL, Lewis, 210 DAVID, Keren, HF19 DAVIDSON, Jane, 4, 15 DAVIES, Benji, HF49 DAVIES, Chris, 8 DAVIES, Nia, 323 DAVIES, Nicola, HF3, HF24 DAVIES, Peter, 231 DAVIS, Dan, 58, 190 DAWS, Martin, HF32 DAWSON, James, HF48 DE SAULLES, Tony, HF7 DE SOUZA, Michael, HF161 DEACON, Michael, 228 DEE, Jack, 245 DENCIK, Lina, 25 DICK AND DOM, HF78 DODD, Emma, HF100, HF113 DOLAN, Paul, 339, 356 DON, Monty, 238 (page 52), 275 DONAHAYE, Jasmine, 167 DORLING, Danny, 59 DOUGHERTY, John, HF120 DOUGLAS, Jonathan, HF48 DOWSWELL, Paul, HF39 DOYLE, Catherine, HF35 DRISCOLL, Martin, 191 DU SAUTOY, Marcus, 266, 297 DUFF, Andrew, 216 DUNE MACADAM, Heather, 125 DUNLOP, Tessa, 179 DUNTHORNE, Joe, 323 DWAN, Lisa, 398, 399, 407 DYLAN’S AMAZING DINOSAURS, HF33 EARLE, Phil, HF69 EAST, Warren, 10 EASTAWAY, Rob, HF102 EBELING, Mick, 96 ECCLESHARE, Julia, HF136, HF145 EDWARDS, Jonathan, 156

INDEX ELFYN, Bethan,

01497 822 629 315, 361

ELIAS QUARTET, 300 ELLEN, Mark,

ELLIOTT, Louise,

ENGINEERING CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS,

W49, W50, W51 189 ETHERINGTON, Lorenzo, HF52 ETHERINGTON, Robin, HF52 EVANS, Mary, HF146, HF153 EVANS, Wynne, 12, 299 EYRE, Richard, 395 FAIZAL, Farah, 235 FALEIRO, Sonia, 332 FAN LI, Julia, 155 FELTZ, Vanessa, 137 FILIU, Jean-Pierre, 264 FINCH, Catrin, 211, 318 FINLAY, Camilla, 128 FINLAYSON, Iain, 124 FLORENCE, Peter, 26, 50, 64, 106, HF56, 206, 215, 234, 238 (page 52), 263, 340 FONDEBRIDER, Jorge, 73 FORREST, Mark, 278 FOST, Liz, HF54 FOTHERINGHAM, William, 225 FOUR THOUGHT, 341, 346 FOWLER, Dylan, 367 FOWLER, Steven, 323 FRANCIS, Gavin, 359 FRANSMAN, Karrie, 317 FRASER, Antonia, 344 FRAYLING, Christopher, 115 FREEDMAN, Claire, HF12, HF22 FREEMAN, George, 3 FREESE, Katherine, 195 FRITSCH, Valerie, 162 FRY, Stephen, 50, 68 FRYERS, Andy, 2, 6, 214, 231, 284, 314, 408, 412 GABRIEL, Hayden, 273 GAIMAN, Neil, HF156 (page 63), 319 GARDNER, Lyn, HF93 GATES, Tom, HF4 ´ , Ivana, 223 IVANA GAVRIC GEIM, Andre, 158 GELIOT, Emma, 250 GHOSH, Amitav, 185 GIFFORD, Clive, HF34 GLOSSOP, Christianne, 263 GODWIN, Georgina, 33, 80, 135, 178, 218, 310, 331, 379 GOLDEN, Che, HF114 GOLDRING, Mark, 194 GOLDSMITH, Harvey, 321 GOLDSMITH, Rosie, 241, 325, 345, 372 (page 84), 392, 405 ENRIGHT, Anne,

