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Imagine a party for everyone – young and old, Â’r etholiad cyffredinol ar bob sianel ac ymhob right and left, the country and the city; a party papur newydd, dyma wahoddiad i chi ddychmygu with a thousand stories rather than a manifesto; cyd-destun lle mae yna groeso i bob un – yr hen a’r a party where poetry trumps rhetoric, and where ieuanc, y rheiny ar y dde ac ar y chwith, trigolion y curiosity and discovery trump certainty and wlad a’r ddinas. Cytgord o straeon dirifedi yn hytrach conviction; a party where dreams are dearer than na maniffesto, a gofod lle mae barddoniaeth yn drech promises, where we revel in dissent, and where na rhethreg, a chwilfrydedd yn drech na sicrwydd ac to change your mind is a strength and a pleasure. argyhoeddiad. Gofod lle mae breuddwydion yn werth mwy nag addewidion, a gofod hefyd sydd yn caniatáu Imagine a party where we celebrate the i ni ymhyfrydu mewn anghytuno; lle mae newid possibility of art, the adventure of science and meddwl yn bleser pur ac yn arwydd o gryfder. the deep understanding of humanity that comes from close attention to the lessons of history. Dychmygwch fan lle gallwch chi ddathlu posibiliadau celfyddyd, anturiaethau gwyddoniaeth a’r Imagine a party that is first and foremost a party. dealltwriaeth ddofn o ddynoliaeth a ddaw yn sgil There’s food and music and laughter; there’s time astudio gwersi hanes. and there’s the best company you could hope for. Dychmygwch hynny i gyd mewn cyd-destun sydd, yn That’s our party in Hay. Please join us. y lle cyntaf, yn ddathliad ac yn barti. Bydd yma fwyd Happy festival. a cherddoriaeth a chwerthin, amser i hamddena a’r cwmni gorau posib. Dyna gynulliad Gwˆ yl y Gelli. Ymunwch â ni, da chi. Holl hwyl yr wˆ yl i chi.

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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 goes to print – these will all be listed under ‘new events’ at rhaglen wedi i’r rhaglen bapur fynd i’r wasg – caiff y rhain i gyd eu hayfestival.org/programme. During the festival we’ll also rhestru 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 Wˆ yl byddwn hefyd yn circulated to ticket-holders. rhoi gwybod i ddefnyddwyr am newidiadau i leoliadau a digwyddiadau, mewn e-bost dyddiol i ddeiliaid tocynnau. WORKSHOPS & OFFSITE VISITS Our workshops are all listed briefly among the main events GWEITHDAI & YMWELIADAU Â MANNAU ERAILL here, but you can also find more information about them Caiff ein gweithdai i gyd eu rhestru’n fras ar y brif restr o ddig- online at hayfestival.org/workshops. Offsite visits and wyddiadau ond gallwch gael mwy o wybodaeth amdanynt ar-lein, events are listed at hayfestival.org/wales/extras. yn hayfestival.org/workshops. Rhestrir ymweliadau a digwyddi- adau oddi ar brif safle’r Wˆ yl yn hayfestival.org/wales/extras.

CONTENTS Events 8 Off site extras 100 Hay on Earth 105 Hay Fever 86 Maps 102 Index 106 On site extras 96 Travel 104 Booking info 112

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

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

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

PUNCTUALITY We try to start all events on time. Doors will open between 5 and 15 minutes before the start time. If you are queuing please talk to the people standing next to you. PRINTERS VENUE CHANGES It is sometimes necessary to switch venues. We don’t unless we really need to. Please consult the screens at the festival entrance when you arrive and in each of the venues on the pre-show roll for updated news.

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

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

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

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The festival opens with the Schools Programme [W2] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO (Thursday 21 May and Friday 22 May) – two days £10/£8 UNDER 16S of free events attended by 5,000 children from Drawing and Poetry 100 schools. Royal Drawing School Class The Primary Schools day features Michelle Paver, Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Joseph Coelho, Elen Caldecott, Gill Lewis, All ages and abilities. Megan Rix, Jeff Norton and Into Film. Performers on the Secondary Schools day include Sarah Crossan, Tony De Saulles, Sita Brahmachari, Into Film, 1pm Robert Muchamore, Sophie McKenzie and

David Almond. [3] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £5 To find out more and for a full list of Rob Yorke, Tim Lang and George Freeman Schools Programme events, please visit Hay on Earth 2015 Forum THURSDAY 21 MAY THURSDAY hayfestival.org/schoolsprogramme. Can we reduce the need for food banks while also paying more for our food and trying to conserve the environment? George Freeman, Chairman of HAY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME the All-Party Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture, discusses with Tim Lang, Professor of 10am Food Policy at City University London.

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Drawing the Body Clothed [4] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5 Royal Drawing School Class Jane Davidson and David Thorpe Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Hay on Earth 2015 Forum All ages and abilities. One Planet Living: A Measure of Sustainability Can the pioneering Welsh policy One Planet Development be used as a template for governments and planners? Could it bring in a new attitude to development, planning and land management, to take into account the full environmental impact of human activities? Jane Davidson of INSPIRE talks to author and consultant David Thorpe. 11.30am 3pm [1] 11.30AM–8PM OXFAM MOOT £20 Hay on Earth 2015 Forum [W3] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO This year’s Forum will broadly ask ‘What policies £10/£8 UNDER 16S should the new government be pursuing to build Drawing Out and About a sustainable Britain?’ Royal Drawing School Class Full day ticket allows entry to all 6 sessions: Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. events 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. All ages and abilities.

[2] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £5 4pm Mark Shorrock and Patrick Begg

talk to Andy Fryers [5] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £10 Hay on Earth 2015 Forum Andrew Simms, David Boyle Summon the Energy and Carl Nichols Getting to grips with the energy sector, new Hay on Earth 2015 Forum technologies and moving to a low-carbon supply – Delivering the Circular Economy Mark Shorrock, Chief Executive of the Swansea Bay Tidal Barrage, and Patrick Begg, the National Trust’s Cloudy with a chance of compost – forecasting the energy expert discuss with the Hay on Earth Director. circular economy with the New Weather Institute. Author and campaigner Andrew Simms talks to author and journalist David Boyle and Carl Nichols, Head of WRAP Cymru. 8 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[6] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5 THURSDAYMAY21 Steve Melia talks to Andy Fryers Hay on Earth 2015 Forum Urban Transport Without the Hot Air Dispelling the myths about transport and presenting a sustainable vision for the future. Steve Melia from the University of Bristol talks to the Hay on Earth Director.

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

[8] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5 The Massed Choirs The Gwernyfed Minibus Concert Talgarth Male Voice Choir are joined by Hay Community Choir and bands and choirs from schools in the Gwernyfed area. They sing a celebration concert of popular choral works to raise money for the school minibus. The concert will be compèred by Chris Davies. Please join us.

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[9] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE FREE BUT TICKETED Battle of the Bands Up and coming local bands and solo artists battle it out to be crowned Best Band. An evening of live, original music; come along and cheer for your favourite as the judges decide who is worthy of the crown. Head judge is BBC Wales’ Bethan Elfyn. In partnership with The Music Pool.

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[W4] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [13] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Henrietta Bowden-Jones Drawing the Head The Art of Science Royal Drawing School Class From the structure of clouds to shopping-trolley Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. helices of DNA and sculpting in stardust, the All ages and abilities. Consultant Psychiatrist examines artworks by established artists who, wittingly or not, have conveyed scientific concepts through their art. 12pm

[14] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [W5] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S Andrew Boucher, Luke Craddock-Bennett FRIDAY 22 MAY FRIDAY Drawing the Unexpected and Tegan Daly Royal Drawing School Class The Hereford Knight The editor of Death in the Close is joined by the Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. archaeologist who led the excavations under Hereford All ages and abilities. Cathedral and the osteologist who studied the remains discovered there. They reveal extraordinary details of medieval life in Hereford, and the Saxon history of 1pm the cathedral site. In association with Hereford Cathedral [10] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Tim Finch, Julie Meyer and [15] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Warren East talk to Guto Harri Jane Davidson, George Marshall, Saci Lloyd The Magic of Diasporas and David Thorpe Diaspora: a scattered population with a common origin. Diaspora engagement is changing the fortunes Can We Change the World With Imagination? of nations and exerting huge influence over many Can climate fiction ever change minds, or does it aspects of public life and economic development. merely confirm existing attitudes in the mind of the Moreover it is claimed that 20 non-resident Welsh reader who chooses to read a book of that nature? Are people could bring wealth and prosperity to Wales. more climate-related books aimed at children because So what is, as The Economist puts it, the ‘Magic of their enquiring minds are supposed to be more open? Diasporas’? Finch – former Head of Migration at IPPR, Author and founder of Climate Outreach Information Meyer – entrepreneur, investor and business advisor, Network George Marshall talks to INSPIRE’s Jane and Warren East – former CEO of ARM Holdings, Davidson, and authors Saci Lloyd and David Thorpe. talk to Guto Harri. Supported by GlobalWelsh 3pm

[11] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [W6] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO Chris Tweed £10/£8 UNDER 16S Cardiff University Series 1 Drawing Out and About Reducing Energy Consumption Royal Drawing School Class Chris Tweed explores how people interact with the Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. designed world, and how we can use this knowledge All ages and abilities. to make systems to assist with energy reduction most effectively. In association with Cardiff University 4pm

[12] 1PM–4PM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM [16] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 FREE – ALL WELCOME Martin Hughes-Games Wynne Evans A Wild Life BBC Radio Wales LIVE The intrepid Springwatch presenter tells the tales of Wynne Evans brings his Big Welsh Weekend to the deadly piranhas, vampire bats, fighting pandas and Festival. Expect big name guests, laughs and live music. feral camels from thirty years of producing wildlife Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales every Friday, documentaries around the world. 1pm–4pm.

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Usha Goswami Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow FRIDAYMAY22 Cambridge University Series 1 The Shed That Fed a Million Children Dyslexia and the Brain The extraordinary story of Mary’s Meals: after watching How can neuroscience help us to understand the a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, two brothers sensory processing differences that can give rise to agreed to take a week’s hiatus from work to help. What learning difficulties like dyslexia? Goswami is Professor neither of them expected is that what began as a one- of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience. off road trip in a beaten-up Land Rover rapidly grew to In association with Cambridge University become Magnus’s life’s work – leading him to leave his job, sell his house and direct all his efforts into feeding thousands of the world’s poorest children. He talks to [18] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Sarah Crompton. John Lewis-Stempel talks to Kitty Corrigan Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field [22] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 What really goes on in the long grass? Lewis-Stempel Tim Parker talks to Francine Stock offers a hymn to pastoral beauty with an intimate Trust account of an English meadow’s life from January to What and who do we trust with our sense of December. He records the passage of the seasons from nationhood? The NHS, the BBC, the PM, the EU? cowslips in spring to the hay-making of summer and The new chair of the National Trust has been a CEO grazing in autumn, and the lives of the animals that and board director of many of Britain’s most successful inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan, international companies, and he owns the British Pathé the fox family, the rabbit warren, the skylark brood and Film Archive. He discusses the ideas of ownership, the curlew pair. national identity, the interplay of the public, private and third sectors, and the ethical concerns that drive business in an age of social media. 5.30pm In association with The National Trust, Wales

[19] 5.30PM TATA TENT £8 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor 6.30pm talks to Rosie Boycott In conversation [W7] 6.30PM–9PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £15 At the age of 68, with the Catholic Church worldwide Life Drawing engulfed by the sexual abuse crisis, Murphy-O’Connor Royal Drawing School Class was a surprise appointment as Archbishop of Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Westminster. He reflects frankly on the mistakes he 18+ years, all abilities. himself made and on how he responded to the crisis, and he speaks poignantly of how he navigated the tempestuous first decade of the twenty-first century. 7pm His memoir is entitled An English Spring.

[23] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [20] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Anthony Arlidge and Igor Judge Robert Tombs Magna Carta Uncovered Cambridge University Series 2 The 1215 Runnymede Charter was both radical, in the The English and their History way subjects tried to limit the power and conduct of If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, government, and conservative, in following the form of a political identity and representative institutions, then Anglo Saxon Charters and trying to return government the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the to the ways of early Norman and Angevin kings. The world. They first came into existence as an idea, before QC and the former Lord Chief Justice of England and they had a common ruler and before the country they Wales examine what brought King John to the table, lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a and the impact it’s had on the law of the land. recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. In association with Cambridge University

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[24] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 [28] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Claire Wilcox Richard Goldstone talks to Nik Gowing Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? The curator of the V&A’s spring blockbuster exhibition The Rule of Law introduces the visionary body of work of one of A conversation with one of the world’s foremost jurists. fashion’s most inspiring and adventurous spirits. ‘People The ruling in the Groups Areas Act and the Goldstone find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it Commission were fundamental to the transition from as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark apartheid to multiracial democracy in South Africa. side of personality,’ – Alexander McQueen. Chaired by At the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Tamsin Blanchard. the former Yugoslavia Goldstone prosecuted Radovan In association with the Victoria & Albert Museum Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. In 2009, he led a fact-finding mission created by the UN Human Rights

FRIDAY 22 MAY FRIDAY ´ ´ [25] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Council to investigate international human rights and Arne Hintz, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, humanitarian law violations related to the Gaza War. Lina Dencik, Jonathan Cable Cardiff University Series 2 [29] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 In An Age of Mass Surveillance Jack Andraka The leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Breakthrough have transformed our understanding of our daily The multi-award-winning teen innovator and scientist communication through social media, email and overcame the skepticism of the academic world, mobile phones. Scholars from Cardiff University’s depression and homophobic bullying to invent, at research project Digital Citizenship and Surveillance the age of 15, an early-detection test for pancreatic, Society will discuss the practices, implications and ovarian, and lung cancers. It has the potential to broader meanings of mass surveillance. Does it work? be over four hundred times more effective than How does it work, and who and what is monitored? the medical standard and it costs only 5p per use. How does it affect civil rights? Have we been properly Chaired by Alice Key. informed, and how should the media report? How can we protect ourselves? In association with Cardiff University, 9.30pm School of Journalism [30] 9.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £10 [26] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 King Charles Jay Griffiths In concert Imagine the World We kick off the music sessions with a glorious blend Griffiths will be the International Hay Festival Fellow of glam-rock, psychedelic folk and indie-pop from for the next 12 months, visiting all our festivals around one of London’s rising cult stars. ‘King Charles is an the world. Her visionary and poetic work explores her extraordinary man. He doesn’t look like anyone you interest in nature, anthropology and art. Her books know, he doesn’t think like anyone you know and he include Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, Wild: An doesn’t make music like anyone you know. How often, Elemental Journey, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, in these days of near-fatal oversaturation, days where and her fictionalised hymn to Frida Kahlo, A Love you feel that, perhaps, there’s just nothing new out Letter to a Stray Moon. She talks to Peter Florence. there to spark your imagination, can you say that?’ In association with the Arts Council of Wales [419] 9.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, 8.30pm Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski QI Presents: No Such Thing As A Fish [27] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Live recording of the hit podcast from the writers of Steven Knight talks to Alan Yentob the BBC show QI who serve up a feast of bizarre, Peaky Blinders extraordinary and hilarious facts. Prepare to be amazed The screenwriter and creator of the hit gangster and amused in equal measure. iTunes Best New Podcast drama talks about the Selby family, tribal war, and 2014, Chortle Award-winner 2015. ‘The QI Elves drop the crime-world of post-war Birmingham. Knight so many facts your head will spin’ – Guardian. is screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things and Locke. We will also be screening all six episodes of Series 2, starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory and Tom Hardy, from 12.30pm at Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema in Hay. Book online at hayfestival.org/programme – event 425. 12 SATURDAY 23 MAY 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[31] 9AM–11.15AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [35] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 SATURDAYMAY23 CD Review BBC Radio 3 LIVE Daisy Hay Join the lively debate as our expert critics discuss Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance the latest classical recordings live. Andrew McGregor The award-winning biographer describes the passionate presents an edition of Radio 3’s CD Review with relationship between Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli guests live from the Hay Festival. and shows how they rose to the top of the British Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 every Saturday, establishment in an age of conformity – in spite of 9am–12.15pm. their lack of it. She was twelve years older than Benjamin, eccentric, liable to misbehave, and overdressed for grand society. He was a mid-ranking novelist of Jewish descent, and often mired in debt. 10am They were fiercely devoted to one another. Hay has used the passionate letters they wrote to each other, [HF1] 10AM TATA TENT £8 held by the Bodleian Library, to piece together their Cressida Cowell story. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. How To Train Your Dragon Join the bestselling author-illustrator of the wildly STARLIGHT STAGE popular How To Train Your Dragon series. Take [HF2] 10AM £5 behind-the-scenes sneak peeks of the new book Cressida Joseph Coelho is writing, learn some Dragonese and get the scoop on Performance Poetry and Werewolf Club Rules seeing book characters brought to life for the big screen. Performance poet Joseph Coelho (CBeebies Rhyme 7+ years Rocket) reveals the mysterious rules of the Werewolf Club, how to look like a rainbow, and how to fold up

[32] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 your gran, in a dynamic session sure to delight the whole family. Shami Chakrabarti On Liberty On 11 September 2001 our world changed. The 8+ years West’s response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of ‘exception’. Governments have decided that the rule of [HF3] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 law and human rights are often too costly. The Director Nicola Davies of Liberty explores why our fundamental rights and Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes freedoms are indispensable and examines the Nicola Davies was one of the original presenters of unprecedented pressures those rights are under today. BBC children’s wildlife programme The Really Wild She talks to Susie Symes, economist and chair of 19 Show and is the author of A First Book of Nature and Princelet Street. Everything You Need To Know About Animals. Here she explains the complex science of micro-organisms simply [33] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 and clearly in a clever and friendly way for the very Helen Lederer talks to Georgina Godwin young. Fictions – Losing It 5+ years When Millie’s asked to be the front woman for a new diet pill, she naively believes that all her troubles will be [W8] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £8 solved… The actress and comedy writer introduces her Drawing the Circus desperately funny first novel. Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. [34] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Under 12 years Peter Moore talks to Daniel Hahn The Weather Experiment In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God’s 11.30am great wrath, C19th meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. But buoyed by the [36] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of AC Grayling mavericks set out to explain the secrets of the atmosphere and learned to predict the future. Among The Challenge of Things: them were Luke Howard, the first to classify the Thinking Through Troubled Times clouds, Francis Beaufort who quantified the winds, The philosopher considers the troubled times we live James Glaisher who explored the upper atmosphere in a in, when war and conflict are never far away. While hot-air balloon, Samuel Morse whose electric telegraph describing the dark side of modern life, he explores gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather ways out of the habits and prejudices that threaten to warnings, and Admiral Robert FitzRoy himself, master trap us into conflict. sailor, scientific pioneer and founder of the Met Office. 13 SATURDAY 23 MAY #hayfestival

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[37] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 [HF5] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Polly Toynbee and David Walker David Almond, Sarah Crossan, Cameron’s Coup Jenny Valentine The team who gave The Verdict on the last Labour David Almond’s latest novel A Song for Ella Grey is a administration audit the devastating effectiveness of the brilliant retelling of the Orpheus myth by way of Coalition government. ‘Margaret Thatcher sold off the contemporary Tyneside. Sarah Crossan uses both poetry nationalised industries. Her political heirs are intent on and prose to tell her stories, most recently in Apple and leaving an even more radical legacy – selling off the Rain. They are joined by Jenny Valentine who previews state itself.’ her eagerly-awaited new novel Fire Colour One, a highly original story with an extraordinary twist. These three acclaimed writers talk about how they pack such an [HF4] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 emotional punch into their novels. Liz Pichon and Tom Gates 12+ years/YA #hayYA

SATURDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY Yes! No… (Maybe) Expert doodler, maker of excuses and hilarious storywriter Tom Gates is back in Yes! No… (Maybe), [HF6] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 the eighth amazing instalment in this brilliant and Atinuke multiple-award-winning series. Test your knowledge Atinuke collects stories, writes stories and tells stories, with Liz Pichon as she takes you on a tour of the all of which originate in Africa. You will be spellbound brilliant and crazy world of Tom Gates – and learn by Atinuke’s traditional storytelling as she conjures up how to doodle just like Tom. the sights, sounds and hustle and bustle of life in In association with Lovereading4kids Nigeria, where she was born. 7+ years 4+ years

[38] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [W62] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT Beth Shapiro FREE BUT TICKETED How To Clone a Mammoth Sita Brahmachari Storytelling Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In the pockets of Sita’s multi-sensory patchwork quilt The evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ‘ancient are treasures from all her stories. Sita explores with DNA’ research guides us through the astonishing and young readers and aspiring writers the material of controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which stories are formed. which species should be restored, to sequencing their Supported by Arts & Business Cymru genomes, to anticipating how revived populations 8+ years might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores the extraordinary cutting-edge science that is being used to resurrect the past. 12pm

[39] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 [40] 12PM–1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Caroline Criado-Perez talks to Rosie Boycott Imagine… Colm Tóibín Do it Like a Woman BBC One From Chilean revolutionaries and Russian punks to Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC, talks Iranian journalists, one of the most vocal and tenacious to acclaimed writer Colm Tóibín about making campaigners of her generation introduces inspiring an edition of the flagship BBC One television arts stories from all around the world. Women are documentary strand Imagine… together as Tóibín reinventing what it means to be female in cultures published his poignant and perhaps most personal where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too novel yet – Nora Webster. The session will be often equated with being male. illustrated with clips from Imagine… Colm Tóibín: His Mother’s Son, which was first shown on BBC One in December 2014. Not for broadcast.

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[41] 1PM TATA TENT £8 [HF8] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 SATURDAYMAY23 Thomas Buergenthal talks to Philippe Sands Sam McBratney in conversation A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Guess How Much I Love You Auschwitz as a Young Boy Sam McBratney has won many awards for his children’s Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age books and is best known as the author of the multi- of eleven, in adulthood Buergenthal became a judge at million selling family classic Guess How Much I Love the International Court in The Hague, investigating You. He talks about his life and career and what it modern day genocides. He returns to the festival with a means to have created one of the world’s most famous new postscript to his memoir. picture books – which this year celebrates its 20th Sponsored by Gabbs Solicitors anniversary. 9+ years [HF7] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Tony De Saulles [HF9] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 Horrible Science Tim Bowler, Sam Hepburn and Join Horrible Science illustrator Tony De Saulles in Ken Oppel one of his horribly enjoyable events. Get tips on how Adventure, Thrills and Terror to make things look like they are smelly, cut in half, Carnegie Medal-winner Tim Bowler’s new novel exploding or even dead. You’ll return home with a Game Changer is a tense thriller, as is Sam Hepburn’s headful of horrible ideas about what to draw next! If You Were Me. They are joined by the internationally- 8+ years acclaimed Ken Oppel on a rare visit to the UK to promote his new adventure The Boundless. They

[42] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 share with us the secret of keeping their readers Kamal Munir, Ornit Shani, Bhaskar Vira turning the pages. and Joya Chatterji 11+ years Cambridge University Series 3 India and Pakistan, The Common Ground [W63] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT The news tends to focus on the antagonism between FREE BUT TICKETED India and Pakistan. A distinguished panel of academics Sita Brahmachari Storytelling looks at the common ground between the two Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series countries, in terms of environmental resources and In the pockets of Sita’s multi-sensory patchwork challenges, trade and economic growth, and state quilt are treasures from all her stories. Sita explores formation and geo-politics. with young readers and aspiring writers the material In association with Cambridge University of which stories are formed. Supported by Arts & Business Cymru [43] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 8+ years Andrew O’Hagan talks to Rosie Boycott Fictions – The Illuminations How much do we keep from the people we love? 2pm Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? O’Hagan’s [45] 2PM–3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED fifth novel is a beautiful, deeply charged story about The Verb love and memory, about modern war and the BBC Radio 3 complications of fact. Poet Ian McMillan presents Radio 3’s ‘cabaret of the word’, featuring award-winning writers alongside the [44] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6 most innovative up-and-coming performers. ‘If there’s Steve Peters a more entertaining show than The Verb then I don’t know it’ – Stuart Maconie. The Chimp Paradox The consultant psychiatrist to Liverpool FC, Sky Broadcast on Fridays at 10pm. This recording will ProCycling, Ronnie O’Sullivan and the England be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 29 May. football team introduces The Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness. Chaired by Martin Chilton.

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[46] 2.30PM TATA TENT £9 [HF10] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5 Antony Beevor MG Harris and Jamie Anderson Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble Beyond Gemini Force 1 On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last The authors present an audio-visual tour of the gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the background, design and influences behind GF1. Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by This is your chance to hear all the behind-the-scenes driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the publishing secrets, including the exciting story of how Canadians and the British out of the war. The the worldwide community of Thunderbirds fans helped Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men to bring the final Gerry Anderson project to the page. involved, became the greatest battle of the war in 8+ years western Europe. It was the battle that finally broke the Wehrmacht. We are delighted to launch the new book by the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize. [HF11] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6

SATURDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY Maggie Harcourt and The Bookshop Band The Last Summer of Us [47] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Edith Hall Maggie Harcourt’s YA novel is the story of a road trip. Of three friends on a journey that will change their Introducing the Ancient Greeks lives forever. Set in South Wales, it captures the hazy What did the Greeks ever do for us? They gave us beauty of a Welsh summer, and what it’s like to grow democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the up in a close-knit community. The Bookshop Band joke. But what was it that enabled them to achieve so perform a song inspired by the book, and the author much? Who were they? Edith Hall is the first woman and musicians discuss the relationship between to win the Erasmus Medal, awarded by the European literature and music, and how they capture moments Academy for her work in Classics. and memories. 12+ years/YA #hayYA [48] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7

Greg Jenner [HF12] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 A Million Years in a Day: A Curious Ben Cort, Claire Freedman & guests! History of Everyday Life Monsters Love Underpants Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our The Aliens stole them, the Dinosaurs fought over teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: them, the Pirates got rich with them…now it’s time for the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? the BIGGEST underpants adventure of them all. Meet In this gloriously entertaining romp through human the creators of the bestselling series and a very BIG history Greg Jenner, historical consultant to Horrible special guest who loves hugs. Can you guess who? Histories, explores the gradual and often unexpected Bring your zaniest underpants! evolution of our daily routines. 4+ years

[49] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Susan Neiman [HF13] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4 Why Grow Up? Vanessa Wolf As you grow up, you are told to renounce most of the Sensory Story-time with Guess hopes and dreams of your youth, and resign yourself How Much I Love You to a life that will be a pale dilution of the adventurous, Join our special guest storyteller Vanessa Wolf for this important and enjoyable life you once expected. But delightful version of Sam McBratney’s family classic who wants to do any of that? No wonder we live in a Guess How Much I Love You, which this year celebrates culture of rampant immaturity, when maturity looks its 20th anniversary. so boring. The moral philosopher discusses childhood, Free goody bag for every child. adolescence, sex, and culture, and asks how the idea of 3+ years travel can help us build a model of maturity that makes growing up a good option and leaves space in our culture for grown-ups. Chaired by Sarah Crompton.

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[W10] 3PM–4.30PM MEET AT BACK OF HAY CASTLE [54] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 SATURDAYMAY23 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Anita Anand Walk and Draw Royal Drawing School Class Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Sophia was born to Maharajah Duleep Singh, heir to All ages and abilities a huge territory that stretched from the Kashmir Valley to the Khyber Pass. The territory was plundered by the British and the Maharajah was exiled to Britain. Sophia 4pm was raised a society lady and goddaughter to Queen Victoria. However, after a secret trip to India she [50] 4PM TATA TENT £20 returned a revolutionary to fight for Indian Stephen Fry More Fool Me independence, the welfare of Indian soldiers in World War I, and, above all, for the cause of female suffrage. Ultra-high-functioning addict meets gravity in this latest volume of autobiography. The writer and actor talks to Peter Florence. [55] 4PM–5PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Part of the Baillie Gifford Series Get Creative and Write a Poem A BBC Event at Hay [51] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Never written a poem before? Now’s your chance. Irvine Welsh talks to Andrew O’Hagan Poet Ian McMillan will show you how, and you Fictions – A Decent Ride will leave with a poem. In his funniest and filthiest novel yet, Welsh celebrates Not for broadcast. an unreconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent – [HF14] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of Atinuke fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last Atinuke is a mesmerising storyteller as well as the taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride author of The No.1 Car Spotter and Anna Hibiscus series that could certainly get a little bumpy… and a number of picture books. You will be spellbound as she conjures up the sights, sounds and hustle and [52] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 bustle of life in Africa and brings her stories to life. Abdel Bari Atwan talks to Nik Gowing 7+ years Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate The Palestinian editor of Rai al-Youm offers a [HF15] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 comprehensive review of the group’s organisational Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton structure and leadership, strategies, tactics and diverse That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown methods of recruitment. He traces the salafi-jihadi Celebrate the reissue of this classic picture book lineage of IS, its ideological differences with al-Qa’ida, about adventurous Emily Brown and her toy rabbit and the deadly rivalry that has emerged between their companion, Stanley. Learn Cressida’s real life leaders. Atwan also shows how the group’s rapid growth inspiration behind the books, and watch Neal Layton has been facilitated by its masterful command of social recreate the illustrations. media platforms, the ‘dark web’, Hollywood ‘blockbuster’-style videos, and even jihadi computer 3+ years games, producing a powerful paradox where the ambitions of the Middle Ages have re-emerged [HF16] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4 in cyber-space. Vanessa Wolf Sensory Story-time with [53] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Guess How Much I Love You Hannah Critchlow A repeat of event HF13. Cambridge University Series 4 Free goody bag for every child. Busting Brain Myths, or Explore Your Mind 3+ years Are you intrepid enough to explore your own sense of reality? Dr Critchlow invites you to take a journey through your brain, using mind-boggling experiments to strip down the neuroscience myths making the headlines and explore how brain research is shaping our society. In association with Cambridge University

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[56] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 [60] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Germaine Greer talks to Martha Kearney Hannah Rothschild talks to Rosie Boycott The Annual Hamlin Lecture Fictions – The Improbability of Love Liberation This debut novel is a wicked satire of London society, A conversation with the teacher, writer and grand a redemptive and captivating love story, and a journey provocateur about what would make life better. ‘I’m a into the darker corners of European history. liberation feminist, not an equality feminist. Equality is Rothschild, who is also chair of the National Gallery, a profoundly conservative aim and it won’t achieve has created one of the most spectacular villains of anything.’ recent times. ‘Every painting has a story – and if it This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC could speak, what would it tell us?’ World News programme Talking Books. Sponsored by ORConsulting, The Art of Seeing [HF17] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Differently

SATURDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY Stephan Pastis Timmy Failure TELEGRAPH STAGE [57] 5.30PM £7 Stephan Pastis is a lawyer-turned cartoonist, and creator Roly Keating of the New York Times bestselling series, Timmy Failure. The Mechanical Curator and Other Stories In this lively event Stephan talks about his career, from The Director of the British Library browses the infinite lawyer to cartoonist. Expect lots of live drawing and possibilities for Libraries and Creativity in an Age of cartooning from Stephan, and plenty of laughs. Data. ‘These are times of historic disruption in the 8+ years whole global system of information and publication, and it seems right that the great knowledge institutions – with their historic remit to think and act with a view [HF18] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 far into the future – should play a full part in shaping Holly Webb the changes that lie ahead.’ Chaired by Gaby Wood, The Water Horse Head of Books at The Telegraph. When the waters start to rise, flooding the streets of In association with The British Library Venice and causing chaos, Princess Olivia realizes that only her magic can prevent disaster befalling the city. [58] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 A magical tour of historic Venice. Andrea Sella 7+ years How the Zebra Got its Stripes: An Experimental Lecture Everyone loves a Zebra. But where do its stripes come 6pm from? A simple answer might be DNA; a more fanciful one that they’re painted on, like the leopard in Rudyard [61] 6PM–7PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Kipling’s Just So Stories. In this lecture, Professor Sella Start The Week takes us beyond the superficial, through complex and BBC Radio 4 spectacular chemical reactions, and into the very fabric Tom Sutcliffe presents Radio 4’s flagship programme of our universe, where pattern and structure emerge as of ideas, and will be joined on stage by a panel of if by magic. Chaired by Dan Davis. guests for stimulating, entertaining and lively In association with The Royal Society discussion. Broadcast on Mondays at 9am and repeated at 9pm. [59] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Danny Dorling and Mary O’Hara on Monday 25 May. Inequality and Austerity Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? 7pm Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%, examines who is most harmed by these injustices and why, and [62] 7PM TATA TENT £8 what happens to those who most benefit. O’Hara, Sally Wainwright and Sarah Lancashire talk author of Austerity Bites, takes us on a journey to the to Alan Yentob sharp end of the cuts in the UK. Hard-hitting and Happy Valley to Halifax uncompromising in its call to action, this analysis is What’s the relationship between a writer and a lead essential for everyone concerned with social justice. actor? Screenwriter Sally Wainwright and her star Sarah Lancashire have collaborated on Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. They talk to the BBC’s Creative Director. Sponsored by Soho House 18 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[63] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 [HF19] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 SATURDAYMAY23 Ian Bostridge Liz Kessler, Lisa Williamson Schubert’s Winter Journey: and Keren David Anatomy of an Obsession Most Talked About YA Fiction Franz Schubert’s Winterreise is one of the most Meet the authors of three of the most talked-about powerful and enigmatic masterpieces in Western Young Adult novels of 2015, Read Me Like a Book, culture. One of the work’s finest interpreters, Bostridge, The Art of Being Normal and This is Not a Love Story. focuses on the context, resonance and personal If you struggle with what you feel is expected of you significance of a work that is possibly the greatest by family, school and society, these books will be a landmark in the history of Lieder. He unpicks the breath of fresh air. enigmas and subtle meaning of each of the twenty-four 12+ years/YA #hayYA songs to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, bringing the work and its world alive for connoisseurs and new listeners alike. [67] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 Peter Horrocks, AC Grayling, Sarah Churchwell and Karen Usher [64] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Graham Swift Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? The Best Universities Fictions – England and other Stories More people are going to university in Britain than Through the 25 stories in Swift’s most recent ever before, and they’re paying to do so. But are the anthology, we are steered effortlessly from the Civil institutions themselves fit for purpose? How could War to the present day, from world-shaking events they be better? Horrocks is the new Vice Chancellor to the secret dramas lived out in rooms, workplaces, of the Open University, Grayling is Master of the homes. With his remarkable sense of place, he charts independent New College of the Humanities in an intimate human geography and, in doing so, he London, Churchwell is Professor for the Public moves us profoundly, but with a constant eye for Understanding of the Humanities at UEA, Usher comedy. He reads from the collection and discusses is the co-leader of the newest university in Britain, his work with Peter Florence. the New Model in Technology and Engineering in Hereford. [65] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 David Brooks The Road to Character 8.30pm You could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world: résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. The résumé [68] 8.30PM TATA TENT £15 virtues are the ones you list on your CV, the skills that Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? deeper. They’re what get talked about at your funeral Equality and they are usually the virtues that exist at the core Eight hundred years after a gang of barons met in a of your being – whether you are kind, brave, honest tent by a river, which rights do we want to fight for or faithful; what kind of relationships you formed over today? A fortnight after what looks like a rough old your lifetime. We live in a culture that encourages us election, let’s dream about what a better world might to think about how to be wealthy and successful, look like and talk about how that might be achieved. but which leaves many of us inarticulate about how The festival President is joined by international guests to cultivate the deepest inner life. Brooks connects to discuss equalities. us once again to an ancient moral tradition, a tradition that asks us to confront our own weaknesses and grow in response, rather than shallowly focus on [69] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 our good points. He talks to Sarfraz Manzoor. Elif Shafak, Rachael Jolley, Sarah Churchwell and David Aaronovitch

[66] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 The Index Debate Irvine Welsh, Andrew O’Hagan Diss My Mother: Expect a Punch and John Mullan What are the limits of free speech and civility? What is Fictions – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll the nature of ‘offence’? What earns ‘respect’? If words and Mr Hyde can hurt you, are sticks and stones and broken bones the answer? Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic short thriller has replaced To Kill a Mocking Bird and Of Mice and Men In association with Index on Censorship on the GCSE English syllabus. The novelists discuss the book and Stevenson’s exploration of duality with UCL Professor of English, and author of How Novels Work, John Mullan. 19 SATURDAY 23 MAY @hayfestival

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[70] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [74] 9.45PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £10 Rosie Harding The Staves Dementia and Vulnerability If I Was ‘You can have a dog put to sleep but my mother had The beautiful, breaking folk-rock trio play their new to go through hell.’ End of life issues are especially album. The Staves are Emily (vocals), Jessica difficult for people with dementia and their family (vocals/guitar) and Camilla Staveley-Taylor carers, as the person themself is often unable to make (vocals/ukulele). If I Was is produced by Justin Vernon, and communicate their views in a way that would who’s added a rich instrumental power to the sisters’ be respected by our autonomy-centred healthcare lyrics and superbly harmonised voices. The songs carry decision-making frameworks. Drawing on empirical a huge emotional impact, while their onstage charisma data from a socio-legal study funded by the British creates an intimacy that is completely captivating. Academy, Harding explores the social, ethical and legal challenges of maximising dignity for those SATURDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY dying with, and of, dementia. 10pm In association with Birmingham University [75] 10PM TATA TENT £13 [71] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Jason Byrne Dylan Jones talks to Mark Ellen Stand Up Access All Areas: Stories of the Gods of Rock A riotous evening of comedy with the madcap, The rock writer and GQ editor talks about the life, best-selling-act-ever at the Edinburgh Fringe. An impro death and the enduring legends of Elvis Presley and genius, Jason is one of the most exciting live performers Jim Morrison. These two men changed the course of you will ever see. His live shows are part of comedy popular music and culture forever and are the subjects folklore. Watch comedy history being written by of his two biographies Elvis Has Left The Building and ‘the outright King of Live Comedy’ – The Times. Mr Mojo. He is joined by Mark Ellen, author of Rock Stars Stole My Life.

