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These are the writers and thinkers and Dyma’r awduron, y meddylwyr a’r diddanwyr a fydd entertainers who thrill us this year. These are yn ein gwefreiddio ni eleni. Y rhain yw’r merched a’r the women and men who inform the debate dynion sydd yn llywio’r drafodaeth am Ewrop, sydd about Europe, who are adventuring in new yn anturio mewn technolegau newydd ac sydd yn technologies, and who are broadening our ehangu ein meddyliau; y rhain yw’r ieithgwn sydd yn minds; and here are the lovers of language dathlu William Shakespeare, yr awdur mwyaf erioed – who cheer the celebrations of William a’r dramodydd a ddeallodd fwyaf am y galon ddynol. Shakespeare, the greatest writer who ever lived – Rydym yn dod at ein gilydd yn y dref hudolus hon, the playwright who understood most about the yn y mynyddoedd ysblennydd a hardd hyn, i ddathlu human heart. syniadau newydd a straeon ysbrydoledig; i siarad ac We are coming together in this magical town, in i gerdded, i rannu cacennau a chwrw, breuddwydion these spectacular and beautiful mountains, to a gobeithion; i gwrdd â hen ffrindiau ac i wneud celebrate new ideas and inspiring stories; to talk ffrindiau newydd. Croeso i’r Gelli Gandryll, croeso and walk, to share cakes and ale and dreams and i’r Wˆyl. Diolch i chi am ymuno â ni. hopes; to meet old friends and to make new ones. Welcome to Hay. Welcome to the festival. Thank you for joining us.

The dates of next year’s festival are 25 May - 4 June Peter Florence

PROGRAMME UPDATES ONLINE DIWEDDARIADAU I’R RHAGLEN AR-LEIN We often add exciting extra events after this programme Yn aml, byddwn yn ychwanegu digwyddiadau cyffrous at y rhaglen goes to print – these will all be listed under ‘new events’ at wedi i’r rhaglen bapur fynd i’r wasg – caiff y rhain i gyd eu rhestru hayfestival.org/programme. During the festival we’ll also dan y pennawd ‘digwyddiadau newydd’ ar we-fan send links to any venue and event changes on a daily email hayfestival.org/programme. Yn ystod yr Wˆyl byddwn hefyd yn circulated to ticket-holders. rhoi gwybod i ddefnyddwyr am newidiadau i leoliadau a digwyddiadau, mewn e-bost dyddiol i ddeiliaid tocynnau. ONSITE & OFFSITE EXTRAS There is a whole host of activities on and off the festival YMWELIADAU Â MANNAU ERAILL site for you to enjoy. These include farm visits, Hay town Rhestrir ymweliadau a digwyddiadau oddi ar brif safle’r walks, exhibitions and pop-up installations. Offsite visits Wˆ yl yn hayfestival.org/wales/extras. and events are listed at hayfestival.org/wales/extras.

CONTENTS Events 8 Off site extras 100 Hay on Earth 105 HAYDAYS 88 Maps 102 Index 106 On site extras 96 Travel 104 Booking info 112

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SCHOOLS PROGRAMME 1pm

The festival opens with the Schools Programme on [3] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Thursday 26 and Friday 27 May, free to state schools Maddy Harland and Thomas Henfrey and funded by the Hay Festival Educational Trust talk to Andy Fryers and the Welsh Government. Thursday is for Primary Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation Schools and featured authors include: Cressida Cowell, Permaculture is an agricultural practice based on natural Tom Palmer, Phil Earle and Sarah Lean. On Friday, eco-systems and is the basis of a worldwide citizen-led the day for Secondary Schools, pupils and teachers can movement in more than 100 countries. For decades, listen to Frances Hardinge, Juno Dawson, Patrick practitioners have devised creative responses to changes Ness and Holly Smale. This year, the 400th anniversary in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have of Shakespeare’s death, there are workshops with the developed a collective knowledge and experience RSC on both days. The aim of the Schools Programme invaluable to global efforts to address climate change. is to enthuse all pupils at Key Stages 2, 3 and 4. Harland is the Editor of Permaculture Magazine, The authors will all be on hand to sign copies of Henfrey is an author and Senior Researcher at the their books, on sale in the Festival Bookshop. For more THURSDAY 26 MAY THURSDAY Schumacher Institute, They talk to Hay Festival’s information, visit hayfestival.org/schoolsprogramme. Sustainability Director.

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HAY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME [4] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Joe O’Mahoney and guests The Fair Tax Debate The tax avoidance practices of multinational companies have recently been at the forefront of political and [1] 11.30–6.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £20 economic news. To highlight the unfairness of the current Hay on Earth 2016 Forum situation, a group of small businesses in Crickhowell, Wales, decided to adopt the offshore tax avoidance tactics This year’s Forum, programmed by Andy Fryers, of large companies. They have branded this movement the covers a swathe of sustainability topics from Fair Tax ‘Fair Tax Town’ and, as documented on BBC2, now intend to Re-wilding, Permaculture to the importance of to export it to other small businesses all over the UK. artisan crafts. Full day ticket allows entry to all five We explore the rise of algorithm-based companies such sessions: events 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. as Facebook, Uber and Deliveroo, and show how their offshore status allows them to extract value from countries in a similar manner to the East India Company in the C17th. O’Mahoney is a Reader at Business School. [2] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Minette Batters, Sophie Wynne-Jones, In association with Cardiff University Julia Aglionby, Rob Yorke Elements of Re-wilding: Perceptions and Prejudices 4pm How can we ensure there is public benefit from re-wilding the countryside? Rural commentator [5] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Rob Yorke discusses big cats and beavers, food production Alan Moore and Jen Goss and flood prevention with Minette Batters, NFU Deputy Beauty in Utility President; Julia Aglionby, Executive Director of the Discovering a new craft or skill, and doing it well, Foundation for Common Land; and Sophie Wynne-Jones, can give untold satisfaction. Two speakers on two trustee of the Wales Wild Land Foundation. very different topics are connected by a desire to drive positive change in everyday life. Join designer Alan Moore, author of Do Design:Why Beauty is key to Everything and local caterer/smallholder Jen Goss, co-author of Do Preserve: Making Your own Jams, Chutneys, Pickles and Cordials, as they urge you to consider beauty and function in everything you produce. Introduced by Andy Fryers.

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[6] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 [503] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED THURSDAYMAY26 Caroline Ingraham Battle of the Bands Help Your Dog Heal Itself Jim Eliot and Musicians “From the humble caterpillar to the mighty elephant, Up-and-coming local bands and solo artists battle it animals have an innate ability to forage for plant out to be crowned Best Band of Hay 2016. An evening and mineral extracts in order to look after their own of live original music where you and the judges get to emotional and physical health. Domestic dogs are decide who is worthy of the crown. Chair of the judges no different. Many canine behavioural problems are is Jim Eliot, international song-writer and music not rooted in past emotional trauma but in physical producer who has worked with Kylie Minogue, discomfort. You can enrich their lives by offering many Ellie Goulding, Olly Murs and Will Young. of these naturally foraged extracts for self-selection.” The zoopharmacognosy practitioner explains her ideas.

[7] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Steve Herington talks to Matthew Engel Bob Cole The Runner Bob Cole from Herefordshire was the long-distance Olympian who never got the chance to prove it. Eccentric and solitary, he competed on the professional circuit and was proclaimed world champion, but forever banned from the Olympics. Herington, author of a new biography, discusses the amazing story of a forgotten hero from the Chariots of Fire era.

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[8] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Erica Whyman talks to Francine Stock A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation The Deputy Artistic Director of the RSC discusses her current production. As a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and his great legacy, the production features local amateur companies in all 12 regions and nations of the UK playing Shakespeare’s Mechanicals alongside the professional cast. Erica shares her thoughts as the tour concludes in Cardiff and , and the company prepares to return to Stratford-upon-Avon for a final run featuring performances from all the amateur companies. In association with the RSC

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[9] 8.30PM TATA TENT £26 Dara Ó Briain Crowd Tickler The great Irish comedian returns to Hay to start the festival with a night of mercurial, joyful humour. He’s brilliant, quicksilver-smart and absolutely hilarious.

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[506] 9AM–5PM THE MOUNTAIN [12] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Coleridge in Wales–Walk from Pandy to Hay Tracey Evans, Warren Fauvel, Andy Middleton Samuel Taylor Coleridge dropped out of Cambridge Adventures in Health University in 1794 and walked around Wales. Richard The gross cost to the NHS of treating mental health is Parry and award- winning travel writer Elsa Hammond £7.2bn a year. There are multiple, proven links between the walk the 16 miles across Hay Bluff from Pandy to benefits of active time outdoors and reductions in the social Hay, part of an 80-day journey around Wales exploring cost of health solutions. Wales’ outdoor industry is poised to Coleridge’s voice as a contemporary vision for global become a Natural Health Service that improves health with sustainable development, as the Coleridge in Wales active time in . Evans is the CEO of The Outdoor Festival arrives at the Hay Festival. Partnership, Fauvel is co-founder of Nudjed. Chaired by To take part in this 16-mile mountain walk e-mail entrepreneur and adventurer Andy Middleton. [email protected] In association with TYF Adventure FRIDAY 27 MAY FRIDAY

[13] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £8 11am Michael Marriott English Roses [506] 11AM–1PM BBC RADIO WALES HUB FREE – ALL WELCOME A huge breeding programme is needed to produce new Wynne Evans varieties of English roses. The rosarian gives a behind-the- scenes look at making the David Austin Roses garden at BBC Radio Wales LIVE the Chelsea Flower Show. Join us to launch the Roald Dahl Wynne Evans brings his energetic mixture of music and Rose, in celebration of the writer’s centenary year. interviews to the Festival. Expect big name guests, laughs In association with David Austin Roses and live music. Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales daily from 11am–1pm. 2.30pm

11.30am [14] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Emma Bridgewater [10] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £6 Pattern & The Secrets of Lasting Design Barbara Erskine talks to Peter Florence Emma Bridgewater’s patterns have made her distinctive Sleeper’s Castle homewares best-sellers across the world. Her inspiration We are thrilled to launch the new novel by the best-selling is often deeply personal – a plate belonging to her mother, th author, who returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30 a favourite children’s book – and as she tells the stories of anniversary of her sensational debut best-seller, Lady of Hay. each pattern’s creation, she reveals the intricate processes Sleeper’s Castle begins in Hay in 1400 when war is brewing of research and collaboration behind the familiar designs in the Welsh borders, Catrin is on the brink of womanhood she has stamped on our kitchenware – and our hearts – and her father, a soothsayer, is playing a dangerous game for the past 30 years. Chaired by Kitty Corrigan. manipulating furious rivalries between Welsh princes and Emma Bridgewater Hay Festival Collector’s Mugs English lords. are available from the Bookshop.

1pm [15] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Helen Margetts

[11] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Political Turbulence – How Social Media Sinclair McKay and Thomas Briggs Can Shape Collective Action Bletchley and Enigma As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media such as Twitter and Facebook, The historians reveal unknown secrets of Bletchley’s wartime they are being invited to support myriad political causes operation and the Enigma, and discuss the code-breaking by sharing, liking, endorsing or downloading. Chain challenges we face in ’s technologically complex world. reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form McKay is the author of the bestselling The Lost World a growing part of collective action today. Margetts is of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives. Director of the Oxford Internet Institute. Bletchley Park’s Enigma expert, Thomas Briggs, brings a genuine, working Enigma machine to the Festival.

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Dan Richards David Whitebread, Jenny Gibson, Sara Baker FRIDAYMAY27 Climbing Days Cambridge Series 1: All Work and No Play…? Following in the footholds of his great-great-aunt, Could the consequences of curtailing play in schools, the early C20th pioneering mountaineer Dorothy Pilley, at home and in the outdoors be catastrophic in terms Richards begins to travel and climb across Europe. of healthy child development? Join experts from the Learning the ropes in Wales and Scotland, scaling PEDAL Centre to explore the role of play in learning, summits in Spain and Switzerland, he closes in on development and wellbeing. the pinnacle of Dorothy’s climbing life, the Dent In association with Cambridge University Blanche in Valais. Richards is the co-author, with Stanley Donwood and Robert Macfarlane, of Holloway. [21] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £6 Ilora Finlay, Hywel Francis, Gwyneth Lewis [17] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Leaving a Legacy with Storytelling Jon Anderson Knowing they are about to die often prompts people Establishing a Digital Literary Atlas of Wales to become creative, leaving a legacy through the arts, and its Borderlands – Cardiff University Series by writing, painting or recording. The panel explores Introducing a new literary geography based on the how death is viewed in society today and how we can all assumption that cannot be confined by the covers of a book, help lay down a legacy, by sharing our stories, hopes and but through the reader’s imagination become part of our wishes. Finlay is a Life Peer and former BMA President, lived experience. Explaining how this new cartography of Francis is an historian and former MP. page and place will be developed is Jon Anderson from the In association with the Open University in Wales School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. and Byw Nawr, Live Now In association with Cardiff University

[22] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 4pm Dai Smith and Guests Talking About Port Talbot [18] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 The historian hosts a conversation about the past and Robert Service future of the industrial town, home to the steel works. The End of the Cold War 1985–1991 Further details of this event will be published on 16 May. The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of perestroika throughout the former Soviet bloc was a sea change in world history, and two years 5.30pm later resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The acclaimed historian examines how that change [27] 5.30PM TATA TENT £6 came about and analyses the role of Gorbachev, Joanna Yarrow and Juliet Davenport Reagan, Walesa, Havel, and the Pope. talk to Andy Fryers Good Business-Sustainable Business [19] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Good Energy Series Ursula Martin Are businesses better able to address environmental issues The Scientific Life of Ada Lovelace, than governments and NGOs? Where does genuine a Victorian Computing Visionary motivation to act responsibly need to be backed up by Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is famous as ‘the first regulation? And how do we ensure that businesses ensure programmer’ for her prescient writings about Charles that sustainability isn’t just another PR exercise from profit- Babbage’s unbuilt mechanical computer, the Analytical hungry executives? IKEA’s Sustainability Director, broadcaster Engine. Biographers have focused on her tragically short and author Joanna Yarrow, and Good Energy CEO Juliet life and her supposed poetic approach – in this talk we Davenport, talk to the Festival’s Sustainability Director. unpick the myths and look at her scientific education, In association with Good Energy what she really did, and why it is important, placing her in the rich context of C19th-century , and the contemporary misremembering of female scientists. [23] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Ursula Martin CBE is a Professor in Mathematics and Frank Gardner talks to Dylan Jones Computer Science in the , and leads Crisis Oxford’s project to digitize Lovelace’s mathematics. The renowned BBC Security Correspondent, author of Blood and Sand, launches his debut novel, a hi-tech thriller that involves South American drug cartels and a terrorist attack on . He talks to the editor of GQ.

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[24] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 [29] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £15 Frank Uekotter talks to Mark Lynas David Gilmour and Polly Samson Chernobyl 30 Years On: Making Sense Rattle That Lock of a Nuclear Disaster The guitarist and writer discuss their songwriting University of Birmingham Series partnership. They have collaborated on four No. 1 Chernobyl is as much a symbol of nuclear risks as a albums: Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell and The Endless distraction from other problems: some 70 years into River, David Gilmour’s On An Island, and the recent the age of nuclear power, we do not have a single reactor Rattle That Lock. Hosted by Rosie Boycott. that would operate without huge public subsidies. Nor do Sponsored by Dai and Chris Davies, The Newsagents we have a proper picture of those who suffered most from Chernobyl and Fukushima: the people who clean up. Now that Britain is banking on a nuclear revival we [30] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 FRIDAY 27 MAY FRIDAY need to learn about the long path to a new generation Ben Miller of reactors. Uekotter is a Reader in Environmental The Aliens Are Coming! Humanities at University of Birmingham. He talks Ben Miller is, like you, a mutant ape living through to journalist and author Mark Lynas. an Ice Age on a ball of molten iron, orbiting a In association with University of Birmingham supermassive black hole. He is also an actor, comedian and approximately one half of Armstrong and Miller. He explores The Exciting and Extraordinary Science OXFAM MOOT [25] 5.30PM £6 Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe. Sharath Srinivasan, Mariéme Jamme, Rob Burnet [31] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £8 Cambridge Series 2: Africa’s Digital Revolution: Power to the People? Andrew Davies Can new technology bring greater democracy and allow War and Peace a wider range of voices to be heard? With Dr Sharath The legendary screenwriter talks to Peter Florence Srinivasan, Director, Centre of Governance and Human about the craft of screenplay and the challenges of Rights at the University of Cambridge; Mariéme Jamme, scale and intimacy in his six-part BBC television CEO, blogger, technologist and social entrepreneur; and adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic novel. Rob Burnet, CEO and Founder of Well Told Story. Sponsored by Castle House Hotel, Hereford In association with Cambridge University [32] 7PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

[26] 5.30PM CUBE £7 Front Row Sabrina Ghayour and Oliver Rowe BBC Radio 4 LIVE Talking About Food BBC Radio 4’s daily arts programme Front Row comes Two great international chefs discuss their taste and live from Hay. Authors Juno Dawson, Holly Smale and imagination with John Mitchinson. Ghayour follows Patrick Ness join Kirsty Lang to discuss the burgeoning her iconic cookbook Persiana with Sirocco: Fabulous appetite for young adult fiction. Followed by Q&A with Flavours from the East. Rowe, who trained at Moro the Front Row team. and opened Konstam, has written Food for All Seasons – Broadcast live on BBC Radio 4. exploring how our lives and our food are intertwined.

Sponsored by Tomatitos [33] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Tom Hansell [28] 5.30PM SUMMERHOUSE £6 After Coal – Screening Richard Parry and Douglas Hedley University Series Coleridge in Wales What happens when fossil fuels run out? How do How does Wales understand the great Romantic poet, communities and cultures survive? After Coal profiles walker and thinker, Samuel Taylor Coleridge? Classical inspiring individuals who are building a new future in the baritone and activist Richard Parry uncovers how the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky and South Wales. Stories of coalfield residents who must create new careers illustrate great poets R S Thomas, David Jones and Iolo Morganwg the challenge of creating a sustainable future. Introduced found Coleridge a compelling travelling companion in by the film’s director. this event marking the arrival of the travelling Coleridge in Wales Festival at Hay Festival. Hedley is an author and In association with Swansea University Coleridge expert at Cambridge University.

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Christine L Corton Hywel Francis, John Gaventa, Helen Lewis, FRIDAYMAY27 London Fog: The Biography Richard Greatrex, Mair Francis The classic London pea-soupers were born in the After Coal: Debate – Swansea University Series Industrial Age and remained a feature of winter days until How can cultural exchange inform community clean air legislation in the 1960s. Corton tells the story of regeneration? In 1974 John Gaventa met Hywel Francis the fogs, their dangers and beauty, and the lasting effects and initiated an exchange between Welsh and Appalachian on our culture and imagination. coalfield communities. This work was expanded by researcher Helen Lewis, cinematographer Richard Greatrex and community organiser Mair Francis. They discuss the 8.30pm insights gained from a long-term cultural exchange over four decades, with Dai Smith.

[35] 8.30PM TATA TENT £26 In association with Swansea University Dara Ó Briain Crowd Tickler 2 9.45pm The great Irish comedian entertains with a night of mercurial, joyful humour. He’s brilliant and STARLIGHT STAGE quicksilver-smart. [40] 9.45PM £7 Frank Hennessy, Dave Burns, Rebecca Branson Jones, Trevor McKenzie [36] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Music from the Coalfields – Tracy Chevalier and Phil Grabsky Double Bill: Swansea University Series Girl with a Pearl Earring: The Doc An evening of music from two sides of the Atlantic Chevalier’s best-selling novel inspired many readers to coal seam. Appalachian folk superstars Jones and look at Vermeer’s famous painting more closely. Now McKenzie bring you sounds from their native mountains she has participated in a documentary film directed by while Hennessy and Burns have a huge following around Phil Grabsky – part of the pioneering series Exhibition the Welsh Valleys and give you true Welsh folk. on Screen. How did the writer help the award-winning In association with Swansea University filmmakers to bring the work to life?

[37] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 10pm The Keep The Genius of the Marches [41] 10PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6 A constellation of writers, artists and photographers of Willow Robinson the Welsh Marches celebrate the first issue of The Keep, In Concert Hay’s new literary and arts magazine, with an evening The singer-songwriter from the Golden Valley is one of readings, stories and pictures, under the editorial of the most hotly fancied emerging artists of 2016. baton of Iain Finlayson. Contributors are Owen Sheers, His blues-infused voice and guitar evoke the spirit Ben Rawlence, Nina Lyon, Jasper Fforde, Soma of his inspirations Jeff Buckley and Robert Plant, Ghosh, Oliver Balch, Tom Bullough, Dix and and his songs have a raw emotional power that make Marsha Arnold. his live performances absolutely enthralling. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop Sponsored by West Ent –Sound, Lighting, Audiovisual

[38] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Iain Bell, Emma Jenkins, David Antrobus In Parenthesis The composer and librettists of the ’s new work introduce their adaptation of David Jones’ First World War poem and screen film clips of the production. David Pountney’s period production is an evocation of the events of the Somme. In association with Welsh National Opera and 14–18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary

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[504] 8.30AM RELISH RESTAURANT ALL WELCOME [44] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Richard Parry and Penelope Corfield Angela Duckworth Wordsworth, Coleridge and Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Thelwall at Llyswen Why do naturally talented people frequently fail Join ‘Coleridge in Wales’ founder Richard Parry and to reach their potential while other far less gifted scholar of the C18th Penelope Corfield in discussion individuals to achieve amazing things? The secret to before they set off to walk to Llyswen (seven miles from outstanding achievement is not talent, but persistence. Hay), where Coleridge and Wordsworth came to visit the The MacArthur Genius Award-winning psychologist notorious radical John Thelwall in 1798. You are invited shares new revelations with Corisande Albert. to join them on the walk. Drop in; no ticket required. Breakfast will be available. [45] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 In association with Cambridge University conference Ashley Moffett ‘Coleridge in Wales: Clues and Trails’ Cambridge Series 3: SATURDAY 28 MAY SATURDAY A Journey into No Man’s Land Professor Moffett, a leading authority on immunity 10am in pregnancy, explores the fascinating way the boundaries between mother and baby are regulated [HD1] 10AM TATA TENT £7 during pregnancy. And she examines the risks Julia Donaldson involved when things go wrong. The Detective Dog In association with Cambridge University Julia Donaldson gives a first peek at Detective Dog Nell, her latest character, in a sensational all-singing, all-dancing performance. Join Julia and her friends [46] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED as they introduce a dog who not only has superpowers Click of smell but can also help children learn to read. BBC News 3+ Join Spencer Kelly on an adventure into the future with Click, the BBC’s flagship science and technology TV show. From drones to self-driving cars, Spencer [42] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 brings cutting-edge science to Hay with the help Steve Silberman of virtual reality headsets and 360-degree video. The Baillie Gifford Lecture A ‘Click’ Hay Festival special will be broadcast on NeuroTribes the BBC News Channel and on BBC World News. What is autism? A lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain [47] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 forms of genius? In truth it is both these things and more, and the future of our society depends on our Alex Lifschutz, Siôn Hamilton, Philip Jones understanding it. The winner of the 2015 Samuel The Bookshop is Back: Foyles and the Johnson Prize talks about his research and Resurgence of British Bookselling investigations. Chaired by Toby Mundy. The designer Alex Lifschutz and Foyles Trading Sponsored by Baillie Gifford Director Siôn Hamilton tell the inside story of a plan hatched in the book trade’s darkest hour to reimagine the iconic London bookshop on Charing Cross Road. [43] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 A series of workshops provided the insight to inspire an Roberto Saviano talks to Ed Vulliamy innovative shop design that has caught the imagination My Italians: of book lovers across the world. Chaired by the editor True Stories of Crime and Courage of The Bookseller. The investigative journalist and author lives under

police protection from the crime syndicates he exposed [HD2] 10AM CUBE £5 in Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero. He offers a personal Gareth P Jones portrait of today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where democracy is bought and sold, and Adventures of the Pirates organised crime rules both north and south. In Rise of the Slippery Sea Monster the ever-popular Steampunk Pirates are attacked by a sea monster hungry for gold. The author reveals the amazing powers of these seafaring heroes with the help of his ukulele and accordion and the singing of some rousing sea shanties. 6+

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[48] 11.30AM TATA TENT £9 [53] 11.30AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED SATURDAYMAY28 Neil MacGregor and Richard Evans The Essay and Memory BBC Radio 3 A conversation with two of the world’s greatest For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay two writers consider historians. MacGregor is the former Director of the ‘The Art of Storytelling’. Today’s session includes novelist British Museum, author of the BBC Radio 4 series and short story writer Jon Gower who reflects on lessons and books A History of the World in 100 Objects and learned from a master storyteller– his grandfather. Germany: Memories of a Nation. Evans is Regius These essays will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at Professor of History at Cambridge University and the 10.45pm on Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 May. leading authority on C20th Germany. His most recent book is The Third Reich in History and Memory. [HD3] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Juno Dawson, Eve Ainsworth, [49] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Martyn Bedford, Patrice Lawrence Laura Cumming Meet the authors of four of the most talked-about YA The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez books: Mind Your Head, Crush, Twenty Questions for Described as “a riveting detective story and a brilliant Gloria and Orangeboy and hear how their books explore reconstruction of an art controversy, it is also a homage the complex and high-octane dramas of adolescence – to the art of Velázquez, written by a critic who remains including aspects of love, hate and psychological pressure. spellbound by his genius.” Cumming’s previous Hay 12+ #HAYYA session discussed her brilliant study of self-portraiture, A Face to the World. Illustrated lecture. [HD4] 11.30AM CUBE £6

[50] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Dr Emily Grossman talks to John Kampfner Surprising Science More Human: The Revolution Starts Here Did you know that we share half of our DNA with a banana? Or that rattlesnakes can kill you even when The Stanford academic and former political advisor they are dead? Or that we make better decisions when revisits his 2015 ideas about a more local, accountable we need a wee? Test yourself on some of the weird and and human society, and examines how this might drive wonderful science facts explained by the scientist and political change. His commitment is given piquancy by TV expert best known for the TV series Duck Quacks the way the government he once advised is addressing Don’t Echo. public services and the state. 8+

[51] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Noel Fitzpatrick talks to Francine Stock 1pm One Planet, One Medicine, One Love Pioneering surgeon Professor Fitzpatrick, ’s [54] 1PM TATA TENT £8 Supervet, founder of Fitzpatrick Referrals and founding Shirin Ebadi talks to Helena Kennedy partner of Surrey University’s new school of veterinary Until We Are Free medicine, has a radical vision: Humans and animals The Annual Hamlin Lecture share genetic, physiological, environmental and even The Iranian human rights lawyer and activist tells of her emotional bonds. For a sustainable future should they fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash not share medicine, too? she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Having Sponsored by The Old Black Lion fought tirelessly for democracy, equality before the law and freedom of speech, Ebadi became a global voice of [52] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 inspiration. Yet, inside her own country, her life has been Peter Hanington and Harry Parker plagued by surveillance, intimidation and violence. talk to Alex Clark Sponsored by ORConsulting, the art of seeing differently. Fictions: Talking About War The event will be conducted in Farsi with consecutive translation. Parker’s hugely acclaimed debut Anatomy of a Soldier is the story of a man who is blown up, told by 45 objects involved in his story. Hanington’s A Dying Breed is a debut thriller that travels the shadowy corridors of the BBC, the perilous streets of Kabul and the dark chambers of Whitehall.

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[HD5] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6 [58] 1PM STARLIGHT £6 Cressida Cowell Yuri Herrera, Marcos Giralt Torrente, How To Fight a Dragon’s Fury Come, dragon tamers everywhere! Practise your Talking About Shakespeare: Dragonese with author and illustrator Cressida Cowell, Lunatics, Lovers and Poets 1 creator of the awesome How to Train your Dragon To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of books. Learn the secrets of Hiccup Horrendous Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare we have Haddock the Third – sword-fighter, dragon whisperer commissioned six English language and six Hispanic and greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. The author writers to create stories to celebrate both writers and to celebrates the grand finale of this best-selling series. offer new and intriguing perspectives on them. In this 6+ first of three sessions chaired by Rosie Goldsmith, the first three writers introduce their tales. “Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled [55] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 SATURDAY 28 MAY SATURDAY to hell, and heaven, and back again. He must have Hannah Critchlow once been a girl, an animal, a rock, a boy, and a woman. Cambridge Series 4: Explore Your Mind Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding” Are you willing to venture into the depths of your brain? – Valeria Luiselli. Marcos Giralt Torrente is the winner Dr Critchlow will shock your senses, read your mind and of the Spanish National Book Award, whose The End of explore how neuroscience is shaping how we see our lives. Love is published in English. Poet and novelist Ben Okri Suitable for intrepid adventurers of all ages. won the Booker Prize for The Famished Road. In association with Cambridge University Supported by the and Acción Cultural Española

[56] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Wayne Hemingway in conversation [HD6] 1PM CUBE £6 The House of Hemingway - Wayne Mouths Off Patrick Ness and Lewis MacDougall With more than 30 years’ experience in the design talk to Daniel Hahn industries, Wayne Hemingway is the expert when it A Monster Calls comes to vintage styling. After selling their iconic global Described by John Green as “an insanely beautiful fashion label Red or Dead in 1999, with his wife writer”, the award-winning author of the Chaos Walking Gerardine, he set up Hemingway Design, specialising trilogy has just completed the screenplay for a major in affordable, social design and along the way they motion picture of A Monster Calls. Lewis MacDougall have authored numerous books including their latest, plays Conor, the boy at the heart of the story. Join them The Vintage Fashion Bible. Pulling on those three decades and enjoy a first preview of scenes from the film. of knowledge and experience, Hemingway discusses how 12+ #HAYYA the fashion and design industry has changed and what the lessons are for the new, upcoming young designers. [59] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8 Sponsored by Hay Does Vintage Alison Balsom Trumpet and Talk OXFAM MOOT [57] 1PM £7 The multi-award-winning virtuosa trumpeter and Ian Goldin talks to Bronwen Maddox classical music advocate plays pieces from her new Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and album, released on 13 May, and talks about her Rewards of our New Renaissance music with BBC Radio 3’s Clemency Burton-Hill. The great names of da Vinci, Galileo, Copernicus, She is accompanied by the 2014 Young Musician Raphael and Michelangelo were the mark of an age that of the Year, Martin James Bartlett. saw a rush of discovery, the breaking down of barriers of ignorance and a newly connected world, both politically and economically. Today we have better education and resources, the rate of innovation is doubling every year and there are great leaps in science, trade, migration and technology. Goldin argues that the results this time could be greater, but the world faces many of the same dangers as Renaissance man: warring ideologies, fundamentalism, climate change and pandemics.

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[60] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 [64] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 SATURDAYMAY28 Joan Bakewell Kamel Daoud talks to Francine Stock The Wellcome Book Prize Lecture Fictions: The Meursault Investigation Is Life Worth Living? It all Depends on the Liver A conversation with the author of “perhaps the most The chair of the Wellcome Book Prize jury reflects on important novel to emerge out of the Middle East in how we share what we know, and how science progresses. recent memory” (FT), winner of the Prix Goncourt The shortlist for this year’s prize is The Outrun by Amy du Premier Roman. Daoud’s protagonist is the brother Liptrot, Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss, It’s All of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the In Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan, Playthings by antihero of Camus’ L’Etranger. Angry at the world Alex Pheby, The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring and NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman. The winner is his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name – announced on 25 April. Musa – and a voice, and by describing the events that In association with The Wellcome Book Prize led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. The Meursault Investigation is a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of [61] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 colonialism in Algeria. James Shapiro talks to Jerry Brotton The event will be conducted in French, with consecutive 1606: William Shakespeare and the translation into English. Year of Lear The Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of 1599 [65] 2.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED offers an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare’s most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and The Verb Antony and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year BBC Radio 3 for Shakespeare, is a fraught one for England. Plague Poet Ian McMillan presents Radio 3’s “cabaret of the returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king’s word”, featuring award-winning writers alongside the desire to turn England and Scotland into a united most innovative up-and-coming performers. “If there’s Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land a more entertaining show than The Verb, I don’t know and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of a it” – Stuart Maconie. failed terrorist attack that came to be known as Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 3 June at 10pm. the Gunpowder Plot.

[HD7] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [62] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Elmer the Patchwork Elephant Glen Baxter Elmer Day Almost Completely Baxter: New and Celebrate everyone’s favourite patchwork elephant, Selected Blurtings on the very first Elmer Day. Listen to the wonderful Baxter’s drawings are a delicious stew of pulp adventure stories about Elmer, and share in the funny adventures novels, highbrow jinks and outright absurdity: he and his friends get up to. Come dressed in your lonesome cowboys confront the latest in modern art, brightest clothes. brave men tremble before moussaka, schoolgirls hoard 3+ hashish, and the world’s fruits are in constant peril. Wimples abound. The artist talks to John Mitchinson. [HD8] 2.30PM CUBE £5 Horatio Clare [63] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Susan Gathercole Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot Horatio Clare weaves a spellbinding story of a Cambridge Series 5: rambunctious boy, some remarkable animals, a lot of Working Memory in the Here and Now jokes and a darkly evil magic that Aubrey must bravely Working memory allows us to hold information in defeat if he is to save his father. Peter Florence says, mind. How does this influence our everyday lives? “This is destined to become a children’s classic”. Professor Gathercole is Unit Director at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. 8+ In association with Cambridge University

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[66] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £10 [70] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Svetlana Alexievich talks to Jeremy Farrar Second-Hand Time The Future of Global Health A conversation with the heroic Belarusian journalist The recent Ebola outbreak highlights the serious threat and author, the 2015 Nobel Literature Laureate. “It never that emerging infectious diseases can pose to global ceases to amaze me how interesting ordinary, everyday public health. Despite years of apparent preparations life is. There are an endless number of human truths... for a devastating pandemic, responses to outbreaks History’s sole concern is the facts; emotions are out of are cumbersome and delayed, and opportunities to its realm of interest. I look at the world as a writer, not save lives are missed. Over the past 15 years, the failure strictly an historian. I am fascinated by people…” systematically to collect and share clinical data during Arts Council of Wales, International Writers Series, 1 epidemics, including zoonotic viruses such as SARS, H5N1, Nipah, and MERSCoV, has been a recurring In association with Waterstones problem. Understanding the inter-relationships between In Russian, with consecutive translation

SATURDAY 28 MAY SATURDAY human behaviour, animal health and the environment is essential for mobilising successful responses to future [67] 4PM TATA TENT £8 spillover events. Professor Farrar is the Director of the Wellcome Trust. Talking about Directing In association with The Royal Society The director talks about his work with actors and

writers in the theatre and on screen. His films include [71] 4PM COMPASS £5 the Oscar-winning American Beauty, Road to Perdition Peter Carey, Gill Coleridge, and the latest two Bond Films Skyfall and Spectre. In the theatre he founded and ran the Peter Straus and Friends for ten years. He has directed many productions for Celebrating Deborah Rogers the RSC, the National Theatre, in the West End and The double-Booker-winning novelist hosts an event on Broadway. His Neal Street Productions company to honour Deborah, and to toast the winner of the produces The Hollow Crown Shakespeare films for inaugural new writers’ award given in the name of the BBC. He talks to Clemency Burton-Hill. the beloved agent whose brilliance, encouragement and generosity were fundamental to Hay and to the publishing world. The winner will be announced by [68] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Ian McEwan on 5 May. Full details of the foundation can be found at deborahrogersfoundation.org. Fiction: Now is the Time A fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in [HD9] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 English history, the Peasants’ Revolt of May 1381. The plague had returned, the king’s coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax had been introduced Amazing Animal Journeys but was widely evaded. A large force of common The TV presenter and wildlife champion shares people entered London demanding freedom, his passion for the natural world and his deep equality and the uprooting of Church and State. understanding of the animals that live in it. In Supported by Mr and Mrs Robin Herbert his latest book he looks at the incredible journeys animals make as they migrate across the globe. 6+ [69] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Alec Ross The Industries of the Future [HD10] 4PM CUBE £5 Hillary Clinton’s innovation advisor examines the Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton specific fields that will most shape our economic future Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam – over the next ten years, including robotics, artificial The Diamond Chase intelligence, the commercialisation of genomics, Shifty McGifty and his accomplice Slippery Sam, cybercrime and the impact of digital technology. a pair of notorious robber dogs, have recently Part of the Baillie Gifford series swapped their life of crime for a career in cupcakes. Join their creators as they entertain with the comic rhymes and illustrations from their most recent hit. 3+

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[72] 4.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [76] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 SATURDAYMAY28 Start the Week Mabel van Oranje talks to Helena Kennedy BBC Radio 4 Lessons in Creating Big Change Tom Sutcliffe presents Radio 4’s flagship programme Initiator of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to of ideas, and will be joined on stage by a panel of End Child Marriage, Mabel van Oranje reflects on lessons guests including the former head of the CIA and NSA learned from two decades of fighting for human rights Michael Hayden, for stimulating, entertaining and and development and how to create coalitions for lasting lively discussion. social change. Mabel has co-founded numerous peace Broadcast on Mondays 9am and repeated at 9pm. foundations and is a member of the Dutch Royal Family.

