Hay Festival Programme 2013 by Hay Festival

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Haymakers The festival gathers people together to think about the world as it is and to imagine how it might be. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big conversation about discovery and intellectual adventure. We share stories and ideas with international writers and thinkers, film-makers, historians and novelists, philosophers, environmentalists, poets and scientists; and at night we like to party with the greatest comedians and musicians. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bunch of friends hanging out in a field with time to think, finding the inspiration to re-imagine the world.

CONTENTS

Welcome to Hay. Thank you for coming.

Off site extras

Happy revelling.

Maps

Events Hay Fever hf2 for teens Hay-on-Earth On site extras

Travel Index Peter Florence

Booking info

@hayfestival

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Details correct at time of going to press. Amendments and additions may be posted at hayfestival.org/programme. Cover photo: Finn Beales madebyfinn.com

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An Alphabet Guide to some of the themes of this year’s festival Jane Austen – the wicked, subversive, high benchmark for novelists published Pride & Prejudice 200 years ago – events [80], [95], [176], [201], [413]. The Business of fashion – [5], [290]; food – [242]; and design – [19], [104].

Craic dealers from across the Irish Sea abound, in music – [27], literature – [92], [107] and comedy – [75], [302]. The Welsh mantra Dal Dy Dir resonates in sport and war – [287]. It’s the Economy, genius – Everything you’ve Ever wanted to know about triple dips, fiscal cliffs and microfinance – [47], [100], [109], [155], [185], [421] and [432]. What’s the Future of technology – [15], [39], [138]; of intervention – [59], [126], [197]; of news – [62], [101]; of bookselling – [28], [214]; of energy – [64], [281]; of politics – [22]; of health – [115], [179], [213]; and of mankind – [149], [159], [374]?

Genesis, Genes and Genius – [85], [105], [146], [292], [367].

Historians mustn’t repeat themselves – [46], [134], [143], [222], [231], [243], [277], [286], [313], [318], [319], [341], [407], [427], [429].

Iraq – 10 years on. Hans Blix and Jack Straw will differ – [89], [131], [365].

Jury time for the Hay audience in the retrial of Herbert Rowse Armstrong – [137].

Kabul: then – [202], [379] and now – [17], [168], [445].

We Love Libraries – [4], [30], [264], [313], [395].

Musicians from Mali: Amadou & Mariam – [217], Rokia Traore – [26] and Terakaft – [351]

celebrate Hay’s Twin Town of Timbuktu. The riches of Nature – [241], [247], [269], [356], [382], [409], [418]. English and Welsh National Opera in a field – [12], [210], [340].

Parental love – [53], [128], [140], [311] – is all. The Hay audience ask the Questions – in the room and online – #hay13 Great poet RS Thomas, born 1913 and honoured here – [66], [255], [303].

Sceptical about everything. Always. [196] The biggest issue is Trust. [237]

Up, up and away: by balloon – [368]; by train – [394]; by far – [20], [31], [152], [164], [375]. The View from inside and outside the Arab Uprisings and the Middle East – [14], [34], [91], [153], [410], [439].

World War is always with us – [150], [156], [268], [289], [293], [324], [327], [336], [406], [412], [419], [424].

SeX changes everything – [256] – what’s left to the imagination? Climate Change – Yes it’s real, Yes it explains the snow and ice, Yes it’s a huge deal; No, we can’t pretend otherwise – [51].

Zoo Time [145] - is really very, very funny. 3

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KEY LOCATIONS 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.

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Events for children & families are included in the main listings. Please see the Hay Fever pages 68-69 for more info on the Hay Fever Courtyard.

DURATION

ACCOUNTANTS

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.

LEGAL 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

FUNDING PARTNERS

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, Hay Humanitarian Aid, Macmillan Cancer Support, Oxfam, Oxfam Syria Crisis Appeal, Medical Aid For Palestinians, The North Weir Trust, SOS Sahel, and Hay2Timbuktu. We also raise money for local schools and libraries. There are occasionally collections after certain sessions.

PHOTOGRAPHS The photographs in the brochure were taken in previous years at Hay by Finn Beales, Marsha Arnold, Jeff Morgan and Michaela Rogers. All details are correct at time of going to press.

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Thursday 23 May

10am

@hayfestival 2.30pm

10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE

[4] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £5*

FREE BUT TICKETED

The Hay Library Lecture

Hay Fever presents

Programme For Schools – Primary For the third year running, the festival begins with two days of free events for schools aimed at complementing curriculum work, funded by the Festivals of Literature Charitable Trust. Schools join writers including Cressida Cowell, Korky Paul, The Etherington Brothers, Lauren Child, Katherine Rundell and Jeremy Strong. Full details of this year’s programme at hayfestival.org/schools.

11.30am [1] 11.30AM–8PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £20

Hay-on-Earth Forum

In And Out Of The Book: The Uses Of Illustration This year’s library lecture is given by the illustrator and writer, whose long collaboration with Roald Dahl and his own work, which includes Clown, Zagazoo, Mrs Armitage, Mister Magnolia and his recent study Beyond The Page, have confirmed him as one of Britain’s greatest artists. In association with The Reading Agency * Free to library card holders [5] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Sandy Black The Sustainable Fashion Handbook Can the fashion industry ever be truly sustainable? With a wasteful, fast-moving fashion cycle and the social impact on the 40 million people employed worldwide in manufacturing and agriculture, it’s going to be an interesting journey. One of the world’s pioneering authorities in this field in conversation with Hay-on-Earth Director Andy Fryers.

4pm

[2] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Molly Scott Cato and Polly Higgins

[6] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Creating A Resilient World

Ruth Brooks

Is it possible to manage resources fairly and equitably? A strong local economy is important to sustainability, but how large is a local economy and how self-reliant can it be? What part does the law play in ensuring a resilient environment for all and preventing exploitation by the few? The Telegraph’s Geoffrey Lean chairs. Sponsored by Tidal Lagoon Power

A Slow Passion

1pm

4pm

11.30am

Hay-on-Earth is the festival’s ongoing sustainability project and is part of our programme of managing and mitigating our environmental impacts, particularly as we stage more festivals around the world. The project has been running for seven years. Please join us. Full day ticket allows entry to all 6 sessions. Events 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9.

Quentin Blake

When BBC Radio 4’s Material World announced a search for the UK’s top amateur scientist, the winning experiment involved one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks asked the question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The Telegraph’s Louise Gray chairs.

5.30pm [7] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

[3] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Rob Hopkins reveals all to Andy Fryers

Rob Yorke, Simon Fairlie, Milly Wastie and Conor Colgan

The Power Of Just Doing Stuff

Farms Fit For The Future Horsemeat, Schmallenberg disease, fuel costs, drought, floods… From preventing food riots to maintaining the environment, how does our primary industry square up to the challenges ahead? Rural commentator Rob Yorke discusses with Editor of The Land Simon Fairlie, Young Farmers Chair Milly Wastie and the NFU’s Conor Colgan.

It’s like that old punk idea: ‘Here are three chords. Now go out and set up a band.’ The process of making change can be really thrilling. In fact, it only works if it’s fun. The Transition Movement cofounder reveals all to the Hay-on-Earth Director.

Thursday 23 May

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7pm [8] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5

In Concert

7pm

Our four local choirs, Brecon and District Male Choir, Builth Male Voice Choir, Rhayader and District Male Voice Choir and Talgarth Male Choir sing a concert of classic and contemporary songs, with soloists Lynne Bryer and Paul Sweeting. Sponsored by @WilliamPowellAM [9] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £3

Jane Davidson, Adeline Johns-Putra and guests

Thursday 23 May

The Massed Choirs

The 2013 INSPIRE Lecture Literature And Sustainability Winners of the inaugural INSPIRE public lecture competition demonstrate how literary scholarship might engage with the sustainability debate, by reading Shakespeare’s King Lear ‘with the grain’. The lecture is followed by a dialogue between the winners, director of INSPIRE Jane Davidson and chair of ASLE-UKI, Adeline Johns-Putra.

8pm [10] 8PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £20

Noah And The Whale The band will release their fourth studio album, Heart Of Nowhere, on 6 May, their fourth record in five years, following 2011’s platinum-selling Last Night On Earth. Noah And The Whale are Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar), Tom Hobden (violin), Urby Whale (bass), Fred Abbott (guitar) and Michael Petulla (drums). Supported by the buoyant and lush alt-pop imaginings of Thumpers. Presented by The Sound Castle

Friday 24 May

10am

#hay13 4pm

10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE

[15] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

FREE BUT TICKETED

Mark Welland

Hay Fever presents

Programme for schools – Secondary Schools join writers and experts including Kevin Crossley-Holland, Jon Mayhew, Rachel Ward, Sophie McKenzie, Chris Priestley, Gillian Cross, The Etherington Brothers, Curtis Jobling and Emerald Fennell for events throughout the day. Full details at hayfestival.org/schools.

2.30pm

Cambridge University Series 2 The Future Is Nano An introduction to the development and progress of nanotechnology, and a reasonable expectation of what it can do – from miniaturisation of mobile phone tech to the understanding and treatment of human diseases. Professor Welland is the director of Cambridge University’s Nanoscience Centre, and was Chief Scientific Advisor to the MoD. In association with Cambridge University [16] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

[11] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Jonathan Haslam Cambridge University Series 1 Near and Distant Neighbours 1917–1989

Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the descendants of a few queen bees shipped over in the C19th. The conservationist describes his drive to reintroduce it to its native land, the effects of intensive farming on the bee population, and the consequences of extinction. Sponsored by Herbfarmacy Organic Skincare

[12] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

4pm

2.30pm

The history of Russia’s Secret Services from the Revolution to the Fall of the Wall: the Military Intelligence, the codes and ciphers and the KGB. In association with Cambridge University

Dave Goulson A Sting In The Tale

Antony McDonald, David Pountney, Tom Service

[17] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Wagner 200 – Lohengrin

Death Of A Soldier

The day after the première, the WNO creative team and members of the cast discuss their bicentenary production of Wagner’s great opera – a sublime confrontation between good and evil set in an epic symphonic scale. In association with Welsh National Opera

The first of two sessions today examining writing about the human experience of warfare. Evison discusses her award-winning account of the impact of the death of her young lieutenant son Mark, who had been serving in Afghanistan. Day’s novel Home Fires is a fictional account of two generations of a family dealing with the reality of war and loss. Chaired by Peter Florence and Steve Corry.

[13] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Elizabeth Day and Margaret Evison

John Bulmer talks to Revel Guest The North

4pm [14] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

John McCarthy talks to Sandi Toksvig You Can’t Hide The Sun: A Journey Through Israel And Palestine The journalist travels from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Bedouin encampments of the Negev desert, and asks how humanity can endure in the face of relentless oppression.

5.30pm [18] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Nick Robinson The Inside Story

5.30pm

The photo-journalist shows and discusses his seminal 1960s reportage in b/w and colour from the industrial heartlands untouched by the Swinging Sixties.

The BBC star political editor and author of Live From Downing Street focuses on Churchill, Thatcher and Blair in his examination of the fraught relationship between the media and the politicians. Neither feral nor beastly, but a subtle historian and a killer mimic. Chaired by Peter Florence. Sponsored by Mr & Mrs Robin Herbert [19] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Cath Kidston talks to Lisa Armstrong Coming Up Roses

Celebrating 20 years of Cath Kidston Ltd, one of Britain’s most admired designers and businesswomen tells her story of the highs, lows and learnings that saw the company grow to become one of the country’s bestselling brands. Sponsored by Presentchoices.co.uk

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Friday 24 May 5.30pm

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7pm [25] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Barbara Adam, Chris Groves, Elen Stokes, Catherine Butler

Echoes Of A Vanished World: A Traveller’s Lifetime In Pictures The great explorer, one of the founders of Survival International, has been a tireless champion of tribal peoples and a photographer of their homelands as they have been eroded by the modern world. Sponsored by Mostlymaps.com [21] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Ma Jian and Yan Lianke talk to Rosie Goldsmith Fictions – China

7pm

How do we take care of a future world we decisively shape but may not live to see? A panel discussion on futures in the context of energy, new technologies and law. Adam and Groves from the Social Sciences Dept discuss with psychologist Butler and property lawyer Stokes. In association with Cardiff University

8pm [26] 8PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £15

Rokia Traore Beautiful Africa The vibrant Malian world music superstar performs in Hay before playing Glastonbury and WOMAD. The first of three Hay Festival concerts honouring the people of Hay’s twin town of Timbuktu. Presented by The Sound Castle and celebrating Hay2Timbuktu

8pm

If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. But if a woman gets pregnant she’s treated like a criminal. What kind of country is this? The author of Red Dust and Beijing Coma introduces his new novel The Dark Road. He is joined by the brilliant satirical author of Serve The People and Lenin’s Kisses, who is shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Flora Drew interprets.

Cardiff University Series 1 Futures In The Making

Friday 24 May

[20] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

[22] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Justine Roberts, Paul Staines, David Prescott and Jesse Norman The Internet And The New Constituencies How are social media, blogging and Twitter changing the way ‘consumer voters’ connect with politicians? The Mumsnet founder is joined by right-wing Westminster blogger Guido Fawkes, the Labour digital campaigner and the Parliamentarian of the Year to discuss the new political powers. In association with Mumsnet [23] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

John Whaite, Tom & Henry Herbert Bake On

9.30pm [27] 9.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £28.50

Christy Moore In Concert The Irish singer and songwriter plays Hay and celebrates the Folk Tale album, the latest in his long and fruitful musical collaboration with Declan Sinnott which features his now classic rendering of the heart-rending song ‘Morecambe Bay’. Presented by The Sound Castle and sponsored by Radnor Arms Camping

7pm

The 2012 Great British Bake Off champion is joined by The Fabulous Baker Brothers to celebrate the national obsession, and to design a 26th birthday cake for the festival. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. Sponsored by AJ Jones & Sons [24] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Theo Knell talks to Fiona Hamilton No Such Thing As An Unwounded Soldier The author of A Hell For Heroes: An SAS Hero’s Journey To The Heart Of Darkness completed a 22year military career as a Warrant Officer in the special forces. He offers a searing account of life in and after the army. In association with Lapidus

Saturday 25 May 10am

[28] 9AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

[HF3] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Alex Lifschutz and Miriam Robinson

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Future Of Bookselling

Viking Sagas & Arthurian Legends

In 2014 the great bookshop Foyles will move down Charing Cross Road into the building formerly occupied by Central St Martins. The architect and Foyles’ Marketing chief will discuss their ideas for reimagining C21st bookselling and invite our suggestions and requests for the physical environment and retail experience.

Kevin Crossley-Holland shares the excitement of our favourite heroic tales. His acclaimed Arthur trilogy began with The Seeing Stone. Now he takes on the Vikings with Bracelet of Bones and Scramasax. Chaired by Peter Florence. Duration 60 mins. 10+ years [32] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

10am [HF2] 10AM BIG TENT £7

Julia Donaldson With singing and performance, Julia’s exuberant show brings to life characters from The Highway Rat, The Singing Mermaid and, of course, The Gruffalo. Duration 60 mins. 3+ years

Lucy Hughes-Hallet The Pike The story of Gabriele D’Annunzio: poet, daredevil and Fascist, who in 1919 declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern-day Croatia to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals. It was the dramatic pinnacle to an outrageous career. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. [HF1] 10AM THE CUBE £5

10am

Saturday 25 May

9am

@hayfestival

Adventure Writing Workshop [29] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

The Book Show at Hay 1 – Filming

Fiammetta Rocco interviews the 2013 Booker Prize Winner

Write your own adventure. Suspense, settings, plot and character will be covered in a masterclass with Josh Lacey. Pencils and paper provided. Places limited. Duration 60 mins. 9+ years

The Man Booker International Prize

10am

The first public interview with the winner of the 2013 Prize, awarded in London on 22 May. Previous winners have been Ismail Kadare, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro and Philip Roth. [30] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

Elizabeth Chapman The LSE Lecture 100 Years And Counting In 2013 the collections of the Women’s Library move to join those at the Library of the London School of Economics to create a powerful resource for discovering the history of campaigning women. The Library Director explores some of the stories revealed in the collections. Chaired by Gaby Wood. In association with the London School of Economics [31] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Rebecca Solnit

[HF4] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4.50

Princess Evie And Her Magical Pony Pals Join Princess Evie and her lovable pony pals as they whisk her off to faraway magical lands in every story. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

10.50am [33] 10.50AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Mariella Frostrup and guests Mariella’s Book Show At Hay – Filming 1 Mariella Frostrup interviews an exciting line-up of authors and special guests at the festival in this exclusive recording by Sky Arts. Watch Mariella’s Book Show on Sky Arts 1 HD 8pm 30 May

The Faraway Nearby One summer, the author was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom floor – a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories, invitations and adventures; in a library of water in Iceland, in the basin of the Grand Canyon, in the imagined emptiness of the Arctic. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith.

11.30am [34] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Jeremy Bowen talks to Tom Fletcher The Arab Uprisings: The People Want The Fall Of The Regime The Middle East correspondent analyses the state of the region, the response of the international powers and the feelings of the people on the ground. Chaired by the British Ambassador to Lebanon. In association with the Open University in Wales

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11.30am

11.30am [HF6] 11.30AM THE CUBE £5.50

Sarah Churchwell talks to Sarah Crompton

Jon Klassen

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem And The Invention Of The Great Gatsby

This Is Not My Hat

The inside story of F Scott Fitzgerald’s New York of 1922 with its speakeasies, high society and organised crime that was the context for the creation of his great American novel. [36] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Barbara Sahakian Cambridge University Series 3 Bad Moves: How Decision-Making Goes Wrong

The creator of the indubitably hip New York Times #1 bestseller I Want My Hat Back is here on tour to share his latest, This Is Not My Hat. Hat-wearers especially welcome. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years [HF7] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE – DROP IN

Thinking Mathematically Exploring, questioning, visualising, conjecturing, explaining, generalising, justifying…are all at the heart of mathematical thinking. Come and take part in some stimulating activities designed to develop your capacity to work as a mathematician, with Cambridge University’s Charlie Gilderdale. In association with Cambridge University Duration 60 mins. See also event [HF18]. 9+ years

1pm

[37] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

[39] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £10

Suzanne Rindell and Francesca Segal talk to Sameer Rahim

Eric Schmidt

11.30am

The Professor of Neuroscience discusses the process of normal decision-making – our strategies, biases that affect us and influential factors. She will describe the abnormal patterns found in patients with conditions such as severe depression, Alzheimer’s and accidental brain damage. Examining how the brain can be manipulated to improve cognitive function in these patients, she will consider the use and the ethical questions of ‘smart drugs’. In association with Cambridge University

Fictions – Fatales?

The New Digital Age: Reshaping The Future Of People, Nations And Business The Google Executive Chairman examines the future of a connected world with its extraordinary potential for education, medical tech, communication and translations and the huge global challenges to privacy and security. In association with Google

[HF5] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

[40] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Winnie’s Dinosaur Day Winnie The Witch gets involved in a prehistoric adventure with a rather surprised Triceratops, brought to life with Korky Paul’s high-energy live drawing. Duration 45 mins. 5+ years

Will Self talks to Sarfraz Manzoor The British Council Series 1 Fictions – Experiment The super-verbal and brilliantly inventive journalist and author discusses his Booker-shortlisted novel Umbrella, films of his work and the possibilities of digital form. In partnership with The British Council

1pm

In The Other Typist the captivating and mysterious Odalie starts working at an NYC police precinct at the height of Prohibition in 1924. In the Costa First Novel-winning The Innocents the bride-to-be’s beautiful and reckless cousin Rachel returns to disrupt the wedding plans.

Korky Paul

Saturday 25 May

[35] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

[38] 11.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

[41] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Emyr Roberts talks to Geoffrey Lean

Lionel Shriver talks to Rosie Goldsmith

All Change For Wales’ Countryside And Environment

Fictions – Big Brother

On 1 April 2013 a new organisation, Natural Resources Wales, came into being, merging three existing bodies. With responsibility for ecosystems management including forestry, waterways, grants legislation, enforcement and much more, what does the new director see as the opportunities and challenges facing him? He talks to The Telegraph’s Environment Editor.

The new, savagely funny novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need To Talk About Kevin. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?

Saturday 25 May

1pm

#hay13 2.30pm

[42] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

[45] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Raymond Tallis

Melvyn Bragg

Has Physics Killed Philosophy?

Fictions – Grace And Mary

Steven Hawking famously declared philosophy dead because it had not kept up with developments in modern physics. While acknowledging the spectacular achievements of contemporary science, the author of Reflections Of A Metaphysical Flaneur will argue that physics and the human race need philosophy more than ever.

Visiting his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, the protagonist of this new novel sets out to recreate their buried family history, delving into the secrets and silences of Mary’s fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother, Grace.

[HF9] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

The Horror Panel

1pm

[43] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Ben Dyson Modernising Money Why is the current monetary system broken and how can it be fixed? At the heart of the ongoing economic crisis is the fact that governments across the world have given the power to create money to the private corporations that we know as banks. It doesn’t need to be this way – the founder and director of Positive Money explains. In association with the Open University in Wales [HF10] 1PM THE CUBE £4

Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain: The Crushing Of Eastern Europe 1944–56 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag mines new archive material to chronicle Stalin’s brutal evisceration of the civil societies newly liberated from Nazi occupation as his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: communism. Chaired by Oliver Bullough. Sponsored by RPC [47] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Geoff Mulgan The Locust And The Bee: Predators And Creators In Capitalism’s Future The economic crisis offers an opportunity for capitalism to re-imagine itself again, to maximise efficiency, entrepreneurship and new sectors for growth. Chaired by Jesse Norman. In association with the Open University in Wales

2.30pm

Chris Priestley and Jon Mayhew join newcomer Emerald Fennell to discuss why ghost stories and horror are so appealing. Chills, thrills, no frills. Bring your most horrifying questions. Duration 60 mins. 11+ years

[46] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Chris Judge The Brave Beast The star of the award-winning The Lonely Beast is back and on a mission to restore peace to an island threatened by a scary monster. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years [HF8] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

Gillian Cross After Tomorrow The Carnegie Medal-winning author talks to Jane Cocking, Oxfam’s Humanitarian Director, to talk about After Tomorrow, a thrilling adventure which explores what it would be like if children had to flee the UK as refugees. Duration 45 mins. 10+ years

1.50pm [44] 1.50PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Mariella Frostrup and guests Mariella’s Book Show At Hay – Filming 2 Mariella Frostrup interviews an exciting line-up of authors and special guests at the festival in this exclusive recording by Sky Arts. Watch Mariella’s Book Show on Sky Arts 1 HD 8pm 6 June

[HF11] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Simon Mayo One of Britain’s best-loved BBC radio presenters returns with his second children’s book Itch Rocks. With elements as his gadgets, Itch has to use all his wits to escape unscrupulous enemies. Duration 45 mins. 10+ years [48] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Tan Twan Eng and Jachym Topol talk to Jo Glanville Fictions – Ghosts The sublime Man Asian Prize-winner and Bookershortlisted The Garden Of Evening Mists explores Japanese atrocity and beauty in Malaya in 1949. The blackly comic The Devil’s Workshop tells the story of how a town in Belarus commemorates its concentration camp past. In association with English PEN

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2.30pm

4pm [53] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Susy Smith and guests

Andrew Solomon talks to Rosie Boycott

Country Living Magazine Women in Business Forum 1

Far From The Tree: A Dozen Kinds Of Love

What does it take to start a small rural business? Discover how to turn talent into turnover with advice from three successful entrepreneurs: Enterprise Nation founder Emma Jones, home textile designer Jan Constantine and Hay’s own Athene English of The Great English Outdoors. In association with Country Living Magazine

Saturday 25 May

[49] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £15

An introduction to families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down’s syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, disability, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, Solomon documents repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us.

[HF12] 2.30PM THE CUBE £4.50 [54] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Josh Lacey packs a huge amount of fun and adventure into his stories, including the latest – The Dragonsitter Takes Off. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years

Huw Bowen, Martin Johnes, Chris Evans, Madeleine Gray, Paul O’Leary, Helen Nicholson, Ceri Gould and Leighton Andrews

[HF13] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £6

Jo Schofield and Fiona Danks Wild Weather Wild ideas for things to do outdoors on wet, windy and snowy days, including painting with wet mud and making a fire in the rain. Duration 60 mins. 7+ years

4pm [50] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £9

Hugh Dennis talks to Marcus Brigstocke Britty Britty Bang Bang The Now Show and Outnumbered star muses on a self-confident, pluralist Olympic Britain – a country where a major politician can dangle helplessly from a zip wire like a discarded straw dolly and gain in popularity, and whose Jubilee Queen can send herself up and then descend by parachute. Sponsored by Freixenet [51] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £9

Nicholas Stern The British Academy Lecture Six years on from his landmark Climate Change Report, Lord Stern thinks he underestimated the predictions of global temperature rise and that we may now be looking not at 2/3° but at 4/5°. On the up side, he sees potential for economic growth in green industries. Chaired by Nik Gowing. [52] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Alice Rawsthorn Hello World: Where Design Meets Life The pre-eminent design critic explores the history of design’s influence on our lives – from the macabre symbol invented by C18th pirates and one woman’s quest for the best possible prosthetic legs to the evolution of the World Cup ball. Chaired by Suzy Klein. Sponsored by BWA Design

A Place In Welsh History From castles to coastlines, pit heads to pubs, ruins to rugby clubs. Which is the most important place in Welsh history? Our historians make their pitches. You decide! In association with The Western Mail and History Research Wales [HF14] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

4pm

2.30pm

Josh Lacey The Dragonsitter

Sophie McKenzie Talks Thrillers The author of the bestselling Missing trilogy and winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award for Hit Squad shares her top tips on thriller writing and tells us what’s coming next. Duration 45 mins. 11+ years [55] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Colum McCann and Shani Boianjiu Fictions – Beyond Borders McCann’s masterpiece Transatlantic is a bravura weft of stories crossing between Ireland and the New World over 200 years. Boianjiu’s contemporary novel The People Of Forever Are Not Afraid conjures three Israeli girlfriends guarding physical and personal borders. Chaired by Lisa Dwan.

5.30pm [56] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Caitlin Moran talks to India Knight Talk-time with the author of the fabulous How To Be A Woman and the Moranthology collection, which are both politically brilliant and outrageously funny. Sponsored by Soho House

Saturday 25 May

5.30pm

7pm

[57] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

[62] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Joanna Bourke, Patricia Tutt, Costas Douzinas

Carl Bernstein, Jaime Abello, William Sieghart and Perihan Magden chaired by John Kampfner

The Eric Hobsbawm Lecture The Age Of Anxieties In this first lecture honouring our late President, four historians and political thinkers discuss the nature of his legacy, and the writing of modern history. In association with Birkbeck College, London [58] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Gavin Francis Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins One man, fourteen months, the world’s loneliest continent, minus 50°C, and the magnificent Emperor Penguins for company through a summer of perpetual sunshine into winter months of darkness. [59] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Mukesh Kapila talks to Philippe Sands Against A Tide Of Evil

5.30pm

The former head of the UN in Sudan reveals the shocking depths of evil plumbed by those who designed and orchestrated ‘the final solution’ in Darfur – How One Man Became The Whistleblower To The First Mass Murder Of The Twenty-First Century. [60] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Edney Silvestre and Lavanya Sankaran talk to Jo Glanville Fictions – Hope

The Google Debates 1 The Future Of The Free Press With Leveson on hold in the UK, what does press regulation look like in the rest of the world? Abello is Director of Gabriel García Márquez’s Latin American Journalism Foundation, Sieghart is the Chair of Forward Thinking, and Magden is a columnist for the newspaper Taraf who was tried and acquitted of ‘threatening Turkey’s unity or the integrity of the state.’ In association with Google [63] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Mark Haddon Swimming And Flying Mark will probably but not necessarily be talking about some or all of these things: giant tortoises, nuclear war, bats, glaciers, Benjamin Britten and the naming of craters on the moon. [64] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

John Browne Seven Elements The former BP chief examines the current and future use of the Earth’s natural resources in his fascinating survey, Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon. Chaired by The Telegraph’s business editor Kamal Ahmed. [65] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Trevor Robbins and Barbara Sahakian The Royal Society Platform 1 Learning And The Brain How could what we know about the brain influence how we learn and teach? What are the challenges and opportunities? In association with The Royal Society

[HF15] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

[66] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

The Etherington Brothers

RS Thomas Centenary Series 1

The high-energy duo are back to share their comic book genius. Discover all the secrets you need to create your own adventures in words and pictures. Duration 60 mins. 9+ years

Tony Brown and Jason Walford Davies

[61] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Chris Goodall Sustainability: All That Matters Building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world’s population has ever faced. Today we have borrowed from the future by grabbing prosperity now and imposing the cost on the next generation.