[72] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Peter Oswald Three Folktales In a magical evening of storytelling, the playwright and poet performs his fabulous tales: ‘Indeed the world is two worlds – one for lovers, / Another for the loveless altogether…’

[73] 8.30PM–10.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 René Griffiths, Jon Gower, Jorge Fondebrider Homage to Patagonia An evening to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh passage to Argentina aboard the Mimosa. Gower sets the scene with his Gwalia Patagonia – a tale of legendary giants and Andean condors, devil spirits and chapel-worshippers. He is joined by Argentinian writer Jorge Fondebrider, author of The Spaces Between. The evening is completed with the fascinating anecdotal and geographical ramblings of one of Wales’ best-loved guitarists, singers and actors, René Griffiths. Full of emotion and passion, Ramblings of a Patagonian is the revelation of one-man’s unrelenting love for his own Andean desert. Chaired by Oliver Balch.

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[76] 9.15AM–9.45PM OXFAM MOOT £3 [79] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Andrew Pettie Carol Black SUNDAYMAY24 What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Cambridge University Series 5 Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 24 Is Work Making Us Ill? May at key historical moments over the past 150 years Do our workplaces promote health and well-being? are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. And, if they did, what difference would it make? From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the Dame Carol Black is an Expert Adviser to the Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to Department of Health, the Chair of Nuffield Trust, mention fashion through the decades and legendary the leading independent advisory body for healthcare stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in policy in the UK, and the Principal of Newnham fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting. College. She was author of a 2008 report for the government on well-being at work. In association with Cambridge University 10am [80] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 [HF20] 10AM TATA TENT £5 Sarah Winman talks to Georgina Godwin Jacqueline Wilson Fictions – A Year of Marvellous Ways The Butterfly Club The author of When God was a Rabbit – selected for Join the much-loved, bestselling author as she discusses World Book Night 2015 – introduces her second her career and latest books, Opal Plumstead and The novel. Marvellous Ways is 89 years old and has lived Butterfly Club. You also get a sneak preview of her new alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. book, Katy, which is published in July 2015. There will Lately she’s taken to spending her days sitting on a be no book signing after the talk, but there will be an mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She’s opportunity for children to ask questions. Pre-signed waiting for something – she’s not sure what, but she’ll copies of some titles will be available to buy from the know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left Festival Bookshop. reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man’s last wish sees him wash up in 10+ years Marvellous’ creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. As an unlikely friendship [77] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 grows between the two, can Drake give Marvellous Peter Hennessy talks to Susie Symes what she needs to say goodbye to the world, and can Establishment and Meritocracy she give him what he needs to go on? The interlocking themes of Establishment and Meritocracy form a crucial part of the intellectual [HF21] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 compost that made Hennessy’s generation of post-war The King of the Sky Britons. The Establishment and the concept of a With actors, puppets and music growing and eventually self-propelling meritocracy An Italian boy comes to live in a Welsh mining village, were always at odds, and the policies that brought it where his parents own a café. He misses his home but about dramatically altered British society. He talks to the cooing of Mr Evans’ racing pigeons reminds him economist Susie Symes, Chair of 19 Princelet Street. of a sunlit Roman piazza, and draws him into an unlikely friendship with the old man. Together, they [78] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6 pin their dreams on a race across Europe and the Good Energy Series 1 special bird they hope can win it, ‘The King of the Does Anyone Really Care Where Sky’. This is a story about the meaning of home and Their Energy Comes From? finding friends where you don’t expect to. An inventive Wind, coal, solar, gas, wave, oil, nuclear – there are adaptation with actors, puppets and music, created by numerous sources of energy within the UK and yet Pontardawe Arts Centre. still 61% of our electricity generation is from imported 7+ years fuels. Does it matter where it comes from? What are [HF22] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 the pros and cons of choosing one over another? How do you guarantee the electricity coming down Claire Freedman and Sue Hendra your wire is from the source you choose? Our panel Dragon Jelly of experts discuss. Hear all about Max and his disgusting party-time In partnership with Good Energy antics in Dragon Jelly. Come prepared to get creative and make your own creepy-crawlies. 4+ years

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[W11] 10AM–1PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [84] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Paul St George with Polly Stenham Drawing the Graphic Novel Workshop and Jessie Burton Royal Drawing School Class Slow Fiction Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Slow Fiction is inspired by the predella, the sequence All ages and abilities of four or five pictures under a Renaissance altarpiece that tell the story of the annunciation, the adoration, or the pietà. If the large altarpiece painting is one 11am moment in time, the predella shows the moments leading up to that key frame and sometimes what

[81] 11AM–12.30PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED happens after. The artist Paul St George works with Jamie Owen writers, translating selections of their writing into small

SUNDAY 24 MAY SUNDAY sequences of sculptures making three-dimensional BBC Radio Wales LIVE stories. Two of the first authors to be excited by this Join Jamie on Sunday lunchtime for conversation, new way of bringing readers to writing are Polly laughter and music. How’s your week been? Stenham, author of Hotel, and Jessie Burton, author Broadcast on BBC Radio Wales every Sunday, of The Miniaturist: ‘To see my written words 11.30am–12.30pm. reimagined for a different audience, giving another take on the story-telling process – what we omit, what we emphasise, and what we leave behind – 11.30am in a newly-configured presentation, is a true thrill.’

[82] 11.30AM TATA TENT £10 [HF23] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Andrew Solomon Simon Mayo Itch The Wellcome Book Prize Lecture Author and BBC broadcaster Simon Mayo talks about Far From the Tree his latest book Itchcraft and how he came to write a The winner of the 2014 Wellcome Book Prize series about a chemistry-mad teenager. He shares some introduces his wise and compassionate book Far of his favourite (which tends to mean explosive) From The Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love. Ten years in scientific discoveries, made while researching for the the writing, it tells the stories of parents who not only series, and there is a chance to ask questions about the learn to deal with their exceptional children but also books, science, and anything else you can think of, at find profound meaning in doing so. Chaired by Hay the end. 9+ years Festival President Stephen Fry.

In association with the Wellcome Book Prize [85] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Colm Tóibín talks to Sarah Churchwell [83] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Nora Webster and On Elizabeth Bishop John Mullan Set in 1960s Ireland, Tóibín’s new novel Nora Webster Fictions – Emma introduces one of the most complex and captivating The author of What Matters in Jane Austen heroines of contemporary fiction. He discusses the celebrates the bicentenary of John Murray’s book and his new study On Elizabeth Bishop. He publication of Austen’s playful and profound creates a vivid picture of the American poet while also masterpiece of self-knowledge. revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.

[HF24] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Nicola Davies Animal Conservation: Heroes of the Wild Nicola Davies is an award-winning author, whose many books for children include Ice Bear, Big Blue Whale, Extreme Animals and Gaia Warriors. She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children’s wildlife programme The Really Wild Show and is the author of the classics A First Book of Nature and Everything You Need To Know About Animals. Join her to hear about her latest books in her Heroes of the Wild series, and about her animal conservation work. 7+ years 22 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[HF25] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 [HF26] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £9 Matt Brown Sarah J Maas SUNDAYMAY24 Compton Valance: New YA Series Launch: The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe A Court of Thorns and Roses Do you have what it takes to be a top-secret agent YA sensation Sarah J Maas, author of the number one of F.A.R.T.A? Matt Brown, author of the hilarious international bestseller Throne of Glass, makes a rare time travel adventure series Compton Valance, will put visit to the UK to launch her eagerly anticipated new you through your paces. From finding out your agent series, A Court of Thorns and Roses. An unmissable identity to code breaking and a quickfire quiz: will you event for YA fans of romantic high fantasy adventure. pass the time travel test to join Compton Valance and If you like Cassandra Clare, you’ll love this. Sarah talks his best friend Bryon Nylon? 7+ years to Katherine Woodfine. 12+ years/YA #hayYA [W64] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED [88] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £8 Read The Game Quiz Dennis Lehane talks to Jon Gower Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series Fictions – World Gone By Join children’s author Tom Palmer for a quiz One of America’s most powerful and feared gangsters is about reading sport in newspapers, books and about to face up to his past… On a rare public online, followed by a penalty competition, with appearance in Britain, the cult thriller writer of The one team winning the trophy. Wire, author of Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River Supported by Arts & Business Cymru 8+ years discusses his work and his new novel.

[89] 1PM–1.55PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED 1pm Jacqueline Wilson Introduces Hetty Feather Screening [86] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 CBBC Yuval Noah Harari talks to Anita Anand Jacqueline Wilson introduces an exclusive screening of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind CBBC’s new adaptation of her popular children’s novel In Sapiens, Harari spans the whole of human history, Hetty Feather. A fast-paced and thrilling story, featuring from the very first humans to walk the earth to the a feisty new heroine, Hetty Feather brings the realities radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Victorian age to life through the eyes and of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific adventures of the children who inhabit the Foundling Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, Hospital. The screening will be followed by a Q&A anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he with cast and crew. explores how the currents of history have shaped our Not for broadcast. human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier [HF27] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour Jim Smith from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the Barry Loser centuries to come? Join Jim Smith, author and illustrator of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning Barry Loser series, for an This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC hour of very silly fun. Fast becoming a humour classic, World News programme Talking Books. the Barry Loser books are packed full of humour, Part of the Baillie Gifford Series quirky plots and doodles. 6+ years [87] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8

Peter Hennessy, Ruth Scurr, Leanne Wood, [HF28] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 Rosie Boycott Holly Webb Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? The Secret Kitten A New Kind of Politics Join author Holly Webb for an event based on her Is six-party politics here to stay? Is first-past-the-post a bestselling animal stories. Find out all about the real bulwark against extremism? What’s the value of a kittens, puppies and other animals behind the books, campaign promise in a coalition context? International and take part in a craft activity based on the series. broadcaster Nik Gowing chairs. Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen 6+ years Mary’s; Scurr lectures in Politics at Cambridge; Wood is leader of Plaid Cymru; Boycott is Food Advisor to the Mayor of London.

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[W65] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED [93] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Read The Game Quiz Galina Timchenko, Mikhail Zygar, Lovereading4kids Dyslexia Series Oliver Bullough and guests talk to Join children’s author Tom Palmer for a quiz Nataliya Vasilyeva about reading sport in newspapers, books and We Need To Talk About Putin online, followed by a penalty competition. Timchenko is the executive editor of the independent Supported by Arts & Business Cymru news platform Meduza. Zygar is the editor-in-chief 8+ years of TV RAIN, Russia’s only independent television channel. Bullough is author of The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great and has reported 2.30pm over the last two years from the Ukraine. Vasiliyeva writes about press freedom and politics for Associated

SUNDAY 24 MAY SUNDAY Press in Moscow. [90] 2.30PM TATA TENT £10 Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Martha Kearney In association with Associated Press The Buried Giant [94] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 ‘There’s a journey we must go on, and no more delay…’ The extraordinary new novel from the Andrew Scull author of Never Let Me Go and Booker Prize-winning Madness in Civilisation The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine examines But at least the wars that once ravaged the country the human encounter with Unreason in all its have ceased. A couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding our responses to it. Chaired by Stephanie Merritt. a son they have not seen for years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in [417] 2.30PM–3.30PM BBC TENT a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war. FREE BUT TICKETED This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC The Essay World News programme Talking Books. BBC Radio 3 For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay five writers ask themselves [91] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 ‘why I write’. Martin Wolf The Shifts and the Shocks This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 The chief economics commentator of the Financial at 10.45pm on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May. Times explains that further shocks could be ahead for the economy because governments have failed to deal [HF29] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 with fundamental problems in the world’s financial Nick Butterworth systems. Wolf traces the causes of the great recession Q Pootle 5 to the complex interaction between globalisation, Nick Butterworth is a bestselling and award-winning destabilising global imbalances and fragile financial picture book creator. He is author of Q Pootle 5, now a systems. He argues that management of the Eurozone popular CBeebies animated series. In this family event, in particular guarantees a future political crisis and he Nick talks about how he made the Q Pootle 5 books. offers far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for You’ll see a glimpse of the CBeebies series, plus live reform than are presently being considered. Chaired by drawing from Nick. Susie Symes. 5+ years Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

[HF30] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 [92] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 David Bainbridge Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet Cambridge University Series 6 I Need a Wee! Curvology: The Origins and The creators of Barry, the Fish with Fingers and Power of Female Body Shape Norman, the Slug with the Silly Shell share their latest book I Need A Wee and assist you in making your Why is the human female the only female animal to very own character from the book using nothing have curves, and how do these curves rule our lives other than…a toilet roll! by influencing not only sexual selection but also social hierarchy and self-image? The Clinical Veterinary 3+ years Anatomist at the University of Cambridge applies the science of evolutionary biology and cutting-edge psychology to the female shape. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. In association with Cambridge University 24 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[W12] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [98] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Steve Hilton talks to John Mitchinson SUNDAYMAY24 Drawing the Head More Human: Designing a World Royal Drawing School Class Where People Come First Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Humans don’t always behave as you expect them to. All ages and abilities Sometimes their responses and actions are completely irrational – we don’t always make perfect decisions – but the model we base everything on is a rational one. 4pm Why? If we design our systems, our government, and all the products and services we use for perfect, rational people, is it any wonder they aren’t working? The [95] 4PM TATA TENT £9 Stanford academic and political advisor believes that Bettany Hughes and Hannah Critchlow change is possible and necessary: that we can create a The Raymond Williams Dialogue more local, more accountable, more human way of The Ideas That Make Us living that will make us more productive, more fulfilled A classicist and a neuroscientist explore the Ancient and ultimately happier. Greek words Liberty, Comedy, Charisma, Xenia, Wisdom and Peace and travel both forwards and [HF32] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and have made an impact Aneirin Karadog and Martin Daws on history and the human experience. Hughes is Bilingual Poetry, Rap and Spoken Word the author of Helen of Troy – Goddess, Whore and Aneirin Karadog and Martin Daws – Bardd Plant The Hemlock Cup. Cymru and Young People’s Laureate for Wales – meet in an interactive performance and discussion, taking [HF31] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 the audience on a bilingual journey of poetry, rap and Helen Skelton Amy Wild: Amazon Summer spoken word, through anecdotes and banter. Language Join the TV presenter as she introduces her children’s will be no barrier to enjoyment, and beware, as you book. Helen reveals how her own incredible real-life may be called upon to become a poet yourself! experiences and adventures have influenced her writing, 9+ years from cycling to the South Pole to tightrope walking between the towers of Battersea Power Station. Amazon [HF33] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 Summer is based on Helen’s own experiences travelling through the Amazon. 8+ years Dylan’s Amazing Dinosaurs It’s time for another Dino-Mission with Dylan and his trusty time-travelling pterodactyl. Come and help [96] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 gather dinosaur facts as we travel to Roar Island with Mick Ebeling a herd of inflatable dinosaurs and a lot of imagination. Not Impossible: Technology for 3+ years the Sake of Humanity Project Daniel was launched in January 2014 in Sudan with the establishment of the world’s first 3D-printing 4.30pm prosthetic limb lab, creating artificial limbs for victims of war. As Mohammed Ali Humanitarian of the Year [99] 4.30PM–5.30PM BBC TENT and named in the Top 50 Most Creative People 2014, FREE BUT TICKETED Mick Ebeling is the founder and driving force of Free Thinking Not Impossible; making DIY, accessible, tech-based BBC Radio 3 solutions for people around the world and powerfully telling those stories to inspire others to do the same. BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme comes to Hay to record a special edition. Presenter Rana Mitter and In association with Jaguar Land Rover guests from the festival discuss the concept of humility – vice or virtue? Was Ralph Waldo Emerson right to [97] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 say that a great person is always willing to be little? Elif Shafak Broadcast Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at Fictions – The Architect’s Apprentice 10pm. This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the 3 on Wednesday 27 May at 10pm. city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie… The Turkish author of The Forty Rules of Love and Honour discusses her mesmerizing new novel with William Sieghart. 25 SUNDAY 24 MAY #hayfestival

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[100] 5.30PM TATA TENT £10 [104] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Karen Armstrong Susan Golombok Fields of Blood: Religion and Cambridge University Series 7 the History of Violence Modern Family: Are the Kids Alright? The former Roman Catholic nun and one of our How is the modern family changing and what impact foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to interrogate do alternative family structures led by gay fathers, the link between religion and bloodshed. Religion is donor siblings or mothers who are single by choice as old as humanity: Fields of Blood goes back to the have on their children? The Director of the Centre for Stone Age hunter-gatherers and traces religion through Family Research at the University of Cambridge talks the centuries, from medieval crusaders to modern-day about her latest research. jihadists. Today we regard faith as a personal and In association with Cambridge University private matter, but for most of history faith has

SUNDAY 24 MAY SUNDAY informed people’s entire outlook on life, and has [HF34] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 often been inseparable from politics. Fields of Blood is a celebration of the ancient religious ideas Clive Gifford and Anil Seth and movements that have promoted peace and Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and reconciliation across millennia of civilization. Believing Astound your eyes and boggle your brain, as award- winning author Clive Gifford and neuroscientist Anil TELEGRAPH STAGE [101] 5.30PM £8 Seth take you on a journey through fascinating optical Charlotte Rampling talks to Francine Stock illusions and the science behind them. They talk to The actress discusses her 50-year career, from Martin Chilton. Georgy Girl and The Night Porter to Broadchurch. In association with the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize [102] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 9+ years Martin Rees

Can the Next Generation Inherit a Better [105] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 World? A Scientist’s Hopes and Fears John Hemming In 1902 HG Wells wrote ‘Humanity has come some way, and the distance we have travelled gives us some Naturalists in Paradise earnest of the way we have to go. All the past is but the Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard beginning of a beginning; all that the human mind has Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.’ 150 years ago. All three explored an unknown river and The astronomer boldly explores post-human evolution had many thrilling adventures: violent attacks of and offers a SWOT analysis of mankind’s short- and malaria, fearful rapids, murder attempts, encounters longer-term futures. He considers the risks of asteroid with newly contacted indigenous peoples, shipwrecks, impact, climate change and, most worrying of all, the and many other hardships. In addition to their huge downsides of biotech, AI and other fast-advancing contributions to knowledge of the Amazonian technologies. ‘Eternity is very long; especially towards environment, each is particularly famous for one the end’ – Woody Allen. Chaired by Dan Davis. discovery. Wallace is acknowledged as a co-discoverer, along with Charles Darwin, of the theory of evolution. Bates discovered protective mimicry among insects, a [103] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 phenomenon named after him. Spruce transported the Owen Sheers talks to Alex Clark quinine-bearing Cinchona tree, the most important Fictions – I Saw a Man medicinal plant of the nineteenth century, to India, The event that changed all of their lives happened on a where it saved countless lives from malaria. Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Sponsored by RM Jones Pharmacy Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. Moving from London and New York to the deserts of Nevada, Sheers’ new novel is a 6.30pm brilliant exploration of violence, guilt and attempted

redemption, written with the pace and grip of a thriller. [W13] 6.30PM–9PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO He takes the reader from close observation of the £15/£12 UNDER 16S domestic sphere to some of the most important Drawing From Film questions and dilemmas of the contemporary world. Royal Drawing School Class Sheers is a poet and playwright whose latest works Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. include the National Theatre of Wales’ Mametz, the award-winning poem Pink Mist and Calon. All ages and abilities Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop

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[106] 7PM TATA TENT £10 [111] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Germaine Greer Shakespeare’s Women Ruth Scurr talks to Peter Stothard SUNDAYMAY24 The inspiring and provocative writer and scholar John Aubrey: My Own Life talks about Juliet, Beatrice, Ophelia, Cleopatra, John Aubrey loved England. From an early age, he Ann Hathaway and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets saw his England slipping away and, against extraor- with festival director Peter Florence. dinary odds, committed himself to preserving for posterity what remained of it – in books, monuments

[107] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 and life stories. His Brief Lives would redefine the art of biography yet he published only one rushed, Thomas Buergenthal, Brian Leveson, botched book in his lifetime and died fearing his Richard Goldstone talk to Philippe Sands name and achievements would be forgotten. Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? Scurr’s biography is an act of scholarly imagination: International Law a diary drawn from John Aubrey’s own words, Four internationally acclaimed jurists discuss which displaying his unique voice, dry wit, the irreverence rights might be argued into a new charter for the and drama of a literary pioneer. C21st. Buergenthal serves as a judge at the ICJ in the Hague; Goldstone served as a prosecutor at the ICT after running the Goldstone Commission in South [HF35] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 Africa; Leveson is President of the Queens Bench Melinda Salisbury and Catherine Doyle Division and chaired the public inquiry into press New Voices in YA Fiction ethics in the UK; Sands is Professor of Law at UCL. Vendetta by Catherine Doyle is an intense Romeo and Sponsored by RPC Juliet story that combines love, mystery and adventure. The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury is a [108] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 high fantasy romantic adventure set in a world that Simon Singh is strange and yet completely familiar. Find out about these two young writers’ paths to getting published, The John Maddox Lecture their influences and what the future might hold for Fermat’s Last Theorem them and their characters. ‘I have discovered a truly marvellous proof, which this 12+ years/YA #hayYA margin is too narrow to contain…’ Twenty years after a mild-mannered Englishman solved Pierre de Fermat’s 350-year-old theorem, Singh tells the true story of how mathematics’ most challenging problem was made to 8.30pm yield its secrets in a thrilling tale of endurance, ingenuity and inspiration. [112] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10 Jo Caulfield

[109] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £9 Under the Influence of Books Marina Warner talks to the Winner The award-winning stand-up comedian takes an irreverent look at some of her favourite books, some Fictions – The Man Booker International well-known biographies and some recent best-sellers. Prize The chair of judges interviews the winner of this global From Baudelaire to Rankin, from Brontë to Bukowski, prize, who will be announced in London on 19 May. she combines literary banter, stand-up comedy and Previous recipients of the lifetime achievement award storytelling. Jo reimagines some classic literary scenes, have included Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, Philip placing herself at the centre of the action. What would Roth and Lydia Davis. Jo have done differently if she had been the stranger on Patricia Highsmith’s train, or if she’d been on the road In association with The Man Booker Prize with Jack Kerouac? And, most importantly, how would Jo Caulfield have rejected Mr Darcy’s advances? [110] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Simon Armitage Walking Away [113] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 The poet swaps the moorland uplands of the north Peter Hitchens and Johann Hari (Walking Home) for the coastal fringes of Britain’s south west, once again giving readings every night, but this A Rational Debate About Drugs time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking It’s 100 years since drugs were first banned, and drug poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, use and drug crime have continued to grow steadily busking his way from start to finish. across the world. What are people addicted to? Are any of the policies adopted around the world based on From the surreal pleasure-dome of Minehead Butlins scientific data? Are any of them working? Hari is the to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith author of Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days Peninsula, then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, of the War Against Drugs; Hitchens is the author of The Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the War We Never Fought. Chaired by Hernando Alvarez, poetic reflection and personal wit we’ve come to expect editor of BBC Mundo. of one of Britain’s best loved and most popular writers. 27 SUNDAY 24 MAY @hayfestival

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[114] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [280] 9.45PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 David Aaronovitch, Rachael Jolley, Geoff White and Glenn Wilkinson Tom Holland and guests The Secret Life of Your Mobile Phone The Index Punch Ups A unique and fascinating journey into the private life Five short arguments about flashpoints in the Freedom of a gadget you thought was on your side. Afterwards, of Speech debates – porn, blasphemy, Israel, national you’ll never look at your phone in the same way security. Where do we draw the lines? And why? again… The brainchild of Channel 4 News’ In association with Index on Censorship Magazine award-winning technology journalist Geoff White and security researcher Glenn Wilkinson: welcome to a live stage performance using cutting-edge interception [115] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 technology to reveal the people, places and companies Christopher Frayling your phone is talking to behind your back – and what The Yellow Peril SUNDAY 24 MAY SUNDAY it’s telling them. The cultural historian demonstrates the rise of China- phobia in popular culture with the help of some film clips. Frayling chronicles the entry of Dr Fu Manchu, 10pm known as ‘the yellow peril incarnate in one man’, into world literature a century ago and asks why the idea [118] 10PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 developed unfairly that China was a threat to Western civilization, and why such images continue to distort Sasha McVeigh our image of its people. Frayling also explains how we In concert neglect the history of popular culture at our peril if The Herefordshire singer and songwriter with the we are to understand our deepest desires and fears. spectacular voice is a rising star of Country music in Chaired by Sarah Crompton. America. She’s returning from Nashville with her first full-band album to perform at Hay.

[116] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 Robert Irwin and Azar Nafisi [119] 10PM OXFAM MOOT £8 Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Eric Lampaert Strange Comedians’ Cinema Club Dating from at least a millennium ago, the earliest We are thrilled to welcome the inspired and hilarious known Arabic short stories survive in a single, ragged improv show in which Eric and a cast of comics act out manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their a famous movie. They’ve done Die Hard, Pretty Woman, way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been all the Harry Potters, and for tonight they want the read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and Hay audience to choose the movie. Let us know what News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels you’d like them to take on – we’ll go with the best beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword- nomination on our Facebook page. wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune. Sponsored by TotalProduce Robert Irwin’s books include For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages and The Arabian Nights: A Companion. 11.30pm Azar Nafisi taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and the [120] 11.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £12 University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she SANS was expelled from the University of Tehran after Candlelit Concert refusing to wear the veil. She is the author of Reading A meditative late-night treat. Uniting the powerful, Lolita in Tehran and Things I’ve Been Silent About. ancient Karelian runo-songs that became Finland’s Kalevala with the sad, lingering duduk laments of Armenia and ghosts of British folk-song melody, 9.45pm SANS makes an atmospherically wide-screen new music surging between glacial stillness and passionate [117] 9.45PM TATA TENT £22 power. The magnificent singing of Finland’s Sanna Charlotte Rampling and Kurki-Suonio, the heart-pausing sound of Armenian Sonia Wieder-Atherton Tigran Aleksanyan’s duduk, the deep woodiness of Night Dances Ian Blake’s bass clarinet, the dark, glassy chiming of Acclaimed actor Charlotte Rampling and renowned Andrew Cronshaw’s electric zither and unique cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton bring together Sylvia marovantele, and the man-high fujara’s breathy, Plath’s poetry and Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo shivering harmonics. cello in a unique evening of haunting poetry and powerful music. 28 MONDAY 25 MAY 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[121] 9AM–9.45AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 [125] 9AM–9.45AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Bronwen Maddox, Peter Hitchens, Heather Dune Macadam MONDAYMAY25 David Aaronovitch, Johann Hari Rena’s Promise Election 2015: How Was It For You? Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Four of our leading commentators analyse the election Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for results and their aftermath. They look at the leadership over three years. While there she was reunited with issues and futures for each of the parties. her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to fulfill In association with Prospect Magazine the promise Rena made to her mother when the family was forced to split apart – a promise to take care of her sister. New research informs this event, based on the [122] 9AM–9.45AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 original transport list that Macadam found in the Melissa Harrison and Laline Paull archives of Yad Vashem with all 998 names of the Fictions – Nature first women in Auschwitz on it — 297 of whom Discover two of the most thrilling new voices in were teenagers. Chaired by Sarah Crompton. fiction. Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, Harrison’s second novel At Hawthorn Time is both a clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss. Paull’s debut The Bees is set entirely 9.15am in a beehive. It is the story of a heroine, Flora 717, a sanitation bee who, in the face of an increasingly [126] 9.15AM–9.45AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £3 desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world. They read and talk to Mary Loudon. Mark Skipworth What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from [123] 9AM–9.45AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 25 May at key historical moments over the past 150 Iain Overton talks to Oliver Balch years are brought to life using the paper’s unique Gun Baby Gun archive. From World War One and D-Day to the rise There are almost a billion guns across the globe today. of the Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not There are 12 billion bullets produced every year and to mention fashion through the decades and legendary as many as 500,000 people are killed by them annually. stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in Meeting people affected by guns from all walks of life fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting. in 25 countries – porn starlets who appear as snipers in XXX films, Zionist anti-terror gun trainers, El Salvadoran gangland killers – Overton unearths some hard truths about the terrible realities of war and gun crime. Overton is Director of Investigations at the 9.30am London-based charity Action on Armed Violence and an investigative journalist who has worked in over 80 [127] 9.30AM–10.30AM BBC TENT countries around the world. FREE BUT TICKETED The Life Scientific

[124] 9AM–9.45AM OXFAM MOOT £6 BBC Radio 4 Iain Finlayson Jim Al-Khalili talks to some of our most fascinating and admirable scientists: from Nobel Prize-winners Tangier: City of the Dream to unsung heroes and the next generation of beautiful No city in the world has quite the exotic allure of minds. Tangier. From the C17th, it has been a place on the edge, beyond the normal disciplines of government, Broadcast on Tuesdays at 9am. This programme will a city of refuge and excitements where sex is cheap, be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 23 June drugs are plentiful and where the outcasts of the at 9am. world can breathe easily. The golden years of Tangier began after World War I and barely survived World War II. Among those who sought sanctuary in or inspiration from this legendary city were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles, Ronnie Kray, Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Cecil Beaton and Truman Capote. It is this ‘last resort of the living dead, alive but not madly kicking’ that Finlayson explores in his witty, enthralling study. Sponsored by Mostlymaps – www.mostlymaps.com

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[128] 10AM TATA TENT £9 [131] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Stuart Cade, Juliet Aston, Julian Munby, Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Camilla Finlay Peter Stothard Hay’s Castle Fictions – Mary Renault Hay Castle’s rich history reaches back to the time of We celebrate the republication of Renault’s fabulous the Norman Conquest, and is intertwined with events Greek historical novels – The Bull from the Sea, that have shaped the evolution of the country as a The King Must Die, Fire From Heaven, Funeral Games, whole. Legend has it that in the early C13th the stone Lion in the Gateway and The Persian Boy. castle rose overnight out of the low woodlands next to Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop the River Wye. In the C17th it was transformed from ruined defensive castle to country seat for the gentry. [HF36] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 More recently it has been the seat of the King of Hay, Richard Booth. Minecraft MONDAY 25 MAY MONDAY The C21st has seen Hay Castle owned in trust for the Love Minecraft? Want to know more about how to public for the first time, and the creation of an exciting construct the most awesome builds? Come along to future vision for the buildings and grounds. The this session for tips and tricks from the experts on architects for the realisation of the vision are Rick how to be a Minecraft creative genius. Mather Architects, who, with representatives from 7+ years their team of archaeology and conservation specialists, will describe the history and proposed future for the [HF37] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Castle – the creation of the next chapter in its story. Chaired by Francine Stock. Piers Torday The Wild Beyond In association with Hay Castle Trust Piers Torday’s bestselling first book, The Last Wild, For further details about Hay Castle, please visit was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book the stall on site or www.haycastletrust.org Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. His second book, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian [129] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Children’s Fiction Prize 2014. Join Piers as he shares Azar Nafisi talks to Sarah Churchwell the passion for nature that inspired the trilogy, and The Republic of Imagination find out if Kester can save the world from disaster. From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading 9+ years Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Blending memoir [HF38] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 and polemic with close readings of her favourite novels, the scholar and teacher invites us to join her as citizens Chris Judge of her ‘Republic of Imagination’, a country where the Robots and Beasts villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only Meet award-winning illustrator Chris Judge and passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness hear all about his robot character Tin and his favourite to dream. Beast stories in this fun-filled picture book event In association with The Open University in Wales packed with interactive storytelling and live drawing. 4+ years [130] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Göran Rosenberg talks to Philippe Sands [W36] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz RSPB Workshop On 2 August 1947 a young man gets off a train in Wild Garden Safari. a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having Familes welcome survived the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi [W14] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £8 Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. Illustration for Under 12s In his intelligent and deeply moving book, Rosenberg Royal Drawing School Class returns to his own childhood in order to tell the story Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. of his father; walking at his side, holding his hand, trying to get close to him again. It is also the story Under 12 years of the chasm that soon opens between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism, progress and collective oblivion of postwar Sweden, and the world of the father, darkened by the long shadows of the past.

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[132] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU [136] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 – WALES STAGE £8 Matthew Kramer MONDAYMAY25 Nick Stern talks to Alok Jha Cambridge University Series 8 The British Academy Lecture Torture, Morality and Law Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency Despite recent assertions to the contrary, the Professor and Promise of Tackling Climate Change of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of The risks and costs of climate change are worse than Cambridge argues that there can never be any moral estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006; and justification for torture. Chaired by Philippe Sands, far worse than implied by standard economic models. author of Torture Team. The science warns of the dangers of neglect; the In association with Cambridge University economics and technology show what we can do and the great benefits that will follow; an examination of [HF39] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 the ethics points strongly to a moral imperative for action. Why are we waiting? Chaired by the science Dan Smith and Paul Dowswell correspondent of ITV News. Big Game and Bomber In association with The British Academy Nail-biting tension and compelling storytelling feature in both these books, delivering an edge-of-the-seat reading experience. Dan Smith’s Big Game, recently [133] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 brought to the big screen, stars a young hero hunting Charles Handy talks to Andrew St George in a Finnish wilderness, who stumbles upon an escape The Second Curve pod from a burning airplane. Soon he and the The bracing manifesto of a radical thinker. His President of the United States are on the run from books on management – including Understanding terrorists. Paul Dowswell’s Bomber is the meticulously- Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed researched story of a young gunner in WW2 whose the way we view business. His work on broader issues dreams of flying turn into nightmares as the Nazis and trends – such as Beyond Certainty – has changed sweep over Europe and war rages. Share the thrills the way we view society. and the tension, and get some top writing tips from In The Second Curve, Handy builds on a life’s work to these two masters of their craft. glimpse into the future and see what challenges and 10+ years opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He [HF40] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £12 challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. Shaun the Sheep Model making with Aardman Animation.

[134] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 7+ years Emma Rothschild Family Histories and Social Networks [W37] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 An exploration of C18th social networks looking at RSPB Workshop the Johnstone family, the Scottish siblings at the Wild Garden Safari. heart of her book The Inner Life Of Empires, and an Familes welcome interconnected group of French families in the first ‘age of information’. Rothschild is Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. 12pm

[135] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 [137] 12PM–2PM BBC TENT Jessie Burton talks to Georgina Godwin FREE BUT TICKETED Fictions – The Miniaturist Vanessa Feltz On an autumn day in 1686, 18-year-old Nella BBC Radio 2 LIVE Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in Vanessa Feltz will be presenting the Jeremy Vine Show the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come live from Hay Festival. As well as reporting on the from the country to begin a new life as the wife of highlights of the festival she will be interviewing a illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. The leading author as part of the popular series What novelist discusses her multi-award-winning debut novel. Makes Us Human. Broadcast weekdays on BBC Radio 2.