[77] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 5.30pm Tracy Chevalier, Lionel Shriver, Kirsty Gunn and Joanna Briscoe [73] 5.30PM TATA TENT £10 Reader, I Married Him talks to Martha Kearney In this celebration of the bi-centenary of the birth A Brief History of Seven Killings of Charlotte Brontë, Chevalier is joined by three An interview with the novelist and winner of the 2015 fellow writers to introduce their anthology of stories Man Booker Prize. “It’s like a Tarantino remake of inspired by Jane Eyre. The Harder They Come but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William [78] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Faulkner, with maybe a little creative boost from some primo ganja. It’s a testament to Mr James’ vaulting Peter Lacy talks to Andy Fryers ambition and prodigious talent.” New York Times Waste to Wealth – The Circular Economy Advantage Arts Council of Wales International Writers Series, 2 This event will be recorded for broadcast on the Waste to Wealth proves that ‘green’ and ‘growth’ need BBC World News programme ‘Talking Books’. not be contradictions. The Global Managing Director of Sustainability Services at Accenture examines five new business models that provide circular growth, from [74] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy, Edmund de Waal before setting out what business leaders need to do to The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts implement the models successfully. The author of The Hare With The Amber Eyes sets out on a quest – a journey that begins in the dusty city of [HD11] 5.30PM CUBE £6 Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Holly Smale Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Geek Girl Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way he meets the witnesses to The award-winning author discusses her best-selling its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or Geek Girl titles, the ups and downs of her previous heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, career as a model and why she loves writing for YA minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. readers. In conversation with Emily Drabble. Sponsored by Still Ethical 12+ #HAYYA

[75] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 7pm Venki Ramakrishnan The Royal Society Lecture: [79] 7PM TATA TENT £20 Antibiotics and the cell’s protein factory Cast to be announced 16 May Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize Letters Live in chemistry for “studies of the structure and function Letters Live returns to Hay for a third year after very of the ribosome” and in 2015 became president of the popular shows in 2014 and 2015 at which Benedict Royal Society. The ribosome is the cell’s cypher, Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey and headlined, translating complex genetic code into the proteins and and following a sold-out, highly acclaimed run at peptides that make up our cells. Solving its precise atomic the Freemasons’ Hall in London in March 2016. structure showed how antibiotics bind to it and how new Letters Live has rapidly established itself as a wonderfully ones could be designed. Venki talks to Roger Highfield dynamic and exciting new format for presenting about his ground-breaking research. memorable letters to a live audience and each event In association with The Royal Society celebrates the joy, pain, wisdom and humour that so often hallmarks this most intimate of literary forms. This ‘Letters Live’ is in aid of the Festivals of Literature Charitable Trust. 19 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 20

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[80] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [84] 7PM–8.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Chris Packham talks to Horatio Clare Horizons Showcase featuring Staylittle Music Fingers in the Sparkle Jar Horizons/Gorwelion in association with “Every minute was magical, every single thing it did BBC Wales and Arts Council of Wales was fascinating and everything it didn’t do was equally An evening of live and acoustic performances from wondrous, and to be sat there, with a kestrel, a real Matthew Frederick, The Minerals, Tendons and live kestrel, my own real live kestrel on my wrist! Climbing Trees. I felt like I’d climbed through a hole in heaven’s fence.” The naturalist and presenter of Springwatch and [85] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Secrets of our Living Planet introduces his exquisite coming-of-age memoir. He talks to the author of Sergio Quezada, Rebecca Kristeleit Truant: Notes From the Slippery Slope. and Tim Elliot Could the Body’s Natural Defence Systems

SATURDAY 28 MAY SATURDAY Hold the Key to Beating Cancer? LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE [81] 7PM £8 Cancer Research UK Series Simon Armitage Immunotherapy is now the hottest topic in cancer Pearl research and could revolutionise the way the disease Armitage’s acclaimed version of Sir Gawain and the is treated in the future. Our internationally renowned Green Knight confirmed his reputation as a leading panel discuss the vast potential of the immune system. poetry translator. This new work is an entrancing Quezada is Professor of Immune Regulation and allegorical tale of grief and lost love. The narrator is led Tumour Immunotherapy at UCL. Kristeleit is Clinical on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by Senior Lecturer and Consultant Medical Oncologist his vanished beloved, Pearl. Retaining all the alliterative at UCLH. Elliot is Professor of Experimental Medicine music of the original, a Medieval English poem thought at the University of Southampton. to be by the same anonymous author responsible for In association with Cancer Research UK Gawain, Pearl is here brought to vivid and intricate life.

[86] 7PM CUBE £6 GOOD ENERGY STAGE [82] 7PM £8 Polly Samson and Barney Norris Graham Swift talk to Georgina Godwin Mothering Sunday Fictions: Loves It is 30 March 1924. Beginning with an intimate Lyrical, haunting and exquisitely rendered, Samson’s assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering second novel The Kindness explores a deception that Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life, and comes wrapped as a gift, a betrayal clothed in kindness, the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly and asks if we can ever truly trust another. She’s written surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, this an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and novella is a masterpiece from the Booker winner. reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told. He talks to Peter Florence. In Norris’ debut Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, the peace of a quiet evening in Salisbury is shattered [83] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide Luke Harding – a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security A Very Expensive Poison guard, a widower – drawn together by connection 1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly and coincidence that perfectly represents the joys poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later and tragedies of small-town life. he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. 8.30pm Harding, foreign correspondent of , argues that Litvinenko’s assassination marked the beginning [88] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 of the deterioration of Moscow’s relations with the west Shami Chakrabarti and a decade of geo-political disruptions: from the war Should We Scrap The Human Rights Act? in Ukraine, a civilian plane shot down, at least 7,000 The Liberty lawyer presents the arguments pertaining to dead, two million people displaced and a Russian the 1998 Act of Parliament that hooked our legal system president’s defiant rejection of a law-based international to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. order. He talks to Oliver Bullough. Sponsored by Gabbs Solicitors

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[89] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 [93] 8.30PM CUBE £6 SATURDAYMAY28 Emily Grossman Kelly Bérubé Dr Emily’s Weird and Wonderful Urban Air Pollution: X-Rated Science Facts Unpleasant, Unhealthy and Unsustainable Did you know that two-thirds of people turn their Cardiff University Series head to the right when kissing? Or that some animals Our lungs are exposed to airborne particles in all aspects eat their own babies? Or that one crazy creature rips of everyday life, and global research suggests that they off its penis and throws it at the female so she can can cause serious health problems, especially in people inseminate herself? That a pig’s orgasm can last up to with pre-existing lung and heart disease. Kelly Bérubé, 30 minutes? Or that the ridge at the end of the human Reader in Biosciences at The Lung and Particle penis may actually have a function? The charismatic Research Group, shares the latest findings. scientist’s fascinating and funny cabaret show is not In association with Cardiff University suitable for children, or the easily batfoggled.

[90] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 9.45pm Lars Mytting talks to Rob Penn Norwegian Wood [94] 9.45PM TATA TENT £15 Part guide to the best practice in every aspect of Marcus Brigstocke working with this renewable energy source, part Why The Long Face? meditation on the human instinct for survival, Marcus Brigstocke was born with a long face and now Mytting’s definitive handbook on the art of there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State chopping, stacking and drying wood in the and and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Scandinavian way has resonated across the world. Mail and tax dodging corporations and the bloody Sponsored by Want to Canoe? referendum and did he mention being single? Join the comedian for an evening of laughter and lamenting.

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The winner of the first edition of the prize dedicated [95] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 to international fiction in translation will be announced The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in London on 16 May and will appear in conversation with the Man Booker Prize judge, Boyd Tonkin. Full The World’s Wife details about the longlist and shortlist can be found at The wives of the great, the good and the not so good themanbookerprize.com set the history books straight with wry wit and some subversive secrets as they tell you their side of their husbands’ stories. Poet Laureate ’s [92] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 collection is abridged for the stage by the award- David Evans and Philippe Sands winning National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy and directed by Alice Knight. The director and writer of this documentary introduce 2016 sees the world’s first youth theatre celebrate its a special screening of the film in which Sands, a human 60th anniversary. Celebrations will include eye-catching rights lawyer, conducts conversations with two men, commissions, age-defying fundraising events and an Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter, whose fathers attempt to audition more young people aged 14–25 were indicted as war criminals for their roles in the from around the UK than ever before. To find out more Second World War. Ends at 10.30pm. about how you can get involved go to www.nyt.org.uk

[96] 10PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Eirian Lewis Guitar Recital The elegantly gifted RCM guitarist from the Golden Valley plays the first of two meditative late-night concerts. His programme includes: JS Bach - Prelude, Girolamo Frescobaldi - Aria con Variazioni, S.L Weiss - Passacaglia, Walton - Bagatelle II, Scarlatti - Sonatas kp 322 and kp 208, Napoleon Coste - Introduction and Allegretto.

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[97] 10AM TATA TENT £8 [HD12] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Bridget Kendall talks to Oliver Bullough G R Gemin A Very Diplomatic Correspondent Sweet Pizza Unshackled now from her role as the BBC’s This new novel has immigration at its heart. It is the Diplomatic Correspondent, the doyenne of story of Joe’s struggle to save the family-run café in international journalism talks about her 30 years Bryn Mawr that was started before the war by his Italian as a foreign correspondent. She covered the fall of great-great grandfather. He vows to keep it open, and the Soviet Union from Moscow and the heydays to find out more about his past at the same time, as and dogdays of the Clinton administration from well as trying to bring a diverse town together through Washington. A fluent Russian speaker, she has become good food and fine times. the authority on the rise and rule of Vladimir Putin 8+ and the re-emergence of Russia as a superpower. She

SUNDAY 29 MAY SUNDAY will be Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge from July. [HD13] 10AM CUBE £6 Benji Davies [98] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Grandad’s Island John Browne Illustrator and animator Benji Davies describes and Connect: How Companies Succeed demonstrates how he creates his stunningly beautiful by Engaging Radically with Society picture books. In particular he explores his latest, which The former CEO of BP explores the recurring rift touchingly looks at how a young child deals with the between big business and society, offering a practical death of a favourite grandparent. manifesto for reconciliation. It’s a call to arms for 3+ real and effective corporate social responsibility.

[99] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 11am Peter Hennessy and James Jinks The Silent Deep [102] 11AM–12.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED This is the first authoritative history of the Submarine Jamie Owen Service, the most secretive and mysterious of Britain’s BBC Radio Wales LIVE armed forces, from the end of the Second World War Join Jamie at lunchtime on Sunday for lively to the present. As we come to decide whether to renew conversation, laughter and music. How’s your the nuclear deterrent, Hennessy and Jinks analyse the week been? development of Britain’s submarine fleet, its capabilities, its weapons, its infrastructure, its operations and, above Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. all – from the testimony of many submariners and the first-hand witness of the authors – what life is like on board for the denizens of the silent deep. 11.30am

[103] 11.30AM TATA TENT £9 GOOD ENERGY STAGE [100] 10AM £7 A C Grayling Tracy Chevalier talks to Georgina Godwin The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century At The Edge of the Orchard and the Birth of the Modern Mind th The novelist discusses her new book set in C19 What happened to the European mind between 1605 America. In this rich, powerful story, Chevalier is at – when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe her imaginative best, bringing to life the urge to wrestle might believe that regicide was such an aberration of with our roots, however deep and tangled they may be. the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground – and 1649, when a large crowd could stand [101] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 and watch the execution of a king? In this turbulent Peter Mandler period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology Cambridge Series 6: Does Education Cause of John Dee to the painstaking observation and Social Mobility? If not, What Does? astronomy of Galileo. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mindset, Descartes’ dualism It’s common sense that the best stimulus to social presented an attempt to square the new philosophy mobility is education. But the facts of the past 50 years with religious belief. By the end of that tumultuous – a period of unprecedented social mobility – suggest century “the greatest ever change in the mental that people may be just as mobile however much or outlook of humanity” had irrevocably taken place. little education they have. So what does cause social mobility, if not education? And what, if anything, Sponsored by Christ College, Brecon can governments do to promote it? In association with Cambridge University 22 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 23

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[104] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [HD15] 11.30AM CUBE £7 Tom Bower talks to Sarfraz Manzoor Salvatore Rubbino SUNDAYMAY29 Broken Vows: Tony Blair, Draw Me a City The Tragedy of Power Watch and join the illustrator on an adventure through When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, some of the world’s iconic cities – London, Paris and he was at 43 the youngest person to hold that office New York. Learn how to draw wonderful cityscapes since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval and characters and create your own pictures. rating was 93 per cent and he went on to become 3+ Labour’s longest-serving premier. What went wrong? #Corruptiooptimipessima. The Chilcot report is expected in June. 1pm Sponsored by RPC [108] 1PM TATA TENT £12 Cast announced on 16 May [105] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Letters Live, Family Show Lionel Shriver talks to George Alagiah Letters Live returns to Hay for a third year after very Talking Books popular shows in 2014 and 2015 at which Benedict The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey and Jude Law headlined, The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning and following a sold-out, highly acclaimed run at the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin centres on three Freemasons’ Hall in London in March 2016. Letters generations of the Mandible family as an extreme fiscal Live has rapidly established itself as a wonderfully crisis hits near-future America. This is a frightening, dynamic and exciting new format for presenting funny glimpse into the decline that may await the US. memorable letters to a live audience and each event This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC celebrates the joy, pain, wisdom and humour that so World News programme Talking Books. often hallmarks this most intimate of literary forms. In association with Letters Live (letterslive.com)

[106] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Sanjeev Gupta, Juliet Davenport, [109] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Mark Linder and guests Fumiya Iida Close to the Brink: Our Energy Future Cambridge Series 7: Robot Intelligence A UK energy crisis is looming. 38 Gigawatts is going Versus Human Intelligence offline and only 18GW is available to replace it. That How intelligent (or otherwise) are robots? Is it a good thing includes Hinkley and Swansea Tidal Bay. With climate that they can steal our jobs? And will robots ever take over the change requiring a low-carbon future, where will our world? Dr Iida is a Lecturer in Mechatronics at Cambridge. energy come from? Davenport is CEO of Good Energy, In association with Cambridge University Gupta is owner of Uskmouth Power Station and Linder is Energy Futures Partner at Bell Pottinger PR. [110] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 In association with Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Howard Jacobson talks to John Mullan Talking About Shakespeare: Shylock is My Name [107] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, Ian Goldin art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch needs The Pursuit of Development: someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a Economic Growth, Social Change and Ideas cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him The process by which nations escape poverty and to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. achieve economic and social progress has been analysed The Man Booker winner’s version of The Merchant of for centuries. Goldin considers the contributions that Venice asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a education, health, gender, equity and other dimensions merciful human being in the modern world. of human wellbeing make to development, and says why it is also necessary to take into account the role [111] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 of institutions and the rule of law. Chaired by Jesse Norman. Janine di Giovanni talks to Alex Clark The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria [HD14] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Delivered with passion, fearlessness and sensitivity, this is an The Delightful World of Jeremy Strong unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, The best-selling author has jokes aplenty as he talks charting an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a about Vikings, Romans, My Brother’s Famous Bottom, jihadist war. It is a testament to human resilience in the face of a karate princess and Streaker, the world-famous, devastating horrors. Di Giovanni is Middle East editor of hundred-mile-an-hour dog. Newsweek and the author of Madness Visible. 6+ In association with The Open University in Wales 23 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 24

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[112] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 2PM–7PM BBC RADIO WALES HUB FREE John Kampfner and guests BBC Introducing in Hereford & Worcester Full STEAM Ahead BBC Introducing in Hereford & Worcester supports How should we value the arts in the schools unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar musicians curriculum? What do we learn from putting on plays, from both counties. Since 2011, the radio station has playing in bands, painting and dancing? The CEO been taking the show out on the road, showcasing the of the Creative Industries Federation and his guests very best musicians in the area. This recording session challenge the government’s focus on STEM subjects features four acts the station has been playing. This is and examine the place of culture in British education your chance to see how they capture live music on tape, and the national economy. while being able to enjoy some of the hottest new acts in the region. None of these knew they were being considered for a live session – they were chosen [113] 1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED

SUNDAY 29 MAY SUNDAY based on the tracks here: .co.uk/ Free Thinking: New Generation Thinkers herefordandworcester/introducing. BBC Radio 3 These sessions will be broadcast each Saturday Radio 3 unveils the 10 New Generation Thinkers for throughout June from 8pm. 2016. These academics at the start of their careers join Rana Mitter to share fascinating facts from their research with the audience at Hay. New Generation Thinkers is a 2.30pm scheme run by BBC Radio 3 in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who [HD17] 2.30PM TATA TENT £7 can turn their research into great programmes. talks to Julia Eccleshare Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 31 May at 10pm. The Hay Library Lecture The great Jacqueline Wilson, the most-borrowed children’s author from libraries, reveals the inspiration [114] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 behind her latest book, Rent a Bridesmaid. She Milena Busquets, Yuri Herrera, discusses her inspiration and love of books with Valeria Luiselli talk to Daniel Hahn the HAYDAYS Director. Travelling 8+ Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth is an idiosyncratic In association with The Reading Agency journey in the company of Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sanchez, an eccentric auctioneer on a mission to replace all his teeth. Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World [116] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 explores the crossings and translations people make Marcus du Sautoy in their minds and language as they move from one The John Maddox Lecture: country to another (in this case Mexico to the United What We Cannot Know States), especially when there’s no going back. Busquets’ Are there limits to what we can discover about our This Too Shall Pass is a lively, sexy and moving novel physical universe? Are some regions of the future about a woman facing life in her forties, set on the beyond the predictive powers of science and mathematics? idyllic Spanish coast. Are there ideas so complex that they are beyond the With the support of The Mexican Embassy conception of our finite human brains? The Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science asks: Are there true statements that can never be proved true? [HD16] 1PM CUBE £4 The Clangers – The Brilliant Surprises Sponsored by Bartrums Stationery and Fine Pens A magical making and listening event with a professional storyteller. Hear all the best stories [117] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 about the loveable Clangers in an event that includes Philippe Sands the official Clangers whistle. Following the story The Eric Hobsbawm Lecture there will be the chance to design new Clanger finger East West Street: On the Origins of puppets and to hear and act out a special new story. Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity 3+ The lawyer and writer explores how personal lives and history are interwoven. Drawing from his acclaimed new

[115] 1PM COMPASS £5 book – part historical detective story, part family history, Simon Armitage part legal thriller – he explains the connections between his work on crimes against humanity and genocide, the GCSE Poetry events that overwhelmed his family during the Second The poet, whose work appears on several syllabuses, World War, and an untold story at the heart of the examines some of his ‘set text’ poems. The event is suitable Nuremberg Trial. Chaired by Helena Kennedy. for year 9 and 10 GCSE students. Places are limited. See also events 54, 76 24 In association with The Open University in Wales HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 21/04/2016 12:45 Page 25

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[118] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [HD18] 2.30PM CUBE £5 Mike Savage, John Hills, Laura Bear Steven Butler SUNDAYMAY29 The LSE Platform: Inequalities Odd Bods How do we make Britain better? How do we increase The author and actor’s hilarious picture book takes a social mobility, redress economic inequality and kindly look at all sorts of interesting and entertaining create a balanced and fair distribution of wealth and bods, and shows that being different can be fun. Come opportunity? Is inequality essential for a market and find out more about the Odd Bods and join economy? Savage is the author of Social Class in the 21st Steven as he acts out their very special characteristics. Century and produced the Class Calculator that became 3+ a viral phenomenon last year; Hills is the author of Good Times, Bad Times:The Welfare Myth of Them and Us and is co-director with Mike Savage of the LSE’s new 4pm International Inequalities Institute, of which Laura Bear is also part. [122] 4PM TATA TENT £10 In association with The London School of Economics Peter Carey talks to Martha Kearney Talking Books: Amnesia [87] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRUWALES STAGE £9 A conversation with the Australian novelist who has won Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake the Booker Prize twice – with Oscar and Lucinda in 1988 Talking About Shakespeare: and True History of the Kelly Gang in 2001. His latest book A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Amnesia: A Novel. When Gaby Baillieux, a young The former showrunner talks about woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel his passion project, the BBC film of Shakespeare’s play Worm into the computers of Australia’s prison system, he’s wanted to make his entire life. With a cast that hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. Worse: the system includes Maxine Peake as Titania and Matt Lucas is run by an American corporation, so some 5,000 US as Bottom, the Dream is set in the tyrannical court prisons are also infected. Doors spring open. Both of Athens and the magical forest around the city. countries’ secrets threaten to pour out. Was this intrusion Screenwriter and star talk to Clemency Burton-Hill. a mistake, or has Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore – known to himself as “Australia’s last serving left-wing journalist”– has no doubt. Gaby’s act was part [120] 2.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED of the covert conflict between Australia and America that Free Thinking: Inheritance dates back decades. While she goes to ground, Felix begins BBC Radio 3 his pursuit of her in order to write her story; to save her, The arts and ideas programme comes to Hay to record and himself, and maybe his country. a special edition. Novelist Lionel Shriver, Booker In association with the Arts Council of Wales Prize-winner Marlon James and scientist Steve Jones International Writers Series, 3 join presenter Rana Mitter for a discussion about This event will be recorded for broadcast on inheritance, from family relationships to the planet BBC World News programme Talking Books. we are leaving for future generations, from money to morality, from genius to ideas about goodness and evil. [123] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 1 June at 10pm. Jerry Brotton Talking About Shakespeare - This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World [121] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 In 1570, when it became clear she would never be Nell Leyshon, Rhidian Brook, gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was Vicente Molina Foix excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that my Lunatics, Lovers and Poets 2 enemy’s enemy is my friend, this marked the beginning The second of three events commemorating the of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim 400th anniversary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes powers fighting Catholic Spain in the Mediterranean, and William Shakespeare in which three of the writers and of cultural, economic and political exchanges with commissioned introduce their work. Leyshon is the the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until author of the novels The Colour of Milk and Memoirs the modern age. England signed treaties with the of a Dipper, and Bedlam, the first play by a woman ever Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from the kings of to be performed at Shakespeare’s Globe; Brook’s most Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakesh. By the recent novel is The Aftermath; Molina Foix is one of late 1580s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Elizabethan Spain’s most distinguished novelists and film directors. merchants, diplomats, sailors, artisans and privateers Chaired by Daniel Hahn. were plying their trade from Morocco to Persia. Supported by the British Council and Acción Cultural Española

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[HD19] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [127] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Professor Robert Winston Leslie Ann Goldberg Utterly Amazing Science Algorithms and their Limitations From rocket launches to erupting volcanoes, magnets Many of our everyday activities, such as looking up and electricity, and forces in motion, Winston explains information on the internet and journey planning, what makes the world go round. Utterly Amazing are supported by sophisticated algorithms. Some of Science won The Royal Society Young People’s Book our online activities are supported by the fact that we Prize 2015 and captures the imagination of children don’t have good algorithms for some problems: the and adults with mind-blowing information. encryption scheme that supports the privacy of credit 8+ cards in online transactions is believed to be secure precisely because there is no known fast algorithm for In association with The Royal Society factoring large numbers. The Oxford Computer Science

SUNDAY 29 MAY SUNDAY Professor explains a little of what we know about the [124] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 limitations of algorithms, and also the famous P vs NP Mervyn King talks to Bronwen Maddox problem. This is the most important open problem in The End of Alchemy – Money, Banking computer science and is one of the seven Millennium and the Future of the Global Economy Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute, which The former Governor of the Bank of England analyses has offered a million-dollar prize for its solution. the causes of the global financial crisis. He proposes revolutionary new ideas to answer the central question: [HD20] 4PM CUBE £5 are money and banking a form of alchemy or are they Pamela Butchart and Laura James the Achilles heel of a modern capitalist economy? Doggy Delights with Pugley and Pug In association with The Open University in Wales Pugley, star of Pugley Bakes a Cake, is a dog with aspirations and dreams. Pug, inspired by Laura James’ [125] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 own dog Brian and star of Captain Pug, is a quiet stay-at- Emma Sky talks to Oliver Bullough home dog, frightened of water – until he hides in a picnic The Unravelling: High Hopes hamper and finds himself on a sea-faring adventure! and Missed Opportunities in Iraq 6+ When an intrepid young British woman volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, [128] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED she had little idea what she was letting herself in for. It Rebecca F John, Ilaria Gaspari, was only supposed to last three months but instead Mercedes Lauenstein, Nina Polak spanned a decade. Sky provides unique insights into the talk to Daniel Hahn US military, and the complexities, and evolution of Iraqi society. With sharp detail, tremendous empathy Scritture Giovanni 2016 and respect for those who served, The Unravelling is an Four writers under the age of 30 are commissioned to intimate portrait of how and why the Iraq adventure write a story on the theme of , failed despite the best and often heroic efforts of its each of which is then translated into Italian, German young men and women on the ground. and English. The writers visit the three partner festivals (Mantova and Berlin in September, Hay this week) to discuss their work. BBC TENT [126] 4PM–4.50PM FREE BUT TICKETED In partnership with Festivaletteratura Mantova and Jacqueline Wilson Internationales Literaturfestival, Berlin Introducing Hetty Feather CBBC presenter Katie Thistleton talks to the children’s author, cast and creatives about CBBC’s 5.30pm adaptation of the novel Hetty Feather. A fast-paced and thrilling story featuring a feisty new heroine, [129] 5.30PM TATA TENT £8 Hetty Feather brings the realities of the Victorian age Michael V Hayden talks to Nik Gowing to life through the eyes and adventures of the children who inhabit the Foundling Hospital. Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror Not for broadcast. An unprecedented high-level, master narrative of America’s intelligence wars, from rendition and targeted killing abroad to homeland surveillance. Hayden is the only person to helm both the CIA and the NSA (National Security Agency).

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[HD21] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 [133] 5.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Francesca Simon and Steven Butler Inside Science SUNDAYMAY29 Battle of the Baddies BBC Radio 4 Horrid Henry and Dennis the Menace go head-to-head Adam Rutherford and guests, including geneticist in a battle to find out who is the more terrible of the Professor Steve Jones and writer Gaia Vince, discuss two. Join the creators of two of the best-loved bad guys what science can tell us about the state of our planet. as they send their characters into the fight, then vote Can research stop humans destroying the Earth? for the winner in this deadly contest. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 2 June at 6+ 4.30pm and 9.30pm.

[130] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £9 [134] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Joan Bakewell talks to Clemency Burton-Hill Danny Dorling and Carl Lee Stop the Clocks: Geography, an Introduction Thoughts on What I Leave Behind Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, The broadcaster and writer looks back at what she was geographers uncover the hidden connections of human given by her family, and in which she grew existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the up. She ranges from the minutiae of life such as how decision-makers who fly overhead in executive jets. to make a bed properly with hospital corners, to the Geography is a science that tackles all the biggest issues bigger lessons of politics, of lovers, of betrayal. She talks that face us today, from globalisation to equality, from of the present, of her family, of friends and literature. sustainability to population growth, from climate She talks, too, of what she will leave behind. change to advancing technology.

[131] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 [135] 5.30PM CUBE £7 Stephen Attenborough Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Space-Faring H J Golakai talk to Georgina Godwin For the 3,000 children in London’s Science Museum Africa 39 and the many thousands of others around the country, We’re delighted to celebrate two of the stars of our 15 December 2015 was a day filled with pride and Africa 39 project. H J Golakai’s The Lazarus Effect excitement. Major Tim Peake’s successful International sends a Cape Town journalist, Voinjama Johnson, on Space Station mission confirmed the UK as a Space- an investigation into missing children. In Abubakar faring nation, and is inspiring a generation of young Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms, an affair people. The Commercial Director of Virgin Galactic between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and describes the challenges involved, the progress made and 25-year-old weed dealer Reza was bound to provoke the potential benefits to life on earth as the company condemnation in conservative northern Nigeria. This strives to create the world’s first commercial Space line. story of love and longing – set against undercurrents In association with Jaguar Land Rover of political violence – unfurls gently, revealing layers of emotion that defy age, class and religion. With the support of Arts Council England [132] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Tahmima Anam talks to George Alagiah Talking Books: The Bones of Grace Born in Bangladesh, Anam grew up in Paris, New York 7pm City and Bangkok. Anam’s debut novel, A Golden Age, [137] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 centres on the Bangladesh Liberation War and was inspired by her parents who were freedom fighters during , Kamila Shamsie, the conflict. The novel won the Commonwealth Writers’ Valeria Luiselli, Juan Gabriel Vasquez Prize for Best First Book. Anam’s next book, The Good Talking About Shakespeare: Muslim, explores the after-effects of war and examines Lunatics, Lovers and Poets 3 the conflicts within modern-day religion and family. Daniel Hahn is joined by novelists from Britain, She will be discussing her newest work The Bones of Mexico and Colombia to celebrate the 400th Grace, a tragic love story which traverses continents anniversaries of Cervantes and Shakespeare and communities and delves into larger themes like and the stories they have written around them. the importance of family history and reconciliation. Supported by The British Council and Arts Council of Wales International Writers Series 4 Acción Cultural Española This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC World News programme ‘Talking Books’.

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[138] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 [142] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Adam Rutherford Horatio Clare talks to Jon Gower Creation, Synthetic Biology and Hip-Hop Orison for a Curlew The geneticist, author of Creation: The Origin of Life/The The slender-billed curlew is one of the world’s rarest Future of Life explains how the evolution of music is birds. A beautiful, fragile creature, it bred in Siberia and notably similar to biological evolution: sampling closely wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing through the mimics synthetic biology, as wholesale pieces of other wetlands and estuaries of Italy, Greece, the Balkans and organisms are swapped to add functions and behaviours central Asia twice a year. Then, no-one knows why, the for our purposes. And now, as with the copyright issues population crashed. The slender-billed curlew now exists that strangled creativity in hip-hop, patents in genetics as rumour, hope, unconfirmed sightings and speculation. act as crippling hindrances to scientific progress. The only certainty of its story is that it now stands at the brink of extinction. The author of A Single Swallow tells

SUNDAY 29 MAY SUNDAY a story of beauty, triumph, mystery and struggle, in a [139] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 homage to a creature that may never be seen again. Hollie McNish Nobody Told Me CUBE The phenomenal spoken word artist and Poetry Slam [143] 7PM £6 champion performs poems and stories from her new Claire Vaye Watkins and John Wray collection. Prepare yourself for the raw energy and passion talk to Laura Powell of Hollie’s very personal poetic take on parenthood. She Fictions: Other Worlds… explores the learning curves of pregnancy and motherhood Gold Flame Citrus is the debut novel from the winner of and how drum ‘n’ bass can make great lullabies. the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize. In a dystopian, apocalyptic vision, desert sands have laid waste to south-west America and challenge the resilient to survive. The Lost Time [140] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest Bruce Robinson talks to William Sieghart upheavals of the C20th. Haunted by a failed love affair They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar ‘Waldy’ The iconoclastic writer and director of the classic Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been Withnail & I returns to London in a decade-long exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to examination of the most provocative murder turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back. investigation in British history. He finally solves In association with Swansea University the identity of the killer known as Jack the Ripper.

[141] 7PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED 8.30pm Storyville: Notes on Blindness A BBC event at Hay [144] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 When writer and academic John Hull became blind in Isy Suttie 1983, he began a diary on audio-cassette. Over three The Actual One – Stand Up years, he recorded more than 16 hours of material. The brilliantly funny new show – featuring stories, Notes on Blindness is a feature film based on these audio songs and readings –about that moment in your late recordings, interwoven with interviews with John and twenties when you suddenly realise that all your mates his wife Marilyn. Channel Editor BBC Four Cassian are growing up without you. The invisible deal that Harrison talks to writer-directors Peter Middleton Isy had made – to prolong growing up for as long as and James Spinney, and also John’s wife Marilyn, about possible – was all in her head. Suddenly everyone taking the viewer on a journey deep into what John calls around her is into mortgages, farmers’ markets and “a world beyond sight”. nappies, rather than skinny-dipping in the sea and This session is not for broadcast. The film broadcasts sambuca sessions on rope-swings. When her dearest on Storyville, BBC Four in early 2017. friend advises Isy that the next guy she meets will be not just The One, but The Actual One, Isy decides to delay the onset of adulthood for just a bit longer until a bet with her mum results in a mad scramble to find a boyfriend within a month. Sponsored by Holdsworth Foods

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[145] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £9 [149] 8.30PM CUBE £7 Irvine Welsh in conversation Fflur Dafydd, Euros Lyn, Catrin Stewart SUNDAYMAY29 with Marlon James The Library Suicides The Blade Artist Dafydd previews clips from her debut feature Welsh introduces his elegant, electrifying novel, Y Llyfrgell/The Library Suicides ahead of its UK which marks the return of one of modern fiction’s release this autumn. She is joined by multi BAFTA most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary award-winning director Euros Lyn (Happy Valley, Francis Begbie from Trainspotting. Welsh talks about Broadchurch, Last Tango in Halifax) and rising gangland violence, drug culture and the vitality of international star of stage and screen Catrin Stewart language with the Man Booker prize-winning author (Doctor Who, Stella, Mametz). Chaired by Jon Gower. of A Brief History of Seven Killings. Sponsored by Mari Thomas Jewellery Arts Council of Wales International Writers Series, 5

[146] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 9.45pm Marcus Brigstocke, Juliet Davenport, Ed Gillespie and Special Guests [150] 9.45PM TATA TENT £25 I’m An Environmentalist, Get Me Out of Here Suzanne Vega Join host Ed Gillespie and two teams of the great In concert and the good from the world of sustainability for this A special festival appearance by the American singer and riotous and irreverent game show. Expect a heady songwriter whose songs Luka and Tom’s Diner established mix of topicality, tomfoolery, ritual humiliation and her as one of the great poets and folk musicians of her randomness. No (live) insects will be hurt during the generation. Her most recent project is the musical play proceedings. We can’t guarantee the same for our Lover, Beloved: An Evening With Carson McCullers. heroic participants’ feelings, pride and reputations. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design

[147] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [151] 9.45PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 John Mullan, Nell Leyshon, Raymond Tallis, Anita Donley, Julie Grigg Marcus du Sautoy, Ben Okri We Need to Talk About the NHS Talking About Shakespeare The physician, philosopher and writer Raymond Tlalis A conversation about Shakespeare’s greatest plays and is the author of NHS SOS; Donley is Clinical Vice roles, his fondness for prime numbers and his stagecraft. President, Royal College of Physicians, and Chair, NHS The UCL English professor is joined by the first England, Essex Success Regime; Grigg is a GP in the woman to write a play for the main stage of Hay Medical Centre Practice. Shakespeare’s Globe, the Oxford maths professor and the Booker-winning novelist and poet. 10pm [148] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Eirian Lewis [152] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £10 Guitar Recital 2 Sara Pascoe The elegantly talented RCM guitarist plays Animal – Stand Up John Duarte, English Suite; Agustín Barrios Mangore, The show is a mixture of completely true stories about Julia Florida; William Walton, Bagatelles 2 and 3; Tony Blair, Oedipus Rex and the wildlife of Lewisham, Silvius Leopold Weiss, Passacaglia; Domenico Scarlatti, plus a load of stories that don’t sound true at all about 2 keyboard sonatas; Villa Lobos, etudes 1 and 8; Jason Donovan, Henry the Hoover and when God took J S Bach, Prelude (from Prelude Fugue and Allegro); over the tannoy in Sainsbury’s. All animals evolved, but Napoleon Coste, Introduction and Allegretto; only humans evolved to the point of knowing they Girolamo Frescobaldi, Aria con Variazioni. evolved. This troubling and confusing position is explored in a creative and honest way in a show about empathy and its limitations. Sara has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You, QI, Room 101, Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats and a load of other programmes that can’t be listed due to word count restrictions. See also event 156 on Monday 30 May.