GOLDSTONE, Richard,

HEPBURN, Sam,

GOLDSWORTHY, Vesna,

HEWINSON, Glyn,

HF9 263 HEYWOOD-THOMAS, Nicola, 237 HIGHFIELD, Roger, 158 HILTON, Steve, 98 HINDELL, Alison, 261 HINTZ, Arne, 25 HISLOP, Victoria, 218 HITCHENS, Peter, 113, 121 HOLDEN, Anthony, 202 HOLLAND, Tom, 114, 131, 138 HORROCKS, Peter, 67 HUGHES, Bettany, 95, 131 HUGHES-GAMES, Martin, 16 HUMBLE, Kate, 249 HUNTER, Chris, 207 HUSBAND, Amy, HF162 (page 34) HUTTON, Will, 159 IMRIE, Celia, 379 INGRAHAM, Caroline, 289 IRWIN, Robert, 116 ISHIGURO, Kazuo, 90 ISMAIL, Yasmeen, HF58, HF68 JARVIS, Chris, HF84 JENCKS, Charles, 258 JENKINS, Ian, 239 JENKINS, Simon, 344 JENNER, Greg, 48 JHA, Alok, 132, 139 JILLA, Shireen, 178 JOHNSTON, Guy, 260 JOLLEY, Rachael, 69, 114 JONES, Carwyn, 151 JONES, Dylan, 71, 217, 321 JONES, Gareth P, HF154 JONES, Gareth Steadman, 253 JONES, Philip, 311 JONES, Pip, HF138, HF149 JUDGE, Chris, HF38, HF45 JUDGE, Igor, 23 JUFRESA, Laia, 366 JUNIPER, Tony, 305

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169 242 ELLIS, Hugh, 214, 242 ELPHINSTONE, Abi, HF90, HF163 (page 58) ELTAHAWY, Mona, 387 ENGEL, Matthew, 410 ELLIS, Chris,

28, 107 241 GOLOMBOK, Susan, 104 GORDON, Bryony, 228, 338 GOSWAMI, Usha, 17 GOWER, Jon, 73, 88 GOWING, Nik, 28, 52, 87, 142, 207 GRAVETT, Emily, HF60, HF68, HF76 GRAY, Jennifer, HF117 GRAY, John, 304 GRAY, Peter, 287 GRAYLING, AC, 36, 67 GREENWOOD, Elinor, HF87, HF91 GREER, Germaine, 56, 106 GRICE, Joe, 181 GRIFFITHS, Jay, 26 GRIFFITHS, René, 73 GRIFFITHS, Vanessa, 257 GRIFFITHS-WILLIAMS, Justin, 161 GRIGORE, Alexandra, 155 GROSS, Philip, 160 GRYLLS, Bear, 394 GUILLAIN, Adam, HF46 GUILLAIN, Charlotte, HF46 HADLOW, Janice, 196 HAHN, Daniel, 34, 141, 144, 162, 170, 197, 264 HAIN, Peter, 409 HALL, Edith, 47 HALL, Sarah, 335 HALL, William, 186 HAMER, Kate, 331 HAMMOND, Claudia, 293 HAMMOND, Phil, 267 HANCOCK, Sheila, 143 HANDY, Charles, 133 HARARI, Yuval Noah, 86 HARCOURT, Maggie, HF11 HARDING, James, 188 HARDING, Rosie, 70 HARI, Johann, 113, 121 HARKIN, James, 406 HARPER, Lizzie, 172 HARRI, Guto, 10, 151, 217 HARRINGTON, Richard, 397, 399 HARRIS, MG, HF10 HARRIS, Pippa, 388 HARRISON, John, 150 HARRISON, Melissa, 122 HARROLD, AF, HF60 HARRY POTTER FAN EVENTS, HF88, HF92 HAUGHTON, Chris, HF55, HF68 HAWKS, Tony, 282 HAY, Daisy, 35 HAY COMMUNITY CHOIR, 8 HAY WRITERS’ CIRCLE, 173 HAYNES, Jayne, 248 HEATH, Allister, 228 HELM, Dieter, 296 HEMMING, John, 105 HENDERSON, Kate, 214, 242 HENDRA, Sue, HF22, HF30 HENN, Sophy, HF127, HF132 HENNESSY, Peter, 77, 87