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[W15] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [140] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Lynsey Addario talks to Rosie Boycott Drawing the Body Clothed It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Royal Drawing School Class Life of Love and War Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. The frontline photographer discusses her memoir All ages and abilities of post-9/11 photo-journalism and shows her pictures. She travels with purpose and bravery, photographing the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, 1pm the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and [138] 1PM TATA TENT £9 countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of Tom Holland violence against women in the Congo and tells the

MONDAY 25 MAY MONDAY riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping The Christopher Hitchens Lecture by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. De-radicalising Muhammad What do the Charlie Hebdo murders and the rise of the Islamic State owe to Islam? It would be comforting [HF41] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 to insist, as many have done, that they owe nothing at David Baddiel all; but Holland, in the inaugural Christopher Hitchens The Parent Agency Lecture, argues that the truth is more complex. The author, screenwriter and comedian invites you The best way to combat jihadism, he proposes, is to into the hilarious world of The Parent Agency. Barry has recognise the centrality of Muhammad to Islam – and always hated being called Barry. In fact, it’s number 2) that he comes in many forms. There is the moral leader on the list of things he blames his parents for, along who swallowed abuse peaceably; and there is the war with 1) ‘being boring’ and 3) ‘always being tired’. But leader who ordered people who insulted him put to then one day Barry makes a fateful wish, and finds death. How best, then, to de-radicalise the Prophet? himself in a world where everything is Upside Down… Tom Holland is author of In The Shadow of the Sword, 9+ years Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and the new translation of The Histories by Herodotus. Chaired by Katrin Bennhold of the International New York Times. [141] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Daniel Kehlmann and Dorthe Nors

[139] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Fictions – Laughter Alok Jha Two international superstars read and discuss their stories with Daniel Hahn. Kehlman presents his new The Water Book novel F: the Friedland brothers have nothing in Water pours from our taps and falls from the sky. common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an We drink it, wash with it, and couldn’t live without it. artist with no integrity. Eric is a financier – now, with Yet on closer examination it is also a very strange no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about substance (it is one of only a very small number of to step into the abyss. Nors introduces her glitteringly molecules which expand when cooled). Water is funny and acute stories of Danish life collected in crucial to our survival, and it was also fundamental Karate Chop / Minna Needs Rehearsal Space. Blending in the origins of life on Earth. The millions of gallons compassion with dark delight, Nors conjures up a of water that make up our rivers, lakes and oceans flawed, unsettlingly familiar world with each cautionary originated in outer space. How it arrived here and how glance as fresh moments of wonder, romance and frail those molecules of water were formed is a story that beauty are unexpectedly infiltrated by depravity, takes us back to the beginning of the universe. Indeed, isolation and despair. we know more about the depths of space than we do about the furthest reaches of the oceans. [HF42] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Katherine Woodfine and Robin Stevens Dastardly Villains (and Iced Buns for Tea) Robin Stevens’ Wells and Wong schoolgirl detective stories are thrilling books for tween detectives who adore solving dastardly murders. Think St Trinians meets Miss Marple. Katherine Woodfine’s readers of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow enter a world of bonbons, perfumes and mysteries around every corner. Gasp as our bold heroines vow to bring the villains to justice before devouring another iced bun. 9+ years

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[HF43] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £12 [145] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Shaun the Sheep Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins MONDAYMAY25 Model making with Aardman Animation. Memory and Mental Time to Travel 7+ years Memories are not only about the past; they also affect the future. Nicola and Clive, a scientist and a fine artist respectively, explore the complex relationships between 1.30pm memory and human experience. Join them for a fascinating discussion incorporating science, literature, magic and dance. [HF44] 1.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4 Elli Woollard In association with The Royal Society Poetry Workshop with Woozy and Elli [HF45] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5 Rhyming is fun! Join poet extraordinaire Elli Woollard to hear all about the adventures of Woozy the Wizard David O’Doherty and Chris Judge and his pet pig, and take part in a workshop to create Danger is Everywhere your own poetry. Do you enjoy enjoyment? Do you find danger 7+ years dangerous? Come and join award-winning comedian David O’Doherty and illustrator Chris Judge for a hilarious lesson in Dangerology. Inspired by the notebooks of the enigmatic and ultra-cautious 2.30pm Dangerologist, David and Chris prepare you for many of life’s dangers through Docter Noel Zone’s TATA TENT [142] 2.30PM £9 unique BSTs (Basic Safety Tips) and many other useful Amartya Sen acronyms. Come and discover what to do if a shark The Eric Hobsbawm Lecture comes out of the loo or a volcano erupts underneath Marx and the Power of Ideas your house. Perfect for worriers, young and old. This year’s lecture is given by the Nobel Prize-winning 7+ years economist, author of The Idea of Justice and Identity and Violence – The Illusion of Destiny. Chaired by [HF46] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Nik Gowing. Charlotte and Adam Guillain George’s Amazing Adventures [143] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Come and meet Charlotte and Adam as they perform Sheila Hancock talks to Francine Stock their latest hilarious picture book, Pizza for Pirates, Fictions – Miss Carter’s War illustrated by the award-winning Lee Wildish. Set It is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite off with George on a high seas adventure in search of Carter has lost her parents and survived a terrifying pirates! There’ll be strange noises, scurrilous sea dogs, war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She marine monsters, a feathered friend, a bit of silly returns to England to be one of the first women to dressing up and funny songs! receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. 5+ years Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black shoes, and sets out towards her future as an [HF47] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 English teacher in a girls’ grammar school. Outside Tamsyn Murray the classroom Britain is changing fast, and Miss Carter Cassidy Bond: Completely Cassidy’s finds herself caught up in social upheaval, swept in and Big Sleepover out of love and forging deep, enduring friendships. Onesies at the ready! Join Tamsyn Murray for a super The first novel from the actress and award-winning sleepover where she’ll introduce you to the disaster- author of The Two of Us and Just Me. prone Cassidy Bond, the star of her new Completely Cassidy series, and help you find your undiscovered [144] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 talent. There’ll also be plenty of secret sharing and Theodore Zeldin talks to Daniel Hahn popcorn snacking, so put your best bedhead on and get ready to be amazeballs. The Hidden Pleasures of Life What is the point of working so hard? What can 8+ years replace the shortage of soulmates? What else can one do in a hotel? Zeldin, the author of Conversations and An Intimate History of Humanity, shows how our lives can be enriched by the realisation that it is only by truly relating to others that we get a taste, even just a nibble, of what it is possible to experience as a human being. 33 MONDAY 25 MAY #hayfestival

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[HF162] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 [HF48] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6 Catherine Barr, Steve Williams Malorie Blackman, James Dawson and Amy Husband and Non Pratt The Story of Life Workshop Love Hurts Award-winning illustrator Amy Husband and local An unmissable line-up of YA talent for your authors Catherine Barr and Steve Williams will take delectation. Three fabulous writers range over many children on the extraordinary journey of evolution. topics that concern their readers, including love. You will draw, cut and colour all kinds of creatures Love Hurts is a new collection of writing, edited by to create your own timeline of life on Earth. Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman, to which 6–10 years James and Non have both contributed. Chaired by Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust.

MONDAY 25 MAY MONDAY 3pm In association with Lovereading4kids 12+ years/YA #hayYA [146] 3PM–4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE Free Thinking: New Generation Thinkers [148] 4PM £7 Andrew Keen and Robert Phillips BBC Radio 3 talk to Sarah Churchwell The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of the talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts What’s the Question? and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest Keen’s incisive critique The Internet is Not the Answer academic minds at the start of their careers, who have traces the development of the net through the waves the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts. Hear of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to them discuss their fascinating research with presenter the increasing attempts to monetize almost every Rana Mitter. human activity. He shows how the Web has had a deeply negative effect on our culture, economy and Broadcast Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays society. Phillips’ Trust Me, PR is Dead asks whether we at 10pm. This recording will be broadcast on can ever really trust companies and their stories in an BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 28 May at 10pm. age when technology not only allows transparency, but demands it. Keen is executive director of the Silicon [W16] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO Valley salon FutureCast and the author of Digital Vertigo £10/£8 UNDER 16S and The Cult of the Amateur. Phillips was CEO of Drawing Out and About Edelman, the world’s largest PR company, before Royal Drawing School Class leaving to set up Jericho Chambers. Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool.

All ages and abilities [149] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden Life on the Edge: The Coming of 4pm Age of Quantum Biology Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the TATA TENT [147] 4PM £12 known universe; but how does it work? Even in this Sandi Toksvig age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable The Hay Library Lecture truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living A celebration of reading and books from the comedian, entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only broadcaster and writer whose books include the way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient novels Hitler’s Canary, Flying Under Bridges and in its creation? Valentine Grey, children’s stories The Littlest Viking Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments and The Troublesome Tooth Fairy, non-fiction around the world, they show how photosynthesis best-sellers Peas & Queues and Girls Are Best and relies on subatomic particles existing in many places the play Bully Boy. Introduced by Sue Wilkinson. at once, while inside enzymes, those workhorses of life In association with The Reading Agency that make every molecule within our cells, particles vanish from one point in space and instantly materialize in another.

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[150] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [153] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 John Harrison talks to Francesca Rhydderch Nick Cohen MONDAYMAY25 1519: Journey to the End of Time What Do We Do Now? In 1519 an arrogant and unscrupulous man sailed from The Spectator and Observer journalist looks back at the Caribbean with orders to find a missing Spanish the General Election, and discusses the future of expedition. He immediately set about carving himself political alignment and the relationship between an empire in modern Mexico, while the governor of politics and the media. Chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor. Cuba sent a force out to kill him. Hernán Cortés In association with The Open University in Wales explored the coast to Veracruz then struck inland, seduced by tales of a great empire rich in gold. He [154] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £9 found the largest and best-run city on earth and reduced it to rubble. Award-winning travel writer and Steve McCurry talks to Tim Marlow historian John Harrison followed in his footsteps for From These Hands four months, finding the jungle ruins and sophisticated The great Magnum photographer discusses his 30 hilltop cities which put the lie to the popular image of years shooting conflicts, vanishing traditions and the Aztecs and their neighbours as bloodthirsty savages. contemporary culture with the Artistic Director of The Royal Academy. He presents his latest book From These Hands: A Journey Along the Coffee Trail. [151] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Sponsored by The Coffee Cart Company Ltd Carwyn Jones talks to Guto Harri

What Next For Wales? [155] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The First Minister of Wales responds to the UK Julia Fan Li, Alexandra Grigore election results, detailing how Wales will respond to the new Westminster Parliament, whether he will be and Divya Venkatesh seeking any new powers, who he will be collaborating Cambridge University Series 9 with and what he hopes to achieve for Wales over the Global Health in the Twenty-first Century next five years. Three young female scientists who are recipients of the University of Cambridge’s most prestigious scholarship, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, talk ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE [HF49] 4PM £5 about their research. Julia Fan Li is director of the Benji Davies and Elli Woollard Global Health Investment Fund, which funds research The Giant of Jum and development for some of the most pressing global Look out children, the Giant of Jum is grumpy and health challenges; Divya Venkatesh researches African hungry and he’s off in search of a tasty snack! And the sleeping sickness and does cross-disciplinary work tastiest of all is a boy known as Jack… Join major new in biotechnology; Alexandra Grigore works on an picture book pairing Elli Woollard and Benji Davies innovative fingerprint identity system for accessing as they bring this brilliant, big-hearted twist on a medical records in developing countries. classic fairy-tale to life in an interactive story-telling In association with Cambridge University adventure.

6+ years [156] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Jonathan Edwards and Paul Henry My Family and Other Superheroes 5.30pm Boy Running: A Reading Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside [152] 5.30PM TATA TENT £7 the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with Diarmaid MacCulloch great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley The British Academy Platform crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty Sex and the West McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. As society becomes more liberal, the Churches often Edwards marries an authentic colloquial voice with seem more entrenched. The Oxford historian explores sound technique to produce poems that recognize the how Western Christianity’s complex and often divisive exotic in everyday life, and a first collection that, ideas about sex, marriage and gender have their roots remarkably, has won the Costa Prize for Poetry 2014. in a story that began 3,000 years ago. Chaired by Henry’s new collection explores his marital break-up, Anita Anand. his childhood in Aberystwyth, and in the final sequence we meet ‘Davy Blackrock’: washed-up songwriter and In association with The British Academy modern-day alter ego of Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock), alias David Owen (1720–1749), the blind, 18th-century harpist and composer who fell asleep on a hill and dreamt the famous song which bears his name.

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[HF50] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE [159] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 £6/FREE TO LOCAL CHILDREN* Will Hutton Catherine Barr and Steve Williams How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary The Story of Life Society and Building a Great Country Authors Catherine and Steve bring evolution alive The journalist and economics commentator examines for a young audience, with an illustrated talk and the state of Britain today and looks forward to a Britain the children’s help in creating a timeline exploring of tomorrow. Hutton argues that allowing the market the fascinating story of life on Earth. to decide, irrespective of justice and equity, has led to a 6+ years capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it – in * Call 01497 822 629 to reserve free tickets turn leading to an unequal society organised for the benefit of the top 1%.

[HF51] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £12 Hutton is author of many influential books including

MONDAY 25 MAY MONDAY Shaun the Sheep The State We’re In, The World We’re In and Them and Us: Changing Britain – Why We Need a Fair Society. Model making with Aardman Animation. In association with The Open University in Wales 7+ years

[160] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 7pm Philip Gross and Valerie Coffin Price A Fold in the River

[157] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 A beautiful collaboration between TS Eliot Prize- Jon Ronson winning poet Philip Gross and visual artist Valerie Coffin Price. Gross once lived on the banks of the So, You’ve Been Publicly Shamed… River Taff in Wales and his journals are the source A powerful and sometimes humorous look at the for the powerful poems. Price revisited the walking phenomenon of artificial high dramas and public route along the river, from which evolved the prints shamings that are characteristic of a world dominated and drawings that accompany the poems. by social media. Why do we do it and how does it affect the shamed? Ronson was prompted into looking at public shaming after his own online identity was [161] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 stolen in 2012. He met famous shamers and shamees Justin Griffiths-Williams to discover how public ridicule and vitriol can devastate Baby Doc Duvalier and Fort Dimanche the victim, and to uncover the true reasons behind The award-winning photo-journalist has been the rise in public shaming. Ronson is a documentary documenting the island of Haiti for the past 15 years maker and author of many bestselling books including and has produced an astonishing record of one of The Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare at Goats, the world’s most extreme cultures and natural Lost at Sea and Them: Adventures with Extremists. environments, racked by civil war, climatic catastrophe Chaired by John Mitchinson. and violent deprivations. He shows his images and discusses his work with Oliver Balch. [158] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10 Andre Geim talks to Roger Highfield [162] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 The Royal Society Platform Daniel Hahn introduces Llyˆr Gwyn Lewis, Random Walk to Graphene Valerie Fritsch, Marco Parlato In 2010 Sir Andre Geim FRS was awarded the and Elske Rahill Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work Scritture Giovani 2015 – Home on the material graphene. More unusually, he’s also Four writers under the age of 30 are commissioned known for inventing an adhesive tape based on to write a story on the same theme of ‘home’ that geckos and for levitating live frogs. Geim talks is then translated into Italian, German and English. about his prize-winning work and how his atypical The writers visit four festivals (Mantova and Berlin approach to science and life led him to it. in September, Hay in May, Kells in June,) to discuss In association with The Royal Society their work. In collaboration with Festivaletteratura, Mantova and Literaturfestival, Berlin Supported by Ireland Literature Exchange and Austrian Cultural Forum

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[163] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 [166] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Daniel Martyn Lewis John Bulmer MONDAYMAY25 JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 Wind of Change Warmly described by Harris Goldsmith in New York In 1962 the pioneering Sunday Times photographer Concert Review as ‘a truly fine musician’, Daniel Martyn embarked on a project to photograph the profound Lewis is a pianist who is achieving recognition for the social and political changes sweeping across the world, purity and beauty of his Bach interpretations. He will from the slow disintegration of the Middle East, the perform one of the greatest masterpieces in the whole early collapse of the Communist bloc and the rise of of western keyboard literature, the complete Well- African nationalism, to the totalitarianism of China Tempered Clavier. Its two books of 24 Preludes and and North Korea, and the disparities of wealth and Fugues cover every major and minor key, and display poverty in the Americas. Fifty years on, he shows his a breathtaking diversity of styles and genres. Concert 1 photogaphs and discusses them with filmmaker covers The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One nos 1–12. Corisande Albert. BWV 846-857. Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey over four concerts, [167] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 Monday–Thursday. See also events 204, 244 and 279. Jasmine Donahaye talks to Francesca Rhydderch 8.30pm Finding Her Place The poet is publishing two books this spring: the

[164] 8.30PM TATA TENT £30 first biography of Lily Tobias, a courageous, idealistic Welsh woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish Texas life and experience in the twentieth century; and 25th Anniversary Concert a memoir, Losing Israel. In 2007, in a chance With the release of White On Blonde in 1997 the conversation with her mother, a kibbutznik, Glasgow alt-rockers became major stars, propelled Donahaye stumbled upon the collusion of her family by huge pop hits such as Say What You Want and in the displacement of Palestinians in 1948. When she Black Eyed Boy. Many groups could be destroyed set out to learn the story of what happened, what she by such success, but Texas have continued writing discovered challenged everything she thought she knew and recording, sustained by their very particular love about the country and her family, and transformed her of music, and listeners can still enjoy the classic mix understanding of the place, and of herself. of Sharleen Spiteri’s distinctive vocals with an experienced band who know exactly what they’re doing. 10pm [165] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £14 Nina Conti [168] 10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £10 In Your Face Mark Watson Groundbreaking ventriloquist, BAFTA-nominated Flaws – Stand-Up filmmaker and British Comedy Award-winner Flaws is Mark’s darkest, most personal show yet, but Nina Conti welcomes you to see her new improvised luckily also his funniest. Watson rips up his parental show. With the help of Monkey and a bag of tricks, crisis, his relationships with Madonna (non-existent) truly anything can happen in this unmissable and alcohol (over familiar), his contempt for tapas and improvised adventure of hilarious witchery. his fondness for drunk-giving to charities. He makes The smash hit, total sell-out show of the glorious fun of himself, and spins comedy gold out of Edinburgh Fringe 2014 from the star of Live at his return to health and happiness. It’s a life-affirming the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, QI, Sunday triumph of physical and verbal stand-up. Night at the Palladium and HBO’s Family Tree. Sponsored by Communikate Sponsored by Holdsworth Foods

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[169] 6AM–9AM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM [HF52] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5 FREE – ALL WELCOME The Etherington Brothers Good Morning Wales The Greatest Comic-Making Show on Earth! BBC Radio Wales LIVE Join Robin and Lorenzo for the most amazing show Louise Elliott presents all the news, sport, weather you’ll ever see. You’ll laugh. You’ll laugh again. Then and travel information to start your day, broadcasting you’ll laugh some more! And in between the chuckles live from the festival. the Etherington Brothers will take you on a roller Broadcasts every weekday morning on BBC Radio coaster journey through the mystical arts of storytelling Wales from 6am–9am and on Saturdays from 7.30am. and character creation, showing you how to explore the power of your imagination. Don’t miss this high-octane show packed full of belly laughs and surprises. 9am 6+ years TUESDAY 26 MAY TUESDAY [423] 9AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [172] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 How to Break into the Media Adele Nozedar and Lizzie Harper A BBC Event at Hay The Garden Forager A masterclass on how to get started, featuring a Many of our own gardens contain an abundance of discussion with researchers and producers from edible and medicinal plants, grown mainly for their radio, television and online. ornamental appearance. Most gardeners are completely Not for broadcast. unaware that what they have actually planted is a rather exotic kitchen garden. The Garden Forager explores some of the most popular garden plants that have 10am edible, medicinal or even cosmetic potential. Nozedar’s recipes and remedies are exquisitely illustrated in [170] 10AM TATA TENT £7 watercolours by Lizzie Harper. She talks while Harper Daniel Hahn, John Boyne, Jenny Valentine illustrates live. The New Golden Age Sponsored by Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages We are revelling in an exhilarating time for young readers, fired by the richest imaginable field of novelists [HF53] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £5 creating work for teenagers. The editor of the new Tom Palmer Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature hosts this Premier League Reading Stars celebration of great contemporary YA writing with two Join bestselling author Tom Palmer for a Premier superstars of the genre, who pick a library of ten League Reading Stars session. Find out about football essential reads for teenagers. All ticketholders will be reading and writing with quiz questions, a penalty entered into a draw to receive the ten books they shoot out and a trophy for the winner! choose as well as copies of Boyne’s The Boy With The 7+ years Striped Pyjamas and the forthcoming Valentine novel Fire Colour One. #hayYA In association with National Literacy Trust

[HF54] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 TELEGRAPH STAGE [171] 10AM £7 Thomas & Friends Eileen Younghusband All aboard! Put your party hats on as we celebrate talks to Martin Chilton Thomas the Tank Engine’s birthday. Join brilliant One Woman’s War storyteller Liz Fost as she takes you on a fun adventure Ninety-three-year-old Eileen Younghusband served as into the world of Thomas & Friends. an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in WW2. 3+ years She decided to volunteer at the age of 18, and her mathematical abilities led to her training as a Clerk Special Duties, a vital part of the Radar chain. She [HF55] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 found herself working in the Filter Room, the lynchpin Chris Haughton between the coastal Radar Chain and the successful Shh! We Have a Plan defence of Britain. After losing two fiancés, she Chris Haughton is the creator of highly-acclaimed, eventually married; only to be posted overseas six weeks award-winning picture books A Bit Lost, Oh No, later to Second Tactical Air Force in Belgium. There George! and most recently Shh! We Have a Plan. He is she became part of a team tracking and destroying V2 also the co-founder of NODE, a fair trade social launching vehicles, responsible for the devastating raids business. In this interactive family event, Chris will on Antwerp – the Allies’ vital port for landing troops read from his books, show trailers and images, use some and supplies. She tells her story to The Telegraph’s very clever props, and play drawing games. Martin Chilton. 4+ years 38 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[W38] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 [175] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 TUESDAYMAY26 RSPB Workshop Noel Malcolm Wild Garden Safari. Brunis and Brutis Familes welcome Malcolm describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterland by an eminent Venetian-Albanian family – among them an archbishop NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [W17] 10AM–11.30AM in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at £10/£8 UNDER 16S Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman Drawing the Figure province of Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at Royal Drawing School Class the Porte – previously almost invisible to history. Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Through them he casts the world between Venice and All ages and abilities Istanbul in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, slave-ransoming and the grain trade. It is a masterpiece of both scholarship and storytelling, [173] 10AM THE SUMMER HOUSE £3 creating a panoramic picture of interrelations between Hay Writers’ Circle the Christian and Ottoman worlds. New Work 2015 A reading of new work by the local writers’ group. [176] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 David Lagercrantz 10.30am Fictions – Fall of Man in Wilmslow The journalist introduces his fictionalised thriller

[174] 10.30AM–11.30PM BBC TENT about the death of Alan Turing. He is the ghostwriter FREE BUT TICKETED of Sweden’s fastest-ever-selling book I am Zlatan Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster Imbrahimovic, though he’s likely to top that in August with the publication of his newest novel – the BBC Four authorized sequel to Stieg Larsson’s Girl With A Dragon In 2007 Sophie Lancaster was attacked in a Tattoo / Millenium series. He talks to SJ Parris. park because of her appearance. Writer and poet Simon Armitage and director Susan Roberts discuss the making of the film and will be [177] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 showing clips. Bharat Malkani Not for broadcast. Capital Punishment On the 50th anniversary of the last execution to take place in the UK, Malkani, a lecturer at Birmingham 11.30am Law School, discusses why we are better off without the death penalty and why British efforts to promote the [HF56] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 worldwide abolition of capital punishment should be John Boyne talks to Peter Florence supported. UN statistics suggest the five countries with the highest number of state executions annually are, in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas order, China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final States of America. Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the In association with Birmingham University appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house [178] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no Shireen Jilla and Mark Watson one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who talk to Georgina Godwin lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of Fictions – Couples the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people Jilla explores friendships unravelling and ravelling as there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno’s old university friends set out on a Kalahari journey in friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence The Art of Unpacking your Life. Graham, the concierge to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly of Watson’s novel Hotel Alpha, has been behind the a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the front desk since the day the hotel opened and has terrible process. The author revisits his 2008 novel, witnessed every stage of its history. Chaz, the founder’s which is now read around the world. His latest book blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is the moving story its walls. Both of them view the Alpha as their of a boy’s search for his missing father during the First sanctuary, the place that gives them everything they World War. need. But both of them must now accept that the 10+ years #hayYA Alpha no longer offers them the life they most want…

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[HF57] 11.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [179] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Angie Sage Araminta Spook Tessa Dunlop and Pamela Rose Araminta is a girl who lives in a haunted house, has The Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, ghosts and ghouls for friends, and gets up to all sorts Love and Loss of spooky adventures. In this fiendishly fun event, find Dunlop weaves together the lives of fifteen women out where Araminta came from, where this feisty Goth selected to work in Britain’s most secret organisation girl is going next, and how you can create your own – Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; stories. Black clothes and stripy tights optional! Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting 7+ years them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper.

[HF58] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 The scale of female involvement in Britain during the Second World War was unmatched in any other Yasmeen Ismail Specs for Rex

TUESDAY 26 MAY TUESDAY country. From 8 million working women just over Time for Bed, Fred! is Yasmeen Ismail’s award-wining 7,000 were hand-picked to work at Bletchley Park debut picture book. Join her for storytelling and find and its outstations and soon they outnumbered the out how to draw Rex, a young lion character from men three to one. Dunlop is joined by one of the her newest book Specs for Rex. 4+ years women featured in the book. They talk to publisher and QI elfmaster John Mitchinson. [W39] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5

RSPB Workshop [180] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Wild Garden Safari. Martin Kemp Familes welcome Art in History 600BC–2000AD Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting 12pm by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it’s also an historical document, part of a [W18] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO living world. The Oxford art historian takes us on an £10/£8 UNDER 16S extraordinary trip through art, from devotional works Drawing the Contemporary Portrait to the revolutionary techniques of the Renaissance, Royal Drawing School Class from the courtly Masters of the C17th through to Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. the daring avant-garde of the C20th and beyond. All ages and abilities Sponsored by NFU Mutual

[181] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 12.45pm Joe Grice and Jay Lindop Truths and Statistics [418] 12.45PM–1.45PM BBC TENT How do we measure how we’re doing, economically FREE BUT TICKETED and demographically? What are the ‘facts’ about The Essay BBC Radio 3 migration and the tax base, National Debt, growth, For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay five writers ask borrowing and GDP and how should they be themselves ‘why I write’. interpreted? The Chief Economist and the Director of Population Statistics at the Office of National Statistics This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 give us the un-spun skinny on what the numbers mean at 10.45pm on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and and where the truth lies… Chaired by Rosie Boycott. Friday 29 May. In association with The Office for National Statistics

1pm [182] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 John Pikoulis, Juliet Ackroyd, Owen Sheers [HF59] 1PM TATA TENT £6 Alun Lewis: The Syllable of Love Malorie Blackman Children’s Laureate Talk In this first event celebrating the centenary of the Join Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman in her Welsh poet Alun Lewis, Owen Sheers will read the final Laureate event as she discusses her award-winning poetry and Juliet Ackroyd will reveal how he and her books, including the bestselling Noughts and Crosses mother, Freda, fell in love in India during World War series and her most recent collection, Love Hurts. II. Lewis’s letters to Freda, published in A Cypress Walk, Malorie will talk about her Laureate highlights and prove him to be one of the great letter-writers. about the legacy she hopes to leave behind. Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop 10+ years #hayYA 40 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[HF60] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [186] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 TUESDAYMAY26 AF Harrold and Emily Gravett William Hall Brick Join AF Harrold and Emily Gravett as they tell A fresh, insightful and surprising look at one of the you all about their brilliant, somewhat creepy book: world’s most familiar and popular building materials. The Imaginary. Pictures will be drawn. Words will From the strange remains of the Ziggurat of Ur dating be spoken. Imaginary Friends welcome. 9+ years from 2100 BC, to the formidable mills of the industrial revolution, the humble brick has been an architectural staple for centuries. The world’s best architects have [HF61] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 explored the qualities of brickwork. Alvar Aalto, Phoenix Comics Workshop Antoni Gaudí, Jørn Utzon, Frank Gehry, and Mies How to make awesome comics. 7+ years van der Rohe all built with the material, and bricks were integral to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision for an [W49] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT American vernacular in his Prairie Houses. FREE BUT TICKETED Sponsored by Ty-Mawr Lime Ltd Engineering Creativity Workshop How to transform ideas into solutions, with design and [HF62] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 innovation company Tata Elxsi. 12+ years Frank Cottrell Boyce The Astounding Broccoli Boy [183] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8 What would you do if your skin suddenly turned a Rachel Podger bright, broccoli shade of green? Join multi-award- BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 1 winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce as he introduces the colourful cast of characters in his fantastic new The violinist plays Giuseppe Tartini Sonata in B minor book, The Astounding Broccoli Boy. Frank is a successful No13, Johan Helmich Roman Assaggio for violin solo, scriptwriter who, along with Danny Boyle, devised the Nicola Matteis Part II from Other Ayrs, Heinrich Ignaz opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Franz von Biber Passacaglia and Giuseppe Tartini Games. Super-powers, suspicious vegetables and Sonata in A minor. Clemency Burton-Hill presents. penguin sidekicks all play a part in this not-to-be- Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive missed event. 9+ years in good time. Sponsored by Tiger

[187] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 2.30pm Gillian Clarke

[184] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 The Gwyn Jones Lecture: Love and War Juliet Barker The National Poet of Wales celebrates the centenary of Alun Lewis, with a close reading and exploration of his Agincourt: The King, The Campaign, poems. Raiders Dawn and other Poems was published in The Battle 1942. Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, which contains his On St Crispin’s Day 1415, Henry V and his exhausted masterpiece All Day It Has Rained was published army of 9,000 long-bowmen and infantry defeated the posthumously in 1945. Introduced by Tom Anderson. 20,000 massed cavalry and nobility of France. It was a turning point in the Hundred Years War, and in the In association with Literature Wales and advance of weaponry. The Welsh Academy

[HF63] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 TELEGRAPH STAGE [185] 2.30PM £8 Cerrie Burnell Mermaid Amitav Ghosh talks to Alex Clark Join CBeebies’ Cerrie Burnell for a very special Flood of Fire storytelling session about being different, about We are thrilled to launch the conclusion to the Ibis new beginnings and, most of all, about friendship. Trilogy with a rare interview with the novelist. It is Cerrie will share her books Snowflakes and Mermaid, 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between with music and a little bit of magic. 5+ years China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. One of the [HF64] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels Phoenix Comics Workshop eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst How to make awesome comics. 7+ years of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their [W50] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT own agenda to pursue. Flood of Fire follows a varied FREE BUT TICKETED cast of characters from India to China, through the Engineering Creativity Workshop outbreak of the First Opium War and China’s devastating defeat, to Britain’s seizure of Hong Kong. How to transform ideas into solutions, with design and innovation company Tata Elxsi. 12+ years 41 TUESDAY 26 MAY #hayfestival

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[W19] 3PM–4.30PM MEET AT BACK OF HAY CASTLE [191] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Martin Driscoll and guests Walk and Draw Innovation and Skills Royal Drawing School Class New challenges need new skills. How do we ensure that Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. we provide young people with the skills they’ll need to All ages and abilities deal with the rapid developments in engineering? How can we help them adapt to unforeseen innovations? Martin Driscoll is HR Director for Tata Steel. 4pm In partnership with Tata Steel

[188] 4PM TATA TENT £9 [HF65] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £4 Jonathan Sacks Christopher Lloyd

TUESDAY 26 MAY TUESDAY Not In God’s Name: Magna Carta and the Story of Freedom Confronting Religious Violence Join Christopher Lloyd on an epic ride through eight There are many conflicts around the world at present centuries in the fight for freedoms and liberties, from that claim to be in the name of God – in Iraq, in Syria, the sealing of Magna Carta by King John in 1215, to in Gaza, and elsewhere. The Rabbi argues forcefully the present day. Using a giant eight-metre-long that a true understanding of religion will enable and timeline, Christopher will stop off at 10 key moments inspire the world to bring peace, not war; that far from in the last 800 years, showing how today’s ideas of leaving religion on the sidelines, it should be put at the freedom and liberty have emerged through time. heart of peacemaking efforts. Chaired by James 8+ years Harding, head of BBC News.

[HF66] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 [189] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Angie Sage and Jonathan Stroud Anne Enright talks to Anita Anand Septimus Heap author Angie Sage takes TodHunter Fictions – The Green Road Moon on a magykal new adventure in Pathfinder. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, trilogy, opens up the world of suspense and the selfishness and compassion – a book about the gaps supernatural with the Paranormal Detection Agency in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. Lockwood & Co. Join them for a conversation about The Man Booker-winning novelist (The Gathering) is creating fantastical and supernatural worlds, complete addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, with spectral howls and narrow squeaks. there are few writers alive who can invest the language 9+ years with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing – who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters’ [HF67] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 lives then pull them back up together again, into a Phoenix Comics Workshop perfect glass. How to make awesome comics. This event will be recorded for broadcast on the BBC 7+ years World News programme Talking Books.

[W51] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT [190] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 FREE BUT TICKETED Derek Smith Engineering Creativity Workshop Cambridge University Series 10 How to transform ideas into solutions, with Pandemic Research and the Ethics of Creating design and innovation company Tata Elxsi. a Deadly Flu Strain 12+ years The 1918 global flu pandemic wiped out around 50 million people. In the last 300 years there have been around three flu pandemics every century. We must constantly be on alert for the next one. How can we best understand how they are caused and how they spread? Professor Derek Smith’s work controversially involves creating a deadly flu strain for research purposes. He will talk about the ethical issues this raises. Chaired by Dan Davis. In association with Cambridge University

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[192] 4.30PM–6.30PM BBC TENT [196] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 TUESDAYMAY26 FREE BUT TICKETED Janice Hadlow In Tune The Strangest Family: The Private BBC Radio 3 LIVE Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte In Tune is Radio 3’s award-winning daily drive-time and the Hanoverians show. Presented by Sean Rafferty, this live broadcast George III wanted to be a new kind of king, one whose show will feature an eclectic mix of live music, plus power was rooted in the affection and approval of his interviews with some of the featured writers at the people. And he was determined to revolutionise his festival. After the recording, there will be an private life. He was sure that as a faithful husband and opportunity for a Q&A with the presenter. a loving father, he would be not just a happier man but @BBCInTune a better ruler as well. As the children grew older, and Broadcast weekdays at 4.30pm–6.30pm on their wishes and desires developed away from those of BBC Radio 3. their father, it became harder to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony. The king’s episodes of madness undermined the bedrock of their marriage; his 5.30pm disapproving distance from the bored and purposeless princes, especially the dissolute Prince of Wales,

[193] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 alienated them; and his determination to keep the princesses at home, protected from the potential Alexander McCall Smith talks to SJ Parris horrors of the European marriage market, left them Fictions – The Master lonely, bitter and resentful. A conversation with the prolific master storyteller whose latest books are the comic masterpiece Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, The Novel Habits of Happiness [197] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 in his Isabel Dalhousie series, the 15th Ladies No.1 Per Petterson and Gerbrand Bakker Detective Agency book The Handsome Man’s Deluxe talk to Daniel Hahn Café and the gorgeously romantic The Forever Girl. Fictions – The Prizewinners A conversation with two giants of European Literature,

[194] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 both of whom have won both the IMPAC Award and Denise Lievesley, Claire Melamed, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Petterson follows Out Stealing Horses with his new novel I Refuse. Mark Goldring Tommy’s mother has gone. She walked out into the Measuring the World We Want snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their In 2000, the member countries of the United Nations violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy set themselves a challenge: achieve the targets of the would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015, which will disrupt their precious friendship. Bakker to improve the lives of the world’s citizens. What’s follows The Detour with June. On a hot summer’s day next for our global ambitions, our post-2015 goals? in June 1969 everyone is gathered to welcome Queen How can we describe the world we want, to achieve Juliana. The young boys and girls wave their flags sustainable development, track our progress and hold enthusiastically. But just as the monarch is getting into governments everywhere to account? The former head her car to leave, little Hanne Kaan and her mother of statistics at UNESCO, an adviser to the United arrive late – the Queen strokes the little girl’s cheek and Nations, and the CEO of Oxfam talk to Hetan Shah, regally offers Anna Kaan her hand. It would have been the chief executive of the Royal Statistical Society. an unforgettable day of celebration if only the baker In association with The Royal Statistical Society hadn’t been running late with his deliveries and knocked down Hanne, playing on the roadside, with [195] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 his brand-new VW van… Katherine Freese The Cosmic Cocktail: [HF68] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Three Parts Dark Matter Emily Gravett, Chris Haughton The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe, and Yasmeen Ismail from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets Words and Pictures and stars, constitute only five percent of all matter and Three of the most talented picture book artists working energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter today will share and swap ideas with each other and the and dark energy, because their precise identities are audience to give a fascinating insight into their working unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail is the inside story of the methods, and the other creative projects they get epic quest to solve one of the most compelling enigmas involved in when not making picture books. of modern science: what is the universe made of? Freese is Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan 10+ years #hayYA and one of today’s foremost pioneers in the study of dark matter. 43 TUESDAY 26 MAY @hayfestival

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[HF69] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 [201] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 Phil Earle Demolition Dad Matthew Barzun talks to Alec Ross Join Phil Earle as he talks superheroes, comics, funny The United States of Innovation books and wrestling and introduces the hilarious, The US Ambassador to the UK discusses heart-warming adventures of Jake and his wrestler entrepreneurship and enterprise with Secretary Dad: the Demolition Man! It’s like Danny, the Clinton’s senior advisor on innovation. Champion of the World in spandex, and Phil will Part of the Baillie Gifford Series introduce Demolition Dad to the Hay audience – and the world – for the first time! 8+ years [202] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Anthony Holden 7pm The Housman Lecture 2015 The Name and Nature of Poetry TUESDAY 26 MAY TUESDAY [198] 7PM TATA TENT £10 This year’s lecture is given by the editor of the Mary Portas Shop Girl best-selling and fabulous anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry. 100 men – distinguished in literature The Queen of Shops talks about her new memoir in and film, science and architecture, theatre and human which she describes how she rose from humble origins rights – confess to being moved to tears by poems that to become one of the world’s leading advisers on retail haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and strategy and brand. She is credited with turning Harvey ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s Nichols from a staid department store into a fashion they admit to breaking down when ambushed by powerhouse. Portas travels the world advising on retail great art, often in words as powerful as the poems strategy and frequently lectures on brands and retail. themselves. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series In association with The Housman Society

[199] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 [HF70] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 Maajid Nawaz talks to Oliver Bullough Chris Priestley and Dave Shelton Radical talk to Paul Magrs Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited Modern Gothic into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his Chris Priestley’s acclaimed Tales of Terror series are love of hip hop music, graffiti and girls, he was chilling stories rooted in the tradition of MR James, recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) Saki and Edgar Allan Poe. Mister Creecher is a novel where he played a leading and international role in the inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and his latest, shaping and dissemination of an aggressive anti-West Through Dead Eyes, is set in a haunted hotel in narrative. Arriving in Egypt the day before 9/11, his Amsterdam. Award-winning Dave Shelton turns to the views soon led to his arrest, imprisonment and mental gothic with Thirteen Chairs, an anthology in which torture, before being thrown into solitary confinement twelve ghostly figures tell stories of death and horror. in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. There, They talk to writer Paul Magrs about their fascination while mixing with everyone from the assassins of with the Gothic and its influence on their fiction. Egypt’s president to Liberal reformists, he underwent an intellectual transformation and, on his release after 12+ years/YA #hayYA four years, he publicly renounced the Islamist ideology that had defined his life. This move would cost him his [203] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 marriage, his family and his friends as well as his Ellah Allfrey introduces Nadifa Mohammed personal security. Nawaz now works all over the world and Zukiswa Wanner to counter Islamism and to promote democratic ideals Fictions – Africa39 through his organisation, the Quilliam Foundation, and is standing for Parliament. The editor of the Africa39 anthology, honouring 39 of the best writers from sub-Saharan Africa under the Sponsored by Shepherds Ice Cream age of 40, talks to two of the writers celebrated in the project. Wanner, a South African now living in Kenya, [200] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 is author of Men of the South, Maid in SA – 30 Ways Noah Charney The Art of Forgery to Leave Your Madam, and London Cape Town Joburg. The art crime expert and investigative journalist Somalia-born Mohammed is the author of Black explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. surrounding the world’s most famous forgeries – Supported by Arts Council of England investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike. Chaired by Francine Stock. Sponsored by NFU Mutual 44 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[204] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 [208] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £16 TUESDAYMAY26 Daniel Martyn Lewis Melissa Cole JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 2 Let Me Tell You About Beer Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey An hour of beer tasting with one of Britain’s most over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. This second entertaining connoisseurs. Cole writes extensively concert in the series features The Well-Tempered Clavier, about the world’s favourite drink, and is lead partner Book One nos 12–24. BWV 858-869. See also events in London’s only dedicated beer tasting business, 163, 244 and 279. lovebeer@borough in Borough Market. She is currently writing a book on beer and blogs at girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com. 8pm Sponsored by Tomatitos Tapas Bar

[205] 8PM–10PM BBC TENT [209] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 FREE BUT TICKETED Terence Blacker The BBC Wales Patrick Hannan Lecture My Village BBC Radio Wales LIVE Somewhere between song and story, and between Laura McAllister, Chair of Sport Wales and Professor fiction and truth, is the world of Terence Blacker, a of Governance at the University of Liverpool’s School place of secrets, surprises and humour. His songs have of Management delivers the fourth annual Welsh affairs been compared to those of Jake Thackray, and his lecture dedicated to the late BBC Wales broadcaster. stories to those of Roald Dahl. Combining the two for Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales. this guided tour around his private village – developed from his successful Edinburgh Fringe show My Village and Other Aliens – he offers a view of our world that is 8.15pm sharp-eyed, funny and affectionate.