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[153] 10AM TATA TENT £8 [157] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Taylor talks to Mark Lynas talks to John Mitchinson Cambridge Series 8: The Strange Rebirth The Romanovs of Nuclear Power in Britain The intimate story of tsars and tsarinas, some touched Twenty years ago the UK stopped building nuclear by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy stations. Why are we now planning an £18 billion, autocracy and imperial ambition. The historian’s gripping French-Chinese, nuclear power station at Hinkley Point? chronicle reveals their secret world of ruthless empire- Taylor is lecturer in finance at Cambridge University. building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, sexual Lynas is an author and journalist. decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast In association with Cambridge University of courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin. [158] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Sebag Montefiore is the author of MONDAY 30 MAY MONDAY Catherine the Great How to Break into the Media & Potemkin and Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. A BBC event at Hay A masterclass on how to get started in the media, [154] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 featuring a discussion with researchers and producers Margaret A Boden talks to Adam Rutherford from radio, television and online. AI: Its Nature and Future Not for broadcast. The applications of artificial intelligence lie all around STARLIGHT STAGE us: in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, [HD22] 10AM £6 in art galleries and –not least – on the internet. The Pamela Butchart results have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists To Wee or Not to Wee! and linguists in helping to understand the processes of Take a fresh look at Shakespeare with the Blue Peter memory, learning and language. Boden is Research Award-winning author as she gives action-packed Professor of Cognitive Science at University of Sussex, retellings of Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer’s and one of the best-known figures in the field of Night Dream and Romeo and Juliet. artificial intelligence. She is author of Mind as 6+ Machine: a History of Cognitive Science. Part of the Baillie Gifford series [HD23] 10AM CUBE £5 Viviane Schwarz

[155] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 How to Find Gold Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Join the picture-book creator on a journey through the Patrick Kingsley and Ben Rawlence imagination searching for hidden treasure. There’s gold to find and secrets to keep but, above all, there is a Refuge and Redemption th wonderful story to celebrate. With live drawing, treasure In this 500 anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia maps and storytime, this is perfect for little adventurers. three writers tell the stories of people escaping horrors and seeking a better world elsewhere. These are the inside 3+ stories of refuge and migrations. McDonald-Gibson is [159] 10AM–NOON RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP the author of Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from CINEMA £8 Europe’s Refugee Crisis; Kingsley is the author of The New Ross Adam and Robert Cannan Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis; Rawlence’s book is City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest The Lovers and the Despot: Screening and Q&A Refugee Camp. Chaired by Oliver Balch. The film-makers introduce their documentary about the crazy story of Kim Jong-Il and his kidnapping of South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her estranged [156] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 director husband Shin Sang-ok to make films for him Sara Pascoe talks to Stephanie Merritt in North Korea. Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body “Women have so much going on, what with boobs and 11.30am jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories [160] 11.30AM TATA TENT £10 and emotions and the past and the future and Christiana Figueres talks to Nicholas Stern themselves and each other.” The comedian combines The British Academy Platform: autobiography and evolutionary history to create a We’ll Always Have Paris funny, fascinating insight into the forces that mould A conversation with the Executive Secretary of the and affect modern women. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, who is now charged with delivering the COP21 Agreement, signed in Paris. If anyone can do it, she can. And she will. 30 In association with the British Academy HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 31

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[161] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [HD24] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 John talks to Peter Florence Francesca Simon MONDAYMAY30 The Battle of Hattin 1187–2016 The Monstrous Child On 4 July 1187 Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of The best-selling author’s teenage heroine, Hel, knows the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in a terrible slaughter at every feeling of adolescence. But as goddess of the the battle of Hattin. He went on to restore the Holy City Underworld, when she behaves badly she doesn’t just of Jerusalem to Islamic rule. The carnage at Hattin was get sent to her room; she gets sent to rule over the dead the culmination of almost a century of religious wars for all eternity! Hel has powers that most teens can between Christian and Muslim in the Holy Land. In the only dream of…but they come at a price. th C20 the battle was revived as a symbol of Arab hope 10+ for liberation from Crusader-Imperialism, and in the C21st it has become a rallying cry for radical Muslim fundamentalists in their struggle for the soul of Islam. [HD25] 11.30AM CUBE £5 In association with Swansea University Jenny Broom The Wonder Garden Join the illustrator on a journey of discovery in some of LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE [162] 11.30AM £8 the Earth’s most amazing habitats. Explore the coral on Anna Pavord the Great Barrier Reef, experience the astonishing peaks Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places of the Himalayas, trek through the Amazon rainforest, The author of The Tulip and The Curious Gardener go down the darkest paths of the Black Forest and into explores the different ways in which we have, the dry heat of the Chihuahuan desert. And then draw throughout the ages, responded to the land. While your own wonder garden. painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different 6+ band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. Using their reports, Pavord explores the many different 1pm ways in which land was managed and farmed. [165] 1PM TATA TENT £10 Tippi Hedren talks to Philippe Sands [163] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Talking About Film Jonathan Coe talks to Francine Stock The actress is one of the greatest Hollywood stars of the Number 11 golden age. She talks about her work with Hitchcock The great comic writer, author of What A Carve Up! on Marnie and The Birds, her long acting career and and The Rotters’ Club, introduces his new novel. It’s her Shambala Preserve for endangered big cats. about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. [166] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 It’s about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down Richard Thaler talks to Bronwen Maddox the street. It’s about how comedy and politics are Misbehaving: The Making of battling it out and how comedy might have won. Behavioural Economics Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look [164] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that Maddy Abbas, Chris Bickerton, rational forces shape everything. Behavioural economics Katharina Karcher knows better. Thaler has spent his career studying the Cambridge Series 9: The Future of Europe notion that humans are central to the economy - and As support for the extremes of the political spectrum that we’re error-prone individuals, not Spock-like increases across Europe, and Britain threatens to pull automatons. Now behavioural economics is hugely out of the EU, what does the future hold for our influential, changing the way we think about not just continent? Abbas is a research associate at the University money, but also about ourselves, our world and all of Cambridge, Bickerton is a lecturer in politics and kinds of everyday decisions. Karcher is a research associate in the Faculty of Modern Part of the Baillie Gifford series and Medieval Languages. In association with Cambridge University

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[167] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [170] 1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Timothy Garton Ash World at One Free Speech: Ten Principles for a BBC Radio 4 LIVE Connected World Join us behind the scenes to watch BBC Radio 4’s Never in human history was there such an opportunity long-running lunchtime news analysis programme as we for freedom of expression. If we have internet access, broadcast live from Hay every weekday in the BBC Tent. any one of us can publish almost anything we like and Presented by Martha Kearney with special guests. potentially reach an audience of millions. And never Broadcasting live on BBC Radio 4 at 1pm. Please be was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech seated by 12.50pm. flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation, gross violations of privacy, tidal waves of abuse. [HD26] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 With vivid examples – from his personal experience The Magical World of Beatrix Potter of China’s Orwellian censorship apparatus to the

MONDAY 30 MAY MONDAY 150th Anniversary Celebration controversy around Charlie Hebdo – Garton Ash Jump right inside The Tale of Peter Rabbit when you proposes a framework for civilized conflict in a world hear it read aloud by a professional storyteller. Help in which we are all becoming neighbours. brainstorm a sequel describing what Peter Rabbit might get up to if he escaped in Hay. Children will leave with [168] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 reminders of the great author, an exclusive notebook to Kat Arney talks to Daniel Davis help them develop a writing career, and a pack of seeds Herding Hemingway’s Cats in memory of her love of gardening. The language of genes has become common parlance. 3+ We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our [HD27] 1PM CUBE £6 genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, Lizzy Stewart alcoholism or Alzheimer’s. The cost of DNA There’s a Tiger in the Garden sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds Join Lizzy Stewart as she brings her beautiful picture to a few hundred, and gene-based advances in medicine book to life through a fabulous craft workshop. hold huge promise. So we’ve all heard of genes, but Create a pop-up garden or a jungle and make wonderful how do they actually work? Arney is an award-winning puppets of the amazing animals you might find there. science writer and broadcaster who specialises 6+ in genetics and biomedical science. PS The story goes that an old sea captain once gave Ernest 2.30pm Hemingway a six-toed cat whose distinctive descendants still roam the writer’s Florida estate… [171] 2.30PM TATA TENT £9 Ruby Wax [169] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled Juan Gabriel Vasquez and “Five hundred years ago no one died of stress; Álvaro Enrigue talk to Daniel Hahn we invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Bogota 39, Ten Years On We might have evolved to be able to balance on A conversation with two of Latin America’s biggest seven-inch heels, but as far as our emotional development award-winning fiction stars, who were part of the is concerned we’re still swimming with the pond scum. landmark Bogota 39 Generation in 2006. In Gabriel If we don’t advance our more human qualities then Vasquez’ Reputations, Colombia’s great cartoonist star we’re doomed to become cyborgs, with an imprint of is at a big public celebration of his career when he is an Apple where our hearts used to be.” Ruby Wax shows faced with a character from his past who calls into us a scientific solution to these problems: mindfulness. question everything about his life and work. Enrigue’s Sponsored by The Great British Florist Sudden Death is a funny and mind-bending novel about the clash of empires and ideas in C16th, told [172] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 over the course of one, dazzling tennis match in Rome. Thomas Keneally talks to Gaby Wood In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Napoleon’s Last Island Anne Boleyn, and her executioner transforms her The Booker-winning Australian writer launches his legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls new novel. On the island of St Helena in the South of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec Atlantic Ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. emperors play their own games, as Hernán Cortés and It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind his Mayan translator and lover scheme and conquer, eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. fight and fornicate, not knowing that their domestic The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty comedy will change the course of history. treatment by his captors, but he forges an unexpected With the support of the Colombian ally: a rebellious British girl, Betsy, who lives on the and Mexican Embassies island with her family and becomes his unlikely friend. 32 Arts Council of Wales International Writers Series, 6 See also event 217. HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 33

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[173] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 [176] 3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Gaia Vince talks to Adam Rutherford The BBC Radio Wales MONDAYMAY30 Royal Society Platform: Patrick Hannan Lecture Adventures in the Anthropocene BBC Radio Wales LIVE The first female winner of The Royal Society’s book John McGrath, founding Artistic Director of the prize, Gaia Vince charts humanity’s changes on our National and now CEO and Artistic planet. By transforming our relationship with the Director of Manchester International Festival, delivers natural world, humans have beckoned a new a the fifth annual Welsh affairs lecture dedicated to the geological age: the Anthropocene. Join Gaia as she late BBC Wales broadcaster. talks to broadcaster Adam Rutherford about the Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. people that make up these earth-shifting times. In association with The Royal Society 4pm [174] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7

Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas [177] 4PM TATA TENT £9 People and Places: Salman Rushdie talks to Jerry Brotton A 21st-Century Atlas of the UK Two Years, Eight Months The geographers introduce their staggeringly detailed and Twenty-Eight Nights analysis of social change over the past 15 years, gleaned Inspired by the traditional wonder tales of the East, from census statistics and big data. It is essential Rushdie’s new novel is a masterpiece about the age-old reading for all those working in local authorities, health conflicts that remain in today’s world. Two Years, Eight authorities, and statutory and voluntary organisations, Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, as well as for researchers, students, policy makers, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet journalists and any Haymakers interested in social and karma, rapture and redemption. geography, social policy, social justice and social change.

[175] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [178] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Hawa Golakai, Mark Gevisser and Steve Jones Kevin Eze talk to Rosie Goldsmith No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Whose Story is it Anyway? Science in the Age of the Guillotine In times of instability and change, African writers are Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the turning to non-fiction. A new anthology, Safe House: world capital of science. They were true revolutionaries, Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, highlights agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of contemporary issues across the continent. It addresses politics. Antoine Lavoisier founded modern chemistry the Chinese in Africa, the refugee crisis, and Ebola. and physiology, transformed French farming, and Can non-fiction move readers where fiction falls short, hugely improved the manufacture of gunpowder. His or simply fails to inspire action? Rosie Goldsmith hosts political activities brought him a fortune, but in the South African-based author Mark Gevisser, Hawa end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him Golakai from Liberia and Kevin Eze from Senegal. claimed that “the Revolution has no need for geniuses”. Chaired by Dan Davis. In partnership with Commonwealth Writers

[HD28] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [179] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Secret Treasures of Ancient Egypt Parag Khanna talks to Nik Gowing Step back in time and explore the amazing lost cities Connectography: of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus with the help of an Mapping the Global Network Revolution expert, a British Museum curator of The Sunken Cities: The global strategist and author travels from Ukraine Egypt’s Lost Worlds exhibition. Enjoy seeing incredible to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, London to Dubai underwater photographs from the site and discover and the Arctic Circle to the South China Sea – all to how these fantastic cities were rediscovered. show how C21st conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines 8+ and internet cables, advanced technologies and market access. Yet Connectography offers a hopeful vision of the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and [HD29] 2.30PM CUBE £6 innovations have eliminated the need for resource wars; Emma Yarlett and that frail regions such as Africa and the Middle East Nibbles The Book Monster are unscrambling their fraught colonial borders through Hear the author/illustrator telling the stories behind ambitious new transportation corridors and power grids. her new book-eating character Nibbles, who is munching his way through some of our favourite fairytales. As a result they are all muddled up. Come and help Nibbles get back to where he properly belongs. 3+ 33 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 34

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[180] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [182] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 Peter Lord Yanis Varoufakis talks to Martha Kearney The Tradition: A New History of And The Weak Suffer What They Must? The distinguished art historian presents his elegant and The former finance minister of Greece shows that the intriguing survey of the evolution of visual art in Wales from origins of the European collapse go far deeper than our the Renaissance to the present day, told through landscape leaders are prepared to admit – and that we have done and portrait paintings, drawings and sculptures. Chaired by nothing so far to fix it. Jon Gower. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop Sponsored by Old Forest Arts

[183] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 [181] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Edna O’Brien talks to Matt Frei Mei Fong and Xinran talk to Rosie Boycott The Little Red Chairs MONDAY 30 MAY MONDAY One Child China When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading For more than three decades China exercised unprecedented as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. community is in thrall and one woman, Fidelma McBride, Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised falls under his spell. In this astonishing novel, O’Brien charts to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government the consequences of that fatal . has brought an end to its one-child policy. Mei Fong’s One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment examines [184] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 the policy. Xinran’s Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China’s One-Child Generations charts the stories of the Jules Howard singleton generations. Within their families, they are Death on Earth: revered as little emperors and suns, although such Adventures in Evolution and Mortality cosseting can come at a high price: isolation, confusion Some animals live for just a few hours as adults, others and an inability to deal with life’s challenges. prefer to kill themselves rather than live for longer than they are needed, and there are a number of animals that live for centuries. There is death in life. Among all of STARLIGHT STAGE [HD30] 4PM £6 this is us: perhaps the first animal in the history of the Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison universe fully conscious that death really is going to happen Never Evers in the end. The zoologist explores the never-ending cycle Journalist Tom Ellen and school librarian Lucy Ivison of death and the impact it has on the living. discuss how they created Never Evers, the sequel to Lobsters. Are two writers better than one when it comes to having [185] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 great ideas? Does their experience of having been at sixth form together help when they are writing about Mouse David Crystal, Daniel Hahn, and Jack and the great disaster of the school skiing trip? Vicente Molina Foix 12+ #HAYYA Talking About Shakespeare: Language What did performances of Shakespeare’s plays sound like in his day? Linguistics professor David Crystal introduces OP [HD31] 4PM CUBE £5 (original pronunciation) and marvels at the wonders of the Fleur Alexander playwright’s revolutionary vocabulary. Hahn and Molina Above and Below Foix (who translates Shakespeare for contemporary Spanish Take part in an interactive session with the storyteller theatre) consider the reality that most people in the world exploring eight amazing habitats above and below discover the great writer’s work in translation. the Earth’s surface, recreated in Patricia Hegarty and Hanako Clulow’s book. Delve into the rainforest, [186] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 dive into the ocean and learn about the sustaining Carol Black talks to Rosie Boycott connections between the two. Cambridge Series 10: Addiction, 3+ Obesity and Employment Professor Dame Carol Black discusses her independent review for government on how best to support people with drug and alcohol addiction or those who are obese, to stay in work, or get back to work. A former president of the Royal College of Physicians, Professor Black is principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. In association with Cambridge University

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[187] 5.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [191] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 B is for Book Simon Sebag Montefiore and Jung Chang MONDAYMAY30 A BBC event at Hay Stalin and Mao In a year in which the BBC is focusing on the pleasures The historians explore the lives and crimes of the two of reading, this film follows a group of primary school- C20th communist dictators. Sebag Montefiore is the children as they take their first steps into the world of author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Chang is the written word. Some make a flying start, others the author of Wild Swans and, with Jon Halliday, struggle. Some may have parents who themselves have Mao: The Unknown Story. trouble reading, and others may have a parent who doesn’t speak English. Channel Editor BBC Four [192] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU WALES STAGE £8 Cassian Harrison talks to director Sam Benstead and Executive Producer Liesel Evans about the challenges Black Holes, Alien Life and the Multiverse of making an observational film with young children. – an Update Not for broadcast. The documentary, made by Century The astronomer will share his excitement about recent Films, broadcasts on BBC Four this summer and will cosmic ideas and discoveries. Since last festival one of be part of Get Reading – a campaign to urge the Einstein’s greatest predictions has been confirmed with nation to read and discuss books. the detection of gravitational waves from colliding back holes. Images of Pluto have surprised us, and astronomers [188] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars, Sarah Bakewell talks to Francine Stock some resembling Earth. And there is speculation that At the Existentialist Café: physical reality encompasses more than the aftermath Freedom, Being & Apricot Cocktails of our big bang: we may inhabit a multiverse. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at In association with The Royal Society the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond [193] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Aron. Aron opens their eyes to a radical new way of Susan Calman talks to Raymond Tallis thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, “You can make Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in philosophy out of this cocktail”. The author of How Depression with the Crab of Hate To Live: A Life of Montaigne tells the story of modern The Crab of Hate is the personification of the Scottish existentialism as one of passionate encounters between comedian’s depression and her version of the Black Dog. people, minds and ideas. A constant companion, the Crab has provided her with the best and worst of times. She talks about how, after [189] 5.30PM CUBE £6 many years and with a lot of help, she has realised that Henny Beaumont talks to Georgina Godwin she can be the most joyous sad person you’ll ever meet. Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth [194] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 On Mother’s Day 2004 the artist Henny Beaumont gave birth to her third child. For the first few hours, her baby Rob Penn seemed no different from her two other little girls. The Man Who Made Things Out Of Trees Henny describes how family life changed the moment Rob Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many the registrar told her and her husband that their daughter things could be made from it. Journeying from Wales might have Down’s syndrome. Henny shares her family’s and across Europe to the US, he finds that journey – in beautiful black and white drawings – from the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of hospital to home, and from early years to school, in this ash, developed over millennia making wheels and moving, wise and unsparing graphic memoir. arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. He chronicles how the urge to appreciate trees still runs through us like grain through wood. 7pm In association with the Woodland Trust

BBC TENT [190] 7PM TATA TENT £10 [195] 7PM FREE BUT TICKETED Arena: 1966 Talking About Shakespeare: The Sonnets A BBC event at Hay The writer and teacher discusses the playwright’s poetry. Jon Savage’s book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded marks the year pop music ripped up the rule book. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop In popular culture and the mass media, 1966 was a year of restless experiment. Author Jon Savage, editor of Arena Anthony Wall, and director Paul Tickell talk to broadcaster Francine Stock about this upcoming BBC Four programme, with exclusive clips. Not for broadcast. The film broadcasts on BBC Four in the summer. 35 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 36

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[196] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 [201] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 John Robb and Oliver Harris Norma Percy talks to Martine Croxall The Body in History Inside Obama’s White House How has the human body been understood in Europe, The multi-award-winning doyenne of geo-political from the Palaeolithic to the present day? Archaeologists documentary talks about her eight-year project to chronicle Robb and Harris reveal how the body has been treated and analyse the Obama presidency. She shows clips from the in life, art and death for the past 40,000 years. BBC2 series and talks to the BBC News anchor about her What emerges is not merely a history of different access, her methods and her interviews. understandings of the body, but a history of the different human bodies that have existed. They show how bodies [202] 8.30PM CUBE £7 are key elements in shaping the changes that have swept across Europe since the arrival of modern humans. Ed Gillespie talks to Andy Fryers Only Planet – a Flight-free MONDAY 30 MAY MONDAY Adventure Around the World CUBE [197] 7PM £6 Slow traveller Ed Gillespie takes us on an inspirational Abbie Ross, Julia Forster and global circumnavigation without going anywhere near Crystal Jeans talk to Gwen Davies an airport. From cargo ships to camels, hitchhiking to Debuts hovercrafts, Ed proves that getting there really is half Three debut authors talk to New Welsh Review editor the fun. Crossing Shamanic lakes, Mongolian deserts Gwen Davies about childhood and the nostalgia of popular and climbing jungle volcanoes, he meets grizzled sea dogs, culture in memoir and fiction, and about getting that first drunken smugglers and peckish pythons. This visual talk book written and published. Abbie Ross’ memoir Hippy focuses on the exhilaration of taking it slowly and Dinners is set in north Wales; Julia Forster’s debut novel rediscovering hope for humanity and the planet. What a Way to Go is set in the Midlands; and Crystal Jeans’ novel Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise is set in Cardiff. 9.45pm

8.30pm [203] 9.45PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £10 Turin Brakes [198] 8.30PM TATA TENT £14 In concert Caitlin Moran Sixteen years of touring across continents have sealed the Moranifesto indie band’s reputation as a fearsome live act, able to This is a statement from the superstar author of hold any size crowd with the sheer chutzpah of their How To Be A Woman about the world and the causes no-hidden-tricks, raw and direct onstage presence. Their she cares about. seventh studio album Lost Property stormed into the UK charts in January. They’ll play material from the new album alongside classic hits like Painkiller and Fishing for a Dream. [199] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Turin Brakes are childhood friends Olly Knights and Gale John Sutherland and John Crace Paridjanian and their long-term collaborators Rob Allum Talking About Shakespeare: The Abridged and Eddie Myer. Shakespeare The two Johnnies do the Bard. An irreverent, delightful and wickedly clever insight into the plays and games of 10pm the great playwright. Sutherland is Emeritus Professor of

English at UCL; Crace is the Digested Read satirist and [204] 10PM OXFAM MOOT £9 writes the parliamentary sketch for the Guardian. The Rise of Mighty Voice [200] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The star of , , and Little Voice in her James Harkin talks to Sarfraz Manzoor sensational comedy musical show: amazing mimicry, Hunting Season stunning singing and cheeky wit. Jess spins show stopping The execution of James Foley, Islamic State, and the musical mash-ups, incredible vocal gymnastics and irreverent real story of the kidnapping campaign that started celebrity impressions in a perfect, party-going, feel-fabulous a war. The investigative frontline journalist provides performance. With Kirsty Newton at the piano. an utterly absorbing account of the world’s newest and most powerful terror franchise and what it means for modern war.

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[500] 9AM MEET AT BOX OFFICE £8 [207] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Trevithel Court Farm Walk Richard Bardgett TUESDAYMAY31 David and Catherine James’ cider orchards are carefully Earth Matters: managed to supply a range of cider apples to Bulmers How Soil Underlies Civilisation and Gaymers for their premium brands, some of which For much of history, soil has played a central role in will be available for tasting. In a happily synergistic society. Farmers and gardeners worldwide nurture their relationship with a local beekeeper, the trees are soil to provide their plants with water, nutrients and pollinated by bees. Look inside the hives and learn protection from pests and diseases; major battles have how bees make honey and store it for the winter. been aborted or stalled by the condition of soil; murder First of three farm walks. These are visits to real working trials have been solved with evidence from soil; and, for farms and are suitable for anyone interested in learning most of us, our ultimate fate is the soil. The Professor more about food and farming. Families are welcome but of Ecology at Manchester explores the role soil plays in children must be supervised at all times. Coaches will our lives and in the bio-geochemical cycles that allow return to festival site in time for events at 1pm. the planet to function effectively. He considers how better soil management could combat global issues such as climate change, food shortages and the 10am extinction of species.

[HD32] 10AM TATA TENT £8 [208] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6 The Magnard Ensemble Kate Fletcher talks to Andy Fryers Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music Fashion: Craft of Use The dynamic chamber group and narrator Rebecca Rather than continually making more clothes using Kenny explore the world of Roald Dahl’s poetry through more materials, there should be a greater emphasis live instrumental music and theatre. Accompany them on how clothes can be repaired, adapted and upcycled. with composers Paul Patterson and Martin Butler on The Professor of Sustainability, Design and Fashion an interactive musical adventure. You’ll meet some of at University of the Arts London presents an inspiring your favourite characters and you might think you know manifesto for improving durability and resourcefulness the stories, but take care – in the weird and wonderful in the fashion industry. world of Roald Dahl’s imagination, nothing is ever quite Sponsored by Eighteen Rabbit Fair Trade what it seems. In association with Roald Dahl 100 [209] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Blue Peter Book Awards [205] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 The 2016 winners are joined by Blue Peter presenter Emma Smith Lindsey Russell to talk about their work as graphic Shakespeare’s First Folio artist turned author, and what it means to have been In late November 1623, the publisher Edward Blount voted winners by schoolchildren all over the country. finally took delivery at his bookshop, at the sign of Ross MacKenzie, who is also a graphic designer for a the Black Bear near St Paul’s, of a book that had national newspaper, won Best Story with his latest title, long been in the making: Mr. William Shakespeare’s The Nowhere Emporium. Schoolchildren said the plot Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Professor Smith tells was like “putting pieces into a jigsaw”. Adam Frost, the story of that first collected edition of the plays, who creates fantastic, wacky information graphics that and follows the journeys of individual copies now are often found in his books, won Best Book with Facts located around the world. for The Epic Book of Epicness – which schoolchildren described as having “funny facts that made your head fizzle”. Come and find out how they did it. [206] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Maggie Andrews Not for broadcast. The Acceptable Face of Feminism: 100 years of the Women’s Institute [HD33] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 University of Worcester Series Andy Stanton The WI is fondly thought of in terms of ‘jam and 10 Years of Mr Gum Jerusalem’, but its roots are intertwined with the You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum has become a modern women’s suffrage movement and the many campaigns classic – pretty good at only 10 years old. But as the that have sought to articulate the needs of women winner of two Roald Dahl Funny Book Prizes, two since the First World War. The Professor of Cultural Blue Peter Book Awards and the Red House Book History will explore the political and social initiatives Award, this was always something special. Celebrate that helped define the radical organisation. Mr Gum with the author in an event that is likely In association with University of Worcester to be as riotous as the book. 8+ 37 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 38

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[HD34] 10AM CUBE £6 [213] 11.30AM GOOD ENGERGY STAGE £8 Simon James Stephen Harris Dear Greenpeace What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? Celebrate 25 years of this picture-book with its Which tree is often used in the treatment of cancer? award-winning creator Simon James (Baby Brains, Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded Nurse Clementine). Little Emily has a whale living in spice on the planet? Plants are an indispensable part her garden pond and decides to write to Greenpeace of our everyday lives. From the coffee bush and grass for tips on how to look after him. With storytelling for cattle (which give us milk for our cappuccinos), and live drawing, Simon takes you on a journey to the rubber tree that produces tyres for our cars, through this much-loved classic and introduces our lives are inextricably linked to the world of plants. you to his latest book, Rex. The Curator of the Oxford University Herbaria 6+ identifies the plants that have been key to the

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11.30am [214] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Ifor ap Glyn and Gillian Clarke [210] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 The National Poet of Wales / David Crystal Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru Making a Point: The Pernickety In his first official event as National Poet of Wales, Story of English Punctuation Ifor ap Glyn will discuss with his The triumphant, concluding volume in David Crystal’s predecessor Gillian Clarke. Both poets will read trilogy on the English language combines the first from their work and share their stories and thoughts history of English punctuation with a complete guide on this thriving scene. on how to use it. The punctuation of English, marked Yn ei ddigwyddiad cyntaf fel Bardd Cenedlaethol with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness Cymru, bydd Ifor ap Glyn yn trafod llenyddiaeth and littered with oddities. Professor Crystal leads us Cymru gyda’i ragflaenydd, Gillian Clarke. Bydd y through this minefield with characteristic wit and ddau fardd yn trin a thrafod byd barddoniaeth ac clarity. [DC on semi-colons is hilarious; also painfully yn taflu ambell gerdd i’r pair hefyd. funny on exclamation marks! Ed.] In association with Literature Wales / Mewn Sponsored by The Society of Indexers cydweithrediad â Llenyddiaeth Cymru

[211] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [215] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £6 Esther Rantzen and Peter Watt Jo Smith The NSPCC Platform: The Children The Shape We’re In: Building There is now a constant media spotlight on extreme Good Mental and Emotional Health cases of children’s protection at a time when local University of Worcester Series authority social services budgets are under duress The hyper-accelerated culture of the C21st presents across Britain. Dame Esther, founder of ChildLine, many challenges for our mental and physical wellbeing. reflects upon the core work of children’s services The consultant clinical psychologist explores positive and the challenges facing society in caring for and strategies for handling life’s challenges, from taking care encouraging young people. She is the author of of your physical health to building strong relationships the book Running Out Of Tears. with those around you and developing coping strategies In association with the NSPCC for negative moments. In association with University of Worcester [212] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8

Tracy Borman talks to S J Parris [HD35] 11.30AM CUBE £12 The of the Tudors: Uncovering Aardman Workshops the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty Model-making 1: Gromit Even in their most private moments, the Tudor Learn from expert model-makers how to form the famous monarchs were accompanied by a servant specifically Aardman characters. Three workshops this morning appointed for the task. A groom of the stool would provide creative hands-on activity for all ages. You’ll also stand patiently by as Henry VIII performed his daily get the chance to ask questions about the animation purges, and when Elizabeth I retired for the evening, process. Take your clay models home and try animating one of her female servants would sleep at the end of them with Aardman’s easy-to-use Animate It! software. her bed. The Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces 8+ uses the personal notes from these courtier intimates to give a revelatory picture of the Tudors’ private lives.

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[216] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £7 [220] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The Sitkovetsky Duo Dominic Johnson TUESDAYMAY31 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 1 God is Watching You: How the Fear The first of four recitals broadcast live from Hay this of God Makes Us Human week. Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Wu Qian The flood that God used to destroy the sinful race of (piano) play de Falla’s Suite Popular Española; Prokofiev’s man on Earth in Genesis 6:17 crystallises in its terrifying, Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op. 80; and Sarasate’s dramatic simplicity the universally recognised concept Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20. Concert introduced by of payback. For millennia human civilisation has relied Clemency Burton-Hill. on such beliefs to create a moral order that threatens Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; please arrive in divine punishment on people who commit crimes, while good time. promising rewards – abstract or material – for those who do good. Today, while secularism and unbelief are at an all-time high, this almost superstitious willingness to [217] 1PM TATA TENT £9 believe in karma persists. Why? Thomas Keneally talks to Philippe Sands Schindler’s Ark [221] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 The writer discusses his Booker-winning novel about Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who risked his life to protect and rescue Jews from Auschwitz. Cambridge Series 11: Literary Celebrities th th The book was made into a film by Steven Spielberg in the 18 and 19 Centuries as Schindler’s List. Why are readers so interested in the lives and opinions of writers? When did writers become celebrities in the See also event 172. way we understand them today? And what did those lucky few who acquired some souvenir or relic of their [218] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 favourite writer hope to gain from it? Two critics look Katherine Willis at the rise of literary celebrity in the C18th and C19th, From Genes to Beans the cult of the poet and the trade in literary relics. From the food on our plates to the greens in our garden, In association with Cambridge University many plants share one extraordinary characteristic –

they contain two, three or even 10 copies of their entire [222] 1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED genetic code in each of their cells. This so-called World at One ‘polyploidy’ crams cells full of DNA and not only gives us weird and wonderful-looking plants, but almost all BBC Radio 4 LIVE of the plants we eat every day. The Director of Science Join us behind the scenes to watch BBC Radio 4’s at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and Michael Faraday long-running lunchtime news analysis programme as we Prize winner talks about polyploidy and how it will help broadcast live from Hay every weekday in the BBC Tent. us take on our great global challenges. Presented by Martha Kearney with special guests. In association with The Royal Society Broadcasting live on BBC Radio 4 at 1pm. Please be seated by 12.50pm.

[508] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Tim Spector [HD36] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 The Diet Myth: The Real Science Dave Rudden Behind What We Eat Knights of the Borrowed Dark Drawing on the latest cutting-edge science, Spector This debut author’s thrilling series kicks off in style explores the hidden world of the microbiome, and as orphan Denizen Hardwick is snatched from his demystifies the common misconceptions about orphanage to fulfil his amazing destiny. Hear about nutrition. Only by understanding what makes our the ancient order of knights who control the terrifying microbes tick and interact with our bodies can we take creatures that can grow in the dark in a world where steps to improve our health by increasing the diversity nothing can be taken for granted. of microbe species living in our guts. Spector is 10+ Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London and Director of the TwinsUK Registry. Since [HD37] 1PM CUBE £12 2014 he has been leading the largest UK’s largest open- source science project, British Gut to understand the Aardman Workshops microbial diversity of the human gut. Model-making 2: Morph See 11.30AM session for details. 8+

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[HD39] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 [227] 2.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Roald Dahl’s Most Villainous Villains The Essay with Lindsey Russell of Blue Peter BBC Radio 3 Miss Trunchball? The Enormous Crocodile? Farmers For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay asks three writers consider Boggis, Bunce and Bean? The Grand High Witch? Who is ‘The Art of Storytelling’. Clemency Burton-Hill and Hay Festival’s most villainous Roald Dahl villain? Join top professor David Crystal explore the role of music and authors as they argue for their favourite villain under the language in storytelling, while, in an essay of five acts, supervision of the Blue Peter presenter, then cast your vote. Professor Emma Smith celebrates William Shakespeare. 8+ To be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 10.45pm on Sponsored by Literature Wales Wednesday 1, Thursday 2 and Friday 3 June. In association with Roald Dahl 100 [HD40] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 TUESDAY 31 MAY TUESDAY [223] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Nick Sharratt Draw-Along John Crace and John Sutherland Vikings in the Supermarket A Brontësaurus Join the much-loved illustrator as he sets loose six Vikings To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte’s birth, the in a rollicking, rhyming adventure. Pencils and paper will two Johnnies reread the best books by the sisters from be provided for the whole family so that you can draw Hawarth: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering along with Nick. Look out for a tartan-patterned cat, a Heights and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. naughty vampire bat and a clever mermaid. See also event 199. 3+

[224] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [HD38] 2.30PM CUBE £12 Robert Colvile Aardman Workshops The Great Acceleration Model-making 3: Shaun the Sheep The journalist explains how the cult of disruption See 11.30AM session for details. in Silicon Valley, the ceaseless advance of technology, 8+ and our own fundamental appetite for novelty and convenience have combined to speed up every aspect of daily life. He explains how this is transforming 4pm the media, politics, farming and the financial

markets, and asks whether our bodies and the natural [229] 4PM TATA TENT £9 environment can cope. Chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor. David Crystal Part of the Baillie Gifford series The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works To launch his delightful and life-changing book on oracy [225] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 and eloquence, the linguistics professor reveals the tricks Vince Cable talks to Bronwen Maddox of the trade about how to make a speech that’ll wow a After the Storm wedding, ace an interview or rouse an army. Along the In a robust Q&A, the Liberal Democrat who served way he analyses Barack Obama’s rhetorically near-perfect as business secretary in the coalition government from Yes We Can speech, and shows how a command of 2010–2015 considers the state of the global economy language and delivery can win hearts and minds. in the aftermath of the 2008 crash. Sponsored by Acre Accountancy Limited This event is free to students. Check website for details. [228] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

[226] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Gillian Clarke with Peter Florence Ulinka Rublack Talking About Shakespeare: The Astronomer and the Witch: Of Lear and Language and Poetry Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother The great poet discusses her experience of Shakespeare Kepler is one of history’s most admired astronomers, and her long relationship with Lyr, the subject of her who famously discovered that planets move in ellipses masterpiece full-length poem The King of Britain’s and defined the three laws of planetary motion. In Daughter. That poem itself was commissioned by the 1615, at the height of his career, his widowed mother festival as an exploration of the words and ideas she Katharina was accused of witchcraft; the proceedings began to play with in the 1989 Poetry Squantum, held led to a criminal trial that lasted six years. Kepler upstairs in the back bar of the British Legion club in Hay. conducted his mother’s defence. The trial and the Arts Council Wales International Writers Series, 7 arguments advanced give a revealing picture of Europe on the cusp between the Reformation and the scientific revolution that was to follow. 40 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 41

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[HD93] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 [HD41] 4PM CUBE £5 Chris Hoy Fleur Alexander TUESDAYMAY31 Flying Fergus Harry Potter Hear from Britain’s most successful Olympian, Sir Chris Explore the magical world of the Harry Potter books, join Hoy, as he introduces his new children’s book series in with spells and potions and be part of a slow-motion Flying Fergus with his co-author Joanna Nadin; a Quidditch match. A fun and interactive event for all the fantastically fun, magical cycling adventure. family whether you’re new to the books or a dedicated 6+ fan. Exclusive posters for all who attend available only at these events. Come and share the magic. 8+ [230] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Tristan Gooley talks to Laura Powell How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & 5.30pm Patterns from Puddles to the Sea From wild swimming in Sussex to way-finding off [233] 5.30PM TATA TENT £8 Oman via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of Tom Holland ponds, puddles, rivers and oceans. He shows us the Dynasty: The Rise and Fall skills we need to read the water around us. Gooley is of the House of Caesar the author of The Natural Navigator and The Walker’s Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs. But after conquering the world, the republic collapsed. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give [231] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 them peace. Augustus, their new master, called himself John Guy “the divinely favoured one”. The lurid glamour of Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years the dynasty founded by Augustus has never faded: History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter of strength and power. But the reality, especially during recluse, notorious for his perversions; Caligula, the her later years, was not as simple. In 1583 Elizabeth master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot is 50 and beyond childbearing age, but her greatest across the sea; Agrippina, mother of Nero, manoeuvring challenges are still to come: the Spanish Armada; to bring to power the son who would end up having the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; and relentless her murdered; Nero himself, racing in the Olympics, plotting among her courtiers. The pre-eminent Tudor marrying a eunuch, and building a pleasure palace historian presents a gripping and vivid portrait of over the fire-gutted centre of his capital. Elizabeth’s life and times –often told in her own words (“You know I am no morning woman”) and reveals [234] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 a monarch who is fallible, increasingly insecure and struggling to lead Britain. The London theatre, Roger Bootle, Liam Fox, Nick Herbert, however, was thriving. Allison Pearson, Roland Rudd Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop The Telegraph Debate: Does Britain Need the EU? Three weeks before the 23 June referendum, a panel [232] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 of politicians, business leaders and journalists weigh Ruth Dudley Edwards up the pros and cons of membership of the EU. talks to Rosie Goldsmith The event is programmed and sponsored by The Seven The Telegraph On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council put their names to the [235] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, declaring they were the provisional government of an Ireland free Imtiaz Dharker, Gillian Clarke, from British rule. In effect, each man had knowingly Nick Laird, Jo Shapcott signed his own death warrant. Since then, the seven Poetry Reading: On Shakespeare’s Sonnets have been eulogised and used as political weapons by An all-star line-up of British poets respond with their many. To challenge the morality of the Rising was own writing to their choice of Shakespeare’s 14-line to be denounced as unpatriotic, even un-Irish. One poems. They introduce and read the original sonnets hundred years on, however, there is an increasing and their own newly commissioned work. recognition within Ireland that it’s time for the With the support of The British Council founding fathers to come under proper scrutiny.

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[236] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [240] 5.30PM CUBE £6 Humphrey Burton Peter Parker with Clemency Burton-Hill The Housman Lecture: Menuhin 100 The Name and Nature of Poetry The broadcaster and writer celebrates the centenary This year’s lecture is given by the distinguished of his friend, the prodigiously gifted violinist who biographer and critic, author of Housman Country: Into broke musical boundaries, intervened courageously The Heart of England, The Old Lie: The Great War and in international debate, and gave some of the greatest the Public-School Ethos and biographies of J.R. Ackerley performances of major concertos ever heard or and Christopher Isherwood. recorded. The session is chaired by his daughter, the In association with The Housman Society writer and presenter of BBC R3’s breakfast show.