The Gwyn Jones Lecture The Uncollected Poems Of RS Thomas

7pm

Silvestre’s If I Close My Eyes Now is a prize-winning mystery set in 1960s Brazil. Sankaran’s The Hope Factory, set in Bangalore, captures the vitality and danger of a newly industrialized city and how it shapes the dreams and aspirations of two very different families. In association with English PEN

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To celebrate the centenary of the great poet’s birth, the editors talk about their work in bringing together a selection of his uncollected work – often elusively published in obscure magazines, journals, newspapers and limited editions. This substantial volume spans the whole of RS Thomas’s career, from an early sonnet to his first wife and several Iago Prytherch poems to the powerful metaphysical meditations of his later years. In association with The Welsh Academy, administered by Literature Wales

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7pm

8.30pm [72] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

FREE BUT TICKETED

Tony Campbell

Carwyn Jones The Sustainability Bill: A Flagship Or A Leaking Vessel? The Welsh Government’s First Minister discusses how the groundbreaking Sustainability Bill, due to be ratified later this year, will affect both the public and private sectors in Wales. How will the high-level policies filter down to the day-to-day activities such as procurement and infrastructure? He talks to The Telegraph’s Environment Editor, Geoffrey Lean.

7.10pm [68] 7.10PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £13

Sandi Toksvig My Valentine The new show of stand-up, stories and fascinating facts from the Hay sweetheart and international treasure.

8.30pm [69] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Jon Ronson Lost At Sea

8.30pm

In his latest curious adventures into human eccentricity the humorist investigator goes on patrol with America’s real-life superheroes, nerds a UFO convention in the Nevada Desert with Robbie Williams, and asks a robot whether it has a soul. [70] 8.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6.50

Cornelia Parker talks to Jacky Klein Matter

[71] 8.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £13

Phill Jupitus You’re Probably Wondering Why I’ve Asked You Here U-boat captain, Welsh pornstar, Dutch roadie or noted broadcaster and comedian? Like Camberwick Green, you’re never sure who’s coming out of the box. Adult content delivered childishly. Sponsored by The Old Black Lion Hotel

Cardiff University Series 2 A Life That Sparkles A stunning illustrated talk about how bioluminescence has revolutionised biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. It has led to major discoveries about the biggest ecosystem on the planet, and how cells switch on and off in health and disease. Quite surprisingly, it has also created several billion dollar markets – the pharmacy prof reveals all. In association with Cardiff University [73] 8.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Faction Theatre Presents Are You Surprised My Blood Is The Same Colour As Yours? A preacher. A politician. A man. A place where to be who you are is a matter of life and death. Taking its title from graffiti on a wall in Kampala, this provocative play written by Patrick Jones and directed by Chris Durnall explores the life and untimely death of gay rights activist David Kato in the context of a Uganda that slowly slipped into homophobia and human rights abuses.

9.45pm [74] 9.45PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £20

KT Tunstall Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon The singer and songwriter celebrates the launch of her new, fourth album with her first solo gig in Hay. Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon represents a return to the delicate simplicity of the singer’s early work and an evolution of her sound, with its country-folk tinged undercurrents. Travelling to Tucson, Arizona, to record her new album with alt-country leading light Howe Gelb (aka Giant Sand), KT describes the stunning album as ‘full of songs from the heart’. Presented by The Sound Castle and sponsored by Castle House Hotel, Hereford

10pm

A conversation with the artist whose sculpture and installation touches on the fragility of human experience and is rich with visual and literary allusions. Projects which have included blowing up a shed, steamrolling musical instruments and sending meteorites back into space have captured the public imagination since she first came to prominence in the 1990s. Sponsored by Shelley Faye Lazar & Richard Evans

Saturday 25 May

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[75] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £12

Ed Byrne Stand-up It’ll have been a heavy day. You’ll need laughter and delight and wry, charming brilliance. And this is your man. Sponsored by Semaphore Display

Sunday 26 May

9am

10am

[76] 9AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

[81] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

Stuart Prebble talks to Tam Dalyell

Simon Blackburn and Chris Blackhurst

Secrets Of The Conqueror: The Untold Story Of Britain’s Most Famous Submarine

Cambridge University Series 4 Do Nice Guys Finish Last – Or First?

As a young TV producer Prebble scooped the story of how HMS Conqueror came to sink the Belgrano. He has waited thirty years to reveal what else he discovered about the sub’s secret activities.

Trust in British public life has now reached catastrophically low levels for parliament, the press, the banks, the police and the NHS. Just as the National Rifle Association in the USA claims that the solution to gun crime lies in more guns, our government preaches that the cure for decline in trust lies in less public service and more profit motive... In association with Cambridge University

[77] 9AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Jonathan Coe and Catherine O’Flynn The Penguin Readers VIP Breakfast Club – PREVIEW

9am

Come and meet two star novelists reading from their new novels Expo 58 and Mr Lynch’s Holiday months before they are published. Free proof copies of both novels for every audience member – read them before the reviewers do! Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop

[82] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Peter Stothard talks to Francine Stock Alexandria: The Last Nights Of Cleopatra Stranded in Alexandria in 2010, the TLS editor explores his lifelong fascination with Cleopatra, amid the fracturing police state of Hosni Mubarak, before the uprising in Tahrir Square changed everything.

[78] 9AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £4

[HF16] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

William Sieghart talks to Rosie Boycott

Jonny Duddle The King of Space

The Poetry Pharmacy

The Pirates Next Door creator is back with a new bestseller in which Rex plots to be the King of Space. Luckily, when he goes too far with his dung-blasters, Mum is nearby… Duration 45 mins. 5+ years

10am [79] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

Jenny Abramsky, Joan Bakewell, Allison Pearson and Lucy Worsley talk to Sarah Crompton The Telegraph Question Time Join the Telegraph panel of experts to debate politics, culture, national identity and the roles that women (and men) play. Our all-star team is ready to tackle your questions about the burning issues of the day. [80] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Austen Bicentenary Series 1

Charlotte Brewer Extraordinary Jane Walter Scott praised Austen for her ordinariness. But according to the OED she was a linguistic innovator, the earliest printed source for nearly 300 words and senses, including ‘of the moment’ and ‘nice-looking’. What does this tell us about Austen – and the OED?

[83] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Santiago Gamboa and Kishwar Desai talk to Rosie Godsmith Fictions – Secrets And Lies Gamboa’s Necropolis investigates the murder of an evangelical pastor at a literary conference in Jerusalem; Desai’s Sea Of Innocence investigates the disappearance of a British teenager on the paradise beaches of Goa. Supported by the Colombian Embassy

10am

The poetry champion, force behind National Poetry Day and founder of the Forward Prize introduces his prescription poems clinic – connecting festival-goers with poems to heal and sustain them. He’ll be consulting and dispensing poetry in the Friends Café throughout the morning.

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Clara Vulliamy Bubble & Squeak Our wonderful festival illustrator Clara introduces two unlikely companions who find friendship and fun together. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years [HF18] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE – DROP IN

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10.50am

11.30am [88] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £4

Mariella Frostrup and guests

Anna Lewis and Chris Meredith

Mariella’s Book Show At Hay – Filming 3

Poetry Reading

Mariella Frostrup interviews an exciting line-up of authors and special guests at the festival in this exclusive recording by Sky Arts. Watch Mariella’s Book Show on Sky Arts 1 HD 8pm 13 June

A reading from two new collections. A Scritture Giovani fellow, Lewis introduces Other Harbours; Meredith reads from Air Histories, commissioned partly about the Black Mountains for the Woollen Lines project.tension between public faith and private doubt? Chaired by Simon Mundy.

11.30am

Sunday 26 May

[84] 10.50AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

[HF21] 11.30AM THE CUBE £4.50

Jo Hodgkinson [85] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

My Friend Nigel

AC Grayling

Billy’s best friend is a snail called Nigel, which has hilarious repercussions. From the award-winning creator of The Talent Show. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

The God Argument What is the alternative to religion as a view of the world and foundation for morality? [86] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Audrey Niffenegger and Wayne McGregor talk to Sarah Crompton Raven Girl The new dark fairytale by the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife is being produced as a Royal Ballet show by legendary choreographer McGregor. The work premières on 24 May. Sponsored by Bowie Gallery [HF19] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

What is Contemporary Art? A Children’s Guide

11.30am

[87] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Maggie Shipstead talks to Allison Pearson Fictions – Crimes And Misdemeanours A conversation with the winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize for her elegant East Coast social satire Seating Arrangements – praised as a perfectly-realised world of exquisite comic savagery.

[89] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £10

Hans Blix talks to Jon Snow The Rotblat Lecture This year’s lecture is given by the Swedish politician and diplomat. As Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency he led the Western inspection and response to the Chernobyl disaster. As head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission he led the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq between 2000 and 2003, finding none. Chaired by Jon Snow. In association with the WMD Awareness Programme [90] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Gavin Hewitt

1pm

Jacky and Suzy Klein invite children and adults alike to question, explore and understand some of the most dynamic and exciting art of our times. Duration 60 mins. 8+ years

1pm

The Lost Continent Rich in analysis and anecdote, the BBC’s Europe Editor examines the roots and routes of the economic crisis – Europe’s Darkest Hour Since World War Two. Sponsored by Christ College, Brecon [91] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Joumana Haddad and Shereen El Feki talk to Joan Bakewell Sex And The Citadel

[HF20] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

Andrew Hammond Another Case For CRYPT The elite teenage agents who use their extrasensory perception and high-tech gadgets to investigate unsolvable crimes are back in Traitor’s Revenge. Duration 45 mins. 10+ years

Two compelling views of sex and gender in the Middle East. In Superman Is An Arab, her sequel to I Killed Sheherezade, Haddad examines the patriarchal system and machismo that continues to dominate in the Arab world. Sex is entwined in religion and tradition, politics and economics, gender and generations, so it makes the perfect lens for examining the region’s complex social landscape in El Feki’s study of Intimate Life In A Changing Arab World.

Sunday 26 May

1pm

2.30pm [96] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £7.50

Colm Tóibín and Nadeem Aslam

Elif Shafak

Fictions – Love And Death

The Raymond Williams Lecture

A conversation. The Testament Of Mary is the Virgin’s version of the life of Christ, the new novel by the author of Brooklyn and The Blackwater Lightship. The Blind Man’s Garden is a novel set in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the months following 9/11 by the author of Maps For Lost Lovers.

The novelist, author of Honour, The Bastard Of Istanbul and The Forty Rules Of Love, develops the mesmerising exploration of writing and identity deriving from her fascination with the silent letter of the Turkish alphabet – the ‘Ghost G’. In association with PEN International

[HF22] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £3.50

[97] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Maths for Mums & Dads

Daniel Dennett

In this entertaining and interactive talk, bestselling maths author Rob Eastaway demonstrates the fun side of maths for mums, dads and kids, with mind-reading tricks, curiosities and games that you can explore at home. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

Intuition Pumps: And Other Tools For Thinking

[93] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

[98] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Gordon Conway and Roger Thurow

John Banville talks to Rosie Goldsmith

Feeding The World

The Booker winner discusses his story of obsessive young love and the power of grief, Ancient Light, and previews clips from the forthcoming film of The Sea.

1pm

[HF23] 1PM THE CUBE £3.50

Belle & Boo Join in story-time and craft activities with Belle & Boo, the bob-haired little girl and her adorable bunny friend. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF27]. 4+ years

1.50pm [94] 1.50PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Mariella Frostrup and guests Mariella’s Book Show At Hay – Filming 4 Mariella Frostrup interviews an exciting line-up of authors and special guests at the festival in this exclusive recording by Sky Arts. Watch Mariella’s Book Show on Sky Arts 1 HD 8pm 20 June

2.30pm [95] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Austen Bicentenary Series 2 Howard Jacobson Pride & Prejudice 200 The Booker winner celebrates the bicentenary of Austen’s great English novel, and admires the genius of her comedy and style. Sponsored by Freixenet

2.30pm

[92] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

How will we feed a growing global population in the face of a wide range of adverse factors? What is the role for governments, natural sciences and the private sector? What does it all mean for the individual farmer? The authors of One Billion Hungry and The Hunger Season discuss with The Telegraph’s Environment Editor, Geoffrey Lean.

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One of the world’s most original and provocative thinkers offers thinking tools built for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. Chaired by AC Grayling.

[HF24] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Ali Sparkes Unleashed 4ction fans will enjoy this in-depth session about the pulse-pounding series starring teengers with special powers. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years [99] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Kitty Corrigan and guests Country Living Magazine Women In Business Forum 2 Six contestants pitch their new business ideas to a dragons’ den panel of editor Susy Smith, LoveLocal’s Liz Oram, Barclays’ Barbara-Ann King, film-producer Revel Guest and Enterprise Nation founder Emma Jones, who will offer the winner a year’s mentoring. In association with Country Living Magazine [HF25] 2.30PM THE CUBE £5.50

Clara Vulliamy Martha and the Bunny Brothers Join our festival illustrator for story-time and craft fun with Martha, who always looks on the bright side of life. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

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4pm

4pm [105] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5.50

Muhammad Yunus The Hamlin Lecture

Adam Rutherford

The Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize-winning pioneer of microfinance and founder of the Grameen Bank talks to Nicholas Stern. Sponsored by OR-Consulting, The Art of Seeing Differently

Creation: Past And Future

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Peter Barron, Nik Gowing, Linda Yueh and Benedict Brogan chaired by Francine Stock

The geneticist decodes a four-billion-year journey of discovery to explain what life is, where it came from and in what form it first appeared. Now, our mastery of genetics allows us to create entirely new life-forms within the laboratory – goats that produce spider silk in their milk, bacteria that excrete diesel, cells that identify and destroy tumours.

The Google Debates 2 The Future Of News In a world of instant record, global publication and media turmoil, what and who is the future of news? Google’s Barron is joined by the BBC World anchor and author of Skyfull Of Lies Gowing, China expert Yueh, and Brogan, The Telegraph’s Deputy Editor. In association with Google

[HF27] 4PM THE CUBE £3.50

[102] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

5.30pm

India Knight talks to Damian Barr An hilarious novel about the female midlife crisis from the star columnist, Twitter queen and author of My Life On A Plate, Don’t You Want Me and Comfort And Joy. [103] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Jesse Norman Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet A compelling analysis and portrait of the C18th theorist, subversive and founder of modern conservatism, from the 2012 Parliamentarian of the Year. Chaired by Guto Harri. [104] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

Simon Velez The Bamboo Architect The visionary Colombian architect is the most eminent proponent of bamboo as an essential building component. He talks about his work and commitment to convert bamboo from a symbol of poverty into a symbol of sustainability. Introduced by Marianne Ponsford. Supported by the Colombian Embassy [HF26] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Belle & Boo Join in story-time and craft activities with Belle & Boo, the bob-haired little girl and her adorable bunny friend. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF23]. 4+ years

[106] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £15

Carl Bernstein

5.30pm

4pm

Fictions – Mutton

Sunday 26 May

[100] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £10

The legendary journalist who broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post discusses the secondterm Obama administration, and the resonant American anniversaries of Gettysburg (150), the end of the Vietnam War (40) and JFK’s assassination (50) with Peter Florence. In association with Barclays

[107] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Edna O’Brien talks to Lee Brackstone Country Girl

In her autobiography, the novelist brings us face to face with a literary life of high drama and contemplation. And along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans – all of whom lend this life, so gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered here, a terrible poignancy. Sponsored by Freixenet [108] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Amanda Galsworthy talks to Philippe Sands The Interpreter The interpreter for presidents Sarkozy, Mitterrand and Chirac discusses the subtleties of translation and negotiation, and the big beasts of France.

Atinuke Traditional African Tales Atinuke, author of the Anna Hibiscus and No 1 Car Spotter books is also a Nigerian storyteller. Don’t miss the chance to share her stories. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

Sunday 26 May 7pm

[109] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

[113] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Linda Yueh

Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Jaideep Prabhu chaired by John Kampfner

China’s Growth: The Making Of An Economic Superpower The distinguished economist examines the inexorable growth of the world’s second largest economy as it makes the transition from central planning and faces the challenges of a developing country. Chaired by Guto Harri. In association with Barclays

The Google Debates 3 The Future Of Britain In Europe

[110] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

The international view of Britain’s place in Europe from the French Ambassador to Berlin, the Colombian author of When Latin America Rules The World and the Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. In association with Google

Damian Barr, Eduardo Halfon and Aleksandar Hemon

[114] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

It’s All True – Facts and Fictions

Linda Parry

The Book Of My Lives is a love song to Sarajevo and to Hemon’s adopted Chicago; it is a heart-breaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play football. Halfon’s mesmerising stories in The Polish Boxer blur the lines between memoir and fiction. Barr’s Maggie & Me is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher’s Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the Iron Lady. They talk to Tiffany Murray.

The V&A Lecture: William Morris Textiles

[HF28] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Marcus Moore & Sara-Jane Arbury Oxford Word Wizards Get the gift of the gab and add vim to your vocab with these lively linguists. A must for budding writers! Duration 60 mins. 7+ years [111] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Jane Davidson, Stephen Moss and Derek Moore

In this lecture, sumptuously illustrated with images of William Morris’ work collected at the V&A, Parry provides new insight into the embroideries, printed and woven textiles, carpets and tapestries produced by Morris & Co. In association with the Victoria & Albert Museum and Barclays [115] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Raymond Tallis NHS SOS

We know we love the NHS. It’s up there with Shakespeare and the Olympics. And we all want to improve it. Prof Tallis argues that the Government’s Health And Social Care Act will result in the death of some of the members of the audience, will cause others to suffer, and will financially ruin many more – and asks what can be done… Chaired by Julie Grigg GP.

The Language Of Conservation

[116] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

How should we be talking about the crisis within our natural environment? How can we make nature as popular as sport and as politically relevant as health? Chaired by Hay-on-Earth Director Andy Fryers. In association with RSPB Cymru

Fictions – American Beauty

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George Saunders and James Salter talk to Gaby Wood Two of America’s greatest fiction writers read and talk. Saunders introduces and reads from his wryly hilarious story collection Tenth Of December. Salter launches his novel All That Is. [117] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

[112] 7PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Giles Coren talks to Paul Blezard How To Eat Out: Lessons From A Life Lived Mostly In Restaurants Bad waiters, bum tables, little rip-offs, big cons, old fish, cheap meat, yesterday’s soup and tomorrow’s gastroenteritis… The splenetic humorist tells us how to avoid the lot, and even come out of it with free champagne and a dish named after you by way of apology. Sponsored by Soho House

Sadaf Farooqi Cambridge University Series 5 What Makes Us Fat? In an age of obesity where sugary, fatty food is available 24/7, will it ever be possible to control our appetites? The Professor of Metabolism and Medicine describes how the brain and not the stomach controls what and how much we eat; and how scientists are working to conquer the many triggers for overeating. Chaired by Rosie Boycott. In association with Cambridge University

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7pm

8.30pm [122] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Bobette Buster

Sarfraz Manzoor

Do Story: How To Tell Your Story So The World Listens

The Boss Rules

The Pixar story consultant and film-maker offers practical advice on how to shape your story and why an emotional connection is key. In association with the Do Lectures

8.30pm

A glorious mash of fandom, lyric-love and lifelessons. The journalist tackles race, religion and rock’n’roll and his passionate belief that the songs of Bruce Springsteen contain the secrets of life, love and happiness. Inviting the audience to share their dilemmas, he offers heartfelt advice based on Springsteen’s lyrics. [123] 8.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

[119] 8.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

Peter Oborne and David Morrison A Dangerous Delusion: Why The West Is Wrong About Nuclear Iran The authors attempt to avert a potential global catastrophe by showing that the grounds for war do not exist, that there are no Iranian nuclear weapons, and that Iran would happily come to a table and strike a deal. They argue that the military threats aimed by the West against Iran contravene international law, and argue that Iran is a civilised country and legitimate power across the Middle East. Chaired by Bronwen Maddox.

Satish Kumar, Roger Thurow, Elisha London and Esther Mweso One in eight people in the world still go to bed hungry despite our planet providing enough food for everyone. With the UK hosting the G8 Summit in June, what will they deliver to tackle this scandal? Resurgence & Ecologist editor, Satish Kumar; author and journalist Roger Thurow; the Global Poverty Project Director Elisha London; and Concern Universal’s Esther Mweso suggest ways forward. In association with Enough Food For Everyone IF Campaign

[120] 8.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

9.45pm

Robert Hudson, Marie Phillips and John Finnemore

[124] 9.45PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £10

Warhorses Of Letters

8.30pm

The powerfully moving and often hilarious letters exchanged between two of the most significant warhorses in history: the dignified Marengo, devoted bearer of Napoleon; and the dashing Copenhagen, a slightly flighty racehorse who became the warhorse of the Duke of Wellington. Sponsored by The Great English Outdoors

Sunday 26 May

[118] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £10

Marcus Brigstocke The Brig Society No less than the total restructuring of every aspect of life in Britain organised through the medium of jokes. See this show – WIN a free hospital or school! Second prize – a major High Street bank.

10pm

[121] 8.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace

A new exhibition brings together a new work of fiction by Kunzru with new original art works by 20 international graphic designers, illustrators and typographers, exploring the power of memory. Kunzru is joined by illustrator Alexis Deacon and V&A curators Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar to discuss how words and images interact and stories are told. In association with Sky Arts and the Victoria & Albert Museum

[125] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

David Lynch presents

Chrysta Bell In Concert

10pm

Hari Kunzru

With exquisite and tortured vocals and an onstage persona in the tradition of Rita Hayworth, Texan beauty Chrysta Bell smoulders in her collaboration with iconic film director David Lynch. Infusing a dark and airy soundscape with breathy inflections and soulful melodies, this otherworldly femme fatale is lyrically spellbinding. Please note David Lynch will not be performing with Chrysta Bell as part of this event. See more at chrystabell.com. Presented by The Sound Castle

Monday 27 May

9am

@hayfestival 10am

[126] 9AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

[132] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5

John Holmes talks to Nik Gowing

Kate Manning and Kate Summerscale talk to Sarah Crompton

The Politics Of Humanity: The Reality Of Relief Aid The former UN Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs exposes the often depressing difficulties behind providing humanitarian aid to some of the most troubled spots in the world – on his beat: Sri Lanka, Darfur, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. [127] 9AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Notorious In Manning’s My Notorious Life By Madam X the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a child on the brutal streets of New York City, grows up to become the most successful – and controversial – midwife of her time. The story chimes perfectly with Kate Summerscale’s tale of Victorian scandal and divorce Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace.

Tam Dalyell talks to Jim Naughtie The Importance Of Being Awkward

[133] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

The maverick and veteran MP, Father of the House, scourge of the Front Benches and opponent of wars considers his parliamentary career, spanning 43 years and 8 administrations.

Divided Nations: Why Global Governance Is Failing, And What We Can Do About It

Deborah Christie talks to Rosie Boycott Diabetes: Children, Adolescents And Their Families The Consultant Clinical Psychologist addresses the issues arising from the fact that children and young people are increasingly among those being diagnosed with diabetes but only 1 in 6 of them succeed in controlling it, despite support from parents and professionals. [129] 9AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

Brian Kimberling and Nathan Filer talk to Lisa Dwan Fictions – Coming Of Age Set in a brilliantly-observed rural Indiana, ‘the bastard son of the Midwest’, Kimberling’s Snapper is a book about bird-watching, a woman who won’t stay true, and a pick-up truck that won’t start. Filer’s The Shock Of The Fall tells the tale of a man’s descent into mental illness.

We face a number of international challenges – climate change, finance, pandemics, cyber security, and migration – which spill over national boundaries. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the UN, the IMF, the World Bank – bodies created in a very different world, more than 60 years ago – are inadequate for the task of managing such risk in the C21st. [134] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Jill Cook talks to Francine Stock The British Museum Lecture Ice Age: The Arrival Of The Modern Mind

10am

9am

[128] 9AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Ian Goldin talks to Oliver Balch

The curator of the blockbuster exhibition explores the extraordinary sculpture and drawings created during the last European Ice Age, the oldest known figurative art in the world. Highlights include the Swimming Reindeer (13,000 years old), the so-called Willendorf Venus (25,000 years old) and the Vogelherd horse (32,000 years old). In partnership with The British Museum [135] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Jenny Colgan talks to Paul Blezard

[130] 9AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £4.50

Fictions – Chocolates

Sean Pidgeon

The romcom bestseller samples her novel The Loveliest Chocolate Shop In Paris and her contribution to the Dr Who 50th anniversary, Doctor Who – Dark Horizons.

Finding Camlann A romantic quest to find the real King Arthur focuses here in Hay in this mining of deepest myth and compelling literary sleuthing.

[HF29] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

10am [131] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

Jack Straw talks to Peter Florence Last Man Standing A conversation with the plumber’s mate, lawyer, politician and memoirist, who spent 13 years at the heart of the New Labour government. He was Foreign Secretary at the time of 9/11 and the Iraq War.

Pop Vocal Coaching Carrie and David Grant have coached everyone from Take That to Charlotte Church. They will teach you to sing like a star. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

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10am

11.30am [140] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Perihan Magden and Alejandro Zambra talk to Daniel Hahn

Jay Griffiths

Fictions – Damage

There are huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular, has captured Griffiths’ imagination: Why are so many children in Euro-American cultures unhappy – and why is it that children in many traditional cultures seem happier?