[206] 8.15PM FOR 8.30PM [210] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 RELISH FESTIVAL RESTAURANT £25* Lewis Dartnell Charity Gala Quiz Night Supper The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World Please come and join us for a light supper and some From Scratch lighter competitive quizzing with rounds on vice Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or and virtue, passion and progress. Bring your own perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as team of four, or come and scratch together with new we know it has ended and you and the other survivors friends. There are sumptuous prizes, scrummy food must start again. What key knowledge would you need and the (really not so fiendish) questions spun by to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Dartnell is Peter Florence. a UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of * Price includes 2 courses. Pay bar. All profits to fund Leicester, in the field of astrobiology and the search for our Schools Programme. signs of life on Mars.

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[207] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 [211] 9.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £13 Chris Woods and Chris Hunter Catrin Finch talk to Nik Gowing Tides Homeland Security? The world-renowned classical harpist, arranger and How are wars conducted today? What happens when composer from Wales is hailed for her versatility and you only see your enemy onscreen or driving past an musical fearlessness. Her new album Tides marks the IED? And what effect does digital warfare have on the first time her own material has appeared as a body of long-term security of the West? Woods is the author of work on stage and on record. It reveals a new side of an Sudden Justice – America’s Secret Drone Wars. The exceptional artist, driven to explore the possibilities of investigative journalist charts the deployment of the the harp and a lifetime of musical influences. As Catrin CIA Predator drones for targeted counterterrorism says, ‘All my musical life is here.’ Catrin plays harp and killings in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. He challenges piano. She is joined on stage by a string section and with damning evidence the assertion that drones other guest musicians. minimize civilian casualties and are ‘the most precise In association with Theatr Mwldan weapon ever invented’. Major Hunter is the author of Eight Lives Down and Extreme Risk. He was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for his work in Iraq as a bomb disposal operative. Sponsored by FW Golesworthy 45 WEDNESDAY 27 MAY #hayfestival

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[212] 10AM–12PM TATA TENT £5 [HF72] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6 Abigail Rokison and Erin Sullivan Steve Cole How Bond Are You? Romeo & Juliet Steve Cole introduces his first explosive Young Bond The Shakespeare Institute scholars examine the text, adventure, Shoot to Kill, and gives a unique insight into sources and context of Shakespeare’s most popular 1930s gadgets, gangsters and Hollywood. Join Steve play, looking at how the earliest performances worked for a highly entertaining event. He explains how he and how subsequent productions over the centuries became such a fan of Ian Fleming’s super-spy, shares have reflected its themes. In the Q&A they address the research behind his creation, introduces new the most commonly examined syllabus questions. characters, including a sinister villain, and tests the In association with Birmingham University audience’s spy skills to find out: ‘How Bond are you?’ 9+ years [HF71] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5 Kjartan Poskitt [HF73] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY WEDNESDAY Murderous Maths Magic Animal Friends Back by popular demand, Kjartan Poskitt will have Welcome to an enchanting world full of animals, parents and children in fits of laughter as he introduces magic and friendship, from the creator of Rainbow the people who really did put the Murder into Maths. Magic. When best friends Jess and Lily follow a He’ll also show off some amazing tricks and weird facts mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest, their but NO NASTY SUMS – guaranteed! Creator of the holidays become much more magical! There are bestselling Murderous Maths series, Agatha Parrot and riddles to solve, games to play and magic to create. Borgon the Axeboy, Kjartan is a brilliant entertainer – 5+ years and you’ll learn some maths facts along the way. 7+ years [HF74] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 Phoenix Comics Workshops [213] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £5 How to make awesome comics. James Ward 7+ years Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal [W40] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with RSPB Workshop or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex. Exploring Wild Garden Safari. these everyday objects, Ward reveals tales of invention Familes welcome – accidental and brilliant – and bitter rivalry. He also asks the difficult questions, like who is Mr Pritt, and what are the thousands of uses claimed for Blu-Tack? [W20] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S Sponsored by Bartrums Stationery and Fine Pens Drawing the Figure and the Still Life Royal Drawing School Class [214] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. talk to Andy Fryers All ages and abilities Rebuilding Britain Britain faces extraordinary challenges, from climate change to growing inequality and global economics, 11.30am but as a nation has no plan for the future. This unique book asks a simple question: how can it organise itself, [HF75] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 not just for survival, but to build a fairer and more Chris Bradford Bodyguard sustainable society? The Town and Country Planning Following his phenomenally successful Young Samurai Association’s Henderson and Ellis talk to the Hay on events, Chris Bradford returns to the stage for his Earth Director. Bodyguard series with an adrenaline-fuelled show. Chris brings the action in his books to life with an interactive performance and explosive content linked to his own research and training. During his bodyguard training, Chris acquired skills in unarmed combat, defensive driving, tactical firearms, threat assessments, surveillance, and even anti-ambush exercises; all of which he relates in one breath-taking, high-energy event. 9+ years

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11.30am 11.30am WEDNESDAYMAY27 [215] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [W41] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 Eddie Butler talks to Peter Florence RSPB Workshop The Head of Gonzo Davies Wild Garden Safari. Gonzo Davies, back-row forward and builder, Familes welcome knows the highs and lows of life; but as political and industrial corruption conspire to give parochial violence a national and international dimension, is he prepared 12pm to become the target of dark forces? The bestselling author of The Greatest Welsh XV Ever, best known [W21] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO now as the BBC’s voice of international rugby, £10/£8 UNDER 16S brings us his first novel and looks forward to this The Theatre and Drawing autumn’s Rugby World Cup. Royal Drawing School Class Sponsored by Welsh Venison Centre Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities [216] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Andrew Duff and John Keay Beneath the Himalayas 1pm Narendra Modi’s pilgrimage to Tibet heralds a new warmth in Sino-Indian relations, but the emerging [HF78] 1PM TATA TENT £10 superpowers have a long and complex history of contested priorities in the Himalayas. Keay is author Dick and Dom of Midnight’s Descendants, a sweeping history of South Join Dick and Dom, authors of Slightly Naughty But Asia; Duff’s Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom Very Silly Words and their gut-splitting new handbook, tells the remarkable true story of India’s annexation of Whoopee Book of Practical Jokes, for a big handful of Sikkim in 1975. It’s a tale of love, intrigue and the comedy nuts and babbling guff! An interactive and Cold War in Asia. very funny show which includes a practical joke master class, stuffed with gags, brilliant practical jokes and sage and onion. If this event doesn’t tickle your funny bone, [217] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £4 you’re probably dead! Guto Harri and Dylan Jones 7+ years The News Academy Join Dylan Jones, author and award-winning editor [218] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 of GQ magazine, and Guto Harri, former BBC Chief Political Correspondent, Communications Victoria Hislop talks to Georgina Godwin Director for Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and Fictions – The Sunrise now Communications Director for News UK, in a In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the special Q&A on their career insights, experiences most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city and advice for entering the world of journalism. bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious For students aged 16–18 years couple open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. When a In association with News Academy Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the [HF76] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Emily Gravett Forty thousand people seize their most precious 2015 marks the ten year anniversary of Emily Gravett’s possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the acclaimed and much-loved debut novel, Wolves. Join deserted city just two families, the Georgious and the Emily as she talks about all her beloved characters, Özkans, remain. The best-selling author of The Thread, from Wolf to Little Mouse to Bear and Hare – and The Return and The Island introduces her new novel. help her create a brand new story live on stage!

5+ years [219] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6 Good Energy Series 2 [HF77] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £8 From NIMBY to IMBY Phoenix Comics Workshops Energy generation has to take place somewhere – what How to make awesome comics. would you prefer in your backyard? Is policy 7+ years determined by those who shout loudest rather than those with the strongest argument? What would it take for communities to say yes rather than no to new energy developments? Our panel of experts discusses. In partnership with Good Energy 47 WEDNESDAY 27 MAY @hayfestival

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[220] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 [W46] 1PM–3PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10 Alison Light Kaloi k’agathoi Drama Workshop Common People: The History Oedipus – exposed! of an English Family In association with Hereford Cathedral School Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times, 10–17 years but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public [223] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8 history, following the lives of the migrants who Ivana Gavric travelled the country looking for work. Original and BBC Radio ´3 Lunchtime Recitals 2 eloquent, it is a timely rethinking of who the English The pianist plays Leoš Janác˘ek In the Mists, Cheryl were – but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and Frances-Hoad Two Lyric Pieces and Edvard Grieg on our constant need to know who went before us Ballade Op 24 and Selection from Slåtter Op 72. and what we owe them. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. WEDNESDAY 27 MAY WEDNESDAY Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive [221] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 in good time. Simon Szreter Cambridge University Series 11 Why We’ve Lost the Way on Welfare 2.30pm The provision of an effective and trusted collective

social security system always faces threats to its integrity [224] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 from potential mismanagement and free-riders on both sides – those supposed to be paying in and those Juliet Barker supposed to be benefiting. Problems with the welfare England Arise state today are addressed by the government as In the summer of 1381 England erupted in a violent primarily the latter; but history shows that it is popular uprising as unexpected as it was the former that requires more scrutiny. unprecedented. Sceptical of contemporary chroniclers’ accounts, Barker draws on the judicial sources of the In association with Cambridge University indictments and court proceedings that followed the rebellion to offer a new perspective on the so-called BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [222] 1PM–2PM Peasants’ Revolt. She introduces us to the loyal rebels Inside The Archers who believed they were acting in the king’s best BBC Radio 4 interests, and suggests that the boy-king Richard II Find out about life behind the scenes in Ambridge sympathised with their grievances. Had it been with the Editor of The Archers, Sean O’Connor, implemented, their radical agenda would have and other guests. transformed English society and anticipated the Not for broadcast. French Revolution by four hundred years.

[HF79] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [225] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 David Melling William Fotheringham Hugless Douglas Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of The world’s most huggable bear, Hugless Douglas, and French Cycling his creator David Melling return to Hay to celebrate Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all Hugless Douglas Goes to Little School. Douglas is very time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France excited to be going to Little School. There is so much and the only man to have won each of the Grand to do – and lots of hugs to be given out! Come along Tours on more than one occasion. Hinault is the last to learn how to draw Douglas, and even have a hug ‘old-school’ champion: a larger-than-life character with Douglas himself! from a working-class background, capable of winning 3+ years on all terrains, in major Tours and one-day Classics. Nicknamed ‘The Badger’ for his combative style, he led a cyclists’ strike in his first Tour and instigated ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE [HF80] 1PM £8 a legendary punch-up with demonstrators in 1982 Phoenix Comics Workshops while in the middle of a race. Hinault’s battles with How to make awesome comics. teammates Laurent Fignon and Greg LeMond 7+ years provide some of the greatest moments in Tour history. Sponsored by Acre Accountancy Limited

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2.30pm 2.30pm WEDNESDAYMAY27 [226] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 [HF83] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 John Boyne talks to Gaby Wood Lucy Letherland Fictions – A History of Loneliness Globe-trotting Through an Atlas of Adventures Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after Illustrator Lucy Letherland brings the penguins of his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the Antarctica, the Carnival in Brazil and crocs from the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, Zambezi River to children’s fingertips as they help her dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. create their own adventure around the world in this Forty years later, Odran’s devotion has been challenged fun-filled workshop. by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people’s 5+ years faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out 3pm in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. When a family tragedy opens wounds from [W22] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO his past, he is forced to confront the demons that £10/£8 UNDER 16S have raged within a once respected institution and to recognise his own complicity in their propagation. Drawing Out and About Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. [227] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 All ages and abilities Rob Penn, Jill Butler and Justin Albert Woodland Trust Series 1 The Country Living Debate 4pm Why Aren’t Special Trees Valued Like Monuments? [228] 4PM TATA TENT £7 A Victorian urinal and the Beatles’ childhood home Bryony Gordon, Mary Riddell, have been given national protection, but there is no legal safeguard for our ancient trees. The Woodland Michael Deacon, Allister Heath Trust expert and director of the National Trust in Wales The Telegraph Question Time discuss whether buildings receive greater recognition From Farage and the future of Europe to feminism than the landmarks of the natural world. Chaired by and family life. A stellar team of Telegraph talent – Kitty Corrigan. columnists Bryony Gordon and Mary Riddell, In association with Country Living Magazine parliamentary sketch-writer Michael Deacon, and and the Woodland Trust Deputy Editor Allister Heath – tackle the great (and not-so-great) issues of the day. Come along to have your say. Chaired by Emma Barnett, [HF81] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £6 the Telegraph’s award-winning women’s editor. Lydia Monks In association with The Telegraph Drawing with Lydia Monks Watch as the brilliant illustrator brings the characters [229] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 in some of your favourite books to life. Help her with some suggestions of your own. There will definitely be Jerry Brotton live drawing of mermaids, ladybirds, wizards – and of Band of Brothers: Shakespeare’s course Mungo Monkey. Agincourt, 1599 5+ years On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, Jerry Brotton shows how Shakespeare’s Henry V now defines how we see this momentous event in English [HF82] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 history. The play is often regarded as a straightforward Ali Sparkes celebration of English nationalism, the story of Monster Mother/Genius Child England’s tiny ‘band of brothers’ defeating the You’re probably clever, but are you a genius? Or a overwhelming might of the French. Brotton questions genius’s mum? Find out how Jack – a 12-year-old with this assumption by recreating the historical moment in an IQ of 170 – ends up on the run with a bank robber which Shakespeare wrote his play, with military disaster in Car-Jacked. Ali explores whether being a child genius in Ireland, Queen Elizabeth’s power in decline, and the is good for you. And – as a mum of brilliantly talented Essex Rebellion just about to engulf her. He argues that kids – whether Jack’s monster mother is actually the result allows politicians on the left and the right to inspired…by herself… lay claim to the play and its account of Agincourt, along the way explaining how Olivier, Branagh and 10+ years Spielberg are all part of the story.

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[230] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF85] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Gillian Beer Paul Magrs and Moira Young Alice in Space Epic Science Fiction Dystopia Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Blood Red Road, the first part of Moira Young’s famous Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Beer sets the Alice Dustlands trilogy, has been described as ‘The Hunger books in a number of different contexts in the Games meets The Road’. It is being developed for film Victorian period – what was going on in Punch, in by Ridley Scott. Paul Magrs has written several maths, in language theory, in evolutionary theory, in critically acclaimed YA novels including Exchange and child development – and asks how the books both Diary of a Dr Who Addict. His new novel Lost on Mars thrive on these presences and wriggle free of them. tells the story of Lora and her family, third generation Beer is also the editor of Carroll’s poems Jabberwocky human settlers on the red planet living in increasingly and Other Nonsense. bleak and hostile circumstances. Join them for a discussion about the essential elements of epic sci-fi adventures and what makes a true science fiction geek. PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY WEDNESDAY [231] 4 £6 Peter Davies and Andy Middleton 12+ years/YA #hayYA talk to Andy Fryers The Wales We Want [HF86] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 ‘The Wales We Want’ conversation mirrors a global Steve Antony initiative by the United Nations, asking people Pandas, Doughnuts, and the Queen’s Handbag what sort of Wales they want for their children and Steve Antony is one of the hottest talents around – his grandchildren. The final report was launched in March first book, The Queen’s Hat, has been shortlisted for 2015 and we discuss the outcomes and how this will the Waterstones Book Prize. Learn to draw a panda feed in to Welsh Government policy. Davies, Climate who loves good manners (and doughnuts!), read stories Change Commissioner for Wales, and Middleton, together, and get a sneak peek of Steve’s next book, entrepreneur, designer and maverick thinker, discuss The Queen’s Handbag. with Hay on Earth Director Andy Fryers. 3+ years

[HF84] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £6 [HF87] 4PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4 Chris Jarvis Easy Chinese Workshop Dinosaurs and Fossils Come along to get a Chinese name, make Hay Festival Step into the late Cretaceous period with intrepid postcards (in Chinese) and learn how to say 你好! dinosaur expert Chris Jarvis from the Oxford Elinor Greenwood introduces you to China right here University Museum of Natural History. Find out lots in Hay. Learn some simple Chinese words and phrases, of fascinating dinosaur facts, examine fossils and learn find out how to write Chinese characters and decorate how palaeontologists interpret their finds. postcards with step-by-step Chinese painting, stickers 7+ years and stencils. Finish with ‘The Great Quiz of China’ to find out what you know.

[232] 4PM–5PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED 7+ years The Kitchen Cabinet BBC Radio 4 For anything you ever wanted to know about food or 5.30pm cooking, but didn’t know whom to ask… Come and be part of the audience for BBC Radio 4’s culinary panel [233] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 programme, The Kitchen Cabinet with Jay Rayner. Levison Wood You’ll have the opportunity to put your questions on Walking the Nile everything to do with food and drink to a panel of The adventurer’s journey is 4,250 miles long. He is experts, and you may even find that the show changes walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, the way you think about cooking and eating. foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple Broadcast on Saturdays at 10.30am and repeated on dangers. He is passing through rainforest, savannah, Tuesdays at 3pm. This recording will be broadcast on swamp, desert and lush delta oasis. He traverses seven, BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 6 June. very different, countries and comes face to face with the story of Africa. No one has ever made this journey on foot. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series

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5.30pm 5.30pm WEDNESDAYMAY27 [234] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 [HF89] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Rose Tremain Steven Camden and Nick Lake Fictions – The American Lover Keeping it Real The award-winning novelist, author of Restoration, Steven Camden is also known as Polarbear, one of The Road Home, Music and Silence, and The Colour, the UK’s foremost Spoken Word artists. His debut awakens the senses in this diverse collection of short YA novel, Tape, was one of the biggest debuts of 2014. stories. In her precise yet sensuous style she lays bare He will talk about It’s About Love, his latest book, with the soul of her characters – the admirable, the Nick Lake, who is his editor as well as a brilliant and embarrassing, the unfulfilled, the sexy and the adorable Printz Award-winning YA novelist himself, with highly – to uncover a dazzling range of human emotions and acclaimed novels such as the bold and brilliant In desires. She reads, and talks to Peter Florence. Darkness to his name. Nick’s latest book, There Will Be Lies, is out now. Find out how they work together and if they ever steal each other’s ideas. [235] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Farah Faizal and Ahmed Shaheed 12+ years/YA #hayYA talk to Philippe Sands Paradise Lost: The Maldives Experience [HF90] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 When long-standing dictatorships fall and democracies Abi Elphinstone Dreamsnatcher are born, without economic support these countries Abi talks about the childhood adventures that inspired will struggle. And when they do, it can breed her book, the magic behind the fast-disappearing extremism. We need a Marshall Plan for these countries Romany gypsy culture, and the wild research trips to ensure that they are economically supported. Former she went on to build up the Dreamsnatcher world. Maldives High Commissioner Farah Faizal and the UN Passionate about outdoor adventure, Abi also shows Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights children how to carve catapults, build dens, and in the Islamic Republic of Iran talk to international throw the oracle bones… human rights lawyer Philippe Sands. 9+ years

[236] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [HF91] 5.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4 Julie Summers Easy Chinese Workshop Fashion on the Ration: Style in the A repeat of event HF87. 7+ years Second World War From the young woman who avoided the dreaded ‘forces bloomers’ by making knickers from military- 6.30pm issue silk maps, to Vogue’s indomitable editor Audrey Withers, who balanced lobbying government on behalf [237] 6.30PM–7PM BBC TENT of her readers with driving lorries for the war effort, FREE BUT TICKETED Julie Summers weaves together stories from ordinary lives and high society to provide a unique picture of life Arts Show during the Second World War. As a nation went into BBC Radio Wales LIVE uniform and women took on traditional male roles, Nicola Heywood-Thomas presents highlights clothing and beauty began to reflect changing social and guests from the Hay Festival in this live attitudes. For the first time, fashion was influenced programme broadcast. not only by Hollywood and high society but by the Broadcast every Wednesday, 6.30pm–7pm. demands of industrial production and the pressing need to ‘make-do-and-mend’. Sponsored by Hay Does Vintage 7pm

[HF88] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5 [239] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Harry Potter: Calling All Fans Ian Jenkins Have you ever wanted to explore the magical world of the Harry Potter books? Join our ‘Professor of Potter’ Defining Beauty: The Body in and his plucky assistant as they bring to life the Ancient Greek Art characters, creatures, spells and adventures from For centuries the ancient Greeks experimented with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. A fun and ways of representing the human body, both as an object interactive event for all the family, whether you’re new of beauty and a bearer of meaning. The remarkable to the books or a dedicated fan. Prizes for best costume. works of art in the British Museum’s blockbuster Certificates and postcards for keen muggles! Come exhibition range from the abstract simplicity of and share the magic! prehistoric figurines to breathtaking realism in the age of Alexander the Great. The exhibition’s curator 7+ years introduces the images and sculptures. In association with The British Museum 51 WEDNESDAY 27 MAY @hayfestival

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[240] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE [245] 8.30PM TATA TENT £16 £20 INCLUDES WINE TASTING Jack Dee’s Help Desk Oz Clarke Got a problem? Need a sympathetic ear? Jack and his Wine Talk and Tasting panel of experts are here to help. Whether it’s Known throughout the world for his phenomenal relationships, career advice, personal worries or palate, irreverent style, accurate predictions and something as simple as how to tell your emotionally enthusiasm for life in general and wine in particular, stunted in-laws you no longer want them in your life. Oz Clarke is Britain’s most popular wine writer. His Come along and share your troubles with Jack – and in latest book is The History of Wine in 100 Bottles. no way have them ridiculed in front of a live audience. Sponsored by Tanners Wines Sponsored by Baskerville Hall Hotel & Clyro Court

[241] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [246] 8.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £16 Kevin Maher and Vesna Goldsworthy The Unthanks

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY WEDNESDAY Fictions – An Old Friend From Home In concert Maher introduces his wonderful novel Last Night On The Mercury Prize-nominated folk stars play Hay with Earth, in which his protagonist Jay, a separated their new album Mount The Air. The Unthanks is a husband but committed father, has his life disrupted by family affair for Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky the arrival of ‘The Clappers’, an old friend from Unthank. Rachel is married to pianist, producer, Ireland. Goldsworthy’s Gorsky is a contemporary spin arranger and composer Adrian McNally. Using the on The Great Gatsby set in a London of Russian traditional music of the North East of England as a oligarchy collecting beauty and books. They talk to starting point, the influence of Steve Reich, Miles Rosie Goldsmith. Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard

[242] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 in the band’s seven albums to date. Chris Ellis, Rosie Toll, Hugh Ellis, Definable only by their restless, peerless eccentricity, Kate Henderson and guests The Unthanks see folk music less as a style of music and more as an oral history that offers perspective on Land of Promise our own time. Staunch traditionalism and sonic An exploration, through words and music, of Britain’s adventure may seem like polar opposites, yet they are radical utopian tradition. This rich legacy of hope was easy bedfellows in the gentle hands of The Unthanks. the dominant strand of political thought for five ‘Rachel and Becky’s voices are one of the true wonders centuries, but in the last 40 years we have stopped asking of 21st-century music’ – NME. the question: how are we going to live? With a cast of actors, musicians and authors Land of Promise aims to reignite our utopian aspirations for a better Britain. [238] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 In association with the Town and Country Planning Monty Don talks to Peter Florence Association and the Webb Memorial Trust Eight Poems in a Garden The gardener and writer could transform the flora of [243] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 any desert island into a magical paradise, but which Caroline Lear and Rhoda Ballinger works of literature would he choose to accompany him? Cardiff University Series 3 In his 2006 conversation with Sue Lawley his track to save was The Beatles’ Hard Day’s Night, his book was Global Resilience to Rising Sea Levels The Collected Poems of Henry Vaughan and his luxury Is sea level rise the most destructive environmental was the painting Hendrickje Bathing by Rembrandt… force in our future? The inevitability of major sea level rise will have profound impacts on coastal societies, mega-cities and global onshore and offshore resources. Cardiff University’s Earth and Ocean Sciences Deputy Director of Research and Senior Lecturer discuss. In association with Cardiff University

[244] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 Daniel Martyn Lewis JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 3 Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. This third concert in the series features The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two nos 1–12. BWV 870-881. See also events 163, 204 and 279.

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[247] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 [HF92] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £5 THURSDAYMAY28 Wendy Scase Harry Potter: Calling All Fans Beyond the Bling Have you ever wanted to explore the magical world The Simeon manuscript is one of the most exceptional of the Harry Potter books? Join our ‘Professor of Potter’ books of English literature ever made. It measures and his plucky assistant as they bring to life the 590 x 390 mm, and is carefully copied and lavishly characters, creatures, spells and adventures from decorated with gold leaf on almost every page. It was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. A fun and made around 1400 AD. Containing songs, prayers, interactive event for all the family, whether you’re homilies, legends, and classic works of spiritual new to the books or a dedicated fan. Prizes for best guidance, it is a massive compendium of literature costume. Certificates and postcards for keen muggles! for pious readers. Even more remarkable is that, unlike Come and share the magic! most books that survive from this period, it is written 7+ years in English. Professor Scase examines the illustrations and brushwork to unlock its many secrets and disclose STARLIGHT STAGE how, for whom and why it was made. [HF93] 10AM £5 In association with Birmingham University Lyn Gardner Stage School, Theatre and Circuses

[424] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Stage school – it’s got it all! Drama (both on and off stage), pushy parents, fiercely competitive pupils and BBC Writersroom/Get Creative: sooooo much more. Come and hear Lyn Gardner talk Writing for Children all about her best-selling Olivia series. Forget your This session focuses on creating drama for the BBC’s stage-fright; with all the movie stars, circus skills, younger audience and includes an extended interview drama and excitement, you’ll be shouting ‘encore’! with Emma Reeves, one of the most prolific children’s 9+ years writers working in British television today. Not for broadcast. [HF94] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5

[248] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Steve Antony Martin Scurr and Jayne Haynes Betty Goes Bananas Doctors Dissected Have you ever thrown a tantrum? Betty has! Join This is a storybook about medicine, body, mind, Steve Antony for an interactive storytelling of his doctors and caprices of human nature. It’s written funny picture book, about a toddler gorilla named by an experienced doctor who has seen every untidy Betty. Steve teaches everyone how to draw Betty vagary of disease and a psychotherapist who has and gives sneak peeks into his next book. listened to personal narratives that rival the visceral 4+ years emotions of King Lear. Doctors, at their most profound, are mercurial messengers between life and [W42] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 death. At a more comedic level they must suffer our RSPB Workshop jiggling body parts. They are also vulnerable men and women struggling to make sense of their existence. Wild Garden Safari. Familes welcome

[249] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Kate Humble, Charlie Westhead, [W23] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £10/£8 UNDER 16S Alison Lea-Wilson, Nick Tonkin Drawing the Body Clothed Meet The Makers Royal Drawing School Class How can a family business withstand the pressures from supermarkets and the demand for cheap food? Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Meet three producers from Neal’s Yard Creamery, All ages and abilities Anglesey Sea Salt, and Coedcanlas Honey who discuss

with broadcaster and smallholder Kate Humble [250] 10AM THE SUMMER HOUSE £7 what it takes to earn a slice of the pie. Chaired by Clare Woods and Helen Sear Kitty Corrigan. Landscapes and Contexts Sponsored by Hay Deli The artists discuss the importance of their location on the English/Welsh borders, their creative approaches and their international practice. Sear is representing Wales at Venice Biennale 2015. Chaired by Emma Geliot, Editor of CCQ Magazine. In partnership with PEAK, a contemporary art initiative from Arts Alive Wales 53 THURSDAY 28 MAY #hayfestival

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[251] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 [254] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Raymond Tallis Jenny Lees talks to Corisande Albert The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Arabian Dreams Obituary for Life A conversation with the owner of Pearl Island Arabians Tallis is inspired by EM Forster’s thought that ‘Death based in Herefordshire, one of the most successful stud destroys a man but the idea of it saves him’. He looks farms in the world, breeding from pure Bahraini back on his world from the standpoint of his future bloodlines. She talks about her work with horses and corpse. He reflects on the senses that opened up his late her racy novels in the Seven Bands of Gold series, which world, the elements they reveal, the distances, divisions recall the bestselling tales of Harold Robbins. Jenny and intimacies of space, the multifarious activities that is a member of the Hay Writers Circle. She talks to occupied his days; his possessions, his utterances, his Corisande Albert, producer of the Horsetales relationship to others, the extinguished flame that was documentaries. his self, his journey towards the end, and his afterlife

THURSDAY 28 MAY THURSDAY either side of the grave. [HF95] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £6 Danny Wallace and Jamie Littler [252] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Hamish and the Worldstoppers Sarah Arrowsmith What would you do if the whole world stopped? Yes, Mappa Mundi: Hereford’s Curious Map the whole world, except you? Come and meet writer, Who made the Mappa Mundi? How and why? TV and radio presenter and now children’s author Arrowsmith looks at the map through the eyes of a Danny Wallace with his new book. Danny is joined medieval visitor to the cathedral. She explains how a on stage by illustrator Jamie Littler and together they map that is very unfamiliar to us, with East rather than introduce you to Hamish, his trusty gang – the PDF, North at the top, populated with semi-human figures the baddies or the Terribles and their world – the one who may have four eyes or one foot and beasts like the that keeps stopping! defecating Bonnacon, would have made complete 7+ years sense. You could tell your children the story of your pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, point out the winding trail taken by Moses and the Israelites and tell [HF96] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 the Bible stories illustrated there and elsewhere. Or you Holly Smale and Arabella Weir could impress other bystanders with your knowledge of Geek Girl and Tabitha Baird Alexander’s campaigns and the three races of Ethiopians Holly Smale, creator of the award-winning and illustrated near the map’s edges. bestselling Geek Girl books, talks about All That Glitters, the latest in the series starring accident-prone

[253] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 heroine Harriet Manners. She is joined by actress, Gareth Stedman Jones writer and comedian Arabella Weir whose novel The Endless Trials of Tabitha Baird, second in this Cambridge University Series 12 popular series, has also recently been published. Inventing Necessity: The Strange Genesis A lively and irreverent discussion guaranteed. of C20th Political Authoritarianism In association with Lovereading4kids Ideas about states of emergency went back to the politics of Ancient Rome in which it was said that 10+ years #hayYA ‘necessity knows no law’. This idea took on a series of different meanings during the early modern period [HF97] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 and was employed by the Jacobins during the invasion Aby King scare of 1793–94. In 1848 the idea was employed A Right Royal Adventure again to justify emergency rule after the June uprising in Paris, but in its later usages, particularly by Marx, Meet Lupo: favourite palace pet and companion to the idea was inverted. It was no longer emergency the baby prince. Join Aby King as she introduces you that justified dictatorship. Rather, dictatorship was to the loveable Lupo and his friends; hear all about posited as a desirable outcome in a transition to their adventures in the royal residences; and get top new forms of society. tips for creating your own adventure stories. 8+ years In association with Cambridge University

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[255] 12PM–1PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED [258] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 THURSDAYMAY28 Dominic Sandbrook Charles Jencks BBC Two The Architecture of Hope The cultural historian talks about and shows clips The architect introduces the Maggie’s Centres, a from his latest BBC Two series on post-war culture, revolutionary building project providing new cancer Modern Britain. In it he argues that Britain’s cultural caring centres designed by some of the world’s contribution has been second to none, from music greatest architects that offer a fresh approach to and fashion to art, film, literature and theatre, James both architecture and health. Complementary to Bond to Agatha Christie, Andrew Lloyd Webber to NHS hospitals, they present an environment that is John Lennon, and it is through our culture that the welcoming, risk-taking, aesthetic and life affirming; world now sees us. and with their commitment to the other arts, Not for broadcast. including landscape, they bring in the full panoply of constructive means.