TUESDAY 31 MAY TUESDAY [237] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 7pm Gary Gerstle talks to Bronwen Maddox Liberty and Coercion: [241] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 The Paradox of American Government Felipe Fernandez Armesto On the one hand, Americans don’t want ‘big A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives government’ meddling in their lives; on the other, Change – and the Limits of Evolution they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to Like other species, we have a culture. But compared impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, with other species, we are strangely unstable: human religion and schooling on their neighbours. How cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply at did America reach this political impasse? And what bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, happens now? Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of from time to time and place to place. And the way American History at the University of Cambridge. we live – our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values – seems to be changing at an ever-accelerating pace. Ultimately, [238] 5.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED no environmental conditions, no genetic legacy, no Gardeners’ Question Time predictable patterns, no scientific laws determine our BBC Radio 4 behaviour. We can imagine and re-imagine our world On air since 1947, this broadcasting institution at will. The historian’s award-winning books include features a panel of the best brains in horticulture Civilizations; Millennium; 1492: The Year Our World answering questions from amateur gardeners in Began, and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration. a special edition recorded at Hay Festival. Part of the Baillie Gifford series Doors open 45 minutes prior to the recording for the audience to submit any questions for the panel. Please LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE submit your questions and take your seats by 5.15pm. [242] 7PM £8 Anthony Lester talks to Martine Croxall Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom STARLIGHT STAGE [239] 5.30PM £7 is Under Threat and Why it Matters Jay Griffiths talks to Rosie Boycott Human Rights, Equality, Free Speech, Privacy and the Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression Rule of Law: the battle to establish these five ideas in A raw and poetic account of a mind lost in madness, law was long and difficult, and Anthony Lester was at and how the author found her way back from the the heart of the 30-year campaign that resulted in the wilderness. In 2013, while completing work on her Human Rights Act, as well as the struggle for race and book Kith, Jay suffered a devastating, year-long episode gender equality that culminated in the Equality Act of hypomania. She gives a lyrical and painfully honest of 2010. Today our society is at risk of becoming less account of that year. Lost in the depths of her illness, equal. From Snowden’s revelations about our own she eventually decided to walk the Camino de Santiago. intelligence agencies spying on us, to the treatment of Undertaking this ancient pilgrimage in her fragile British Muslims, our civil liberties are under threat as condition against medical advice, she was determined never before. The internet leaves our privacy at risk in to find a cure for her torment. Jay is the 2015–2016 myriad ways; our efforts to combat extremism curtail Arts Council of Wales International Hay Fellow. free speech; and cuts to legal aid and interference with Cymrawd Rhyngwladol Cymru Greadigol–Gwyl access to justice endangers the rule of law. y Gelli / Creative Wales International Hay Festival International Fellow.

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[243] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [246] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Alison Weir Joanne Harris, Cristina Fuentes, TUESDAYMAY31 Katherine of Aragon Nazma Kabir, Emma Barnett The lives of Henry VIII’s queens make for dramatic Because I am a Girl stories. In her new novel, Weir tells the poignant story Global children’s charity Plan UK introduces Because I of Katherine of Aragon. Was her union with Prince am a Girl, the world’s biggest campaign for girls’ rights. Arthur consummated? What happens when a happy With education, skills and the right support, girls in the Royal marriage is overshadowed by dynastic pressures, developing world can make choices over their future doubts, and the allure of an ambitious woman? and be a force for creating lasting change. The best-selling popular historian and novelist evokes Joanne Harris, author of the Rune fantasy series and a court peopled by the luminaries of the early Tudor the bestselling Chocolat trilogy, shares her personal age – Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas stories as an inspiration for other women and girls Cromwell and the magnificent figure of Henry VIII worldwide to be able to fulfil their aspirations. She is himself – a young and athletic Henry, not yet marred joined by Plan UK’s Director of Programmes, Nazma by frustration and disappointment. Kabir, and Cristina Fuentes, International Director of Hay Festivals, who will talk about our work with Plan in Colombia. The event is hosted by The Telegraph’s [244] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Jo Marchant women’s editor, Emma Barnett. Cure: A Journey Into the In association with Plan UK Science of Mind over Body The field of mind-body medicine is plagued by wild [247] 7PM CUBE £6 claims that mislead patients and instil false hope. But Colin Tudge talks to Andy Fryers scientists in a range of fields are uncovering solid evidence Six Steps Back to the Land that our minds influence our bodies far more profoundly Tudge coined the expression ‘enlightened agriculture’ to than previously thought. The award-winning science describe agriculture that is expressly designed to provide journalist delves deep into the latest research and asks: everyone everywhere with food of the highest standard, are those who turn to alternative medicine deluded, or nutritionally and gastronomically, without wrecking the are they on to something? Can our thoughts, beliefs rest of the world. He explains how we can achieve that, and emotions influence our physical health? Can we with truly sustainable, resilient and productive farms. train our brains to heal our bodies? Sponsored by RM Jones Pharmacy 8.30pm [245] 7PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British [248] 8.30PM TATA TENT £14 A BBC event at Hay The Comedy Store Players Dan Cruickshank’s new series for BBC Four reveals Make Hay the stories behind the houses the people of Britain A joyful return for improv comedy superstars Richard live in. From the terraces of the industrial North to the Vranch, Lee Simpson, Andy Smart, Neil Mullarkey high-rise towers of East London or the cottages of rural and Josie Lawrence, joined by special guest Marcus Warwickshire, Dan will be taking on the role of house Brigstocke. They spin audience suggestions into silly, detective as he traces how and why each flat, terrace surreal, delightful comedy gold. “Whose Line Is It or cottage was built. Join him in conversation with Anyway? is a pale TV imitation” – The Telegraph. Francine Stock as he talks about why the British home

has ended up looking the way it does. [249] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Not for broadcast. The BBC Four series, in partnership Jane Mayer talks to Philippe Sands with RIBA and made by Oxford Film & Television, Dark Money broadcasts this spring. The award-winning New Yorker journalist forensically exposes the billionaire Koch brothers’ funding of interest groups, think-tanks and candidate campaigns to manipulate American politics towards their own extreme libertarian interests. She examines the impact on the 2016 US elections and reveals what influence the network has on politics in the UK and Europe.

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[250] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [254] 9.45PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Jojo Moyes and Thea Sharrock Sam Lee and Friends ‘Me Before You’ – Film Clips and Q&A The Fade in Time: In Concert A preview of the film to be released on 3 June Sam’s two critically acclaimed albums place songs he based on the best-selling novel by Jojo Moyes. It stars has collected first-hand from the Gypsy and Traveller Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Sam Glaflin (The community, with inventive arrangements that bring Hunger Games series), Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs), these ancient songs to life for the present day. The live Charles Dance (The Imitation Game), Brendan Coyle band perform unconventional and contemporary (Downton Abbey), Matthew Lewis (the Harry Potter interpretations, challenging all preconceptions of what films), Jenna Coleman (Dr Who) and Joanna Lumley ‘traditional folk’ should sound like. Winner of the 2011 (). Thea Sharrock makes her Arts Foundation Award, and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award feature film directorial debut. nominee for folk singer of the year, Sam is a pioneer

TUESDAY 31 MAY TUESDAY Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, helping to define and energise the sound of folk song New Line Cinema and Warner Bros Pictures for today.

[251] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Simone Cuff The Ecosystem Inside: Your Body and its Tiny Citizens Cardiff University Series Most people think they are human; this is only partly correct. You have within you more cells that are not human than those that are: from bacteria that help you digest your food, to fungi that help keep your skin healthy and mites that live in your eyebrows. You are in fact a whole world. What are the latest ideas on how interactions between you and your tiny citizens affect your health? How do bacteria affect allergies? Is there any point in eating live yogurt? Dr Cuff is a researcher at the Institute of Infection and Immunity. In association with Cardiff University

[252] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Clare Brass, Molly Conisbee and David Boyle How Quickly Can We Change...Culture? Creeping climatic upheaval and corrosive global inequality are like two threads pulling apart civilisation’s fabric. To survive and thrive we face an unprecedented challenge of rapid transition. But the way we live is locked in by a culture of consumerism. David Boyle of the New Weather Institute and Clare Brass, Head of the Royal College of Art Sustain Programme, talk about precedents and our potential for change with historian Molly Conisbee.

[253] 8.30PM CUBE £7 Si Spencer and Dix Klaxon – the graphic novel This disturbing urban horror story from two of the most spectacularly gifted graphic novel artists follows three housebound wasters who pass their days high on wax and cavity wall insulation. When their new neighbours’ landlord begins to exert his malign influence over their lives, they are afflicted by milk binges, metamorphoses and indoor confectionery storms. Tank Girl creator Alan Martin called Klaxon “an urban nightmare of finely balanced dialogue and artwork, as if Raymond Briggs teamed up with 44 Daniel Clowes and they dropped the bad brown acid.” HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 45

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9am 10am WEDNESDAYJUNE 1 [501] 9AM MEET AT BOX OFFICE £8 [258] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Maesllwch Farm Keith Ray Come to Andrew and Rachel Giles’ dairy farm to Offa’s Dyke and the C8th see how their herd of dairy cows produce most of their Mercian Question of Europe milk from grass. Visitors can enter the milking parlour At a time when migration and borders are again central and and help to milk the cows, as well as see the young to our politics and national identity, the archaeologist calves. Learn how the cows are fed and find out how looks back in time to the creation of what was then their four stomachs enable them to digest grass. Europe’s largest earthwork, Offa’s Dyke. He examines Samples of dairy products will be provided for tasting the role of the Mercian kingdom as a European power, and a cheesemaker will demonstrate the craft. and the ways in which Alfred and the Saxon kings Second of three farm walks. These are visits to real rewrote that history. Chaired by Jesse Norman, MP working farms and are suitable for anyone interested for South Herefordshire, through which Offa’s Dyke in learning more about food and farming. Families approaches Hay. are welcome but for this particular walk, children must Sponsored by Mostlymaps be eight years or over. Coaches will return to the festival site in time for events at 1pm. [259] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6 Rosa Freedman and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert 10am Law in the Time of Cholera: Resolving the Dispute between Haiti and the United Nations [255] 10AM TATA TENT £5 – University of Birmingham Series Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan, UN peacekeepers are bound, at the very least, to do no Andre Vincent and guest harm. But what happens when the peacekeepers bring The Early Edition: Sit Down Comedy untold suffering to those they are sent to protect? In 2010 What’s hot and what’s not in today’s newspapers? a contingent of Nepalese peacekeepers brought cholera How do you decode the qualities’ agendas and how into Haiti, a country where the disease had not existed far can you trust the red tops? Why did this make the for more than 100 years. More than 800,000 people have news and that story get spiked? The comedians spend been infected and more than 9,000 have died. Yet no an hour in the human zoo, tearing up stories, making remedies have been made available to the victims, and mad the guilty, and appalling the free… the UN has relied on legal immunity to resist any claims being brought to court. Freedman and Lemay-Hebert are Senior Lecturers at Birmingham University’s Law [256] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 School and International Development Department. Timothy J Jorgensen In association with University of Birmingham Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, and submit to full-body security scans at [HD42] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of Liz Fost and Maisy nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. Maisy at 25 Jorgensen introduces key figures in the story of radiation, The lovable mouse has delighted young children from Wilhelm Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays, and parents for more than 25 years. Join her birthday pioneering radioactivity researchers Marie and Pierre celebrations with a professional storyteller and hear Curie and Thomas Edison, to the victims of the recent all about Maisy’s adventures with her friends. Fukushima accident. Jorgensen explains exactly what 3+ radiation is, how it produces certain health consequences, and how we can protect ourselves from harm. [HD43] 10AM CUBE £5 Cerrie Burnell [257] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Bee Wilson and Louise O Fresco Harper and the Circus of Dreams talk to Rosie Boycott The CBeebies presenter brings to life her magical tale of Harper, a resourceful little girl who lives in the City of Talking About Food: How and What We Eat Clouds with her beloved cat Midnight and her Aunt Sassy. A conversation about our relationship with food: what 6+ we choose to eat, and how the world can feed itself today. Wilson’s book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat looks at how we form our tastes. Fresco’s Hamburgers in Paradise explores questions of surplus and obesity, the productivity of agriculture and how we can aim to feed eight billion people in the world. Boycott is Food Commissioner for the .

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[260] 11.30AM TATA TENT £7 [264] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Gordon McMullan and Katy Mair Kader Abdollah talks to Rosie Goldsmith Talking About Shakespeare: Talking About Islam By Me, William Shakespeare The Iranian-Dutch writer’s previous novels include McMullan and Mair have carefully selected the nine European best-sellers The House of the Mosque and most fascinating documents held by The National The King. He discusses his new novel The Messenger: Archives relating to Shakespeare’s life. Presented A Tale Retold that retells the life of the prophet together for the first time, these are some of the most Mohammad and his new translation of The Qur’an. significant documents in the world that track Shakespeare’s life as a citizen of London, a businessman, [HD44] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 a family man, a servant to the King, and even possibly a thief and a subversive. They explore both his domestic Gary Northfield and Alex Milway and professional lives, what it meant to live in the Learn about the art of cartooning and comic Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and the social impact of illustration from two top creators of characterful WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE WEDNESDAY his plays. McMullan is also the editor of the new digital creatures. Northfield’s Julius Zebra is back with a Norton edition of the complete plays. new madcap escapade in Bundle with the Britons, and Milway’s adventurous pig returns with his hamster sidekick in Pigsticks and Harold and the Pirate Treasure. [261] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 6+ Bill Kissane Nations Torn Asunder CUBE Civil war has been a recurring feature of societies [HD45] 11.30AM £6 throughout history, and an essential catalyst for major Sophy Henn international conflict. Focusing on the numerous civil Pass it On conflicts that have occurred throughout the world since The World Book Day illustrator captures the delight the Second World War, Kissane asks what the recent of finding kindness everywhere and anywhere, even in social science literature adds to what we already know the smallest things. Watch her draw the animals live on about civil war. The LSE professor uses insights from stage, including a monkey and a penguin, as she tells historical sources, starting with the ancient Greeks, to this enchanting story. There will be arts and crafts explain the extreme violent experience of so many parts element where all the children will make their own 3D of the world today. Chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor. Chuckling Octopus. 3+ [262] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WELSH STAGE £8 Eric Wolff Cambridge Series 12: Climate – 1pm Lessons from the Past, Options for the Future How will Earth’s climate respond to rising concentrations [265] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £7 of carbon dioxide? Wolff uses records from the past, Pavel Kolesnikov including those from Antarctic ice cores, to see how BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 2 climate has previously reacted to natural disturbances. The second of four recitals broadcast live from Hay He is the Royal Society Research Professor in the this week. The pianist plays five of Scarlatti’s Keyboard Department of Earth Sciences and one of the world’s Sonatas in C minor, L10; B flat major, L18; E minor, leading experts on polar ice-cores and Palaeoclimate. L22; A major, L483; and A major, L391; CPE Bach’s In association with Cambridge University Sonata in E minor Wq59/1 H281 and his 12 Variations in D minor on a Spanish Folia; and Beethoven’s Sonata No.10 in G major, Op.14 No.2. The concert is GOOD ENERGY STAGE [263] 11.30AM £7 introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill. Joanne Harris talks to Laura Powell Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – Different Class please arrive in good time. Harris’ new novel tells the story of a veteran Latin teacher in a Yorkshire grammar school, facing all the changes of modern education and the disruption of reconnecting with a former pupil from his past. Powell is the author of The Unforgotten.

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1pm 1pm WEDNESDAYJUNE 1 [266] 1PM TATA TENT £8 [270] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Stanley Wells and Margaret Drabble David Green, Mick Donovan, Shakespeare’s Circle Anne Hannaford Wells introduces his anthology of essays about the Universities in the C21st: More and Better? – actors, playwrights and family members around the University of Worcester Series Bard, throwing new light on Shakespeare’s wealth, Universities have been so successful that every city wants family and personal relationships, his working life at least one. But what are they for? Can they be engines and social status. Wells is one of the world’s greatest of inclusion as well as intellect and excellence? How Shakespeare experts, editor of both the Penguin and should they work for the public good as well as personal OUP editions of his work, President of the Shakespeare progress? Will more for-profit, private universities really Birthplace Trust and author, most recently, of lead to efficiency and fresh achievement? Green is the Shakespeare, Sex and Love and Great Shakespeare Actors. Vice Chancellor and CEO of the University of He is joined by the renowned novelist and essayist Worcester; Donovan is Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor Margaret Drabble, who started her working life as and Head of the Institute of Sport and Exercise Science; an actress at the RSC. and Hannaford is Director of Arts and Culture. In association with University of Worcester [267] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Paul Cartledge [HD46] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Cambridge Series 13: Democracy, A Life M G Leonard and Sarah Beynon The classics super-prof explores the myths surrounding Beetle Boy ancient and modern concepts of democracy, from its The author was terrified of beetles until she started to Athenian origins to the tests of Rome and the Middle write Beetle Boy, when she discovered that they support th Ages, and from its rebirth in C17 Britain all the way the ecosystem of the planet. As a result, she created to the current state of the European Union. Baxter the rhinoceros beetle, sidekick to Darkus, who In association with Cambridge University needs all the help he can get to find his missing father, in this funny and heartwarming story. Dr Sarah Benyon is an expert entomologist and head of Benyon’s Bug [268] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WELSH STAGE £7 Tony Juniper Farm, with some very cool beetles. What’s Really Happening to our Planet? 8+ The acclaimed environmentalist, campaigner and author of What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? charts [HD47] 1PM CUBE £6 the dramatic explosion of human population and Janey Louise Jones consumption and its impact on climate change and Superfairies: Dancer the Wild Pony our planet. He offers rigorous and clear analysis, and Brave, kind and always helpful, the Superfairies of a fresh perspective on what we might do next. Peaseblossom Wood love nothing more than solving Sponsored by Outdoors@hay a problem using their superskills and petal power to achieve fantastic results. Find out more about the magical talents of these tiny and resourceful helpers. [269] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Roberta Bivins 6+ Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post-War Britain [271] 1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED It was a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire World at One Windrush, a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain’s BBC Radio 4 LIVE West Indian colonies, arrived together. On 22 June 1948, Join us behind the scenes to watch BBC Radio 4’s as the ship’s passengers disembarked, frantic preparations long-running lunchtime news analysis programme as we were already underway for 5 July, the appointed day broadcast live from Hay every weekday in the BBC Tent. when the nation’s new National Health Service would Presented by Martha Kearney with special guests. open its doors. The relationship between immigration Broadcasting live on BBC Radio 4 at 1pm. Please be and the NHS rapidly attained, and has enduringly seated by 12.50pm. retained, huge political and cultural significance. The Warwick University historian interrogates and re-balances the political history of Britain’s response to immigration. Her current Wellcome Trust-funded work develops a People’s Encyclopaedia of the NHS and a Virtual Museum of the NHS. Chaired by Rosie Boycott.

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[272] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 [275] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Thomas Pakenham Keith Small The Company of Trees Art, Theology and Formation: The acclaimed historian shares his profound love Three Trajectories of the Qur’an of trees and reverence for nature, rooted in the Small presents three trajectories of the Qur’an’s history family estate of Tullynally in Ireland. He travels to that are featured in his book Qur’ans: Books of Divine the Tibetan border in search of a particular magnolia, Encounter. The first is the theological idea of the eternal to Eastern Patagonia to see the last remaining giants word of God entering time and space as text, and the of the Monkey Puzzle tree, while the first of the effect this idea has had on the decoration of the Qur’an. Chinese-inspired gardens on his Irish estate was The second is the effect this theological idea has had planted entirely with seeds from south-west China. on the uses of the Qur’an in recitation, medicine, and An expedition to Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorge goes awry mediation with the unseen world. The third is how only to lead to a fruitful exploration of the Rong-Chu the Qur’an came to be in its present form, inextricably Valley, which yields more than 100 bags of seeds, intertwining oral and written versions. Small is a WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE WEDNESDAY including the Tibetan golden oak, the Tsangpo Manuscript Consultant to the Bodleian Library at cypress and blue-stemmed maples. Oxford University. Sponsored by Wyevale Nurseries Ltd [276] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [273] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Fay Bound Alberti Richard and Daniel Susskind This Mortal Coil The Future of the Professions: How Technology The way the body moves, feels, breathes and engages Will Transform the Work of Human Experts with the world has been viewed very differently across In a digital society we will neither need nor want times and cultures. For centuries, we were believed to doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, be composed of souls that were part of the body and consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they inseparable from it. Now we exist in our heads, and did in the C20th. The Oxford thinkers explain how our bodies have become the vessels for that uncertain ‘increasingly capable systems’, from tele-presence to and elusive thing we call our true selves. The way we artificial intelligence, will bring fundamental change understand the material structure of the body has also in the way that the practical expertise of specialists is changed radically over the centuries. From the bones made available in society. The authors argue that our to the skin, from the senses to the organs of sexual current professions are antiquated, opaque and no reproduction, every part of the body has an ever- longer affordable, and that the expertise of the best is changing history, dependent on time, culture and place. enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose six Fay Bound Alberti is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research new models for producing and distributing expertise Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in History at Queen in society. Chaired by Bronwen Maddox. Mary University of London.

[274] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [277] 2.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Richard Holmes Martha Kearney: My Love Affair Hard Times: Writers and the with the Brontës Royal Literary Fund, 1790–2016 A BBC event at Hay The Royal Literary Fund was set up in 1790 to help For the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s professional authors. Past beneficiaries have included birth, Martha Kearney travelled to Haworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, D H Parsonage, the home of the Brontës, to discover Lawrence and Dylan Thomas. Last year it helped 200 the inspiration behind their classic novels for the writers, though not all of them are quite as famous, yet. BBC Two documentary At Home with the Brontës. In 1999 a Fellowship scheme was established to place She talks about her obsession with Jane Eyre, the writers in universities to help students with their writing insights she gained from her co-presenters, and the skills. Since it began it has put 450 writers in posts at challenges of making a documentary about Britain’s 120 higher education institutions. The inaugural RLF most famous literary sisters. Lecture at Hay is given by the pre-eminent biographer Not for broadcast. of Shelley and Coleridge, author of The Age of Wonder, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer and Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer. In association with The Royal Literary Fund

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2.30pm 4pm WEDNESDAYJUNE 1 [HD48] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [280] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU WELSH STAGE £7 The Word Wizards’ Guide to Roald Dahl Rose Tremain Calling all Roald Dahl fans, wordsmiths and wannabe The Gustav Sonata writers. Don’t be biffsquiggled! Join our Word Wizards as Fierce, astringent, profoundly tender and spanning they swashboggle their way through the wonderful writing the C20th, this beautifully orchestrated novel of Roald Dahl. Through games and performance, we’ll explores the big themes of betrayal and the struggle hear all about the new Roald Dahl Dictionary. for happiness and, above all, the passionate love of 6+ a childhood friendship as it is tested over a lifetime. Sponsored by Literature Wales Tremain’s award-winning fiction includes Music and Silence, The Road Home, Sacred Country, Restoration and The Colour. She talks to Peter Florence. [HD49] 2.30PM CUBE £5 Kiran Millwood Hargrave [281] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 and Alwyn Hamilton John Heilbron Powerful girls, swirling adventures, fantasy worlds and a breathtaking love story – join the authors of The Girl Physics: From Quintessence to Quarks of Ink and Stars and Rebel of the Sands, two of the most How does the physics we know today, a highly exciting first novels of 2016, as they reveal the professionalised enterprise inextricably linked to inspiration behind their sensational debuts. government and industry, link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that 8+ leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind’s place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down 4pm fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? Heilbron is one of the most [278] 4PM TATA TENT £8 revered physicists in the world, and has written books Monty Don about Galileo and Niels Bohr. Chaired by Dan Davis. Eighteenth Century Gardens and the Landscape Movement [282] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 The gardening writer and broadcaster celebrates Stuart Franklin the work of William Kent, Capability Brown and The Documentary Impulse Humphrey Repton, the men who pioneered a gardening revolution and remade the English landscape. The Magnum photographer took one of the most powerful images of the C20th – the ‘tank man’ in Sponsored by the Castle House Hotel, Hereford Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we [279] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 are driven to document our experiences and the world James Holland around us in a visual way. He focuses on photography Burma ’44: The Battle That but traces this universal need through art, literature and Turned Britain’s War in the East science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies In February 1944 a ragtag collection of clerks, drivers, some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform doctors, muleteers and other base troops, stiffened by and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank therapy; and the immortalisation of memory. crews, managed to hold out against some of the finest Chaired by Oliver Bullough. infantry in the Japanese army and defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War. What became known as The Defence of [283] 4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED the Admin Box, fought among the paddy fields and The Banker’s Guide to the Art Market jungle of Northern Arakan over a 15-day period, A BBC event at Hay turned the battle for Burma. Holland is the author The value of London’s art market has recently soared of Fortress Malta, Battle of Britain, and Dam Busters to unprecedented highs, driven by the newly rich of and runs Chalke Valley History Festival. the financial world, whose money has poured into the accounts of dealers, galleries and auction houses. Join Martha Kearney, maverick art dealer Kenny Shachter and double BAFTA-winning Executive Producer Patrick Forbes as they discuss this extraordinary phenomenon and take you behind the closed doors of the art dealing world. ‘The Banker’s Guide to the Art Market’, made by Oxford Film & Television, broadcasts on BBC Four in June. 49 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 50

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[HD50] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [286] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Lucy Worsley Tony Juniper, Beccy Speight, Adam Shaw Eliza Rose Natural Capital: Securing the Future or The historian and broadcaster brings the court of Henry Just a Sellout? – Woodland Trust Series VIII to life in her first children’s novel. Go behind the Natural Capital, the world’s stock of natural resources, scenes and discover the friendships and intrigues at the is a concept with increasing political and economic royal court when she tells the story of Eliza’s life as a traction. Paying particular attention to the role of Maid of Honour to the glamorous new Queen. woods and trees, this debate explores whether it can 10+ help deliver an enhanced natural environment for the benefit of everyone, or whether it poses significant risks by making nature conservation a commodity. Juniper [HD51] 4PM CUBE £5 is a campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and Vanessa Altin environmentalist, Speight is CEO of the Woodland The Pomegranate Tree Trust, Shaw is a journalist and broadcaster. WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE WEDNESDAY Dilvan, a young Kurdish girl, has fled her home in Syria In association with the Woodland Trust to escape the terror that has overrun her country. In a brief moment of safety she begins to record in her diary OXFAM MOOT the desperate search for her family. Dilvan’s fighting [287] 5.30PM £7 spirit and her compelling story are eloquently described Vanessa Berridge by a journalist who has reported widely on the atrocities The Princess’s Garden: Royal Intrigue in Syria for many newspapers. Real stories such as and the Untold Story of Kew Dilvan’s inspired her book. Augusta of Saxe-Gotha arrived in England aged 16, 12+ speaking barely any English, to be married to the wild Prince Frederick, the reviled eldest son of George II. Her lifelong association with Kew Gardens, and that 5.30pm of her husband and their close friend Lord Bute, would prove to be one that changed the face of British gardening for ever. Berridge tells a tangled tale of royal [284] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 intrigue, scandal and determination in the Georgian Tom Holland court, and draws us into the politically charged world Æthelstan: The Making of England of garden design. The formation of England happened against the odds – the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the [288] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world. But King Alfred Ewan Fernie, Simon Palfrey, Tom de Freston ensured the survival of Wessex, his son Eadweard A reading of Macbeth, Macbeth – expanded it, and his grandson Æthelstan finally united University of Birmingham Series Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and Macbeth, Macbeth is by Fernie and Palfrey, with became Rex totius Britanniae. stunning original pictures by de Freston. The tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macduff pursues dreams of [285] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WELSH STAGE £8 national revival, smaller lives are seeding. In the ruins Martin Stevens of Dunsinane, the porter tries to keep his three young Cheats and Deceits: boys safe from the nightmare of history. In a nunnery How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead deep in Birnam Wood, a girl attempts to forget what In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. she lost in war. Flitting between them, a tortured Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in clairvoyant shakes with the knowledge of what’s to the environment for protection, trick other species into come. An unprecedented collaboration between two rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive leading Shakespeareans, Macbeth, Macbeth sparks a potential mates for reproduction. Cuckoos lay eggs whole new world from the embers of Shakespeare’s carefully matched to their host’s own clutch. Harmless darkest play. butterflies mimic the wing patterning of a poisonous In association with University of Birmingham butterfly to avoid being eaten. Some orchids develop the smell of female insects in order to attract pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death with colourful displays. The Exeter Professor of Evolutionary Ecology considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.

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5.30pm 7pm WEDNESDAYJUNE 1 [289] 5.30PM CUBE £6 [293] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Bob Wilcher, Jeremy Hooker, Elaine Collins, Ann Cleeves, Elizabeth Siberry Clare Batty, Alison O’Donnell Henry Vaughan and the Usk Valley Shetland The metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan is much The makers of the fabulous BBC crime drama discuss anthologised – “I saw Eternity the other night”, “They the characters, setting and plot, and the handling of the are all gone into the world of light”; but it is not so well rape story in the third series. Executive producer Elaine known that he was a native of the Usk valley, and that it Collins and script executive Clare Batty are joined by Ann is the light on the river and hills of that Cleeves, who writes both the Shetland and Vera novels shines through his poetry. Inspired by George Herbert, his on which the television dramas are based, and Alison work interweaves the natural and the spiritual world. Three O’Donnell, who plays D S Alison “Tosh” McIntosh. Vaughan scholars celebrate his work and sense of place. Chaired by Radio Times’ TV Editor, Alison Graham.

[294] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 6.30pm Juliet Davenport, Craig Bennett and Leo Johnson talk to Andy Fryers [290] 6.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED The Human Side of Climate Change Arts Show – Good Energy Series BBC Radio Wales LIVE Climate change often seems remote and theoretical: Nicola Heywood-Thomas presents highlights and satellite images of polar ice caps, carbon emission guests from the Hay Festival in this live broadcast. statistics and global leaders conducting high-flying Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. diplomacy. But for millions around the world the changing climate is a daily and ever-increasing challenge to their security, health, homes and livelihoods. 7pm Can telling the human stories tackle ambivalence and scepticism? Davenport is CEO of Good Energy;

[291] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Bennett is CEO of Friends of the Earth; and Johnson Bronwen Maddox, Jane Mayer, is co-founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd. Jim Naughtie, Mark Thompson In partnership with Good Energy The White House 2016 Our panel assesses the Primaries season and looks forward [295] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 to the Republican and Democrat Conventions in July. Peter Chadwick How might Clinton vs Trump pan out? Maddox is editor This Brutal World of Prospect magazine, Mayer a staff writer for the New The graphic designer and art director presents his global Yorker, Naughtie a BBC anchor and Thompson is CEO survey of this compelling and much-admired style of of the New York Times; his Enough Said: What’s Gone architecture. He brings to light virtually unknown Wrong with the Language of Politics? will be published Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former in September. Chaired by Guto Harri. Eastern bloc and other far-flung parts of the world. He introduces work by a number of the best [292] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WELSH STAGE £8 contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield, alongside some of the master Richard Fortey th The Wood From the Trees architects of the C20 including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Paul Fortey presents his wood, deep in the Chiltern Hills, Rudolph and Marcel Breuer. as an interwoven collection of different habitats rich in species. His attention ranges from the beech and cherry trees that dominate the wood to the flints underfoot; [296] 7PM CUBE £6 the red kites and woodpeckers that soar overhead; the Simon Grennan lichens, mosses and liverworts decorating the branches Dispossession: The Graphic Novel as well as myriad species of spiders, moths, beetles and The artist shows and tells the exciting story of how craneflies. The 300 species of fungi identified in the he made his 100-page graphic adaptation of Anthony wood capture his attention as much as familiar deer, Trollope’s 1879 novel, conjuring the Victorian era in shrews and dormice. The great palaeontologist is a glittering waltz of intense colour, visualising Trollope’s the author of Fossils: A Key to the Past, The Hidden tale of blackmail, bigamy and betrayal. Landscape, Life: An Unauthorised Biography, Trilobite! and The Earth: An Intimate History.

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[298] 8.30PM TATA TENT £18 captured the bucolic rural life of his day. Does anything Baaba Maal in Concert of Kilvert’s world still exist? And could a newcomer ever feel they truly belong? With empathy and humour, BBC Radio 3’s World on 3 presents Balch joins in the daily routines and lives of his fellow The Senegalese superstar with the sublime voice returns residents. What emerges is a captivating, personal to Hay with his band and new album The Traveller. picture of country life. WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE WEDNESDAY “By travelling you discover that humanity is so Sponsored by The Rhydspence Inn beautiful: different faces, different cultures, different colours, different sounds.” He is one of the world’s most spectacular performers and this new project is [302] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 founded on an Africa Express collaboration with Andrew Simms, Richard Murphy, members of The Very Best and the Mumfords, and Victoria Chick the poet Lemn Sissay. World on 3’s Lopa Kothari How Quickly Can We Change...Economics? hosts the evening, which includes support from Creeping climatic upheaval and corrosive global emerging world music talent Olion Byw. inequality are like two threads pulling apart civilisation’s In association with Hay2Timbuktu fabric. To survive and thrive, we face an unprecedented The concert will be broadcast on challenge of rapid transition. But the way we live is BBC Radio 3 on Friday 3 June at 11pm. locked in by an economic system, dominated by finance and obsessed with growth. Andrew Simms of [299] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WELSH STAGE £7 the New Weather Institute discusses whether orthodox Monty Don, Michael Mansfield, economics can effect change with Richard Murphy, Claire Worden, Bella Bathurst architect of Corbynomics, and Victoria Chick, one of the world’s leading authorities on Keynes. Talking About It Four people, all of whom have gone through some fundamental crisis in their lives and all of whom have a story to tell. With wisdom, insight, courage and humour, they talk both about what brought them down and what has lifted them up. Monty Don has written about depression and the power of the natural world to lift and to heal. Following the death of his daughter Anna last year, the human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield QC now campaigns for a broader understanding of suicide. Claire Worden is a Cornish farmer who knows from the inside what happens when farmers lose their land. And writer Bella Bathurst describes how not to handle going deaf in your twenties. Chaired by Francine Stock. In association with the Samaritans

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[303] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Henry Shue talks to Philippe Sands [307] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Fighting Hurt: BBC Writersroom: Finding Your Rule and Exception in Torture and War Writer’s Voice Citing real cases including the bombing of Iraq in A BBC event at Hay 1991, the Clinton Administration decision not to Writersroom is the part of the BBC that works with intervene in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, NATO new writers and writing. Join them for a workshop bombing of Serbia in 1999, and CIA torture after 9/11, designed to help new and emerging screenwriters the Oxford international relations expert interrogates identify their unique voice. Through a series of focused issues of ‘proportionality’ and ‘collateral damage’ as he writing exercises, BBC Writersroom will help you free examines the ethical limits of US foreign policy. He your writer’s voice and start creating new and original talks to the lawyer and author of Lawless World and ideas to begin your journey to writing for the screen. Torture Team. Not for broadcast.

[304] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £6 [HD52] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Lisa Jones Pontardawe Arts Centre Presents Exploring the Poles: In Search of a The King of the Sky Deeper Understanding of Bipolar Disorder Enjoy a magical performance of the play The King of University of Worcester Series the Sky, a touching story of friendship and hope set Our ability to treat bipolar disorder is hampered by the in the Welsh valleys in the 1920s. Zoologist and limits of our understanding of its causes. The Professor author Nicola Davies touches on universal themes of Psychological Medicine explores the highs and lows of difference and the kindness of strangers in this of bipolar disorder. She considers factors that can lead story of an Italian boy’s experience as a refugee. to both mania and depression, and examines recent 6+ and future advances in the treatment of mental illness. In association with University of Worcester [HD53] 10AM CUBE £5 Clare Nasir GOOD ENERGY STAGE [305] 10AM £7 Two Clouds and a Cough David Gwyn Become a cloud expert with the meteorologist, author Welsh Slate and presenter. She will spark the imagination of young A history and a celebration of the Welsh slate industry minds as she talks weather and clouds, and reads from centred on , exploring all aspects, from her latest children’s book. the cultural to the technical, and from the home to 3+ the quarries. Dr Gwyn is the author of the Royal Commission’s latest publication, Welsh Slate: Archaeology and History of an Industry. In association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

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[308] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 [311] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 William Perry talks to Nik Gowing Emma Manners The 2016 Joseph Rotblat Lecture: Capability Brown and Belvoir: My Journey at the Nuclear Brink Discovering a Lost Landscape Perry was ’s Defence Secretary and has The Duchess of Rutland tells the story of the worked on security throughout his career. He explains rediscovery of the great landscape designer’s the development of his thinking on weaponry and abandoned plans for the Leicestershire estate. security as he journeys from the Cuban Missile In a sumptuously illustrated lecture she shows Crisis to crafting a defence strategy in the Carter how the original vision has now been articulated Administration to offset the Soviets’ numeric at one of Britain’s most spectacular country houses. superiority in conventional forces, presiding over the Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and his creation in 2007 [312] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 THURSDAY 2 JUNE THURSDAY (with George Shultz, Sam Nunn and Henry Kissinger) of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate “a vision Jim Huntington of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out Cambridge Series 14: the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers”. Fortune Favours the Prepared Mind In association with the WMD Awareness Project The tale of a scientist, a physician, his patient and her headache. Professor Huntingdon from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research introduces his work on [309] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 blood coagulation, which helps in devising strategies Chris McGrath and therapies for preventing heart disease and strokes. Mr Darley’s Arabian In association with Cambridge University Ninety-five per cent of all thoroughbreds in the world are descended from one horse, the so-called Darley [HD54] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Arabian, shipped from Aleppo to Yorkshire in 1704 by a second son who failed to make his fortune and died Melvin Burgess before he could follow his horse home. The former Junk at 20 racing correspondent on tells the story Junk won the prestigious Carnegie Medal and Guardian of the men and women who owned and traded and Children’s Book Prize in 1996. It was criticised for bred the horses descended from that first stallion. He depicting young drug-users. Twenty years on, author also follows the men they hired to train them, and the Melvin Burgess discusses the book and the controversy jockeys who rode them and sometimes rescued them that has surrounded it with Jonathan Douglas of the from the knacker’s yard, unwittingly preserving the National Literacy Trust. genetic line of winners that currently resides with the 12+ #HAYYA champion Frankel. Chaired by the producer of the Horse Tales documentaries Corisande Albert. [HD55] 11.30AM CUBE £5 Sponsored by Gypsy Castle Camping Julia Green The Wilderness War [310] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Can Noah and his friends save their wilderness from Charlotte Scott developers? It’s the place where they make dens and sleep Talking About Shakespeare: under the stars and they’re prepared to fight to save it. Of Ghosts and Witches Join the author as she discusses the book and her own What’s Macbeth without the witches? Quite possibly passion for preserving and protecting the countryside. the play Shakespeare wrote. Macbeth was not published 8+ until after Shakespeare’s death and it is highly likely In association with the Woodland Trust that it was his great contemporary Thomas Middleton who wrote most of the supernatural scenes. The Goldsmiths Shakespeare scholar will consider the role of the witches in Macbeth; their lasting legacy of psychosexual drama and the problems of ‘normal’ in a play that features a homicidal thane, a woman who wants to be unsexed, and a collection of bearded women babbling on a heath. Chaired by Peter Florence.