Zambra’s Ways Of Going Home is the tragic story of the collateral damage caused by the Pinochet regime, and the burden borne by the new generation as they come to terms with their fragile history. Magden’s Ali And Ramazan pitches its two friends out of the safety of their orphanage onto the streets of Istanbul with tragic consequences. [HF30] 10AM THE CUBE £4.50

Piers Torday The Last Wild An animal adventure like no other, The Last Wild is hotly tipped to be a modern classic and Piers Torday is a highly acclaimed new writer. See him at Hay first! Duration 45 mins. 9+ years

11.30am

Monday 27 May

[136] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Kith: The Riddle Of The Childscape

[141] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Jordi Punti and Francesc Serés talk to Colm Tóibín Fictions – Homage Two leading Catalan novelists discuss their work. The disappearance of a truck driver in Punti’s Lost Luggage introduces and brings together from across Europe his four sons, previously unaware of each other’s existence. Serés’ 21 miniature masterpieces in Russian Stories sketch the nation. Supported by the Institut Ramon Llull [HF31] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Animal Adventures

Philippe Sands, Helena Kennedy and Helen Mountfield

Join animal experts and top writers Nicola Davies and Gill Lewis to find out all about their latest animal adventure stories. Unmissable for animal fans! Duration 60 mins. 7+ years

The Retrial Of Herbert Rowse Armstrong

11.30am

On 31 May 1922 the Hay solicitor was hanged, having been found guilty of murdering his wife with arsenic. To celebrate the republication of Martin Beales’ Dead Not Buried three QCs examine his conviction. You, the jury, will decide. Sponsored by Hay & District Chamber of Commerce [138] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger Big Data Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren’t, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can’t. The tech and business gurus show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks. Chaired by Stephanie Flanders. [139] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

James Jackson

[142] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Meirion Jordan, Felix Stephan, Laura Fidaleo and Maarten Inghels talk to Daniel Hahn Scritture Giovani 2013 Young writers from Wales, Italy, Germany and Belgium come together to discuss their newlycommissioned and translated stories on the theme of Jerusalem. In partnership with Festivaletteratura Mantova and Literaturfestival Berlin

11.30am

[137] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

[HF32] 11.30AM THE CUBE £6.50

Winnie The Pooh Story-time, games and honey sandwiches in the One Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie The Pooh and friends. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF36]. 4+ years

Cambridge University Series 6 Living With Earthquakes: Know Your Faults Earthquakes in the last decade have revealed that rich nations have become resilient in terms of loss-of-life, while much smaller earthquakes have killed up to 30% of urban populations in countries that are far less well prepared. What is behind the sombre conclusion that ‘the rich pay and the poor die’? In association with Cambridge University

Monday 27 May

1pm

#hay13 1pm

[143] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6.50

[148] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

Simon Sebag Montefiore Titans

FREE BUT TICKETED

The historian traces his adventures in history from Stalin and the Borgias to Catherine The Great and Mrs Thatcher. [144] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6.50

Stella Rimington talks to Gaby Wood Fictions – Spooks The former MI5 chief discusses The Geneva Trap, the latest of her Liz Carlyle spy novels, and the fictions and facts of espionage.

Alun Davies and Janez Potocnik Environment Or Economy: Can We Have Both? Protecting the environment is often cited as an unaffordable luxury in these times of economic crisis. Where are the red lines and what are the compromises that are made to ensure we can restore degraded environments and degraded economies? The Welsh Government’s Natural Resources and Food Minister Alun Davies discusses with EU Environment Commissioner Potocnik. Chaired by The Telegraph’s Environment Editor, Geoffrey Lean.

[145] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6.50

Howard Jacobson talks to Peter Florence

[HF34] 1PM THE CUBE £7

The British Council Series 2

Gemma Malley

The Booker-winning comic master conjures his new novel Zoo Time, a book about love – love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. In partnership with The British Council

Thriller Writing Workshop

[146] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Bestselling YA thriller writer Gemma Malley (The Killables) will share her creative writing expertise with you and encourage you to have a go yourselves. Paper and pens provided. Duration 60 mins. Places limited. 13+ years

Fiona Watt The Rosalind Franklin Lecture The Promise Of Stem Cells To Treat Human Disease

1pm

[149] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6.50

Martin Rees Cambridge University Series 7 A Post-Human Future? The Astronomer Royal and former Royal Society President discusses his hopes and fears for the coming decades, and speculates about more distant timehorizons, and a possible post-human era. In association with Cambridge University

[147] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Lucy Boyd talks to Monty Don

[150] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

The Rose Gray Tabletalk Kitchen Memories

Thomas Keneally talks to Damian Barr

This year’s foodie conversation given in the name of the River Café founder features her daughter, the chef and head gardener at the Michelin-starred Petersham Nurseries Café. Her cooking and gardening experience has guided Lucy throughout her 8-year partnership with award-winning chef Skye Gyngell and nurtured a fascination for Italian vegetables and salads, herbs and edible flowers.

The Booker-winner’s The Daughters Of Mars vividly experiences the Dardanelles and the Western Front in the First World War through the eyes of two Australian nurses.

[HF33] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Kristina Stephenson Sir Charlie Stinky Socks And The Tale of Two Treasures Fiendish foes are after the treasure and all manner of tricks, traps and medieval puzzles are in store for Sir Charlie. Duration 45 mins. 5+ years

2.30pm

There has been an explosion of interest in stem cells within the scientific and medical communities and also among politicians, pharmaceutical companies, ethicists and religious groups. They may have great potential to treat diseases that cannot be cured with current medicines. But how realistic are those expectations? Chaired by Brenda Maddox. In association with King’s College, London

2.30pm

Fictions – The Great War

[151] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Frances Borzello The Naked Nude In this illustrated lecture the art historian explores our obsession with the human body and compares the classical perfection of the nude with the raw, intensely human representation of the C20th and C21st. Chaired by Sarah Crompton.

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2.30pm

4pm [157] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Katherine Boo talks to Rosie Boycott

Barbara Kingsolver talks to Ariane Koek

Behind The Beautiful Forevers This multi-award-winning investigation into the under-city of Mumbai has become the benchmark for great writing about poverty and justice in C21st India.

Flight Behaviour The Orange Prize-winning author of The Lacuna discusses her suspenseful and brilliant new novel about catastrophe and denial set in the Appalachian Mountains. Sponsored by Pembertons Bookshop

[153] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Layla Al-Zubaidi, Matthew Cassell and Mohamed Mesrati talk to Jo Glanville Writing Revolution The editors and contributors present the best writing on the Arab revolutions from prominent journalists, activists, bloggers, academics and writers who participated in and bore witness to the ongoing uprisings and struggles. In association with English PEN and IB Tauris [HF35] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

2.30pm

Andy Mulligan The Boy With Two Heads The author of Trash and Ribblestrop is back, this time to make you think about life in ancient Greece in a whole new way. Duration 45 mins. 10+ years [154] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Edith Grossman in conversation with Daniel Hahn Why Translation Matters The doyenne of literary translators, the English voice of García Márquez, Cervantes, Vargas Llosa and Roncagliolo discusses her craft. In association with the British Centre for Literary Translation [HF36] 2.30PM THE CUBE £6.50

Winnie The Pooh

4pm [155] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £9

Stephanie Flanders Stephanomics From Fiscal Cliffs to Triple Dips and Cypriot banks, the BBC Economics Editor explains everything you ever wanted to know about economics but were afraid to ask. [156] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Paul Preston Guernica On 26 April 1937 just before five o’clock in the afternoon, the Luftwaffe destroyed an undefended Basque town. The historian explains Franco’s tactics and how the world responded.

[158] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Chris Wells and Ian Ridpath Navigating By The Stars How did our mariners manage without digital GPS? Captain Wells, master of Cunard’s QM2, traces the history of navigating the oceans by measuring the heavens using sextants and astrolabes; and author and broadcaster Ridpath, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, explores the mythology surrounding key constellations. [159] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Aarathi Prasad Like A Virgin Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man, and in the wild there are plenty of creatures – turkeys, Komodo ‘dragons’, and the ‘Jesus Christ’ lizard (which even walks on water) – that make babies without having sex. Soon, humans will have that option, too. The biologist explains How Science Is Redesigning The Rules Of Sex. [HF37] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

Holly Webb’s Animal Stories Holly Webb’s popular animal stories may tug the heartstrings but always have a happy ending. An unmissable treat for her fans. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years [160] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Mark Lynas, Philip Ball and guests Sacred Cows Make The Best Beefburgers

4pm

Story-time, games and honey sandwiches in the One Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie The Pooh and friends. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF32]. 4+ years

Monday 27 May

[152] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Challenging firmly-held beliefs is not to be undertaken lightly. However, it is crucial in all walks of life if societies are to develop and be capable of meeting new challenges. Author and campaigner Mark Lynas and renowned science writer Philip Ball discuss. Chaired by Andy Fryers. [HF38] 4PM THE CUBE £4

Barry Loser and Jim Smith I Am (Still) Not A Loser Barry is still on a mission to fight off his loserness in these madcap light-hearted stories, with cartoon illustrations. Perfect for Wimpy Kid fans. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

Monday 27 May

5.30pm

@hayfestival 5.30pm

[161] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

[HF39] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Roger McGough

Welcome To The Dark Side

As Far As I Know

Dystopian futures, weird science, war. It’s all here. Be challenged, engaged and entertained with three uncompromising writers for young adults – Gemma Malley, Caroline Green and Phil Earle. Duration 60 mins. 13+ years

A reading of the new collection by the man hailed by Carol Ann Duffy as ‘the patron saint of poetry’. Take comfort from this | You have a book in your hand | not a loaded gun or a parking fine | or an invitation card to the wedding | of the one you should have married. [162] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, John Holmes and Philippe Sands talk to John Kampfner The Google Debates 4 The Future Of Intervention What are the lessons to be learnt from Libya, Syria and Mali? The French Ambassador to Berlin is joined by the UN Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and the leading international lawyer. In association with Google

[166] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Morgan Parry, Katie-Jo Luxton and Geoffrey Lean How Do We Value The Welsh Natural Environment? Does putting a monetary value on Wales’ environment help to show how important it is or does it in fact diminish it? How do we fully appreciate and recognise the value of its contribution to our health, wellbeing and economy? Morgan Parry, non-exec director of National Resources Wales, RSPB Cymru’s Katie-Jo Luxton and The Telegraph’s Geoffrey Lean discuss. In association with RSPB Cymru

[163] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Hugh Aldersey-Williams Anatomies

[164] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Oliver Bullough talks to Francine Stock The Last Man In Russia – And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation The award-winning author of Let Our Fame Be Great maps the contours of Russia’s post-Soviet, vodka-soaked self-destruction through the prism of an extraordinary Orthodox priest, with equal passions for writing and for saving his fellow citizens from the KGB. Sponsored by FW Golesworthy

Matt Parker Number Ninja The Infinite Monkey Cage stand-up maths star takes an hilarious tour through the world of numbers. Expect everything from debunking number nonsense and flagrant sudoku abuse to the mysterious patterns in the locations of ancient monuments and defunct Woolworths’ stores. [168] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Sherard Cowper-Coles talks to Nik Gowing Ever The Diplomat

The author of Cables From Kabul unpacks his diplomatic bag and spills the beans on how the world works in his riveting memoir Confessions Of A Foreign Office Mandarin. [169] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £8

[165] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Geoffrey Marsh and Victoria Broackes

Aminatta Forna and James Meek talk to Rosie Goldsmith

David Bowie Is at the V&A

Fictions – Scale Forna’s The Hired Man is a powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town. Meek’s The Heart Broke In is a rich, ambitious family drama of love, death and money in the era of gene therapy and internet exposés.

[167] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

7pm

5.30pm

A delightful tour of the art, science and literature of The Human Body, Its Parts And The Stories They Tell – from the first finger-printing to the physiology of angels; from the death-mask of Isaac Newton to the afterlife of Einstein’s brain. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill. Sponsored by Jonathan Oddy Bespoke Fine Furniture

7pm

The curators of this year’s blockbuster retrospective exhibition provide an insight into the making of this innovative show, which traces Bowie’s design collaborations and shifting style across five decades. In association with the Victoria & Albert Museum and Barclays

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7pm

8.30pm [174] 8.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6.50

John Mitchinson and guests

Machynlleth Comedy Festival Gala

Unbound Live 1

The annual gala night from our sister festival in Machynlleth returns for its fourth year. Sit back and enjoy some of the best comic talent the UK has to offer, with Joe Lycett, Sara Pascoe, David Trent and Tony Law.

The award-winning crowd-funded publisher offers the Hay audience a chance to choose what gets published. Mixing authors whose books have already been funded with others pitching their ideas for books they want to write, this is a literary Dragons’ Den with a difference. Legendary writer and performer Salena Godden pitches her childhood memoir, Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn presents his science fiction sequel, novelist Charles Fernyhough asks whether neuroscience changes love, Strangler Hugh Cornwell and archaeologist-turnedcrimewriter Francis Pryor compete for your support with a little help from publisher and QI Elf-master John Mitchinson. Light poetic relief from performance poet George Chopping.

[175] 8.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Peter Hook talks to Sarfraz Manzoor Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division The bass player and co-founder of the post-punk Manchester rock band tells the inside story of his times and tours with Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Ian Curtis. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design

Monday 27 May

[170] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

[176] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6* [171] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Carl Watkins The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among The Dead

7pm

A vivid history of the macabre as the author goes in search of the ancient customs, local characters and compelling tales that illuminate how people over the years have come to terms with our ultimate fate. He discovers what a small Norfolk church has to tell us about the apocalypse; why the greatest minds of the C17th were embroiled in debate over the phantom Drummer of Tedworth; and how a nineteenthcentury Welsh druid completely changed the national view of cremation. [172] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Russ Malkin, Ed Gillespie and Kate Rawles Low Impact Travel What does it mean for the future of travel if exploring our ‘Lonely Planet’ risks destroying our ‘Only Planet’? Malkin produced and directed three motorcycle adventure TV documentaries, Gillespie travelled around the world without flying, and Rawles (The Carbon Cycle) cycled from Texas to Alaska. Chaired by Steve Colling.

Austen Bicentenary Series 3

Austentatious: Literary Mischief An hour-long comedy play spun in the style of Jane Austen. A seasoned cast including fast-rising comics Cariad Lloyd and Rachel Parris present an eloquent, irreverent and 100% improvised take on Britain’s best-loved novelist. Swooning guaranteed. * Free entry to anyone in a bonnet or breeches.

9.30pm [177] 9.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Hugh Cornwell Unplugged The legendary Stranglers songwriter, vocalist and guitarist plays an intimate acoustic concert reworking some of his greatest hits, classic solo material and songs from his critically-acclaimed new album Totem And Taboo. Presented by The Sound Castle and sponsored by Wyevale Nurseries Ltd

8.30pm [173] 8.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £13

Manu Dibango Africadelic 80th Birthday Concert Please join us to celebrate the Afrobeat sax god, begetter of Soul Makossa and jazz legend as he returns to Hay to round out the Bank Holiday weekend with a joyful party of high style and dancing feet.

Tuesday 28 May

9am

10am

[445] 9AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

[181] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5.50

Simon Wessely

Barry Cunliffe Britain Begins

The Mental Health Of The UK Armed Forces After Iraq And Afghanistan: Myths And Realities

Using archaeological and DNA evidence Cunliffe tells the story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the retreat of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest.

It’s now ten years since the invasion of Iraq, and the UK Armed Forces have been fully engaged in a decade of war. What has been the mental health impact? If you listen to many media accounts you might conclude that nearly everyone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan ends up in a psychiatric clinic, on the streets or in prison. But what are the facts? What do we know about the actual impact of deployment now, and what can we expect in the future? In association with Kings College, London

Sean Davies and Mike Davies The Last King Of Wales Gruffudd ap Llywelyn took control of SE Wales in 1055. He then turned his attention to Herefordshire and the border country. He attacked the city of Hereford and destroyed the Cathedral. He wintered at Llangorse Lake and in 1056 he scored a major victory over an English army near Glasbury-on-Wye.

10am [179] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Ruby Wax talks to Rosie Boycott

10am

Sane New World: How To Tame The Mind The comedian, writer, performer and mental health campaigner suffered bouts of depression throughout her life. She completed her Masters in Mindfulnessbased Cognitive Therapy at Oxford in 2012. She explores how we sabotage our sanity, how our brains work and how we can rewire our thinking – often through simple mindfulness techniques – to find calm in a frenetic world. [180] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5

Ewan Fernie Teaching Shakespeare And The Big Stuff The author of The Demonic: Literature And Experience examines scenes from Othello, Hamlet, The Tempest and Measure For Measure and discusses how to teach Shakespeare with imagination and intensity. In association with The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham [HF40] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

Beast Quest Adam Blade brings the Beast Quest adventures to life – and gives us a glimpse of the excitement to come in brand new Sea Quest. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

[182] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

David Wilson Wales: A Photographer’s Journey Taking the audience on a spectacular, enchanting journey across Wales and its glorious landscape, Wilson uses photos from the book to talk about his work, his inspirations and how to set about capturing the perfect image. Chaired by Carolyn Hitt. [HF41] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Cathy Cassidy Coco Caramel

10am

[178] 9AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

#hay13

The bestselling girls’ favourite author is back with a brand new book in the Chocolate Box Girls series, which began with Cherry Crush. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years [183] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Creating A Net Positive Countryside: Workshop 1 What do we need to do to deliver the resilient ecosystem services needed by all of us, every day? As part of the Landmarc 100 Innovations Scheme, this is the first in a series of open invitation workshops, conversations and presentations designed to inspire applicants, tackle the big issues of sustainability, and take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services [HF42] 10AM THE CUBE £4.50

Jez Alborough The creator of the Eddy And The Bear stories, which became a Bafta Award-winning television series, is here to bring you Nat The Cat’s Sunny Smile. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF48]. 4+ years

11.30am [184] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Andy McNab talks to Paul Blezard Bravo Two Zero At Twenty On the 20th anniversary of publication of his iconic tale of disaster and endurance in the first Iraq War, the Special Forces veteran revisits the story with new material. Sponsored by The Coffee Cart Company Ltd

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11.30am

[185] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £5

[188] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

Tony Badger

FREE BUT TICKETED

In 2009, as in 1933, a charismatic president succeeded a discredited one at a time of economic crisis. Obama and his advisers explicitly looked to FDR for policy models. Despite his re-election in 2012, Obama has lost control of the House, where Republicans stymie attempts to avoid the fiscal cliff. Economic recovery is partial and largely jobless. The prospects for his second term look unpromising in a highly polarised politics. Did Obama learn the right lessons from the New Deal? Chaired by Stephanie Flanders. In association with Cambridge University [186] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Jane Williams and guests The Michael Ramsey Prize

11.30am

Michael Ramsey Prize shortlisted authors, Victor Lee Austin, Luke Bretherton, John Gillibrand, Paula Gooder, Michael Lodahl and Thomas Yoder Neufeld share the experience of being nominated for one of the world’s most prestigious theology prizes and explain what their titles contribute to the world of contemporary theology. See also events [194] and [196].

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Tuesday 28 May

Cambridge University Series 8 The Lessons Of The New Deal

Creating A Net Positive Countryside: Workshop 2 What do we need to do to deliver the resilient ecosystem services needed by all of us, every day? Join us to take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services [HF45] 11.30AM THE CUBE £4

Emma Dodd Cinderelephant Emma Dodd shares her beautifully executed story, in which the well-known fairy tale is retold with a pachyderm heroine and a trunk-load of charm. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

1pm [HF46] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £5

Roger McGough An Imaginary Menagerie The nation’s favourite poet is back with a brilliant, warm and witty performance of poetry old and new. Duration 60 mins. 7+ years

[HF43] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Tilly And Friends

[189] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Join picture-book genius Polly Dunbar to find out what Tilly’s friends Hector, Doodle, Tumpty, Tiptoe and Pru have been up to. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

Daniel Swift

[187] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Margaret Anstee talks to Paul Preston An Unlikely Spanish Don: The Life And Times Of Professor John Brande Trend

[HF44] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Don’t Scratch Your Bum With A Hedgehog Fascinating facts and the kind of advice you won’t get anywhere else from the bestselling and double-Blue Peter Best Book with Facts-winning Mitchell Symons. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

The prayer book’s history is one of passionately contested revision and of manic sensitivity to a verb or a turn of phrase. In the book’s ambiguities and fierce contestations, Swift argues, William Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama. Tracing the prayer book’s lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure For Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, he redirects scholarly attention to the religious heart of Shakespeare’s work and time. [190] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Sarah Crompton and Lucy Moore Dance Talk: Sadlers Wells And Nijinsky

1pm

The extraordinary life of Cambridge’s first professor of Spanish; an undergraduate peer of Keynes and Rupert Brooke, he fought at Ypres before falling in love with Spain in the ’20s and ’30s, where he became a close friend of Manuel de Falla, Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel.

Shakespeare’s Common Prayers: The Book Of Common Prayer And The Elizabethan Age

On the centenary of The Rite Of Spring, Moore’s Nijinsky captures the spirit of the great genius of C20th ballet, his relationship with Diaghilev, the controversy of his radical choreography and his descent into madness. In Sadler’s Wells Dance House Crompton chronicles how this London theatre and its creative impulses have shaped the course of dance in the C20th and C21st from classical to hip hop. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill.

Tuesday 28 May

1pm

[191] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

[195] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £5

David Day talks to Oliver Balch

Michael Collins, Guy Johnston and Leon McCawley

Antarctica A compelling history of the southern-most continent from the C18th voyages of discovery to the fierce rivalries of today, as governments, scientists, environmentalists and oil companies compete for control.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 1 Collins (clarinet), Johnston (cello) and McCawley (piano) play Beethoven – Trio in B flat, op.11; Brahms – Trio op.114; Glière – Valse Triste op.35, no.7; Rachmaninov – Vocalise for cello and piano. Recorded for broadcast on Radio 3

[192] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Jules Evans Philosophy For Life And Other Dangerous Situations The philosopher imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the world has ever known. Each of these ancient philosophers teaches a technique we can use to transform ourselves and live better lives.

It’s A Girl Thing

1pm

Three fabulous queens of teen, Sarah Webb, Sophia Bennett and Luisa Plaja, talk about why they love to write for girls and how they develop their stories. Duration 60 mins. 9+ years [193] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Anne Meikle and Gareth Wyn Jones Slipstream Wales – Land & Nature How business, government and community could collaborate and drive country-scale change to make Wales land and nature net-positive. WWF’s Anne Meikle and Bangor University’s Gareth Wyn Jones discuss. Chaired by Andy Fryers. In partnership with the Welsh Government [HF48] 1PM THE CUBE £4.50

Rowan Williams, Neil MacGregor and friends The Michael Ramsey Prize Lunch Please join us for a simple and delicious, locallysourced light lunch and the presentation of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing, hosted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury and the Director of the British Museum. See also events [186] and [196]. * Includes two courses and a glass of wine.

2.30pm [196] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £9

Rowan Williams and Neil MacGregor Images Of Faith: Help Or Hindrance? A conversation about religion and imagery with the former Archbishop and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the Director of the British Museum, author of A History Of The World In 100 Objects and Shakespeare’s Restless World. See also events [186] and [194]. In association with The Michael Ramsey Prize

2.30pm

[HF47] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

@hayfestival

[197] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £7

David Horspool, David Blakeley, Damien Lewis and Paul Conroy War Stories: Reports From The Front Line Of Modern Military History Writing

The TLS history editor chairs this elite unit of awardwinning war reporters and authors of new books – Zero Six Bravo, Maverick One and Under The Wire. In an age of mobile-phone footage, embedded journalists and instant disinformations, the values of deep research, personal experience and intelligent analysis are more essential than ever to lend authority and understanding to writing about war. [HF49] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy flies in specially from Dublin to bring some awesome to Hay and share his Skulduggery genius. Sneak peek from Book 8 a definite maybe… Duration 60 mins. 10+ years [198] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5.50

Simon Horobin Does Spelling Matter? The history of English spelling from the AngloSaxons to the present-day – and how tradition, modernity and technology have made our language.

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2.30pm

4pm [202] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Rebecca Miller talks to Gaby Wood

Con Coughlin

Fictions – Past And Present

Churchill’s First War: Young Winston And The Fight Against The Taliban

The author of The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee and Personal Velocity introduces the twin tales of C18th Paris and C21st New York in her new novel Jacob’s Folly, to consider the hold of the past on the present, the power of private hopes and dreams, and the collision of fate and free will.

[203] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

The Last Minute & The Last Performance

Jenny Uglow The Pinecone

Updale writes about the last minute of life for hundreds of people, and McCaughrean about a seaside theatre’s very last performance. Find out what is so absorbing about the end of things. Duration 60 mins. 11+ years

The story of Sarah Losh – forgotten Romantic heroine, antiquarian, architect and visionary. In the church in Wreay, her masterpiece, there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth. Chaired by Simon Mundy.

2.30pm

Eleanor Updale & Geraldine McCaughrean

[200] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE – DROP IN

Dragons’ Playground Sustainable Communities Five organisations shortlisted for the Green Dragons’ Den will be telling their stories, practising their pitches and sharing ideas on how they’d use the £10,000 prize if they won the Den. Today focuses on how we can create innovative, connected and healthy communities using our land and resources. In partnership with the Welsh Government [HF51] 2.30PM THE CUBE £4.50

Emma Dodd I Love You A warm and joyful look at a child’s world and all the things they love. Follow on from the Booktrust Early Years Award-winner I Love My Mummy. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

[204] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5.50

Rick Gekoski Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories Of Missing Works Of Art And Literature

4pm

[HF50] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

The young cavalry lieutenant wrote a vivid account of his experiences fighting Pashtun tribesmen – the great-great-grandfathers of today’s insurgents – on the North West Frontier. The Telegraph’s defence editor gives an insight into C19th military history that also throws light on a modern conflict that has lasted longer than WWII. Chaired by Mark Skipworth.

Tuesday 28 May

[199] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture and explores the greater questions these tremendous losses raise – the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill. [HF52] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £4.50

Simon Scarrow

4pm [201] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

John Sutherland and John Crace The Two Johnnies Do Sex And Marriage: From Austen To McEwan Can literature show us how to have a good sex life and a successful marriage? The SuperProf and the Digested Reads satirist romp through the bedrooms and letters where less is more. And where more is sometimes more too.

Gladiator: Son of Spartacus Roman history through the eyes of Marcus, newly freed from slavery, whom Julius Caesar tasks with overthrowing a rebel army. Third in the series from the Number 1 bestselling author. Duration 45 mins. 10+ years [HF53] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Laura Dockrill Darcy Burdock Voted one of the top ten literary talents by The Times, this uniquely gifted young artist who ‘writes, draws and talks’ is here to perform and read from her first book for young readers. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years Sponsored by Herdman Coaches

Tuesday 28 May

4pm

#hay13 5.30pm

[205] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

[209] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

FREE BUT TICKETED

Lloyd Jones and Cynan Jones talk to Gwen Davies

Green Dragons’ Den Final 1 Sustainable Communities Five participants, four Dragons and three minutes to tell a story that will capture the Dragons’ hearts, minds and cheque books for a chance to win a grant of £10,000. Today focuses on how we can create innovative, connected and healthy communities using our land and resources. In partnership with the Welsh Government

5.30pm

New Tales From The Mabinogion The new stories adapting the classical Welsh mythtales into modern idioms engage with rugby, mental health and male identity in Lloyd Jones’ See How They Run and Scritture Giovani fellow Cynan Jones’ Blood, Bird, Snow. Cynan’s The Dig was shortlisted for the EFG Short Story Award. In association with the New Welsh Review

6pm [210] 6PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Simon Thurley

The Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra

Men From The Ministry Between 1900 and 1950, Britain amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and sites and opened them to the public – a programme that established a modern state on deep historical and rural foundations. [207] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5.50

James Holland

5.30pm

World War II: Busting The Myths The historian, author of Dam Busters, Battle of Britain and Together We Stand, unpacks the myths, misinformations and spin of Second World War history. [208] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Austen Bicentenary Series 4

Paula Byrne The Real Jane Austen The biographer re-examines Austen’s family context and finds a far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern woman than the conventional picture of ‘dear Aunt Jane’ would allow. [HF54] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

The Soldier’s Tale

6pm

[206] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

MWCO is producing a new animated version of Stravinsky’s classic work with imagery and animated sequences created by one of Wales’ most celebrated visual artists, Clive Hicks-Jenkins. The narrator will be Lisa Dwan. The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky has a libretto by CF Ramuz that was translated by Michael Flanders. His daughter Stephanie Flanders joins the animator and the conductor James Slater for an after-show conversation, chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill. Supported by Lord & Lady Burns

7pm [211] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Jo Cartwright, Vanessa Griffiths and Keith Jones chaired by Justin Albert National Trust: Off The Record Three experts from Wales’ largest charity debate the pressing conservation issues of the day: low cost housing in green space; hydro-electric generation in Snowdonia and solar panels on our castles; heritage or hospitals in deprived areas. In association with The National Trust

Will Hill & Richard Kurti

Total Warfare

[212] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Will Hill’s Dept 19 series about a secret government department that hunts demons, and Richard Kurti’s Monkey Wars about a society collapsing into brutal combat are highly intelligent, complex thrillers. Find out how these writers create such believable worlds and why they embrace extremes. Duration 60 mins. 13+ years

Jonathan Steinberg Bismarck A portrait of Prussia’s charismatic and domineering Iron Chancellor, who dominated C19th Europe, and who caused Kaiser Wilhelm to observe that ‘it was hard being Emperor under a man like Bismarck’.