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W46, W47, W48 HF32 KEARNEY, Martha, 56, 90 KEATING, Roly, 57 KEAY, John, 216 KEEN, Andrew, 148 KEHLMANN, Daniel, 141 KEITA, Seckou, 318 KEMP, Martin, 180 KENNEDY, Helena, 354, 378 KENNEDY, Nigel, 411, 413 KERR, Rachel, 374 KESSLER, Liz, HF19 KETT, Timothy, W52–W61 KEY, Alice, 29 KEYES, Marian, 392 KIDD, Mairi, HF103 KING, Aby, HF97 KING CHARLES, 30 KNIGHT, Steven, 27 KORN, Peter, 292 KARADOG, Aneirin,

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KOTHARI,

MCCALL SMITH, Alexander,

O’SULLIVAN, Suzanne,

KRAMER, Matthew,

Lopa, 285 136 KUMAR, Satish, 412 KURKI-SUONIO, Sanna, 120 LAGERCRANTZ, David, 176 LAKE, Nick, HF89 LAMPAERT, Eric, 119 LANCASHIRE, Sarah, 62 LANDY, Derek, HF101 LANG, Tim, 3 LANGTON, Rae, 268 LAOUTARIS, Chris, 290 LAYTON, Neil, HF15 LEAR, Caroline, 243 LEA-WILSON, Alison, 249 LEDERER, Helen, 33 LEES, Jenny, 254 LEHANE, Dennis, 88 LETHERLAND, Lucy, HF83 LEVESON, Brian, 107 LEVY, Deborah, 307 LEWIS, Llyˆr Gwyn, 162 LEWIS-STEMPEL, John, 18 LEYSHON, Nell, 373 LIEVEN, Dominic, 360 LIEVESLEY, Denise, 194 LIGHT, Alison, 220 LINDOP, Jay, 181 LINNET, Paul, HF30 LITTLER, Jamie, HF95 LLOYD, Christopher, HF65 LLOYD, John, 406 LLOYD, Saci, 15 LODGE, David, 310 LOH, Maria, 390 LORD, Peter, HF139 LOUDON, Mary, 122 LOZANO, Brenda, 366 LUCAS, Caroline, 284 MAAS, Sarah J, HF26 MACCULLOCH, Diarmaid, 152 MACDONALD, Helen, 347 MACFARLANE, Robert, 353 MACFARLANE-BARROW, Magnus, 21 MADDOX, Bronwen, 121 MAELOG, 285 MAGIC ANIMAL FRIENDS, HF73 MAGRS, Paul, HF70, HF85 MAHER, Kevin, 241 MALCOLM, Noel, 175 MALKANI, Bharat, 177 MANZOOR, Sarfraz, 67, 153, 259, 276, 352 MARÇAL, Katrine, 277 MARSHALL, George, 15 MARLOW, Tim, 154 MARTYN LEWIS, Daniel, 163, 204, 244, 279 MATHARU, Taran, HF110 MAXWELL, Glyn, 351 MAYO, Simon, HF23 MCALLISTER, Laura, 205 MCBRATNEY, Sam, HF8

MCCARTNEY, Mary,

193 275 MCCRORY, Helen, 399 MCCURRY, Steve, 154 MCFADDEN, Johnjoe, 149 MCGREGOR, Andrew, 31 MCINTOSH, Malachi, 307 MCINTYRE, Sarah, HF106 MCKENNA, Virginia, HF105 MCKITTERICK, Rosamond, 334 MCMILLAN, Ian, 45, 55 MCNALLY, Adrian, 246 MCVEIGH, Sasha, 118 MEEK FAMILY, HF122, HF128 MELAMED, Claire, 194 MELIA, Steve, 6 MELLING, David, HF79 MERES, Jonathan, HF99 MERRITT, Stephanie, 94, 317 MEYER, Julie, 10 MIDBY, Catarina, 362 MIDDLETON, Andy, 7, 231 MINECRAFT, HF36 MIODOWNIK, Mark, 381 MITCHELL, David, 301, 325 MITCHINSON, John, 98, 179, 406 MITTER, Rana, 99, 146 MITTON, Jacqueline, HF140 MOHAMMED, Nadifa, 203 MOLINARI, Nadia, 351 MONKS, Lydia, HF81 MOODY, Sarah, 367 MOORE, Peter, 34 MOORHOUSE, Tom, HF107 MORAM, Michelle, 293 MORDEN, Daniel, HF116, 367 MORGAN, Elizabeth, 397 MORPURGO, Michael, HF123, HF133, HF147 MORRIS, Jackie, 404 MORRIS, Marc, 306 MULLAN, John, 66, 83 MUNBY, Julian, 128 MUNIR, Kamal, 42 MURPHY-O’CONNOR, Cormac, 19 MURRAY, Tamsyn, HF47 MURRAY, Tiffany, 325 NAFISI, Azar, 116, 129 NAWAZ, Maajid, 199 NEIMAN, Susan, 49 NICHOLS, Carl, 5 NICHOLSON, Virginia, 372 (page 84), 388 NICHOLSON, William, 398 NORS, Dorthe, 141 NORTHFIELD, Gary, HF155 NORWICH, John Julius, 274 NOZEDAR, Adele, 172 O’CONNELL, Paddy, 336, 375 O’CONNOR, Sean, 222 O’DOHERTY, David, HF45 O’HAGAN, Andrew, 43, 51, 66 O’HARA, Mary, 59