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[313] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £7 [316] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 THURSDAYJUNE 2 Peter Moore and James Baillieu Samer Nashef talks to Anita Anand BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 3 The Naked Surgeon: The Power and The third of four recitals broadcast live from Hay this Peril of Transparency in Medicine week. The trombonist and pianist play Persichetti’s The consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth looks at Parable XVIII, Op.133; Lindberg’s Los Bandidos; de the development of tools to measure how well surgeons Falla’s 7 Canciones Populares Españolas; Dutilleux’ and hospitals are performing. He addresses the crucial Choral, Cadence et Fugato; Fauré’s Après un rêve, Op.7 decisions faced by anyone contemplating a medical No.1, and Sicilienne, Op.78; Guilmant’s Morceau intervention: should I keep taking the tablets? Should Symphonique, Op.88; and Pryor’s Bluebells of Scotland. I have an operation? Which surgeon should I choose? The concert is introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill. He reveals why requesting a surgeon with the lowest Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – patient mortality rate could be a mistake; how please arrive in good time. anaesthetists seem to make no difference to the outcome of an operation, but surgeons do; and why patients operated on the day before a surgeon goes on [314] 1PM TATA TENT £8 holiday are twice as likely to die as those operated on Jonathan Dimbleby during that surgeon’s first day back. The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War [317] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The Battle of the Atlantic was crucial to victory in Claire Harman the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would Charlotte Brontë 200 have been severed. Mass hunger would have consumed Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer Britain, and the Allied armies would have been and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. prevented from joining in the invasion of Europe. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and There would have been no D-Day. Using fascinating took charge of their precarious finances when her contemporary diaries and letters, from the leaders and feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she the sailors on all sides, Dimbleby maps the human introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, stories, the intelligence breakthroughs and the strategic modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, daring of this turning point in European history. burning with passion and potential. Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the [315] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 author of the best-selling Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Aurélia Masson-Berghoff Conquered the World. Sunken Cities

Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the [318] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Safia Minney talks to Dilys Williams Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank more than a thousand years ago. They Slow Fashion: Aesthetics Meets Ethics were dramatically rediscovered in the C20th and Slow Fashion offers creatives, entrepreneurs and ethical brought to the surface by marine archaeologists in consumers a glimpse into the innovative world of the the 1990s. The wealth of ancient artefacts from these eco-concept store movement. It focuses on sustainable excavations are now exhibited in the British Museum’s design and businesses that makes people, livelihoods landmark exhibition. The curator tells the story of how and sustainability central to everything they do. two iconic ancient civilisations, Egypt and Greece, Minney is founder and CEO of fairtrade and interacted in the late first millennium BC. sustainable fashion label People Tree. Williams is Director of The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at In association with the British Museum London College of Fashion.

[319] 1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED World at One BBC Radio 4 LIVE Join us behind the scenes to watch BBC Radio 4’s long-running lunchtime news analysis programme as we broadcast live from Hay every weekday in the BBC Tent. Presented by Martha Kearney with special guests. Broadcasting live on BBC Radio 4 at 1pm. Please be seated by 12.50pm.

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[HD56] 1PM CUBE £6 [322] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Michelle Robinson Tiffany Jenkins Goodnight Spaceman Keeping Their Marbles Bedtime goodnights to their toy rockets and the planet The fabulous collections housed in the world’s most turn into a magical adventure for two Space-mad boys famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. once they’re asleep. Join the author/illustrator as she Now the countries from which these treasures came takes them on their journey, and make your own would like them back. The Greek demand for the planets to take home. return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that 3+ includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the [HD57] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects and The Bookseller YA Prize Aboriginal human remains. Jenkins investigates why

THURSDAY 2 JUNE THURSDAY Join a stellar line-up of some of this year’s shortlisted repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and authors for The Bookseller YA Prize as they are put shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the under the spotlight by the judges before the winner is desired social change nor repair the wounds of history. finally revealed – and celebrate with them afterwards! Chaired by Daniel Hahn. This year’s frontrunners are Holly Bourne, Sarah Crossan, Jenny Downham, Frances Hardinge, [323] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Catherine Johnson, Patrick Ness, Louise O’Neill, Mel Salisbury, William Sutcliffe and Lisa Williamson. Cathy Rentzenbrink talks to Sarfraz Manzoor 12+ #HAYYA The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister In the summer of 1990, Cathy’s brother Matty was 2.30pm knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which TATA TENT [320] 2.30PM £8 turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his Jonathan Bate unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and The British Academy Lecture: watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her William Shakespeare 1616–2116 parents willed him to survive. They did not know then Why are we celebrating the 400th anniversary of that there are many and various fates worse than death. Shakespeare’s death? Who and what are we celebrating? The Last Act of Love is shortlisted for The Wellcome How did Shakespeare get from there (the Elizabethan Book Prize. and Jacobean stage) to here (the global icon) and where will he go in the next hundred years? The eminent [324] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Shakespeare scholar is the author of The Genius of Shakespeare and Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and Kathelijne Koops World of William Shakespeare. He is Professor of English Cambridge Series 15: at the University of Oxford. Chaired by Jerry Brotton. Chimps, Bonobos, Humans In association with The British Academy What can chimpanzees and bonobos tell us about the extraordinarily complex human cultures? Koops, an Affiliated Lecturer in the Division of Biological [321] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Anthropology at Cambridge, investigates this question Paul Bahn by studying our closest living relatives, the great apes. Images of the Ice Age In association with Cambridge University An illustrated lecture exploring the earliest human art and what it tells us about our ancestors. Bahn looks at [HD58] 2.30PM CUBE £6 the famous cave paintings of Lascaux, Altamira, and Chauvet and the thousands of exquisite pieces of portable Ross Welford and Christopher Edge art in bone, antler, ivory, and stone produced in the same Science and Wonder period. In 2003, Bahn led the team that discovered the The brilliant Ross and Christopher explore the wonder first Ice Age cave art in England, at Creswell Crags in of science as a way to explain some of the mysteries Nottinghamshire. Chaired by Daisy Leitch. of the world in their books, Time Travelling with a Hamster and The Many Worlds of Albie Bright. 8+

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[325] 4PM TATA TENT £8 [328] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 THURSDAYJUNE 2 Richard Shirreff talks to Nik Gowing John Lewis-Stempel The President’s War The Running Hare: General Sir Richard Shirreff, one of Britain’s highest- The Secret Life of Farmland ranking soldiers and until recently Deputy Head of Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield NATO, was threatened with court martial when he dared flowers have become extinct in the past 20 years. Once to criticise ’s defence policy. What he says abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the here goes much further. He brings an urgent warning: Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. We are sleepwalking our way into war with Russia and And the hare is running for its life. The author of we need to act now, with resolution, to avoid it. The Wild Life and Meadowland tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland: from the labouring microbes to the [326] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet Barry Cunliffe pecking at seeds to the seven-spot ladybird that eats the By Steppe, Desert and Ocean: aphids that eat the crop. He talks to Kitty Corrigan. The Birth of Eurasia Sponsored by Freerein Riding Holidays The story of how humans first started building the globalised world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale [HD59] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 covering more than ten thousand years from the origins Malorie Blackman of farming around 9,000 BC to the expansion of the Chasing the Stars th Mongols in the C13 AD. Cunliffe brings into clearer The author pays tribute to Shakespeare’s 400th focus those basic underlying factors that have driven anniversary in this brilliant new novel inspired by change throughout the ages: the acquisitive nature of Othello. Her heartrending tale blends a love story with humanity, the differing environments in which people a sci-fi twist in an original Space-age adventure. Hear live and the dislocating effect of even slight climatic her discuss the story and her own love of Shakespeare variation. The Emeritus Professor of Archaeology is with Claire Armitstead of the Guardian. the author of The Ancient Celts, Facing the Ocean, 12+ #TALKINGABOUTSHAKESPEARE and Britain Begins. #HAYYA

[327] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [HD60] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Denis Burdakov, Anne O’Garra, Frances Hardinge, Katherine Woodfine Barry Thompson and Lyn Gardner Collaborating to Beat Cancer Mystery Moments Cancer Research UK Series Unexplained death! Who knows what will happen next? What do neuroscience, tuberculosis and the humble Come and meet the authors of The Lie Tree, The Mystery fruit fly have to do with cancer? At the Francis Crick of the Jewelled Moth and Rose Campion and the Stolen Institute, London’s new biomedical discovery centre, Secret – three hugely entertaining and gripping stories. scientists from across the biomedical spectrum are being In conversation with Emma Carroll. brought together under one roof. They are revolutionising research into cancer by speaking across specialisms and 10+ towards scientific innovation in the C21st. In association with The Francis Crick Institute [HD61] 4PM CUBE £7 and Cancer Research UK Liz Fost Thunderbirds Are Go For fans of the new TV series, an action-packed session where you can learn what it takes to become a legendary member of International Rescue. Play games, take part in secret missions and hear tales of the illustrious Tracy brothers in their courageous battles. 6+

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[329] 4.30PM–6.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [334] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 In Tune Damian Walford Davies, BBC Radio 3 LIVE Carrie Smith, Tomos Owen In Tune is BBC Radio 3’s award-winning daily The Gwyn Jones Lecture: drivetime show. Presented by Sean Rafferty, this Wales of the Unexpected live broadcast show will feature an eclectic mix of Contributors to a ground-breaking new book, live music, plus interviews with some of the featured Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected, discuss the vital writers at the festival. presence of Wales in the work of ‘the world’s number @BBCInTune one storyteller’. This is Roald Dahl wonderfully Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. defamiliarised in his centenary year through the lens of the country of his birth and early life. In association with Literature Wales and Roald Dahl 100 5.30pm THURSDAY 2 JUNE THURSDAY [335] 5.30PM CUBE £6 [330] 5.30PM TATA TENT £16 Jason R C Nurse Michael Palin talks to John Crace Social Media: The Good, The Bad Travelling to Work and The Ugly An interview with the treasured actor, writer, The impact of social media on society today is traveller and diarist. undeniable - sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin have millions and even billions of users. [331] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Nurse, an academic at Oxford’s Department of Gareth Williams Computer Science, considers the positive uses of social-media information, while also explaining the A Monstrous Commotion: various security and privacy risks associated with The Mysteries of Loch Ness having a digital footprint. Shedding light on what The Loch Ness monster: a creature that should have social media is, as well as how it works, he will show died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes how to understand what you are telling the world and wishful thinking? The Bristol professor teases out when you join in with social media, and how to the threads of one of the most popular mysteries of recognise good information from bad, as a reader. the past hundred years. Chaired by Martin Chilton. Suitable/essential for 13+ years. In association with the Department of Computer [332] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Science at The University of Oxford Jim Baggott Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation There are many different versions of our creation story. 7pm Baggott tells the version according to modern science. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, he starts with the [336] 7PM TATA TENT £8 Big Bang and travels right up to the emergence of Billy Bragg humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion A Lover Sings years later. Chaired by Dan Davis. Bragg is one of Britain’s most distinctive and accomplished songwriters, whose work has articulated [333] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 the passions, both personal and political, of Britain Matthew Green during the past five decades. A new collection of his Aftershock: The Untold lyrics, A Lover Sings, reveals a unique sensibility: Story of Surviving Peace principled and proudly of the Left, funny, forthright and tender. He talks to Sarfraz Manzoor. Over the past decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and [337] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 killed their enemies, having seen and done things that Roger McGough and LiTTLe MACHiNe have no place in civilian life? Through wide-ranging The Dream Team interviews with former combatants, the war Hilarious and surreal, McGough is a poet of many correspondent tells the story of our veterans’ journey voices. Menace and melancholy there may be, but with from the frontline to the reality of return and asks: why plenty of McGough’s characteristic wit and wordplay, do people who are trained to thrive within the theatre too. His newest collection of comical verse, perfect for of war so often find themselves ill-prepared for peace? Hay, is It Never Rains. He is joined by the brilliantly He talks to Jamie Hacker Hughes, the PTSD and inventive three-piece band that has enjoyed huge success trauma specialist, Visiting Professor of Military around the world with its settings of poetry. Little Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University. Machine are the musicians, composers and writers Walter Wray, Steve Halliwell and Chris Hardy. 60 Sponsored by TotalProduce HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 61

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[338] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [341] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 THURSDAYJUNE 2 Caroline Grigson Oliver Morton and Juliet Davenport Menagerie: The History of talk to Andy Fryers Exotic Animals in England Tackling Climate Change with Technology – From Henry III’s elephant at the Tower to George Good Energy Series IV’s love affair with Britain’s first giraffe and Lady New technology with the potential to reduce and Castlereagh’s recalcitrant ostriches, Grigson’s tour mitigate our impact on the environment is emerging through the centuries amounts to an impressively on every scale from the global to the domestic. detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the Geo-engineering could counteract climate change way we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish by intervening in Earth’s natural systems, while new creatures, including the first peacocks and popinjays, consumer technology offers greener cars and smarter Thomas More’s monkey and Lord Clive’s zebra, which homes. What are the latest ideas? And which technologies refused to mate with a donkey until it was painted with will be the most effective at securing a sustainable future? stripes. It is also the story of all those who came into Morton is an author and briefings editor of The contact with them: the people who owned them, the Economist. Davenport is CEO of Good Energy. merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen In association with Good Energy who carried them to our shores, the naturalists who wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who worked with them, and the [342] 7PM CUBE £7 collectors who collected them. Grigson is now an Chris Morgan Jones and Jim Naughtie honorary professor at the UCL Institute of Single Spies Archaeology. Chaired by John Mitchinson. Thrilling new tales of espionage from two emerging stars of the genre. An unlikely hero dives into the chaotic

[339] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 madness of Russia and Georgia’s deadly covert conflict, Paul Murdin in a rapid-fire tale of corporate espionage gone awry in Morgan Jones’ The Searcher. Will Flemyng, the hero of Cambridge Series 16: Planetary Vistas, Naughtie’s Paris Spring, is an embassy man caught up in the Landscapes of Other Worlds the évenements of April 1968. For 11 years Morgan Jones Recent advances in space exploration imaging have worked at the world’s largest business intelligence agency. allowed us now to see landscapes never before possible. He advised Middle Eastern governments, Russian Murdin shows some of the greatest views and vistas oligarchs, New York banks, London hedge funds and of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory. African mining companies. Naughtie presented the Towering cliffs, icy canyons: the scenery is out of this Today programme on BBC Radio 4 for 21 years, world; all captured with the latest technology by interrogating lots of the people Morgan Jones landing and roving vehicles or by very low-flying worked for. They talk to Georgina Godwin. spacecraft. Murdin is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge. In association with Cambridge University 8.30pm

[340] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [343] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Catherine Gee, Duncan Cunningham, Mahmood Sariolghalam talks to Nik Gowing Emma Gray, Imogen Green Navigating Tensions of Life in Iran Finding Love in the Countryside Sariolghalam is Professor of International Relations at Discover the good, the bad and intriguing world Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University and is one of Iran’s of online dating and rural matchmaking with best-selling authors. For 26 years he has taught and Farmer Wants a Wife presenter Catherine Gee. conducted research on contemporary history and Iran’s Duncan Cunningham is founder of The Dating Lab, relations with the outside world. His acknowledged which has launched dozens of dating sites including skill has been to find ways to navigate Iran’s red lines in Country Living Magazine’s own country-loving.co.uk. public discourse, and to avoid being targeted for being After seeing tens of thousands of dating profiles he outspoken in print. The political establishment not knows the difference between eye-catching and off- only tolerated his writings, it has also been influenced putting. Shepherdess and novelist Emma Gray, and by them. And Iran’s next generation views them as Country Living columnist and author Imogen Green, having helped to frame the 2015 nuclear agreement have both written extensively about their personal and expectations for the future. experiences of rural romance and will share their highlights and low points. Followed by a drinks reception to chat to the speakers and meet like-minded country singletons. Who knows where it might lead? In association with Country Living Magazine

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[344] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [348] 9.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Bangalore Sathyaprakash and Patrick Sutton Ghazalaw Chasing Einstein: the Story of the Theatr Mwldan And Cerys Matthews’ Discovery of Gravitational Waves Marvels Of The Universe Present – Cardiff University Series The sublime sounds of India and Wales combine in this One hundred years ago Einstein predicted the esoteric unique and exquisite collaboration that brings together phenomena of gravitational waves. Last September the Indian ghazal and Welsh folk traditions. The six-piece they were directly detected for the first time, from the band is led by Mumbai-based Tauseef Akhtar violent collision of two black holes. That event marked (harmonium, vocal) and singer-songwriter Gwyneth the beginning of a new chapter in our study of the Glyn (guitar, vocal) from Criccieth on Cardigan Bay. cosmos. Cardiff University scientists heavily involved They are joined by Manjeet Singh Rasiya (tabla), in the LIGO project (Laser Interferometer Patrick Rimes (violin) and Dylan Fowler (guitar). Gravitational-Wave Observatory) will discuss the The Welsh folk and Indian ghazal traditions evolve from

THURSDAY 2 JUNE THURSDAY experience of making this landmark observation, ancient poetic forms that share surprising affinities and a the incredible science and fascinating personal stories common Sanskrit root. They speak of loss and romantic behind it, and what it means for the future of our love. Originally a C7th Arabic verse form, ghazal travelled understanding of the universe. The speakers are both via sufi influences to medieval poets who embraced it, based at the School of Physics and Astronomy. making it their own. Traditionally invoking melancholy, In association with Cardiff University love, longing and mysticism, ghazals are now often sung by Iranian, Indian and Pakistani musicians. Originated by Wales Arts International [345] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Howard Johns, Lindsay Mackie, John Barrett, Andrew Simms How Quickly can we Change…the Built Environment? We are locked in by our buildings, roads and homes, and the high, unsustainable energy use they depend on. Lindsay Mackie of the New Weather Institute; Howard Johns, author of Energy Revolution; John Barrett, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at University of Leeds; and author Andrew Simms discuss how we can instigate the transformational change required to make our homes and cities viable in the future.

[346] 8.30PM CUBE £6 Hugh Dunkerley talks to Jane Davidson Some Thoughts on Poetry and Fracking Poet and eco-critic Hugh Dunkerley is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and at the University of Chichester. He will ask whether poetry can help challenge our government and the fracking companies in their desire to industrialise large parts of the British landscape. Chaired by the director of the award-winning INSPIRE project at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. In association with INSPIRE and ASLE-UKI

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Brobury Farm Walk Will Chase, Illtud Llyr Dunsford, FRIDAYJUNE 3 Charlie and David Blandford’s farm lies alongside the Jane Scotter and Stephen Jones River Wye, in the heart of Kilvert country, and produces Farming With A Difference top quality lamb and arable crops. Our visit includes Meet four producers who have identified a specialist a walk of up to a mile followed by demonstrations of market and are making farming pay. Will Chase working sheep-dogs, sheep shearing and wool spinning. re-invented himself from potato grower to purveyor There will also be the opportunity to taste lamb that of posh crisps, Tyrrell’s, then sold the company to form has been produced on the farm. Williams Chase Distillery, making gin and vodka. Illtud The third of three farm walks. These are visits to real Llyr Dunsford of Charcuterie Ltd is a seventh-generation working farms and are suitable for anyone interested farmer flying the flag for home-cured meats and reviving in food and farming. Families are welcome but children a taste for veal. Jane Scotter of Fern Verrow farms fruit must be supervised at all time. Coaches will return to and veg biodynamically, and Stephen Jones is growing the festival site in time for events starting at 1pm. quinoa, the new superfood previously chalking up thousands of food miles from South America. Chaired by Dan Saladino of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme. 9.30am Sponsored by Hay Deli

[349] 9.30AM FRIENDS CAFÉ FREE BUT TICKETED [353] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Hay Festival Guitar Jam for BBC Music Day Russell Jackson A BBC event at Hay Words, Words, Words: Speaking Shakespeare Bring your guitar and join virtuoso Morgan Szymanski in the English-Speaking Cinema for a guitar jam as part of BBC Music Day. Help create Birmingham University Series and perform a piece to be featured in BBC Radio 3’s Film-makers are often attracted to Shakespeare’s plays Lunchtime Concert at 1pm today. Szymanski will with their vivid characters, exciting stories and scope lead you through the process, whatever your level. for new takes on familiar subjects. But ever since the pictures started talking, the language has been a challenge 10am both in quality and quantity; there isn’t the need for so much dialogue in a medium where showing trumps telling. Jackson has been text consultant for several [350] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5 feature films – including all of Kenneth Branagh’s Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan, versions of Shakespeare’s plays – and many stage Andre Vincent, Anita Anand productions. His books include Shakespeare and the The Early Edition English-speaking Cinema, Shakespeare Films in the Making, What’s hot? What’s not? How do you decode the quality and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. papers’ agendas and how far can you trust the red tops? In association with Birmingham University Why did this make the news and that get spiked? The comedians spend an hour in the human zoo of the daily papers, tearing up stories, making mad the guilty and [354] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED appalling the free… BBC Writersroom: The Perfect Ten – Top Tips on Scriptwriting

[351] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 A BBC event at Hay Darian Leader Join BBC Writersroom for a session on 10 top tips to help you get your script right. Using examples from Hands: What We Do With Them, And Why successful films and television dramas, you will be Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? shown 10 ways to make your screenplay even better. How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? From papyrus Not for broadcast. to QWERTY to a swipeable screen; the history of civilisation is a history of what humans do with their [HD62] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 hands, and as much as the things we do with our hands Martin Brown reflect our psychological state, they can also change that Terrible Tudors state profoundly…The psychoanalyst is the author of Why The illustrator has brought decades of Terry Deary’s do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? and Promises Horrible Histories to life in his brilliant drawings, which Lovers Make When It Gets Late. Chaired by Daisy Leitch. show just what life was like long ago. Now he’s illustrated the foulest facts about the Terrible Tudors, a badly behaved bunch. Enjoy intolerable torture and shocking swearing as you discover the true Tudors. 8+ 63 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 64

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[355] 10AM STARLIGHT £7 [357] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Heather Hurley, Keith Ray, Chris Pullin Carol Adlam and Helen Cross The Story of Hereford Soldiers’ Art: What’s it Like to Three contributors to the new Logaston anthology Be a Woman in the Army? charting the history of the Cathedral City recover Most stories we hear about the army relate to the service stories from its past. Heather Hurley recounts the of men. But one hundred years on from the formation boatbuilding industry and the Wye river trade; of women’s units, front-line combat roles are made archaeologist Keith Ray introduces new discoveries available to female soldiers. Join the National Army about the Saxon period; Chris Pullin talks about Museum with project partners artist Carol Adlam and Hereford as a C12th centre of learning with links to writer Helen Cross, as they discuss the forgotten voices the Arab world. Chaired by Nicola Goodwin of of women in the army, and how a new graphic BBC Hereford and Worcester. anthology, made with female soldiers, will bring their FRIDAY 3 JUNE FRIDAY stories to life. [HD63] 10AM CUBE £7 In association with the National Army Museum Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet

Supertato Veggies Assemble [358] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The author and illustrator of Barry, the Fish with Fingers Topun Austin and I Need a Wee! share their latest story about the Cambridge Series 17: Becoming Human amazing Supertato. Called in to save a supermarket From a single cell to more than 170 billion in nine from the reign of terror by the evil pea, Supertato months, this illustrated talk looks at the remarkable must avert disaster – and he’ll need all your help! development of the human brain. Dr Austin is 3+ Consultant Neonatologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 11.30am In association with Cambridge University

[356] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 [359] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Kate Humble and Teg talk to Miles Jupp Michael Tavinor Friend For Life: The Extraordinary Shrines of the Saints in England and Wales Partnership Between Humans and Dogs The Dean of Hereford Cathedral explores the history and The wildlife broadcaster and smallholder uses her present-day significance of the shrines to the saints that journey with her sheepdog puppy Teg to frame her can be found in many cathedrals and abbeys, and in examination of this very special relationship. Written pilgrimage destinations. He traces their importance in the with warmth and love, and packed full of stories about UK’s spiritual life from medieval times and considers how rescue dogs, guide dogs, service dogs and medical dogs, people and church buildings were influenced by shrines this event is a joy for anyone with a four-legged friend. in their midst. He recounts their destruction during the In conversation with the host of The News Quiz. Reformation and what was happening during the hidden years before the tide turned in both Anglican and th [HD64] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 Catholic churches in C19 . Roger McGough LiTTLe MACHiNe Poetry Pie [HD65] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 For 6+ year-olds and their elders and betters and Laura Dockrill worsers, a morning of poems, songs, rhymes, drawings Star Cross’d and jokes with ‘the patron saint of poetry’ and his band, The poet, writer and illustrator introduces Star Cross’d, the delightful masters of poetry and song. As always, his her contemporary film version of Romeo and Juliet poems are full of wit and wisdom, with word play, puns commissioned for the Shakespeare Lives programme and sharp observations on all aspects of life. Come and by the British Council. She explores the continuing savour a slice of this brand new poetry pie! relevance of the story and its influence on her own 6+ writing including Lorali. 12+ #TALKINGABOUTSHAKESPEARE #HAYYA

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Abi Elphinstone and Emma Carroll James Runcie talks to S J Parris FRIDAYJUNE 3 Writing Danger The Grantchester Mysteries Danger! Sometimes authors just have to be mean – The creator of the romantically troubled Grantchester characters in peril are an absolute must to drive the plot. priest and sleuth introduces his new novel in the series The writers discuss the dangers faced by their characters Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation. in Strange Star and The Shadow Keeper, and why writing about danger is so thrilling. [364] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 10+ William Sitwell talks to Rosie Boycott Eggs or Anarchy 1pm The heroic tale of how Lord Woolton, Minister for Food 1940–1943, really fed Britain. As a nation at war, with supply routes under attack, it was Woolton’s job [360] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £7 to fulfil his promise to the British people, and Prime Cremona Quartet Minister Winston Churchill, that there would be food and Morgan Szymanski on the shelves. He outwitted unscrupulous dealers on BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 4 the black market across the Empire, persuading customs The last of the recitals broadcast live from Hay this authorities to turn a blind eye to his schemes. week. The quartet and guitarist play Haydn’s String

Quartet in G major, Op.77 No.1; Fernando Sor’s [365] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op.9; and Boccherini’s Anita Anand and guests Guitar Quintet No.4 in D major, G448. The concert is introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill. Welcome to Wales Amidst the numbers and summits of the refugee crisis, Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – the voices of those who have fled conflict and please arrive in good time. persecution can be lost. Join us for readings from women across the world who have sought protection [361] 1PM TATA TENT £8 in the UK and learnt English with the British Red Peter Frankopan Cross in South Wales, where they have been writing The Silk Roads: A New History of the World about their experiences from the point of departure From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and to their arrival in Britain. Rome to the spread of the great religions and the wars In association with The British Red Cross of the C20th, this epic work illuminates how the Silk

Roads shaped global history, the axis of East and West. [366] 1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Frankopan is the Director of the Centre for Byzantine World at One Research at Oxford University. BBC Radio 4 LIVE Part of the Baillie Gifford series Join us behind the scenes to watch BBC Radio 4’s long-running lunchtime news analysis programme as we [362] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 broadcast live from Hay every weekday in the BBC Tent. Laura Bates talks to Bryony Gordon Presented by Martha Kearney with special guests. Girl Up Broadcasting live on BBC Radio 4 at 1pm. “They told you you need to be thin and beautiful. Please be seated by 12.50pm. They told you to wear longer skirts, avoid going out

late at night and move in groups – never accept drinks [HD67] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 from a stranger, and wear shoes you can run in more David Solomons easily than heels. They told you to wear just enough make-up to look presentable but not enough to be a My Brother is a Superhero slut; to dress to flatter your apple, pear, hourglass The award-winning author and screenwriter discusses his figure, but not to be too tarty. They warned you that fast-moving, quick-talking story about the larger-than-life if you try to be strong, or take control, you’ll be shrill, adventures of Luke, a comic-mad 11-year-old who has bossy, a ballbreaker. Of course it’s fine for the boys, but only five days to rescue his brother and save the world you should know your place. They told you that’s not after a dramatic alien visit and a case of mistaken identity. for girls – take it as a compliment – don’t rock the boat 8+ – that’ll go straight to your hips. They told you beauty is on the inside, but you knew they didn’t really mean it. Well I’m here to tell you something different…”

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[HD68] 1PM CUBE £6 [369] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Jenny Valentine, Annabel Pitcher Wendell Steavenson talks to Katrin Bennhold and Hayley Long Circling the Square: Family Secrets Stories from the Egyptian Revolution Join the three award-winning authors of Fire Colour On 25 January 2011, the world was watching Cairo. One, Silence is Goldfish and Sophie Someone to discuss Egyptians of every stripe came together in Tahrir Square different ways of telling stories about families and the to protest Hosni Mubarak’s three decades of brutal rule. complications of the secrets they keep. After many hopeful, turbulent years, Egypt seems to be 12+ #HAYYA back where it began, with another strongman, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in power. How did this happen? The Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop distinguished foreign correspondent describes the intimate ironies and ad hoc movements of the Egyptian revolution FRIDAY 3 JUNE FRIDAY from Mubarak’s fall to that of Mohammed Morsi. 2.30pm Anecdotes, musings, observations and character sketches cast a fresh light on this vital Middle Eastern story. [HD69] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 Chaired by Katrin Bennhold of The New York Times. Michael Morpurgo

War Story [370] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Michael Morpurgo’s modern First World War S J Parris talks to Rosie Goldsmith classic Private Peaceful is the focus of this event commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Conspiracy Somme. The best-selling author talks about his S J Parris is the bestselling author of Prophecy and Heresy. dramatic and moving story, its origins, and about Her historical thrillers follow the renegade monk, writing about war and the consequences of conflict. philosopher and heretic Giordano Bruno, as he uncovers dark mysteries and plots in Elizabethan England. The Family event fifth book in the series finds Bruno in peril at the French court of King Henri III, under the terrifying eye of the [367] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici. Oliver James Not in Your Genes [371] 2.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED The clinical psychologist explores the childhood causes The Art of Adaptation of our individuality, “revealing why our upbringing, not BBC Radio Drama our genes, plays such an important role in our wellbeing Alison Hindell, BBC’s Head of Audio Drama, in and success. The implications are huge: as adults we can conversation with two leading radio dramatists about change, we can clutch our fates from predetermined the particular skills involved in adapting prose fiction destiny, as parents we can radically alter the trajectory for radio drama. What choices need to be made in of our children’s lives, and as a society we could largely considering how to capture or reinvent the original eradicate criminality and poverty.” Chaired by author’s work? Daniel Davis. Not for broadcast.

[368] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 STARLIGHT STAGE Simon Horobin [372] 2.30PM £7 Kate Humble and Neil Sinclair How English Became English talk to Andy Fryers The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English WoodWatch – Woodland Trust Series come from? The Oxford Professor investigates the With their bluebells, blackbirds and beech trees, our evolution of the English language, examining how it woodlands are beautiful and inspiring places to explore. continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary Discover why the British love nature-watching, and how concerns about correctness, he considers whether such it can help protect our woods and trees. The wildlife changes are improvements, or evidence of slipping and science broadcaster is joined by the author of the standards. Will Standard English continue to hold Commando Dad series. sway, or are we witnessing its replacement by newly In association with the Woodland Trust emerging Englishes?

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Rachel Bright Mike Parker Pearson FRIDAYJUNE 3 The Lion Inside Stonehenge: The Welsh Connection The author and illustrator introduces a lion who is just Excavation of two quarries in the Preseli hills in a little bit different. When a mouse meets a lion it’s easy Pembrokeshire by a UCL-led team of archaeologists to guess who will be more afraid…or is it? Find out how and geologists has confirmed that they are sources of this lion can overcome his fears and discover his own Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’ and shed light on how they true bravery. were quarried and transported. “We have dates of 3+ around 3400 BC for Craig Rhos-y-felin and 3200 BC for Carn Goedog, which is intriguing because the bluestones didn’t get put up at Stonehenge until around 2900 BC,” says Professor Parker Pearson. “It could have 4pm taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to get them to Stonehenge, but that’s pretty improbable in [373] 4PM TATA TENT £7 my view. It’s more likely that the stones were first used David Aaronovitch in a local monument – somewhere near the quarries – The Christopher Hitchens Lecture which was then dismantled and dragged off to The journalist interrogates the ideas of safe space on Wiltshire. Stonehenge was a Welsh monument from its campus, the psychology of “vindictive protectionism” very beginning. If we can find the original monument and the practice of “no-platforming” speakers. In a in Wales from which it was built, we will finally be able political culture that is susceptible to polarisation, to solve the mystery of why Stonehenge was built and where social media amplifies grievance and offence, why some of its stones were brought so far…” how do we wield free speech? Aaronovitch discusses his lecture with Peter Florence. He talks about his [376] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 memoir Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists on Sunday – see event [456]. Philippa Malmgren Signals – How Everyday Signs can Help us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy [374] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 The rising price but shrinking size of a steak, a bar Hugh Sebag-Montefiore of chocolate, and an apartment not only cause pain Somme: Into the Breach at home, they also propel some nations to deploy their Planned as a decisive strike but fought as a bloody battle militaries to secure resources and protect their citizens of attrition in 1916, the Battle of the Somme claimed from higher prices. The economist, global strategist over a million dead or wounded in months of fighting and presidential adviser reveals how our daily lives are that have long epitomized the tragedy and folly of informed and affected by the on-going battle, created the First World War. By focusing on the first-hand by central bankers, between inflation and deflation. experiences and personal stories of both Allied and enemy soldiers, Sebag-Montefiore defies the customary [377] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 framing of incompetent generals and senseless slaughter. In its place, eyewitness accounts relive scenes of Suman-Lata Sahonta extraordinary courage and sacrifice, as soldiers ordered Cambridge Series 18: over the top ventured into No Man’s Land and enemy How Light can Improve your Life trenches, where they met a hail of machine-gun fire, Those teeny lights aren’t just for show: LEDs help us thickets of barbed wire, and exploding shells. Chaired to sleep better, fight cancer, prevent identity theft, and by Jesse Norman. communicate with the Internet of Things. Dr Sahonta Sponsored by Borders Hideaway Holiday Home Park is based at the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride. In association with Cambridge University

[HD71] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Lucy Hawking George and the Blue Moon Explore Space with the daughter of the famous physicist with whom she co-wrote the book, as she shares George’s fifth fabulous adventure. This time he and his friend Annie have been selected to train as junior astronauts, but bad things are happening in space, with mysterious missions taking off unsupervised. How can they be sure they’ll be safe? 10+

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[HD72] 4PM CUBE £6 [381] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Cecelia Ahern and Christopher Vick Susannah Gibson The best-selling author of Flawed and the debut author Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth- of Kook discuss teen life, the key issues in writing YA Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order fiction and what really matters to their readers. Chaired Gibson explains how a study of pond slime could cause by HAYDAYS director Julia Eccleshare. people to question the existence of the soul; observation 12+ #HAYYA of eggs could make a man doubt that God had created the world; how the discovery of the Venus fly-trap was linked to the French Revolution; and how interpretations 5.30pm of fossils could change our understanding of the Earth’s history. Chaired by Daisy Leitch.

FRIDAY 3 JUNE FRIDAY [378] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy [382] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 talk to Marcus Brigstocke Marina Lewycka talks to Georgina Godwin Standard Issue The Lubetkin Legacy Working with a team of talented women, the multi- North London in the C21st century: a place where a award-winning comedian wanted to create something son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home different to add to the mix of women’s magazines that from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, were failing to inspire her. The result was Standard Issue rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job Magazine, an online publication for all women. And opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a men, too, if they fancied it. After their first year, coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker’s or millions of page views and having been shortlisted for put up with Champagne and posh French dinners while a Book/Publishing award by comedy website Chortle, your boss hits on you. A place rich in language – whether how does the future look? Hannah Dunleavy is the it’s Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom Deputy Editor. housing officers talking managementese... The award- winning author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian discusses her new comedy of modern manners. [379] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Lucie Green Arts Council Wales International Writers Series, 8 15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun [383] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Light takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface Alan Kitching of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds A Life in Letterpress of thousands of years. What is going on in there? What Kitching is one of the world’s foremost practitioners are light and heat? How does the Sun produce them and of letterpress typographic design and printmaking. how on earth did scientists discover this? Professor Lucie Spanning more than 50 years, his new, lavishly Green is a solar physicist at UCL’s Mullard Space Science illustrated monograph leads us from Kitching’s first Laboratory and regularly appears on the BBC’s Star typographical experiments under the auspices of Gazing Live with Brian Cox. She works with the world’s mentor Anthony Froshaug to his iconic creations at major Space agencies, including NASA. In 2009 she won The Typography Workshop. It showcases his most the Royal Society’s Kohn Award for her work promoting colourful and expressive pieces, including his prolific public engagement with science. work for the Guardian, the National Theatre, British Library, Modern, Penguin Books and Royal Mail. [380] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 He talks to Clemency Burton-Hill. Timothy Brook Sponsored by The Story of Books Shakespeare in Chinese The Sinologist, author of Mr Selden’s Map of China and Vermeer’s Hat tells the story of Zhu Shanghai, the Chinese wartime journalist and Shakespeare translator who worked under the Japanese occupation for a Shanghai newspaper. He didn’t translate literally, but found ways of rewriting Shakespeare in Chinese idioms that beautifully match the original, as analogies rather than as transcriptions. Chaired by Jerry Brotton.