[W24] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO Sponsored by Mark Stephens Furniture £10/£8 UNDER 16S Drawing and Poetry [HF98] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £5 Royal Drawing School Class Heroes: Pilots and Paramedics Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Meet real-life heroes from the Wales Air Ambulance All ages and abilities team and hear their amazing true life stories in this illustrated talk about some of the life-saving rescue operations they have carried out in extraordinary 1pm and difficult situations. All the people featured in this session are heroes in their own way. There’s a chance to ask them questions too. [256] 1PM TATA TENT £8 Patrick Barkham 8+ years Coastlines Barkham reflects on the long campaign to protect our [259] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 shoreline from tidal erosion and human damage. He William Waldegrave weaves together fascinating tales about every aspect talks to Sarfraz Manzoor of the coast – from ancient conquests and smugglers’ A Different Kind of Weather routes, to exotic migratory birds and bucket-and-spade A beautifully weighted memoir of political success and holidays – to tell a more profound story about our failure from the son of an Earl, who after Eton and island nation and the way we are shaped by our shores. Oxford found himself in cabinet and at the heart of Chaired by Horatio Clare. Margaret Thatcher’s government. Just as his star was in In association with The National Trust, Wales the ascent, Waldegrave became embroiled in a scandal that tarnished his reputation but could not dampen his [257] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 voracious enthusiasm for the political game. Rosie Boycott, Vanessa Griffiths, Simon Blackmore [HF99] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? Jonathan Meres Fairer Farming Laugh Your Socks Off We look at the future of farming in Britain and ask Eight books into the bestselling, award-winning, what ‘better’ might look like: better for farmers, ‘laugh-out-loud’ World of Norm series, life is still better for people who need food. What are the issues totally unfair for poor old Norm! Come and meet that matter most? Diversification, ‘big-agri’ ownership, Norm’s creator, Jonathan Meres. Hear him say stuff. the relationship with supermarkets, the mental health Ask him anything you like. He might even sing. of the people who work the land, the land itself or May contain nuts. the quality of produce? Griffiths runs farming for 9+ years the National Trust, one of the largest landowners in Britain, Blackmore (Harper Adams) specializes in farm engineering, Boycott is Food Advisor to [HF100] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 the Mayor of London. Emma Dodd In association with The National Trust, Wales I Love You Emma won the Booktrust Early Years Award with I Love My Mummy. In this session, celebrating the release of I Love My Granny, Emma reads stories, draws pictures of your pets and family, and helps you to design your own card for someone you love. 3+ years 55

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[HF163] 1PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 [263] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Abi Elphinstone Christianne Glossop and Glyn Hewinson Inventing Villains Bovine TB: The Cattle, the Farmers, The author of The Dreamsnatcher will help you create the Vets and the Badgers the scariest, ghastliest, vilest villain you can think of. BTB can be harmful to humans and is fatal for cattle. Look at classic rogues like Voldemort, Miss Trunchbull Managing a breakdown can be economically disastrous and the Child Catcher for inspiration; invent and extremely stressful for farmers. The campaign to monstrous names stolen from old maps and rummage eradicate bTB combines challenging diagnostic science, through all sorts of props to get the sinister appearance field-by-field biosecurity, veterinary monitoring and of your villains just political will. Glossop is Chief Veterinary Officer for right. Mwah ha ha… Wales, and has made the implementation of a comprehensive TB eradication programme her highest 7–12 years priority. Hewinson is a globally respected scientist in

THURSDAY 28 MAY THURSDAY the field of TB immunology and diagnostics, who [260] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8 worked on the collaborative project that led to the Guy Johnston and Tom Poster sequencing of the M Bovis genome. They talk to Peter BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 3 Florence. The cellist and pianist play Felix Mendelssohn Variations concertantes in D Op 17, Anton Webern Drei [264] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 kleine Stücke Op 11 and Serge Rachmaninoff Sonata in Martin Rowson and Jean-Pierre Filiu G minor Op 19. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. After Charlie Hebdo Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive in good How do we understand and respond to what happened time. in Paris on 7 January? What is the nature of ‘respect’ and ‘offence’ for a satirist? The cartoonist and ‘visual journalist’ Martin Rowson discusses with the writer and 2pm Professor of Political Science, Jean-Pierre Filiu. Filiu has collaborated with the French graphic artist David B. on [261] 2PM–3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED two volumes of Best of Enemies – a graphic history of Sounding It Out US–Middle East relations. Chaired by Daniel Hahn, BBC Radio Drama chair of the Society of Authors. Alison Hindell, the BBC’s Head of Audio Drama, in conversation with two leading writers of radio drama. [HF102] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £5 Come for some tips on creating memorable stories and Rob Eastaway characters out of words and sound. Maths, Magic and Mystery Not for broadcast. Rob Eastaway returns with more engaging ways to make maths more fun at home in this lively, interactive session. Entertaining and enlightening for everyone. 2.30pm 7+ years

[262] 2.30PM TATA TENT £8 STARLIGHT STAGE John Sergeant [HF103] 2.30PM £4 Mairi Kidd Barging Round Britain Breaking Down The Barriers The political commentator and sometime dancer explores the people and places that have forged this Mairi Kidd is MD of Barrington Stoke, which national treasure, from the birth of the Industrial commissions and publishes a wide range of books Revolution to the leisure explosion on our waterways intended to help kids ‘crack’ reading. What can be today. He talks to Mark Skipworth. done to help young people who may be dyslexic or appear to be ‘reluctant’ to read? How can we help every In association with Canal & River Trust child develop a love of reading? Mairi is joined by guest panellists to discuss why our children don’t want to [HF101] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £6 read and what to do about it. Derek Landy 11+ years Skulduggery Pleasant and Beyond The Skulduggery Pleasant series has drawn to a close, having sold in the millions and won too many prizes to list. Will Derek Landy let us in on what’s coming next? Don’t count on it, but come along anyway as it’s bound to be way more fun than, erm, not coming. 11+ years #hayYA 58 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[HF104] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 [267] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 THURSDAYMAY28 Helen Peters The Farm Beneath the Water Phil Hammond Helen Peters is author of The Secret Hen House Theatre Staying Alive: How To Get the Best and its sequel, The Farm Beneath the Water. As well as Out of the NHS – Advice From a Doctor sharing the story of how Hannah has to save the family The NHS is our most treasured institution, but even farm with her theatrical talents, she explains how her caring doctors have too many patients and too little real-life experiences growing up on a family farm time, while patients often feel too overwhelmed, inspire her stories and how she turns the farm itself embarrassed, intimidated or ill to ask the right into a ‘character’ in her novels – with lots of authentic questions. Dr Hammond will show you how to get mud-squelching, pig-oinking, and chicken-clucking your GP to listen to you and take your symptoms happening in the background. 7+ years seriously, how to get hold of your patient records so you can ensure they’re correct, how to get a second

[HF157] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £4 opinion and, most importantly, how to get better (and in turn help make the NHS better too). Rosie Wellesley Moonlight Bear Bring your favourite teddy bear along to this fun Sponsored by Borders Hideaway Holiday Home Park storytelling session. Hear all about Eva’s favourite bear, who turns into a real bear one night and takes her on a [HF105] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 night-time adventure around town. Imagine your own Virginia McKenna and Lauren St John teddy bear adventure and create a Hay Hullabaloo Born Free Foundation drawing to take home. 4+ years For Virginia McKenna OBE, saving animals is a passion that started when she starred in Born Free and continued with the formation of the Born Free 3pm Foundation. For Lauren St John, it began with rescuing orphaned warthogs, monkeys and other wild animals [W25] 3PM–4.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe. They talk £10/£8 UNDER 16S about their love of writing, Africa, and animals, and Drawing Out and About launch the brand new series of Born Free Foundation Royal Drawing School Class stories that share the message: keep wildlife in the wild! Support the Born Free charity and join Virginia Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. McKenna and her team behind the scenes in this first All ages and abilities book about an amazing lion rescue. Sponsored by Bowie Gallery 4pm 10+ years

[268] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [265] 4PM TATA TENT £12 Rae Langton Pam Ayres An Afternoon With Pam Ayres Cambridge University Series 13 We toast the 40th anniversary tour of the consummate Bad Speech vs Good? comedienne and poet. Pam has the rarest gift of exquisite timing and a fond eye for the absurdities Defenders of free speech sometimes express the hope of everyday life. Her latest books are the hilarious that bad speech can be fought with good. But there memoir The Necessary Aptitude and her poetry can be constraints on our power to talk back. Race collection You Made Me Late Again! Bliss… and gender slurs present distinctive challenges, as do the related phenomena of hate speech and propaganda. How can we fight back? [266] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 In association with Cambridge University Cedric Villani

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical [HF106] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Adventure Sarah McIntyre The rock-star mathematician takes us on a mesmerising Dinosaurs, pizza, police! The wonderful Sarah journey as he wrestles with a new theorem that will win McIntyre brings her new picture book Dinosaur Police him the most coveted prize in mathematics. Along the to Hay. Dinoville Police Station was having a perfectly way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith quiet morning until the phone rang. ‘Red alert!’ and even brushes with madness. His story is one of hollered Sergeant Stig O’Saurus. ‘There’s a rampaging courage and partnership, doubt and anxiety, elation and T-Rex at the pizza factory!’ So join Sarah as she solves despair. Blending science with history, biography with the case and gets the audience drawing, roaring and myth, he conjures up an inimitable cast of characters laughing! including the omnipresent Einstein, mad genius Kurt Gödel, and Villani’s personal hero, John Nash. Chaired 6+ years by Marcus du Sautoy. Part of the Baillie Gifford Series 59 THURSDAY 28 MAY #hayfestival

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[HF107] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 [271] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Tom Moorhouse William Banks-Blaney The River Singers 25 Dresses: Iconic Moments Research ecologist Tom Moorhouse demonstrates how in Twentieth Century Fashion he translated his ecological expertise into two children’s The founder of the iconic vintage clothing company stories about water voles. He describes the lives of water WilliamVintage and Global Style Ambassador to voles and the dangers they face. He shows you why American Express introduces his history of C20th stories involving animals are special, and what you need couture, told through the designers who made the to think about if you ever want to write your own. dresses and the women who wore them. His talk is 7+ years illustrated with slides and he brings with him mannequins modelling some of the dresses featured. Banks-Blaney is Vogue’s ‘Vintage King’, and the [W47] 4PM–6PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10 Fashion Patron of Oxfam.

THURSDAY 28 MAY THURSDAY Kaloi k’agathoi Drama Workshop Oedipus – exposed! [272] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 In association with Hereford Cathedral School Luke Clements and Anne Cottringer 10–17 years Cardiff University Series 4 Does Your Carer Take Sugar? 5.30pm There are 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK. There’ll be more soon as the demography changes. The Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Health and Social [269] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 Care Law examines the reality of today and implications Bill Oddie for the future with film-maker Anne Cottringer. Bill Oddie Unplucked In association with Cardiff University From a less-than-satisfactory press trip to the Galapagos Islands to encounters with orcas in [273] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £6 Argentina and Iceland and an invisible tiger in India, the former Goodie and Springwatch presenter gives a Hayden Gabriel humorous take on some of his experiences animal- The Annual INSPIRE/ASLE-UKI Lecture and bird-watching around the world. Animal Lives, Binary Opposition, and Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Prodigal Summer’ Environmental crisis entails profound and often [270] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 catastrophic changes to animal habitats as well as to Åsne Seierstad talks to Francine Stock human lives. This year’s winning lecture explores the One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik complex and dynamic relationships between humans and the Massacre in Norway and animals in both the lecturer’s own work and On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 Kingsolver’s bestselling novel. Hayden Gabriel is a of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that novelist and also Programme Leader for Creative shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just Writing and English Literature at the University of St beginning their adult lives. In the devastating Mark and St John, Plymouth. The INSPIRE Lecture aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How explores how literature, in any of its forms, responds could this happen? Why did it happen? And who to and is shaped by our contact with other creatures was Anders Breivik? A gripping, shattering and vital in the context of debates around sustainability. book, One of Us is the story of a massacre and a In association with INSPIRE and ASLE-UKI study of evil. It is also a story about community versus isolation, hope versus rejection, love versus [HF108] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 bigotry – and a powerful memorial to those who lost their lives. Seierstad is the author of The Bookseller Steven Camden and Alex Wheatle of Kabul and The Angel of Grozny. Getting Creative with Rap, Rhyme and Reality Steven Camden, aka Polarbear, one of the top Spoken Word artists on the circuit today, loves rap, rhyme and stories that feel real. He talks about getting creative with words in different ways and shows you how he does it with some Spoken Word performance. Alex Wheatle’s first YA novel, Liccle Bit, about dreaming big when the odds are stacked against you, draws on his experience of council estate life in Brixton. A journalist, broadcaster, novelist and playwright, Alex also teaches creative writing. Join them for a session that will inspire you to be creative, be brave and dream big. 12+ years/YA #hayYA 60 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[HF109] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 [276] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 THURSDAYMAY28 Katie Scott Jamie Bartlett talks to Sarfraz Manzoor Animalium The Dark Net Join illustrator Katie Scott as she unravels the The dark net is an underworld that stretches from wonders of the natural world with the bestselling popular social media sites to the most secretive corners book Animalium, winner of the Sunday Times of the encrypted web. It is a world that frequently Children’s Book of the Year. Marvel at tiny insects appears in newspaper headlines, but one that is little and the giant blue whale as Katie brings amazing understood, and rarely explored. The Dark Net is a animals to life in a live drawing session. revelatory examination of the most innovative and 6+ years dangerous subcultures of the online world: trolls and pornographers, drug dealers and hackers, political extremists and computer scientists, Bitcoin 7pm programmers and self-harmers, libertarians and vigilantes. Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos. [274] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 John Julius Norwich Sicily: A Short History, [277] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 From the Greeks to Cosa Nostra Katrine Marçal The stepping stone between Europe and Africa, the Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? gateway between the East and the West, at once a When Adam Smith wrote that all our actions stem stronghold, clearing-house and observation post, Sicily from self-interest and the world turns because of has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and financial gain he brought to life ‘economic man’. Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and But every night Adam Smith’s mother served him his Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love. Today, and the French for thousands of years. It has belonged our economics focuses on self-interest and excludes all to them all – and yet has properly been part of none. other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of John Julius Norwich was inspired to become a writer mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking. It insists that by his first visit in 1961 and this study is the result of a if women are paid less, then that’s because their labour fascination that has lasted over half a century. In tracing is worth less. How could it be otherwise? Marçal tackles its dark story, he attempts to explain the enigma that the biggest myth of our time and invites us to kick out lies at the heart of the Mediterranean’s largest island. economic man once and for all.

[275] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £9* [278] 7PM–10PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Mary McCartney talks to Monty Don The Mark Forrest Show At My Table: Vegetarian Feasts BBC Local Radio LIVE for Family and Friends Mark goes behind the scenes at the Hay Festival. He’ll There are moments in our lives, and throughout the talk to authors and festival-goers, bringing a flavour of year, when we come together with our friends and Hay to listeners from Cumbria to Cornwall. family, and food plays a huge part in turning these Broadcast on 40 local radio stations every weekday moments into something special. Traditionally, many evening. of these occasions call for meat – whether it’s roast beef for Sunday lunch, or burgers at a BBQ – but [HF110] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £8 Mary wants to show us that vegetarian cooking can Young, Gifted and Published be just as celebratory and special. Lucy Saxon is just 20 years old and the author of * The Relish Festival Restaurant will be serving a Take Back the Skies. She signed her contract with vegetarian feast from the cookbook from 8.30pm. Bloomsbury when she was just 16. She’s a cosplayer, To book call Relish on 01285 658 444. Con-goer and fangirl of all things sci-fi and fantasy. Taran Matharu’s The Summoner became a Wattpad sensation with over three million reads in three months, leading to a publishing deal with Hachette. And Helena Coggan saw her debut novel The Catalyst published at the age of only 15. Find out what makes three extraordinary young writers tick, and be inspired to write a novel before you are 20. 12+ years/YA #hayYA

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[279] 7PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 [283] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Daniel Martyn Lewis June Andrews JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 4 Dementia: The One-Stop Guide Come and share this extraordinary emotional journey Across the world, 44.4 million people live with over four concerts, Monday–Thursday. The fourth and dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected last concert in the series features The Well-Tempered by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings or friends. Clavier, Book Two nos 13–24. BWV 882-893. See also And as much of the world struggles with an aging events 163, 204 and 244. population, dementia is set to become ever more of a challenge for societies and individuals. But still most people who are diagnosed, or who are dealing with the 8.30pm diagnosis of a loved one, feel as though they are alone. Professor Andrews, one of the most distinguished

[281] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 clinicians in the UK, aims to fill this gap, providing THURSDAY 28 MAY THURSDAY Gareth Thomas talks to Mike Calvin practical information and support for living with, or caring for, dementia. Proud Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero, a sporting icon. He was a leader of men, captain of [284] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 Wales and the British Lions. To him, rugby was an Caroline Lucas expression of cultural identity, a sacred code. It was Honourable Friends no mere ball game. It gave him everything, except the From the NHS to corporate tax evasion, from climate freedom to be himself. This is the story of a man with change to immigration, Honourable Friends? tells the a secret that was slowly killing him. Something he story of five years in Westminster and offers bold and feared might devastate not only his own life but the practical suggestions for a fairer British political system. lives of his wife, family, friends and teammates. His Caroline Lucas is MP for Brighton Pavilion (at time of fear that telling the truth about his sexuality would lose writing). She was the leader of the Green Party from him everything he loved almost sent him over the edge. 2008 to 2012 and was voted MP of the Year in 2014. The deceit ended when Gareth became the world’s Caroline talks to Hay on Earth Director Andy Fryers. most prominent athlete to come out as a gay man. His gesture has strengthened strangers, and given him a fresh perspective. 9pm

[282] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £8 [285] 9PM TATA TENT £16 Tony Hawks BBC Radio 3’s World on 3 presents Once Upon a Time in the West Country Tinariwen The comedian and bestselling author gives an hilarious In concert account of his move from London life to deepest The great Malian ‘desert blues’ band has always Devon. Hawks is a townie but, as we know from his been politically driven as they tell their stories of entertaining exploits hitchhiking around Ireland with nomadic life in the Sahara. This concert celebrates a fridge and taking on the Moldovan football team one Hay’s twin town of Timbuktu, once Tinariwen’s by one at tennis, he is up for a challenge. He takes part home city. The band have been in exile since 2013 in a calamitous tractor run, chairs a village meeting, and recorded their latest albums Emmaar and and finds time for one last adventure as fatherdom Inside/Outside in the Joshua Tree desert in California. beckons – cycling coast to coast with a mini pig World on 3’s Lopa Kothari hosts the evening, called Titch. which includes support from emerging world Sponsored by Herdman Coaches music talent Maelog, a Welsh-Galician roots collective whose uplifting songs feature traditional pipes from both shores with an array of strings and percussion. The concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 29 May at 11pm. In association with Hay2Timbuktu, Hay-on-Wye’s twinning organisation

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John Crace and John Sutherland Peter Rabbit Puppet Show MAY FRIDAY29 The Two Johnnies Do Emma Hop along to this charming interactive puppet show Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece was published where The Tale of Peter Rabbit is brought to life. See 200 years ago by John Murray. Our awareness of Peter escape from Mr McGregor’s garden and help her heroine’s limitations is one of the great joys of him on his journey, and meet the mischievous rabbit the book. The Guardian’s Digested Read satirist is in person! 3+ years joined by UCL’s Emeritus Professor of English,

John Sutherland – co-author of The Connell Guide [HF113] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 to Jane Austen’s Emma, Lives of the Novelists and How The Entertainer To Be Well Read – to celebrate the book. Emma Dodd A hilarious session about an entertainer whose bear impression is just a little too convincing... The award- [287] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 winning author-illustrator starts by reading her Peter Gray unbearably funny tale before bringing the story to life Wings of Modernity with a live drawing session. 4+ years From the Avro 504 reconnaissance planes first used in 1914 to the Stealth Bombers and Predator Drones [W44] 10AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 of today, the Director of the Centre for War Studies RSPB Workshop charts the technological innovation that developed aeroplanes into super-effective war machines. Chaired Wildlife photography. by Con Coughlin, Defence Editor of The Telegraph. 4–12 years In association with Birmingham University [W26] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [288] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £6 £10/£8 UNDER 16S Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal Drawing the Head The Herbalist’s Bible: John Parkinson’s Lost Royal Drawing School Class Classic Rediscovered Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson was a All ages and abilities master apothecary, herbalist and gardener. His magnum opus was published in 1640 and in this new edited version the authors have printed his clear and lively 11.30am descriptions of the chosen plants’ healing qualities, with a modern commentary and contemporary take [HF156] 11.30AM TATA TENT £9 on his almost-forgotten herbal recipes. Neil Gaiman Enter the magical mind of the bestselling author. [HF111] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £6 Find out where his genius ideas spring from and how Dennis the Menace with Steven Butler he writes his books. From fairy tale twists to alien Becoming the master of menacing is not easy. If you abductions over milk, there is a whole world to explore. want to learn the rules, join the author of the hilarious 8+ years Diary of Dennis the Menace series for a sneak peek into the mischievous life of the naughtiest boy in The Beano [290] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 (and therefore the World’s wildest boy!). Expect lots of fun and games and maybe even a prank or two! Chris Laoutaris 7+ years Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to The Globe In November 1596 a woman signed a document [289] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £6 which would nearly destroy the career of William Caroline Ingraham Shakespeare… Who was the woman who played such How Animals Heal Themselves an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare’s From the humble caterpillar to mighty elephants, life? Never far from controversy when she was alive – animals have innate ability to forage for plant and she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of mineral extracts, in order to look after their own bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping – emotional and physical health. If, however, an animal’s Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of public environment is devoid of these substances you can memory, yet the chain of events she set in motion enrich their lives by offering many of these extracts would be the making of Shakespeare as we all for self-selection. know him today. In association with Birmingham University

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[291] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF115] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 Andrew Simms, David Boyle Ed Vere and Caroline Lucas Max the Brave A People-Powered Economy Meet Max the Brave, a funny and loveable new What is causing the logjam between central economic character from acclaimed author and illustrator policy-makers and the energy of local economic Ed Vere. Join Ed as he tells you about Max’s adventures activists? Stormy with a sunny local banking outlook – and teaches you how to draw Max as well as some the economic forecast with the New Weather Institute. of his other characters. New Economic Foundation fellows and authors 4+ years Andrew Simms and David Boyle discuss with Green MP Caroline Lucas. [W45] 11.30AM SCRIBBLERS HUT £5 Sponsored by Hay & District Chamber of Commerce FRIDAY 29FRIDAY MAY RSPB Workshop Wildlife photography. [292] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Peter Korn 4–12 years Why We Make Things and Why it Matters An introspective and revealing look at the nature of the creative process. This is not a ‘how to’ book in any sense: Peter Korn wants to get at the ‘why’ of craft 12pm in particular and the satisfactions of creative work in general to understand their essential nature. Korn is [W27] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO a furniture-maker and is founder and Executive £10/£8 UNDER 16S Director of the Centre for Furniture Craftsmanship. Drawing the Unexpected Sponsored by the American Hardwood Export Council Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. [293] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 All ages and abilities Michelle Moram, Clare Burrage, Jane Reid and Debra Skene The Royal Society Platform 1pm The Next Big Thing Every year the Next Big Thing session at Hay profiles [295] 1PM TATA TENT £8 some of the most extraordinary and visionary research Ben and David Crystal work being adventured in the UK. From brain imaging The Shakespeare Dictionary to materials discovery, four Royal Society Research Shakespeare is the best and most creative writer of Fellows discuss their work in cutting edge science with the English language of all time. He deploys the widest broadcaster Claudia Hammond. and most thrilling vocabulary, drawing on classical In association with The Royal Society and biblical scholarship and the keenest ear for human speech ever bent. And where the words he needed [294] 11.30AM–12.30PM BBC TENT didn’t exist, he invented them. The classical actor and FREE BUT TICKETED his father, the great Linguistics professor, entertain us Front Row with the most vital language ever used. BBC Radio 4 Sponsored by the Society of Indexers Radio 4’s daily arts programme Front Row will be discussing the future of publishing with authors, [296] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 critics and industry insiders as they grapple with the Dieter Helm talks to Horatio Clare creative and economic challenges of the digital world. Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 every day at The trailblazing economist, author of The Carbon 7.15pm–7.45pm. This programme will be broadcast Crunch, shows the commonly held view that on Friday 29 May at 7.15pm. environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress to be false. He explains why the environment [HF114] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 must be at the very core of economic planning. He Che Golden Meadow Vale Ponies presents the first real attempt to calibrate, measure The horse-mad author tells you all about the Meadow and value ‘natural capital’ from an economic Vale ponies and how Mulberry is based on a very perspective and goes on to outline a stable new special pony, which she owns herself. Find out all about framework for sustainable growth. Che’s real life horse and pony adventures and how they inspired this series in a talk jam-packed with horsey facts and fun. 7+ years 64 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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Ben Okri, Marcus du Sautoy Rosie Wellesley Moonlight Bear MAY FRIDAY29 and Elleke Boehmer Bring your favourite teddy bear along to this fun Narrative and Proof storytelling session. Hear all about Eva’s favourite bear, How does narrative shape the sciences and the arts? who turns into a real bear one night and takes her on Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, author of The Famished a night-time adventure around town. Imagine your Road, Astonishing the Gods and The Age of Magic, is own teddy bear adventure and create a Hay Hullabaloo joined by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, in conver- drawing to take home. sation with novelist and academic Elleke Boehmer. 4+ years With thanks to the Mathematical Institute and

The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities [300] 1PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £8 Elias Quartet [298] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recitals 4 James Clackson The quartet play Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C Cambridge University Series 14 major Op 33 No 3 ‘The Bird’ and Benjamin Britten Migration and Language: Ancient Perspectives String Quartet No 3 Op 94. Presented by Clemency What can we learn from the ancient Romans and Burton-Hill. Greeks about the impact of migration on language? Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 – please arrive in And how is this relevant to contemporary concerns good time. about immigration and language change? In association with Cambridge University 2.30pm [HF116] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £6 Daniel Morden and Oliver Wilson-Dickson [301] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 The Fiery Dragon: Storytelling David Mitchell talks to Daniel, one of the most popular storytellers in the Clemency Burton-Hill UK, tells traditional stories with passion, wit and gusto. Fictions – The Bone Clocks Accompanied by Oliver on fiddle, he will tell a hair- This dazzling new novel is the kaleidoscopic story of raising Welsh gypsy tale featuring giants, dragons and an unusual woman’s life, a metaphysical thriller and a dwarves. Storytelling for the stout of heart! profound meditation on mortality and survival. And 7+ years it’s brilliant. Mitchell’s previous books are Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. [299] 1PM–4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Wynne Evans BBC Radio Wales LIVE [HF119] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Wynne Evans brings his Big Welsh Weekend to the Cathy Cassidy festival. Expect big name guests, laughs and live music. The Chocolate Box Girls: Fortune Cookie Broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales every Friday, Join much-loved author Cathy Cassidy as she 1pm–4pm. introduces The Chocolate Box Girls series finale. Cathy is an award-winning author who writes about difficult subjects in a touching yet humorous way. Discover [HF117] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 which of the Tanberry sisters you are most like, and get Jennifer Gray Cathy’s tips on friendship, daydreaming and chocolate. Atticus Claw, Chickens and More 8+ years Find out about the world’s greatest cat burglar, and be introduced to the hen-sational Amy Cluckbucket, heroine of Jennifer’s new Chicken Mission series. [302] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Answer a quiz, hear all about the characters and Brendan Simms help plan the next part of the story. Cambridge University Series 15 6+ years Did the Germans Win the Battle of Waterloo? In 1815, after Europe had been at war for over 20

[HF118] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 years, two large, hastily-mobilised armies faced each Where’s Spot? other at the small Belgian village of Waterloo to decide the future of Europe. Unknown to Napoleon or Have you seen him? Come along and join in the Wellington, the battle would be decided by a small, fun with this storytelling session featuring games, ordinary group of British and German troops given dancing and singing, plus a chance to meet the the task of defending the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte. world’s most lovable puppy! In association with Cambridge University 3+ years 65 FRIDAY 29 MAY @hayfestival

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[303] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £6 [HF123] 4PM–5.15PM TATA TENT £15 Fern Smith, Juliet Davenport, Michael Morpurgo Lucy Neal and Marcus Brigstocke The Mozart Question Concert Good Energy Series 3 Author Michael Morpurgo is joined by actress Alison Where Are All The God Damn Operas? Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s The Arts have played a major role in changing views Ensemble (a quartet of strings). Together they around gender, racial equality, poverty, etc. – but what interweave words and music to tell his haunting tale of have they done to change views about climate change? survival against the odds, set against the background of What role should the Arts play in telling stories, the Holocaust. Adapted and directed by Simon Reade. raising awareness and challenging the status quo? Duration 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval. Smith – co-founder of Emergence, Neal – author 8+ years and theatre-maker, and Davenport – director of FRIDAY 29FRIDAY MAY Good Energy discuss with Marcus Brigstocke. [304] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 In partnership with Good Energy John Gray

[HF120] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 The Soul of a Marionette: A Short John Dougherty Inquiry into Human Freedom We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will. Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the And yet the most enormous forces – biological, Evilness of Pizza physical, metaphysical – constrain our every action. Join John Dougherty and his guitar for a trip around Instead of embracing our condition we battle against the little island of Great Kerfuffle. Why is the army it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern just one small cat? Why does the king have such a scientists dreaming of a ‘human dominion’ almost silly name? And what is the evilness of pizza? Whatever comically at odds with our true state. The philosopher happens, laughter is guaranteed, and singing too. talks to Francine Stock. 8+ years

[305] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF121] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 Tony Juniper Rob Biddulph What Nature Does for Britain Blown Away From the peat bogs and woodlands that help to secure Penguin Blue and his friends go on a gloriously our water supply, to the bees and soils that produce illustrated adventure full of good ideas, kite-flying most of the food we eat, Britain is rich in ‘natural larks and new experiences in Blown Away, the very capital’. For years we have damaged the systems that first picture book from Rob Biddulph. Join Rob sustain us under the illusion that we are keeping prices for some blustery fun and arty activities. down, through intensive farming, drainage of bogs, 4+ years clearing forests and turning rivers into canals. As the ecologist shows, there are better ways to meet our economic needs. [HF122] 2.30PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10 Meek Family Bush Craft Skills [306] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Meet the amazing Meek family and learn some bush Marc Morris craft skills – find out how to make a cord from nettle Treachery, Tyranny and the (it’s how rope used to be made), and how to make a Road to Magna Carta raft. The historian introduces his biography of King John – 8+ years a ruler managing the aftermath of another ruinous Crusade, conflicts with France, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, excommunication, taxation and some very demanding Nobles. King John is familiar to everyone 3pm as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood – greedy, cowardly, despicable and cruel. But who was the man NFU MUTUAL STUDIO [W28] 3PM–4.30PM behind the legend? Was he truly a monster, or a capable £10/£8 UNDER 16S ruler cursed by ill luck? In this talk, the historian draws Drawing Out and About on contemporary chronicles and the king’s own letters Royal Drawing School Class to bring the real John vividly to life. Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. All ages and abilities

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Nicola Barker and Deborah Levy Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests MAY FRIDAY29 Cambridge University Series 16 Something’s Going Funny with the Climate Literary Fiction in the Age of Information Climate change is no laughing matter, but when all Leading novelists Barker and Levy discuss how the else fails, perhaps it’s time to take humour a bit more internet has impacted today’s literature and what the seriously? We really do need something to laugh about. future might hold. Malachi McIntosh, from the Sponsored by GL Events Snowdens University of Cambridge’s Faculty of English, chairs. In association with Cambridge University [310] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 David Lodge talks to Georgina Godwin [HF124] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £12 Quite a Good Time to be Born Meg Rosoff The novelist discusses his wartime childhood, his early Picture Me Gone married life and academic career, and the development One of the finest writers for young adult readers, of his fiction – all of which he explores in his memoir, Meg Rosoff is best known for her novel How I Live which covers the years up to the publication of Now, which won the Guardian Prize, the Printz Award Changing Places. and the Branford Boase Award, became an interna- tional bestseller and was then adapted for cinema. [HF126] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Her work is always layered, subtle and thought- provoking and her latest novel Picture Me Gone is James Campbell one of her finest. Come and hear her speak about her Comedy For Kids writing life and what’s coming next. Back by popular demand, it’s James Campbell, with a show for children over six, their parents and anyone 12+ years/YA #hayYA who likes comedy without the rude words. James might or might not discuss scooters, Scottish country dancing [HF125] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 and what we’ll do with all these gregarious giraffes. Topsy and Tim Go Camping 6+ years Have fun with Topsy and Tim as they leap from book to screen! Join your favourite twins on a [311] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 camping adventure for storytelling, games and a make-and-do craft session. Kamila Shamsie, Philip Jones, Helena Kennedy and guests 4+ years The Norwich Writers’ Centre presents The National Conversation, [W48] 4PM–6PM SCRIBBLERS HUT £10 Part 5: The Invisible Women Kaloi k’agathoi Drama Workshop Novelist Kamila Shamsie leads this conversation Oedipus – exposed! about gender imbalance in publishing, in reviewing, In association with Hereford Cathedral School on prize shortlists and across the book world. Are 10–17 years women under-represented? And if so, why? And how might that be changed? In association with The Writers’ Centre, Norwich 5pm

[308] 5PM–6PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Writing the BBC Story: Lessons from History Professor Jean Seaton, BBC historian and author, talks about her recent book on the turbulent history of the BBC during the Thatcher period, Pinkoes and Traitors, and discusses the challenges of writing a corporate history of a contemporary broadcaster constantly in the public eye. Not for broadcast.

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[312] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [314] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Bryan Sykes talks to Rosie Boycott Jules Pretty The Nature of the Beast The Edge of Extinction The Oxford DNA expert tested three hair samples from The natural world is rapidly diminishing. Traditions the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The hair and cultures are dying out.Extinction has denied many samples were from the miogi – the Bhutanese yeti – that human groups and languages a future and it noweven legendary creature of the high snows that has haunted the threatens the ways of life of the affluent.Pretty takes imagination of travellers for centuries. The miogi hairs us on a personal journey to show why we should look did not surrender their secrets easily, but eventually two again at those marginal communities who still live were identified as known species of bear. The third close to nature, the land and sea. The lessons these remained a mystery, and the mystery got weirder. Only disappearing societies have to teach us may well be the increasingly specific evidence of the DNA matters. ones that we later come to rely on. Chaired by FRIDAY 29FRIDAY MAY Sponsored by The Great English Outdoors Andy Fryers.

[HF127] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [315] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Rob Biddulph, Rebecca Cobb, Frank Turner talks to Bethan Elfyn Sophy Henn and Ed Vere The Road Beneath My Feet Words and Pictures The singer talks about his memoir. On 23 September Four of the most exciting names in picture books give 2005 at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank us an insight into how they make their words and Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, pictures work together to tell a story. Do they use Million Dead. On the laminates that listed the tour computers to make art? Do the words or the pictures dates, the entry for 24 September simply read: ‘Get a come first? Will they all agree? Highly recommended job.’ Deflated, jaded and hung-over, Frank returned for anyone interested in art, design and illustration. to his hometown of Winchester without a plan for 10+ years #hayYA the future. A thousand-and-some shows later he was headlining a sold-out gig at Wembley Arena with his band The Sleeping Souls. See also event 326. [HF128] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 Meek Family 100 Family Adventures [316] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Meet the Meek family (Tim, Kerry, Ella and Amy) whose mission is to encourage families to get outside, Damian Walford Davies and Richard Beard have adventures and enjoy the outdoors. They will Judas and the Assassins share their own adventures, demonstrate some of the A reading and conversation with the authors of poetry bushcraft skills they’ve picked up along the way and collection Judas and the ‘gospel noir’ Acts of the answer your questions. 8+ years Assassins. They talk to Rhidian Brook.

[317] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 6.30pm Karrie Fransman Death of the Artist: A Graphic Novel [W29] 6.30PM–9PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £15 On 13 August 2013 graphic novelist Karrie Fransman Life Drawing Royal Drawing School Class invited four old friends from university to an isolated Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. cottage on the misty moors of the Peak District to join 18+ years, all abilities her for a week of hedonism and creativity. Like Shelley and Byron before them, they would use the retreat to tell stories. Except these would be comics, collected 7pm together in this very book. The theme: the Death of the Artist. None of the five friends realised how appropriate

[313] 7PM TATA TENT £12 this theme would become. The book weaves a single narrative across watercolour, digital art, photography, Dan and Peter Snow collage and illustration, exploring the themes of The Battle of Waterloo creation, destruction, and how we kill our inner artists Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of Napoleon’s 100 as we grow up. It takes the graphic novel into entirely Days Campaign, from his Elba escape to his defeat at new realms. She talks to Stephanie Merritt. Waterloo, and provide what no other book on the battle contains – removable facsimiles of historic archival documents. You can relive this extraordinary moment in history by holding and examining rare or previously unpublished sketch maps, letters, orders, official papers and proclamations which up until now have been filed away in the National Army Museum’s collections or in 68 other archives and museums around Europe. 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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Siobhan Curham John Crace MAY FRIDAY29 True Face I Never Promised You a Rose Garden An inspirational, informative and practical talk The parliamentary sketch-writer looks back at the designed to help girls and women overcome the Coalition government more in ridicule than in sorrow. pressures placed on them by society, to be something Horrible, hilarious truths about Westminster, the that they’re not. Siobhan’s new book True Face helps greasy pole and the indiscreet charm of the chamber… girls overcome their fears and insecurities and identify their passions and strengths. Come along to hear more [323] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 and join the discussion. Steven Fowler, Nia Davies, Zoe Skoulding, 12+ years/YA #hayYA Eurig Salisbury, Joe Dunthorne, Rhys Trimble Gelynion: The Enemies Project 8.15pm A groundbreaking exploration of contemporary poetry in Wales through the potential of collaboration across [318] 8.15PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £16 our two languages. Six poets have worked with one Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita another to create original poetic works. They’ve been Clychau Dibon – In Concert touring these pieces in rolling pairs around Wales, A stunning shared musical journey with two world drawing in poets in each location, and inviting them to class virtuosos – Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and West create their own collaborations. Their tour culminates African kora player Seckou Keita. The harp occupies here in Hay with a showcase performance and Q&A. a vital place in the cultures of both Senegal and Wales. Gelynion is supported by Arts Council of Wales and The West African harp, the kora, is made from a dried Poetry Wales gourd and fishing line; the Welsh harp is one of the most potent icons of a nation steeped in music. [324] 8.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 Both nations share a centuries-old bardic tradition of intricate oral history, expressed through music, Nosferatu verse and song. Screening Come and join us in the late Georgian-Gothic setting of St Mary’s Church for a special screening of FW 8.30m Muranu’s great 1922 classic silent movie, with live organ accompaniment by Richard Williams. The screening raises money for the church organ. [319] 8.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Numbers are limited. See also event 369. Neil Gaiman talks to Claire Armitstead A Conversation The prolific creator of books, comics, films and songs 9.45pm talks about his work and pays tribute to his friend Terry Pratchett, who died on 12 March. [325] 9.45PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design David Mitchell and Tiffany Murray Fictions – Halloween Comes Early [320] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £9 A late-night reading of ghost stories as Mitchell Clive Anderson previews his new story to be published in October, Woodland Trust Series 2 Slade House, and Murray reads from her acclaimed The Oliver Rackham Memorial Lecture Sugar Hall. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. Woodland Trust president Clive Anderson pays tribute to the life and legacy of prolific ecologist and author Oliver Rackham, who died in February. This inaugural 10pm memorial lecture will explore Professor Rackham’s profound influence, both on the work of the Trust [326] 10PM TATA TENT £18 and Clive’s own love of the nation’s trees and woods. Frank Turner In partnership with The Woodland Trust The Road Beneath My Feet Tour An acoustic solo gig with the impassioned and [321] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £8 compelling folk singer-songwriter whose recent albums Harvey Goldsmith talks to Dylan Jones include Tape Deck Heart, The Third Three Years and Live Onstage England Keep My Bones. The legendary promoter has been at the heart of the Please join us earlier in the evening for an onstage music industry for 40 years. He talks to the editor of GQ. conversation about his memoir The Road Beneath Sponsored by Castle House Hotel, Hereford My Feet with the BBC’s Bethan Elfyn – see event 315. 69 SATURDAY 30 MAY @hayfestival

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[327] 9.15AM–9.45AM OXFAM MOOT £3 [331] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Con Coughlin Polly Samson and Kate Hamer What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Fictions – Truths Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 30 Lyrical, haunting and exquisitely rendered, Samson’s May at key historical moments over the past 150 years second novel The Kindness explores a deception that are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. comes wrapped as a gift, a betrayal clothed in kindness, From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the and asks if we can ever truly trust another. The result is Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and mention fashion through the decades and legendary reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told. stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in In Hamer’s The Girl in the Red Coat Carmel Wakeford fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting. becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has SATURDAY 30SATURDAY MAY 10am had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. The authors talk to Georgina Godwin.