ODDIE, Bill,

330 269 OKRI, Ben, 297 OPPEL, Ken, HF9 OSWALD, Peter, 72 OVERTON, Iain, 123 OWEN, Jamie, 81 PALMER, Amanda, 358 PALMER, Tom, HF53, W64, W65 PANTUCCI, Raffaello, 403 PARKER, Tim, 22 PARLATO, Marco, 162 PARRIS, SJ, 193 PASTIS, Stephan, HF17 PAULL, Laline, 122 PEARCE, Fred, 408 PEIN, Malcolm, W52–W61 PENN, Rob, 227 PENNINGTON, Michael, 407 PETERS, Helen, HF104 PETERS, Steve, 44 PETTERSON, Per, 197 PETTIE, Andrew, 76 PHILLIPS, Robert, 148 PHOENIX COMICS WORKSHOPS,

HF61, HF64, HF67, HF74, HF76, HF80 PICHON, Liz, HF4 PIKOULIS, John, 182 PINE, Courtney, 371 PIORO, Daniel, HF123, HF147 PODGER, Rachel, 183 ´ , Srđa, 333 POPOVIC PORTAS, Mary, 198 POSKITT, Kjartan, HF71 POSTER, Tom, 260 PRATT, Non, HF48 PRETTY, Jules, 314 PRIESTLEY, Chris, HF70 PROFFIT, Stuart, 347 PUNT, Steve, 309, 337 QUINLAN, Carrie, 328, 363, 383 RAFFERTY, Sean, 192 RAHILL, Elske, 162 RAHMAN, Zoe, 371 RAMPLING, Charlotte, 101, 117 RAUSING, Sigrid, 307 RAYNER, Catherine, HF135 RAYNER, Jay, 232 REES, Martin, 102 REEVES, Emma, 424 (page 53) REID, Alison, HF123, HF147 REID, Jane, 293 RHYDDERCH, Francesca, 150, 167 RICH, David, 401 RICH, Harry, 401 RICHARDSON, Miranda, 385, 399 RIDDELL, Chris, HF130, HF136 RIDDELL, Mary, 228 ROBERTS, Andrew, 389 ROBERTS, Susan, 174 ROKISON, Abigail, 212 RONSON, Jon, 157