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Tom Bullough talks to Oliver Bullough Fearghal McGarry FRIDAYJUNE 3 Addlands The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916 We are thrilled to launch Tom’s new novel, the story The Easter Rising of 1916 changed the course of Irish of two generations of the Hamer family working the history. What was the role of ordinary people in this Funnon Farm. There is Idris, stubborn, strong, a man extraordinary event? McGarry makes use of a unique of the plough and the prayer-sheet, haunted by the War. source that has only recently seen the light of day: a Then comes Oliver, a near mythic giant bestriding the collection of more than 1,700 eye-witness statements landscape, a fighter, a man of the hills as hard as the detailing the political activities of members of Sinn Féin prehistoric stone. Then there is Etty, Oliver’s mother, and militant groups such as the Irish Republican the centre of this close constellation, watching new Brotherhood. He illuminates their motives, concerns, technologies and old ways converge on the farm and and aspirations, and highlights the importance of the on the life of her son. Addlands is instantly a classic of First World War as a catalyst for the uprising. Chaired rural British fiction. The author talks to the journalist by David Dwan. and writer, Oliver Bullough, his brother.

Sponsored by Shepherds Ice Cream [388] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Owen Hopkins Mavericks: Breaking the 7pm Mould of British Architecture The history of architecture is a story of continual [385] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 innovation, and yet at certain points comes an architect Gregory Doran whose vision defies convention. Hopkins focuses on Talking About Shakespeare 12 such figures from the history of British architecture, The Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare including Sir John Soane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Company, and this year’s Richard Dimbleby Lecturer, Cedric Price and Zaha Hadid. Their work is bold, discusses Shakespeare’s legacy in 2016, the 400th frequently controversial, often radical; it is architecture anniversary of his death. The RSC’s celebrations in that actively resists being pigeon-holed into a style Stratford-upon-Avon include two major new or period. productions to be directed by Doran: King Lear with Sponsored by Ty-Mawr Lime Ltd Antony Sher, and a ground-breaking production of The Tempest with Simon Russell Beale, in collaboration with Intel and The Imaginarium Studios. [389] 7PM–8.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED In association with the RSC BBC Music Day Concert: Horizons Showcase featuring Forte Horizons/Gorwelion in association with [386] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 BBC Wales and Arts Council of Wales Misha Glenny talks to Sarfraz Manzoor A special BBC Music Day concert with live and Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio acoustic performances from Dan Bettridge, The true story of an ordinary man who became the king Ofelia, Alex Stacey and Bryony Sier. of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and www.bbc.co.uk/horizons perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal; a man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang [390] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 culture and destitution, while everyone around him drew guns and partied. Glenny is a distinguished Jane Davidson talks to Sophie Howe investigative journalist and historian. The Single Most Important Piece of Legislation in the Past 20 Years? The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act 2015 came into full force in April 2016. It puts a legal responsibility on the Welsh public sector, including Welsh Government, to consider sustainability in all of its actions. The potential for this to change the private sector, too, is huge. Jane Davidson was the original architect of this Act and Sophie Howe is the new Commissioner responsible for delivery. Will it change the world, or is it a well-meaning Act with no Teeth?

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[391] 7PM CUBE £7 [394] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Paul Roche Seamus Murphy Down to Earth: Impacts from Space The Republic Cardiff University Series One hundred years after Ireland’s 1916 Rising, who are What killed the dinosaurs? And should we be worried the Irish and what has become of the republic they made? about going the same way? Astronomers regularly The award-winning photographer, exile and escapee, digs discover huge lumps of rock and ice hurtling past the deep to discover the forces and mysteries that drive, and Earth, and if some of them were to hit us the effects have often beguiled, the country since its birth. From could be terrifying. Recent near misses, and the huge the streets of Dublin and the suburbs of towns and cities airburst explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February adapting to new multicultural life, to the older habitats 2013, make this a very topical issue. The European of Ireland’s wilder western shores, Murphy endeavours Space Agency’s Space Ambassador for Wales spins a to capture the spirit of contemporary Ireland in this FRIDAY 3 JUNE FRIDAY tale of death, destruction and dinosaurs. witty, closely observed and beautiful photographic In association with Cardiff University story. Chaired by David Dwan.

[395] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 8.30pm Brix Smith-Start talks to Dylan Jones The Rise, The Fall, and the Rise [392] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £11 Brix spent ten years in the band, The Fall, before a violent Shazia Mirza disintegration led to her exit and the end of her marriage Stand Up: The Kardashians Made Me Do It with Mark E Smith. Her story is much more than My mum can’t find me anyone to marry. My friend rock ‘n’ roll highs and lows in one of the most radically Matthew looks at me with great concern and says, dysfunctional bands around. Growing up in the “You’re not thinking of becoming a Jihadi Bride are Hollywood Hills in the 1960s in a dilapidated pink you?” Would I do that? The weather in Britain isn’t mansion, her life has taken her from luxury to destitution, great, and the sunsets and landscape in Syria are meant from the cover of the NME to waitressing in California, to be very romantic… I’d get a husband, wouldn’t have via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in the 1980s. to work, and would definitely get a place in heaven. Yes I’d miss my hair straighteners and hot pants, but that’s a small price to pay… The Kardashians Made Me Do It is 9.45pm inspired by three girls who left Bethnal Green to join ISIS, and an unrelated radio piece Shazia contributed to [396] 9.45PM TATA TENT £24 the BBC which subsequently received a record number KT Tunstall of complaints. It is a searing and urgent exploration of life, love and Jihadi brides. And it’s hilarious. Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon The singer-songwriter and her band play her new album at Hay. “It’s rambunctious, anti-slick, pro-wild, [393] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 psychedelic, emotional pop,” she says of her new music. Simon Callow, Rachael Jolley, “Many of these songs are full-on in their energy. David Aaronovitch, Alexa Huang When I play, I have realised that I really have to sweat Global Shakespeare: to deliver what I’m best at, which is going out on stage Protest, dissent and slipping by the censors and creating a physical and emotional experience for All over the world, Shakespeare’s plays find an audience, a room full of people. It’s primal, tribal, and when it’s but often hidden within productions are controversial really good, it feels transcendent.” themes about corruption, overthrowing power or Sponsored by GL Events Snowdens teenage love. These areas of debate might rarely get staged, were it not for the cloak of Shakespeare’s [397] 9.45PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £13 ‘respectability’. This session discusses how Shakespeare slips by the censors, both historically and today. Showstoppers Professor Huang is Director of the Dean’s Scholars Showstopper! The Improvised Musical in Shakespeare at the Columbian College of Arts Each night, audience suggestions are instantly and Sciences. transformed into an all-singing, all-dancing In association with production, with unpredictable and hilarious results. and The British Council The Showstoppers have delighted audiences across the globe with their ingenious blend of comedy, musical theatre and spontaneity, with eight years as an Fringe must-see phenomenon, a BBC Radio 4 series and now a recent critically acclaimed West End run. Whether you fancy Sondheim on a ski lift, or Cole Porter in Poundland: you suggest it and The Showstoppers will sing it! 70 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 71

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[HD73] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [401] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 SATURDAYJUNE 4 Chris Riddell Erwin James talks to Claire Armitstead Ask the Children’s Laureate Redeemable Meet the Children’s Laureate, who will live-draw the James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped answers to your questions. The children he chooses can from home to home and subject to the whims of take their doodle-answers home with them and own a various care-givers after his father turned to alcohol and unique piece of art from one of our greatest illustrators. violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and 6+ entering when he was ten. His teenage and early adult years were spent drifting, and his petty crime turned increasingly violent, culminating in the terrible events [398] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 for which he was jailed for life in 1984. Entering prison Gulwali Passarlay talks to Oliver Bullough at 27, James struggled to come to terms with the The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s enormity of his crimes and a future without purpose Journey of Escape to a new Life in Britain or hope. Then he met Joan, a prison psychologist, Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age who helped him to confront the painful truth of his of 12, after his father was killed in a gun battle with past, and to understand how it had shaped him from the US army. Smuggled into Iran, Gulwali embarked such a young age. Encouraged to read and to educate on a 12-month odyssey across Europe, spending time himself, over the next 20 years Erwin James would go in prisons, suffering hunger, cruelty and violence. on to receive a BA in History and become a regular He endured a terrifying journey on a tiny boat in columnist for the Guardian. the Mediterranean, and spent a desolate month in

the camp at Calais. Somehow he survived and made [HD74] 10AM CUBE £5 it to Britain, where he was fostered, went to a good Nandana Sen school, worked hard and won a place at a top university. Gulwali was chosen to carry the Olympic Kangaroo Kisses torch in 2012. Many refugees die along the way. Some The actress and children’s rights activist introduces her survive and make it here, to a country that offers them first book for children. Kangaroo Kisses charmingly the chance of a life of freedom and opportunity. captures every child’s bedtime, and adds a very special fantasy to it. In association with Oxfam 3+

[399] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Michael Marmot talks to Rajan Datar 11.30am The Health Gap There are dramatic differences in health between [HD75] 11.30AM TATA TENT £15 countries and within countries, but this is not a simple Michael Morpurgo and Friends matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich Where My Wellies Take Me compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian’s eight years shorter. In all countries, people at relative A concert performance following nine-year-old Pippa social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage, and on a ramble through woods, farms and fields. Her dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social lively commentary is interwoven with seasonal songs status of individuals, the better is their health. Creating of midwinter, springtime and harvest and verses by the conditions for people to lead flourishing lives, and Sean Rafferty, Seamus Heaney, DH Lawrence, Robert thus empowering individuals and communities, is key Browning and Shakespeare. A celebration of nature to development. Datar reports for BBC World News. and the countryside, this is narrated by Clare and Michael Morpurgo with Natalie Walter, the songs are performed by award-winning a cappella group [400] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Voices at the Door. Dai Smith and guests 6+ The International Dylan Thomas Prize In association with Farms for City Children in partnership with Swansea University Join us to celebrate ten years of the prestigious prize for writers aged 39 and under, as authors and past winners talk with Dai Smith, Chair of the Judging Panel, and Raymond Williams, Research Chair in the Cultural History of Wales at Swansea University. In partnership with Swansea University

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[402] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 [405] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Kate Summerscale talks to Stephanie Merritt Tom Fletcher talks to Katrin Bennhold The Wicked Boy: Naked Diplomacy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year- In the next hundred years, the world will need to deal old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother with the same amount of social development witnessed Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced in the past 43 centuries – the rebirth of the city state, house in East London to watch a cricket match at the battle for new energy, disappearing borders, the Lords. They told their neighbours their father had gone desire of the world’s people to move to developed to sea the previous Friday, and their mother was visiting nations. The former ambassador, now a professor of her family in Liverpool. Over the next 10 days Robert International Relations, explores the core principles and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents’ of a progressive C21st foreign policy: how to balance valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. interventionism and national interest, and to use global

SATURDAY 4 JUNE SATURDAY But as the sun beat down on the Coombes’ house, a governance to achieve national objectives. He discusses strange smell began to emanate from the building. smart power, soft power and the new interventionism When the police were finally called to investigate, the alongside lessons from the most notorious leaders and discovery they made sent the press into a frenzy of diplomats across the world including Talleyrand, horror and alarm... Summerscale won the Samuel Kissinger, Mandela and the Kennedys. Johnson Prize for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

[406] 11.30AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [403] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Dan Freedman introduces Jamie Johnson Lindy West talks to Laura Bates CBBC – Screening Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman The author introduces a screening of CBBC’s new Lindy West wasn’t always loud. She was once a nerdy, adaptation of his children’s book series Jamie Johnson, terror-stricken teen who wanted nothing more than followed by a Q&A. Jamie is a boy who lives and to be invisible. Fortunately, that cripplingly shy girl breathes football. He has amazing talent and the who refused to make a sound grew up to be one of desire to make it to the top. The books follow him the loudest, shrillest, most fearless feminazis on the on his journey as he aims to fulfil his dream of internet, making a living speaking up for what’s right becoming one of the biggest football stars in the world. instead of what’s cool. She reveals the obstacles and Not for broadcast. misogyny she’s had to overcome to make herself heard, in a society that doesn’t believe women (especially fat women and feminists) can ever be funny. “Her talent [407] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 and bravery have made the internet a place where I Marina Lewycka, Patience Agbabi, actually want to be”– Lena Dunham. David Herd and Anna Pincus Fictions: Refugee Tales

[404] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Offered as a modern day reworking of The Canterbury Tim Whitmarsh Tales, this book brings together the stories of 14 refugees whose voyage to the UK has not been a journey of Battling the Gods: spiritual salvation, rather one of sheer, physical survival. Atheism in the Ancient World The tales are retold by writers including Marina Lewycka Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of and Patience Agbabi, and edited by the poet and teacher disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was David Herd and Anna Pincus of the Gatwick Detainee a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. Welfare Group. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively, free-thinking voices of antiquity. The A G Leventis Professor of [HD76] 11.30AM CUBE £6 Greek Culture at Cambridge brings to life the Isabel and Imogen Greenberg fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first Tomb Raiders: self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Make Your Own Treasure Hoard and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Discover fascinating facts about the ancient Egyptians. Christians came to define themselves against atheism, Join sisters Isabel and Imogen to find out about the and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. fabulous treasures Pharaoh Tutankhamun took to his tomb. Then create your own treasure hoard to take away and enjoy later. 6+

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[408] 1PM TATA TENT £8 [HD78] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 SATURDAYJUNE 4 Gordon Brown Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Akyüz Britain in Europe I am Bear In a town hall-style Q&A, the former Prime Minister “I am Bear. And I am bare. The suit I wear has who intervened powerfully in the Scottish Referendum purple hair.” See this brand new hilarious picture-book sets out his case for Britain not only “in” Europe, but brought to life by the creators, as they keep young actively leading it: as a trade bloc, as a bastion of human mischief-makers entertained with cheeky trickster Bear. rights and freedoms, as a new form of power shaping a 3+ new kind of international community for the C21st. Chaired by Anita Anand. [HD79] 1PM CUBE £5 First News [HD77] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Hold the Front Page! and David Roberts Join First News to celebrate 10 years of first-class news The Bolds to the Rescue especially for children. Find out what goes on behind The comedian/entertainer/writer and award-winning the scenes in creating a newspaper and have a go at illustrator introduce you to their latest book, a brand being a journalist yourself. new adventure about a family of hyenas living in an 6+ ordinary suburban street. An unmissable event packed with wildly hilarious readings in Julian’s unique style, together with live drawing from David. 8+ 2.30pm

[412] 2.30PM TATA TENT £10 [409] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Jeanette Winterson David Spiegelhalter Talking about Shakespeare Cambridge Series 18: Sex by Numbers The Raymond Williams Lecture: How often, with whom, and doing what? The statistics Shakespeare 400 of sexual behaviour are riveting, but can we believe The novelist and essayist celebrates the work and gift them? A Cambridge professor of statistics investigates. of the playwright. Her latest novel, The Gap of Time, Spiegelhalter is Winton Professor of the Public is a re-telling of The Winter’s Tale. “A book of Understanding of Risk. considerable beauty…a fine invitation into this deeply In association with Cambridge University Shakespearean vision of imagination as the best kind of truth-telling” – , .

[410] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Emma Barrett and Sian Williams [413] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 talk to Rajan Datar Gordon Corera Risk and Resilience Intercept: A conversation about risk and resurgence. Barrett is the The Secret History of Computers and Spies co-author of Extreme: Why Some People Thrive at the The computer was born to spy. Under the intense Limits, which examines what we can learn from people pressure of the Second World War and in the confines who embrace high-risk work and life and are attuned to of Britain’s code-breaking establishment at Bletchley survival. Sian Williams, one the nation’s most trusted Park, the work of Alan Turing and others led to the broadcasters, is also a trauma assessor. She is the author birth of electronic espionage. It was a breakthrough of Rise: Surviving and Thriving After Trauma (embargoed that helped to win the war. In the following decades, until 28 May). computers transformed espionage, from the spy hunting of the Cold War years to the data-driven pursuit of terrorists and the industrial-scale cyber-espionage against [411] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 corporations in the C21st. Together, computers and spies Mark Haddon talks to Rosie Goldsmith are shaping the future, and from the rise of China to the The Pier Falls phones in our pockets, what was once the preserve of a An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier few intelligence agencies now matters for us all. Corera is collapses. A 30-stone man is confined to his living room. Security Correspondent for BBC News. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Red House plays out his dark and wild imagination in his first collection of short stories. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design 73 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 74

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[414] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [HD80] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Jim Naughtie and The Winner Sophie Thompson The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Zoo Boy The BBC books man and prize judge interviews The actress and winner of Celebrity MasterChef in 2014 the winner of this year’s award for comic fiction, discusses her first book for children. A wonderfully announced on 20 May. The shortlist celebrates inventive story of a boy who finds he can talk to Paul Beatty for The Sellout, Marina Lewycka for animals, Zoo Boy takes a fresh and funny look at The Lubetkin Legacy, Paul Murray for The Mark animals and how we treat them. and the Void, John O’Farrell for There’s Only Two 6+ David Beckhams, Hannah Rothschild for The Improbability of Love. The winner will receive a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of [HD81] 2.30PM CUBE £6 Bollinger La Grande Année, the complete set of the Marcia Williams SATURDAY 4 JUNE SATURDAY Everyman Wodehouse collection and a locally bred Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, which will be named Marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, the after the winning novel. cartoonist and children’s author will bring the Bard’s work vividly to life. Come up on stage and help Marcia re-enact

[415] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The Tempest, using masks, props and plenty of drama. Mark Price talks to Kamal Ahmed 8+ #TALKINGABOUTSHAKESPEARE UK PLC The Minister of State for Trade and Investment discusses Britain’s economic and business relationship 4pm with the European Union. He looks west at TTIP and east to China and India to see what the future might [418] 4PM TATA TENT £9 hold for Britain inside or outside the Union. Price was Niall Ferguson formerly MD of Waitrose, Deputy Chairman of the Kissinger: The Idealist, 1923–1968 John Lewis Partnership, and Deputy Chairman of No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled Channel 4. Ahmed is the BBC’s Economics Editor. as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the ‘indispensable Sponsored by Welsh Venison Centre man’, whose advice has been sought by every president from John F Kennedy to George W Bush, he has also attracted immense hostility from critics who have cast him [416] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 as an amoral Machiavellian – the ultimate, cold-blooded Alun Gibbard and Phil Bennett ‘realist’. In his first volume of biography, the historian The Scarlets examines Kissinger’s early life (as a Jew in Hitler’s Germany, Llanelli is one of the world’s greatest rugby towns, a poor immigrant in New York, a GI at the Battle of the and home to one of the most loved and followed teams, Bulge, an interrogator of Nazis, and a student of history at The Scarlets. The broadcaster and journalist, whose Harvard) to understand his debt to the philosophy of other books include Who Beat the All Blacks?, yarns idealism. By tracing his rise, fall and revival as an adviser to the best tales and traditions of the club with one of its Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, Ferguson most favoured sons, the legendary fly-half Phil Bennett. assesses Kissinger’s contribution to the theory of diplomacy, A safe bet that stories will be told of 31 October 1972, grand strategy and nuclear deterrence. when the final scoreboard famously read: Llanelli 9 Part of the Baillie Gifford series Seland Newydd 3. There may be singing. #sosbanfach Sponsored by C J Gibbons Family Butchers [419] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Bryony Gordon talks to Clemency Burton-Hill [417] 2.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Mad Girl Four Thought On the surface it seems that Bryony Gordon has the BBC Radio 4 perfect life. One of the UK’s most successful journalists, Four Thought is a series of exciting and often she is married to a man she loves with a two-year-old provocative personal talks in which speakers explain daughter she adores. Yet things inside Bryony’s head are new thinking about the big trends and questions in never as straightforward as they seem. Is it possible that culture and society. she’s murdered someone and can’t remember? Why did Broadcast on Wednesdays at 8.45pm on BBC Radio 4. her hair fall out when she was a teenager? Is she capable Four Thought will record four speakers at Hay Festival. of hurting her daughter? Has she mysteriously contracted an STD? Why is she always so fat? For while Bryony does have a life many would envy, she is also engaged in a daily battle with mental illness. Fighting with OCD, bulimia and depression, like millions of others in this country, sometimes she finds it a struggle just to get out of bed. 74 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 75

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[420] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 [424] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 SATURDAYJUNE 4 Oliver Taplin, Tim Whitmarsh Anuradha Roy talks to Georgina Godwin Talking about Sophocles Sleeping on Jupiter Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of The Indian author of the award-winning Folded Earth all time, and one of the most influential on artists and discusses her work and her new novel Sleeping on thinkers over the centuries. Taplin has translated the Jupiter, a masterpiece. In awarding the novel the DSC four great tragedies in which he portrays the extremes South Asian Literature Prize, Mark Tully said “The of human suffering and emotion. Oedipus the King setting is described faithfully and evocatively. Among follows Oedipus, the ‘man of sorrow’, who has the issues raised are the power of memory and myth, unwittingly chosen to enact his prophesied course by religious hypocrisy, sexuality, abuse and other forms of murdering his father and marrying his mother. In Aias, violence. The novel contains powerful portraits of both the great warrior confronts the harrowing humiliation major and minor characters. We believe this book will inflicted upon him, while Philoctetes sees a once-noble be a source of inspiration to other writers.” hero nursing his resentment after ten years of marooned Arts Council of Wales International Writers Series, 9 isolation. In Oedipus at Colonus the blind Oedipus, who has wandered far and wide as a beggar, finally meets his mysterious death. The great classicist Oliver Taplin [HD82] 4PM CUBE £6 discusses the plays with Tim Whitmarsh, A G Leventis Miriam Moss and Jon Walter Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University. Survival Tactics Miriam was on a plane that was hijacked in the Middle

[421] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 East when she was 15 and flying without her parents, Holly Bridge, Helen Rowe, Amalie Saintonge and Jon survived the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Join them for a discussion on turning The Royal Society Platform: fact into fiction. The Next Big Things 12+ #HAYYA From brain imaging and epigenetics to galaxy formation and astronomy, three Royal Society Research Fellows discuss their work at the forefront of science with author and broadcaster Gabrielle Walker. 5.30pm

[425] 5.30PM TATA TENT £8 [422] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Stephen Frears talks to Rosie Boycott Catherine Fletcher Talking About Film: Florence The Black Prince of Florence: The film director discusses and shows clips from The Spectacular Life and Treacherous his new movie Florence, which stars Meryl Streep World of Alessandro de Medici as the tone-deaf singer Florence Foster Jenkins and Swansea University Series Hugh Grant as her husband. Frears’ films include From dazzling palaces and Tuscan villas to the My Beautiful Laundrette, Dirty Pretty Things, treacherous backstreets of Florence and the corridors The Queen, and Philomena. of papal power, the story of Alessandro’s spectacular rise, magnificent reign and violent demise takes us deep beneath the surface of power in Renaissance Italy – [426] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 a glamorous but deadly realm of spies, betrayal and Gillian Tett talks to Jon Snow vendetta, illicit sex and fabulous displays of wealth. The Silo Effect: Why Putting Everything Chaired by Peter Florence. in its Place Isn’t Such a Bright Idea In association with Swansea University Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, but it can also be catastrophic, leading BBC TENT [423] 4PM FREE BUT TICKETED to tunnel vision and tribalism. It can create a structural Four Thought fog, with the full picture of where an organisation is BBC Radio 4 heading hidden from view. Tett uses an anthropological Four Thought is a series of exciting and often lens to explore how individuals, teams and whole provocative personal talks in which speakers explain organisations often work in silos of thought, process new thinking about the big trends and questions in and product. With examples drawn from a range of culture and society. fascinating areas – from the New York Fire Department Broadcast on Wednesdays at 8.45pm on BBC Radio 4. and Facebook to the Bank of England and Sony – these Four thought will record four speakers at Hay Festival. narratives illustrate not just how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos but also how the brightest institutions and individuals can master them. Tett is US Managing Editor of the FT.

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[431] 5.30PM CUBE £7 [427] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Peter Johnson, Linda Bauld and Fred Scott SATURDAY 4 JUNE SATURDAY Sarah Howe 40 Years of Advances: how research has Loop of Jade changed the face of cancer prevention, A reading and conversation with the winner of the detection and treatment 2015 T S Eliot Prize. There is a Chinese proverb Cancer Research UK Series that says: “It is more profitable to raise geese than Unprecedented scientific and technological advances daughters.” But geese, like daughters, know the over the past 40 years have helped double the rate of obligation to return home. In her exquisite first cancer survival. Our expert panel will analyse some of collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, the pivotal discoveries and research projects that have journeying back to in search of her roots. shaped our understanding of cancer and led to revolu- With extraordinary range and power, the poems build tionary new treatments. Find out what today’s lab work into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love. could mean for future generations. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of In association with Cancer Research UK migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry. 7pm Chaired by Owen Sheers. [432] 7PM TATA TENT £8 Arts Council of Wales International Series, 10 Sarah Churchwell, Jan Halper Hayes, Niall Ferguson, Larry Sanders, [428] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Serena Kutchinsky Fred Taylor The ‘Newsweek’ Debate Exploring the Planets Is this the most unusual American For 50 years, and from research labs to Cape Canaveral, Presidential election in history? from Space agencies to Downing Street, Fred Taylor has Just a year ago, the US Presidential race looked set to be a been at the forefront of the technological adventure of dull affair, dominated by two political dynasties – another the Space Age. Instruments and experiments he helped Bush versus another Clinton. Now the stage is set for one imagine and build have travelled into Deep Space and of the most unusual, and unsettling, electoral battles in surveyed the Solar System. He is now Halley Professor American history. After Obama’s campaign of hope, we of Physics Emeritus at Oxford. have Donald Trump’s scaremongering bid to become the Republican nominee, and Hillary Clinton’s scandal- [429] 5.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED tinged final stab at the Democratic nomination. Is this CBBC’s Got What It Takes really the best that the nation that call itself the ‘world’s greatest democracy’can do? And if the answer is yes, is it CBBC Screening time to start looking for an alternative political system A screening of the popular new CBBC programme better suited to the social media age? Newsweek will Got What It Takes. Eight teen singers are guided dissect the chain of events that has led us here, and through the highs and lows of the music industry, speculate on what the future might hold for the next and there’s a twist...their mums are the judges. Commander in Chief. Joining Digital Editor Serena Followed by a Q&A with the production and cast Kutchinsky will be Larry Sanders, the academic and to find out all the behind-the-scenes stories on Green Party Health Spokesperson, who is the older those hilarious mum challenges – and much more. brother of the US Senator and Democratic presidential Not for broadcast. candidate Bernie Sanders; Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, Harvard Professor and author of Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, and Jan Halper Hayes, the Worldwide Vice President and Chairman UK of Republicans Overseas. In association with Newsweek 76 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:13 Page 77

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[433] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [437] 7PM CUBE £7 SATURDAYJUNE 4 Jeanette Winterson Amy Liptrot talks to Rosie Boycott The Gap of Time The Outrun The charismatic writer has extraordinary stage presence After a hedonistic decade in London that has and power. She performs and reads her work with descended into alcoholism, Amy returns to her native passion and brio. She presents an ambitious retelling of Orkney, where her childhood was shaped by the cycle one of Shakespeare’s late plays, and her retelling moves of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial her father’s mental illness. Spending early mornings crash, to a storm-ravaged city in the US called New swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Bohemia. “All of us have talismanic texts that we have Orkney’s wildlife – puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic carried around and that carry us around. I have worked terns swooping close enough to feel their wings – and with The Winter’s Tale in many disguises for many nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, years... And I love cover versions”. Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction. The Outrun is shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. [434] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 George Monbiot How Did We Get Into This Mess? Monbiot is one of the most vocal and eloquent critics 8.30pm of the current consensus; a vital, countervailing voice. [438] 8.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 He assesses the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, Richard Williams our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline The Hunchback of Notre Dame: of the political debate over what to do. He asks: how Screening with Organ Accompaniment do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to Last year the extraordinarily gifted organist and have all the weapons? And: what can we do to prepare composer Father Richard Williams stunned audiences our children for an uncertain future? with his live accompaniment of the screenings of the classic movies Nosferatu and A Cottage on Dartmoor. This year he is turning his talents to Wallace Worsley’s GOOD ENERGY STAGE [435] 7PM £16* TASTING 1923 silent film the Hunchback of Notre Dame, which Jancis Robinson catapulted Lon Chaney to fame for his performance The Oxford Companion To Wine as the tortured hunchback Quasimodo. Now revised for its fourth edition, Jancis Robinson’s wine In aid of St Mary’s Church book has achieved legendary status, winning every major wine writing award, because it’s properly authoritative and utterly captivating. She talks about and tastes a [439] 8.30PM TATA TENT £8 selection of wines provided by Tanners of Hereford. Simon Schama Sponsored by Tanners Talking About Shakespeare: This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This England The historian was set alight by Shakespeare’s muse of STARLIGHT STAGE [436] 7PM £7 fire when he first saw Henry V as a child. He examines Giles Yeo Shakespeare’s making of the myths of England. He Cambridge Series 19: Are Your Genes hymns the Histories, the kings and the commoners, to Blame When Your Jeans Don’t Fit? the band of brothers, and the spirit of Shakespeare’s We become fat because we eat too much. Why some greatest knight, Sir John Falstaff. eat more than others, however, is powerfully genetically controlled. The Director of Genomics/Transcriptomics [440] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 at Cambridge explores some of these genes and observes: “Many genes have been identified that increase our risk Greg Proops of becoming obese and most of these function in the The Proopscast brain to influence food intake. Obese people find it A return to Hay for the wild and whirling comedian hard to lose weight not because they are bad and lazy, and improv star, who has a new book out called The but because they are fighting their biology.” Smartest Book in the World. He throws in the usual mix In association with Cambridge University of drinking, so-called jokes, singing, poor dancing and boring preachy parts. Part professorial, part crazed comedian, Proops forms the show around his talent and passions. The show flows like a love letter to tangents. And it’s gloriously, madly funny.

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[441] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [444] 8.30PM CUBE £6 Rachael Jolley, David Aaronovitch, John Holmes, Michaela Mahlberg, Laura Bates, Nikesh Shukla Will Tattersdill The Index Platform: What’s Offensive? Hot Off The Press – What are the limits of free speech and civility? What is University of Birmingham Series the nature of ‘offence’? What earns ‘respect’? If words When we read Victorian novelists and poets these can hurt you, are sticks and stones and broken bones days, we tend to read them in thick books: 1,000-page the answer? Rachael Jolley is the editor of Index. David novels, or ‘Poetical Works’ which are often not much Aaronovitch writes for The Times. Laura Bates is shorter. But for their original audiences, these stories founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. Nikesh Shukla and poems more usually appeared embedded in is a novelist and editor of The Good Immigrant magazines, a few pages at a time. What difference anthology, to be published in September. does it make to how we read some of the classics of In association with Index on Censorship Victorian literature when we read them in their original SATURDAY 4 JUNE SATURDAY form, in instalments, surrounded by advertisements, illustrations, articles and news? And how are new [442] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 methods for studying electronic texts helping us to The Horsemen of the Apocalypse reinvent something of that reading experience in a new The Hay Concert form? Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Ben Salfield, (lutar), Jon Salfield (flamenco guitar), Culture, Mahlberg is Professor of Corpus Linguistics Simon Stanton, (percussion) and Rowan Nightingale and Tattersdill is Lecturer in Victorian Literature. (acoustic bass). The internationally regarded Salfield In association with the University of Birmingham brothers’ ensemble makes a welcome return to Hay, following trio and duo concerts in 2014. Their high- octane repertoire features an exciting fusion of original 9.45pm works that tap into the Middle Eastern heritage of the

lute and the driving rhythms of the flamenco guitar, [445] 9.45PM TATA TENT £15 combined with a myriad original ideas from the two Mark Steel virtuosi. The colour and power of Simon Stanton’s Latin, North African and Middle Eastern percussion, Stand up: Who do I think I Am? and the recent addition of Rowan Nightingale’s The new show from the acute and fully engaged acoustic bass, create new harmonies, an added impetus, comedian is deeply personal. “It never really bothered and a new dimension to the ensemble’s sound. me that I’d never met my mum. It never occurred to me I needed to meet her to ‘find out who I was’, as it didn’t seem likely I’d discover I was someone different [443] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 to who I thought I was. Could it turn out I was three Oliver Bullough stone lighter than I thought, or I spoke Italian or Bloody Money: Screening supported Arsenal or had a fear of Liquorice Allsorts? The investigative journalist and author of The Last But after the birth of my own son, I realised it’s quite Man in Russia and Let Our Fame be Great introduces an event to have a child, and she may well remember a screening of Havana Marking’s Sundance Institute, giving birth to me, and maybe even the adoption.” TED prize-winning film about Ukrainian corruption,

which he has written and presented. The film reaches [446] 9.45PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £12 from Kiev to London to Washington, D C and Flavia Coelho examines how anonymous shell companies and Western banks are used to enable corrupt governments to rob In concert their nation’s wealth and natural resources. A first Hay for one of music’s greatest rising stars and her red-hot band. The mesmeric Brazilian singer draws on the traditions of samba and bossa nova with a mix of raga and hip-hop. Her first album, Bossa Muffin, made a huge impact around the world with its joyful fusions delivered with style and a liberating, effortlessly free-wheeling confidence.

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[447] 10AM TATA TENT £7 [450] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6 Jacob Rees-Mogg, Munira Mirza Deborah Lutz SUNDAYJUNE 5 and Kate Hoey talk to Bronwen Maddox The Brontë Cabinet: The Prospect Platform: The Case for Three Lives in Nine Objects A panel of the smartest OUT-ers make the case for The compelling story of the Brontës is told through leaving the EU. Rees-Mogg is Conservative MP for the things they wore, stitched, wrote on and inscribed North-East Somerset; Mirza is London’s Deputy Mayor at the parsonage in Haworth. From Charlotte’s writing for Education and Culture; Hoey is Labour MP for desk and the manuscripts it contained to the brass Vauxhall and was Sports Minister in Tony Blair’s collar worn by Emily’s dog Keeper, each object opens administration. They are questioned by the editor of a window on to the sisters’ world, their fiction, and Prospect magazine. the Victorian era. Chaired by Viv Groskop.

[HD84] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6 [HD85] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Christopher Lloyd Kristina Stephenson The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: The Pirate’s Curse How many plays did Shakespeare write? Which feature Shiver me timbers! Once upon a time, a mysterious ghosts? Which are non-fiction and which are made up? message in a bottle said someone needed help; help The What On Earth? Wallbook author explores the world from a certain bold, brave knight. So the brilliant Sir of human emotion using a giant timeline, a coat of many Charlie Stinky Socks, his cat Envelope and his good pockets and a series of everyday objects as props. grey mare find a ship to rescue the messenger. Join the Audience participation required; suitable for ages 6–106. author for a musical, storytelling journey complete with pirates, a sea monster, and a delicious surprise.