[328] 10AM TATA TENT £8 Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan, [416] 10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Andre Vincent and Tim Telling Blue Peter Book Awards The Early Edition CBBC Sub-editors and journos beware…the comedians Join Blue Peter and Book Trust to celebrate the 15th mock facts and folly in today’s papers. The home anniversary of the Blue Peter Book Awards. CBBC team is joined by Daily Mash editor Tim Telling. presenter and former awards judge Katie Thistleton will host this special event, with appearances from this year’s winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas [329] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Flintham (The Spy Who Loved School Dinners) and Laura Bates Andy Seed (The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff ). Everyday Sexism 2015 Not for broadcast. The online Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day- [HF131] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 to-day basis. It shares stories from women around the world. The founder reports on the last year’s work. Alice in Wonderland Storytelling with the Mad Hatter Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is celebrating its 150th [330] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 anniversary and it’s time for you to join the party! Meet Suzanne O’Sullivan the Mad Hatter, who will take you on a fun adventure It’s All in Your Head: True Stories through Wonderland to find the White Rabbit, with an of Imaginary Illness imaginative story-trail retelling of the classic novel and A third of men and women visiting their GP have creative craft activities. Why not come dressed as your symptoms that are medically unexplained. In most, favourite character and make the Cheshire Cat smile? an emotional root is suspected and yet, when it comes 5+ years to a diagnosis, this is the very last thing we want to hear, and the last thing doctors want to say. The [HF132] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 consultant neurologist takes us on a journey through the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Sophy Henn Pom Pom Gets the Grumps Meet Pom Pom the panda, he’s a bit of a grump! Enjoy GOOD ENERGY STAGE [HF130] 10AM £6 a fun, interactive storytelling and arts and crafts session Chris Riddell with author and illustrator Sophy Henn as she teaches Chris Riddell is the genius behind a vast range of you how to create your own Pom Pom and some of her children’s books that children and adults revisit time other bear characters. 4+ years and time again. There’s Alienography, the Ottoline and Goth Girl series, and for older readers The Graveyard [W52] 10AM–10.45AM SCRIBBLERS HUT Book, and The Sleeper and the Spindle, written by Neil FREE BUT TICKETED Gaiman and illustrated by Chris. He also illustrated The Edge Chronicles and Russell Brand’s Pied Piper of Chess Workshop Hamelin. He has twice won the coveted Greenaway With International Master Malcolm Pein and Medal. See him in action in a live drawing tour Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. around the wonderful world of Chris Riddell. Supported by Stephens and George Centenary In association with Lovereading4kids Charitable Trust 6–106 years 8+ years 70 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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[W30] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO £8 [334] 11.30AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 MAY SATURDAY30 Drawing the Circus Rosamond McKitterick Royal Drawing School Class Cambridge University Series 17 Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Charlemagne, Rome and the Under 12 years Management of Sacred Space In the age of Charlemagne, Rome gained a prominent position in the cultural memory of the Frankish elites. 11.30am This city was not just associated with the glory of classical and late antique empire, but above all with an authentic Christianity represented by the apostles and [HF133] 11.30AM TATA TENT £10 the martyrs. North of the Alps, rulers and aristocrats Michael Morpurgo created a virtual Rome by importing relics as well as Listen to the Moon liturgical practices that were thought of as typically Michael Morpurgo’s much praised novel Listen to Roman. Chaired by Claire Armitstead. the Moon was inspired by a gruesome medal In association with Cambridge University commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania 100 years ago off the coast of Co. Cork, and a newspaper report [335] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 he came across during his research about a small child being spotted on top of a piano floating among the Sarah Hall talks to Sarah Crown wreckage. Michael shares this extraordinary story and Fictions – The Wolf Border answers questions from the audience. He also talks For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back about Dreams of Freedom – In Words and Pictures, on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work for which he wrote the introduction. All royalties monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, go to Amnesty International. summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his There won’t be a signing after this talk but printed controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to bookplates will be available in the bookshop. the English countryside, she is back in the peat and 9+ years wet light of the Lake District. Hall investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. The novel seeks to understand [332] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and Shashi Tharoor and Sonia Faleiro conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of India’s Hard Truths our existence; those complex systems that govern the Tharoor is a renowned politician and author of The most superior creature on earth. Hall’s other novels Great Indian Novel, Pax Indica and From Midnight to include The Electric Michelangelo, The Beautiful the Millennium. His latest collection of essays, written Indifference and Mrs Fox. during Narendra Modi’s premiership, is India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in Our Time. Faleiro is author [HF134] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 of Beautiful Thing and 13 Men – a report on gang rape Nicholas Allan in West Bengal. Chaired by Oliver Balch. My Dad’s the Best Nicholas Allan, author and illustrator of The Queen’s [333] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Knickers and Father Christmas Needs a Wee, reads from Srđa Popovic talks to Jon Snow his latest book, My Dad’s the Best. This warm and witty Blueprint for´ Revolution: How To Use story is a celebration of dads everywhere. Nicholas Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other also performs magic tricks… Don’t forget to bring Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise your dad. Communities, Overthrow Dictators, 4+ years or Simply Change the World How do ordinary people become revolutionaries? [HF135] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srđa Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement Catherine Rayner Have fun counting with and search for new which ´was about to change the world. Popovic was Abigail smells with in this friendly interactive one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement´ Smelly Louie Otpor! that overthrew dictator Slobodan Miloševic and event with an award-winning writer and illustrator. There is live drawing between storytelling, and established democracy in Serbia all by avoiding violence´ and opting for something far more powerful: a sense children get the chance to create their own of humour. masterpieces with Catherine’s help. 5+ years

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[W53] 11.30AM–12.15AM SCRIBBLERS HUT [339] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 FREE BUT TICKETED Paul Dolan Chess Workshop Happiness by Design With International Master Malcolm Pein and Following on from the success of last year, Paul is back Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. for part two of his book Happiness by Design. Through Supported by Stephens and George Centenary ‘Decide, Design and Do’, he reveals the ways in which Charitable Trust we can actually become happier without having to 6–106 years think too hard about it. Change what you do, not how you think, to get more pleasure and purpose in everyday life. 12pm Sponsored by Wiggly Wigglers

[336] 12PM–1PM BBC TENT [340] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 SATURDAY 30SATURDAY MAY FREE BUT TICKETED Thomas Asbridge Behind the Scenes: Broadcasting House The Greatest Knight BBC Radio 4 The historian draws upon an array of contemporary Presenter Paddy O’Connell talks about life behind evidence, including the C13th biography, to present the scenes at the BBC and programme-making. Plus a compelling account of the life and times of William he’ll give the audience a chance to contribute and Marshal, from rural England to the battlefields of influence the running orders of future editions of France, the desert castles of the Holy Land and the Broadcasting House. verdant shores of Ireland. He lays bare the brutish Not for broadcast. realities of medieval warfare and the machinations of the royal court. Asbridge draws us into the heart [W31] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO of a formative period of our history when the West £10/£8 UNDER 16S emerged from the Dark Ages and stood on the brink Drawing a Story of modernity. It is the story of one remarkable man, Royal Drawing School Class the birth of the knightly class to which he belonged, Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. and the forging of the English nation. Chaired by Peter Florence. All ages and abilities

[HF136] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 1pm Finding Wonderland Cathy Cassidy, who loved Alice in Wonderland above [337] 1PM TATA TENT £9 all other books as a child, has re-imagined the story Steve Punt, Will Smith for a modern audience in Looking Glass Girl. Chris and Marcus Brigstocke Riddell learned about the relationship between words Talking Funny and pictures by copying Sir John Tenniel’s famous illustrations. They are joined by Julia Eccleshare Just because you can say funny things doesn’t mean of the British Library to talk about Lewis Carroll, you can write funny things. Three of the best comedy his legacy, and how it feels to walk in his footsteps. writers spill the beans on what makes a good script. The writers Will Smith (The Thick of It and Veep) 10+ years #hayYA and Steve Punt (The Now Show, The Mary Whitehouse Experience) talk to Marcus Brigstocke. [HF137] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Emer Stamp [338] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Pig Polly Vernon talks to Bryony Gordon Meet famous diarist Pig – like Samuel Pepys, only Hot Feminist smellier – as he invites you to read The Super Amazing A trip through feminism, fashion, the righteous pursuit Adventures of Me, Pig. Emer will take you around the of a sexy vibe, and what it means to be a woman farmyard, introducing you to his pal Duck and those when you’re on the receiving end of modern media’s evil chickens, as well as Kitty who is oh so lovely…or hilariously / bizarrely / insanely contradictory / is she? Emer’s event is packed with fun and drawing – restrictive / reductive / sometimes just straightforward not to be missed! revolting notions of womanhood. This isn’t about 6+ years what women can’t do, this is a new-age guide to what you can do, what you can think, what you can wear and what you can wax. Gordon is the author of The Wrong Knickers.

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[HF138] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 [343] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 MAY SATURDAY30 Pip Jones Vikram Seth Daddy’s Sandwich A Summer Requiem If you were going to make a sandwich with all ‘I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mind | That your favourite things, what would you include? I am forever waking in a lost country...’ Seth’s new book Join the Squishy McFluff author in a fun-filled of poems traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, event to find out what happens when one little the relentless rhythms of a great world that both ‘gifts girl makes a sandwich just a bit out of the ordinary and harms’. Luminous, resonant and profound, these for her daddy. poems trace the dying days of summer, ‘the hour of 4+ years rust’, when memory is haunted by loss and decay. But in the silence that follows, as the soul is cast adrift, there is also reconciliation with the transience of all [W54] 1PM–1.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT things; the knowledge that there is a place, ‘changeable, FREE BUT TICKETED that will not betray’. Seth is author of A Suitable Boy, Chess Workshop The Golden Gate, The Rivered Earth and Two Lives. With International Master Malcolm Pein and Chaired by Claire Armitstead. Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett.

Supported by Stephens and George Centenary [HF139] 2.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Charitable Trust 6–106 years Peter Lord Shaun The Sheep: The Movie The Aardman founder and stop-motion genius takes 2pm us behind the scenes of Shaun’s blockbusting big-screen adventure. When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he [341] 2PM–3PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and Four Thought a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it’s up BBC Radio 4 to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the Four Thought is a series of exciting and often green grass of home. You’d be baahmy not to provocative personal talks in which speakers explain join in! new thinking about the big trends and questions in culture and society. 7+ years Broadcast on Wednesdays at 8.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Four Thought will record four speakers at Hay Festival [344] 2.30PM TATA TENT £7 2015 for broadcast in June. Antonia Fraser talks to Simon Jenkins My History: A Memoir of Growing Up Antonia Fraser’s memoir describes growing up in 2.30pm the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of history. The fascination began as a [342] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £9 child, and developed into an enduring passion and Eric Schlosser a globally successful career from her first biography The Joseph Rotblat Lecture 2015 Mary Queen of Scots to her intensely personal and riveting portrait of her second marriage Must You Go? The American journalist and author is best known My Life With Harold Pinter. for his investigative journalism and his books Fast Food Nation, Chew on This and Reefer Madness. His latest Supported by Lawrence & Elizabeth Banks book Command and Control is about the effort to control nuclear weapons, to prevent the launch of a thermonuclear weapon by accident, by mistake or by any other unauthorised means. He explores the precarious balance between nuclear weapons safety and readiness to fire, the mixture of human fallibility and technological complexity that can lead to disaster. In association with the WMD Awareness Project

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[345] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [346] 3PM–4PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Will Smith and Roberto Ampuero Four Thought Fictions – Thrillers BBC Radio 4 Mainlander is the thrilling debut set on Jersey from Four Thought is a series of exciting and often comedy writer Will Smith (Veep, The Thick of It) – a provocative personal talks in which speakers explain novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about new thinking about the big trends and questions in the corroding effects of keeping secrets. Evocative and culture and society. romantic, Ampuero’s The Neruda Case spans lies and Broadcast on Wednesdays at 8.45pm on BBC Radio 4. truth, travelling between uneasy peace and political Four Thought will record four speakers at Hay Festival coup, from life to death. Brulé, a daydreamer and 2015 for broadcast in June. reluctant detective, is lost among Latin America’s

uncertainties, venality and corruption while his first [W32] 3PM–4.30PM MEET AT BACK OF HAY CASTLE case introduces one of the great characters of £10/£8 UNDER 16S SATURDAY 30SATURDAY MAY international crime fiction. They talk to Rosie Walk and Draw Goldsmith. Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. [HF140] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 All ages and abilities Jacqueline Mitton Journey to the Planets Space holds a fascination for everyone. What exactly 4pm is out there? Take a journey around the planets with astronomer Jacqueline Mitton, who delivers a talk [347] 4PM TATA TENT £10 illustrated with amazing facts and stunning images Helen MacDonald that all the family will enjoy. The Samuel Johnson Prize Lecture 8+ years H is for Hawk When her father dies and MacDonald is knocked [HF141] 2.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the Rebecca Cobb idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel The Something for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home When a little boy’s ball disappears down a mysterious to Cambridge. hole in the garden, he can’t stop thinking about what Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is could be down there – a little mouse’s house? The lair for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey – an of a hungry troll? Whatever it may be, he’s determined unflinchingly honest account of MacDonald’s to find out! Join Rebecca for some storytelling and struggle with grief during the difficult process of drawing, and maybe find out if there’s a Something the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. At the down that hole after all… same time, it’s a kaleidoscopic biography of the 5+ years brilliant and troubled novelist TH White, best known for The Once and Future King. The author talks about her masterpiece with Stuart Proffitt, chair of the [W55] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT Samuel Johnson Prize. FREE BUT TICKETED Chess Workshop Sponsored by Castle House Hotel, Hereford With International Master Malcolm Pein and [348] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Alan Cumming talks to Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Clemency Burton-Hill Charitable Trust 6–106 years Not My Father’s Son Deep secrets emerge when confronting family history. At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, the actor’s memoir is a powerful story about embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.

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[349] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF144] 4PM MAKE & TAKE TENT MAY SATURDAY30 Peter Jukes and guests FREE BUT TICKETED Beyond Contempt Nick Cope You know all about the phone hacking trial, don’t you? Music for Little People Rebekah Brooks was acquitted and Andy Coulson went Monkeys, bears, socks and mud! Nick Cope sings to jail. But why? Why was Brooks, the public face of about everything children are really interested in. the phone hacking scandal, found not guilty on all The former indie-rocker frontman of The Candyskins, charges? Why did Coulson’s expensive defense not Nick brings his own brand of acoustic folk-rock to the impress reporters? What impact did Rupert Murdoch’s world of children’s music, creating interactive concerts millons have on the trial? And why did the jurors reach for families. Come and join in. the decisions they did? 3+ years

[350] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 [W56] 4PM–4.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT Matt Haig FREE BUT TICKETED Reasons to Stay Alive Chess Workshop Aged 24, the writer’s world caved in. He could see no With International Master Malcolm Pein and way to go on living. This is the true story of how Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Haig came through crisis, triumphed over an illness Supported by Stephens and George Centenary that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. Charitable Trust Chaired by John Mitchinson. 6–106 years Sponsored by Liz Pinches Dip. Vib. Med. Health Matters 5pm [HF142] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £5 Gary Northfield [351] 5PM–6.15PM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED The Big Draw Time for One More Question Gary Northfield, cartoonist for The Phoenix, Beano, BBC Radio Drama Dandy and Horrible Histories, is joined by special A lights-down-and-listen session and Q&A with guests to stage a Big Draw with plenty of noisy writer Glyn Maxwell and BBC Radio Drama audience interaction. producer Nadia Molinari. Love is put through the 7+ years toughest Q&A in Glyn Maxwell’s comedy of festival manners. Come and listen to this 45-minute original drama recorded on location at this year’s Hay Festival, [HF143] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 followed by a discussion about how it was created. Gillian Cross, Emma Carroll This session is not for broadcast, but the original and Linda Coggin recording of Time for One More Question will be Poet, writer and performer Linda Coggin’s debut novel broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 29 May at The Boy With The Tiger’s Heart explores our relationship 2.15pm. with nature and animals in an unusual fantasy adventure. The Girl Who Walked on Air is an historical adventure with a circus theme from Emma Carroll, 5.30pm who wrote the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall. Multiple award-winner Gillian Cross has written yet [352] 5.30PM TATA TENT £9 another thrilling and thought-provoking adventure with Shadow Cat. Join them for what is sure to be an Meera Syal talks to Sarfraz Manzoor entertaining and interesting conversation about writing Fictions – The House of Hidden Mothers adventure stories. Little India, East London: Shyama, aged 44, has 10+ years fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. [HF159] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other FREE BUT TICKETED realise their dreams. But will fate guarantee them both Rastamouse happiness? The author of Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee Prepare to make some noise and bust some moves as launches her new novel. Rastamouse co-creator Michael De Souza presents a reading adventure exploring the riddims and rhymes of Mouseland. Get ready to jam along as CBeebies star Rastamouse makes a special appearance at the festival. 5+ years 75 SATURDAY 30 MAY #hayfestival

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[353] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 [HF145] 5.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 Robert Macfarlane talks to Horatio Clare Kate Saunders Landmarks Five Children on the Western Front Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes Join the Costa Award-winning author to hear all about are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the her sequel to E. Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a stories. Witty, tender and full of insights into life, love field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary and politics, this is a brilliant book in its own right as containing thousands of remarkable words used in well as a worthy tribute. Find out about Kate’s England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, inspirations for the book and her love for the original nature and weather. The author of The Old Ways, novels. She talks to literary critic Julia Eccleshare. Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places shows 9+ years that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. [HF146] 5.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 SATURDAY 30SATURDAY MAY In association with The Woodland Trust Mary Evans

[354] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 Story Stew for Two Camila Batmanghelidjh, Helena Kennedy Kids? Parents driving you mad? Looking for something and Sue Berelowitz talk to Jon Snow to keep them entertained? Then bring them along to Story Stew for Two, a parent and child creative writing Why Does it Happen? workshop with Who Let the Gods Out? author Mary The sexual abuse of children by adult men is a global Evans. Using wit, charm and an inflatable hammer, problem. It appears to happen in every sector of society Mary will help you to work together to create a tasty and the exposure of paedophile rings is a daily news tale for two. Guaranteed to cook up creativity in story. But why does it happen at all? Batmanghelidjh everyone. runs Kids Company, Kennedy is a human rights lawyer, 7+ years Berelowitz is the UK’s Deputy Commissioner for Children’s Services. 7pm [355] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8

George Zarkadakis [HF147] 7PM–8.15PM TATA TENT £15 Artificial Intelligence Michael Morpurgo We explore AI’s history, technology and potential; its The Mozart Question Concert manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections Author Michael Morpurgo is joined by actress Alison to neurology and consciousness, as well as – perhaps Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s most tellingly – what AI reveals about us as human Ensemble (a quartet of strings). Together they beings. Zarkadakis is the author of In Our Own Image: interweave words and music to tell his haunting tale of Will Artificial Intelligence Save or Destroy Us? survival against the odds, set against the background of Part of the Baillie Gifford Series the Holocaust. Adapted and directed by Simon Reade. Duration 1 hour 15 minutes. No interval. [356] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 8+ years Paul Dolan, Shashi Tharoor and guests Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? [357] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 We know that, as individuals, we often ‘miswant’ – that is, want things that will not improve our Emily Bell, Richard Sambrook, wellbeing. How can we miswant as citizens, Tony Phillips and guests policymakers, or societies? How might some of Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? the ‘good’ desires also have a darker side to them? A Free Press Desires around hope, choice, and achievement, for Do we need a First Amendment? What’s the best we example, can all make things worse as well as better. can argue for in terms of independence, regulation, Dolan is a Professor of Behavioural Science at LSE. ownership, and authority? Bell is a member of the Tharoor is an Indian MP with over 1 million Scott Trust and Director of the Tow Center for Digital constituents in Thiruvananthapuram, and 3 million Journalism; Sambrook was Director of the BBC World Twitter followers. Service and now runs Cardiff School of Journalism; Tony Phillips is Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, World Service. Chaired by Jon Snow.

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[358] 7PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 [362] 7PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 MAY SATURDAY30 Amanda Palmer Jessica Bumpus, Margareta van den Bosch, The Art of Asking Catarina Midby and Dilys Williams Rock star, crowd-funding pioneer, and TED speaker Just Fashion Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as After a week-long workshop with leading designers, a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked 12 students will have created unique items from thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she left H&M’s Garment Recycling Programme. The her record label to strike out on her own, she asked workshops will have encouraged students to use and her fans to support her in making an album, leading consider sustainable sourcing and techniques in the to the world’s most successful music Kickstarter. In production of their garments as well as ensuring the her groundbreaking book, she explores the barriers to finished product is beautifully designed and presented. asking for help in her own life and in the lives of those Discover the results here… Margareta van den Bosch around her. Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the is H&M’s former design director and now creative story of an artist struggling with the new rules of advisor, Catarina Midby is their Sustainable Fashion exchange in the C21st, both on and off the internet. Advisor, and Dilys Williams is Director of the London Chaired by Francine Stock. College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion. They talk to Green Vogue blogger Jessica Bumpus.

[359] 7PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 In collaboration with H&M, London College of Gavin Francis Fashion and the Environmental Justice Foundation Adventures in Human Being [HF160] 7PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 We have a lifetime’s association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. The Julia Churchill doctor takes us on a journey through health and illness, How To Get Your Children’s Book Published offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface Children’s books agent Julia Churchill from AM Heath of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the Ltd shares everything you need to know about getting womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique your children’s book published, from what an agent engineering of the foot. If the body is a foreign country, does and the qualities that make a submission stand then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: out from the slushpile, to what a publisher looks for the explorer and author of Empire Antarctica leads the and what drives their decisions. It is a 360-degree look reader on an adventure through what it means to at writing, pitching and publishing your children’s be human. book – from picture books right through to young adult fiction.

[360] 7PM OXFAM MOOT £7 11+ years Dominic Lieven Cambridge University Series 18 Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia 8.30pm The Russian decision to mobilise in July 1914 may [363] 8.30PM TATA TENT £10 have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. Russia’s rulers thought they were acting to Marcus Brigstocke, Ed Coleman, secure their future, but in fact – after millions of deaths Milly Thomas, Thom Tuck, and two revolutions – they were consigning their entire Rachel Paris and Andre Vincent class to death or exile and their country to a uniquely Makey Uppey terrible generations-long experiment under a very It’s comedy improvisation night – we’ve no idea different regime. Chaired by Oliver Bullough. what they are going to say…and neither have they. In association with Cambridge University It’s a match made in heaven.

[361] 7PM–10PM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM FREE – ALL WELCOME Bethan Elfyn BBC Radio Wales Bethan Elfyn presents the best new music from Wales and beyond with highlights, guests and performances, broadcasting live from the festival. Broadcast every Saturday evening on BBC Radio Wales from 7pm–10pm.

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[364] 8.30PM–10PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES [368] 8.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £7 STAGE £8 Tracey Thorn talks to Xan Brooks Simon Schama Naked at the Albert Hall Night Will Fall – Screening The riveting follow-up to her Bedsit Disco Queen. The historian and author of The Story of the Jews Part memoir, part wide-ranging exploration of the art, introduces a screening of André Singer’s documentary. mechanics and spellbinding power of singing, Naked When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration at the Albert Hall takes in Dusty Springfield, Dennis camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by Potter and George Eliot; Auto-tune, the microphone army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror and stage presence; The Streets and The X Factor. of what had happened. Using British, Soviet, and Including interviews with fellow artists and portraits of American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney singers in fiction as well as Tracey’s real-life experiences, Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make it offers a unique, witty and sharply observed insider’s a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi’s perspective on the exhilarating joy and occasional

SATURDAY 30SATURDAY MAY unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from heartache of singing. the British and US governments, the film was shelved.

[369] 8.30PM ST MARY’S CHURCH £10 [365] 8.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 A Cottage on Dartmoor Laura Bates, Nimko Ali, Sonia Faleiro Screening and guests Come and join us in the late Georgian-Gothic setting Magna Carta 800 – What Do We Want? of St Mary’s Church for a special screening of Anthony Equality Asquith’s great 1929 classic silent movie, with live Is equality law working to deliver equality for women? organ accompaniment by Richard Williams. The film If not, what’s it going to take? Bates is the founder of is a psycho-thriller replete with obsession and jealousy, the Everyday Sexism project. Ali is a social activist, much influenced by German Expressionism, and is one an FGM survivor and campaigner, co-founder of of British cinema’s most highly regarded silent films, Daughters of Eve. Journalist and writer Sonia Faleiro the last to be made in the silent period. The screening is the author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret raises money for the church organ. Numbers are World of Bombay’s Dance Bars and 13 Men. limited. See also event 324.

[366] 8.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Brenda Lozano, Daniel Saldaña París, 10pm Laia Jufresa with Gaby Wood [370] 10PM TATA TENT £19 México20 2015 is the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of Tommy Tiernan the UK in Mexico. To celebrate we’re working with the Stand-Up British Council and Conaculta to present México20, Now entering his 20th year as a stand up comedian, a project that promotes 20 new voices of Mexican having won every award going and still as passionate writers under the age of 40 and brings their work to as ever about the adventure of storytelling and comedy, an international readership. Come and join three of Ireland’s number one comedian is also starting to take the emerging superstars of the anthology for an evening some very exciting risks. There’s no manners on him. of Mexican stories, music and drink. With music from Profound, dark, and silly too, his performance the stunning mariachi band Las Adelitas. mesmerises in a way that is joyful, uplifting, inspirational and, most importantly, always breathtakingly funny. [367] 8.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 The Devil’s Violin presents [371] 10PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £19 The Forbidden Door What would you sacrifice for the sake of the one you Courtney Pine and Zoe Rahman love? The Forbidden Door tells passionate, funny and Song (The Ballad Book) hauntingly interwoven stories. Twisting human nature’s The legendary jazz hero plans to strip everything need to disobey the rules into beautiful tales of love right back for the most intimate shows of his long and loss, this is storytelling for adults; there are no and celebrated career, as he takes to the stage playing big eyes or nursery rhymes. Expect impossible quests, bass clarinet accompanied only by the fellow Mercury heart-stopping twists, love, loss, high drama, low nominee and MOBO award-winning pianist. A vibrant comedy and pure moments of total abandonment from and highly individual pianist/composer, her style is the real world. The Devil’s Violin is Daniel Morden – deeply rooted in jazz and also reflects her classical story, Oliver Wilson-Dickson – violin, Sarah background and British/Bengali heritage. ‘I have always Moody – cello, and Dylan Fowler – guitar. wanted to record a collection of my favourite ballads and there is nothing like performing in a duet format for bringing out the intimacy of great songs.’ 78 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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STAGE £5 Con Coughlin SUNDAYMAY31 Nell Leyshon What the Paper Said: The Telegraph Archive Fictions – The Dipper Hosted by senior Telegraph journalists, stories from 31 ‘There’s different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer May at key historical moments over the past 150 years step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump are brought to life using the paper’s unique archive. into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too From World War One and D-Day to the rise of the close to theirs. Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross Suffragettes and the birth of the nuclear age; not to the line.’ Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at mention fashion through the decades and legendary junior school when his father first takes him out on the stars of sport. Here is a past world documented in rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a fascinating and revealing detail by daily reporting. child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again. But Gary is also fiercely intelligent – he often knows more about the 10am antique furniture he is stealing than the people who own it, and is confident in his ability to trick his way [378] 10AM TATA TENT £8 out of any situation, always one step ahead. But all that changes when he falls for Mandy… Nell talks to Alex Salmond talks to Helena Kennedy Sarah Crown. ‘Yes’ The inside story of the campaign for Scottish independence, told in Salmond’s diary – The Dream GOOD ENERGY STAGE [374] 9AM–9.45AM £5 Shall Never Die: 100 Days That Changed Scotland Maggie Ross talks to Rachael Kerr Forever. There may well be UK politics on the Silence: A User’s Guide agenda too… The Anglican solitary describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unawares; how the [379] 10AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 work of silence was once understood to be a foundation of Western Christianity. Celia Imrie and Terry Waite talk to Georgina Godwin Fictions – Not Quite Nice/Golden Handshake [375] 9AM–10AM BBC TENT FREE BUT TICKETED Two fiction debuts from best-selling non-fiction Broadcasting House writers. Not Quite Nice is a gloriously funny and BBC Radio 4 LIVE charming debut novel about the joys and challenges On Sunday 31 May, BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting of living abroad from one of the nation’s best-loved House comes live from Hay Festival with presenter actresses, star of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Paddy O’Connell, for an hour of interviews and author of the witty memoir The Happy Hoofer. entertainment. The Voyage of the Golden Handshake is a warm and Broadcast every Sunday morning on charmingly funny ocean-going story, which reminds BBC Radio 4 at 9am. you that life is for living, and in which Terry Waite shows an unexpected talent for comic fiction.

[376] 9AM–9.45AM STARLIGHT STAGE £5 In association with Saga magazine Edward Wakeling Lewis Carroll: The Man and his Circle Wakeling draws upon his personal database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never before published, to fill the gaps left by earlier biographies and resolve some of the key myths that surround Lewis Carroll, such as his friendships with children and his drug-taking.

[HF161] 9AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE FREE BUT TICKETED Rastamouse Prepare to make some noise and bust some moves as Rastamouse co-creator Michael De Souza presents a reading adventure exploring the riddims and rhymes of Mouseland. Get ready to jam along as CBeebies star Rastamouse makes a special appearance at the festival. 5+ years

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[380] 10AM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [W57] 10AM–10.45AM SCRIBBLERS HUT Sara Bevan FREE BUT TICKETED Art From Contemporary Conflict Chess Workshop Bevan delves into the Imperial War Museum’s With International Master Malcolm Pein and contemporary art collection, which reflects experiences Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. of and responses to a wide range of recent and ongoing Supported by Stephens and George Centenary conflicts. She examines art created in response to Charitable Trust fighting in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Bosnia, 6–106 years Iraq and Afghanistan, and work by contemporary artists like Steve McQueen, Roderick Buchanan, [W33] 10AM–11.30AM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO and Langlands & Bell. £10/£8 UNDER 16S In association with The Imperial War Museum Drawing the Body Clothed SUNDAY 31 MAY SUNDAY Royal Drawing School Class [381] 10AM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. Mark Miodownik All ages and abilities Stuff Matters Everything is made of something, and that stuff is changing all the time. Find out what is on the horizon 11.30am for our material world and how it shapes everything around us, from our landscapes and cities, to our [383] 11.30AM TATA TENT £8 homes and hospitals, our art, our literature, and Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan, even our behaviour. Andre Vincent and guest In association with The Royal Society Winton Prize The Early Edition for Science Books The home team satirists read the Sunday papers. Sponsored by Dai & Chris Davies, The Newsagents [382] 10AM OXFAM MOOT £7

Esther-Miriam Wagner [384] 11.30AM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Cambridge University Series 19 Simon Schama How Language Shapes Our Identity The Demon That Won’t Die The way we speak and write is a major part of our The historian examines the persistence of Anti- identity. Wagner explores what dialects tell us about our Semitism in the contemporary world. Schama’s latest social networks, whether alphabets really mean anything, project is the book and documentary series The Story and why youth speak is not all that terrible. ‘K? of the Jews. Volume 2 – When Words Fail will be In association with Cambridge University published in November.

[HF148] 10AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 [385] 11.30AM LLWYFAN CYMRU Alice in Wonderland – WALES STAGE £7 Storytelling with the Mad Hatter Robert Crawford with readings Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is celebrating its 150th by Miranda Richardson anniversary and it’s time for you to join the party! Meet The London Library Lecture the Mad Hatter, who will take you on a fun adventure TS Eliot, Poets and Libraries through Wonderland to find the White Rabbit, with an Professor Robert Crawford’s biography Young Eliot imaginative story-trail retelling of the classic novel and traces the life of one of the C20th’s most important creative craft activities. Why not come dressed as your poets from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis favourite character and make the Cheshire Cat smile? up to the publication of his most famous poem The 5+ years Waste Land. He discusses Eliot’s relationship with the London Library, as one of its former Presidents, and [HF149] 10AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 the relationship between poets and libraries in the Pip Jones wider context. The event opens with a reading of Squishy McFluff Eliot’s poems by actress Miranda Richardson. Meet Ava and her mischievous invisible cat, Squishy In association with The London Library McFluff. During this interactive event children help create the ultimate imaginary pet and hear some of Ava and Squishy’s adventures. 4+ years

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Rick Stroud FREE BUT TICKETED SUNDAYMAY31 Kidnap in Crete Nick Cope Music for Little People On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of Monkeys, bears, socks and mud! Nick Cope sings fearless partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick about everything children are really interested in. Leigh Fermor, kidnapped a high-ranking Nazi general The former indie-rocker frontman of The Candyskins, on the German-occupied island of Crete. Stroud is the Nick brings his own brand of acoustic folk-rock to the author of The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who world of children’s music, creating interactive concerts Hoodwinked Rommel and The Book of the Moon. for families. Come and join in. 3+ years Chaired by Con Coughlin. [W58] 11.30AM–12.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED [387] 11.30AM OXFAM MOOT £7 Mona Eltahawy talks to Laura Bates Chess Workshop Headscarves and Hymens: With International Master Malcolm Pein and Welsh Why the Middle East Needs a Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Sexual Revolution Supported by Stephens and George Centenary The campaigner and commentator explains that since Charitable Trust the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have 6–106 years had two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats 12pm women as second-class. Her illuminating and incendiary book is a plea for outrage and action on [W34] 12PM–1.30PM NFU MUTUAL STUDIO women’s behalf, confronting the ‘toxic mix of culture £10/£8 UNDER 16S and religion that few seem willing or able to Drawing a Story disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend.’ Royal Drawing School Class Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. [HF150] 11.30AM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 All ages and abilities Alex T Smith Claude & Foxy Author of Claude and 2014 World Book Day illustrator 1pm Alex T Smith has been called the ‘boy wonder of children’s book illustration’. Join Alex as he draws his [388] 1PM TATA TENT £8 favourite characters and introduces a new picture book, Jenny Agutter, Heidi Thomas, Pippa Harris Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion, a funny new Call The Midwife spin on a well-known fairytale. Hear how Alex gets The star, screenwriter and producer of the television inspiration for his hilarious characters (he might drama discuss the stories and period of Jennifer Worth’s even ask for your suggestions) and learn Top Secret best-selling books with Virginia Nicholson. illustrator tips, including how to draw Claude himself. 5+ years [389] 1PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Andrew Roberts [HF151] 11.30AM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £4 Napoleon the Great Pamela Butchart After seizing power in a coup d’état, Napoleon Blue Peter Best Story Award Winner Bonaparte ended the corruption and incompetence Pamela will share the brilliantly bonkers world of into which the Revolution had descended. In a series Izzy in a lively session based on her book The Spy of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; Who Loved School Dinners, winner of the Blue in peace, he completely remade the laws of France, Peter Best Story Award. The latest in the series is modernised her systems of education and adminis- My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat. tration, and presided over a flourishing of the beautiful 7+ years Empire Style in the arts. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel. 2015 marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. Chaired by Geordie Greig, editor of The Mail on Sunday. Supported by Mr & Mrs Robin Herbert

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[390] 1PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 [HF154] 1PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £5 Maria Loh Gareth P Jones Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Steam Punk Pirates Portrait of the Old Master Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders is the second in the He was one of the biggest international art stars of his gloriously daft series The Adventures of the Steampunk time; but being Michelangelo was no easy thing. He Pirates by Blue Peter Award-winner, Gareth P Jones. was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, Dropping anchor in Hay with his trusty ukulele, his and depicted in unauthorised portraits. Still Lives traces musty accordion and his rusty cutlass, Gareth gives us the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, an event like no other. Prepare for clashing cutlasses, Dürer, and Titian became early modern celebrities. rowdy readings, raucous sea shanties, and other such Loh teaches art history at University College, London, shenanigans. Piratical attire optional. and is also author of Titian Remade: Repetition and 6+ years

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[W59] 1PM–1.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT [391] 1PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 FREE BUT TICKETED Hans van de Ven Chess Workshop Cambridge University Series 20 With International Master Malcolm Pein and China’s D-Day: The Ichigo Offensive Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. of 1944 and the Future of Asia Supported by Stephens and George Centenary In 1944, at the same time that the Germans faced Charitable Trust defeat after defeat, the Japanese launched their 6–106 years largest land operation of the entire war. Involving 500,000 soldiers and fighting over a 1,500 km front, the Japanese cut through Chinese defences. 2pm The consequences were fatal for Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalists and they laid the basis for the rise to [393] 2PM–4PM HORIZONS AIRSTREAM power of Mao Zedong’s Communists. Using battle FREE – ALL WELCOME reports, memoirs, and the writings of popular Lynn Bowles intellectuals at the time, the Professor of Modern Chinese History analyses the campaigns, and their BBC Radio Wales LIVE consequences for China and for international relations. Lynn Bowles brings all the flavours of the festival live, with good music, a sprinkling of celebrity sparkle and In association with Cambridge University much, much more. Broadcast every Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio [392] 1PM OXFAM MOOT £7 Wales, 2pm–4pm. Marian Keyes Fictions – The Woman Who Stole My Life Keyes’ stunning new novel The Woman Who Stole My Life 2.30pm is about losing the life you had and finding a better one. Her international bestselling novels include Rachel’s [394] 2.30PM TATA TENT £15 Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Bear Grylls Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky and The Ghost Flight Mystery of Mercy Close. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. The adventurer launches his thriller, in which his hero Sponsored by Savage & Gray Design is sent deep into the Amazon jungle on the hunt for a WW2 secret. Grylls’ recent non-fiction includes True Grit, Extreme Food and Your Life – Train For It. He [HF153] 1PM STARLIGHT STAGE £4 talks to Clemency Burton-Hill. Mary Evans Story Stew [395] 2.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £7 Join children’s author Mary Evans for a fun, anarchic and downright daft introduction to story Richard Eyre writing. Using a host of ingredients, a dollop of What Do I Know? imagination and a side helping of silliness, you can The theatre and film director writes about people, learn a basic recipe that will enable anyone to write politics and the arts with candour and wit. He talks a story. That’s right. Anyone. Especially you. Back about Thatcher and Pinter, Brando and Winslet. by popular demand, Story Stew helps you to write He has an acute eye for the telling detail that reveals stories that leave a great taste in the imagination. truths about his subjects, and a warm generosity 7+ years that celebrates the brilliance of his colleagues.

