welcome Thursday 21May We are living, according to the old Chinese curse, in interesting times. The Hay response is to invest in pleasure and to ramp up trade in ideas and stories, two great currencies that cannot be devalued. We’re applying the finest minds to the world’s most challenging crises, the most toinspiring creative hay writers will explore our lives and loves, and every evening we’ll laugh and dance with magical entertainers. Best of all we’ll all be together. We’ll be celebrating everything from outer space to the mysteries of the human heart, from God to Darwin, from macro-economics to the burlesque. OXFAM BOOKSHELF We are delighted to welcome our new partners to the party. Please help us by bringing any loved books you can spare to donate to the Oxfam bookshelf. Full details of how you can help, and what you can win, can be found at hayfestival.com/oxfam. TRAVELS With new Hay Festivals opening this year in Nairobi and Beirut, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been awarded the Queen’s Award for International Trade for our work in Spain and Colombia. THANK YOU What makes Hay special is our audience – renowned for generosity, adventure and great party spirit. Thank you for your encouragement and support. Come rain come shine please just come. We look forward to welcoming you. Peter Florence 3 TITLE SPONSOR SERIES FUNDERS BROADCAST SPONSOR GREENPRINT SPONSORS GLOBAL PARTNERS VENUE SPONSORS TRANSPORT SPONSORS PROJECT PARTNERS MASTERCLASS SPONSOR FESTIVAL BOOKSELLER INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTERS HAY FEVER SPONSORS 4 5 0870 9901299 FURNITURE SPONSOR Thursday 21 May www.hayfestival.com 1pm 4pm [1] 1PM–6.30PM OXFAM STUDIO [4] 4PM OXFAM STUDIO £5 FULL DAY TICKET TO 4 SESSIONS David Mackay, John Ashton, Thursday 21May (EVENTS [2], [3], [4] AND [5]), £15 Malini Mehra and Anthony Giddens The Hay Festival Greenprint Forum Fire – Securing Energy Supplies Earth, Wind, Fire & Water What are the implications of climate change on ACCOUNTANTS The situation facing our planet will not be energy supply and security? How do we ensure solved through a one-size-fits-all approach. that the solutions are driven by objective This series of conversations adresses global scientific evidence rather than politics and change, cultural irregulation, sustainable short-term vested interests? Co-founder of 1pm practise and the fusion of indigenous and E3G and the Foreign Secretary’s Special traditional cultures and progressive science. Representative for Climate Change John The Forum will be introduced by Walter Ashton, Founder and CEO of Centre for Social LEGAL Erdelen, Assistant Director-General for Markets Malini Mehra, David Mackay, author Natural Sciences UNESCO. of Sustainable Energy, and Anthony Giddens, In collaboration with UNESCO author of The Politics of Climate Change. and supported by A&B Cymru In collaboration with UNESCO [2] 1PM OXFAM STUDIO £5 Robin Todd, Rosie Boycott and 5.30pm Patrick Mulvany Earth – A Secure Food Supply 5.30pm 7.30pm [5] 5.30PM OXFAM STUDIO £5 How can we provide a sustainable food supply sufficient to meet the needs of a growing David Tickner, Homero Aridjis, population facing climate change? Robin Lyla Mehta and Daniela Schmidt Todd, Trustee of Concern Universal, Patrick Water – The Basics of Life THE FESTIVAL IS FUNDED BY Mulvany, Chair of the UK Food Group, and How will climate change affect biodiversity journalist, smallholder and Chair of London and the way we manage freshwater supplies Food, Rosie Boycott. and the oceans as a resource? David Tickner, Head of WWF’s Freshwater Programme, In collaboration with UNESCO Homero Aridjis, poet, Head of the Group of 100 and Mexico’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Lyla Mehta of the Institute of Development 2.30pm Studies at the University of Sussex, and Daniela Schmidt, Royal Society University [3] 2.30PM OXFAM STUDIO £5 Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Khalid Koser, Sue Miller and In collaboration with UNESCO Chikondi Mpokosa Wind – Adapting to Change 7.30pm How do communities adapt to change and migration? What planning is necessary for the [6] 7.30PM GUARDIAN STAGE potential mass migration forced by climate FREE BUT TICKETED* change? Khalid Koser from the Geneva Jill Evans MEP, Lisa Stevens, Centre for Security Policy, Sue Miller, Kay Swinburne, John Bufton, Baroness of Chilthorne Dorner, Member, Alan Butt Philip UNESCO North Devon’s Biosphere Reserve European Election Question Time Partnership, and Chikondi Mpokosa, Oxfam’s Peter Florence chairs a hustings for the leading 2.30pm Global Education Advisor. candidates (Plaid Cymru, Labour, Conservative, In collaboration with UNESCO UKIP and Lib Dem) for the four Welsh seats voted for on 4 June. Questions welcome in advance via hayfestival.com/forum/europe. * There will be a collection for charity. Supported by The European Movement 6 7 Friday 22 May 0870 990 1299 www.hayfestival.com 9am 2.30pm 4pm 6.30pm 2.30pm 9AM DREAM STAGE BY INVITATION [10] 2.30PM GUARDIAN STAGE £5 [13] 4PM SONY SCREEN £4 [17] 6.30PM SONY SCREEN £5 Hay on Earth 1 Anthony Giddens Roger Crowley Adrian Lambert A series of workshops bringing together a The Politics of Climate Change Empires of the Sea The Rural Media Company presents: 22May Friday wide range of specialist thinkers with leaders ‘Politics-as-usual won’t deal with the problems In the sixteenth century the Mediterranean Still Life from public and private sector to develop we face, while the recipes of the green became the battleground for a titanic maritime Eleven-year-old Lauren has almost come to practical solutions to some of the toughest movement are flawed at source.’ The eminent struggle between Islam and Christianity. Roger terms with her parents splitting up when a climate change and sustainability challenges sociologist introduces a range of new concepts Crowley brings to life this extraordinary school history project rekindles some very that have ever faced Wales and the and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines confrontation, which set frontiers that hold painful memories and a violent and dangerous wider world. in depth the connections between climate to this day. jealousy. Set in Herefordshire, the film wrestles Supported by Energy Saving Trust, change and energy security. with isolation and identity in a rural market howies and TYF town, where people quickly learn how to move Friday 22 May Friday 5.15pm on rather than move away. Still Life is the Rural 3.45pm Media Company’s latest ambitious community film production created over the course of a 10.30am 3.45pm [14] 5.15PM GUARDIAN STAGE £6 year with the people of Bromyard. [11] 3.45PM–5.15PM SKY ARTS STUDIO Antony Worrall Thompson, £3 CHARITY DONATION TO GLOBAL ACTION PLAN [7] 10.30AM DREAM STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED John Vidal, Steve Trent and [18] 6.30PM OXFAM STUDIO £5 Rt Hon Rhodri Morgan AM What the Dickens? Quiz Show Filming Jeremy Ryland Langley Chris Blackwell talks to One Wales: One Planet Sandi Toksvig hosts a new series of this Save the Sea Chris Salewicz irreverent cultural quiz show. Test your arts Launch of the Welsh Assembly Government’s The Environmental Justice Team take on Island Records new Sustainable Development Scheme – One knowledge alongside two teams led by captains Chris Addison and Sue Perkins, pirate fishing. We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wales: One Planet – by Rt Hon Rhodri groundbreaking label as the founder selects Morgan AM, First Minister of Wales. who battle it out to prove they know their Marlowe from their Mills and Boon. [15] 5.15PM SONY SCREEN £4 his jubilee tracks and stories. Julian Orbach talks to Simon Jenkins What the Dickens? airs Wednesdays at 8pm from 27 May on Sky Arts 1 channel 256 and Sky Gwynedd: Pevsner Buildings of Wales 8pm 12.25pm Arts 1 HD channel 258. The architectural survey examines the treasures of north-west Wales. PM PM 5.15pm 4pm [19] 8 –9.15 GUARDIAN STAGE £8 [8] 12.25PM–2PM SKY ARTS STUDIO Sponsored by Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages Sandi Toksvig £3 CHARITY DONATION TO GLOBAL ACTION PLAN Available 4pm 8pm Hay-on-Sky Filming The national treasure performs her blissful Mariella Frostrup presents the daily Sky Arts 4pm 6.30pm one-woman show. television coverage featuring performances [12] 4PM GUARDIAN STAGE £5 Sponsored by Hay Wholefoods & Delicatessen and interviews with some of the biggest and Emma Bridgewater, Hugh Peachey, best names at the festival. Mike Moody and Daniel Butler [16] 6.30PM GUARDIAN STAGE £8 [20] 8PM OXFAM STUDIO £7 The 2009 Country Living Magazine Nicholas Stern Hay-on-Sky airs daily at 7pm from 22 May on Rick Wakeman talks to Phil Rickman Sky Arts 1 channel 256 and Sky Arts 1 HD Discussion: Thatcher, Farrier, The Guardian Sessions: Blueprint for a channel 258. Cooper…Call Centre Worker? Safer Planet Grumpy Old Rock Star Rural skills are under threat, and without What is the problem? What are the dangers? The legendary Yes keyboard player is one of the training for a new generation of craftspeople, What can be done to reduce emissions? At great rock storytellers. 1pm the traditions we treasure will exist only in what cost? How can the world adapt? And, Sponsored by Baskerville Hall Hotel tales of days gone by. Chaired by countryside what does all this mean for corporations, [9] 1PM OXFAM STUDIO £3 writer Daniel Butler, who talks to Hugh governments and individuals? Harriet Lamb talks to Rosie Boycott Peachey, gypsy wagon restorer and Chaired by Ian Katz. 9.30pm stonemason, Mike Moody, chair of the Sponsored by Ty-Mawr Lime Fighting the Banana Wars and Other National Heritage Training Group, and Fairtrade Battles entrepreneur Emma Bridgewater. Followed [21] 9.30PM BARCLAYS WEALTH PAVILION £12 The stirring story of a burgeoning global by a single malt whisky sampling by Asian Dub Foundation family, tenaciously pushing big business to The Balvenie.