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8.15pm

7pm

[446] 8.15PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Andrew Edgar

Stephen Cottrell

Cardiff University Series 3 A Moral Conception Of The NHS

Christ In The Wilderness: Reflecting On The Paintings By Stanley Spencer

An exclusive emphasis upon efficiency leads to a fundamental misunderstanding of the true nature of a national health service. Viewed as a ‘civil association’, it is through the NHS that we, as a community, express and put into practice our sense of morality. In association with Cardiff University

The Christ In The Wilderness paintings bring together the human, sexual and spiritual themes that appear in many of Spencer’s paintings, though they are of course more explicit in their dealing of faith and vocation. An illustrated lecture. In association with The Michael Ramsey Prize [218] 8.15PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

[214] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

John Sweeney talks to Guto Harri

John Mitchinson and guests

The Church Of Fear

Unbound Live 2

The investigative journalist looks Inside The Weird World Of Scientology and paints a devastating picture of this strange organisation – from former Scientologists who tell heartbreaking stories of families torn apart and lives ruined to its current followers who say it is the solution to many of mankind’s problems.

7pm

A second chance to choose what gets published by the award-winning crowd-funded Unbound publishing house as authors pitch their ideas direct to the audience in a real-life, literary Dragons’ Den. Meet comedian Katy Brand and her hilarious alterego Brenda Monk, hear Adrian Teal tell how utterly scandalous the C18th really was, join David Bramwell on his quest to find Utopia, and learn how everything is connected to everything else with Steve Colgan. Light poetic and extremely humorous relief from performance poet, George Chopping.

Tuesday 28 May

[213] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

8.30pm [219] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Cat Weatherill Ariadne And The Minotaur

[215] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Matthew Francis and Tiffany Atkinson Poetry Reading Francis reads from his new collection, Muscovy, which explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a poltergeist moves into a remote Welsh village, and a party of seventeenth-century Englishmen encounter the wonders of Russia. Atkinson previews her 2014 poems So Many Moving Parts. Chaired by Simon Mundy.

A world première from one of Europe’s leading performance storytellers. Ariadne is a bold reimagining of the Theseus myth, which challenges the notion of Ariadne as lovelorn victim. Beautifully balancing strength and vulnerability, passion and pain, this promises to be a mesmerising performance.

9.30pm [220] 9.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU– WALES STAGE £14

Seth Lakeman [216] 7PM THE CUBE

FREE BUT TICKETED

Hay2Timbuktu What Happens When Your Twin Goes AWOL? Please come and join members of the Welsh twinning team and representatives from Mali to hear about the challenges of the last year and to explore the possibilities of the future. All welcome.

A joyful return to Hay for the captivating and inspiring singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The spirit of rock meets the timeless and heartfelt subject matter of folk in an energetic blend of fiddle, acoustic guitar and foot-stomping rhythms, with Seth’s trademark, soaring vocals riding the wave. His latest album is Tales From The Barrel House. See more at sethlakeman.co.uk Presented by The Sound Castle

8pm [217] 8PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £22

Amadou & Mariam The legendary Malian duo and their band bring their ‘exquisite, intergalactic Afro-pop’ (Time Out) to Hay. Their recent albums have been Folila, Dimanche à Bamako and Welcome to Mali. In association with Cerdd Cymru: Music Wales and WOMEX 13, Cardiff

Wednesday 29 May

10am

[221] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £4.50

[HF56] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

Simon Horobin

Animal Adventures

Chaucer’s Language

Sarah Lean’s debut A Dog Called Homeless went down a storm with Morpurgo fans. Learn how she creates her stories and join in with some ideas of your own. Duration 45 mins. 8+ years

Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Horobin introduces us to the wonders of Chaucer’s language and the importance of reading him in the original, rather than modern translation.

[225] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED [222] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £5.50

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Mary Fulbrook talks to Philippe Sands A Small Town Near Auschwitz

Resilient Communities – Fit For The Next Forty Years: Workshop 1

The Silesian town of Bedzin lies 25 miles from Auschwitz. The principal civilian administrator there, Udo Klausa, was a happily married, family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area – inhumane processes that were the precursors of genocide. He later claimed, like so many other Germans after the war, that he had ‘known nothing about it’. Klausa’s case is so important because it is in many ways so typical.

Making radical changes to the way business works with communities to bridge the gap between public, private and voluntary sectors. The second in a series of open invitation workshops, conversations and presentations designed to inspire applicants, tackle the big issues of sustainability, and take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services

[HF55] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

11.30am

Anthony Browne Picture book legend, multiple award-winner and former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne will share the magic of his art and show us how to play the Shape Game. Duration 45 mins. 5+ years [223] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

As Readers We Tour The World

10am

Drawing upon various literary genres, Mike will explore how our readings and imaginings of place, absorbed from the world of fiction, shape our ongoing agendas as tourists to the point where not only can we consider notions of genuine desire for imagined worlds, but it becomes almost impossible to be wholly ‘innocent’ of places. In association with Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham [224] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £5.50

Maggie O’Farrell and Rupert Thomson talk to Stephanie Merritt Fictions – Secrets And Lies The stunning new book from Costa Novel Awardwinning novelist O’Farrell Instructions For A Heatwave is a mystery portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. Thomson’s Secrecy is set in Florence in 1691. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a portrait of a famous city in an age of austerity, an exercise in concealment and revelation, but above all it is a trapdoor narrative, one story dropping unexpectedly into another.

[HF57] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Judith Kerr & Michael Morpurgo Judith and Michael celebrate their 90th and 70th birthdays respectively this year. Be part of a magical event as they reminisce and share Judith’s new book, Creatures. Duration 60 mins. 9+ years (not for young children)

11.30am

Mike Robinson

@hayfestival

[226] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £6

Peter Furtado talks to Oliver Balch Histories Of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

An extraordinary illustrated synthesis of essays by the world’s leading historians about their own countries’ forging of identities. Each one attempts to define the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries, large and small, have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state, and range from mature democracies to religious autocracies and one-party states. [227] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Mark Rowlands Running With The Pack: Thoughts From The Road On Meaning And Mortality Our memories make us who we are. But what is memory? What is it to remember a person or a place? Author Mark Rowlands grew up not far from Hayon-Wye, but has lived much of his adult life in America. Returning to a place that is full of memories, he examines the idea of remembering through the medium of two of his books, the international bestseller The Philosopher And The Wolf, and his new book Running With The Pack.

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11.30am

1pm [231] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

Alex Jeffrey talks to Ed Vulliamy

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Cambridge University Series 9 Justice And Recovery In Bosnia

Silence In Christian History

The process of establishing justice after the war in Bosnia has been orientated around retributive concepts – identifying individuals as perpetrators of crime and seeking to punish them accordingly. But this approach has overlooked more collective and restorative initiatives, which have been taking place in Bosnia on a small-scale and voluntary basis. In association with Cambridge University

The author of A History Of Christianity examines prayer, mystical contemplation, shame, evasion, and careless and purposeful forgetting. He describes the early Church’s attitude to the competing claims of silence and noise, shows how monasticism came to dominate Christian worship, and looks at the sudden eruption of noise in the Protestant reformation. [232] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Ian Cobain [229] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Kevin Maher, Taiye Selasi and Gavin Extence chaired by Chris White Fictions – Debuts

[HF58] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

The History Keepers

11.30am

Time-travelling adventures and evil plots abound with Damian Dibben’s The History Keepers – a secret society that travels through the centuries to prevent history being changed. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years [230] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Resilient Communities – Fit For The Next Forty Years: Workshop 2 Making radical changes to the way business works with communities to bridge the gap between public, private and voluntary sectors. Join us to take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services [HF59] 11.30AM THE CUBE £5.50

Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture The official line is clear: the UK does not ‘participate in, solicit, encourage or condone’ torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when it comes to dealing with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Chaired by Philippe Sands. [233] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Kathleen Taylor The Brain Supremacy: Notes From The Frontiers Of Neuroscience

1pm

Three of the debut novels selected for the 2013 Waterstones Eleven: Maher’s lyrical and funny The Fields tells of an interrupted adolescence in 1984 Dublin. Selasi’s Ghana Must Go is the story of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. Extence’s The Universe Versus Alex Woods is a funny and heartbreaking tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey. In association with Waterstones

Wednesday 29 May

[228] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Funds are pouring into brain research, but what does this relatively new science mean for us? Taylor looks at the promise of drugs that could boost our brainpower, at the potential for more subtle marketing techniques and even at the prospect of machines that could read our minds. She looks at the science behind these claims and at how scientists look inside the human brain. [HF60] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Chris Riddell Alienography 2: Tips For Tiny Tyrants Colin The Alien explains his top tips for intergalactic domination with the help of the award-winning illustrator and political cartoonist. Duration 45 mins. 5+ years [234] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Simon Scarrow Fictions – Medieval History Sword And Scimitar is set in 1565, Malta: a vital outpost between the divided nations of Europe and the relentlessly expanding Ottoman Empire. Faced with ferocious attack by a vast Turkish fleet, the knights of the Order of St John fear annihilation.

Tracey Corderoy Granny Trouble The author of Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble and Whizz, Pop, Granny Stop! will share Granny’s adventures in a lively fun-packed session. Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

Wednesday 29 May 2.30pm

[HF61] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

[238] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Geekhood And Geek Girl

David Parker

Former actor Andy Robb and former model Holly Smale are seriously geeky at heart. Hear about their books Geekhood and Geek Girl and discover where you figure on the geek spectrum. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years

The World’s Oldest Bible: How Technology Shapes Belief

[235] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £3

Paul Matthews and Hywel Lloyd Slipstream Wales – Resilient Communities How business, government and community could collaborate and drive country-scale change to make Wales’ communities net-positive. Paul Matthews, Chief Executive of Monmouthshire County Council, and Hywel Lloyd, advisor to energy self-sufficient Stoke-on-Trent, discuss with TYF’s Andy Middleton. In partnership with the Welsh Government [HF62] 1PM THE CUBE £5.50

Rainbow Magic Get out your wings and come dressed as a fairy for storytelling and lots of activities with the fairy queen. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF69]. 6+ years [236] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £5

The Gould Piano Trio BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 2 The trio play Mozart – Trio in B flat, K502 and Arensky – Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.32. Recorded for broadcast on Radio 3

2.30pm

Codex Sinaiticus, copied in the middle of the C4th, is both the oldest surviving Christian Bible and one of the first to be made. Parker describes this beautiful and remarkable manuscript, discussing the religious significance of the technological revolution from which it emerged and suggests parallels with other momentous happenings in the history of the book, which have shaped belief. In association with the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham [239] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

James Daunt, Rodric Braithwaite and guests The Pushkin House Waterstones Russian Book Prize

2.30pm

Wednesday 29 May

1pm

#hay13

The Waterstones chief and the chair of judges host a discussion on writing about Russia with shortlisted authors. The shortlist is announced on 25 April. Fuller details of the line-up for this event will be announced on 1 May. In association with Waterstones [HF64] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

CJ Skuse & Matt Whyman Zombies AND Cannibals Two blackly comic writers talk about a zombie romcom, Dead Romantic, and a family where it’s really weird if you are not a cannibal, The Savages. Fans of Charlie Brooker and Warm Bodies, this is one for you. Duration 45 mins. 12+ years

[HF63] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7 [HF65] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

The master storyteller and creator of War Horse tells us how true stories and real life secrets inspire his fiction, including his latest novel A Medal for Leroy. Duration 60 mins. 9+ years

Steve Cole

2.30pm

Michael Morpurgo

[237] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Andrew Williams talks to Ed Vulliamy

Magic Ink Hear all about Magic Ink, the brand-new comic strip adventure from the madcap mind of Steve Cole, bestselling author of Astrosaurs, Cows In Action and Slime Squad. Duration 45 mins. 8+ years

In Our Name The journalists who exposed A Very British Killing: The Death Of Baha Mousa and Bosnia: The Reckoning investigate the grotesque misconduct of war and the insidious moral corruption of everyone involved, the decay of public life, and the endemic parallels that exist with Britain’s current institutional structures.

[240] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

FREE – DROP IN

Calling All Social Entrepreneurs Want some guidance, mentoring or financial support? Whether you are just starting out or needing to grow, drop in to meet the people who can help you out and to network with other like-minded souls. In partnership with UnLtd celebrating 10 years of supporting individuals creating social change

01497 822 629

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2.30pm

4pm [HF68] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Tracey Corderoy I Want My Mummy

Liz Kessler & Hilary McKay

Not even Arthur’s dragon suit and favourite toy can cheer him up when he is separated from his mummy for the first time. Luckily help is at hand… Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

Seaside Stories North of Nowhere and Binny For Short are both set in seaside towns. These two acclaimed writers discuss the differences and similarities in their stories. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years

4pm [245] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE [241] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £5

FREE BUT TICKETED

Dianne Edwards talks to Francine Stock

Green Dragons’ Den Final 2

From Ancient Hay To Gardens Today

Build It

Plants changed the face of the planet – and fossils from Hay and around the world have revealed how this happened. Edwards tells the story of these ancient plants, which led to the gardens, forests and landscapes we know today. In association with The Royal Society

Five participants, four Dragons and three minutes to tell a story that will capture the Dragons’ hearts, minds and cheque books for a chance to win a £15,000 cash award and one-to-one support from UnLtd. In partnership with UnLtd celebrating 10 years of supporting individuals creating social change

Wednesday 29 May

[HF66] 2.30PM THE CUBE £5.50

[242] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Mark Price talks to Kamal Ahmed

[HF69] 4PM THE CUBE £5.50

Super Markets

Rainbow Magic

Come and quiz the Waitrose MD on food and farming, ethical and essential consumption, competition, partnership and price. Chaired by the business editor of The Telegraph. Sponsored by Welsh Venison Centre

5.15pm

Get out your wings and come dressed as a fairy for storytelling and lots of activities with the fairy queen. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF62]. 6+ years

[HF67] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

4pm

Wyrmeweald is a land where fabulous dragon-like beasts roam wild and man is both hunter and hunted. Immersive epic fantasy from the incredibly talented duo behind The Edge Chronicles. Duration 60 mins. 9+ years [243] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

John Guy The Children Of Henry VIII

Sue Roberts Writing For Radio Masterclass The BBC Radio Drama Executive leads this workshop seminar in writing for radio. Numbers are limited.

5.30pm [247] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Kate Humble talks to Carolyn Hitt Humble By Nature

5.30pm

Henry fathered four living children, Henry Fitzroy, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, each by a different mother. Their interrelationships were often scarred by jealousy, mutual distrust, sibling rivalry, even hatred. Possessed of quick wits and strong wills, their characters were defined partly by the educations they received, and partly by events over which they had no control. Introduced by SJ Parris.

[246] 5.15PM–8.15PM THE CUBE £30

The broadcaster and farmer tells the story of her relocation to a Welsh farm, chasing the good life dream and her struggle to establish a sustainable business and a school for rural skills and animal husbandry. Sponsored by RM Jones Farmcentre

[244] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

[248] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £6

Grahame Davies and Tony Curtis

Gillian Clarke

The Alchemy Of Water This multi-media event delights in the transformational and magical quality of an element that is abundant in Wales. This alchemy is observed and fixed by the breathtaking landscape photography of Mari Owen and Carl Ryan, and is crystallized further by the pithy poems of award-winning authors Curtis and Davies.

The 2013 Housman Lecture

The National Poet of Wales gives this year’s lecture addressing AE Housman’s own original subject of The Name And Nature Of Poetry. Chaired by Guto Harri. Sponsored by The Housman Society

Wednesday 29 May 7pm

Wednesday 29 May

5.30pm [249] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

[253] 7PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Robin Waterfield talks to Oliver Balch

Neil Oliver

Dividing The Spoils

Vikings

The war for Alexander The Great’s empire among his successors lasted forty brutal, destructive years and also saw an astonishing cultural boom. A new world emerged from the dust and haze of battle – the world of Hellenistic Greece.

As the Vikings did not write their history, we have to discover it for ourselves. The historian and broadcaster examines the myths and truths about the Scandinavian adventurers and raiders who travelled the world to build a vast empire that lasted 200 years. Sponsored by Freixenet

[250] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO

FREE BUT TICKETED

Saci Lloyd chairs

[254] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

The Concern Universal Debate Who Cares About Climate Change?

Lee Mack

The final of a national youth public speaking competition is chaired by the author of The Carbon Diaries, Quantum Drop and Momentum. In partnership with Concern Universal

Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? His hilarious and acute autobiography gives an intriguing insight into the mind and life of one of Britain’s most popular comedians.

[251] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Mike Goldsmith An intriguing journey of dissonance in science, in nature and in music: how composers have employed it from Baroque music to Rock feedback; how medicine harnesses it to shatter kidney stones and treat cancer; and even how the military uses it in (real and rumoured) weapons. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill. [HF70] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Happy Ever After

5.30pm

Sally Gardner and Nick Lake have won major awards for fiction – the Costa and the Printz. They are joined by newcomer Alexia Casale to talk about themes in YA fiction and whether readers need happy endings. Duration 60 mins. 13+ years [252] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Paul Silk, Graham Allen, Richard Wyn Jones Constitutional Reform Is the UK on the verge of breaking up? Scotland has its referendum in 2014, Wales is seeking further powers from Westminster, and local government in England is being strengthened. Silk, Commission on Devolution in Wales, Allen, Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, and Wyn Jones, Director of the Wales Governance Centre, discuss. Chaired by the BBC’s Betsan Powys.

Mack The Life

[255] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

RS Thomas Centenary Series 2

Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Mererid Hopwood, Emyr Lewis, Anna Lewis, Owen Sheers, Damian Walford Davies, Glyn Maxwell, Grahame Davies and Simon Armitage Poems For RS

7pm

Discord: The Story Of Noise

@hayfestival

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of RS Thomas, eleven poets have written poems in response to works of his, which will be published as a limited edition by Hay Festival Press. The gala reading is chaired by the Hay Festival International Fellow for 2012–2013 Eurig Salisbury. [256] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £8

Nikki Gemmell, Brooke Magnanti, Jojo Moyes and Linda Kelsey The Good Housekeeping Debate Sex Changes Everything Is erotica changing the literary landscape? Gemmell (The Bride Stripped Bare), Magnanti (Belle de Jour series, televised as Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and Moyes (Me Before You) talk to Kelsey, GH contributor and ex-editor of Cosmopolitan. We’ve been going to bed with them for years. Isn’t it time we were seen together in public? In association with Good Housekeeping

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7pm

9.30pm [262] 9.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU– WALES STAGE £9

Chris Anderson and David Sally

Wara

The Numbers Game

The band has concocted an epic and rapturous new musical genre of their own with strong Cuban roots. A hot melting pot of identities with backgrounds from all over the world: Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Ghana, Congo, Spain and the UK. With contagious, in-your-face vocals from Congolese-Argentinean lead Juanita Euka (niece of legendary Congolese musician Franco), inspired keyboard flourishes from MD Eliane Correa, MC Murmur quick on the rhymes and a super-tight Latin/UK mix on the rhythm section, their musical energy is palpable. Presented by The Sound Castle and sponsored by Shepherds Ice Cream

4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points for a win. But what if up until now we’ve been focusing on the wrong numbers? What if the numbers that really matter, the ones that hold the key to winning matches, are actually 2.66, 53.4, 50/50, and 0 > 1? What if managers only make a 15% difference? What if Chelsea should have bought Darren Bent? Chaired by Gooner Clemency Burton-Hill. [258] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Tom Bullough, Jay Griffiths, Toby Litt Beacons: Stories From Our Not So Distant Future

Wednesday 29 May

[257] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Throughout history, writers have been spokespeople for social change, and with climate change a real threat to our society, now is no different. Chaired by Andy Fryers.

8.15pm [259] 8.15PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

David Moore and Peter Wakelin A Taste Of The Avant-Garde: 56 Group Wales, 56 years

8.15pm

The creation, growth and influence of this stillthriving major grouping of Welsh artists, founded in 1956. Illustrated with images by the artists. Sponsored by Brecknock Art Trust and Art Fund, Powys [260] 8.15PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Bob Heath ‘You Say Goodbye…And I Say Hello’ The music therapist specialises in working with people at the end of their lives; he presents and discusses work created by his clients over the last 10 years. Chaired by David Barnard of Sound Futures. In association with Cool Fossil Music Foundation, UCan

9.30pm [261] 9.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £26

Dara Ó Briain The comedian and science champion brings his fabulous Craic Dealer show to Hay. JOY. See also event [302]. Sponsored by GL Events Snowdens

Thursday 30 May 10am

9am Thursday 30 May

#hay13

[263] 9AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

[HF72] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

Robin Waterfield

Dirty Bertie

Why Socrates Died

David Roberts is back with his brilliant illustrations and the latest in the bestselling Dirty Bertie series. Duration 45 mins. 5+ years

Socrates’ trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it – created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since – is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy. But an icon, an image, is not reality.

[267] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Professionals – Delivery and Innovation: Workshop 1

10am [264] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5

Brian Gambles, Francine Houben and Ian Ward Rewriting The Book: The Library Of Birmingham

10am

The £189m Library of Birmingham opens in September this year, and will be the largest public library in Europe. It will provide a showcase for the city’s internationally important collections of archives, photography and rare books, a gallery space, a new flexible studio theatre, an outdoor amphitheatre and two garden terraces. The Project Director, architect and the Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council will discuss bringing this ambitious project to fruition. In association with the University of Birmingham

How do professionals across all sectors develop the survival skills for a resilient future? As part of the Landmarc 100 Innovations Scheme, this is the third in a series of open invitation workshops, conversations and presentations designed to inspire applicants, tackle the big issues of sustainability, and take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services [HF73] 10AM THE CUBE £5

Steve Cole A fun-filled frantic session with the creator of the Astrosaurs and Cows In Action series. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

11.30am

[265] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50 [268] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Islands Beyond The Horizon

Guy Walters

The naturalist explores some of the remotest places on earth, examining the islands’ biodiversity and the impact of human habitation on their wildlife and ecosystems.

The Real Great Escape

[HF71] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Alex Scarrow TimeRiders The golden age of piracy gets a time-travel makeover as the team is confronted by an unscrupulous captain intent on theft. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years [266] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE

FREE BUT TICKETED

Ian McMillan and guests The Verb Barnsley FC’s poet-in-residence and Beat Poet for Humberside Police hosts a Hay edition of Radio 3’s cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performances. Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Squadron Leader Roger Bushell masterminded an attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel built right under the noses of the guards of Stalag Luft III, a top-security prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied airmen in Lower Silesia. Great movie. The truth is stranger and more wonderful. Chaired by Mark Skipworth.

11.30am

Roger Lovegrove

[269] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £6

Stephanie Dalley The Mystery Of The Hanging Garden Of Babylon

An exciting story of detection, involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. Sponsored by Old Railway Line Garden Centre & Coffee Shop

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11.30am

1pm [274] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Andrew Balmford

Michael Vaughan

Nature’s Glass: Half Empty or Half Full?

Blowing On The Ashes

Wild populations, their habitats, and the benefits they provide for people, are in decline. But is the situation hopeless? The Professor of Conservation Science tells stories of success from around the world to argue the case of optimism. In association with The Royal Society

The batsman, former England Test captain, Telegraph columnist and author of Calling The Shots and Time To Declare previews this summer’s Ashes series. Chaired by Tom Holland. Sponsored by Grant Thornton [275] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

[271] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Jackie Scott Cambridge University Series 10 Equality

Gill Bennett talks to Nik Gowing Six Moments Of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy

Do women need equality at home to be equal in the workplace? Scott talks to Gaby Hinsliff. In association with Cambridge University

The former Whitehall insider unravels the stories of several crucial and controversial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict.

[272] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

[276] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Nicholas Orme

Alison Rust, Zita Martins, Nicole Grobert, Jenny Nelson

The Beginnings Of Children’s Literature In England

[HF74] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Melvin Burgess & Barry Cunningham Melvin Burgess talks to legendary publisher Barry Cunningham about the unusual genesis of The Hit, Melvin’s new book – a tense and violent thriller based on a very interesting premise. Duration 60 mins. 12+ years [273] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Professionals – Delivery and Innovation: Workshop 2 How do professionals across all sectors develop the survival skills for a resilient future? Join us to take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services [HF75] 11.30AM THE CUBE £5

Mega Mash Cowboys Vs Trolls In The Arctic and other totally crazy combinations will get you thinking about history, doodling, and having fun with story. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years

The Royal Society Platform 2 The Next Big Thing From volcanoes to nanotechnology, four researchers talk about what we are only just finding out. Chaired and introduced by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, John Sulston FRS. In association with The Royal Society [277] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Paul Roberts

1pm

11.30am

One of the world authorities on medieval children and schools examines the poetry and stories of the middle ages, the myths and the legends. Chaired by Simon Mundy.

Thursday 30 May

[270] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Life And Death In Pompeii And Herculaneum

An exploration of the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid and shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous, but who were these men, women and children so cruelly frozen in time? In association with The British Museum and sponsored by Borders Hideaway Holiday Home Park [278] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

Colin Mayer Firm Commitment The Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford offers a lucid and revelatory analysis of Why The Corporation Is Failing Us And How To Restore Trust In It. [HF76] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4

Wings & Co: The Fairy Detective Agency Sally Gardner and David Roberts talk and draw their way through the latest case, Operation Bunny. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years

Thursday 30 May

1pm

@hayfestival 2.30pm

[279] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

[282] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £7

Jane Davidson, Steve Evans and Mat Roberts

Dannie Abse reads, and talks to Owen Sheers

Slipstream Wales – Professionals: Delivery and Innovation

Speak, Old Parrot

How do we take the individual professionals’ ideas and innovations and raise them to a country-wide scale across Wales? How could we measure the benefits, join the dots and really get organisations working together? Jane Davidson, INSPIRE Director at University of Wales, Steve Evans, Industrial Sustainability Research Director at Cambridge University, and Mat Roberts, Head of Sustainability at Landmarc Support Services, discuss with TYF’s Andy Middleton. In partnership with the Welsh Government [HF77] 1PM THE CUBE £4

The National Museum of Wales presents:

Sounds Of The Dinosaurs

1pm

[280] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £5

The Lendvai Trio

[283] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Anthony Sinclair Serengeti Story: Life And Science In The World’s Greatest Wildlife Region What happens in this great World Heritage Site biologically? How did it become a protected area? What are the historical events that have shaped its present dynamics? What will happen to it in future? [284] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Amit Chaudhuri talks to Oliver Balch Calcutta: Two Years In The City A personal account of two years spent in one of the least-known but greatest cities on Earth. Using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the C19th, when the city burst with a new vitality, and towards the C21st when – utterly changed – it seems to be on the verge of another turn.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 3 The trio play Beethoven – String Trio op.9 no.1 and Taneyev – String Trio in E flat, op.31. Recorded for broadcast on Radio 3

2.30pm [281] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

Kate Humble, Marcus du Sautoy and Mark Watson Powering The Country: Kate, Marcus And Mark Try To Keep The Lights On What would you do if you had to power the UK? Kate, Marcus and Mark get to grips with how to generate enough energy to keep the lights on and power their appliances. Dependency on overseas supplies, volatile fossil fuel prices and the need for a low-carbon economy makes this one of the biggest challenges facing the country. Chaired by Mark Lynas and using the 2050 calculator. In association with DECC and National Grid

[285] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Alison Weir

2.30pm

Children get to handle dinosaur bones and other fossils, and then play with the noises dinosaurs might have made before joining in the soundtrack for an interactive reading of the museum’s Albie The Dinosaur story. Duration 50 mins. 6–8 years

Please come and join us to celebrate the 90th birthday of the great Welsh writer, and the publication of his latest poetry collection. In Speak, Old Parrot he returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity, Jewish folk tradition and the passing of time.