INDEX ROSE, Pamela,

SMITH, Alex T,

UNTHANK, Becky,

ROSENBERG,

SMITH, Dan,

UNTHANK, Rachel,

ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL WORKSHOPS,

W1–W35 RSPB WORKSHOPS, W36, W37, W38,

W39, W40, W41 355 SACKS, Jonathan, 188 SAGE, Angie, HF57, HF66 SALDAÑA PARIS, Daniel, 366 SALISBURY, Eurig, 323 SALISBURY, Melinda, HF35 SALMOND, Alex, 378 SAMBROOK, Richard, 357 SAMSON, Polly, 331 SANDBROOK, Dominic, 255 SANDS, Philippe, 41, 107, 130, 136, 235 SANS, 120 SAUNDERS, Kate, HF145 SAXON, Lucy, HF110 SCASE, Wendy, 247 SCHAMA, Simon, 364, 384 SCHLOSSER, Eric, 342 SCOTT, Katie, HF109 SCULL, Andrew, 94 SCURR, Martin, 248 SCURR, Ruth, 87, 111 SEAL, Matthew, 288 SEAR, Helen, 250 SEATON, Jean, 308 SEIERSTAD, Åsne, 270 SELLA, Andrea, 58 SEN, Amartya, 142 SERGEANT, John, 262 SETH, Anil, HF34 SETH, Vikram, 343 SHAFAK, Elif, 69, 97 SHAH, Hetan, 194 SHAHEED, Ahmed, 235 SHAMSIE, Kamila, 311 SHANI, Ornit, 42 SHAPIRO, Beth, 38 RUTHERFORD, Adam,

SHAUN THE SHEEP WORKSHOPS, HF40,

HF43, HF51 103, 182 SHELTON, Dave, HF70 SHORROCK, Mark, 2 SIEGHART, William, 97 SIMMS, Andrew, 5, 291 SIMMS, Brendan, 302 SINGH, Simon, 108 SKELTON, Helen, HF31 SKENE, Debra, 293 SKIPWORTH, Mark, 126, 262 SKOULDING, Zoe, 323 SMALE, Holly, HF96 SHEERS, Owen,

HF150 HF39 SMITH, Derek, 190 SMITH, Jim, HF27 SMITH, Will, 337, 345 SNOW, Jon, 333, 354, 357 SNOW, Dan, 313 SNOW, Peter, 313 SOLOMON, Andrew, 82 SPARKES, Ali, HF82 SPITERI, Sharleen, 164 ST GEORGE, Paul, 84, 133 ST JOHN, Lauren, HF105 STAMP, Emer, HF137 STARKEY, David, 400 STENHAM, Polly, 84 STERN, Nick, 132 STEVENS, Robin, HF42 STEWART, Harriet, 66 STOCK, Francine, 22, 101, 128, 143, 200, 270, 304, 358 STOTHARD, Peter, 111, 131 STROUD, Jonathan, HF66 STROUD, Rick, 386 SULLIVAN, Erin, 212 SUMMERS, Julie, 236 SUTCLIFFE, Tom, 61 SUTHERLAND, John, 286 SWIFT, Graham, 64 SYAL, Meera, 352 SYKES, Brian, 312 SYMES, Susie, 77, 91 SZRETER, Simon, 221

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251

TEXAS, 164 THAROOR, Shashi,

332, 356

THE BOOKSHOP BAND, HF11 THE ESSAY, 417

(page 24), 418 (page 40)

THE KING OF THE SKY, HF21 THE STAVES,

THE STORYTELLERS ENSEMBLE, HF123,

HF147 THE UNTHANKS, 246

Gareth, 281 388 THORN, Tracey, 368 THORPE, David, 4, 15 TIERNAN, Tommy, 370 TIMCHENKO, Galina, 93 TINARIWEN, 285 TÓIBÍN, Colm, 40, 85 TOKSVIG, Sandi, 68, 147 TOLL, Rosie, 242 TOMBS, Robert, 20 TONKIN, Nick, 249 TOPSY AND TIM, HF125 TORDAY, Piers, HF37 TOYNBEE, Polly, 37 TREMAIN, Rose, 234 TRIMBLE, Rhys, 323 TURNER, Frank, 315, 326 TWEED, Chris, 11 THOMAS,