[448] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £6 3+ Anders Ericsson Peak: Secrets from the [451] 10AM CUBE £6 New Science of Expertise Carla Guelfenbein and Jonathan Levi The professor whose research inspired the 10,000-hour talk to Rosie Goldsmith rule has spent 30 years studying the Special Ones: Fiction International: Talking about Story geniuses, sports stars and musical prodigies. And his Guelfenbein is one of ’s leading screenwriters and remarkable finding, revealed in Peak, is that their special novelists. She discusses her novel The Rest is Silence, in abilities are acquired through training. The innate gift of which a family faces its crises when a 12-year-old boy talent is a myth. Exceptional individuals are born with accidentally records a grown-ups’ conversation. Levi, the just one unique ability, shared by us all: the ability to American author of A Guide for the Perplexed, presents develop our brains and bodies through our own efforts. his Rabelaisian novel Septimania, a voracious, teeming adventure in cultures and time. [449] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 With the support of the Embassy of Chile David Mitchell talks to Sarah Churchwell Talking About Fiction A conversation about language and imagination, and 11.30am the extraordinary Future Library project, with the celebrated author of Cloud Atlas, Number 9 Dream, [452] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 Black Swan Green, The Bone Clocks, Ghostwritten, The Full details of this event announced on 16 May. Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Slade House. Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design

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[453] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [456] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Jonathan Haslam David Aaronovitch talks to Rosie Boycott Near and Distant Neighbours Party Animals: Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret My Family and Other Communists intelligence documentation, Haslam reveals the true In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch’s seventh story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished Covering both branches of Soviet espionage, civilian for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern and military, he charts the full range of the Soviet communism. But who were they, these ever hopeful, intelligence effort and the story of its development: defiant and (had they but known it) historically doomed in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and people? Like a non-magical version of the wizards of counter-intelligence. He shows how their greatest J K Rowling’s world, they lived secretly with and parallel

SUNDAY 5 JUNE SUNDAY weapon and ironically their greatest weakness was to the non-communist majority, sometimes persecuted, the human factor: their ability to recruit secret agents. sometimes ignored, but carrying on their own ways and Haslam is the George F Kennan Professor at the traditions. Aaronovitch revisited his own memories of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Chaired by belief and action. He found himself studying the old Oliver Bullough. secret service files, uncovering the unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his own existence as a party animal. [454] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: [HD87] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 The Adventures of Alexander von Winnie-the-Pooh Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science Join the bear and his friends Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) is the great at a magical event that will take you deep into the heart lost scientist: more things are named after him than of Hundred Acre Wood. anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, 3+ the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there’s a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare CUBE Humboldtianum on the moon. He explored deep into [HD88] 11.30AM £6 the rainforest, climbed the world’s highest volcanoes Emerald Fennell and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets Monsters alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolívar’s Emerald Fennell, author and Call the Midwife star, talks revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail about her new book: a blackly comic tale about two on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne’s children you would never want to meet. Set in the Captain Nemo owned all of his many books. He simply Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the was, as one contemporary put it, “the greatest man since beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a the Deluge”. Wulf’s biography won the Costa Prize. young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing boat. Chaired by Professor Philip Davies. It is established that the woman was murdered. Most Sponsored by The Eccles Centre for are shocked and horrified. But there is somebody who is American Studies at the British Library not - a twelve-year-old girl. She is delighted; she loves murders. Soon she is questioning the inhabitants of the town in her own personal investigation. But it is a bit [455] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 boring on her own. Then Miles Giffard, a similarly odd Zoë Svendsen and Paul Mason twelve-year-old boy, arrives in Fowey with his mother, Talking About Shakespeare: and they start investigating together. Oh, and also Cambridge Series 20: Shakespeare playing games that re-enact the murders. Just for fun, and the Emergence of Capitalism you understand... Theatre director Zoë Svendsen and journalist and 12+ #HAYYA economist Paul Mason explore the theatricality of capitalism by examining what an economic analysis of Shakespeare’s plays might tell us about character and how the human is represented. Part of a new research and development project at the Young Vic, London. In association with Cambridge University

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[457] 1PM TATA TENT £8 [459] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Siddhartha Mukherjee Alain de Botton talks to Viv Groskop SUNDAYJUNE 5 The Gene: An Intimate History The Course of Love The story of the gene begins in an obscure What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten’s friends stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It intersects always ask them the same question: how did you meet? with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with The answer comes easily – it’s a happy story, one they the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, transforms post-war biology. It reorganises our the answer to a question their friends never ask: what understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and happened next? From the first thrill of lust, to the joys free will. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and fears of real commitment, and to the deep problems and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor that surface slowly over two shared lifetimes, this is the Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind story of a marriage. It is about modern relationships Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working and how to survive them. Playful, wise and profoundly to understand the code of codes. Woven through moving, the essayist and philosopher introduces his The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history – first novel in 20 years. the story of Mukherjee’s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics [460] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 is vitally relevant to everyday lives. The cancer physician’s book The Emperor of All Maladies: Eleonora Galasso and Simon Schama A Biography of Cancer won the Pulitzer Prize. As the Romans Do: Authentic and reinvented recipes from the Eternal City Part of the Baillie Gifford series The captivating Instagram gastro star and Roman native conjures up La Dolce Vita with her recipes for earthy [458] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 breakfasts, alfresco lunches and sumptuous suppers. Fiona Reynolds She is joined by historian and food fanatic Cambridge Series 21: The Fight for Beauty Simon Schama. This is table talk in flagrante! In a world where too often, it seems, only the economy matters, Fiona Reynolds argues that beauty should [461] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 shape our lives. Dame Fiona is Master of Emmanuel Zoë Wilcox and Julian Harrison College, Cambridge, and was formerly Director- General of The National Trust. Showing Shakespeare in the Library The curators of the two landmark exhibitions of In association with Cambridge University the 400th anniversary celebrations share their treasures at Hay – from First Folios and the now famous [HD89] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 handwritten plea for refugees, to Vivien Leigh’s Titania Debbie Moon costume and some of the richest theatrical memorabilia Wolfblood of the last 400 years. Meet the creators, producers and stars of hot CBBC In association with the British Library drama Wolfblood, an award-winning combination and the Library of Birmingham of thrilling action and intrigue entwined with stories of secrets and friendships surrounding the mysterious [HD90] 1PM CUBE £6 race of Wolfbloods who live among us. Gavin Puckett 12+ #HAYYA Hendrix the Rocking Horse Join the author of the hilarious story about Hendrix, a horse with an ear for music who has a life-changing moment when he hears the band The Tumbling Pebbles and gets hold of one of their guitars. Hendrix makes a musical transformation and turns himself into a rock ‘n’ roll rocking horse. 3+

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[462] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 [465] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Paul Mason Matt Wilkinson PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future Cambridge Series 22: Restless Creatures Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has The evolutionary biologist shows why our ancestors undergone economic cycles that veer from boom to became two-legged, why we have opposable thumbs, bust. The campaigning economist and broadcaster why the backbone appeared, how fish fins became argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and limbs, how even trees are locomotion-obsessed, and profound that this time capitalism itself will mutate how movement has shaped our minds as well as our into something wholly new. Chaired by Jane Davidson. bodies. He explains why there are no flying monkeys or biological wheels, how dinosaurs took to the air, how Mexican waves began in the animal kingdom, and why [463] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 moving can make us feel good. Wilkinson opens up an Fay Weldon talks to Rosie Goldsmith SUNDAY 5 JUNE SUNDAY astonishing new perspective – that nothing in life makes Before the War sense except in the light of movement. A new, historical novel from the great tale-teller. In association with Cambridge University Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is 24 and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. [466] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her Karina Urbach family as ‘the giantess’. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so Go Betweens for Hitler she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic The untold story of how some of Germany’s top gentleman publisher to marry her… This is a city aristocrats contributed to Hitler’s secret diplomacy fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell- during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to shocked soldiers and aristocrats clinging onto the past. their influential contacts and relations across Europe - especially in Britain, where they included press baron [HD91] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 and Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere and the future Chris Riddell and Friends King Edward VIII. The Laureate’s Drawing The Children’s Laureate is joined by some of the best [467] 2.30PM CUBE £7 new illustrators to discuss the challenges and magic Benny Wenda, Jennifer Robinson, of telling stories to all ages through pictures. George Monbiot 8+ Free West Papua The independence leader was arrested, tortured and threatened with death for protesting against the [464] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Indonesian occupation of his homeland. Wenda now Andrew Dickson lives in exile. He argues that over half a million Papuans Worlds Elsewhere: have been murdered by the Indonesian forces in the 50 Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe years of occupation, constituting genocide. He tells his Travelling across four continents, six countries and story (also detailed in the film The Road Home) with his 400 years, Dickson takes us on a personal journey rich advocate, the international lawyer Jennifer Robinson in insight and surprise. We enter the air-conditioned and the journalist George Monbiot. vault deep beneath Capitol Hill, where the world’s largest collection of First Folios is stored; discover the shadowy history of Joseph Goebbels’s obsession with Shakespeare; and uncover the true story behind the scuffed edition 4pm in which Nelson Mandela and fellow Robben Island [468] 4PM TATA TENT £9 prisoners inscribed their names. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, Worlds Elsewhere is an attempt Cast announced on 16 May to understand how Shakespeare has become the The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: international phenomenon he is – and why. The Shakespeare Show An hour of the most important speeches and sonnets written by the greatest writer of all time.

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[469] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £8 [472] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Max Hastings Michael Wooldridge SUNDAYJUNE 5 The Secret War: Artificial Intelligence: Fact and Fiction Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 In this lecture, aimed at anyone from age 16 up, The journalist and war historian links tales of high Professor Michael Wooldridge will discuss artificial courage ashore, at sea and in the air to the work of intelligence, and just how much of what you hear in the brilliant boffins at home, battling the enemy’s the press can be believed. Professor Wooldridge is the technology. Most of the strivings, adventures and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the sacrifices of spies, Resistance, Special Forces and even University of Oxford and on the organising committee of the code-breakers were wasted, Hastings says, but a of a new research initiative to create a code of ethics for fraction was so priceless that no nation begrudged lives artificial intelligence. He is involved at an editorial level and treasure spent in the pursuit of jewels of knowledge. in various academic journals on AI; his own research is The book tells stories of high policy and human drama, at the intersection of logic, computational complexity, illuminating the fantastic machinations of secret war. and game theory. In association with the Computer Science [470] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Department at the University of Oxford Sarah Harper How Population Change [473] 4PM CUBE £6 Will Transform Our World Tony Bianchi, Alys Conran and The Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Wiliam Owen Roberts talk to Lleucu Siencyn Oxford Institute of Population Ageing looks at Which Language First? population trends to highlight the key issues facing Tony Bianchi won the Prose Medal at the National us in the coming decades, including the demographic last summer for his novel Dwy Farwolaeth inertia in Europe, demographic dividend in Asia, high Endaf Rowlands! He was brought up in Tyneside fertility and mortality in Africa, the youth bulge in the speaking only Geordie English. Alys Conran is from Middle East, and the balancing act of migration in the north Wales; her first novel Pigeon is in English and Americas. Harper analyses the global challenges we published simultaneously in Welsh. Wil Roberts is almost must plan for, such as the impact of climate change a monoglot Welshman; his prize-winning novels Petrograd and urbanisation, and the difficulty of feeding 10 and Paris are set in revolutionary Russia and France and billion people. She considers ways in which we can are being translated into English with a Pen England prepare for and militate against these challenges. Award. Welsh fiction in English and Welsh is in flux; Lleucu Siencyn from Literature Wales asks why and how. [471] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Supported by Literature Wales Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How To Use It Better 5.30pm We know we need money. We tend to want more of it. But why do we behave the way we do with it? And why [474] 5.30PM TATA TENT £8 does it have such a hold on us? Award-winning BBC Nik Gowing, Simon Schama, Radio 4 presenter Claudia Hammond delves into the Gillian Tett and Guests surprising psychology of money to show us that our The Europe Debate relationship with the stuff is more complex than we At the end of 10 days of ideas about Britain and might think. Exploring the latest research in psychology, Europe, about union and independence, self-interest neuroscience, biology and behavioural economics, she and security, identity and vision, festival guests argue also reveals some simple and effective tricks that will the ins and outs and we stage a counted vote. Does the help you think about, use and save money better: from audience at Hay want to be part of the EU or not? how being grumpy helps if you don’t want to be ripped off to why you should opt for the more expensive pain Sponsored by Herdman Coaches relief; from how to shop for a new laptop to why you should never offer to pay your friends for favours.

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[475] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU8WALES STAGE £7 [478] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Mohamed Nasheed, Farah Faizal, Steve Edwards J J Robinson The Man who Drowned the Meadows: Paradise Lost – The Experience Rowland Vaughan, 1558–1627 Maldives was the first country to experience the Arab The story of Rowland Vaughan and his waterworks Spring with a new democracy in place in 2008. A military provides an insight both into an eager and imaginative coup in February 2012 deposed the President, Mohamed but rather litigious family man and into his understanding Nasheed. He was tried, found guilty of domestic terrorism of the benefits of irrigating farmland and managing charges and jailed for 13 years in March 2015. The floodwater. Such thinking was very new at the end of the proceedings were criticised by the UN and Amnesty Elizabethan era. The extensive field work carried out by the International for being politically motivated and arbitrary. Golden Valley Study Group shows in great detail the traces Nasheed, currently in the UK on medical leave from of Vaughan’s meticulous design for his water management

SUNDAY 5 JUNE SUNDAY prison, continues to vigorously deny the charges and system in the Golden Valley in Herefordshire, still clearly calls for the release of all political prisoners held under discernible in the landscape today – the very gradual the Yameen Government. We discuss the political gradients, the gentle curves of the spreader channels, the situation in Maldives, the implications for the wider capacity to set water flowing either up or down the main region, and lessons learned for other Arab Spring channel (the Trench Royal) as required, and the countries. Farah Faizal was the High Commissioner in groundworks in the meadows themselves. London. J J Robinson is the author of The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy. Chaired by Jon Snow. [479] 5.30PM CUBE £7 Scott Wisor [476] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Millennium Own Goals? Myths and Karl Jenkins talks to Facts in the Struggle Against Global Poverty Nicola Heywood Thomas University of Birmingham Series Still With the Music At the conclusion of the Millennium Development With influences from religious and historical texts, Goals, Ban Ki Moon proclaimed that the MDGs had multicultural musical styles and, famously, a ‘vocalised’ lifted more than a billion people out of extreme poverty. language of sounds that speaks directly to the heart, The standard narrative is that global poverty reduction the composer has written powerful works such as proceeds apace across the globe and in just a few years Adiemus and the iconic The Armed Man: A Mass for very few people will be living in extreme poverty. No. Peace that encompass the depth and breadth of human While there has been progress in many spheres of life, emotion. From a modest upbringing in Penclawdd, global poverty counts are plagued by methodological Wales, steeped in the Welsh choral tradition and the problems that make any pronouncements on the Western classical canon, Karl followed his love of music impending end of global poverty highly dubious. And to London, immersing himself in the 1960s jazz world even according to these flawed measures, almost all the of Ronnie Scott’s, before joining the seminal prog-rock reduction in global poverty is due to growth in China. group Soft Machine. He became one of the most Wisor is Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study successful composers in the dynamic advertising of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham. industry of the 1980s, ultimately leading to his In partnership with the University of Birmingham landmark Adiemus project in the 1990s, which inspired him to create the works that have now moved so many.

[477] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Conn Iggulden Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors The sensationally successful historical novelist tells the tale of the game of thrones that were the Wars of the Roses. Ravenspur is the latest in the series that includes Stormbird, Trinity and Bloodline.

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[HD92] 6.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £12 Evelyn Glennie and Christopher Lloyd SUNDAYJUNE 5 The Sounds of Science The great percussionist makes her Hay debut with an audio narrative that details nearly 100 scientific discoveries made over the past 10,000 years. In this unmissable event, audiences will hear the extraordinary story of how humans have changed the world, from the first stone tools through to the discovery of Newton’s laws of motion and gravity, the nuclear age and beyond. The What On Earth? historian and festival favourite introduces some of the moments featured here using a giant timeline of more than 1,000 inventions. “Throughout the music the piece awakens us to sounds that trigger memories we may have forgotten in our everyday cacophony of sounds. Sounds depicting significant moments in history, including the discovery of fire, carving the wheel, connecting us via telephone.” – Evelyn Glennie. The work was commissioned by the Edinburgh Science Festival

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[481] 8PM TATA TENT £42 Bryn Terfel and Rebecca Evans The Closing Concert In a grand finale to our 29th festival, the Welsh legends sing a concert of solos and duets by Purcell, Mozart, Obradors, Clara Schumann, Finzi, Quilter and Meirion Williams. The concert is dedicated to Samantha Maskrey, who retires this summer after serving on the festival board for 25 years.

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Hay Festival Bookshop Relish Festival Restaurant This year, the bookshop will be bigger than ever, with Cafe – Bar – Restaurant plenty of room to relax and browse. We will be stocking Relish returns to bring you the Festival Restaurant, all books by authors attending the Festival, and holding Cafe and Bar. The restaurant will open each day for book signings after every event. Please note only one lunch and dinner, serving delicious dishes using only book per person that is not purchased from us can be the best local, seasonal ingredients. The bar will serve accepted for . We are open from 9am daily. draft beers, wine and cocktails, including the best Bloody Marys on site. The cafe will feature light bites, barista coffees and other deli treats to eat in or take away. “We have developed our Relish Cafe, Bar and Restaurant on focused, punctual and high-quality Hay Festival Compass customer service, making your festival experience a memorable one.” Private parties are welcome during Students aged 16–25 are invited to drop into our new the festival. To book call 01285 658 444 or email

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Shepherds Ice Cream FOOD & DRINK If you are looking for irresistible ice-creams, sublime sundaes and toppings that are just topping, you’re in the Festival Bar right place. We are artisan ice-cream makers since 1987 and have a unique recipe based on sheep’s milk. Come Enjoy a pint of real ale, a glass of wine or a jug of and visit our on-site stall or our cafe/ice-cream parlour Pimm’s in the sunshine. at 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye. This was recently chosen by Conde Nast Traveller as one of the World’s Best Local Ice-Cream Shops. You can follow us on Facebook or Twitter @shepherdsices. So don’t be a lost sheep – flock to Shepherds. Friends Café This is a hub of activity during the Festival, where sold-out events are relayed on screen, live from the Tata Tent. The cafe is open early for your first shot of coffee through to the call for last orders. Join your FESTIVAL FOOD HALL friends or make new ones here. The Bridge Inn, Michaelchurch Escley on Tour We at The Bridge Inn are coming down from the hills above Hay-on-Wye to bring you a selection of Graze our most loved dishes. We will be serving our Escleyside For the 13th year, Graze will be serving up superb beef and ale pies with mash or chips and freshly Welsh and locally sourced food, including tapas, steamed vegetables. Our proper pies are made with sharing platters, steaks, fresh fish, salads and desserts. Herefordshire’s favourite Butty Bach beer and stuffed Champagne, wines and Welsh ales are available, as well full of chunks of Herefordshire’s best beef. as posh pizza from the bar. Graze was previously BLAS For additional vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free and is run by Capital Cuisine from just outside Cardiff: dishes, check out our full menu online: visit www.capitalcuisine.co.uk for the full menu. www.thebridgeinnmichaelchurch.co.uk

HAYDAYS Coffee Buon Gusto Pizza Child-friendly, no-nonsense sandwiches and drinks Buon Gusto is pleased once again to serve you at Hay served in the garden. Parents are not forgotten. Festival, where authentic Italian pizza is made fresh We have fresh organic coffee, iced drinks, pastries every day in the Food Hall. Choose from the quirky and comfortable seating for you. Festival-themed menu and enjoy stone-baked pizza, which uses our unique dough recipe and is cooked to order. Open every day till late.

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Cafe Mor Welsh Venison Centre The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company proudly We are a local farming family, butcher’s and farm shop. presents Cafe Mor, winner of the BBC Radio 4 Food Welsh Venison Centre is delighted to offer festival- EXTRAS SITE ON and Farming Awards 2014 for Best UK Street Food. followers the healthy venison option and will be open We are seafood and seaweed specialists. Sample our every day with a varied menu including our famous famous seashore-inspired delights such as freshly baked gourmet venison burgers, chilli, meatballs, salads and seashore wraps filled with fantastic Welsh seafood, fish wedges. Our farm shop, stocked with Welsh produce, chowder with Ship’s Biscuits, and the fabulous Beach local bread and gifts for the home, is also worth a visit: Brownies. The Lobster & Crab Shack offers divine www.beaconsfarmshop.co.uk Pembrokeshire lobster and crab served with salad and frites. New for this year: the pop-up Fish ‘n’ Chip Shop and Sparkling Star Calamari #luckypeople

XOX As XOX this year we’ll be serving Welsh Celtic Pride beef and lamb burgers, all-day breakfasts, beef or veg Coffee Cart Co. stir-fry and wraps. Coffee Cart Co. is proud to serve our own signature organic espresso blend alongside a delicious cold summer drinks menu including iced teas and frappés. Need to beat the heat in the tents? Then come and join us. EXHIBITORS AGA There is nothing quite like the AGA cooker for the Dylan Thomas Boathouse Bar feeling it creates in the home and, of course, the A pint of traditional Welsh Cask and bottled ales, delicious food it helps to produce. Our latest models locally produced cider and perry or a glass of chilled have been designed with controllable features to suit fizz at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse Bar located in the C21st lifestyle. Visit the AGA team at Hay Festival the Food Hall. to learn more: www.agaliving.com

Lotty’s Pure Indulgence BBC Radio Wales Hub Lotty’s sells a delicious range of homemade food, Look out for the BBC Radio Wales Hub which will be including full breakfasts, savoury tarts, salads, broadcasting live and recording for BBC radio stations Thai veg/vegan curry, steak and kidney stew, throughout the festival. The Hub will play host to live Italian stone-baked pizza slices, decadent puds, acoustic performances and interviews for BBC Radio cakes and brownies. Plus gluten-free options for Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Hereford & mains and puddings. Come and indulge! Worcester. Anyone is welcome to drop by and listen in – no ticket required. The full schedule will be available on the Hay Festival website and at the Hub on site.

Slate of Cheese We offer a selection of Welsh cheeses on a variety of hand-prepared platters. Each cheese has been specially Christ College, Brecon selected for the Hay Festival and will be accompanied This is an independent Boarding and Day Education by homemade chutney and crackers. We also have a for Boys and Girls aged 7–18 years. At Christ College, selection of tapas – olives, humous, vegetable crisps education is about learning with enthusiasm and and cured meats including venison salami – enjoyment; living and growing in a culture where handmade venison Scotch eggs and pies. 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. Visit www.christcollegebrecon.com for details.

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The Daily Telegraph Oxfam Come and visit us at the Festival entrance to buy a The Oxfam Bookshop at Hay Festival is packed with great copy of the daily newspaper along with your free Festival books, cards and CDs. From contemporary fiction to history, canvas bag. Read our daily coverage of events and talk cookery to children’s titles, we’ve got everything covered. to our friendly staff for more information about how What’s more, every purchase helps poor communities around to obtain a digital subscription. the world. Buy just three books and Oxfam could give a youngster a school kit including pens, books, paper and classroom equipment – everything they need to go to school.

First News This is an award-winning weekly national newspaper for children, with more than two million readers every week. The Playhouse Company

ON SITE EXTRAS Experienced First News journalists provide up-to-date The Playhouse Company designs, builds and installs articles on a range of subjects from entertainment to bespoke wooden playhouses that are perfect for children politics, sport to science, as well as major news stories with a yearning for imaginative play. Based in Hereford, from the UK and around the world. Come and meet us the family-run business was founded 20 years ago out of a on the stand and follow us on Twitter, @First_News passion for toy-making and encouraging children to reap the benefits of outdoor play. The Playhouse Company is delighted to donate a specially designed new playhouse to Hay Festival. www.theplayhousecompany.co.uk; Hay Does Vintage 01544 387 100 Visit Hay Does Vintage to rummage through the rails in search of glorious one-off treasures. Find plenty of clothes, accessories and jewellery with Jo (Hay Does Vintage) and Kelli (Vintage Tramp). We will be previewing a selection from the forthcoming Hay Does Vintage fayre in Hay on Prospect Magazine Sunday 3 July. Follow events on Facebook or Twitter Prospect brings together the sharpest minds to discuss ideas @haydoesvintage and @vintagetramp that define the modern world. The result is an entertaining and informative magazine combining compelling argument and clear-headed analysis. At Hay Festival 2016 you can buy three issues for £1 and receive a free bottle of wine. Visit our stand for more information; Mari Thomas Jewellery www.prospectmagazine.co.uk; Mari Thomas is an award-winning Welsh designer-jeweller, @prospect_uk producing beautiful collections inspired by language and landscape. She works in solid sterling silver and gold and designs range from Champagne bubbles to snippets of poetry etched onto the jewellery. This is her first visit to Hay. www.marithomas.com; RSPB Cymru www.facebook.com/marithomasjewellery; We invite you to talk to the RSPB team and discover tips @MariTJewellery; [email protected]; on enjoying the wildlife on your doorstep and creating 01558 660001 amazing homes for nature, from a bug hotel to a toad abode. We also offer family fun at our nature workshops. If you fancy the finer things in life, why not pop over for a dram and a taste of conservation? For further details about our work visit rspb.org.uk Mark Stephens Furniture Mark Stephens Furniture is delighted to exhibit at Hay Festival for the second year. Come and see our beautifully designed and made bespoke furniture – contemporary but timeless and unique. Take the opportunity between Still Ethical events to visit the stand and think about adding to your Still Ethical returns to Hay Festival with a hand-crafted home one of our our individually designed pieces. clothing and interiors collection. Sophie Mason’s designs www.markstephensfurniture.co.uk; use traditional techniques in collaboration with artisans [email protected]; in India, Nepal and the UK, while Welsh furniture maker @marksbespoke; Matthew Smith makes beautiful hand-crafted furniture 07771 782 621 | 01874 625 900 from local reclaimed wood. Each piece is bespoke. www.stillethical.com; 07983 552217; @stillethical 98 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 21/04/2016 12:52 Page 99

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Woodland Trust Life’s better with trees – Join us to discover how planting a

tree can make a difference to wildlife and the environment. EXTRAS SITE ON Come along and meet our friendly team and relax in a deckchair in the garden by the ancient tree.

Village Ways Village Ways is an award-winning social enterprise travel company, offering holidays to rural areas of India, Ethiopia and Nepal. We tailor-make each trip so that you get exactly the right holiday to suit you. Walk from village to village in the Himalayas, relax on a houseboat in south India, or stay in village-run guesthouses in the mountains of Ethiopia. Wherever you choose, you be welcomed with genuine warmth by communities that benefit directly from your stay. Visit our stand to discover a new kind of holiday – ethical, sustainable and inspirational; www.villageways.com; [email protected]; @villageways; 01223 750049

INSTALLATIONS Hereford College of Arts Hereford College of Arts is popping up all over the place again this year at Hay. Students are running workshops inspired by Roald Dahl’s exquisite nonsense and creating artwork around the site with film, animation and performance inspired by Shakespeare and his relevance 400 years after his death. HCA is delighted to be working in creative partnership with Hay Festival. It presents an anarchic and rollicking pop-up gambol of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for younger audiences. DANCE - 2 PERFORMANCES All the World’s a Stage – Dance Performance, including aerial dance Hereford College of Arts dance students present an outdoor dance performance that includes aerial dance, inspired by Shakespeare’s monologue, “All the world’s a stage”. Bee or No Bee – Aerial Dance Performance Energetic outdoor aerial dance choreographed by Gillian Hipp and performed by Aerial Dance Company Hereford. With original music by Hereford College of Arts music student Wolfey Morris-Jones.

GARDENS David Austin Roses Enjoy the beauty and fragrance of a pop-up English Rose garden and the new ‘Roald Dahl’ rose by renowned rose breeder, David Austin Roses. Launched consecutively at the Chelsea Flower Show and Hay Festival, this glorious peach-coloured rose has been named in honour of the world’s number one storyteller, forming part of the official Roald Dahl 100 celebrations in 2016. www.davidaustinroses.com 99 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 100

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IN TOWN Trevithel Court Farm TUESDAY 31 MAY 2016 9AM MEET AT BOX OFFICE Fair on the Square 2016 David and Catherine James’ cider orchards are carefully 28, 29, 30 MAY HAY MARKET SQUARE managed to supply a range of cider apples to Bulmers and Come and relax in the centre of town, listen to live music Gaymers for their premium brands, some of which will be and soak up the atmosphere. Fair on the Square is a available for tasting. In a happily synergistic relationship colourful, community street party, set in a pretty marquee with a local beekeeper, the trees are pollinated by bees. in Memorial Square. There are food stalls, tea, coffee and Look inside the beehives and learn how bees make honey cake pitstops and eclectic vintage pop-up shops, with live and store it for the winter. music from noon–6pm each day, showcasing some of the best live acts from across the region. The beautifully restored Hay Cheese Market hosts the weekly Local Produce Market on Saturday, and an arts and craft market on Sunday and Monday. It’s free, friendly and fun. Come and find us in the OFF SITE EXTRAS middle of Hay over the Bank Holiday weekend. Maesllwch Farm WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE 2016 9AM MEET AT BOX OFFICE Come to Andrew and Rachel Giles’ dairy farm to see how their herd of dairy cows produce most of their milk from grass. Visitors can enter the milking parlour and help to Castle Street Food Market at Hay Castle milk some of the cows, as well as see the young calves. OPEN DAILY DURING THE FESTIVAL 10AM–6PM Learn how the cows are fed and find out how their four FRIDAY 27 MAY–SUNDAY 5 JUNE stomachs enable them to digest grass. Samples of dairy Step through the stone archway on the High Street and products will be provided for tasting and a cheesemaker you are in Hay Castle’s attractive walled garden. Sit at will demonstrate the craft. wooden tables under canvas canopies, eat delicious street food and soak up the festival atmosphere in the town Children must be eight years or over to take part in centre. Bon appétit! this event.

WALKS Brobury Farm FRIDAY 3 JUNE 2016 9AM SUNDAYS 29 MAY AND 5 JUNE MEET AT BOX OFFICE AND BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY 30 MAY Charlie and David Blandford’s farm lies alongside the £8 ADULT, £4 CHILD (INCLUDES BUS FARE) River Wye, in the heart of Kilvert country, and produces 11.15AM–3.30PM MEET AT HAY CASTLE BUS STOP, top quality lamb and arable crops. Our visit includes a OXFORD ROAD walk of up to a mile followed by demonstrations of Hay Ho! Bus Walks working sheep-dogs, sheep shearing and wool spinning. Join local walking guidebook authors Les Lumsdon and There will also be the opportunity to taste lamb that has Mike Ledlie on a beautiful walk in the Borders. Catch been produced on the farm. the 11.25 Hay Ho! bus, alight in England and walk back to Hay via Walkers Cottage and Clifford Church. Learn a little about local history and the story of Hay Ho! Easy walking with gentle climbs, five miles, several stiles; no dogs (except guide dogs). Walk ends in Hay at 3.30pm. HAY TOURS See www.droverholidays.co.uk for details and booking. Hay Tours run guided walking tours around the town that are about people, places and past events in the history of Hay. They aim to provide a colourful overview to the town and its cultural heritage. They are designed to be Farm Walks fairly short, informative and fun. Join local vet Barney Sampson and agronomist Jonathon We strongly recommend booking tour places in advance. Harrington as they explore farms in the local area. Meet at Tickets can be purchased online at www.haytours.org 9am at the box office; coaches will return to the festival or call Martin 01497 820 679 site at around 1pm. On the day please wear walking boots or Wellingtons and waterproof clothing in case of inclement weather. These are visits to real working farms and are suitable for anyone interested in learning more about food and farming. Families are welcome but children must be supervised at all times. 100 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 101

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SATURDAY 28 MAY 10AM–12PM SUNDAY 5 JUNE 10AM–11.30AM EXPLORE HAY’S OLD RAILWAY £6 ELIZA TRAIL £6 ADULTS, £3 CHILDREN UNDER 16

The railway formed an important part of life in Hay for This tour tells the story of Eliza, a Victorian schoolgirl EXTRAS SITE OFF more than a century, preceded by a horse-drawn tram that who loses her dog, Moss, on Market Day. In chasing followed the same route from Brecon to Kington. An exact around town after the dog, she follows a trail that reveals replica model of the railway was recently discovered and some interesting facts about Hay’s past. The story is restored by members of Hay History Group. This tour brought to life with archive photographs and illustrated begins with a demonstration of the working model before characters contained within a booklet for you to keep. heading across town to follow the route of the railway line Meet in the centre of Hay outside the Cheese Market, from Hay Station to The Warren. This scenic walk of Memorial Square, HR3 5AF about three miles is mostly flat and incorporates town pavements and farmland footpaths with some stiles. Tour begins and ends in the centre of Hay outside the Cheese Market, Memorial Square, HR3 5AF. Coleridge Walks FRIDAY 27 MAY 9AM–5PM Coleridge in Wales: Walk from Pandy to Hay Samuel Taylor Coleridge dropped out of Cambridge MONDAY 30 MAY 10.30AM–12PM HAY HERITAGE TRAIL £6 University in 1794 and walked around Wales. Join a 16- mile hill walk across Hay Bluff from Pandy to Hay, part of This tour takes in all the main historic features of Hay, an 80-day journey around Wales that exploring Coleridge’s including the Cheese and Butter Markets, some of the voice as a contemporary vision for global sustainable town’s former public wells and many of its pubs (there development, part of the Coleridge in Wales festival. used to be 40 inns in Hay back in the good old days). To take part, e-mail [email protected] It also covers the three gateways to the original medieval walled town, Hay Castle, and the place where people would ford the River Wye before the first bridge was built in 1763. Tour begins and ends in the centre of Hay outside SATURDAY 28 MAY 8.30AM the Cheese Market, Memorial Square, HR3 5AF. MEET AT RELISH RESTAURANT Wordsworth, Coleridge and Thelwall at Llyswen Join ‘Coleridge in Wales’ founder Richard Parry and scholar of the C18th, Prof. Penelope Corfield, for breakfast and WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE 3PM – 4PM then a walk and/or bus ride to nearby Llyswen (seven miles SWAN LOOP £6 from Hay) where Coleridge and Wordsworth came to visit This is the perfect one-hour tour if you want a summary the notorious radical John Thelwall in 1798. Thelwall had of Hay. Starting at the Swan Hotel, this route stops off at withdrawn from the ferment of London to try farming in the site of the original Motte and Bailey Castle that existed the Welsh hills. Was Wordsworth jealous? In association before the Hay Castle we know today. It incorporates with Cambridge University conference ‘Coleridge in Wales: Carles Gate, one of the three original gateways into the Clues and Trails’. Breakfast will be available. former Medieval walled town of La Haie and makes a stop in the grounds of Hay Castle on route back to the Swan. Meet outside the main entrance of the Swan Hotel, Church St, HR3 5DQ. EXHIBITION Traces An exhibition of work by Susan Milne, FRIDAY 3 JUNE 2PM–4PM ARMSTRONG MURDER TRAIL £6 Katherine Sheers and Helen Watkins THE TABERNACLE, TALGARTH, LD3 0BP FREE ENTRY Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong was the only solicitor OPEN DAILY DURING THE FESTIVAL 11AM–5PM in the UK ever to be hanged, on 31 May 1922. He was LATE NIGHT OPENING WED 1 JUNE TILL 9.30PM convicted of murdering his wife with arsenic. He worked Three artists celebrate textiles with ideas that relate in Hay and lived in Cusop. This two-mile walk takes in the to processes of disintegration, to landscape, and to relevant sites to explain the story of the events. The walk personal and communal history showing a range of leader will suggest Major Armstrong should not have been methods and techniques including drawing, convicted upon the basis of the evidence given at his trial. construction, stitching and dyeing. Meet at Hay Clock Tower, Broad Street, HR3 5BU and end at Cusop Church, with an optional group walk back into Hay. 101 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 102

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Getting to Hay Local Taxis Hay-on-Wye is situated just off the A438 between Brecon Taxi share scheme is available from: and Hereford. The Festival is well signposted. The nearest A2B Taxis 01874 658 899 railway station is Hereford, 21 miles away, and Hereford Julie’s 07899 846 592 bus station is served by National Express coaches. Radnor and Kington Taxis 07831 898 361 Railway enquiries nationalrail.co.uk Booktown Taxis 07881 726547 03457 48 49 50 Glasbury Taxis 07966 017714 Coach information from nationalexpress.com 0871 781 8181 Self Drive Hire Public transport information from traveline.info LT Baynham, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 273 298 08712 00 22 33 Car Parking Festival Bus Link Hereford to Hay There is all-weather parking at Clyro Court (Baskerville and Worcester to Hay Hall Hotel), HR3 5LE. A direct free shuttle bus service TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION TRAVEL will operate between Clyro Court and the Festival site. Our special festival bus service linking with trains and The shuttle bus stop is by the main gate by the road. Please coaches at Hereford’s train and bus stations and also allow up to 20 minutes for journey time. All festival-goers Worcester Crowngate Bus Station, runs for the duration can pre-book parking spaces. Parking costs £6 per day, of the Festival. There is also a scheduled bus service (no 39) which includes shuttle bus tickets. The last shuttle buses from Hereford and Brecon to Hay-on-Wye operating six leave the Festival site for Clyro Court after the last event days a week, Mondays to Saturdays. The 39A Hay Ho! each day. Disabled parking will continue to be available on bus runs on Sundays at 11.25AM, 2.55PM and 5.25PM the Festival site. Please book a disabled parking space at the from the Oxford Road bus stop in Hay. time of booking tickets. There is also parking at the Detailed timetable at hayfestival.org/travel Macmillan Car Park adjacent to the Festival site (off Llanigon Road). The cost is £6 per day. Special Festival Bus Service Hereford to Hay: Adults - £7 single, £10 return. Hay Town – Festival Shuttle Bus A regular shuttle bus service will be running between the Children (5–15)/Concession - £3 single, £5 return. Festival site and the town centre throughout the Festival. Day tickets for the shuttle bus are £1.50. Pick up and drop Family Period Return = £20 off points are Oxford Road Car Park and the Festival site. (for up to 4 persons - of which maximum 2 Adults) The shuttle bus is supported by Richard Booth’s Bookshop. Worcester to Hay: (via Hereford): Adults - £10 single, £15 return. Cycle Park Children (5–15)/Concession - £5 single, £7.50 return. A cycle park is available on the Festival site.