Mary Boleyn: ‘The Great And Infamous Whore’ Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. Chaired by SJ Parris. Sponsored by Roy & Carol Brown [HF78] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Dragon Frontier Dan Abnett, who has written some of the most famous superhero comics in the world, introduces a fantasy adventure series set in the wild west – with added dragons! Duration 45 mins. 8+ years [HF79] 2.30PM THE CUBE £4.50

Saci Lloyd Quantum Drop Writer and activist Saci Lloyd’s acclaimed Carbon Diaries is in development with the BBC. Quantum Drop lurches between a shadowy urban sprawl and a dangerous cyberworld. Which is real? Duration 45 mins. 13+ years

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4pm

4pm [290] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £6

Simon Schama and teachers

Alannah Weston, Steve Trent and Lily Cole

Our Children, Our History

Sharks And Beauty

What kind of past is it that Michael Gove’s proposed history curriculum offers to schoolchildren and their teachers? Can it be taught? Should it be taught? And what are the consequences for our national culture and identity? The historian leads the conversation and welcomes contributions from primary and secondary school teachers. * Free to teachers – please reserve a free ticket to ensure entry

There is a largely unknown and unseen use of sharks in the beauty trade. Addressing this issue is vital to stopping the rapid decline in shark populations and also why this is crucial in a broader context for the health of our oceans. Weston, Creative Director of Selfridges, the Environmental Justice Foundation’s Trent, and model and campaigner Cole discuss. In association with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)

[HF80] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU –WALES STAGE £5.50

[HF81] 4PM THE CUBE £5.50

Charlie Higson The Sacrifice

4pm

The fourth in the nail-biting series described as ‘Lord Of The Flies With Zombies’ is every bit as tense, bloody and action-packed as fans could wish. Duration 45 mins. 13+ years

Thursday 30 May

[286] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £5*

Olivia And The Great Escape Lyn Gardner’s popular series set in the Swan Academy is perfect for theatre and circus lovers and aspiring performers. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years

4.30pm

[287] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Owen Sheers and Carolyn Hitt

[291] 4.30PM–6.30PM DIGITAL STAGE

Calon: A Journey To The Heart Of Welsh Rugby

Suzy Klein and guests

This year’s Hay Festival International Fellow spent the last year as Artist in Residence with the WRU and has produced this astonishing book about sport, about myth, about nationhood and identity. He is joined by the rugby columnist, author of Wales Play In Red. Chaired by Jasper Rees, author of Bred Of Heaven. [288] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

FREE BUT TICKETED

In Tune The Radio 3 drive-time show will feature an eclectic mix of live music, plus interviews with some of the featured writers at the festival. Broadcast live from Hay

5.30pm

TJ Clark talks to Francine Stock

[292] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Picasso And Truth: From Cubism To Guernica

John Sulston

[289] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Charles Emmerson 1913: The World Before The Great War – Second Acts In A New World Told through the stories of 23 cities – Europe’s capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, the boomtowns of Australia and the Americas – the historian presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem.

The Royal Society Lecture The People And The Planet The Nobel Laureate discusses the links between global population, consumption and the environment, and the implications for sustainable development. How can we all live and flourish on a finite Earth? In association with The Royal Society

5.30pm

The eminent art historian explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso’s art of the 1920s and 1930s, from the Blue Room to Guernica.

[293] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Ed Stourton talks to Guto Harri Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across The Pyrenees

The shocking, dramatic and intensely moving history of the hundreds who made the arduous and desperate climb through the Pyrenees during the Second World War.

Thursday 30 May 7pm

[294] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £8

[298] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

The Earl of March talks to Mark Skipworth

Oliver James

The Goodwood Festival Of Speed

The psychologist cuts a fascinating exposé of modern office life and suggests How To Thrive In A World Of Lying, Backstabbing And Dirty Tricks.

A celebration of the first 20 years of the world’s premier classic performance car event – a story of cars, stars and the reinvention of a stately home.

Office Politics

[299] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6 [295] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

David Priestland

Jonathan Jones

Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History Of Power

The Loves Of The Artists A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most…sex. Taking Donatello’s provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jones shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill.

5.30pm

Thursday 30 May

5.30pm

#hay13

The historian argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems – that of the merchant (commercial and competitive); the soldier (aristocratic and militaristic); and the sage (bureaucratic or creative). These ‘castes’ struggle alongside the worker (egalitarian and artisanal) for power. Then comes a point of drastic change and the result is economic crisis, war or revolution, and eventually a new caste takes over.

[HF82] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Question Time For Young Adult Fiction Fans

[300] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust, is joined by Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess and Hayley Long to ask and answer all the big questions about YA. Now’s your chance to raise an issue. Duration 60 mins. 13+ years

On Poetry

[296] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

[301] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Simon Mundy and Deryn Rees-Jones

Julian Orbach

Mundy’s new collection More For Helen Of Troy is suffused with the atmosphere of the landscapes that inspire him and is also deeply involved with many questions of desire: for the ideal of a beautiful woman; for the hope of a good state; and for the vision of a pristine country and seaside. Rees-Jones’ Burying The Wren (shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize) is an intensely lyrical collection of poems of the body, which are alive to the world and the transformative qualities of love.

7pm [297] 7PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Marcus du Sautoy The Irrational, The Chaotic And The Incomplete The brilliantly entertaining and inspiring Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science explores The Mathematical Limits Of Science. In association with The Royal Society

The poet celebrates the work of the canonical poets and discusses his literary philosophy: that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities – breath, heartbeat, footstep, posture.

Market Halls: The Civic Cinderellas

7pm

Seren Poetry Reading

Glyn Maxwell talks to Simon Armitage

The architectural historian and Pevsner Guide author gives an illustrated talk about these most workaday public spaces. Followed by an update on the Heritage Lottery-supported Hay Cheesemarket project by Director Juliet Noble and Heritage Activities Manager Clare Purcell. In association with The Cheese Market

8.30pm [302] 8.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £26

Dara Ó Briain Craic Dealer A second opportunity to hear the comedian’s fabulous Craic Dealer show. JOY. See also event [261]. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design

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8.30pm [303] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU– WALES STAGE £15

Welsh National Opera The WNO Tribute To RS Thomas

8.30pm

A concert to celebrate the centenary of the great Welsh Poet features William Matthias’ setting of The Seven Poems Of RS Thomas and Henry Purcell’s Abdelazer Suite performed by the WNO ensemble, directed by David Adams, with tenor Mark le Brocq and with narration by the National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke. In association with the Welsh National Opera

Thursday 30 May

RS Thomas Centenary Series 3

[304] 8.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

Hugh Ellis, Peter Ellis, Kate Henderson, Derek Hooper, David Lock, Fiona Mannion, Ben Miles and Diane Smith Love, Life & Liberty A journey through Britain’s radical tradition of utopian art and politics. The performance of music and readings spans 350 years from The Diggers to Bruce Springsteen, and captures the spirit of hope and vision that once transformed the nation. Music performed by Chris Ellis and Rosie Toll. In association with the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) [305] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Jonathan Savage Why Music Education Matters Why a systematic music education should be at the heart of every child’s early educational experience. Examples from contemporary approaches to music education will be shared, and recent political events that have threatened these approaches will be analysed. Chaired by Martin Chilton. In association with Sound Futures, Cool Fossil Music Foundation

Friday 31 May

9am

@hayfestival 10am

[306] 9AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

[311] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Alannah Weston talks to Dylan Jones

Oliver James

Business Breakfast: Fashion

Love Bombing: Reset Your Child’s Emotional Thermostat

The Creative Director of Selfridges discusses the state of the rag trade with the editor of GQ. Sponsored by Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages [307] 9AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Alun Withey talks to Jasper Rees Medicine In Medieval Wales What was it like to be ill in medieval Wales? What remedies did people use and to whom did they turn for treatment? Jasper Rees is author of Bred Of Heaven.

10am

Love Bombing is the psychologist’s very simple technique, which helps most children from three years to early teenage. Because so many parents have periods of living very busy or miserable or complicated lives, most of us need to reconnect with our children from time to time. Love Bombing does the job. Chaired by Rosie Boycott. [HF83] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7

Peter Rabbit Puppet Show The Tale Of Peter Rabbit is brought to life in this interactive puppet show. You can help Peter to escape from Mr McGregor’s garden. Duration 45 mins. 4–7 years

[308] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

David Crystal

Data, Data Everywhere But Not A Byte In Sight: Workshop 1

[309] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

[HF84] 10AM THE CUBE £6

Jim Swire and James Robertson talk to Philippe Sands

David Shelton’s Cartoon Workshop

10am

Why is there an ‘h’ in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press, and his Flemish employees are to blame. Without a dictionary or style guide to hand in C15th Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. The linguistics prof unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us, in an epic journey taking in C6th monks, French and Latin upstarts, the Industrial Revolution and the internet. Sponsored by the Society of Indexers

Twenty-five years after a bomb brought Pan Am Flight 103 down on the town, the novelist James Robertson, author of The Professor Of Truth, and Dr Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the bombing and who is a member of the Justice For Megrahi group, reflect on the tragedy. [310] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Roger Hermiston and Sinclair McKay talk to Chris Morgan Jones Secrets And Lies We kick off this day devoted to espionage with two revealed stories that changed the course of the C20th – The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives Of Agent George Blake and The Secret Listeners: How The Y Service Intercepted The German Codes For Bletchley Park.

Landmarc 100 Workshops

10am

FREE BUT TICKETED

Perspectives On Lockerbie

[312] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

Spell It Out: The Singular Story Of English Spelling

How can we use omnipresent data to drive behaviour change, improve performance and make radical the new normal? This is the last in a series of open invitation workshops, conversations and presentations designed to inspire applicants, tackle the big issues of sustainability, and take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services

The Carnegie Medal-shortlisted creator of Good Dog, Bad Dog, a children’s comic strip featuring film-noir-style dog detectives Kirk Bergman and Duncan McBoo, will show you how to create your own. Paper and pens provided. Duration 60 mins. Places limited. 9+ years

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11.30am

11.30am [HF86] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Tom Holland

Keeper of the Realms: The Dark Army

The London Library Lecture Decline And Fall? In AD 476, Romulus Augustulus, Emperor in line to Augustus, Trajan and Constantine, was deposed by a German chieftain. It is an event that in most history books is identified as marking the end of the Roman Empire. But did it? The historian explores whether the Romans themselves had any comprehension that their empire could possibly fall. He traces the surprisingly obdurate survival of a Roman imperial identity across the centuries, and attempts to identify a moment in history when the Roman Empire could be said definitively to have come to an end. In association with The London Library [314] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Sebastian Faulks talks to Gaby Wood The British Council Series 3 Fictions – A Possible Life

11.30am

Provocative and profound, Faulks’ dazzling new novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. In this open workshop he describes how he came to write it this way, building the structure of the stories and his search for the language and form of his narratives. In partnership with The British Council [315] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £8

Rhianna Pratchett BAFTA presents Writing Games The representation of women both in games and the games industry has been changing over the last few years. Come and meet the lead writer on Tomb Raider who specialises in developing the narrative structure, humour and characterisation in games and played a key role in the reinvention of Lara Croft. In association with BAFTA

The second instalment of Marcus Alexander’s action-packed contemporary fantasy adventure starring Charlie Keeper. Duration 45 mins. 10+ years [317] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED

Landmarc 100 Workshops

Data, Data Everywhere But Not A Byte In Sight: Workshop 2 How can we use omnipresent data to drive behaviour change, improve performance and make radical the new normal? Join us to take the great ideas you’ve jotted on the back of beer mats or napkins and make them real. Supported by Landmarc Support Services [HF87] 11.30AM THE CUBE £5

Jackie Morris I Am Cat Ten wild habitats, ten wild cats are dramatically and beautifully illustrated in this unique celebration of the cat. Duration 60 mins. 5+ years

1pm [HF88] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £6

Malorie Blackman The multiple-award-winning creator of the classic YA series Noughts And Crosses is here to give us a preview of Noble Conflict, her powerful new thriller. Duration 60 mins. 12+ years

John Boyne The creator of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas talks about his whimsical, funny and uplifting The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket. Duration 45 mins. 8+ years [316] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Lucy Delap Cambridge University Series 11 Not Just Downton

Peter Sawyer Vikings

1pm

[318] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF85] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £5

Friday 31 May

[313] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

In this sumptuously illustrated lecture the historian asks: were the Vikings, as contemporary description had it, a ‘valiant, wrathful and purely pagan people’ who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or, in the words of a Manx folksong, ‘ware-wolves keen in hungry quest’, who lived and died by the sea and the sword? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists and pioneer explorers?

The reality behind the myth of domestic service in C20th Britain. How changes in technologies and ideas about what makes a ‘home’ have changed the nature of domestic labour, but not our need for other people to do it for us, be they cleaners, au pairs or ‘the help’. In association with Cambridge University

Friday 31 May

1pm

#hay13 1pm

[319] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

[323] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £5

Timothy Brook

Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow

The Troubled Empire The author of Vermeer’s Hat uses environmental crises to re-narrate China’s history from the time of Khubilai Khan down to the collapse of the Ming dynasty. His unique environmental indicator? Dragon sightings! Just because the Chinese saw dragons, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. Chaired by Horatio Clare. [320] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Nick Harkaway talks to Georgina Godwin The Blind Giant An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community, where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly into our lives, destroying what it means to be human; or an age of marvels, where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips? Ultimately, the choice is ours – engage with the machines that we have created, or risk creating a world designed for corporations and computers rather than people.

Chris Morgan Jones talks to Marcel Berlins Fictions – Spying And Thrilling The new thriller writer tipped as one of le Carré’s heirs discusses his Iranian industrial espionage story The Jackal’s Share. [HF89] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

Tarzan: The Savage Lands

1pm

Andy Briggs brings the Tarzan stories and the Congo alive for a new generation of readers with fascinating research material and a great story. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years [322] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £3

Andy Middleton and guests Slipstream Wales – Data Future How can data be used to help drive behaviour change, increase performance and make radical the new normal? With speakers from the world of technology and smart data analysis, chaired by TYF’s Director Andy Middleton. In partnership with the Welsh Government

The piano duo plays Mozart – Sonata in C K521 and Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Purgold – Antar, op.9. Recorded for broadcast on Radio 3

2.30pm [324] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £30

John le Carré talks to Philippe Sands In an unprecedented double-length interview, the creator of George Smiley and author of spy masterpieces such as The Constant Gardener, The Honourable Schoolboy, The Russia House and The Tailor Of Panama makes his first visit to the festival and talks about his work to Philippe Sands. His new novel A Delicate Truth is out on 25 April. This event is a fundraiser for our Kenyan project Storymoja Hay Festival Nairobi [325] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Jules Hudson Renovating Old Buildings

Practical advice and builders’ tales from the rural affairs expert and star of Escape To The Country, Britain’s Empty Homes and Britain’s Heritage Heroes. Sponsored by Oakwrights The Intelligent Oak Frame [326] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Dan Smith The State Of The World Atlas

A revelatory way of imagining the world. The revered International Relations guru and revolutionary cartographer updates his seminal 1970s work that graphically analyses every indicator and vital statistic of modern life, from wealth and power, war and peace through to rights, health and the environment. Chaired by Jerry Brotton. Sponsored by Tomatitos Tapas Bar [HF91] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Michelle Paver Gods And Warriors is the meticulously researched new Bronze Age adventure series from the internationallyacclaimed author of Wolf Brother. Duration 60 mins. 10+ years [327] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

[HF90] 1PM THE CUBE £6

Derek Niemann Birds In A Cage

Where’s Spot?

The remarkable untold story of a group of POWs who, through a shared love of birds, overcame hunger, hardship and boredom to bring purpose and dignity to their lives behind barbed wire. Under the gaze of Nazi guards, they founded a secret bird-watching society, and their legacy lives on in institutions such as the RSPB and the British Wildlife Trust.

Have you seen Spot? This storytelling session includes games, dancing, plus a chance to meet the world’s most lovable puppy. Duration 40 mins. 3–7 years

2.30pm

[321] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 4

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2.30pm

4pm

[HF92] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

[331] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Harry And The Bucketful of Dinosaurs

John Boyne talks to Sarfraz Manzoor

Join Ian Whybrow to find out all about Harry’s latest adventures with his dinosaurs. Duration 60 mins. 4+ years

The author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and The Absolutist introduces his new novel. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night…

Friday 31 May

[328] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

This House Is Haunted

FREE BUT TICKETED

Andy Fryers, Andy Middleton and guests

[332] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

The Dragons’ Slipstream

Matthew Haley

Earlier this week a group of senior business leaders, third sector innovators and participants from government came together in Hay to catalyse change in Wales. Join in the discussions in this open event and help build confidence and capability to magnify the solutions and share them globally. In partnership with the Welsh Government

Electrifying The Art Business Bonhams’ Head of Books, Maps and Manuscripts appreciates books as artefacts and looks at the effect of the electronification of books. In association with Bonhams Auctioneers [HF94] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Bodyguard: Hostage [HF93] 2.30PM THE CUBE £4.50

David Shelton A Boy And A Bear In A Boat A boy and a bear go to sea with a comic book, a suitcase and a ukulele and encounter sea monsters, ghost ships and storms in this slightly scary, surreal and funny story. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

4pm [329] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

4pm

To commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V’s horse during the Derby, the historian explores the women’s movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Chaired by Rosie Boycott. [330] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Simon Garfield On The Map: Why The World Looks The Way It Does How maps both relate and realign our history. His compelling narratives range from the quest to create the perfect globe to the challenges of mapping Africa and Antarctica, from spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of America, from Ordnance Survey to the mapping of Monopoly. Chaired by Jasper Rees. Sponsored by Ordnance Survey

[333] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Renos Papadopoulos and Zdenka Fantlova talk to Fiona Hamilton The Lapidus Conversation: How We Present And Represent Public Tragedies The psychologist looks at trauma in relation specifically to refugees in conflict zones. As consultant to the UN he has worked with refugees and other survivors of political violence in many countries. Fantlova is a Holocaust survivor and author of The Tin Ring: How I Cheated Death. Hamilton is Chair of Lapidus UK. In association with Lapidus [HF95] 4PM THE CUBE £4

The Tale Of The Gingerbread Man

4pm

Hard Was The Struggle

Chris Bradford, author of the bestselling Young Samurai books introduces his brand new series, Bodyguard, aimed at fans of Cherub and Alex Rider. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years

An imaginative interactive telling of a much-loved classic story, which parents will enjoy as much as their children. Duration 30 mins. 3–7 years

5.30pm [334] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £9

Alexander McCall Smith talks to Paul Blezard Happy Birthday Precious Ramotswe Please join us to celebrate fifteen years of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and catch up with favourite characters from Botswana, Scotland and beyond. Sponsored by Mr & Mrs Christopher James

Friday 31 May

5.30pm

7pm

[335] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

[340] 7PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £25

Frank Close

Philip Glass

Nothing

The Perfect American

The particle physicist explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle, who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.

Please join us for an evening celebrating the UK première of a new opera by Philip Glass. The Perfect American imagines the final years of Walt Disney’s life, including mythical characterisations of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol. In Part 1 the composer will discuss this groundbreaking new work and will be joined by ENO Artistic Director John Berry and members of the production team. The opera is directed by Phelim McDermott, designed by Dan Potra and with video design by 59 Ltd. Chaired by Clemency Burton Hill. In Part 2 Philip Glass will give a solo piano recital featuring music from his classic repertoire. In association with English National Opera

[336] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones In Spies We Trust This History Of Western Intelligence reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship, ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11. Chaired by Marcel Berlins.

Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran From Screen To Stage

5.30pm

Eight years ago the creators of TV hits Shine On Harvey Moon and Birds Of A Feather had supper with Alan Ayckbourn at Kilvert’s Hotel after their festival sessions. He suggested they write for the theatre. They currently have two musicals running in the West End – Dreamboats And Petticoats and Save The Last Dance For Me – and an adaptation of their Goodnight Sweetheart on the way. They talk to Peter Florence. [HF96] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

[341] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Mary Beard talks to Tom Holland Confronting The Classics: Traditions, Adventures And Innovations

7pm

[337] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

From Greek drama to Roman jokes, from government and slavery to pottery and food, the classicist captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise. [342] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

Razia Iqbal, Godfrey Smith and guests Commonwealth Book Prize & Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2013

Teri Terry, Claire Merle and Julie Bertagna are Demention bloggers and writers of a particular kind of book – dark, chilling, questioning of the future. Get ready for a fascinating talk for YA fans. Duration 60 mins. 13+ years

We are delighted to host the announcement of the winners of the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, which will be presented by John le Carré. The judges will be talking about the process and the winning writers will be in conversation with Razia Iqbal. In partnership with Commonwealth Writers

[338] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £7

[343] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £8

Wendy Sadler, Fiona Wylie, Jonathon Harrington

Ben Cooper, Hilary Boulding, Sarah Dennehy, John Rostron

Communicating Science

Music Industry Question Time

Science is used and abused to support or debunk theories. Contributors to Science Made Simple and Sense About Science sift the sense from the nonsense around global warming, organic farming, vaccines, GMOs and food supplements. Chaired by Hay-onEarth Director Andy Fryers.

Come and ask about working in the music industry, what gets airtime, music and social networking, great gigs, favourite genres, playlists and what’s going to be hot in the next few months. With the Controller of Radio 1, the Principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Music Programmer of Perth Festival and Hay Festival’s music advisor and the CEO of the Welsh Music Foundation and Director of Cerdd Cymru, who will be delivering WOMEX in Cardiff this year. Chaired by 6 Music’s Gideon Coe.

The Demention Blog

[339] 5.30PM THE CUBE £9

Ben Crystal Springboard Shakespeare – Macbeth The actor and writer conducts a workshop masterclass working with Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Ideal for students and teachers. Numbers limited.

@hayfestival

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7pm

8.30pm [349] 8.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

Simon Hoggart

Mark Thompson

Life’s Too Short To Drink Bad Wine

A Down To Earth Guide To The Cosmos

A delightful tasting of wines for the discerning drinker. Sponsored by Tanners Wines

The Stargazing Live presenter takes us on a journey through space, tackling the key concepts of astronomy and unlocking the secrets of the sky, from the origins of our Universe to the ever-evolving techniques used to explore deep space. Chaired by Horatio Clare.

[345] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Mark Watson The Knot The comedian and novelist reads from his pitchperfect tragicomedy of ordinary – and not so ordinary – family life. [346] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Richard Wyn Jones, Guy Lodge and Charlie Jeffery Cardiff University Series 4 England And Its Two Unions With an increasingly distinct English identity and growing demand for the political recognition of Englishness, this conversation examines English views about both the unions – UK and EU – and considers whether either or both remain sustainable. Wyn Jones, Director of Wales Governance Centre, leads a discussion with IPPR’s Guy Lodge and Charlie Jeffery, Director of Academy of Government at Edinburgh University. In association with Cardiff University

8.30pm [347] 8.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £8

Tony Hawks From Page To Screen With A Fridge

[350] 9.45PM STARLIGHT STAGE £8

Felicity Ward Stand-up: The Hedgehog Dilemma The Hedgehog Dilemma – what is it? Trying to wear tiny jackets over your spikes? Or every time you get close to somebody, you might get hurt? After discovering this analogy for human intimacy, Felicity pondered, ‘What kind of hedgehog am I?’…and then she wrote this show. ‘Tremendously entertaining and charmingly funny’ – Time Out. Sponsored by Communikate

10pm [351] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

Terakaft Brought together by the founders of Tinariwen, these sublime Tuareg desert-rockers blend wild riffs, searing and searching eastern-tinged melodies, three voices singing in harmony, and the ever-present soul of the blues. Their latest album Kel Tamasheq is produced by Justin Adams. Presented by The Sound Castle and celebrating Hay2Timbuktu

8.30pm

The year is 2000 and Tony is contacted by Hollywood, who want to buy the rights to Round Ireland With A Fridge. Unbeknownst to him, this moment is the high point, as the journey henceforth is one of frustration and duplicity. That is, until he decides they should forget Hollywood and adopt the ‘do-it-yourself ’ approach. The rest is cinema… Sponsored by Dai & Chris Davies, The Newsagents

9.45pm

Friday 31 May

[344] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £14

[348] 8.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £12

Mike Scott Adventures Of A Waterboy

The Waterboys’ frontman marks the launch of his memoir with an intimate reading from the book followed by a short acoustic set with his colleague, fiddler Steve Wickham. The Waterboys are best known for classic songs like The Whole Of The Moon and groundbreaking albums including This Is The Sea and Fisherman’s Blues. Their most recent work, An Appointment With Mr Yeats, sets the lyrics of Ireland’s master poet to melody against a background of rousing rock’n’roll.

Saturday 1 June

9am

#hay13 10am

[352] 9AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

[357] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Danny Dorling and Lucy Wadham

Owen Sheers

Penguin Underground Lines

Pink Mist

Two readings: the geographer, Dorling, tells the stories of the people who live along The 32 Stops Of The Central Line to illustrate the extent and impact of inequality in Britain today. Wadham introduces her Heads And Straights: The Circle Line, an autobiographical tale of bohemians, punk, the King’s Road in the 1970s and family. TFL celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin

We are thrilled to launch the publication of this verse drama with a reading by the poet. Three school friends return from Afghanistan to face the consequences of their tours, for them and the women in their lives. Drawn from interviews with wounded veterans, Pink Mist is a lyric narrative of rare dramatic and emotional intensity. Introduced by Francesca Rhydderch.

[353] 9AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

[358] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5

Wayne Smith

Razia Iqbal, Michelle de Kretser and guests

The Drove Roads Of The Middle Marches

Making Sense Of Place: The Use Of Fiction To Tell The Real Story

The historian follows the trail of Welsh drovers down through the centuries as they moved cattle and sheep to the ever-expanding markets of England. And he offers a detailed walks guide for those keen to discern their own drove roads.