THOMAS, Heidi,

USHER, Karen,

246 246

VALENTINE, Jenny,

HF5, 170 Hans, 391 VAN DEN BOSCH, Margareta, 362 VASILYEVA, Nataliya, 93 VENKATESH, Divya, 155 VERE, Ed, HF115, HF127 VERNON, Polly, 338 VILLANI, Cedric, 266 VINCENT, Andre, 328, 363, 383 VIRA, Bhaskar, 42 WAGNER, Esther-Miriam, 382 WAHL-JORGENSEN, Karin, 25 WAINWRIGHT, Sally, 62 WAITE, Terry, 379 WAKELING, Edward, 376 WALDEGRAVE, William, 259 WALFORD DAVIES, Damian, 316 WALKER, David, 37 WALLACE, Danny, HF95 WANNER, Zukiswa, 203 WARD, James, 213 WARNER, Marina, 109 WATSON, Mark, 168, 178 WEBB, Holly, HF18, HF28 WEIR, Arabella, HF96 WELLESLEY, Rosie, HF157 (page 59), HF158 (page 65) WELSH, Irvine, 51, 66 WESTHEAD, Charlie, 249 WHEATLE, Alex, HF108 WHITE, Geoff, 280 (page 28) WIEDER-ATHERTON, Sonia, 117 WILCOX, Claire, 24 WILKINS, Clive, 145 WILKINSON, Glenn, 280 (page 28) WILKINSON, Sue, 147 WILLIAMS, Dilys, 362 WILLIAMS, Richard, 324, 369 WILLIAMS, Steve, HF162 (page 34), HF50 WILLIAMSON, Lisa, HF19 WILSON, Jacqueline, HF20, 89 WILSON-DICKSON, Oliver, HF116, 367 WINMAN, Sarah, 80 WOLF, Martin, 91 WOLF, Vanessa, HF13, HF16 WOOD, Gaby, 57, 226, 366 WOOD, Leanne, 87 WOOD, Levison, 233 WOODFINE, Katherine, HF26, HF42 WOODS, Chris, 207 WOODS, Clare, 250 WOOLLARD, Elli, HF44, HF49 YENTOB, Alan, 27, 40, 62 YORKE, Rob, 3 YOUNG, Moira, HF85 YOUNGHUSBAND, Eileen, 171 ZARKADAKIS, George, 355 ZELDIN, Theodore, 144 ZYGAR, Mikhail, 93 VAN DE VEN,

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179 Göran, 130 ROSOFF, Meg, HF124 ROSS, Alec, 201 ROSS, Maggie, 374 ROTHSCHILD, Emma, 134 ROTHSCHILD, Hannah, 60 ROWSON, Martin, 264

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call the Box Office on +44 (0)1497 822 629 using your credit or debit card

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send your request to the address below or fax it to +44 (0)1497 821 066. Please include event numbers and quantities, and write your personal details clearly in capitals, including a contact telephone number. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Hay Festival of Literature’. In case tickets are not available, please leave the amount blank, but write on the cheque ‘not exceeding … [the total cost of your order]’ or include your debit or credit card number. Please remember to include the issue number or valid from date if you are paying by debit card.

Book in person

Hay Festival Box Office, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD From Tuesday 19 May, the Box Office will move to the Festival Site on Brecon Road, Hay-on-Wye. All applications will be processed in order of receipt. All ticket prices include VAT. A handling charge of £2.50 applies to all orders. Please check the Box Office daily for any venue changes. All details are correct at time of going to press. We reserve the right to change programmes and artists if circumstances dictate. In the event of cancellations tickets will be refunded. Tickets cannot be accepted for refund or resale. The management reserves the right to refuse admission.

Access To book wheelchair space in performance venues, reserve a parking space (blue badge holders only), or if you require a BSL interpreter please inform the Box Office staff when booking your tickets. All venues, restaurants, cafés, bar and bookshop have wheelchair access and most performance venues are fitted with an induction loop. Disabled access toilets are available on site. We continue to work to give deaf and hearing-impaired readers greater access to the Festival than the induction loops which are sometimes skewed by the aluminium structures of our tents. We will provide lip-speaking interpreters and palantyping at various events during the Festival subject to demand. Please notify the Box Office of your requirements when booking tickets and we will endeavour to provide the best service possible. If you need any assistance on site, please ask a steward.

Please remember The Lost Child Point Is located in the Make & Take Tent in the Hay Fever Courtyard between 10am and 5pm. Outside these hours it will be located in the Festival Admin Office. All children must be accompanied, unless an event is designated sign in/out, when a Permissions Form must be completed. Nappy-changing facilities are available in the toilets on site.

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Late-comers will not be allowed into their seats until a suitable break in the performance. Audio recorders, cameras and mobile phones may not be used in the performance venues. No smoking indoors anywhere on the Festival site. No dogs allowed except Guide Dogs. A paramedic is on duty at all times during events. Visitors to Hay Festival may be filmed and/or photographed for future promotions of the Festival.

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