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Chris Rapley £10/£8 UNDER 16S SUNDAYMAY31 2071: The World We’ll Leave Our Drawing Out and About Grandchildren Royal Drawing School Class Climate change is a matter of importance to everyone, Full listing at hayfestival.org/royaldrawingschool. but what to do about it is mired in controversy. All ages and abilities What’s needed is a conversation. What do we owe future generations? How can we protect our children and grandchildren? Rapley is Professor of Climate 4pm Science at University College London. He was previously director of the Science Museum, Director [399] 4PM TATA TENT £10 of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Director of the British Antarctic Survey. Helen McCrory, Lisa Dwan, Richard Harrington, Miranda Richardson The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour [397] 2.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 We celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth Elizabeth Morgan and Richard Harrington of WB Yeats with this reading of his poetry. Fictions – Ticket to Paradise Morgan’s novel tells the story of Welsh emigration [400] 4PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £9 to Patagonia in 1865 with a wealth of characters brought to life, populating a story that illustrates the David Starkey fight against injustice and the terrible forces of nature. Magna Carta Readings by Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland The historian examines the context of the 1215 and Bleak House. Chaired by Horatio Clare. charter and its lasting impact on democracy today. Sponsored by Christ College, Brecon

[398] 2.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 William Nicholson [401] 4PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £7 Fictions – The Lovers of Amherst David and Harry Rich Nicholson introduces his new novel. It has a dual Rich Landscapes narrative set in both 2013 and 1881, when the The multi-award-winning landscape designer treasurer of Amherst College, Austin Dickinson’s brothers come straight to Hay from Chelsea. They affair with a young married woman is observed by talk to Francine Stock about their recent projects his daughter Emily, a poet. Nicholson’s plays include and their philosophy. ‘We believe in a fusion between Shadowlands and Life Story. He co-wrote the script for landscape and architecture. An important relationship the film Gladiator and he has scripted Les Misérables that encourages a more rounded approach to an outdoor and Mandela. With readings by actress Lisa Dwan. lifestyle, creating not only beautiful but practical spaces, inspiring people to use their gardens. Reconnecting people with nature is something we are very [HF155] 2.30PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 passionate about. With a recent increase in urbanisation, Gary Northfield our connection with “the wild” is slowly becoming lost. Julius Zebra. Rumble with the Romans! We aim to give people their own patch of nature but Meet the cartoonist and graphic novelist who created set within a sympathetic and structured design.’ The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! graphic novel Sponsored by Wyevale Nurseries Ltd and is a cartoonist for phenomenally successful comics and series including The Phoenix, The Beano, [402] 4PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £7 The Dandy and Horrible Histories. Gary introduces his hilarious brand new series Julius Zebra. Rumble with the Charles W Calomiris Romans! and dazzles with lots of images, live drawing Fragile by Design and plenty of Roman facts. Calomiris offers a revealing exploration of the ways 7+ years that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. He combines political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and [W60] 2.30PM–3.15PM SCRIBBLERS HUT other interest groups form; why some endure while FREE BUT TICKETED others are undermined; and how they generate policies Chess Workshop that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access With International Master Malcolm Pein and to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. Charles W Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor Supported by Stephens and George Centenary of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School. Charitable Trust 6–106 years

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[403] 4PM OXFAM MOOT £7 [406] 5.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £8 Raffaello Pantucci John Mitchinson, John Lloyd We Love Death as You Love Life: and James Harkin Britain’s Suburban Terrorists QI’s Greatest Hits As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow- QI’s very core is ‘the astonishing fact’: painstakingly believers into London on the morning of 7 July 2005 researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the clarity. To celebrate the reissue of their backlist, join us immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at for a canter through their best ever discoveries: Jeeves the West’s treatment of Muslims worldwide, ideas fed wasn’t a butler. Coffee isn’t made from beans. Woodlice to them by foreign extremists, and a sense of extreme drink through their bottoms. Light is invisible. Mount rejection of the society in which they were born, they Everest isn’t the tallest mountain. Florence Nightingale sought to reshape the world in an image they thought spent 50 years in bed. There are 613 commandments

SUNDAY 31 MAY SUNDAY would be pleasing to God. Pantucci offers an insight in the bible. Monkeys pay to look at porn. An hour of into the motivations behind Khan and his group, as endless fun with the QI writing team. well as the hundreds of young British Muslims who have been drawn by jihadist ideas to fight on [407] 5.30PM LLWYFAN CYMRU – WALES STAGE £8 battlefields at home and abroad. Pantucci is Director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Michael Pennington Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Let Me Play the Lion Too: How To Be An Actor How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why [404] 4PM STARLIGHT STAGE £7 might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How Jackie Morris should you research? What’s the effect of a long tour on Queen of the Sky your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a The amazing story of Ffion Rees and the peregrine matinée? What’s the difference between transitive and falcon she rescued from the sea off the remote coast intransitive corpsing? What is stage fright? One of our of west Wales. It’s the story of how Ffion nursed the greatest and wittiest classical actors gives us the skinny falcon back to life and back to the wild, and about the on ‘the business’. He talks to Lisa Dwan. bond that grew between the two. Beautifully illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, sketches and [408] 5.30PM GOOD ENERGY STAGE £8 magnificent paintings in watercolour and gold leaf by Jackie Morris. Fred Pearce The New Wild The veteran environmental journalist used to think [405] 4PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6 of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine Susan Abulhawa ‘natural’ ecosystems. New ecologists, looking afresh Fictions – The Blue Between Sky and Water at how species interact in the wild, believe we should Spanning generations and continents, The Blue Between celebrate the dynamism of alien species and the novel Sky and Water is a story of powerful, flawed women; of ecosystems they create. In an era of climate change and relocation, separation and heartache; of renewal, family, widespread ecological damage, we must find ways to endurance, and love. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw help nature regenerate. Chaired by Andy Fryers. humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastatingly beautiful tale. Chaired [409] 5.30PM OXFAM MOOT £7 by Rosie Goldsmith. Peter Hain Back to the Future of Socialism [W61] 4PM–4.45PM SCRIBBLERS HUT FREE BUT TICKETED What’s gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Chess Workshop Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer With International Master Malcolm Pein and austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled Welsh Chess Champion Timothy Kett. market forces or regulating for the common good? Supported by Stephens and George Centenary Hain revisits Anthony Crosland’s classic text and Charitable Trust presents a stimulating political prospectus for today. 6–106 years

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Matthew Engel Satish Kumar talks to Andy Fryers SUNDAYMAY31 Engel’s England Satish Kumar, a former monk and long-term peace England is the most complicated place in the world. and environmental activist, talks us through his life: And, as the journalist and humorist travels through his 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, co-founding the each of the historic English counties, he discovers Schumacher College, and his hopes for the future. that’s just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of history: still a unique slice of a nation that has not quite lost its 7pm ancient diversity. He finds the well-dressers of Derbyshire and the [372] 7PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £5 pyromaniacs of Sussex; the Hindus and huntsmen of Virginia Nicholson Leicestershire; the goddess-worshippers of Somerset. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: He tracks down the real Lancashire, hedonistic The Story of Women in the 1950s Essex, and the most mysterious house in Middlesex. Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: In Durham he goes straight from choral evensong a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal to the dog track. As he seeks out the essence of each and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. She is the county – from Yorkshire’s broad acres to the microdot author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living of Rutland – Engel always finds the unexpected. 1900–1939, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Chaired by Justin Albert. Survived Without Men after the First World War and Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives During the Second World War. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith. [415] 5.30PM–7.30PM ELMLEY FOUNDATION CUBE £6

Paul Fischer [413] 7PM–7.45PM STARLIGHT STAGE £6 A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Incredible Francine Stock, Tom Robey, True Story of North Korea and the Most William Nicholson and Bruce Robinson Audacious Kidnapping in History Nobody’s Perfect: Golden Words Before becoming the world’s most notorious From the Silver Screen dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s film industry. What makes a great screenplay? Structure? Dialogue? He directed every film made in the country but knew Can it take us places a novel can’t reach? Francine Stock they were nothing compared to Hollywood. Then he of The Film Programme, Tim Robey, The Telegraph hit on the perfect solution: order the kidnapping of film critic, the Oscar-winning (Gladiator) playwright South Korea’s most famous actress and her ex-husband, of Mandela, Shadowlands and Les Miserables, Bill the country’s most acclaimed director. In a jaw- Nicholson, and the legendary director and screenwriter dropping mission the couple were kidnapped, held of Withnail and I, Jennifer 8 and The Rum Diaries hostage and then ‘employed’ to make films for the debate the strengths of their favourite film scripts Dear Leader, including a remake of Godzilla. They and recommend a top ten screenplays of all time list. gained Kim’s trust – but could they escape? To join the conversation and make your own arguments for favourite movie scripts, please post on Hay Festival’s Facebook page or Twitter @hayfestival 6.45pm #nobodysperfect.

[411] 6.45PM–7.30PM TELEGRAPH STAGE £4 Nigel Kennedy in conversation with 8pm Clemency Burton-Hill In an informal pre-concert interview, the violinist [414] 8PM TATA TENT £35 talks about his approach to music, his Polish band, Nigel Kennedy his 1732 violin made by Carlo Bergonzi of Cremona, Closing Night Concert jazz, Villa and Vivaldi. Violin maverick Nigel Kennedy and his band bridge musical boundaries in an evening of brilliance, improvisation and showmanship. Expect the unexpected and come prepared for breathtaking performances of works new and old, including music written by Kennedy himself. Sponsored by Gypsy Castle Camping

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What riches are in store for you and Ed Vere, who will do live Our Schools Programme takes this year! The programme is drawing and tell stories for their place 21–22 May, with inspiring packed full of great names from young fans. Some of them will events for local school children. children’s fiction, such as David also take part in our Words and Find out all about it at Almond, Malorie Blackman, Pictures events, exploring how hayfestival.org/ Frank Cottrell Boyce, they work for older children and schoolsprogramme. Cressida Cowell, Derek adults – a delight for anyone Add to all of this a dazzling array Landy, Michael Morpurgo, Liz interested in art and illustration. of workshops from wonderful Pichon, Chris Riddell and Sam McBratney reflects on organisations like Aardman Jacqueline Wilson. over 20 years of Guess How Much Animations and the RSPB, Comedy is a big theme this year, I Love You (one of the world’s Magna Carta quizzes and with Dick and Dom, James biggest-selling picture books) and Alice in Wonderland trails, Campbell, David O’Doherty picture book legend Nick and you will be spoilt for choice. and Danny Wallace all Butterworth tells us about Q Visit hayfestival.org/ guaranteed to make you laugh. Pootle 5’s journey from page to workshops for full listings. And if creating your own screen. Whether you are interested in cartoons is more your style, the Teenagers will find plenty to get magic, maths or the Magna Carta, fabulous team behind Phoenix their teeth into with our line-up you’ll find something to inspire Comics are running a series of of events starring some of the you here at Hay. awesome workshops. top names in Young Adult writing Most of all, it’s going to be fun! We have a spectacular line-up of today, including Meg Rosoff and events with illustrators, including Holly Smale. Rebecca Cobb, Emily Gravett, The wonderful Zak Simmonds- Mary Byrne Chris Haughton, David Hurn, best known for his Sky Programme Director Melling, Lydia Monks Drifters and Simon Swift Hay Fever illustrations in The Phoenix weekly story comic, has created our 2015 artwork. Follow our 01497 822 629 intrepid readers as they jump hayfestival.org/hayfever through worlds of the imagination on the pages of the Hay Fever programme, which you can view at hayfestival.org/hayfever.

86 Visit the Hay Fever Bookshop Croeso Courtyard Books and signings by all the Croeso i Hay Fever, rhaglen Gwˆ yl children’s and Young Adult authors Most of our Hay Fever events y Gelli i blant a theuluoedd! Dydd on the programme are available at Iau 21 Mai–Dydd Sul 31 Mai 2015. take place in the Starlight the Hay Festival Bookshop on Stage and Elmley Foundation Archebwch ar-lein ar the main site, just a step away Cube venues. The Make & Take hayfestival.org/hayfever from the Hay Fever venues. Tent and the Mess Tent are Ffoniwch y swyddfa docynnau ar back, so you can get crafting 01497 822 629. between 10am and 5pm each day Safety Policy and take part in a wide range of Children aged 12 years and under exciting activities including the must be accompanied at all times Lovereading4kids Book Zone. Thanks by a parent or guardian, including For more info on workshops during events, unless otherwise Illustrations © Zak Simmonds- and extra events, visit stated. Hurn zaksimmondshurn.co.uk. hayfestival.org/hayfever. The lost child point is located in Colour flatting assistance by There’s also a lovely central the Make & Take Tent in the Hay Lisa Murphy and Andy Silver. garden area so you and your Fever Courtyard between 10am Zak is a Phoenix comic artist: kids can just hang out and have a and 5pm every day. Outside these thephoenixcomic.co.uk. Shepherds ice cream or coffee in hours it is located in the Admin between events. And you’ll also Office, next to the Box Office. find baby-changing facilities and a For information on accessibility pram park there. visit hayfestival.org/access. Hay Fever and Schools Visitors to Hay Festival may be Programme coordination filmed and/or photographed for by Nessie Mason. future promotions of the festival.

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Hay Festival Bookshop Shepherds This year, the bookshop will be bigger than ever before, If you are looking for irresistible ice-creams, sublime with plenty of room to relax and browse. We will be sundaes and toppings that are just topping, you’re in stocking all books by authors attending the festival, the right place. We are artisan ice-cream makers since and holding book signings after every event. Please 1987 and we have a unique recipe based on sheep’s note that a maximum of one book per person that is milk. Come and visit our on-site stall or visit our not purchased from us will be accepted for signature. café/ice-cream parlour at 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye, We are open from 9am daily. recently chosen in Condé Nast Traveller as one of the World’s Best Local Ice-Cream Shops. You can follow us on Facebook or Twitter @shepherdsices. So don’t FOOD & DRINK be a lost sheep. Flock to Shepherds. Bloody Oyster Bus Tapas Bar Fancy a shuck at The Bloody Oyster? We’ll be shaking Join us at Tapas España for a gastronomical tour of and shucking our signature Oysters, Bloody Marys and Spain brought to you by the Spanish Tourist Office. ON SITE EXTRAS cocktails aboard our iconic London double-decker bus. You will have the chance to taste the best that Spain Open all day – stop by for a drink or take a table on has to offer. Pop in and say Hola! the top deck. Private parties welcome during the #SpainatHay | @Spain_inUK festival too. To book call 07939 960 717 or email [email protected]. Festival Bar FESTIVAL FOOD HALL For a pint of real ale, a glass of wine or a jug of Pimms to enjoy in the sunshine. Locally produced food to feast on. Friends Café The Bridge Inn, Michaelchurch Escley A hub of activity during the festival, where you’ll catch on Tour those sold-out events relayed live from the Tata Tent Coming down from the hills above Hay-on-Wye to on screen. The café is open early for your first shot of bring you a selection of our most loved dishes. We will coffee through to the call for last orders. Join your be serving our Escleyside beef and ale pies with mash or friends or make new ones here. chips and freshly steamed vegetables. Our proper pies are made with Herefordshire’s favourite Butty Bach Graze beer and stuffed full of chunks of Herefordshire’s best Graze will once again be serving up superb Welsh beef. For great vegan, vegetarian and gluten free dishes and locally-sourced food, from tapas, sharing platters, check out our full menu online: steaks, fresh fish and salads to desserts to die for. www.thebridgeinnmichaelchurch.co.uk. Champagne, wines and Welsh ales also available, as well as posh pizza from the bar. Graze was previously BLAS Buon Gusto Pizza and is run by Capital Cuisine from just outside Cardiff: Authentic Italian pizza made fresh daily in the Food visit capitalcuisine.co.uk for the full menu. Hall. Buon Gusto are pleased once again to attend Hay Festival. Choose from the quirky festival themed Hay Fever Coffee menu and enjoy fresh stone-baked pizza, using their Child-friendly, no-nonsense sandwiches and drinks own unique dough recipe and cooked to order. served in the garden. Parents, we haven’t forgotten you either. We have fresh organic coffee, iced drinks, pastries Café Môr and comfortable seating to rest those weary legs. The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company proudly presents Café Môr, winner of the BBC Radio 4 Food Relish Festival Restaurant and Farming Awards 2014 for Best UK Street Food! Café – Bar – Restaurant Come and enjoy the unique seafood menu at the Beach Relish return to Hay Festival 2015, bringing you Shack. Sample famous seashore-inspired delights such the Festival Restaurant, Café and Bar. The restaurant as freshly-baked seashore wraps filled with fantastic will open each day of the festival for lunch and dinner, Welsh seafood, fish chowder with Ship’s Biscuits, and serving delicious dishes using only the best local, the fabulous Beach Brownies. The Lobster & Crab seasonal ingredients. The bar will serve draft beers, Shack offers divine Pembrokeshire lobster and crab wine and cocktails, including the best Bloody Marys served with salad and frites. All new for this year: the on site. The café will feature light bites, barista pop-up Fish ‘n’ Chip Shop! #luckypeople coffees and other deli treats to eat in or take away. Coffee Cart Co. ‘We have developed our Relish Café, Bar and Restaurant on focused, timely and endearing customer service, Coffee Cart Co. are proud to be serving our own making your festival experience a memorable one.’ signature organic espresso blend alongside a delicious cold summer drinks menu including iced teas and Private parties welcome during the festival. To book call frappés. Time to beat the heat in the tents? 01285 658 444 or email [email protected]. Then come join us! 96 ON SITE EXTRAS 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

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Dylan Thomas Boathouse Bar located in the Food Hall. exciting and innovative range of the very best in EXTRAS SITE ON ceramics, jewellery, sculpture and print. Come and The Granary browse our beautiful collection between events in The Granary Vegetarian Kitchen is in the Food Hall a relaxing, friendly environment and take home serving vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. something to remind you of Hay! Soups, chilis and curries, delicious salads, veggie bean www.hayclay.uk | 01497 821 026 | #bowiegallery burgers, falafels, cashew bake with beetroot and mint relish, and veggie breakfasts. Enormous meringues and The Bow Top Company of Hay-on-Wye scones with homemade jam and cream to follow. Builders of traditional Bow Top Gypsy Caravans. Gluten-free cakes available also. Visit our beautiful caravan on the festival site. Perfect as a dreamy garden retreat, a spare bedroom, B&B, Lotty’s Pure Indulgence glamping, festival or summer holiday hire. Built Lotty’s, still serving a delicious range of homemade to your budget and specification. food, including full breakfasts, savoury tarts, salad www.thebowtopcompany.com selection, Thai veg/vegan curry, steak & kidney stew, [email protected] | 07557 048 208 Italian stone-baked pizza slices, decadent puds, cakes and brownies. Plus gluten-free options for mains and Cambrian Mountains Wool puddings. Come and indulge! Using fleece farmed in the heart of Wales, Cambrian Mountains Wool has challenged textiles designers Slate of Cheese around the world to ‘create and inspire’. Our A selection of Welsh cheeses on a variety of hand- celebratory showcase of beautifully crafted wool pieces prepared platters. Each cheese has been specially is their response. We are delighted to be at Hay Festival selected for the Hay Festival and will be accompanied – opening our exhibition, sharing our story and by homemade chutney and crackers. Also a selection challenging you to rethink Welsh wool. of tapas – olives, hummus, vegetable crisps and cured www.cambrianmountainswool.org meats including venison salami. Handmade venison scotch eggs and pies. Cardiff Metropolitan University At Cardiff Metropolitan University we specialise in Welsh Venison Centre courses that are career orientated. Our focus on We are a local farming family, butchers and farm shop. employability has ensured that 94% of our graduates Welsh Venison Centre is delighted to offer festival- enter employment or further study within six months followers the healthy venison option and will be open of graduation (DLHE 2013). Visit us at Hay Festival every day with a varied menu including our famous to find out more about the range of courses we offer gourmet venison burgers, chilli, meatballs, salads and in Creative Writing, English Literature, Drama, Media, wedges. Our farm shop is also worth a visit, stocked Education and more. with Welsh produce, local bread and gifts for the home. www.cardiffmet.ac.uk | @cardiffmet www.beaconsfarmshop.co.uk Christ College, Brecon XOX An HMC Independent Boarding and Day School XOX will be serving Welsh lamb and beef from local for Boys and Girls aged 7–18 years. At Christ College, farms in a range of stir-fries, wraps and burgers. education is about learning with enthusiasm and enjoyment; living and growing in a culture where every individual counts and where staff and pupils are passionate about what they do. It is about challenges and adventures of every sort – all conducted around EXHIBITORS our inspiring campus on the outskirts of Brecon. AGA Please visit www.christcollegebrecon.com for details. There is nothing quite like the AGA cooker; the feeling The Daily Telegraph it creates in the home and, of course, the delicious food it helps to produce. And now our latest models have Come and visit us at the festival entrance to purchase been designed with controllable features to suit the a copy of the daily newspaper along with your free 21st-century lifestyle. Visit the AGA team at Hay festival canvas bag. Read our daily coverage of events Festival to learn more. and talk to our friendly staff for more information www.agaliving.com about how to obtain a digital subscription.

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The European Commission Office in Wales Hay Does Vintage European Commission in the UK staff are looking forward Visit Hay Does Vintage to rummage through the rails in to meeting with members of the public and will be on hand search of glorious one-off vintage treasures. Find plenty of to answer and discuss questions about the EU. This may clothes, accessories and jewellery with Jo (Hay Does include the role of the EU in Wales and the UK; Vintage) and Kelli (Vintage Tramp). Previewing a small employment opportunities in the EU institutions; collection from the forthcoming Hay Does Vintage fayre in opportunities for students to study in another European Hay on Sunday 28 June. Follow events on Facebook or country; and linguistic and cultural opportunities. Twitter @haydoesvintage and @vintagetramp. First News Horizons Airstream First News is the award-winning weekly national newspaper for children, with over two million readers every week. Horizons/Gorwelion is a scheme delivered by BBC Cymru Experienced First News journalists provide up-to-date Wales in partnership with Arts Council Wales to develop articles on a range of subjects from entertainment to new, independent contemporary music in Wales. Look politics, sport to science, as well as major news stories from out for the Horizons airstream with acoustic performances from a whole host of Welsh acts throughout the festival.

ON SITE EXTRAS the UK and around the world. Come and meet us on the stand for fun and games. For updates follow us on Twitter More information and the full schedule will be available at @First_News. the Airstream on site. Many of the performances are filmed: go to www.bbc.co.uk/horizons for footage from the Great English Outdoors & Still Ethical Hay Festival. The Great English Outdoors and Still Ethical are sharing a Follow us here for up-to-date blogs, photos and stand – Shopping with a Soul – Welsh and world textiles, performances: http://horizons-gorwelion.tumblr.com. fine leatherwork and useful but beautiful objects for you Tweet us here: @horizonscymru. and the home, alongside a carefully curated collection of stunning clothing, the culmination of artisanal projects in Lovereading4kids Book Zone India. Visit us on our stand, or in the shop at 19 Castle Situated in the Make & Take Tent in the Hay Fever Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DF. Courtyard throughout the entire festival. It is a fun and www.greatenglish.co.uk | 01497 821 205 cool place for children and their families to chill out www.stillethical.com | 07983 552 217 during breaks between events. There are Lovereading4kids members of staff on hand to encourage children and H&M parents to browse books, explore the website, register as From the cotton fields to the clothes in our stores, H&M is members and recommend suitable books for age groups, working to make fashion more sustainable. To learn more ability and interest. about our conscious actions visit www.hm.com/conscious. Visiting authors, editors, publishers and reviewers will drop in to offer advice and guidance in their areas of Hay Castle expertise. The Lovereading4kids Book Zone has special Fire, battle and centuries of decay have left Hay Castle in shelves to inspire a love of reading, including books for peril, with much of it long closed and inaccessible. Find out reluctant readers, dyslexia-friendly books, great books about an ambitious and unique vision for its future, check for boys, classics, picture books and contemporary novels out a 3D model, and share in the adventure. by age range and interest age. www.haycastletrust.org | @haycastle Lovereading4kids is also co-sponsoring several dyslexia- friendly and reluctant reader workshops in the Scribblers Hay & District Chamber of Commerce Hut and there will be 1:1 sessions available in the Friendly volunteers from the Hay & District Chamber of Lovereading4kids Book Zone after these events in order Commerce will be on site from 10am to 6pm daily with all to encourage, support and inspire a love of reading. you need to know about Hay and the surrounding area. Whether it’s advice on a favourite bookshop, where to find a Mark Stephens Furniture cash machine, or info on bus timetables, we’ll have a local Mark Stephens Furniture is delighted to be exhibiting voice on hand to help! Hay is lucky enough to have a thriving at Hay Festival for the first time. Come and see our town centre filled with bookshops, quirky independent beautifully designed and made bespoke furniture; boutiques, cafés and other businesses, with barely a chain store contemporary but timeless and completely unique. in sight. Our Chamber of Commerce volunteers will be able An opportunity to think in a relaxed atmosphere about to help you make the most of your visit to our incredible organising your newly purchased books or simply different town. ways you want to enhance your home with individually designed pieces of furniture. www.markstephensfurniture.co.uk [email protected] | Twitter @marksbespoke 07771 782 621 | 01874 625 900

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NFU Mutual Studio Wales Millennium Centre – Experience the festival through drawing at the Royal Under the Spelling Wall Drawing School Pop-Up, hosted throughout the festival In 2004, Wales Millennium Centre commissioned poet in the NFU Mutual Studio. Drawing can be direct, Gwyneth Lewis to create an inscription for the front façade ON SITE EXTRAS SITE ON incisive, intimate, surprising, funny or confrontational. It of the now iconic arts centre. To celebrate the Centre’s 10th is a primary language natural to all human beings. Everyone anniversary year, join Gwyneth and staff from the Centre to can draw. Drawing from observation encourages an active have a go at writing your own 21st-century inscription for engagement with the visual world around us, connecting the front of the national arts centre for Wales. Suitable for what we see with how we think; it can help us get our all ages. thoughts in order or open up the imaginative mind. http://wmc10.org | Twitter @theCentre This year at Hay, the Royal Drawing School will be Instagram @walesmillenniumcentre running drawing classes every day, from Drawing a Head or Drawing the Figure to Drawing the Graphic Novel and Woodland Trust Drawing from Film. Sessions are taught by faculty of the ‘Without trees it’s a different story…’ Many of our greatest Royal Drawing School, all of whom are practising artists. stories and books feature woodland. Visit our engaging, Sessions are open to all levels and all ages (unless otherwise interactive exhibit and step into a pop-up storybook stated) and paper, drawing boards, pencils and rubbers woodland to discover why woods and trees matter. Our are provided. So whether you’re 8 or 80 pick up a pencil friendly team will inspire you to start your own enchanting and draw with us at Hay. Full listings are included in the woodland story. main programme. Formerly known as the Prince’s Drawing School, the aim of the Royal Drawing School is to raise the standard and profile of drawing through teaching and practice. We INSTALLATIONS are one of only a few institutions in the world offering in-depth, quality tuition in drawing from observation. Hereford College of Arts www.royaldrawingschool.org Hereford College of Arts Foundation Students have once again decorated the Hay Fever Courtyard, producing a Oxfam variety of 2D and 3D outcomes in response to stories, Visit the Oxfam Bookshop at Hay – you’ll find it magic, and mythical inspiration. Inspired by the journey a packed with great books, cards, CDs and more. From book can take you on, students have incorporated a range contemporary fiction to history, cookery to kids’ titles, of materials including textiles, wood, ceramics and metal, we’ve got it covered. Better yet, every purchase helps poor creating colourful and interactive works for children to enjoy. communities around the world. Buy just three books and Oxfam could give a youngster a school kit including pens, House of Illustration books, paper and classroom equipment – everything they ‘Pushing the Envelope’ is a specially commissioned need to go to school. exhibition of decorated envelopes, designed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the introduction of the first ever Prospect Magazine postage stamp, the Penny Black, which began a relationship Prospect brings together the sharpest minds on the ideas between stamps and illustration that continues to this day. that define the modern world. What results is an This exhibition, curated by staff and students of the entertaining and informative magazine combining Illustration BA course at Hereford College of Arts and compelling argument and clear-headed analysis. At Hay involving 100 internationally acclaimed illustrators, Festival 2015 you can try 3 issues for £1 and receive a reminds us of the simple joys of sending and receiving free bottle of wine. Visit our stand for more information. personalised mail. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk | Twitter @prospect_uk Magna Carta Chronicle Trail RSPB Cymru Test your knowledge of the Magna Carta with the Magna Visit RSPB Cymru and discover the amazing world of Carta Chronicle Trail on site at the Hay Festival. Follow wildlife in Wales. Our friendly team can give you a glimpse the trail to ten different points around the site and answer into some practical and unusual ways you can give nature the quiz questions for a chance to win a prize. The Magna a home where you live, as well as sharing with you what Carta Trail will run from Tuesday 26 May to Thursday 28 opportunities there are for you and your family to enjoy May. Pick up your activity sheet from the Make & Take a day out at your local RSPB nature reserve while Tent and get started! Suitable for 8+ years. supporting the incredible work we do.

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IN TOWN Traditional Printmaking Workshop RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £55 Fair on the Square 2015 TUESDAY 26 MAY & SATURDAY 30 MAY 10AM–4PM 23, 24, 25 MAY, HAY MARKET SQUARE Create beautiful prints in these practical workshops Three days of cheerful, free entertainment, in the heart with renowned book-cover artist, illustrator, and of Hay. Fabulous live music programme noon-6pm daily, printmaker, Hannah Firmin. Book one or multiple showcasing some of the best bands from the area, plus sessions to really advance your techniques. All materials vintage market, food stalls and colourful fresh flowers. and lunch provided. The beautifully restored Cheese Market hosts art and crafts, and exhibitions about the history of Hay and Children’s Traditional Printmaking Workshop the railway. Guided living history walks too, from RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £22.50 www.haytours.org. More information on Hay Tours THURSDAY 28 MAY 10AM–1PM below. Perfectly adapted to be safe and thoroughly engaging, OFF SITE EXTRAS Castle Street Food Market in the Honesty in this workshop children will learn all about design and Bookshop printmaking to create their own artworks. All materials and refreshments provided. Suitable for 8+ years. OPEN DAILY DURING THE FESTIVAL 10AM–6PM FRIDAY 23 MAY–SUNDAY 1 JUNE Step through the stone archway on the High Street and you are in Hay Castle’s attractive walled garden. Sit at wooden tables under canvas canopies, eat delicious WALKS street food and soak up the festival atmosphere in the town centre. Bon appétit! SUNDAY 24 MAY & SUNDAY 31 MAY 11.45AM–3PM MEET AT HAY CASTLE BUS STOP, OXFORD ROAD £8 ADULT, £4 CHILD (INCLUDES BUS FARE) Hay Ho! Bus Walk RICHARD BOOTH’S Join local walking guidebook authors Les Lumsdon and BOOKSHOP EVENTS Mike Ledlie on a beautiful walk in the borders. You’ll catch the 11.50am Hay Ho! bus from Hay Castle, alight During Hay Festival 2015, films are shown every evening in England and then walk back to Hay on footpaths at Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema, as well as weekend offering superb views of the Black Mountains. Learn a matinees. There is also a range of events in the Bookshop little local history and the story of the Hay Ho!, a rural Studio as below. To book tickets for these events, and for Sunday bus service saved from extinction by the full cinema listings, please visit www.boothbooks.co.uk. community. Easy walking with gentle climbs, 4–5 miles, several stiles, sorry no dogs. Walk ends in Hay at 3pm. Papercutting Workshop See www.haywalking.org for more info and to book. RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £20 SATURDAY 23 MAY & SUNDAY 24 MAY 10AM–12PM Learn the ancient craft of papercutting with artist Yasemin River Walks Wigglesworth. Explore other artists’ work, different papers River Walks can be booked online at hayfestival.org or and the techniques involved in designing and cutting. with the Box Office on 01497 822 629. Create a final piece of work to be proud of. Materials For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking provided. Suitable for all abilities. boots and warm and waterproof clothing.

The Stroud Silhouette Company TUESDAY 26 MAY The Secret Garden Screen [420] 9.30AM–2PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE FOR BUS £10 RICHARD BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP STUDIO £35 River Walk 1 SATURDAY 23 MAY & SUNDAY 24 MAY 1PM–5PM This unique, handcrafted backdrop by papercut artist Join the Wye & Usk Foundation trip around the Wye Yasmin Wigglesworth transports the silhouette of your and its tributaries near Hay to see the rare and unusual children into a scene from The Secret Garden. Captured creatures that live in the river, and to see what progress by professional photographer Kate Beer. Email or call to is being made to restore the run of salmon. book: [email protected] | 07941 181 498. Please bring a packed lunch.