The novelists discuss the way in which fiction illuminates the history, the geography and the spirit of place. In partnership with Commonwealth Writers

Maisy Mouse

The Good, The Dad And The Ugly

Join in storytelling, songs and games for a fun-filled time with your favourite mouse. Duration 45 mins. 3–7 years

9am

[HF97] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £4.50

Brian Viner Nothing can quite prepare you for the hells and joys of fatherhood, but Brian’s fabulous stories will be a consolation, a guide and a friendly treasure. [355] 9AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Danielle Fuller Citizen Reader Fuller studies the phenomenon of mass participation in reading events, through book clubs, city reads, festivals and online reading communities. In association with the University of Birmingham

10am [356] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Huw Lewis-Jones The Conquest Of Everest: Original Photographs From The Legendary First Ascent We celebrate the 60th anniversary of Hillary and Tenzing’s ascent on 29 May 1953 with a showing of images from the archive of the team’s photographer George Lowe.

[359] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Robert Hudson and Dai Smith talk to Jon Gower Fictions – Stranger Than Truth In Hudson’s Dazzle, high society intrigues while biggame tuna fishing off the Scarborough coast in the 1930s. Smith’s Dream On is a black comedy/noir thriller meshing lives and legends of South Wales. [HF98] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

The Funny Panel Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winner Jamie Thomson is joined by two top funny talents, Mark Lowery and Sarah McIntyre. Come and share the jokes! Duration 60 mins. 9+ years [360] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

James Treasure-Evans and Gareth Williams A Stitch In Time There are many simple, low-cost ways to reduce the human and financial cost of natural disasters such as floods. What are they, and how can we finance these vital climate change defences? Concern Universal’s James Treasure-Evans is joined by Gareth Williams of Caplor Energy. Chaired by The Telegraph’s Louise Gray. In partnership with Concern Universal

10am

[354] 9AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

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10am

11.30am [365] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

My Big World

Kevin Powers talks to Jenny Valentine

Join the team from OKIDO for a mixture of crafts and games taken from My Big World. Encounter different plants and animals, explore exciting locations around the world and even visit outer space! A fun and interactive first look at geography and science. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF103]. 4+ years

Fictions – The Yellow Birds

11.30am [361] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Deborah Moggach talks to Peter Florence Fictions – Heartbreak

11.30am

[362] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU–WALES STAGE £7

Simon Hoggart House Of Fun The peerless sketch writer yarns 20 Glorious Years In Parliament. [363] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Robert Macfarlane talks to Horatio Clare Holloway The new book from the author of The Old Ways. In 2005 Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset’s sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin’s early death, Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. [364] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Fiona Reynolds In a world of rapid change and global, multicultural influences we explore the place that landscape, history and nature play in people’s sense of Britishness today. In association with Cambridge University

Tony Ross Tony Ross takes a line for a walk to reveal how he created many of the characters you know and love, including Little Princess, Horrid Henry and Dr Xargle. Pick up some drawing tips from an expert. Duration 45 mins. 5+ years [366] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £6

Tony Juniper and Jim Robbins Does Money Really Grow On Trees? Nature’s uses and abuses, physical, social and psychological, and one man’s quest to help save the world’s oldest and greatest tree specimens. One of Britiain’s best-known environmental campaigners joins New York Times journalist and author Jim Robbins. [HF101] 11.30AM THE CUBE £4.50

Guinea Pigs Online

Jennifer Gray and Amanda Swift introduce you to the antics of a cast of fun-loving guinea pigs and their latest adventure Viking Victory. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years

1pm [367] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Steve Jones The Joy Of Sects In The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold As Science the geneticist explores the shared mysteries of religion and science, from the origins of life and humankind to sex, age, death and the end of the universe. He steps aside from the noisy debate between believers and unbelievers to show how the same questions preoccupy us today as in biblical times. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill.

1pm

Cambridge University Series 12 Britishness

[HF100] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

11.30am

The writer discusses the film adaptation of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, her screenplay for Joe Wright’s Pride And Prejudice movie and her new novel Heartbreak Hotel in which the irrepressible Russell ‘Buffy’ Buffery has upped sticks from London and moved to a decrepit B&B in rural Wales. He needs to fill the beds, and what better way than with ‘Courses for Divorces’…? Sponsored by Freixenet

The poet and Iraq veteran Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship and loss. It vividly captures the desperation and brutality of war, and its terrible after-effects. But it is also a story of love, of great courage, and of extraordinary human survival.

Saturday 1 June

[HF99] 10AM THE CUBE £5.50

[368] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU –WALES STAGE £6.50

Richard Holmes Falling Upwards: How We Took To The Air

The Romantic biographer floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in the 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s.

Saturday 1 June

1pm

@hayfestival 2.30pm

[369] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

[373] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Sheila Hale talks to Georgina Godwin

Robert Lindsay talks to Fiona Lindsay (no relation)

Titian A portrait of the great Venetian artist of the Renaissance, his life and times and context. [370] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Peter Sawyer The Wealth Of Anglo-Saxon England How did the Anglo-Saxons obtain the treasure that tempted Vikings to raid England frequently in the C9th and again between 980 and 1018? The historian traces the trade routes across Europe for silver, and reveals a highly urbanised, wealthy Anglia. Chaired by Jasper Rees. [371] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Michelle de Kretser and Amy Sackville talk to Lisa Dwan De Kretser’s Questions Of Travel conjures people displaced by love and longing, and by disaster. It is infused with wit, imagination, and a deep understanding. Sackville’s Orkney plays out a curiously-matched honeymoon couple on a remote island in the north. [HF102] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

Sarah McIntyre

1pm

Superkid is the brilliant Sarah McIntyre’s latest creation – the cartoon kid with superspeed, x-ray vision and bravery by the bagload. Find out if you have special secret powers too… Duration 45 mins. 5+ years

The actor discusses the influences that have shaped his craft from sitcom to Broadway, from Citizen Smith to My Family to Me And My Girl, and from Alan Bleasdale’s GHB to Shakespeare’s Richard III. Sponsored by Jackson & Gill Opticians Limited [374] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Rolf Heuer The John Maddox Lecture A Year At CERN This year’s keynote science lecture is given by the Director General of CERN on the last 12 months that has seen the laboratory receiving accolades around the world for the ‘discovery of the year’, with some pundits even renaming the American national holiday Higgsdependence Day, in honour of the particle whose identification was announced to the world on 4 July 2012. Followed by a discussion with physicists Frank Close and Tara Shears. [375] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Jerry Brotton and Adam Lowe The Mappa Mundi In 3D

Using cutting-edge digital scanning and routing technology Factum Arte, the Mappa Mundi Trust and Hereford Cathedral have created a 3D reproduction of the 700-year-old map that is radically changing scholarship of the medieval masterpiece. Come and join us for the unveiling of the new work with its maker and his collaborator, the author of A History Of The World In Twelve Maps. Sponsored by Ordnance Survey

[372] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Julia Hailes, Ben Law, Janet Cotterall Greening Buildings Grand Designs icon Ben Law discusses a more sustainable approach to buildings with Passihaus expert Janet Cotterall and Green Consumer guru, Julia Hailes. Chaired by Hay-on-Earth Director Andy Fryers. Sponsored by Ty-Mawr Lime Ltd [HF103] 1PM THE CUBE £5.50

My Big World Join the team from OKIDO for a mixture of crafts and games taken from My Big World. Encounter different plants and animals, explore exciting locations around the world and even visit outer space! A fun and interactive first look at geography and science. Duration 45 mins. See also event [HF99]. 4+ years

2.30pm

Fictions – Boy Meets Girl

Other People

[376] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Roy Strong talks to Peter Florence Self Portrait As A Young Man The makings of the man from a North London suburb into one of the most charismatic, voluptuary sensibilities of the C20th arts world. Strong has a revolutionary style of museum directing, ahead-oftrend fashion elegance, a wicked diary style and an inspiring way with history. Sponsored by Hay Does Vintage

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2.30pm

4pm [379] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £9

Mohsin Hamid and Owen Martell talk to Jon Gower

William Dalrymple

Fictions – Metropolis

The historian tells the story of the British forces as they invade Afghanistan in 1839 and re-establish Shah Shuia ul-Mulk on the throne. The British faced little opposition to the invasion but, two years later, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and ultimately consigned the British to their most humiliating military defeat of the C19th. Sponsored by Lawrence & Elizabeth Banks

Hamid follows The Reluctant Fundamentalist with How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia – a vivid and emotionally absorbing tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon. It steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over ‘rising Asia’. Martell’s new novel is set in New York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play a series of concerts at the Village Vanguard that will go down in musical history. Shortly afterwards, LaFaro is killed in a car accident and Evans disappears. Intermission tells the story of what happens next. [HF104] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Louise Rennison A Midsummer Tights Dream

2.30pm

They say she has been banned in Bognor and censored in Solihull. Here to hellraise in Hay for one day only, the creator of the world-conquering Georgia Nicholson and Tallulah books and Queen of Comedy – Louise Rennison – will give you a sneak preview of The Taming of the Tights. Duration 60 mins. 11+ years [378] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Jill Piercy and Peter Lord talk to Damian Walford Davies

The Return Of A King

Saturday 1 June

[377] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

[380] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Rose Tremain talks to John Mullan The British Council Series 4 Fictions – Merivel The novelist brings back her hero of Restoration: Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. In partnership with The British Council [381] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Simon Mitton Heart Of Darkness Why is there something rather than nothing? Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components – dark matter and dark energy – comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all cosmic structure, and hold the key to the universe’s fate. (This is way beyond rocket science – but riveting and really entertaining.)

From Bardsey To Hydra [382] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

George Monbiot Feral: Rewilding The Land, The Sea And Human Life The campaigning journalist argues for the mass restoration of damaged ecosystems, the reintroduction of wolves, lynx, beavers, moose and boar to Britain, and a life richer in adventure and surprise. Chaired by Horatio Clare.

4pm

Brenda Chamberlain’s iconic book The Watercastle is just published in the Library Of Wales series. Her biographer Jill Piercy discusses her life and work with art historian Peter Lord, who is trying to preserve Chamberlain’s murals on Bardsey, and poet Damian Walford Davies, who has just edited her play The Protagonists, set on Hydra during the time of the Colonels. [HF105] 2.30PM THE CUBE £4.50

Mark Lowery

[383] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

Socks Are Not Enough

Mark Hix talks to Dylan Jones

In this hilarious tale of teen angst, discovering his parents are secret nudists is just one of the cringemaking events Mike Swarbrick has to deal with. A very funny new writer for teens. Duration 45 mins. 13+ years

On Baking The chef patron of Hix Oyster and Chop House and Hix Oyster and Fish House in Dorset, conjures anything that can be cooked in the dry heat of an oven, from a honey-baked ham to a sophisticated saffron custard tart.

Saturday 1 June

4pm

#hay13 5.30pm

[HF106] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

[388] 5.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Jennifer Gray

Michael Pollan talks to Rosie Boycott

Meet Atticus Grammatticus Cattypus Claw, the world’s greatest cat burglar. This tabby spells trouble. Find out all about his latest adventure Atticus Claw Settles a Score. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years

Cooked: A Natural History Of Transformation

[384] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Mark Watson, Louise Gray and Jim Robbins Today On Earth

[HF107] 4PM THE CUBE £4.50

Awesome Animals: Koala Calamity

Koala brothers Dude, Bro and Squirt love doing…nothing. They can do nothing all day. But their little sister has other ideas and soon leads them into another Koala Calamity. Duration 45 mins. 7+ years

[389] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Alicia Foster, Francesca Rhydderch and Joanna Rossiter Fictions – In The War Warpaint by Alicia Foster is a compelling tale of truth and lies, tragedy and black comedy, loosely based on the lives of four painters of the time. The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter is a haunting and moving novel about a mother and a daughter, caught between a tsunami and a war. In Francesca Rhydderch’s The Rice Paper Diaries, four interweaving accounts relate the intimate havoc wrought by military conflict on individual lives. Chaired by Lisa Dwan. [390] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Patrick Ness and Matt Haig

5.30pm [385] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Antonia Fraser talks to Simon Jenkins Perilous Question

5.30pm

A two-year revolution saw reforming heroes of the richest and most landed Cabinet in history, against their own interests, determined to bring liberty to the country in The Drama Of The Great Reform Bill 1832. [386] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Geoffrey Robertson Mullahs Without Mercy: Human Rights And Nuclear Weapons The lawyer examines the options that the world faces as it stumbles like a sleepwalker into the perils of a new nuclear age, while Iran, Israel and America faceoff over nuclear capability. Chaired by Nik Gowing. [387] 5.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Artemis Cooper talks to Robert Macfarlane An Adventure A conversation about the nature of travelling and stories between the biographer of Patrick Leigh Fermor and the man many would acclaim as his successor as the greatest living travel writer, the author of The Old Ways.

Fictions – Transformations

5.30pm

4pm

What’s been happening in the environmental world during Festival week? We pick through the best and worst, sort the bizarre from the banal and generally sift the global media. The comedian and the journalists discuss. Chaired by Andy Fryers.

A rare opportunity to meet the Californian food superstar, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defence Of Food and Food Rules, as he champions the fundamentals of cooking – a defining human activity which sits at the heart of our cultures and shapes family life. Sponsored by Food and Drink Wales

Wise, romantic, magical and funny, Ness’ The Crane Wife is a hymn to the creative imagination and a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love. In Haig’s The Humans Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world’s greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin seems different. Chaired by Peter Florence. [391] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Rebbecca Ray and Rachel Trezise chaired by Richard Davies Fictions – Stories, Dreams And Yearnings Readings of stories from new collections by two of Wales’ most inventive and powerful novelists: Trezise’s Cosmic Latte and Ray’s The Answer And Other Love Stories. [HF108] 5.30PM THE CUBE £4.50

Everything Will Be Fine (and other lies I tell myself ) Cathy Brett’s stylish, funny and thought-provoking graphic novels include Verity Fibbs and Scarlett Dedd. The design lecturer and former fashion illustrator will tell you how she does it. Duration 60 mins. 13+ years

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7pm

7pm [397] 7PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Rupert Everett talks to Paul Blezard

Just Catwalk

Vanished Years

Hay Festival, in collaboration with the Environmental Justice Foundation, has brought together students from across Wales to take part in a week-long sustainable fashion workshop sponsored by Levi Strauss & Co. Led by London Fashion Week designer and St Martin’s alumna Martina Spetlova and accessories designer to the stars Keko Hainswheeler, it culminates with a catwalk and discussion of their designs from the week. Hosted by Susie Lau, international fashion blogger and founder of Style Bubble. In partnership with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and Levi Strauss & Co

Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, the actor’s new memoir, a follow-up to the bestselling Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins, is filled with brand-new stories, from childhood to the present. Astonishing encounters; tragedy and comedy; vivid portraits of friends and rivals; razorsharp observations of the celebrity circus from LA to London and beyond. Sponsored by Claridges Nursing Homes Limited [393] 7PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Jay Rayner

Saturday 1 June

[392] 7PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £10

A Greedy Man In A Hungry World The doctrine of local food is dead. Farmers’ markets are merely a lifestyle choice for the affluent middle classes. And ‘organic’ has become little more than a marketing label that is way past its sell-by date. The celebrated food writer ‘brings it on’. Sponsored by Holdsworth Foods [394] 7PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £8

Paul Theroux talks to Gaby Wood The Last Train To Zona Verde: Overland From Cape Town To Angola

[395] 7PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

[398] 7.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Alex Valentine Lover’s Leap The singer-songwriter launches his seventh album of melodic and beautifully-crafted pop music. The band features John Firth, Al Cooper and Linda Lamb. ‘Stunning, absolutely beautiful’ – Harry Belafonte; ‘The voice of an angel’ – Mariella Frostrup. Presented by The Sound Castle

8.30pm [399] 8.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £10

Irvine Welsh talks to Stephanie Merritt Trainspotting At 20 The Scottish novelist celebrates the 20th anniversary of his iconic book, and discusses his recentlypublished prequel Skagboys.

Jude England The British Library Lecture Propaganda: Power And Persuasion The Curator of the new BL show examines C20th and C21st propaganda. What have the Olympics, Chairman Mao and matchboxes got in common? Who portrayed Margaret Thatcher as Napoleon, and why? Chaired by Georgina Godwin. In association with The British Library [396] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

[400] 8.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Ned Boulting and William Fotheringham talk to Rob Penn Two Wheels Good?

8.30pm

7pm

Journeying alone through the greenest continent in what he feels will be his last African journey, Theroux encounters a world increasingly removed from both the itineraries of tourists and the hopes of postcolonial independence movements. Leaving the Cape Town townships, traversing the Namibian bush, passing the browsing cattle of the great sun-baked heartland of the savannah, he crosses the ‘Red Line’ into a different Africa.

7.30pm

We review an extraordinary year for cycling – from the Olympic Velodrome to the heroes and villains of the Tour de France – with the authors of On The Road Bike: The Search For A Nation’s Cycling Soul, Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike and It’s All About The Bike: The Pursuit Of Happiness On Two Wheels.

Robin Lustig talks to Philippe Sands Sign-Off

[401] 8.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £9

The veteran broadcaster, anchor of The World Tonight, reflects on his 23 years at the BBC, the management of news, and the Corporation in crisis. Sponsored by The Liberal Democrat European Group

Jo Caulfield Better The Devil You Know The ‘wonderfully sharp and bitchy’ comedian brings the last night of her 2013 tour to the festival. What constitutes an airtight alibi? Which hotel has the best porn? And is friendliness overrated?

Saturday 1 June 8.30pm [402] 8.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Saturday 1 June

Menna Elfyn and Fflur Dafydd Murmur The internationally renowned and ‘exhilaratingly dangerous’ poet teams up with her singer-songwriter daughter Fflur Dafydd in a memorable evening of poetry and song to celebrate her new bilingual collection. [403] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

Robert Bowman Diary Of A Madman 1830s Russia. Poprishchin is in his forties, a lowranking civil servant for the Government, struggling to make his mark on life, but one day he makes an amazing discovery. Could he really be the next King of Spain? Driven insane by government bureaucracy and hierarchy, this one-man-show adapted from Gogol’s dark comedy exposes one man’s reality spiralling ever deeper into a surreal fantasy world. Directed by Sinéad Rushe and presented by Living Pictures.

10pm [404] 10PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £17

10pm

Jo Brand Stand-up The festival favourite – live, and hilarious. Always. Sponsored by Baskerville Hall Hotel & Clyro Court [405] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10

Quantic and Frente Cumbiero ONDATRÓPICA

Mario Galeano’s tropical hot Colombian band was the runaway hit of last year’s festival. Here they mix with Will Holland’s ultra-cool South London jazz sound on a collaborative project that will set you soaring. Come and dance the weekend away. Presented by The Sound Castle

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10am [HF109] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £4.50

Jonathan Dimbleby

Jonathan Meres

Destiny In The Desert: The Road To El Alamein, The Battle That Turned The Tide

The World of Norm: May Require Batteries

Dimbleby describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle of November 1942 which inspired one of Churchill’s most famous aphorisms – ‘This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning’. Sponsored by Nic & Sukie Paravicini

With overdue homework, overdue pocket money and a bag full of overdue newspapers, can life get any more unfair for Norm? Abso-flipping-lutely. Duration 45 mins. 9+ years

[407] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Caroline Shenton The Day Parliament Burned Down

10am

In the early evening of 16 October 1834 a huge ball of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so enormous that it could be seen by the King and Queen at Windsor. Rumours as to the fire’s cause were rife. Was it arson, terrorism, the work of foreign operatives, a kitchen accident, careless builders, or even divine judgement on politicians? Chaired by Jesse Norman. [408] 10AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £5.50

Mark Miodownik talks to Georgina Godwin Stuff Matters Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? How come concrete pours? The broadcaster and UCL Professor of Materials and Society introduces The Strange Stories Of The Marvellous Materials That Shape Our Man-made World.

Rob Penn The Wild Woods A year ago, Rob took over the management of Strawberry Cottage Wood, 50 acres of abandoned broadleaf woodland at the entrance to the Llanthony Valley. Is man good for woods? Can woodlands pay? How can we value them in non-economic ways? Chaired by Horatio Clare. [410] 10AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Hassan Blasim and Samar Yazbek talk to Jo Glanville The View From Here A conversation about new writing in the Arab world with the PEN Award-winning and Beirut 39 writer Samar Yazbek, author of A Woman In The Crossfire: Diaries Of The Syrian Revolution, and Hassan Blasim, author of the taboo-busting, blackly comic and widely banned stories collected in The Iraqi Christ. A PEN International Free the Word! event in association with Reel Festivals

John Bird in conversation with Marcel Berlins The Necessity Of Poverty The founder of The Big Issue mounts a blistering attack on orthodox thinking around the gap between rich and poor, sparing neither himself nor others in identifying what needs to be done to end poverty. [HF110] 10AM THE CUBE £5.50

Lara Faraway Fairythorn Tales If you believe in fairies, this is the event for you. Find out how to spot a fairy, join in a potion-making session and design and make your own fairy wings. Duration 45 mins. Places limited. 6+ years

11.30am [412] 11.30AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Jody Williams talks to Francine Stock A Vermont Girl The dynamic and inspiring activist, advocate and hero won the Nobel Peace Prize for her International Campaign To Ban Landmines. She describes her life and work in My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path To The Nobel Peace Prize.

11.30am

[409] 10AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

[411] 10AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £6

Sunday 2 June

[406] 10AM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

[413] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Austen Bicentenary Series 5 John Mullan What Matters In Jane Austen

Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And why is it risky to go to the seaside? Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Austen’s brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. [414] 11.30AM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

Mary Ginsberg The Art Of Influence: Asian Propaganda Where the majority of a population is illiterate, art is the most effective way to communicate the message. The curator of the new British Museum show examines propaganda ‘art’ as political communication, social cohesion and absolute control. In association with The British Museum

Sunday 2 June

11.30am

1pm

[415] 11.30AM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

[418] 1PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £8

Tim Minshall

Monty Don

Cambridge University Series 13 Building The Future

The Road To Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey

Engineers are fantastic – they are the people who change the world. Engineers put a man on the moon, develop the internet, build skyscrapers, rebuild bodies…and so much more. Yet not many people know what engineers actually do. This talk will reveal – in just ten words – the secrets of what engineers really get up to as they work hard to build a better future for us all. In association with Cambridge University

From historical gardens like Versailles and Vaux le Vicomte to the kitchen gardens of the Michelin chef Alain Passard. There are grand potagers, like Villandry and La Prieure D’Orsan, and allotments and back gardens spotted on the way. Sponsored by Freixenet

[416] 11.30AM DIGITAL STAGE £5

NoViolet Bulawayo and Meike Ziervogel talk to Gaby Wood Fictions – Elsewhere

[HF111] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

11.30am

Patrick Ness The Future

The double Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking trilogy talks with writer and critic Damian Kelleher about the appeal of the dystopian and the fantastical in YA fiction. He also brings a sneak preview of his next YA novel, due out in the autumn. Duration 60 mins. 11+ years

[419] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7

Mark Urban The Tank War: The Men, The Machines And The Long Road To Victory The 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout WW2 in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the ‘Filthy Fifth’ grew – they revelled in their reputation for fighting by their own rules. [420] 1PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

Sarah Dunant in conversation with SJ Parris Fictions – Blood And Beauty

The acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance takes on the era’s most infamous family – the Borgias. [421] 1PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Jonathan Fenby Tiger Head Snake Tails China’s Unfinished Revolution – the challenges that confront the looming superpower after its leadership transition. Chaired by Nik Gowing.

[417] 11.30AM LANDMARC 100 STAGE

[422] 1PM DIGITAL STAGE £6

FREE BUT TICKETED

William McIlvanney talks to Irvine Welsh

Abigail Brundin Cambridge University Series 14 Only A Pen Can Ease My Pain In C17th Italy, the number of girls and young women entering convents rose rapidly as dowries became increasingly expensive. Not all the girls went willingly and some left powerful written accounts of their experiences. In association with Cambridge University [HF112] 11.30AM THE CUBE £4.50

CJ Busby Frogspell Discover more about Max and Olivia and their pet dragon Adolphus as they help protect King Arthur from dastardly plots. Find out how to create a spell using ‘magical’ words. Duration 45 mins. 6+ years

1pm

The Zimbabwean novelist’s We Need New Names plays with the dreams and realities of leaving a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart for the paradise of the West. Ziervogel’s Magda is an uncompromising rendering of the mother-daughter relationships of the wife of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels.

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Tartan Noir An interview with the razor king of Scottish crime fiction as his modern classic Laidlaw books are republished by Canongate. [HF113] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5.50

Guy Parker-Rees Giraffes Can’t Dance Guy Parker-Rees’ exuberant illustrations have made him a bestseller. You’ll recognise his work from the worldwide hit, Giraffes Can’t Dance, a World Book Day book for 2013. Join the fun! Duration 45 mins. 4+ years

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1pm

2.30pm [428] 2.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Saci Lloyd and Andrew Simms

Michael Jacobs talks to Horatio Clare

Cancel The Apocalypse

The Robber Of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia

1pm

A bold and radical look at a world obsessed with economic growth at the expense of quality of life – and what we can do to change. Environmental author and campaigner Saci Lloyd talks to New Economics Foundation fellow Andrew Simms. [HF114] 1PM THE CUBE £5.50

Daniel Morden Greek Myths The acclaimed storyteller will bring the Greek myths to life and draw you into the world of Demeter and Persephone, Theseus, the Minotaur and more. Duration 45 mins. 8+ years

2.30pm [424] 2.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £9

Sinead Cusack, Emilia Fox, Jeremy Irons and Roger Lloyd Pack

2.30pm

Actors read Josephine’s programme featuring the work of Owen, Yeats, Sassoon and many others. Introduced by Francine Stock. Sponsored by Maskreys Holdings [425] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

Vikas Swarup talks to Georgina Godwin The Accidental Apprentice The new novel from the author of Slumdog Millionaire. As Sapna Sinha leaves the electronics store in downtown Delhi on her lunch-break one day, she is approached by a man who claims to be CEO of one of India’s biggest companies. He tells her he is looking for an heir for his business empire. And that he has decided it should be her. There are just seven tests she must pass. Supported by Asia House

[429] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Brendan Simms Europe: The Struggle For Supremacy, 1453 To The Present The story of Europe’s constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, and also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, but also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from ‘semi-detached’ elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and (just as centrally to Simms’ argument) the United States. Chaired by Bronwen Maddox. In association with Prospect Magazine [430] 2.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

John Bird, Kate Maryon, Andy McCullough Running Away

2.30pm

The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour The Poetry Of The Great War

Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena, considered by some the most dangerous place in the world. Jacobs is captured by the FARC, has a chance encounter with Gabriel García Márquez and is brought to reflect on memory and identity, and the nature of mystery.

Every five minutes a child runs away. Every year sees around 100,000 under-16-year-old kids on UK streets. A huge percentage of homeless adults were once runaways. The Big Issue founder discusses with children’s author Kate Maryon and The Railway Children’s Head of UK policy.

4pm

[426] 2.30PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £7

[431] 4PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £7

Nick Ross Crime: How To Solve It, And

Cerys Matthews Hook, Line And Singer

Why So Much Of What We’re Told Is Wrong

The singer and guitarist introduces her celebratory journey exploring the songs, lullabies and ballads that have been part of family life for centuries. In songs you are shoulder to shoulder with the mother, the orphan, the downtrodden, the maimed, the soldier, the butcher, the blacksmith, the sick, the poor, the insane, and you may party hard among the night life in the seediest parts of town without risking life or limb… Songs are bold, pretty and wild. Yes, wild. They have a life of their own. They will outlive us, travel further than us and touch generations we’ll never meet. Presented by The Sound Castle and sponsored by www.countrypad.co.uk

The broadcaster who established the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at UCL challenges all the assumptions about crime and the causes of crime. [427] 2.30PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £7

Roy Hattersley The Devonshires The story of the Cavendish family and the first eight Dukes of Devonshire is the story of England. From 1381, when Sir John Cavendish was killed during the Peasant’s Revolt, to 1906, when the Duke of Devonshire’s resignation brought down the Tory government, the family’s fortunes and misfortunes mirrored the life of the nation.