Family Period Return = £30 Accommodation (for up to 4 persons – of which maximum 2 Adults) For the Hay Festival Bedfinder Service call Sarah on Through tickets all the way to Hay (train and bus) 01497 821 526 until 26th May, email [email protected] can be purchased at train stations nationwide. 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. The Village Shuttle Bus Service They are all excellent. Visitors may also contact the following Avoid the queues and choose the greener way to travel – Tourist Information Services: leave your car at home this year and take the Village Hay-on-Wye 01497 820 144 Shuttle Bus which links up local villages to the festival site. The buses will call at stops including Llanigon, Felindre, Talgarth 01874 712 226 Glasbury, Talgarth and Bronllys. Tickets cost £3 per Brecon 01874 622 485 journey. To find out more go to hayfestival.org/shuttlebus Crickhowell 01873 812 105 Hereford 01432 268 430 Car Share Scheme Kington 01544 230 778 Hay Festival partners with goCarShare, BlaBlaCar.com Camping and Liftshare to help connect drivers with spare seats and those needing assistance in getting to Hay. It’s a great Gypsy Castle Camping 07495 161 217 way to meet like-minded people, as well as making a big [email protected] contribution to reducing carbon emissions and congestion Tangerine Fields 07821 807 000 – and it also saves everyone money. [email protected] Wye Meadow Camping by Pillow 01666 504 601 [email protected] Outdoors@hay 01497 820426 104 www.training-activities.co.uk HAY ON EARTH 105 hayfestival.org Free tickets Free for students in tertiary education. loan Free of our thermal imaging camera for local communities to assess heat loss from buildings. purchase from local We businesses where feasible and encourage our contractors to do the same. Our Our hope and belief is that each year the standard of debate increases as people become more informed and involved, with an awareness that they individually can make a difference, as well as collectively lobby for change - in business, in government, in society. more For information go to hayfestival.org/hay-on-earth. Sustainability Sustainability also includes financial and social impacts and a few examples of these are: 01497 822 629 Provision of a Provision public bus service from our nearest train station to Hay which runs up to ten times a day (3,000 passengers in 2015). of minibuses Provision that link Festival-goers with local B&Bs and the surrounding villages and towns (1,193 passengers in 2015). Overall Overall reduction in use of resources including printed materials (down by 35%), diesel (down by 20%) and electricity (down by 25%). Recycling 55% of the waste produced on site, including in 2015: 6.3 tonnes of and cardboard six tonnes of glass and composting 12.2 tonnes of food waste and other compostables. In partnership Caplor with Energy, local company, installing solar heating for our staff hot water requirements. water standpipes Providing across the site so that people can fill their own bottles. With With our direct impacts we have focused on the waste, core areas transport, of energy, procurement and venues. Achievements include: Hay on Earth is Hay Festival’s ongoing Hay on sustainability Earth programme. is Hay Festival’s The Hay on Earth Thursday on Forum 26 May is a series of sustainability-focussed events exploring current issues campaign, and Rewilding, the Permaculture importance of Town traditional There are crafts. Tax including the Fair other related events throughout the week. have pledged to We apply the green principles we discuss on stage to our nine For own practices at Wales. Hay Festival years, we have been engaged in a programme of managing and mitigating our environmental impact through the Hay on Earth programme. have focused on We three key areas: our own direct impact; the impact of our audience and the programming of events that will stimulate debate and discussion about use key BS8901 issues. and We ISO 20121 as our management guides and some of our key achievements are as follows: Our Our biggest indirect impact is caused by people visiting the in Festival terms of their transport, accommodation etc. While this has a we huge look benefit economically, for ways in which we can reduce the environmental impacts. Examples include: HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 21/04/2016 11:57 Page 105 Page 11:57 21/04/2016 1 DOC_Layout 16 HAY HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 106

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AARDMAN WORKSHOPS, HD35, HD37, BIVINS, Roberta, 269 CLEEVES, Ann, 293 HD38 BLACK, Carol, 186 CLIMBING TREES, 84 AARONOVITCH, David, 373, 393, 441, BLACKMAN, Malorie, HD59 COE, Jonathan, 163 456 BLANDFORD, Charlie and David, 502 COELHO, Flavia, 446 ABBAS, Maddy, 164 BLESSED, Brian, 480 COLERIDGE, Gill, 71 ABDOLLAH, Kader, 264 BODEN, Margaret A, 154 COLLINS, Elaine, 293 ADAM, Ross, 159 BOOTLE, Roger, 234 COLVILE, Robert, 224 ADLAM, Carol, 357 BORMAN, Tracy, 212 CONISBEE, Molly, 252 AGBABI, Patience, 407 BOUND ALBERTI, Fay, 276 CONRAN, Alys, 473 AGLIONBY, Julia, 2 BOWER, Tom, 104 CORDEROY, Tracey, HD10 AHERN, Cecelia, HD72 BOYCOTT, Rosie, 29, 181, 186, 239, CORERA, Gordon, 413 AHMED, Kamal, 415 257, 269, 364, 425, 437, 456 CORFIELD, Penelope, 504 AINSWORTH, Eve, HD3 BOYLE, David, 252 CORRIGAN, Kitty, 14, 328

INDEX AKHTAR, Tauseef, 348 BRAGG, Billy, 336 CORTON, Christine L, 34 AKYÜZ, Sav, HD78 BRAGG, Melvyn, 68 COWELL, Cressida, HD5 ALAGIAH, George, 105, 132 BRASS, Clare, 252 CRACE, John, 199, 223, 330 ALBERT, Corisande, 44, 309 BRIDGE, Holly, 421 CREMONA QUARTET, 360 ALEXANDER, Fleur, HD31, HD41 BRIDGEWATER, Emma, 14 CRITCHLOW, Hannah, 55 ALEXIEVICH, Svetlana, 67 BRIGGS, Thomas, 11 CROSS, Helen, 357 ALLUM, Rob, 203 BRIGHT, Rachel, HD70 CROXALL, Martine, 201, 242 ALTIN, Vanessa, HD51 BRIGSTOCKE, Marcus, 94, 146, 248, CRUICKSHANK, Dan, 245 ANAM, Tahmima, 132 255, 350, 378 CRYSTAL, David, 185, 210, 229 ANAND, Anita, 316, 365, 408 BRISCOE, Joanna, 77 CUFF, Simone, 251 ANDERSON, Jon, 17 BROOK, Rhidian, 121 CUMMING, Laura, 49 ANDREWS, Maggie, 206 BROOK, Timothy, 380 CUNLIFFE, Barry, 326 ANTROBUS, David, 38 BROOM, Jenny, HD25 CUNNINGHAM, Duncan, 340 AP GLYN, Ifor, 214 BROTTON, Jerry, 61, 123, 177, 190, DAFYDD, Fflur, 149 ARMITAGE, Simon, 81, 115 320, 380 DAOUD, Kamel, 64 ARMITSTEAD, Claire, HD59, 401 BROWN, Gordon, 408 DATAR, Rajan, 399, 410 ARNEY, Kat, 168 BROWN, Martin, HD62 DAVENPORT, Juliet, 27, 106, 146, ARNOLD, Marsha, 37 BROWNE, John, 98 294, 341 ATTENBOROUGH, Stephen, 131 BULLOUGH, Oliver, 83, 97, 125, 282, DAVIDSON, Jane, 346, 390, 462 AUSTIN, Topun, 358 384, 398, 443, 453 DAVIES, Andrew, 31 BAGGOTT, Jim, 332 BULLOUGH, Tom, 37, 384 DAVIES, Benji, HD13 BAHN, Paul, 321 BURDAKOV, Denis, 327 DAVIES, Gwen, 197 BAILEY SMITH, Ben, HD78 BURGESS, Melvin, HD54 DAVIES, Nicola, HD52 BAILLIEU, James, 313 BURNELL, Cerrie, HD43 DAVIES, Philip, 454 BAKER, Sara, 20 BURNET, Rob, 25 DAVIES, Russell T, 119 BAKEWELL, Joan, 60, 130 BURNS, Dave, 40 DAVIS, Dan, 168, 178, 281, 332, 367 BAKEWELL, Sarah, 188 BURTON, Humphrey, 236 DAWSON, Juno, HD3, 32 BALCH, Oliver, 27, 155, 301 BURTON-HILL, Clemency, 59, 66, 69, DE BOTTON, Alain, 459 BALSOM, Alison, 59 119, 130, 216, 236, 265, 313, DE FRESTON, Tom, 288 BARDGETT, Richard, 207 360, 373, 383, 419 DE WAAL, Edmund, 74 BARNETT, Emma, 246, 410 BUSQUETS, Milena, 114 DHARKER, Imtiaz, 235 BARRETT, John, 345 BUTCHART, Pamela, HD20, HD22 DI GIOVANNI, Janine, 111 BARTLETT, Martin James, 59 BUTLER, Martin, HD32 DICKSON, Andrew, 464 BATE, Jonathan, 320 BUTLER, Steven, HD18, HD21 DIMBLEBY, Jonathan, 314 BATES, Laura, 362, 403, 441 CABLE, Vince, 225 DIX, 37, 253 BATHURST, Bella, 299 CALLOW, Simon, 393 DOCKRILL, Laura, HD65 BATTERS, Minette, 2 CALMAN, Susan, 193 DON, Monty, 278, 299 BATTY, Clare, 293 CANNAN, Robert, 159 DONALDSON, Julia, HD1 BAULD, Linda, 431 CAREY, Peter, 71, 122 DONOVAN, Mick, 270 BAXTER, Glen, 62 CARROLL, Emma, HD60, HD66 DORAN, Gregory, 385 BEAR, Laura, 118 CARTLEDGE, Paul, 267 DORLING, Danny, 134, 174 BEAUMONT, Henny, 189 CHADWICK, Peter, 295 DOUGLAS, Jonathan, HD54 BEDFORD, Martyn, HD3 CHAKRABARTI, Shami, 88 DRABBLE, Margaret, 266 BELL, Iain, 38 CHANG, Jung, 191 DU SAUTOY, Marcus, 116, 147 BENNETT, Craig, 294 CHASE, Will, 352 DUCKWORTH, Angela, 44 BENNETT, Phil, 416 CHEVALIER, Tracy, 36, 77, 100 DUDLEY EDWARDS, Ruth, 232 BENNHOLD, Katrin, 369, 369, 405 CHICK, Victoria, 302 DUNKERLEY, Hugh, 346 BENSTEAD, Sam, 187 CHILTON, Martin, 331 DUNLEAVY, Hannah, 378 BERRIDGE, Vanessa, 287 CHURCHWELL, Sarah, 432, 449 DUNSFORD, Illtud Llyr, 352 BÉRUBÉ, Kelly, 93 THE CLANGERS, HD16 DWAN, David, 387, 394 BETTRIDGE, Dan, 389 CLARE, Horatio, HD8, 80, 142 EBADI, Shirin, 54 BEYNON, Sarah, HD46 CLARK, Alex, 52, 111 ECCLESHARE, Julia, HD17 106 BIANCHI, Tony, 473 CLARKE, Gillian, 214, 228, 235 EDGE, Christopher, HD58 BICKERTON, Chris, 164 CLARY, Julian, HD77 EDWARDS, Steve, 478 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 107

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ELIOT, Jim, 503 GIBSON, Jenny, 20 HARRIS, Oliver, 196 ELLEN, Tom, HD30 GIBSON, Susannah, 381 HARRIS, Stephen, 213 ELLIOT, Tim, 85 GILES, Andrew, 501 HARRISON, Cassian, 141, 187 ELPHINSTONE, Abi, HD66 GILES, Rachel, 501 HARRISON, Julian, 461 ENGEL, Mathew, 7 GILLESPIE, Ed, 146, 202 HASLAM, Jonathan, 453 ENRIGUE, Álvaro, 169 GILMOUR, David, 29 HASTINGS, Max, 469 ERICSSON, Anders, 448 GIRALT TORRENTE, Marcos, 58 HAWKING, Lucy, HD71 ERSKINE, Barbara, 10 GLENNIE, Evelyn, HD92 HAYDEN, Michael V, 129, 136 EVANS, David, 92 GLENNY, Misha, 386 HEDLEY, Douglas, 28 INDEX EVANS, Liesel, 187 GLYN, Gwyneth, 348 HEDREN, Tippi, 165 EVANS, Rebecca, 481 GODWIN, Georgian, 424, 86, 100, 135, HEILBRON, John, 281 EVANS, Richard, 48 189, 301, 342, 382 HEMINGWAY, Wayne, 56 EVANS, Tracey, 12 GOLAKAI, Hawa, 135, 175 HENDRA, Sue, HD63 EZE, Kevin, 175 GOLDBERG, Leslie, 127 HENFREY, Thomas, 3 FAIZAL, Farah, 475 GOLDIN, Ian, 57, 107 HENN, Sophy, HD45 FARRAR, Jeremy, 70 GOLDSMITH, Rosie, 175, 232, 264, 311, HENNESSY, Frank, 40 FAUVEL, Warren, 12 370, 411, 451, 463 HENNESSY, Peter, 99 FENNELL, Emerald, HD88 GOODWIN, Nicola, 355 HERBERT, Nick, 234 FERGUSON, Niall, 418, 432 GOOLEY, Tristan, 230 HERD, David, 407 FERNANDEZ ARMESTO, Felipe, 241 GORDON, Bryony, 362, 419 HERINGTON, Steve, 7 FERNIE, Ewan, 288 GOSS, Jen, 5 HERRERA, Yuri, 58, 114 FFORDE, Jasper, 37 GOWER, Jon, 142, 149, 180 HEYWOOD-THOMAS, Nicola, 290, 476 FIGUERES, Christiana, 160 GOWING, Nik, 129, 136, 179, 308, 325, HIGHFIELD, Roger, 75 FINLAY, Ilora, 21 343, 474 HILLS, John, 118 FINLAYSON, Iain, 37 GRABSKY, Phil, 36 HILTON, Steve, 50 FITZPATRICK, Noel, 51 GRAHAM, Alison, 293 HINDELL, Alison, 371 FLETCHER, Catherine, 422 GRAY, Emma, 340 HOEY, Kate, 447 FLETCHER, Kate, 208 GRAYLING, A C, 103 HOLLAND, James, 279 FLETCHER, Tom, 405 GREATREX, Richard, 39 HOLLAND, Tom, 233, 284 FLORENCE, Peter, HD83, 10, 82, 161, GREEN, David, 270 HOLMES, John, 444 228, 280, 310, 422 GREEN, Imogen, 340 HOLMES, Richard, 274 FONG, Mei, 181 GREEN, Julia, HD55 HOOKER, Jeremy, 289 FORSTER, Julia, 197 GREEN, Lucie, 379 HOPKINS, Owen, 388 FORTEY, Richard, 292 GREEN, Matthew, 333 HOROBIN, Simon, 368 FOST, Liz, HD42, HD61 GREENBERG, Isabel and Imogen, HD76 HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, 442 FOWLER, Dylan, 348 GREER, Germaine, 190 HOWARD, Jules, 184 FOX, Liam, 234 GRENNAN, Simon, 296 HOWE, Sarah, 427 FRANCE, John, 161 GRIFFITHS, Jay, 239 HOWE, Sophie, 390 FRANCIS, Hywel, 21, 39 GRIGSON, Caroline, 338 HOY, Chris, HD93 FRANCIS, Mair, 39 GROSKOP, Viv, 450, 459 HUANG, Alexandra, 393 FRANKLIN, Stuart, 282 GROSSMAN, Emily, HD4, 89 HULL, Marilyn, 141 FRANKOPAN, Peter, 361 GUELFENBEIN, Carla, 451 HUMBLE, Kate, 356, 372 FREARS, Stephen, 425 GUNN, Kirsty, 77 HUNTINGTON, Jim, 312 FREDERICK, Matthew, 84 GUPTA, Sanjeev, 106 HURLEY, Heather, 355 FREEDMAN, Dan, 406 GUY, John, 231 IBRAHIM, Abubakar Adam, 135 FREEDMAN, Rosa, 259 GWYN, David, 305 IGGULDEN, Conn, 477 FREI, Matt, 183 HACKER HUGHES, Jamie, 333 IIDA, Fumiya, 109 FRESCO, Louise O, 257 HADDON, Mark, 411 INGRAHAM, Caroline, 6 FRYERS, Andy, 1, 3, 5, 27, 78, 202, HAHN, Daniel, HD6, 114, 121, 128, IVISON, Lucy, HD30 208, 247, 294, 341, 372 137, 169, 185, 322 JACKSON, Russell, 353 FUENTES, Cristina, 246 HALLIWELL, Steve, 337 JACOBSON, Howard, 110 GABRIEL VASQUEZ, Juan, 137, 169 HALPER HAYES, Jan, 432 JAMES, Catherine and David, 500 GALASSO, Eleonora, 460 HAMILTON, Alwyn, HD49 JAMES, Erwin, 401 GARDNER, Frank, 23 HAMILTON, Siôn, 47 JAMES, Laura, HD20 GARDNER, Lyn, HD60 HAMMOND, Claudia, 471 JAMES, Marlon, 73, 120, 145 GARTON ASH, Timothy, 167 HANINGTON, Peter, 52 JAMES, Oliver, 367 GASPARI, Ilaria, 128 HANNAFORD, Anne, 270 JAMES, Simon, HD34 GATHERCOLE, Susan, 63 HANSELL, Tom, 33 JAMME, Marieme, 25 GAVENTA, John, 39 HARDING, Luke, 83 JEANS, Crystal, 197 GEE, Catherine, 340 HARDINGE, Frances, HD60 JENKINS, Emma, 38 GEMIN, G R, HD12 HARDY, Chris, 337 JENKINS, Karl, 476 GERSTLE, Gary, 237 HARKIN, James, 200 JENKINS, Tiffany, 322 GEVISSER, Mark, 175 HARLAND, Maddy, 3 JINKS, James, 99 GHAYOUR, Sabrina, 26 HARMAN, Claire, 317 JOHN, Rebecca F, 128 GHAZALAW, 348 HARPER, Sarah, 470 JOHNS, Howard, 345 GHOSH, Soma, 37 HARRI, Guto, 291 JOHNSON, Dominic, 220 107 GIBBARD, Alun, 416 HARRIS, Joanne, 246, 263 JOHNSON, Leo, 294 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 108

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JOHNSON, Peter, 431 MCDONALD-GIBSON, Charlotte, 155 MURPHY, Richard, 302 JOLLEY, Rachael, 393, 441 MACDOUGALL, Lewis, HD6 MURPHY, Sam, 21 JONES, Dylan, 23, 395 MCGARRY, Fearghal, 387 MURPHY, Seamus, 394 JONES, Gareth P, HD2 MCGOUGH, Roger, HD64, 337 MYER, Eddie, 203 JONES, Janey Louise, HD47 MCGRATH, Chris, 309 MYTTING, Lars, 90 JONES, Lisa, 304 MCGRATH, John, 176 NASHEED, Mohamed, 475 JONES, Philip, 47 MACGREGOR, Neil, 48 NASHEF, Samer, 316 JONES, Stephen, 352 MCKAY, Sinclair, 11 NASIR, Clare, HD53 JONES, Steve, 120, 133, 178 MACKIE, Lindsay, 345 NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE, 95 JORGENSEN, Timothy J, 256 MCKINNON, Karen, 300 NAUGHTIE, Jim, 291, 306, 342, 414 JUNIPER, Tony, 268, 286 MCMILLAN, Ian, 65 NESS, Patrick, HD6, 32 KABIR, Nazma, 246 MCMULLAN, Gordon, 260 NEWTON, Kirsty, 204 KAMPFNER, John, 112 MCNISH, Hollie, 139 NIGHTINGALE, Rowan, 442

INDEX KARCHER, Katharina, 164 MADDOX, Bronwen, 57, 124, 166, NORMAN, Jesse, 107, 258, 374 KEARNEY, Martha, 73, 122, 170, 182, 225, 237, 273, 291, 447 NORRIS, Barney, 86 222, 271, 277, 319, 366 MAGNARD ENSEMBLE, HD32 NORTHFIELD, Gary, HD44 KELLY, Spencer, 46 MAHLBERG, Michaela, 444 NURSE, Jason, 335 KENDALL, Bridget, 67, 97 MAIR, Katy, 260 Ó BRIAIN, Dara, 9, 35 KENEALLY, Thomas, 172, 217 MALMGREN, Philippa, 376 O’BRIEN, Edna, 183 KENNEDY, Helena, 54, 76, 117 MANDLER, Peter, 101 O’DONNELL, Alison, 293 KENNY, Rebecca, HD32 MANNERS, Emma, 311 O’GARRA, Anne, 327 KHANNA, Parag, 179 MANSFIELD, Michael, 299 O’MAHONEY, Joe, 4 KING, Mervyn, 124 MANZOOR, Sarfraz, 104, 200, 224, OFELIA, 389 KINGSLEY, Patrick, 155 261, 323, 336, 386 OKRI, Ben, 58, 147 KISSANE, Bill, 261 MARCHANT, Jo, 244 OWEN, Jamie, 102 KITCHING, Alan, 383 MARGETTS, Helen, 15 OWEN, Tomos, 334 KNIGHT, Alice, 95 MARLING, Laura, 347 PACKHAM, Chris, HD9, 80 KNIGHTS, Olly, 203 MARMOT, Michael, 399 PAKENHAM, Thomas, 272 KOLESNIKOV, Pavel, 265 MARRIOTT, Michael, 13 PALFREY, Simon, 288 KOOPS, Kathelijne, 324 MARTIN, Ursula, 19 PALIN, Michael, 330 KRISTELEIT, Rebecca, 85 MASON, Paul, 455, 462 PARIDJANIAN, Gale, 203 KUTCHINSKY, Serena, 432 MASSON-BERGHOFF, Aurélia, 315 PARKER PEARSON, Mike, 375 LACY, Peter, 78 MAYER, Jane, 249, 291 PARKER, Harry, 52 LAIRD, Nick, 235 MENDES, Sam, 66 PARKER, Peter, 240 LANG, Kirsty, 32 MERRITT, Stephanie, 156, 402 PARRIS, S J, 212, 363, 370 LAUENSTEIN, Mercedes, 128 MIDDLETON, Andy, 12 PARRY, Richard, 28, 504 LAWRENCE, Josie, 248 MIDDLETON, Peter, 141 PASCOE, Sara, 152, 156 LAWRENCE, Patrice, HD3 MILLER, Ben, 30 PASSARLAY, Gulwali, 398 LEADER, Darian, 351 MILLICAN, Sarah, 378 PATERSON, Don, 219, 235 LEE, Carl, 134 MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, Kiran, HD49 PATTERSON, Paul, HD32 LEE, Caspar, HD83 MILWAY, Alex, HD44 PAVORD, Anna, 162 LEE, Sam, 254 THE MINERALS, 84 PEAKE, Maxine, 119 LEITCH, Daisy, 321, 351, 381 MINNEY, Safia, 318 PEARSON, Allison, 234 LEMAY-HEBERT, Nicolas, 259 MIRZA, Munira, 447 PENN, Rob, 90, 194 LENTON, Steven, HD10 MIRZA, Shazia, 392 PERCY, Norma, 201 LEONARD, M G, HD46 MITCHELL, David, 430, 449 PERRY, William, 308 LESTER, Anthony, 242 MITCHINSON, John, 62, 153, 338, 480 PINCUS, Anna, 407 LEVI, Jonathan, 451 MITTER, Rana, 120 PITCHER, Annabel, HD68 LEWIS, Eirian, 96, 148 MOFFETT, Ashley, 45 PLATT, Lauren, 429 LEWIS, Gwyneth, 21 MOHAMMED, Jason, 507 POLAK, Nina, 128 LEWIS, Helen, 39 MOLINA FOIX, Vicente, 121, 185 POOLE, Adrian, 221 LEWIS-STEMPEL, John, 328 MONBIOT, George, 434, 467 POWELL, Laura, 143, 230, 263 LEWYCKA, Marina, 382, 407 MOON, Debbie, HD89 PRICE, Mark, 415 LEYSHON, Nell, 121, 147 MOORE, Alan, 5 PROOPS, Greg, 440 LIFSCHUTZ, Alex, 47 MOORE, Peter, 313 PUCKETT, Gavin, HD90 LINDER, Mark, 106 MORAN, Caitlin, 198 PULLIN, Chris, 355 LINNET, Paul, HD63 MORGAN JONES, Chris, 342 QIAN, Wu, 216 LIPTROT, Amy, 437 MORPURGO, Clare, HD75 QUEZADA, Sergio, 85 LLOYD, Christopher, HD84, HD92 MORPURGO, Michael, HD69, HD75 QUINLAN, Carrie, 255, 350 LONG, Hayley, HD68 MORTON, Oliver, 341 RAFFERTY, Sean, 329 LORD, Peter, 180 MOSS, Miriam, HD82 RAMAKRISHNAN, Venki, 75 LUISELLI, Valeria, 114, 137 MOYES, Jojo, 250 RANTZEN, Esther, 211 LUTZ, Deborah, 450 MUKHERJEE, Siddhartha, 457 RASIYA, Manjeet Singh, 348 LYN, Euros, 149 MULLAN, John, 110, 147 RAWLENCE, Ben, 37, 155 LYNAS, Mark, 24, 157 MULLARKEY, Neil, 248 RAY, Keith, 258, 355 108 LYON, Nina, 37 MUNDY, Toby, 42 REES, Martin, 192 MAAL, Baaba, 298 MURDIN, Paul, 339 REES-MOGG, Jacob, 447 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 109

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RENNIE, Susan, HD48 SIBERRY, Elizabeth, 289 TICKELL, Paul, 195 RENTZENBRINK, Cathy, 323 SIEGHART, William, 140 TONKIN, Boyd, 91 REYNOLDS, Fiona, 458 SIENCYN, Lleucu, 473 TREMAIN, Rose, 280 RICHARDS, Dan, 16 SIER, Bryony, 389 TUDGE, Colin, 247 RIDDELL, Chris, HD73, HD91 SILBERMAN, Steve, 42 TUNSTALL, K T, 396 RIMES, Patrick, 348 SIMMS, Andrew, 302, 345 TURIN BRAKES, 203 RIORDAN LEE, Emily, HD83 SIMON, Francesca, HD21, HD24 UEKOTTER, Frank, 24 ROBB, John, 196 SIMPSON, Lee, 248 URBACH, Karina, 466 ROBERTS, David, HD77 SITKOVETSKY, Alexander, 216 VALENTINE, Jenny, HD68, 37 INDEX ROBERTS, Wiliam Owen, 473 SITWELL, William, 364 VAN ORANJE, Mabel, 76 ROBINSON, Bruce, 140 SJON, 430 VAROUFAKIS, Yanis, 182 ROBINSON, J J, 475 SKY, Emma, 125 VAYE WATKINS, Claire, 143 ROBINSON, Jancis, 435 SMALE, Holly, HD11, 32 VEGA, Suzanne, 150 ROBINSON, Jennifer, 467 SMALL, Keith, 275 VICK, Christopher, HD72 ROBINSON, Jess, 204 SMART, Andy, 248 VINCE, Gaia, 133, 173 ROBINSON, Michelle, HD56 SMITH, Carrie, 334 VINCENT, Andre, 255, 350 ROBINSON, Willow, 41 SMITH, Dai, 22, 39, 400 VOICES AT THE DOOR, HD75 ROCHE, Paul, 391 SMITH, Emma, 205 VRANCH, Richard, 248 ROKISON-WOODALL, Abigail, 385 SMITH, Jo, 215 VULLIAMY, Ed, 43 ROSE, Eliza, HD50 SMITH-START, Brix, 395 WALFORD DAVIES, Damian, 334 ROSS, Abbie, 197 SNOW, Jon, 426, 475 WALKER, Gabrielle, 421 ROSS, Alec, 69 SOLOMONS, David, HD67 WALL, Anthony, 195 ROWE, Helen, 421 SPEIGHT, Beccy, 286, 372 WALLACE, Jennifer, 221 ROWE, Oliver, 26 SPENCER, Si, 253 WALTER, Jon, HD82 ROY, Anuradha, 424 SPIEGELHALTER, David, 409 WALTER, Natalie, HD75 RUBBINO, Salvatore, HD15 SPINNEY, James, 141 WATT, Peter, 211 RUBLACK, Ulinka, 226 SRINIVASAN, Sharath, 25 WAX, Ruby, 171 RUDD, Roland, 234 STACEY, Alex, 389 WEIR, Alison, 243 RUDDEN, Dave, HD36 STANTON, Andy, HD33 WELDON, Fay, 463 RUNCIE, James, 363 STANTON, Simon, 442 WELFORD, Ross, HD58 RUSHDIE, Salman, 137, 177 STAYLITTLE MUSIC, 84 WELLS, Stanley, 266 RUSSELL, Lindsey, HD39, 209 STEAVENSON, Wendell, 369 WELSH, Irvine, 145 RUTHERFORD, Adam, 133, 138, 154, 173 STEEL, Mark, 445 WENDA, Benny, 467 SAHONTA, Suman-Lata, 377 STEPHENSON, Kristina, HD85 WEST, Lindy, 403 SAINTONGE, Amalie, 421 STERN, Nicholas, 160 WHITEBREAD, David, 20 SALADINO, Dan, 352 STEVENS, Martin, 285 WHITMARSH, Tim, 404, 420 SALFIELD, Ben and John, 442 STEWART, Catrin, 149 WHYMAN, Erica, 8 SAMSON, Polly, 29, 86 STEWART, Lizzy, HD27 WILCHER, Bob, 289 SANDERS, Larry, 432 STOCK, Francine, 8, 51, 64, 163, 188, WILCOX, Zoë, 461 SANDS, Philippe, 92, 117, 165, 217, 195, 299 WILKINSON, Matt, 465 249, 303 STRAUS, Peter, 71 WILLIAMS, Bedwyr, 300 SARIOLGHALAM, Mahmood, 343 STRONG, Jeremy, HD14 WILLIAMS, Dilys, 318 SATHYAPRAKASH, Bangalore, 344 SUMMERSCALE, Kate, 402 WILLIAMS, Gareth, 331 SAVAGE, Jon, 195 SUSSKIND, Richard and Daniel, 273 WILLIAMS, Marcia, HD81 SAVAGE, Mike, 118 SUTCLIFFE, Tom, 72 WILLIAMS, Richard, 438 SAVIANO, Roberto, 43 SUTHERLAND, John, 199, 223 WILLIAMS, Sian, 410 SCHAMA, Simon, 439, 460, 474 SUTTIE, Isy, 144 WILLIS, Katherine, 218 SCHWARZ, Viviane, HD23 SUTTON, Patrick, 344 WILSON, Bee, 257 SCOTT, Charlotte, 310 SVENDSEN, Zoë, 455 WILSON, Jacqueline, HD17, 126 SCOTT, Fred, 431 SWIFT, Graham, 82 WINSTON, Robert, HD19 SCOTTER, Jane, 352 SZYMANSKI, Morgan, 349, 360 WINTERSON, Jeanette, 412, 433 SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Hugh, 374 TALLIS, Raymond, 151 WISOR, Scott, 479 SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Simon, 153, 191 TAPLIN, Oliver, 420 WOLFF, Eric, 262 SEN, Nandana, HD74 TATTERSDILL, Will, 444 WOOD, Gaby, 172 SERVICE, Robert, 18 TAVINOR, Michael, 359 WOODFINE, Katherine, HD60 SHAMSIE, Kamila, 137 TAYLOR, Fred, 428 WOOLDRIDGE, Michael, 472 SHAPCOTT, Jo, 235 TAYLOR, Simon, 157 WORDEN, Claire, 299 SHAPIRO, James, 61 TEMPLE-MORRIS, Peter, 306 WORSLEY, Lucy, HD50 SHARRATT, Nick, HD40 TENDONS, 84 WRAY, John, 143 SHARROCK, Thea, 250 TERFEL, Bryn, 481 WRAY, Walter, 337 SHAW, Adam, 286 TETT, Gillian, 426, 474 WULF, Andrea, 454 SHEERS, Owen, 37, 427 THALER, Richard, 166 WYNNE-JONES, Sophie, 2 SHIRREFF, Richard, 325 THISTLETON, Katie, 126 XINRAN, 181 SHRIVER, Lionel, 77, 105, 120 THOMAS, Bethan, 174 YARLETT, Emma, HD29 SHOWSTOPPERS, 397 THOMPSON, Barry, 327 YARROW, Joanna, 27 SHUE, Henry, 303 THOMPSON, Mark, 291 YEO, Giles, 436 109 SHUKLA, Nikesh, 441 THOMPSON, Sophie, HD80 YORKE, Rob, 2 HAY 16 DOC_Layout 1 19/04/2016 16:14 Page 110

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BOX OFFICE GARDENS Penny Compton Box Office Manager, Amy Le Bailly Assistant Rosanna Bulmer, David Roberts, and with thanks to Box Office Manager, James Batley, Ellen Boyd, Arthur Caton, David Austin Roses, Old Railway Line Nursery, Sarah Emmerson, Ru Florence, Bronwyn Lally, Billy Lambert, Wyevale Nurseries and Wiggly Wigglers. Wilf Ratcliffe, Poppy Sinclair, Honor Spreckley. HOUSEKEEPING COMMUNICATIONS Caroline and Joanna Davies Becky Shaw Communications Director, Fiona McMorrough, FMcM, Christopher Bone, FMcM Press, Emily Banyard, FMcM Press, Marsha Arnold Photographer/Picture Editor, PARKING Oliver Bullough News Editor, Kitty Corrigan News Editor, Martin Tong, Jenny Thomas and team, Oxfam Stewards Fran Hughes Media Internship, Lillie Powell Marketing Internship, Liz Wootton Writer’s Blog Internship, Nerys James Press Internship, Rosie McLellan Press Internship. With thanks to Aine Venables for cover illustration and artwork and to BWA for graphic design.

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SITE CREW CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Fred Wright Site Designer, Andy Brewer, Miles Chater Pugh, Lawrence and Liz Banks, Amelia Fawcett DBE, Elliott Cooke, Georgie Cooke Assistant Site Manager, Robin and Philippa Herbert, Jesse Norman. Andy Davies, Helen Eakins, Dave Eakins, Josh Elkerton, Matt Harding, Howard Hutchings, Lief LePage, Callum Mannox, Anna McCann, James Morris, PATRONS Chris Newton, Ali Thomas, George Williams. Nicholas Burton, Barry Carpenter, Alison Chappell, Tony Choules, Frances Cloud, Maureen Cruickshank, In loving memory of Andy Smith ‘Gaffer’, Stan Charity Claire Denholm, Marya Fforde, Louis Flannery, Fiona Galliers-Pratt, Victoria Graham Fuller, Kathy Gilfillan, STEWARDS Lisa Hinton, Marlene Hobsbawm, Jonathan Hopkins, Emma Jones Head Steward, Jan Pitman Stewards Administration, Ruth Huddleston, Deirdre Hutton, Robert Lance Hughes, Cathy Norris Steward Coordinator, Glyn Morgan Deputy Head Shân Legge-Bourke, Jane Livesey, Sheila Lovatt, Michael Pearce, Steward, Stella Ward Steward Services. Sophie Price, Sarah Quibell, Sian Rolfe, Selina Shaw, Brian Simpson, Paul Voyce, Maris Watkins, Marjorie Wallace-Skarbek TECHNICAL Paul Elkington Operations Director, David Darby Head of IT, Richard Harris Head of Vision, Chris Hughes Networks Manager, THANKS Rob McNeil Head of Sound, John Turtle Technical Manager, Adam Barriball, Dave Battock, Keith Blackmore, Jerry Brotton, Clive Meredith Chief Electrician. Cortina Butler, Martin Chilton, Carey Clarke, Jonty Claypole, Emma De’Ath, Dyfed Powys Police, Jane Ellison, Gwilym Evans, Mandy Garner, Paul Greatbatch, Alexandra Heybourne, HAY FESTIVAL COUNCIL Elizabeth Haycox, Denise Hoey, Andrew Horton, Myra Hunt, Vice Presidents Hay – Corisande Albert, Justin Albert, Robert Stephen James-Yeoman, Katherine Kelly, Rob Ketteridge, Ayling, Joan Bakewell, Marcus Brigstocke, Nick Broomfield, David Landsman, Hay St Mary’s Church, Peter Maniura, Rosanna Bulmer, Clemency Burton-Hill, Nick Butler, Maria Ben Matthews, Nicola Morgan, Fiona Oates, Andrew Pettie, Sheila Cremaschi, Amelia Granger, Geordie Greig, Sabrina James Powell, Powys County Council, Gareth Ratcliffe, Guinness, Rhian-Anwen Hamill, Julia Hobsbawm, Helena Mary Sackville-West, Nick Shannon, Graham Sheffield, Kennedy, Denise Lewis, Brenda Maddox, Cerys Matthews, Rebecca Simor, Samia Spice, Mari Stevens, Michelle Walder, John Mitchinson, James Naughtie, Hannah Rothschild, Emma Williams. Marc Sands, Philippe Sands, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Schama, William Sieghart, Jon Snow. FESTIVAL PRESIDENT PARTNERS AND ADVISORS Robert Albert Legal Advisor, Patrick Dyke, Beltran Gambier Spain & International Legal Advisor, Robin Mason Acre PRESIDENT EMERITUS Accountancy, Carlos Julio Ardila Presidente Cartagena de Indias, Revel Guest Jaime Abello, Raimundo Angulo, Ana Maria Aponte, Cecilia Balcazar, Victoria Bejarano, Alfonso López Caballero, PRESS TEAM CONTACTS León Teicher, Patricia Escallón de Ardila Vice-Presidents Press enquiries for Hay Festival 2016 are handled Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias by FMcM Associates: Christopher Bone [email protected] LIFE PATRONS Emily Banyard [email protected] 0207 405 7422 Frances Copping, Rhoda Lewis, Jo Gregory

BENEFACTORS Elizabeth Bingham, Kate Bingham and Jesse Norman, Lord & Lady Burns, Nick Butler and Rosaleen Hughes, Sue Carpenter and Mike Metcalfe, Sian Facer and Terry Sinclair, Rhian-Anwen and Michael Hamill, Tom and Karen Kalaris, David and Pauline Maydon, Danny Rivlin, Mark & Moira Hamlin, Maurice Saatchi.

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Booking information @hayfestival

Book online www.hayfestival.org

Book by phone Call the Box Office on +44 (0)1497 822 629 using your credit or debit card

Book by post 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’. In case tickets are not available, please leave the amount blank, but write on the cheque “not

BOOKING 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. INFORMATION

Book in person Hay Festival Box Office, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD From Tuesday 24 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 £3 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), 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 by providing induction loops, which may sometimes be skewed by the aluminium structures of our tents. Please ask the stewards for the best position to sit.

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 Audio recorders, cameras and mobile phones may not the HAYDAYS courtyard between 10am and 5pm. Outside be used in the performance venues. these hours it will be located in the Festival Admin Office. No Smoking indoors anywhere on the festival site. All children must be accompanied, unless an event is designated sign in/out, where a permission form must A paramedic is on duty at all times during events. be completed. Nappy changing facilities are available Visitors to Hay Festival may be filmed and/or in the toilets on site. photographed for future promotions of the Festival. Late-comers will not be allowed into their seats until PLEASE wear appropriate footwear as the tented a suitable break in the performance. site is on farmland and can become muddy. No Dogs allowed except Guide Dogs. 112