Sunday 2 June

[423] 1PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Sunday 2 June 5.30pm

[432] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6

[437] 5.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £16

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Miranda Hart

Antifragile

A conversation with the sublime comic writer and actress.

The visionary probability guru and Black Swan author suggests How To Live In A World We Don’t Understand. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop [433] 4PM GOOGLE’S BIG TENT £6

[438] 5.30PM DIGITAL STAGE £7

Sally Schweizer and Nick Cooper My Brother Benjamin In celebration of the Benjamin Britten centenary, the composer’s niece introduces her mother Beth Britten’s extraordinary and insightful memoir of Britten’s early life. Nick Cooper will perform excerpts from Benjamin Britten’s 1st cello suite and discuss with Sally Schweizer both the book and the composer’s life.

Vince Gaffney

[439] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

Doggerland

Tim Marshall

The incredible history of Doggerland, a country now sunk beneath the North Sea, which once, 6,000 years ago, linked the Yorkshire coast with a stretch of Continental Europe from Denmark to Normandy. The submersion of Doggerland was the last time inhabited areas of land were lost because of changes in climate. In association with the University of Birmingham

Is The Phrase ‘Arab Spring’ Harmful?

[434] 4PM SKY ARTS STUDIO £6

Kevin Fong talks to Clemency Burton-Hill Extremes

4pm

In the anaesthetist’s television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a ‘guinea pig’. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits, where human life is balanced on a knife-edge. [435] 4PM DIGITAL STAGE £5

Chris Keil and Julian Preece Memories Of Revolution

[436] 4PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Adam Parr The Art Of War: Five Years In Formula One A graphic novel that gives a unique insight into the world of motor sport, from the former CEO of the Williams F1 Team.

The Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor discusses whether the phrase ‘Arab Spring’ is harmful to our understanding of what has been happening in the Middle East. In association with Sky Arts [440] 5.30PM LANDMARC 100 STAGE £5

Paul Boland Llanerchaeron: The Restoration Of A Lost House And Estate Best known as the architect of Buckingham Palace, John Nash started his career in rural Wales. This is the story of how one of his finest country houses was brought back to life. Chaired by Justin Albert, Director of National Trust, Wales. In association with the National Trust – Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol [444] 5.30PM THE CUBE

FREE BUT TICKETED

Hay Writers Circle New Work 2013 The local writers club present their new stories. All welcome.

7pm

Keil’s novel Flirting At The Funeral is set against a background of global crisis and is haunted by memories of revolution and terror. Preece’s study Baader Meinhof And The Novel explores forty years of myths and conspiracy theories about the German Autumn. They talk to Gwen Davies. In association with The New Welsh Review

5.30pm

Sunday 2 June

4pm

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Bandemonium And The Festival Audience The Last Night Prom Party

Nine songs and nine speeches to ring out the Festival. Flags and balloons and a rollicking good time. * Free to anyone who lives in Hay and collects from Box Office

8.30pm [443] 8.30PM BARCLAYS PAVILION £27

Alan Davies Life Is Pain The QI and Jonathan Creek star has the last word at the festival with his new stand-up show, his first for ten years.

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Welcome to Hay Fever We’re delighted to have some of the world’s most talented and bestloved writers, illustrators and storytellers taking part in Hay Fever 2013. Events are listed in the main programme – look out for the little suns! For full event listings please visit hayfestival.org/hayfever. Or if you’d like to be sent one of our beautiful Hay Fever programmes, give us a call on 01497 822 629. There are many old favourites, such as Julia Donaldson and Michael Morpurgo, and some talented new faces that we strongly recommend – Carnegie Prize-shortlisted David Shelton, Greenaway Prize-shortlisted Jon Klassen, who is on tour from the US, and new fiction writers Piers Torday and Sarah Lean. The HF2 events (see overleaf) will be enjoyed by adults and teenagers alike, and include some of the very best writers of YA fiction, such as Charlie Higson, Malorie Blackman, Sally Gardner and Melvin Burgess. Add to this a host of events and workshops exploring maths, science, geography, art and many other subjects, and you can see that we’ve got something enjoyable and worthwhile for all. See you in May!

Visit the Hay Fever Courtyard Most of our Hay Fever events take place in the Starlight Stage and The Cube venues. The Kitchen Academy will be in residence this year, running cookery sessions in The Mess Tent for all ages – see Workshops at the back of this programme for details. Make and Take is back, so you can get crafting between 10am and 5pm each day. There’s also a lovely central garden area so you and your kids can just hang out and have a Shepherds ice cream or a coffee in between events. And you’ll also find baby changing facilities and a pram park there.

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 and Take Tent in the Hay Fever Courtyard between 10am and 5pm every day. Outside these hours it will be located in the Admin Office, next to the Box Office. Illustrations © Clara Vulliamy 2013 More about Clara at www.luckywishmouse.co.uk

Books and signings by all the children’s and Young Adult authors on the programme are available at the Hay Festival Bookshop in the main site, just a step away from the Hay Fever Courtyard.

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Hay on Earth is Hay Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing sustainability project. The Hay on Earth Forum on Thursday 23 May is a series of environment-focused events exploring current global issues, and there are many other environment events scattered throughout the week. We have pledged to apply the green principles we discuss on stage to our own practices at Hay Festival Wales. For six 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 from 2012 are as follows. With our direct impacts we have focused on the core areas of energy, waste, transport, procurement and venues.

ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE:

EXAMPLES INCLUDE:

Reduced use of resources including printed materials (down by 35%), diesel (down by 20%) and electricity (down by 20%). Recycling 75% of the waste produced on site including 4.5 tonnes of cardboard. Composting 4.8 tonnes of food waste. In partnership with local company, Caplor Energy, installing solar heating for our hot water requirements. Providing water standpipes across the site so that people can fill their own bottles. We continue to use BS8901 as our management tool to help us in assessing the direction we go in. Our biggest indirect impact is caused by people visiting the festival, through their transport, accommodation, etc. While this has a huge benefit economically, we look for ways in which we can reduce the environmental impacts.

Provision of a public bus service from our nearest train station to the Festival site which runs up to ten times a day. Provision of minibuses which link Festival-goers with local B&Bs and the surrounding villages and towns. Alongside the standard one-hour debates we have also been running the Hay-on-Earth series in conjunction with TYF and the Welsh Government including an open competition for four ÂŁ10,000 grants for local sustainable development projects. 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 can make a difference individually, as well as collectively lobby for change - in business, in government, in society. More information at hayfestival.org/hay-on-earth

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Visit us at The Telegraph Tent to catch up on all the latest news from the Hay Festival or just stop by to take a break and relax with a book.

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.

Sky Arts Den Come along and be inspired with creative classes and performances – all free of charge. Relax and enjoy daily performances from live music to spoken word. Or learn something new and take part in a variety of free creative classes from visual art to literature. You can sign up for a workshop the day before or simply turn up on the day and take part.

Shepherds Irresistible ice creams and sublime sorbet, all freshly made in the Golden Valley. Don’t bleat about the bush. Flock to Shepherds.

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Sky Rainforest Rescue The Amazon rainforest is amazing. Home to one in ten of all the wild species on Earth, it’s a unique and irreplaceable ecosystem that supplies the ingredients of our everyday lives. Come along and be inspired by the beauty and wonder of the Amazon and find out how you can show the Amazon some love. Sky Rainforest Rescue, launched by Sky and WWF three years ago, aims to help protect one billion trees in Acre, north-west Brazil. We want to put a stop to deforestation, thereby protecting the future of the people, animals and plants that call the Amazon their home. The Sky Rainforest Rescue experience is open daily and free to all ages. Come and find out how we are working hand in hand with the local people to protect the Amazon we all love. For more information about Sky Rainforest Rescue visit sky.com/rainforestrescue.

Hay Festival Bookshop This year we are excited to be running the bookshop ourselves for the first time. We will be stocking books by all 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.

FOOD & DRINK Richard Booth’s Cookshop Café – Bar – Restaurant Relish team up with local food hero Elizabeth Haycox, from Richard Booth’s Bookshop Café, to bring an exciting new eatery to Hay Festival. The restaurant will be open all day serving breakfast, lunch and dinner and using only the best local seasonal ingredients to create delicious dishes. Our team at The Hemingway Bar will be serving 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. Private parties welcome and exclusive use areas available throughout the festival. For more details or to book call: 01285 658 444 or email info@relishmail.co.uk.

Xtreme Organix For top-quality food using organically farmed meat from Maes-y-Garn Farm, only one mile from Hay Festival. Enjoy our breakfasts, home-made burgers, stir-fries and wraps.

Friends Café A hub of activity during the festival, where you’ll catch those sold-out events relayed live from the Barclays Pavilion 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.

Festival Bar Real ale, local cider or a glass of chilled fizz. Enjoy a drink in the festival bar and gardens.

FESTIVAL FOOD HALL Locally produced food to feast on, from the excellent purveyors below.

Café Môr Come and enjoy the unique seafood menu at Café Môr, winner of the 2011 British Street Food Awards. Sample the famous hot seashore wraps filled with fantastic Welsh seafood and enjoy the fabulous Beach Brownies and Sea Spiced Ginger Cake, made using seaweed to enhance the food and delight the tastebuds! Café Môr’s Lobster & Crab Shack will also be coming along this year, offering lovely dressed lobster and crab served with salad and frites!

Lotty’s Pure Indulgence Lotty’s is returning once again to offer all your old favourites. A delicious range of homemade food – savoury tarts, salads, Thai veg/vegan curry, Italian stone-baked pizza slices, decadent puds, cakes and our famous brownies. And don’t forget to check out our specials board. Indulge yourself at Lotty’s!

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On Site Extras The Granary

Christ College, Brecon

The Granary Vegetarian Kitchen will be in the Food Hall serving vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options. Soups, chillis and curries will be the stars of the show; also delicious goats cheese and fig salad, Greek salad and hummous. This year we will be adding enormous meringues, and scones with homemade jam and cream. And locally-sourced Celtic spring water and elderflower cordial will slake your thirst. Settle down and enjoy the delightful village hall atmosphere.

An HMC Independent Boarding and Day School for Boys and Girls aged 11–18 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 christcollegebrecon.com for details.

Welsh Venison Centre

Davidstow

We are local farmers, butchers and retailers with a farm and farm shop overlooking Llangorse Lake, delivering produce direct from grower to consumer in a sustainable environment. Welsh Venison Centre is delighted to offer Festival-goers the healthy venison option and will be open every day with a varied menu. Please do visit our farm shop, too. Wales True Taste Award-winners 2011, 2012 and 2013, gold, silver and bronze.

Our Master Cheese Grader skilfully manages the creation of our cheddar recipes at the Davidstow Creamery on the North Cornish coast. Come and visit our stand to experience the signature taste of Davidstow cheddar; its rich, smooth and creamy notes layered with a flinty and crumbly texture. We will also have competitions with the chance to win signed books by chef Nathan Outlaw and a trip to his Michelin-starred restaurant in Cornwall.

Slate Of Cheese

Great English Outdoors

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 with home-made chutney and Alex Gooch freshlymade breads.

The Great English Outdoors. A shop with a soul. Conservators & Dealers of Welsh blankets and world textiles, Makers of fine leathers, Purveyors of useful but beautiful objects for the house and garden. Visit us on our stand, in the shop or online at greatenglish.co.uk to enter our Festival Competition. 19 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DF 01497 821 205 | info@greatenglishoutdoors.co.uk

Teatulia Organic Teas Teatulia 100% Organic Teas and herbal infusions come direct to you from our Single Garden Tea Estate in a pristine growing region of Bangladesh. There is no blending and only exquisite whole leaf teas are used, so they taste different to other teas. They’re beyond organic.

EXHIBITORS Bowie Gallery Brings the best in contemporary ceramics, jewellery and prints to its gallery on site during the Festival. You can also visit our main gallery in the centre of Hay or browse the online gallery at hayclay.co.uk. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter @bowiegallery for offers and promotions. The Bowie Gallery, 5 Market Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AF 01497 821 026 | gallery@hayclay.co.uk | hayclay.co.uk

Hay & District Chamber of Commerce 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.

Hay Does Vintage Previewing a small collection from the forthcoming Hay Does Vintage fayre in Hay town centre on Sunday 30 June. Root through the rails for one-off vintage menswear, ladieswear, accessories and other special finds. Follow us on Facebook for more information and come back in June.

History Wales Hanes Cymru – History Wales is the history hub at Hay where you can meet people from Cadw, Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales, Historic Houses Association and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. You can learn more about historic places to visit in Wales and get involved in hands-on activities inspired by Welsh heritage.

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Celebrating 30 years of herb-growing at their farm in Eardisley (6 miles from Hay) Herbfarmacy is at Hay Festival for the first time. Try their luscious organic skincare products and hear how they are made – advice on facial skincare and mini-therapies will be on offer. Book at the stand or visit herbfarmacy.co.uk.

Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency responsible for mapping for the whole of Great Britain. However, there’s more to what they do than meets the eye – come along and find out how digital mapping supports our daily lives and why we’d be lost without Ordnance Survey! Online at ordnancesurvey.co.uk.

Hollow Ash Huts

Oxfam

Our Shepherds' Huts, handcrafted in Herefordshire, are an attractive addition to any garden. While retaining the charm and simplicity of traditional huts, modern features such as insulation and electrical fittings enable them to be used for many purposes, from home office to guest accommodation. See one of our Shepherds' Huts on the festival site. 0117 981 9472 | hollowash.co.uk

Visit the Oxfam Bookshop at Hay – you’ll find it positively packed with great books, prints, vinyl, CDs and more. From current fiction to philosophy, cookery to kids’ titles, we’ve got it covered. Better yet, you’ll be fighting poverty with every purchase.

Huw Morris Using seasoned, locally-sourced oak from the Welsh Borders, Prestigne-based craftsman Huw Morris has made a cruck-beam shelter for our sheep and a number of beautifully simple and functional solid oak benches around the site for you to rest and read! The benches and shelters can be purchased or commissioned from the Brook Street Pottery Gallery in Hay, next door to Booth’s Bookshop Cinema. 01497 821 070 | info@brookstreetpottery.co.uk

Jonathan Oddy Bespoke Fine Furniture In his Cwmcadarn workshop in the heart of the Black Mountains, Jonathan designs and makes exquisite contemporary fine furniture to commission. This is the second year Jonathan will be exhibiting a selection of stunning pieces. Come and visit Jonathan and commission or buy a unique piece of furniture. Online at jonathanoddy.co.uk.

Jackson & Gill Opticians Limited Do you find the print too small, or your arms too short? It’s most likely you need reading glasses. Hay-on-Wye’s local opticians will be on site to provide you with ready reader options and eye advice. Also, have a free macular health check, view our range of sunglasses, ophthalmic frames and eye care products or simply have your existing spectacles serviced.

National Trust

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RSPB Cymru Visit RSPB Cymru to find out more about wildlife in Wales and the many ways in which you can help us save it. Chat with our friendly team about how you and your family can make the most of your local RSPB nature reserve, as well as learning about our volunteering opportunities and how you can fundraise to help protect nature here in Wales.

Shelley Faye Lazar & Richard Evans A fabulous celebration of colour and imagery from two Hay-on-Wye artists. Shelley Faye Lazar is renowned for her vibrant and unique hand-painted silk and wool scarves. Designer and author Richard Evans, known for his iconic album covers, brings his exciting range of limited edition artworks to the Festival. shelleyfayelazar.com | rdevans.com

Spanish Tourist Office Join us at ‘Tapas España by José Pizarro’ 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 as well as a programme of events from book signings to tastings. Pop in and say Hola!

Tidal Lagoon Power Tidal Lagoon Power is proposing a series of tidal lagoons to power Wales, with direct share ownership for the people of Wales. We are using the Hay Festival to bring the project to a wider audience than Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot and to introduce our share offer for ownership of the lagoon by the general public.

Bring the family to our stand to sample some of the 50 things to do before you’re 11?, and, while the children are occupied, find out about the National Trust’s exciting renewable energy projects and browse our local produce shop.

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Off Site Extras Abergavenny Food Festival at Hay

1PM–2.15PM CUSOP VILLAGE HALL £6

DAILY THROUGHOUT HAY FESTIVAL THE HONESTY BOOKSHOP

An introduction to the dance for complete beginners.

Abergavenny Food Festival presents A @ Hay – The Street-food Market in the Honesty Bookshop. Just step off the High Street, through the stone archway and into Hay Castle’s walled garden. You’ll find good things to eat and drink from the Welsh Borders and beyond. Not one but two former winners of the BBC Food and Farming Producer of the Year Award will be there, in the shape of Trealy Farm Charcuterie with their hot-food stall ‘Butty’, and Alex Gooch Artisan Baker from Hay-on-Wye with sweet and savoury delights. Music festival specialists La Crèperie return with pancakes and drinks, and others to be announced…

Fair On The Square 2013 25, 26, 27 MAY 9.30AM–7PM HAY MARKET SQUARE

Fair on the Square returns with three days of lively, free entertainment for all. Introducing some of the best live music from across the Welsh Marches and offering demonstrations and hands-on activities by artists and craftsmakers from Powys arts-engine. Plus an update on progress with the Hay Cheese Market Restoration Project at the Heritage Lottery stand.

Friends of Bill W UPSTAIRS AT ST JOHN’S CHURCH HALL, LION ST.

Saturday 25 May 1PM–2PM Wednesday 29 May 1PM–2PM Thursday 30 May 1PM–2PM Saturday 1 June 1PM–2PM Monday 27 May 6.15PM–7.30PM

Hereford’s Argentine Tango Club Tango Mundi is delighted to present guest teacher Leroy Tango Cat for a day of workshops and an evening milonga. If you would like to learn this exciting, improvised dance, this is your chance! Places are limited and we urge early booking to avoid disappointment. To book, email cathyltango@yahoo.com or call on 07969 091 786. SATURDAY 1 JUNE 11AM–12.15PM CUSOP VILLAGE HALL £6

Tango Taster 1 An introduction to the dance for complete beginners.

Tango Taster 2

3.30PM–5PM CUSOP VILLAGE HALL £7

General Tango Workshop For those with more advanced tango knowledge. 7.30PM–11PM CUSOP VILLAGE HALL £7

Evening Milonga An Argentine tango party – come alone or with a partner, and dance the evening away.

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Hay Castle Medieval Day 1 Medieval-themed games, gifts, songs and stories, nestled in the heart of Hay Castle. Step back into Hay’s medieval past with hands-on history, archery and good ales, presented by Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre. Tickets also available on the gate SUNDAY 26 MAY [448] 10AM–7PM HAY CASTLE £4 ADULTS, £1 UNDER 16S, UNDER 5S FREE

Hay Castle Medieval Day 2 Medieval-themed games, gifts, songs and stories, nestled in the heart of Hay Castle. Step back into Hay’s medieval past with hands-on history, archery and good ales, presented by Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre. Tickets also available on the gate MONDAY 27 MAY [449] 10AM–7PM HAY CASTLE £4 ADULTS, £1 UNDER 16S, UNDER 5S FREE

Hay Castle Medieval Day 3 Medieval-themed games, gifts, songs and stories, nestled in the heart of Hay Castle. Step back into Hay’s medieval past with hands-on history, archery and good ales, presented by Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre. Tickets also available on the gate

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Hay Castle, once a great medieval stronghold, is alive with possibilities once again. Find out more with a series of guided tours of the 12th Century keep, Jacobean mansion and Victorian service buildings, led by a range of castle experts. Each tour includes tea and a bun.

Hay Walking Festival Walks

FRIDAY 24 MAY [450] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

Tour led by Mary Morgan, head of Hay Castle Friends.

For all walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. More information and booking for all the walks is available on haywalking.org/hayfestival | 01544 327 121 Hay Walking Festival 2013 runs Thursday 10 October to Monday 14 October SUNDAY 26 MAY

SATURDAY 25 MAY [451] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

Tour led by architectural historian Richard Suggett of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales. SUNDAY 26 MAY [452] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

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HAY CASTLE TOURS

9.30AM–1PM MEET AT THE BULL’S HEAD, CRASWALL £5

On The Black Hill A wonderful walk up the Black Hill, taking a stretch of the Offa’s Dyke path, returning to Craswall via fields and woods. 8 miles. Can be muddy. One steep ascent. Walking boots essential.

Tour led by Mary Morgan, head of Hay Castle Friends. MONDAY 27 MAY MONDAY 27 MAY [453] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

Tour led by Justin Albert, Director of National Trust Wales. TUESDAY 28 MAY

10AM–12.30PM MEET AT HAY FESTIVAL SITE ENTRANCE £4

Family Foraging Walk A chance for children to take a stroll by the Wye in Hay and learn how to forage for fabulous wild food in the woods and by the river. 2 miles. Children aged 5–13 years with accompanying adult.

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Tour led by Justin Albert, Director of National Trust Wales. WEDNESDAY 29 MAY [455] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

Tour led by Will Davies, Cadw Archaeologist. THURSDAY 30 MAY [456] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

TUESDAY 28 MAY 10AM–1PM MEET AT GOSPEL PASS CAR PARK: GRID REF EXP MAP OL13 SO 235252 £5

Geological Walk: Twmpa (Lord Hereford’s Knob) An opportunity to learn about the geology of the area from James Creswell, a local expert. 3.5 miles. Slow pace to facilitate observation. One steep ascent. Walking boots essential.

Tour led by Mary Morgan, head of Hay Castle Friends. WEDNESDAY 29 MAY FRIDAY 31 MAY [457] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

Tour led by Justin Albert, Director of National Trust Wales. SATURDAY 1 JUNE

1.30PM–4.30PM MEET AT HAY MAIN CAR PARK, OXFORD ROAD BY THE BUS STOP £5

Hay From Cusop Hill A lovely circular walk climbing steeply to the top of Cusop Hill, with stunning views back down to Hay. 6.5 miles. One steep ascent. A couple of stiles. Walking boots essential.

[458] 10AM HAY CASTLE MAIN HALL £4

Tour led by Mary Morgan, head of Hay Castle Friends.

THURSDAY 30 MAY

SUNDAY 2 JUNE

9.30AM–1PM MEET AT NEWCHURCH, BY CHAPEL/PHONE BOX £5

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Disgwylfa Hill And Huntington

Tour led by Mary Morgan, head of Hay Castle Friends.

A stunning walk up Disgwylfa Hill on Offa’s Dyke path and time to stop at the tiny Huntington church. 7 miles. One gradual ascent. A couple of stiles. Walking boots essential.

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Off Site Extras River Walks

Hedgerow Foraging Walks

For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. River Walks can be booked online at hayfestival.org or with the Box Office on 01497 822 629.

Join Adele Nozedar, author of The Hedgerow Handbook, for foraging walks around Hay. Families and children welcome. For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing.

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TUESDAY 28 MAY

River Walk 1

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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 packed lunches.

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Hedgerow Foraging Walk 1 WEDNESDAY 29 MAY [464] 11AM–12.30PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE

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THURSDAY 30 MAY [461] 9.30AM–2PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE FOR BUS £10

River Walk 2 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 packed lunches.

Hedgerow Foraging Walk 2 THURSDAY 30 MAY [465] 11AM–12.30PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE

Hedgerow Foraging Walk 3 FRIDAY 29 MAY [466] 11AM–12.30PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE TICKETED

FRIDAY 31 MAY [462] 9AM–12PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE FOR BUS £10

Paul Benham Primrose Earth Awareness Trust: Site Visit 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.

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Hedgerow Foraging Walk 4

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Travel & Accommodation

Travel & Accommodation Getting to Hay

Car Share Scheme

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.

Hay Festival partners with both goCarShare and BlaBlaCar.com 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.

Railway enquiries nationalrail.co.uk 08457 48 49 50 Coach information from nationalexpress.com 08705 80 80 80

Taxi share scheme is available from:

Public transport information from traveline.info 08712 00 22 33

Julie’s 07899 846 592

Festival Bus Link Hereford to Hay 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 or 39A) from Hereford and Brecon to Hay-on-Wye operating seven days a week. Detailed timetable at hayfestival.org/travel. Adults Children

£6.50 single £2.60 single

A2B Taxis 01874 754 007

A1 Cabs 07910 931 999 Radnor and Kington Taxis 07831 898 361

Self Drive Hire LT Baynham, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 273 298

Car Parking

Bus Tickets £10 return £4.70 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, Llowes and Clyro. Tickets cost £2 per journey. To find out more go to hayfestival.org/shuttlebus.

Local Taxis

The car parks are situated off the Brecon Road B4350, and also on the Llanigon Road. Official Festival Parking sites costs £5 per day (£3 after 6pm). Please refrain from parking on the roads in Hay. Wet weather car parking will be at Clyro Court, HR3 5LE only. A shuttle bus service will operate between Clyro Court and Oxford Road Car Park. The Hay Town Shuttle will then take visitors to the festival site. This is to avoid congestion and to provide the most efficient service. Disabled parking will continue to be available on the festival site. Please book a disabled parking space at the time of booking tickets.

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Camping

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 at the Clock Tower, Oxford Road Car Park and the Festival site.

Campground Accommodation 01497 821 520 or visit racquetyfarm.com

The shuttle bus is supported by Richard Booth’s Bookshop and the Hay and District Chamber of Commerce.

Pedicabs A sustainable, pedal-powered, zero-emission taxi service, keeping things simple and fun, honest and green. Take a ride in our Festival cycle rickshaws operating between the Festival site and the Swan Hotel. Provided by Hereford Pedicabs – 07718 320 195

Cycle Park A cycle park is available on the Festival site with bike stands kindly provided by Drover Holidays.

Gypsy Castle Camping 01497 847 460 or visit theradnorarms.com Radnor Arms Campsite 01497 847 460 or visit theradnorarms.com Snoozebox Portable Hotel 0845 092 0174 or visit snoozebox.com Tangerine Fields Campsite 07821 807 000 or visit tangerinefields.co.uk Wye Meadow Camping 07836 500 021 or visit peak-performanceconsultancy.co.uk/haycamping

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Hay Town – Festival Shuttle Bus

Accommodation For the Hay Festival Bedfinder Service call Maria on 01497 821 526 until 30 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

Index

Index by event number ABBOTT, Fred, 10 ABELLO, Jaime, 62 ABNETT, Dan, HF78 ABRAMSKY, Jenny, 79 ABSE, Dannie, 282 ADAM, Barbara, 25 ADAMS, David, 303 AHMED, Kamal, 242, 64 ALBERT, Justin, 211, 440 ALBOROUGH, Jez, HF42, HF48 ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, Hugh, 163 ALEXANDER, Marcus, HF86 ALLEN, Graham, 252 AL-ZUBAIDI, Layla, 153 AMADOU & MARIAM, 217 ANDERSON, Chris, 257 ANDREWS, Leighton, 54 ANSTEE, Margaret, 187 APPLEBAUM, Anne, 46 ARBURY, Sara-Jane, HF28 ARMITAGE, Simon, 255, 300 ARMSTRONG, Lisa, 19 ASLAM, Nadeem, 92 ATINUKE, HF26 ATKINSON, Tiffany, 215 AUSTIN, Victor Lee, 186 BADGER, Tony, 185 BAKEWELL, Joan, 79, 91 BALCH, Oliver, 133, 191, 226, 249, BALL, Philip, 160 BALMFORD, Andrew, 270 BANDEMONIUM, 442 BANVILLE, John, 98 BARNARD, David, 260 BARR, Damian, 102, 110, 150 BARRON, Peter, 101 BEARD, Mary, 341 BENNETT, Gill, 275 BENNETT, Sophia, HF47 BERLINS, Marcel, 321, 336, 411 BERNSTEIN, Carl, 62, 106 BERRY, John, 340 BERTAGNA, Julie, HF96 BIRD, John, 411, 430 BLACK, Sandy, 5 BLACKBURN, Simon, 81 BLACKHURST, Chris, 81 BLACKMAN, Malorie, HF82, HF88 BLADE, Adam, HF40 BLAKE, Quentin, 4 BLAKELEY, David, 197 BLASIM, Hassan, 410 BLEZARD, Paul, 112, 135, 184,

334, 392 BLIX, Hans, 89 BOIANJIU, Shani, 55 BOLAND, Paul, 440 BOO, Katherine, 152 BORZELLO, Frances, 151 BOULDING, Hilary, 343 BOULTING, Ned, 400 BOURKE, Joanna, 57 BOWEN, Huw, 54 BOWEN, Jeremy, 34 BOWMAN, Robert, 403 BOYCOTT, Rosie, 53, 78,

128, 152, 179, 311, 388, 117, 329

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BOYD, Lucy, 147 BOYNE, John, HF85, 331 BRACKSTONE, Lee, 107 BRADFORD, Chris, HF94 BRAGG, Melvyn, 45 BRAITHWAITE, Rodric, 239 BRAMWELL, David, 214 BRAND, Jo, 404 BRAND, Katy, 214 BRECON AND DISTRICT MALE CHOIR, 8 BRETHERTON, Luke, 186 BRETT, Cathy, HF108 BREWER, Charlotte, 80 BRIGGS, Andy, HF89 BRIGSTOCKE, Marcus, 50, 124 BRITTON NEWELL, Laurie, 121 BROACKES, Victoria, 169 BROGAN, Benedict, 101 BROOK, Timothy, 319 BROOKS, Ruth, 6 BROTTON, Jerry, 375, 326 BROWN, Tony, 66 BROWNE, Anthony, HF55 BROWNE, John, 64 BRUNDIN, Abigail, 417 BRYER, Lynne, 8 BUILTH MALE VOICE CHOIR, 8 BULAWAYO, NoViolet, 416 BULLOUGH, Oliver, 46, 164 BULLOUGH, Tom, 258 BULMER, John, 13 BURGESS, Melvin, HF74, HF82 BURTON-HILL, Clemency, 251, 295,

340, 367, 434, 163, 190, 204, 210, 257 BUSBY, CJ, HF112 BUSTER, Bobette, 118 BUTLER, Catherine, 25 BYRNE, Ed, 75 BYRNE, Paula, 208 CAMPBELL, Tony, 72 CARTWRIGHT, Jo, 211 CASALE, Alexia, HF70 CASSELL, Matthew, 153 CASSIDY, Cathy, HF41 CAULFIELD, Jo, 401 CHAPMAN, Elizabeth, 30 CHAUDHURI, Amit, 284 CHILTON, Martin, 305 CHOPPING, George, 170, 214 CHRISTIE, Deborah, 128 CHRYSTA BELL, 125 CHURCHWELL, Sarah, 35 CLARE, Horatio, 349, 363, 428, 319, 382, 409 CLARK, TJ, 288 CLARKE, Gillian, 248, 255, 303 CLEMMOW, Caroline, 323 CLOSE, Frank, 335, 374 COBAIN, Ian, 232 COCKING, Jane, HF8 COE, Gideon, 343 COE, Jonathan, 77 COLE, Steve, HF65, HF73 COLGAN, Conor, 3 COLGAN, Jenny, 135 COLGAN, Steve, 214

COLLING, Steve, 172 COLLINS, Michael, 195 CONROY, Paul, 197 CONSTANTINE, Jan, 49 CONWAY, Gordon, 93 COOK, Jill, 134 COOPER, Al, 398 COOPER, Artemis, 387 COOPER, Ben, 343 COOPER, Nick, 438 CORDEROY, Tracey, HF59, HF66 COREN, Giles, 112 CORNWELL, Hugh, 170, 177 CORREA, Eliane, 262 CORRIGAN, Kitty, 99 CORRY, Steve, 17 COTTERALL, Janet, 372 COUGHLIN, Con, 202 COWPER-COLES, Sherard, 168 CRACE, John, 201 CROMPTON, Sarah, 23, 32, 35, 79,

86, 132, 190, 151 CROSS, Gillian, HF8 CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin, HF3 CRYSTAL, Ben, 339 CRYSTAL, David, 308 CUKIER, Kenneth, 138 CUNLIFFE, Barry, 181 CUNNINGHAM, Barry, HF74 CURTIS, Tony, 244 CUSACK, Sinead, 424 DAFYDD, Fflur, 402 DALLEY, Stephanie, 269 DALRYMPLE, William, 379 DALYELL, Tam, 76, 127 DANKS, Fiona, HF13 DAUNT, James, 239 DAVIDSON, Jane, 9, 111, 279 DAVIES, Alan, 443, 148 DAVIES, Grahame, 244, 255 DAVIES, Gwen, 209, 435 DAVIES, Mike, 178 DAVIES, Nicola, HF31 DAVIES, Richard, 391 DAVIES, Sean, 178 DAY, David, 191 DAY, Elizabeth, 17 DE KRETSER, Michelle, 371, 358 DEACON, Alexis, 121 DELAP, Lucy, 316 DENNEHY, Sarah, 343 DENNETT, Daniel, 97 DENNIS, Hugh, 50 DESAI, Kishwar, 83 DIBANGO, Manu, 173 DIBBEN, Damian, HF58 DIMBLEBY, Jonathan, 406 DOCKRILL, Laura, HF53 DODD, Emma, HF45, HF51 DON, Monty, 147, 418 DONALDSON, Julia, HF2 DORLING, Danny, 352 DOUGLAS, Jonathan, HF82 DOUZINAS, Costas, 57 DREW, Flora, 21 DU SAUTOY, Marcus, 281, 297 DUDDLE, Jonny, HF16

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131, 145, 337, 361, 376, 17, 18, 106 FONG, Kevin, 434 FORNA, Aminatta, 165 FOSTER, Alicia, 389 FOTHERINGHAM, William, 400 FOX, Emilia, 424 FRANCIS, Gavin, 58 FRANCIS, Matthew, 215 FRASER, Antonia, 385 FRENTE CUMBIERO, 405 FROSTRUP, Mariella, 33, 44, 84, 94 FRYERS, Andy, 7, 111, 258, 328, 338, 372, 384, 5, 160, 193 FULBROOK, Mary, 222 FULLER, Danielle, 355 FURTADO, Peter, 226 GAFFNEY, Vince, 433 GALEANO, Mario, 405 GALSWORTHY, Amanda, 108 GAMBLES, Brian, 264 GAMBOA, Santiago, 83 GARDNER, Lyn, HF81 GARDNER, Sally, HF70, HF76 GARFIELD, Simon, 330 GEKOSKI, Rick, 204

GEMMELL, Nikki, 256 GILDERDALE, Charlie, HF7, HF18 GILLESPIE, Ed, 172 GILLIBRAND, John, 186 GINSBERG, Mary, 414 GLANVILLE, Jo, 48, 60, 153, 410 GLASS, Philip, 340 GODDEN, Salena, 170 GODSMITH, Rosie, 83 GODWIN, Georgina, 320, 369,

408, 425, 395 GOLDIN, Ian, 133 GOLDSMITH, Mike, 251 GOLDSMITH, Rosie, 21, 41, 98, 165, 31 GOLDSTONE, Anthony, 323 GOODER, Paula, 186 GOODALL, Chris, 61 GOULD, Ceri, 54 GOULD PIANO TRIO, 236 GOULSON, Dave, 16 GOURDAULT-MONTAGNE, Maurice, 113,

162 GOWER, Jon, 359, 377 GOWING, Nik, 101, 126,

168, 275, 51, 386, 421 GRAN, Maurice, 337 GRANT, Carrie, HF29 GRANT, David, HF29 GRAY, Jennifer, HF101, HF106 GRAY, Louise, 6, 360, 384 GRAY, Madeleine, 54 GRAYLING, AC, 85, 97 GREEN, Caroline, HF39 GRIFFITHS, Jay, 140, 258 GRIFFITHS, Vanessa, 211 GRIGG, Julie, 115 GROBERT, Nicole, 276 GROSSMAN, Edith, 154 GROVES, Chris, 25 GUARDIOLA RIVERA, Oscar, 57, 113 GUEST, Revel, 13, 99 GUY, John, 243 HADDAD, Joumana, 91 HADDON, Mark, 63 HAHN, Daniel, 136, 142, 154 HAIG, Matt, 390 HAILES, Julia, 372 HAINSWHEELER, Keko, 397 HALE, Sheila, 369 HALEY, Matthew, 332 HALFON, Eduardo, 110 HAMID, Mohsin, 377 HAMILTON, Fiona, 24, 333 HAMMOND, Andrew, HF20 HANBURY-TENISON, Robin, 20 HARKAWAY, Nick, 320 HARRI, Guto, 103, 218, 293, 109, 248 HARRINGTON, Jonathon, 338 HART, Miranda, 437 HASLAM, Jonathan, 11 HATTERSLEY, Roy, 427 HAWKS, Tony, 347 HAWKSLEY, Lucinda Dickens, 329 HEATH, Bob, 260 HEMON, Aleksandar, 110 HENDERSON, Kate, 304 HERBERT, Henry, 23

HERBERT, Tom, 23 HERMISTON, Roger, 310 HEUER, Rolf, 374 HEWITT, Gavin, 90 HICKS-JENKINS, Clive, 210 HIGGINS, Polly, 2 HIGSON, Charlie, HF80 HILL, Will, HF54 HINSLIFF, Gaby, 271 HITT, Carolyn, 247, 287, 182 HIX, Mark, 383 HOBDEN, Tom, 10 HODGKINSON, Jo, HF21 HOGGART, Simon, 344, 362 HOLLAND, James, 207 HOLLAND, Tom, 274, 313, 341 HOLLAND, Will, 405 HOLMES, John, 126, 162 HOLMES, Richard, 368 HOOK, Peter, 175 HOOPER, Derek, 304 HOPKINS, Rob, 7 HOPWOOD, Mererid, 255 HOROBIN, Simon, 198, 221 HORSPOOL, David, 197 HOUBEN, Francine, 264 HUDSON, Jules, 325 HUDSON, Robert, 120, 359 HUGHES-HALLET, Lucy, 32 HUMBLE, Kate, 247, 281 INGHELS, Maarten, 142 IQBAL, Razia, 342, 358 IRONS, Jeremy, 424 JACKSON, James, 139 JACOBS, Michael, 428 JACOBSON, Howard, 95, 145 JAMES, Oliver, 298, 311 JEFFERY, Charlie, 346 JEFFREY, Alex, 228 JEFFREYS-JONES, Rhodri, 336 JENKINS, Simon, 385 JIAN, Ma, 21 JOHNES, Martin, 54 JOHNS-PUTRA, Adeline, 9 JOHNSTON, Guy, 195 JONES, Carwyn, 67 JONES, Cynan, 209 JONES, Dylan, 306, 383 JONES, Emma, 49, 99 JONES, Jonathan, 295 JONES, Keith, 211 JONES, Lloyd, 209 JONES, Steve, 367 JORDAN, Meirion, 142 JUDGE, Chris, HF10 JUNIPER, Tony, 366 JUPITUS, Phill, 71 KAMPFNER, John, 62, 113, 162 KAPILA, Mukesh, 59 KEIL, Chris, 435 KELLEHER, Damian, HF111 KELSEY, Linda, 256 KENEALLY, Thomas, 150 KENNEDY, Helena, 137 KERR, Judith, HF57 KESSLER, Liz, HF68 KIDSTON, Cath, 19

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DUNANT, Sarah, 420 DUNBAR, Polly, HF43 DWAN, Lisa, 55, 129, 210, 371, 389 DYSON, Ben, 43 EARLE, Phil, HF39 EASTAWAY, Rob, HF22 EDGAR, Andrew, 213 EDWARDS, Dianne, 241 EL FEKI, Shereen, 91 ELFYN, Menna, 255, 402 ELLIS, Chris, 304 ELLIS, Hugh, 304 ELLIS, Peter, 304 EMMERSON, Charles, 289 ENGLAND, Jude, 395 ENGLISH, Athene, 49 ETHERINGTON BROTHERS, HF15 EUKA, Juanita, 262 EVANS, Jules, 192 EVANS, Steve, 279 EVANS, Chris, 54 EVERETT, Rupert, 392 EVISON, Margaret, 17 EXTENCE, Gavin, 229 FAIRLIE, Simon, 3 FANTLOVA, Zdenka, 333 FARAWAY, Lara, HF110 FAROOQI, Sadaf, 117 FAULKS, Sebastian, 314 FENBY, Jonathan, 421 FENNELL, Emerald, HF9 FERNIE, Ewan, 180 FERNYHOUGH, Charles, 170 FIDALEO, Laura, 142 FILER, Nathan, 129 FINK, Charlie, 10 FINNEMORE, John, 120 FIRTH, John, 398 FLANDERS, Stephanie, 155, 210,

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KIMBERLING, Brian, 129 KING, Barbara-Ann, 99 KINGSOLVER, Barbara, 157 KLASSEN, Jon, HF6 KLEIN, Jacky, HF19, 70 KLEIN, Suzy, HF19, 291, 52 KNELL, Theo, 24 KNIGHT, India, 56, 102 KOEK, Ariane, 157 KUMAR, Satish, 123 KUNZRU, Hari, 121 KURTI, Richard, HF54 LACEY, Josh, HF1, HF12 LAKE, Nick, HF70 LAKEMAN, Seth, 220 LAMB, Linda, 398 LANDY, Derek, HF49 LAW, Ben, 372 LE BROCQ, Mark, 303 LE CARRÉ, John, 324, 342 LEAN, Geoffrey, 2, 38, 67, 93, 149, LEAN, Sarah, HF56 LENDVAI TRIO, 280 LEWIS, Anna, 88, 255 LEWIS, Damien, 197 LEWIS, Emyr, 255 LEWIS, Gill, HF31 LEWIS-JONES, Huw, 356 LIANKE, Yan, 21 LIFSCHUTZ, Alex, 28 LINDSAY, Fiona, 373 LINDSAY, Robert, 373 LITT, Toby, 258 LLEWELLYN, Robert, 170 LLOYD, Cariad, 176 LLOYD, Hywel, 235 LLOYD, Saci, HF79, 250, 423 LLOYD PACK, Roger, 424 LOCK, David, 304 LODAHL, Michael, 186 LODGE, Guy, 346 LONDON, Elisha, 123 LONG, Hayley, HF82 LORD, Peter, 378 LOSER, Barry, HF38 LOVEGROVE, Roger, 265 LOWE, Adam, 375 LOWERY, Mark, HF98, HF105 LUSTIG, Robin, 396 LUXTON, Katie-Jo, 166 LYNAS, Mark, 160, 281 LYNCH, Andrew, 174 MCCALL SMITH, Alexander, 334 MCCANN, Colum, 55 MCCARTHY, John, 14 MCCAUGHREAN, Geraldine, HF50 MCCAWLEY, Leon, 195 MCCULLOUGH, Andy, 430 MACCULLOCH, Diarmaid, 231 MCDONALD, Antony, 12 MACFARLANE, Robert 363, 387 MCGOUGH, Roger, HF46, 161 MACGREGOR, Neil, 194, 196 MCGREGOR, Wayne, 86 MCILVANNEY, William, 422 MCINTYRE, Sarah, HF102, HF98 MCKAY, Hilary, HF68

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MCKAY, Sinclair, 310 MCKENZIE, Sophie, HF14 MCMILLAN, Ian, 266 MCNAB, Andy, 184 MACK, Lee, 254 MADDOX, Brenda, 146 MADDOX, Bronwen, 119, 429 MAGDEN, Perihan, 62, 136 MAGNANTI, Brooke, 256 MAHER, Kevin, 229 MALKIN, Russ, 172 MALLEY, Gemma, HF34, HF39 MANNING, Kate, 132 MANNION, Fiona, 304 MANZOOR, Sarfraz, 40, 122, 175, 331 MARCH, Earl of, 294 MARKS, Laurence, 337 MARSH, Geoffrey, 169 MARSHALL, Tim, 439 MARTELL, Owen, 377 MARTINS, Zita, 276 MARYON, Kate, 430 MATTHEWS, Cerys, 431 MATTHEWS, Paul, 235 MAXWELL, Glyn, 255, 300 MAYER, Colin, 278 MAYER-SCHONBERGER, Viktor, 138 MAYHEW, Jon, HF9 MAYO, Simon, HF11 MEEK, James, 165 MEIKLE, Anne, 193 MEREDITH, Chris, 88 MERES, Jonathan, HF109 MERLE, Claire, HF96 MERRITT, Stephanie, 224, 399 MESRATI, Mohamed, 153 MID WALES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, 210 MIDDLETON, Andy, 235, 322, 328, 279 MILES, Ben, 304 MILLER, Rebecca, 199 MINSHALL, Tim, 415 MIODOWNIK, Mark, 408 MITCHINSON, John, 170, 170, 214 MITTON, Simon, 381 MOGGACH, Deborah, 361 MONBIOT, George, 382, 384 MOORE, Christy, 27 MOORE, David, 259 MOORE, Derek, 111 MOORE, Lucy, 190 MOORE, Marcus, HF28 MORAN, Caitlin, 56 MORDEN, Daniel, HF114 MORGAN JONES, Chris, 310, 321 MORPURGO, Michael, HF57, HF63 MORRIS, Jackie, HF87 MORRISON, David, 119 MOSS, Stephen, 111 MOUNTFIELD, Helen, 137 MOYES, Jojo, 256 MULGAN, Geoff, 47 MULLAN, John, 380, 413 MULLIGAN, Andy, HF35 MUNDY, Simon, 88, 203, 215, 272, 296 MURMUR, MC, 262 MURRAY, Tiffany, 110 MWESO, Esther, 123

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES, HF77 NAUGHTIE, Jim, 127 NELSON, Jenny, 276 NESS, Patrick, HF111, 390 NEUFELD, Thomas Yoder, 186 NICHOLSON, Helen, 54 NIEMANN, Derek, 327 NIFFENEGGER, Audrey, 86 NOAH AND THE WHALE, 10 NOBLE, Juliet, 301 NORMAN, Jesse, 22, 103, 47, 407 Ó BRIAIN, Dara, 261, 302 O’BRIEN, Edna, 107 O’FARRELL, Maggie, 224 O’FLYNN, Catherine, 77 O’LEARY, Paul, 54 OBORNE, Peter, 119 OLIVER, Neil, 253 ORAM, Liz, 99 ORBACH, Julian, 301 ORME, Nicholas, 272 PAPADOPOULOS, Renos, 333 PARKER, Cornelia, 70 PARKER, David, 238 PARKER, Matt, 167 PARKER-REES, Guy, HF113 PARR, Adam, 436 PARRIS, Rachel, 176 PARRIS, SJ, 243, 285, 420 PARRY, Linda, 114 PARRY, Morgan, 166 PAUL, Korky, HF5 PAVER, Michelle, HF91 PEARSON, Allison, 79, 87 PENN, Rob, 400, 409 PETULLA, Michael, 10 PHILLIPS, Marie, 120 PIDGEON, Sean, 130 PIERCY, Jill, 378 PLAJA, Luisa, HF47 POLLAN, Michael, 388 PONSFORD, Marianne, 104 POTOCNIK, Janez, 148 POUNTNEY, David, 12 POWERS, Kevin, 365 POWYS, Betsan, 252 PRABHU, Jaideep, 113 PRASAD, Aarathi, 159 PRATCHETT, Rhianna, 315 PREBBLE, Stuart, 76 PREECE, Julian, 435 PRESCOTT, David, 22 PRESTON, Paul, 156, 187 PRICE, Mark, 242 PRIESTLAND, David, 299 PRIESTLEY, Chris, HF9 PRYOR, Francis, 170 PUNTI, Jordi, 141 PURCELL, Clare, 301 QUANTIC, 405 RAHIM, Sameer, 37 RAWLES, Kate, 172 RAWSTHORN, Alice, 52 RAY, Rebbecca, 391 RAYNER, Jay, 393 REES, Jasper, 287, 307, 330, 370 REES, Martin, 149

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222, 232, 309, 324, 396 SANKARAN, Lavanya, 60 SAUNDERS, George, 116 SAVAGE, Jonathan, 305 SAWYER, Peter, 318, 370 SCARROW, Alex, HF71 SCARROW, Simon, HF52, 234 SCHAMA, Simon, 286 SCHMIDT, Eric, 39 SCHOFIELD, Jo, HF13 SCHWEIZER, Sally, 438 SCOTT, Jackie, 271 SCOTT, Mike, 348 SCOTT CATO, Molly, 2 SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Simon, 143 SEGAL, Francesca, 37 SELASI, Taiye, 229 SELF, Will, 40 SERÉS, Francesc, 141 SERVICE, Tom, 12 SHAFAK, Elif, 96 SHEARS, Tara, 374 SHEERS, Owen, 255, 282, 287, 357 SHELTON, David, HF84, HF93 SHENTON, Caroline, 407 SHIPSTEAD, Maggie, 87

SHRIVER, Lionel, 41 SIEGHART, William, 78 SILK, Paul, 252 SILVESTRE, Edney, 60 SIMMS, Andrew, 423 SIMMS, Brendan, 429 SINCLAIR, Anthony, 283 SKIPWORTH, Mark, 294, 202, 268 SKUSE, CJ, HF64 SLATER, James, 210 SMALE, Holly, HF61 SMITH, Dai, 359 SMITH, Dan, 326 SMITH, Diane, 304 SMITH, Godfrey, 342 SMITH, Jim, HF38 SMITH, Susy, 49, 99 SMITH, Wayne, 353 SNOW, Jon, 89 SOLNIT, Rebecca, 31 SOLOMON, Andrew, 53 SPARKES, Ali, HF24 SPETLOVA, Martina, 397 STAINES, Paul, 22 STEINBERG, Jonathan, 212 STEPHAN, Felix, 142 STEPHENSON, Kristina, HF33 STERN, Nicholas, 51, 100 STEWART, Paul, HF67 STOCK, Francine, 82, 101, 134,

164, 241, 288, 412, 424 STOKES, Elen, 25 STOTHARD, Peter, 82 STOURTON, Ed, 293 STRAW, Jack, 131 STRONG, Roy, 376 SULSTON, John, 276, 292 SUMMERSCALE, Kate, 132 SUTHERLAND, John, 201 SWARUP, Vikas, 425 SWEENEY, John, 218 SWEETING, Paul, 8 SWIFT, Amanda, HF101 SWIFT, Daniel, 189 SWIRE, Jim, 309 SYMONS, Mitchell, HF44 TALEB, Nassim Nicholas, 432 TALGARTH MALE CHOIR, 8 TALLIS, Raymond, 42, 115 TAYLOR, Kathleen, 233 TEAL, Adrian, 214 TERAKAFT, 351 TERRY, Teri, HF96 THEROUX, Paul, 394 THOMPSON, Mark, 349 THOMSON, Jamie, HF98 THOMSON, Rupert, 224 THUMPERS, 10 THURLEY, Simon, 206 THUROW, Roger, 93, 123 TÓIBÍN, Colm, 92, 141 TOKSVIG, Sandi, 14, 68 TOLL, Rosie, 304 TOPOL, Jachym, 48 TORDAY, Piers, HF30 TRAORE, Rokia, 26 TREASURE-EVANS, James, 360

TREMAIN, Rose, 380 TRENT, Steve, 299 TREZISE, Rachel, 391 TUNSTALL, KT, 74 TUTT, Patricia, 57 TWAN ENG, Tan, 48 UGLOW, Jenny, 203 UPDALE, Eleanor, HF50 URBAN, Mark, 419 VALENTINE, Alex, 398 VALENTINE, Jenny, 365 VAUGHAN, Michael, 274 VEGAS, Johnny, 174 VELEZ, Simon, 104 VINER, Brian, 354 VULLIAMY, Clara, HF17, HF25 VULLIAMY, Ed, 228, 237 WADHAM, Lucy, 352 WAKELIN, Peter, 259 WALFORD DAVIES, Damian, 255, WALFORD DAVIES, Jason, 66 WALTERS, Guy, 268 WARA, 262 WARD, Felicity, 350 WARD, Ian, 264 WASTIE, Milly, 3 WATERFIELD, Robin, 249, 263 WATKINS, Carl, 171 WATSON, Mark, 345, 384 WATT, Fiona, 146 WAX, Ruby, 179 WEATHERILL, Cat, 219 WEBB, Holly, HF37 WEBB, Sarah, HF47 WEIR, Alison, 285 WELLAND, Mark, 15 WELLS, Chris, 158 WELSH, Irvine, 399, 422 WELSH NATIONAL OPERA, 303 WESTON, Alannah, 290, 306 WHAITE, John, 23 WHALE, Urby, 10 WHITE, Chris, 229 WHYBROW, Ian, HF92 WHYMAN, Matt, HF64 WICKHAM, Steve, 348 WILLIAMS, Andrew, 237 WILLIAMS, Gareth, 360 WILLIAMS, Jane, 186 WILLIAMS, Jody, 412 WILLIAMS, Rowan, 194, 196 WILSON, David, 182 WITHEY, Alun, 307 WOOD, Gaby, 30, 116, 144,

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REES-JONES, Deryn, 296 RENNISON, Louise, HF104 REYNOLDS, Fiona, 364 RHAYADER AND DISTRICT MALE VOICE CHOIR, 8 RHYDDERCH, Francesca, 357, 389 RIDDELL, Chris, HF60, HF67 RIDPATH, Ian, 158 RIMINGTON, Stella, 144 RINDELL, Suzanne, 37 ROBB, Andy, HF61 ROBBINS, Jim, 366, 384 ROBBINS, Trevor, 65 ROBERTS, David, HF72, HF76 ROBERTS, Emyr, 38 ROBERTS, Justine, 22 ROBERTS, Mat, 279 ROBERTS, Paul, 277 ROBERTS, Sue, 246 ROBERTSON, Geoffrey, 386 ROBERTSON, James, 309 ROBINSON, Mike, 223 ROBINSON, Miriam, 28 ROBINSON, Nick, 18 ROCCO, Fiammetta, 29 RONSON, Jon, 69 ROSS, Nick, 426 ROSS, Tony, HF100 ROSSITER, Joanna, 389 ROSTRON, John, 343 ROWLANDS, Mark, 227 RUST, Alison, 276 RUTHERFORD, Adam, 105 SACKVILLE, Amy, 371 SADLER, Wendy, 338 SAHAKIAN, Barbara, 36, 65 SALAZAR, Ligaya, 121 SALISBURY, Eurig, 255 SALLY, David, 257 SALTER, James, 116 SANDS, Philippe, 59, 108, 137, 162,

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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.

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Hay Festival Box Office, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD From Tuesday 21 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 palentyping 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 5.30pm. Outside these hours the festival admin office. All children must be accompanied, unless an event is designated sign in/out, when a Permissions Form must be completed. Nappychanging facilities are available in the toilets on site.

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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