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River Walk 2 Hay Heritage Trail EXTRAS SITE OFF Join the Wye & Usk Foundation trip around the Wye This tour takes in all the main historic features of Hay, and its tributaries near Hay to see the rare and unusual including the Cheese and Butter Markets, some of the creatures that live in the river, and to see what progress town’s former public wells and many of its pubs (there is being made to restore the run of salmon. used to be 40 inns in Hay back in the good old days). Please bring a packed lunch. 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 FRIDAY 29 MAY built in 1763. [422] 9AM–12PM MEET AT BOX OFFICE FOR BUS £10 Tour begins and ends in the centre of Hay outside Primrose Earth Awareness Trust: the Cheese Market, Memorial Square, HR3 5AF. Site Visit with Paul Benham The permaculture pioneer guides us around his sustainable WEDNESDAY 27 MAY food centre, which has won 12 True Taste of Wales 6PM-8PM MEET AT BLUE BOAR £6 awards in three years – including gold for Sustainable (PLUS £10 CASH FOR BEER KITTY) Development – and as the most productive acre and a half in the UK is a blueprint model for future food security. Historic Pub Crawl A guided historical tour of Hay’s pubs, with a half pint or equivalent at each stop. The tour will give a potted history of each of the five pubs visited, plus an overview HAY TOURS of Hay when it boasted 41 inns. Tour begins at the Blue Boar, Oxford Road, HR3 5DF Hay Tours run guided walking tours around the town and ends at the Swan Hotel, Church Street. that are about people, places and past events in the history of Hay. They aim to provide a colourful overview to the FRIDAY 29 MAY town and its cultural heritage. They are designed to be 2PM-4PM MEET AT HAY CLOCK TOWER £6 fairly short, informative and fun. Armstrong Murder Trail We strongly recommend booking tour places in advance. Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong was the only solicitor Tickets can be purchased online at www.haytours.org or in the UK ever to be hanged, on 31 May 1922. He was call 01544 327 598. convicted of murdering his wife with arsenic. He worked in Hay and lived in Cusop. This 2-mile walk takes in SATURDAY 23 MAY relevant sites to explain the story of events. The walk MEET AT CHEESE MARKET 10AM-12PM £6 leader will suggest Major Armstrong should not have been Explore Hay’s Old Railway convicted upon the basis of the evidence given at his trial. The railway formed an important part of life in Hay for Tour begins at Hay Clock Tower, Broad Street, HR3 5BU over 100 years, preceded by a horse-drawn tram that and ends at Cusop Church, with an optional group walk followed the same route from Brecon to Kington. An exact back into Hay. replica model of the railway was recently discovered and restored by members of Hay History Group. This tour begins with a demonstration of the working model before SUNDAY 31 MAY heading across town to follow the route of the railway line 2PM-3PM MEET AT SWAN HOTEL £6 from Hay Station to The Warren. This scenic walk of c.3 Swan Loop miles is mostly flat and incorporates town pavements and This is the perfect one-hour tour if you want a summary farmland footpaths with some stiles. of Hay. Starting at the Swan Hotel, this route stops off Tour begins and ends in the centre of Hay outside at the site of the original Motte and Bailey Castle that the Cheese Market, Memorial Square, HR3 5AF. existed before the Hay Castle we know today. It incorporates Carles Gate, one of the three original gateways into the former medieval walled town of La Haie, and makes a stop in the grounds of Hay Castle en route back to the Swan. Tour begins and ends outside main entrance of the Swan Hotel, Church Street, HR3 5DQ.

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Getting to Hay Car Parking Hay-on-Wye is situated just off the A348 between Brecon There is all-weather parking at the Macmillan Car Park and Hereford. The Festival is well signposted. The nearest directly opposite the Festival site (off Llanigon Road). railway station is Hereford, twenty miles away, and The cost is £6 per day. Hereford bus station is served by National Express coaches. There is further all-weather parking at Clyro Court Railway enquiries nationalrail.co.uk (Baskerville Hall Hotel), HR3 5LE. A direct free shuttle 08457 48 49 50 bus service will operate between Clyro Court and the Festival site. The shuttle bus stop is by the main gate by Coach information from nationalexpress.com the road. Please allow up to 30 minutes for journey time. 08705 80 80 80 All festival-goers can pre-book parking spaces. Parking costs £6 per day, which includes shuttle bus tickets. Public transport information from traveline.info The last shuttle buses leave the Festival site for Clyro 08712 00 22 33 Court after the last event each day. Festival Bus Link Hereford to Hay Disabled parking will continue to be available on the Our special festival bus service linking with trains and Festival site. Please book a disabled parking space at the TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION TRAVEL coaches at Hereford’s train and bus stations runs for the time of booking tickets. duration of the Festival. There is also a scheduled bus service (Service 39) from Hereford and Brecon to Hay-on- Hay Town – Festival Shuttle Bus Wye operating six days a week, Mondays to Saturdays. The A regular shuttle bus service will be running between the 39A Hay Ho! bus runs on Sundays at 11.50am, 2.50pm Festival site and the town centre throughout the Festival. and 5.20pm from the Oxford Road bus stop in Hay. Day tickets for the shuttle bus are £1. Pick up and drop Detailed timetable at hayfestival.org/travel. off points are Oxford Road Car Park and the Festival site. The shuttle bus is supported by Richard Booth’s Bookshop Special Festival Bus Service Tickets and the Hay and District Chamber of Commerce. Adults £7 single £10 return Children £3 single £5 return Cycle Park Family of up to 4 persons (max. 2 adults) £20 return A cycle park is available on the Festival site. Through tickets all the way to Hay (train and bus) can be purchased at train stations nationwide. Accommodation For the Hay Festival Bedfinder Service call Maria on 01497 The Village Shuttle Bus Service 821 526 until 21 May, email [email protected] or visit Avoid the queues and choose the greener way to travel – hayfestival.org/beds. Please note, we do not independently leave your car at home this year and take the Village vet properties offered through our Bedfinder Service. Shuttle Bus. We will be running bus services on two Alternatively try our sponsor hotels and campsites. They are routes this year, linking up local villages to the festival site. all excellent. Visitors may also try the following Tourist The buses will call at stops including Llanigon, Felindre, Information Services: Glasbury, Talgarth, Bronllys, Llowes and Clyro. Tickets Hay-on-Wye 01497 820 144 cost £2 per journey. To find out more go to hayfestival.org/shuttlebus. Talgarth 01874 712 226 Brecon 01874 622 485 Car Share Scheme Crickhowell 01873 812 105 Hay Festival partners with goCarShare, BlaBlaCar.com and Liftshare to help connect drivers with spare seats and Hereford 01432 268 430 those needing help getting to Hay. It’s a great way to meet Kington 01544 230 778 likeminded people, as well as being a big help in reducing carbon emissions and congestion – and it also saves Camping everyone money. Gypsy Castle Campsite Local Taxis Visit gypsycastlecamping.co.uk Taxi share scheme is available from: Tangerine Fields Campsite A2B Taxis 01874 658 899 07821 807 000 or visit tangerinefields.co.uk Julie’s 07899 846 592 Wye Meadow Camping 07836 500 021 or visit Radnor and Kington Taxis 07831 898 361 peak-performanceconsultancy.co.uk/haycamping Self Drive Hire Pillow Camping & Glamping LT Baynham, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 273 298 01666 504 601 or email [email protected]

104 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. 01497 822 629 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 on Hay on Earth, please visit hayfestival.org/hay-on-earth. Sustainability Sustainability also includes financial and social impacts and a few examples of these are: Provision of a Provision public bus service from our nearest train which station runs to up Hay, to ten times a day with a total of 2,900 passengers in 2014. of minibuses Provision which link festival-goers with local B&Bs and the surrounding villages and towns, with 1,112 passengers in 2014. Reduced Reduced use of resources including printed materials (down by 35%), diesel (down by 25%) and electricity (down by 25%). Recycling 75% of the waste produced on site including in 2014: 6 tonnes of 4 cardboard, tonnes of dry mixed recyclates and 4 tonnes of glass. Composting 9.7 tonnes of food waste and other compostables. In partnership with local company Caplor Energy, installing solar heating for our staff hot water requirements. water standpipes Providing across the site so that people can fill their own bottles. continue to use We ISO 20121 as a management tool to help us in assessing our direction. 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 Hay ongoing on The sustainability Earth Hay programme. is on Hay Earth Thursday Festival’s on Forum 21 May is a series of sustainability-focused events exploring current global issues and, asking in what particular, the new UK government should be doing to deliver truly sustainable There are policies. also many related events taking place throughout the week. have pledged to We apply the green principles we discuss on stage to our own practices at Hay worldwide. Festivals eight For 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 impacts; the impacts of our audience; and the programming of events that will stimulate debate and discussion about use key BS8901 issues. as We our management guide and some of our key achievements are listed below. Our Our biggest indirect impact is caused by people visiting the festival, with transport, accommodation, etc. While this has a huge we look benefit for economically, ways to reduce the environmental impacts. Examples include: INDEX #hayfestival

AARONOVITCH, David, 69, 114, 121 BOEHMER, Elleke, 297 COLLINS, Mick, 7 ABULHAWA, Susan, 405 BOSTRIDGE, Ian, 63 CONTI, Nina, 165 ACKROYD, Juliet, 182 BOUCHER, Andrew, 14 COPE, Nick, HF144, HF152 ADDARIO, Lynsey, 140 BOWDEN-JONES, Henrietta, 13 CORRIGAN, Kitty, 18, 227, 249 AGUTTER, Jenny, 388 BOWLER, Tom, HF9 CORT, Ben, HF12 AIKINS, Kingsley, 10 BOWLES, Lynn, 393 COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank, HF62 AL-KHALILI, Jim, 127, 149 BOYCOTT, Rosie, 19, 39, 43, 60, 87, COTTRINGER, Anne, 272 ALBERT, Justin, 227, 410 140, 181, 257, 312 COUGHLIN, Con, 287, 327, 377, 386 ALBERT, Corisande, 254 BOYLE, David, 5, 291 COWELL, Cressida, HF1, HF15 ALEKSANYAN, Tigran, 120 BOYNE, John, 170, HF56, 226 CRACE, John, 286, 322 ALLAN, Nicholas, HF134 BRADFORD, Chris, HF75 CRADDOCK-BENNETT, Luke, 14 ALLFREY, Ellah, 203 BRAHMACHARI, Sita, W62, W63 CRAWFORD, Robert, 385 INDEX ALMOND, David, HF5 BRIGSTOCKE, Marcus, 309, 328, 337, CRIADO-PEREZ, Caroline, 39 ALVAREZ, Hernando, 113 363, 383 CRITCHLOW, Hannah, 53, 95 BROOK, AMPUERO, Roberto, 345 Rhidian, 316 CROMPTON, Sarah, 21, 35, 48, ANAND, Anita, 54, 86, 152, 189 BROOKS, David, 65 92, 115, 125 ANDERSON, Clive, 320 BROOKS, Xan, 368 CRONSHAW, Andrew, 120 ANDERSON, Jamie, HF10 BROTTON, Jerry, 229 CROSSAN, Sarah, HF5 ANDERSON, Tom, 187 BROWN, Matt, HF25 CROWN, Sarah, 335 ANDRAKA, Jack, 29 BRUTON-SEAL, Julie, 288 CRYSTAL, Ben, 295 ANDREWS, June, 283 BUERGENTHAL, Thomas, 41, 107 CRYSTAL, David, 295 ANTONY, Steve, HF86, HF94 BULLOUGH, Oliver, 93, 199, 360 CUMMING, Alan, 348 ARLIDGE, Anthony, 23 BULMER, John, 166 CURHAM, Siobhan, HF129 BUMPUS, ARMITAGE, Simon, 110, 174 Jessica, 362 DALY, Tegan, 14 BURNELL, ARMITSTEAD, Claire, 319, 334, 343 Cerrie, HF63 DARTNELL, Lewis, 210 BURRAGE, ARMSTRONG, Karen, 100 Clare, 293 DAVID, Keren, HF19 BURTON, Jessie, 84, 135 ARROWSMITH, Sarah, 252 DAVIDSON, Jane, 4, 15 BURTON-HILL, Clemency, 183, 223, ASBRIDGE, Thomas, 340 DAVIES, Benji, HF49 260, 300, 301, 348, 394, 411 ASTON, Juliet, 128 DAVIES, Chris, 8 BUTCHART, Pamela, HF151, ATINUKE, HF6, HF14 DAVIES, Nia, 323 ATWAN, 416 (page 70) Abdel Bari, 52 DAVIES, Nicola, HF3, HF24 AYRES, BUTLER, Eddie, 215 Pam, 265 DAVIES, Peter, 231 BADDIEL, David, HF41 BUTLER, Jill, 227 DAVIS, Dan, 58, 190 BAINBRIDGE, David, 92 BUTLER, Steven, HF111 DAWS, Martin, HF32 BAKKER, Gerbrand, 197 BUTTERWORTH, Nick, HF29 DAWSON, James, HF48 BALCH, Oliver, 73, 123, 161, 243, 332 BYRNE, Jason, 75 DE SAULLES, Tony, HF7 BALLINGER, Rhoda, 243 CABLE, Jonathan, 25 DE SOUZA, Michael, HF161 BANKS-BLANEY, William, 271 CADE, Stuart, 128 DEACON, Michael, 228 BARKER, Juliet, 184, 224 CALOMIRIS, Charles W, 402 DEE, Jack, 245 BARKER, Nicola, 307 CALVIN, Mike, 281 DENCIK, Lina, 25 BARKHAM, Patrick, 256 CAMDEN, Steven, HF89, HF108 DICK AND DOM, HF78 BARNETT, Emma, 228 CAMPBELL, James, HF126 DODD, Emma, HF100, HF113 BARR, Catherine, HF162 (page 34), CASSIDY, Cathy, HF119, HF136 DOLAN, Paul, 339, 356 HF50 CAULFIELD, Jo, 112 DON, Monty, 238 (page 52), 275 BARTLETT, Jamie, 276 CHAKRABARTI, Shami, 32 DONAHAYE, Jasmine, 167 BARZUN, Matthew, 201 CHARNEY, Noah, 200 DORLING, Danny, 59 BATES, Laura, 329, 365, 387 CHATTERJI, Joya, 42 DOUGHERTY, BATMANGHELIDJH, Camila, 354, 365 CHILTON, Martin, 44, HF34, 171 John, HF120 DOUGLAS, BEARD, Richard, 316 CHURCHILL, Julia, HF160 Jonathan, HF48 BEER, Gillian, 230 CHURCHWELL, Sarah, 67, 69, DOWSWELL, Paul, HF39 BEEVOR, Anthony, 46 85, 129, 148 DOYLE, Catherine, HF35 BEGG, Patrick, 2 CLACKSON, James, 298 DRISCOLL, Martin, 191 BELL, Emily, 357 CLARE, Horatio, 256, 296, 353, 397 DU SAUTOY, Marcus, 266, 297 BENNHOLD, Katrin, 138 CLARK, Alex, 103, 185 DUFF, Andrew, 216 BERELOWITZ, Sue, 354 CLARKE, Gillian, 187 DUNE MACADAM, Heather, 125 BEVAN, Sara, 380 CLARKE, Oz, 240 DUNLOP, Tessa, 179 BIDDULPH, Rob, HF121, HF127 CLAYTON, Nicola, 145 DUNTHORNE, Joe, 323 BLACK, Carol, 79 CLEMENTS, Luke, 272 DWAN, Lisa, 398, 399, 407 BLACKER, Terence, 209 COBB, Rebecca, HF141, HF127 DYLAN’S AMAZING DINOSAURS, HF33 BLACKMAN, Malorie, HF48, HF59 COELHO, Joseph, HF2 EARLE, Phil, HF69 BLACKMORE, Simon, 257 COFFIN PRICE, Valerie, 160 EAST, Warren, 10 BLAKE, Ian, 120 COGGAN, Helena, HF110 EASTAWAY, Rob, HF102 BLANCHARD, Tamsin, 24 COHEN, Nick, 153 EBELING, Mick, 96 106 BLUE PETER BOOK AWARDS, COLE, Melissa, 208 ECCLESHARE, Julia, HF136, HF145 416 (page 70) COLE, Steve, HF72 EDWARDS, Jonathan, 156 INDEX 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

ELFYN, Bethan, 315, 361 GOLDSTONE, Richard, 28, 107 HEPBURN, Sam, HF9 ELIAS QUARTET, 300 GOLDSWORTHY, Vesna, 241 HEWINSON, Glyn, 263 ELLEN, Mark, 71 GOLOMBOK, Susan, 104 HEYWOOD-THOMAS, Nicola, 237 ELLIOTT, Louise, 169 GORDON, Bryony, 228, 338 HIGHFIELD, Roger, 158 ELLIS, Chris, 242 GOSWAMI, Usha, 17 HILTON, Steve, 98 ELLIS, Hugh, 214, 242 GOWER, Jon, 73, 88 HINDELL, Alison, 261 ELPHINSTONE, Abi, HF90, GOWING, Nik, 28, 52, 87, 142, 207 HINTZ, Arne, 25 HF163 (page 58) GRAVETT, Emily, HF60, HF68, HF76 HISLOP, Victoria, 218 INDEX ELTAHAWY, Mona, 387 GRAY, Jennifer, HF117 HITCHENS, Peter, 113, 121 ENGEL, Matthew, 410 GRAY, John, 304 HOLDEN, Anthony, 202 ENGINEERING CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS, GRAY, Peter, 287 HOLLAND, Tom, 114, 131, 138 W49, W50, W51 GRAYLING, AC, 36, 67 HORROCKS, Peter, 67 ENRIGHT, Anne, 189 GREENWOOD, Elinor, HF87, HF91 HUGHES, Bettany, 95, 131 ETHERINGTON, Lorenzo, HF52 GREER, Germaine, 56, 106 HUGHES-GAMES, Martin, 16 ETHERINGTON, Robin, HF52 GRICE, Joe, 181 HUMBLE, Kate, 249 EVANS, Mary, HF146, HF153 GRIFFITHS, Jay, 26 HUNTER, Chris, 207 EVANS, Wynne, 12, 299 GRIFFITHS, René, 73 HUSBAND, Amy, HF162 (page 34) EYRE, Richard, 395 GRIFFITHS, Vanessa, 257 HUTTON, Will, 159 FAIZAL, Farah, 235 GRIFFITHS-WILLIAMS, Justin, 161 IMRIE, Celia, 379 FALEIRO, Sonia, 332 GRIGORE, Alexandra, 155 INGRAHAM, Caroline, 289 FAN LI, Julia, 155 GROSS, Philip, 160 IRWIN, Robert, 116 FELTZ, Vanessa, 137 GRYLLS, Bear, 394 ISHIGURO, Kazuo, 90 FILIU, Jean-Pierre, 264 GUILLAIN, Adam, HF46 ISMAIL, Yasmeen, HF58, HF68 FINCH, Catrin, 211, 318 GUILLAIN, Charlotte, HF46 JARVIS, Chris, HF84 FINLAY, Camilla, 128 HADLOW, Janice, 196 JENCKS, Charles, 258 FINLAYSON, Iain, 124 HAHN, Daniel, 34, 141, 144, JENKINS, Ian, 239 FLORENCE, Peter, 26, 50, 64, 106, 162, 170, 197, 264 JENKINS, Simon, 344 HF56, 206, 215, 234, 238 (page 52), HAIN, Peter, 409 JENNER, Greg, 48 263, 340 HALL, Edith, 47 JHA, Alok, 132, 139 FONDEBRIDER, Jorge, 73 HALL, Sarah, 335 JILLA, Shireen, 178 FORREST, Mark, 278 HALL, William, 186 JOHNSTON, Guy, 260 FOST, Liz, HF54 HAMER, Kate, 331 JOLLEY, Rachael, 69, 114 FOTHERINGHAM, William, 225 HAMMOND, Claudia, 293 JONES, Carwyn, 151 FOUR THOUGHT, 341, 346 HAMMOND, Phil, 267 JONES, Dylan, 71, 217, 321 FOWLER, Dylan, 367 HANCOCK, Sheila, 143 JONES, Gareth P, HF154 FOWLER, Steven, 323 HANDY, Charles, 133 JONES, Gareth Steadman, 253 FRANCIS, Gavin, 359 HARARI, Yuval Noah, 86 JONES, Philip, 311 FRANSMAN, Karrie, 317 HARCOURT, Maggie, HF11 JONES, Pip, HF138, HF149 FRASER, Antonia, 344 HARDING, James, 188 JUDGE, Chris, HF38, HF45 FRAYLING, Christopher, 115 HARDING, Rosie, 70 JUDGE, Igor, 23 FREEDMAN, Claire, HF12, HF22 HARI, Johann, 113, 121 JUFRESA, Laia, 366 FREEMAN, George, 3 HARKIN, James, 406 JUNIPER, Tony, 305 FREESE, Katherine, 195 HARPER, Lizzie, 172 KALOI K’AGATHOI DRAMA WORKSHOPS, FRITSCH, Valerie, 162 HARRI, Guto, 10, 151, 217 W46, W47, W48 FRY, Stephen, 50, 68 HARRINGTON, Richard, 397, 399 KARADOG, Aneirin, HF32 FRYERS, Andy, 2, 6, 214, 231, HARRIS, MG, HF10 KEARNEY, Martha, 56, 90 284, 314, 408, 412 HARRIS, Pippa, 388 KEATING, Roly, 57 GABRIEL, Hayden, 273 HARRISON, John, 150 KEAY, John, 216 GAIMAN, Neil, HF156 (page 63), 319 HARRISON, Melissa, 122 KEEN, Andrew, 148 GARDNER, Lyn, HF93 HARROLD, AF, HF60 KEHLMANN, Daniel, 141 GATES, Tom, HF4 HARRY POTTER FAN EVENTS, HF88, HF92 KEITA, Seckou, 318 IVANA GAVRIC, Ivana, 223 HAUGHTON, Chris, HF55, HF68 KEMP, Martin, 180 ´ GEIM, Andre, 158 HAWKS, Tony, 282 KENNEDY, Helena, 354, 378 GELIOT, Emma, 250 HAY, Daisy, 35 KENNEDY, Nigel, 411, 413 GHOSH, Amitav, 185 HAY COMMUNITY CHOIR, 8 KERR, Rachel, 374 GIFFORD, Clive, HF34 HAY WRITERS’ CIRCLE, 173 KESSLER, Liz, HF19 GLOSSOP, Christianne, 263 HAYNES, Jayne, 248 KETT, Timothy, W52–W61 GODWIN, Georgina, 33, 80, 135, HEATH, Allister, 228 KEY, Alice, 29 178, 218, 310, 331, 379 HELM, Dieter, 296 KEYES, Marian, 392 GOLDEN, Che, HF114 HEMMING, John, 105 KIDD, Mairi, HF103 GOLDRING, Mark, 194 HENDERSON, Kate, 214, 242 KING, Aby, HF97 GOLDSMITH, Harvey, 321 HENDRA, Sue, HF22, HF30 KING CHARLES, 30 GOLDSMITH, Rosie, 241, 325, HENN, Sophy, HF127, HF132 KNIGHT, Steven, 27 107 345, 372 (page 84), 392, 405 HENNESSY, Peter, 77, 87 KORN, Peter, 292 INDEX @hayfestival

KOTHARI, Lopa, 285 MCCALL SMITH, Alexander, 193 O’SULLIVAN, Suzanne, 330 KRAMER, Matthew, 136 MCCARTNEY, Mary, 275 ODDIE, Bill, 269 KUMAR, Satish, 412 MCCRORY, Helen, 399 OKRI, Ben, 297 KURKI-SUONIO, Sanna, 120 MCCURRY, Steve, 154 OPPEL, Ken, HF9 LAGERCRANTZ, David, 176 MCFADDEN, Johnjoe, 149 OSWALD, Peter, 72 LAKE, Nick, HF89 MCGREGOR, Andrew, 31 OVERTON, Iain, 123 LAMPAERT, Eric, 119 MCINTOSH, Malachi, 307 OWEN, Jamie, 81 LANCASHIRE, Sarah, 62 MCINTYRE, Sarah, HF106 PALMER, Amanda, 358 LANDY, Derek, HF101 MCKENNA, Virginia, HF105 PALMER, Tom, HF53, W64, W65 LANG, Tim, 3 MCKITTERICK, Rosamond, 334 PANTUCCI, Raffaello, 403 LANGTON, Rae, 268 MCMILLAN, Ian, 45, 55 PARKER, Tim, 22 LAOUTARIS, Chris, 290 MCNALLY, Adrian, 246 PARLATO, Marco, 162 INDEX LAYTON, Neil, HF15 MCVEIGH, Sasha, 118 PARRIS, SJ, 193 LEAR, Caroline, 243 MEEK FAMILY, HF122, HF128 PASTIS, Stephan, HF17 LEA-WILSON, Alison, 249 MELAMED, Claire, 194 PAULL, Laline, 122 LEDERER, Helen, 33 MELIA, Steve, 6 PEARCE, Fred, 408 LEES, Jenny, 254 MELLING, David, HF79 PEIN, Malcolm, W52–W61 LEHANE, Dennis, 88 MERES, Jonathan, HF99 PENN, Rob, 227 LETHERLAND, Lucy, HF83 MERRITT, Stephanie, 94, 317 PENNINGTON, Michael, 407 LEVESON, Brian, 107 MEYER, Julie, 10 PETERS, Helen, HF104 LEVY, Deborah, 307 MIDBY, Catarina, 362 PETERS, Steve, 44 LEWIS, Llyˆr Gwyn, 162 MIDDLETON, Andy, 7, 231 PETTERSON, Per, 197 LEWIS-STEMPEL, John, 18 MINECRAFT, HF36 PETTIE, Andrew, 76 LEYSHON, Nell, 373 MIODOWNIK, Mark, 381 PHILLIPS, Robert, 148 LIEVEN, Dominic, 360 MITCHELL, David, 301, 325 PHOENIX COMICS WORKSHOPS, LIEVESLEY, Denise, 194 MITCHINSON, John, 98, 179, 406 HF61, HF64, HF67, LIGHT, Alison, 220 MITTER, Rana, 99, 146 HF74, HF76, HF80 LINDOP, Jay, 181 MITTON, Jacqueline, HF140 PICHON, Liz, HF4 LINNET, Paul, HF30 MOHAMMED, Nadifa, 203 PIKOULIS, John, 182 LITTLER, Jamie, HF95 MOLINARI, Nadia, 351 PINE, Courtney, 371 LLOYD, Christopher, HF65 MONKS, Lydia, HF81 PIORO, Daniel, HF123, HF147 LLOYD, John, 406 MOODY, Sarah, 367 PODGER, Rachel, 183 LLOYD, Saci, 15 MOORE, Peter, 34 POPOVIC, Srđa, 333 ´ LODGE, David, 310 MOORHOUSE, Tom, HF107 PORTAS, Mary, 198 LOH, Maria, 390 MORAM, Michelle, 293 POSKITT, Kjartan, HF71 LORD, Peter, HF139 MORDEN, Daniel, HF116, 367 POSTER, Tom, 260 LOUDON, Mary, 122 MORGAN, Elizabeth, 397 PRATT, Non, HF48 LOZANO, Brenda, 366 MORPURGO, Michael, HF123, PRETTY, Jules, 314 LUCAS, Caroline, 284 HF133, HF147 PRIESTLEY, Chris, HF70 MAAS, Sarah J, HF26 MORRIS, Jackie, 404 PROFFIT, Stuart, 347 MACCULLOCH, Diarmaid, 152 MORRIS, Marc, 306 PUNT, Steve, 309, 337 MACDONALD, Helen, 347 MULLAN, John, 66, 83 QUINLAN, Carrie, 328, 363, 383 MACFARLANE, Robert, 353 MUNBY, Julian, 128 RAFFERTY, Sean, 192 MACFARLANE-BARROW, Magnus, 21 MUNIR, Kamal, 42 RAHILL, Elske, 162 MADDOX, Bronwen, 121 MURPHY-O’CONNOR, Cormac, 19 RAHMAN, Zoe, 371 MAELOG, 285 MURRAY, Tamsyn, HF47 RAMPLING, Charlotte, 101, 117 MAGIC ANIMAL FRIENDS, HF73 MURRAY, Tiffany, 325 RAUSING, Sigrid, 307 MAGRS, Paul, HF70, HF85 NAFISI, Azar, 116, 129 RAYNER, Catherine, HF135 MAHER, Kevin, 241 NAWAZ, Maajid, 199 RAYNER, Jay, 232 MALCOLM, Noel, 175 NEIMAN, Susan, 49 REES, Martin, 102 MALKANI, Bharat, 177 NICHOLS, Carl, 5 REEVES, Emma, 424 (page 53) MANZOOR, Sarfraz, 67, 153, NICHOLSON, Virginia, 372 (page 84), REID, Alison, HF123, HF147 259, 276, 352 388 REID, Jane, 293 MARÇAL, Katrine, 277 NICHOLSON, William, 398 RHYDDERCH, Francesca, 150, 167 MARSHALL, George, 15 NORS, Dorthe, 141 RICH, David, 401 MARLOW, Tim, 154 NORTHFIELD, Gary, HF155 RICH, Harry, 401 MARTYN LEWIS, Daniel, 163, NORWICH, John Julius, 274 RICHARDSON, Miranda, 385, 399 204, 244, 279 NOZEDAR, Adele, 172 RIDDELL, Chris, HF130, HF136 MATHARU, Taran, HF110 O’CONNELL, Paddy, 336, 375 RIDDELL, Mary, 228 MAXWELL, Glyn, 351 O’CONNOR, Sean, 222 ROBERTS, Andrew, 389 MAYO, Simon, HF23 O’DOHERTY, David, HF45 ROBERTS, Susan, 174 MCALLISTER, Laura, 205 O’HAGAN, Andrew, 43, 51, 66 ROKISON, Abigail, 212 108 MCBRATNEY, Sam, HF8 O’HARA, Mary, 59 RONSON, Jon, 157 INDEX 01497 822 629 hayfestival.org

ROSE, Pamela, 179 SMITH, Alex T, HF150 UNTHANK, Becky, 246 ROSENBERG, Göran, 130 SMITH, Dan, HF39 UNTHANK, Rachel, 246 ROSOFF, Meg, HF124 SMITH, Derek, 190 USHER, Karen, 67 ROSS, Alec, 201 SMITH, Jim, HF27 VALENTINE, Jenny, HF5, 170 ROSS, Maggie, 374 SMITH, Will, 337, 345 VAN DE VEN, Hans, 391 ROTHSCHILD, Emma, 134 SNOW, Jon, 333, 354, 357 VAN DEN BOSCH, Margareta, 362 ROTHSCHILD, Hannah, 60 SNOW, Dan, 313 VASILYEVA, Nataliya, 93

ROWSON, Martin, 264 SNOW, Peter, 313 VENKATESH, Divya, 155 INDEX ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL WORKSHOPS, SOLOMON, Andrew, 82 VERE, Ed, HF115, HF127 W1–W35 SPARKES, Ali, HF82 VERNON, Polly, 338 RSPB WORKSHOPS, W36, W37, W38, SPITERI, Sharleen, 164 VILLANI, Cedric, 266 W39, W40, W41 ST GEORGE, Paul, 84, 133 VINCENT, Andre, 328, 363, 383 RUTHERFORD, Adam, 355 ST JOHN, Lauren, HF105 VIRA, Bhaskar, 42 SACKS, Jonathan, 188 STAMP, Emer, HF137 WAGNER, Esther-Miriam, 382 SAGE, Angie, HF57, HF66 STARKEY, David, 400 WAHL-JORGENSEN, Karin, 25 SALDAÑA PARIS, Daniel, 366 STENHAM, Polly, 84 WAINWRIGHT, Sally, 62 SALISBURY, Eurig, 323 STERN, Nick, 132 WAITE, Terry, 379 SALISBURY, Melinda, HF35 STEVENS, Robin, HF42 WAKELING, Edward, 376 SALMOND, Alex, 378 STEWART, Harriet, 66 WALDEGRAVE, William, 259 SAMBROOK, Richard, 357 STOCK, Francine, 22, 101, 128, WALFORD DAVIES, Damian, 316 SAMSON, Polly, 331 143, 200, 270, 304, 358 WALKER, David, 37 SANDBROOK, Dominic, 255 STOTHARD, Peter, 111, 131 WALLACE, Danny, HF95 SANDS, Philippe, 41, 107, STROUD, Jonathan, HF66 WANNER, Zukiswa, 203 130, 136, 235 STROUD, Rick, 386 WARD, James, 213 SANS, 120 SULLIVAN, Erin, 212 WARNER, Marina, 109 SAUNDERS, Kate, HF145 SUMMERS, Julie, 236 WATSON, Mark, 168, 178 SAXON, Lucy, HF110 SUTCLIFFE, Tom, 61 WEBB, Holly, HF18, HF28 SCASE, Wendy, 247 SUTHERLAND, John, 286 WEIR, Arabella, HF96 SCHAMA, Simon, 364, 384 SWIFT, Graham, 64 WELLESLEY, Rosie, HF157 (page 59), SCHLOSSER, Eric, 342 SYAL, Meera, 352 HF158 (page 65) SCOTT, Katie, HF109 SYKES, Brian, 312 WELSH, Irvine, 51, 66 SCULL, Andrew, 94 SYMES, Susie, 77, 91 WESTHEAD, Charlie, 249 SCURR, Martin, 248 SZRETER, Simon, 221 WHEATLE, Alex, HF108 SCURR, Ruth, 87, 111 TALGARTH COMMUNITY CHOIR, 8 WHITE, Geoff, 280 (page 28) SEAL, Matthew, 288 TALLIS, Raymond, 251 WIEDER-ATHERTON, Sonia, 117 SEAR, Helen, 250 TEXAS, 164 WILCOX, Claire, 24 SEATON, Jean, 308 THAROOR, Shashi, 332, 356 WILKINS, Clive, 145 SEIERSTAD, Åsne, 270 THE BOOKSHOP BAND, HF11 WILKINSON, Glenn, 280 (page 28) SELLA, Andrea, 58 THE ESSAY, 417 (page 24), 418 (page 40) WILKINSON, Sue, 147 SEN, Amartya, 142 THE KING OF THE SKY, HF21 WILLIAMS, Dilys, 362 SERGEANT, John, 262 THE STAVES, 74 WILLIAMS, Richard, 324, 369 SETH, Anil, HF34 THE STORYTELLERS ENSEMBLE, HF123, WILLIAMS, SETH, Vikram, 343 HF147 Steve, HF162 (page 34), HF50 WILLIAMSON, SHAFAK, Elif, 69, 97 THE UNTHANKS, 246 Lisa, HF19 SHAH, Hetan, 194 THOMAS, Gareth, 281 WILSON, Jacqueline, HF20, 89 SHAHEED, Ahmed, 235 THOMAS, Heidi, 388 WILSON-DICKSON, Oliver, HF116, 367 SHAMSIE, Kamila, 311 THORN, Tracey, 368 WINMAN, Sarah, 80 SHANI, Ornit, 42 THORPE, David, 4, 15 WOLF, Martin, 91 SHAPIRO, Beth, 38 TIERNAN, Tommy, 370 WOLF, Vanessa, HF13, HF16 SHAUN THE SHEEP WORKSHOPS, HF40, TIMCHENKO, Galina, 93 WOOD, Gaby, 57, 226, 366 HF43, HF51 TINARIWEN, 285 WOOD, Leanne, 87 SHEERS, Owen, 103, 182 TÓIBÍN, Colm, 40, 85 WOOD, Levison, 233 SHELTON, Dave, HF70 TOKSVIG, Sandi, 68, 147 WOODFINE, Katherine, HF26, HF42 SHORROCK, Mark, 2 TOLL, Rosie, 242 WOODS, Chris, 207 SIEGHART, William, 97 TOMBS, Robert, 20 WOODS, Clare, 250 SIMMS, Andrew, 5, 291 TONKIN, Nick, 249 WOOLLARD, Elli, HF44, HF49 SIMMS, Brendan, 302 TOPSY AND TIM, HF125 YENTOB, Alan, 27, 40, 62 SINGH, Simon, 108 TORDAY, Piers, HF37 YORKE, Rob, 3 SKELTON, Helen, HF31 TOYNBEE, Polly, 37 YOUNG, Moira, HF85 SKENE, Debra, 293 TREMAIN, Rose, 234 YOUNGHUSBAND, Eileen, 171 SKIPWORTH, Mark, 126, 262 TRIMBLE, Rhys, 323 ZARKADAKIS, George, 355 SKOULDING, Zoe, 323 TURNER, Frank, 315, 326 ZELDIN, Theodore, 144 SMALE, Holly, HF96 TWEED, Chris, 11 ZYGAR, Mikhail, 93 109 HAY TEAM #hayfestival

DIRECTORS FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP Lyndy Cooke, Peter Florence, Nik Gowing, Revel Guest Chair, Nancy Dixon, Kit Goldman, Georgina Harvey, Sandra Havard, Samantha Maskrey, Jesse Norman, Francine Stock Graeme Hobbs, Fiona Hobson, Shanna Jones, Meg Lawrence, Nicki Lindsay, Cassidy Locke, Cheska Moignard-Howarth, Guy Morgan, TRUSTEES Helena O’Sullivan, Andrea Price, Will Rogers, Lucy Scott, Emma Rosie Boycott, Terence Burns, Revel Guest, Dylan Jones, Smith, Paige Talbot, Joey Thomas, Elinor Tuckey, Ana Willow Caroline Michel, Maurice Saatchi Windsor-Clive STAFF GARDENS Mike Barker Accounts, Finn Beales Photographer, Mary Byrne Rosanna Bulmer, David Roberts, and with thanks to David Austin Children’s & Education Programme Director, Marta Codello Artist Roses, Frank P Matthews, Wyevale Nurseries, Wiggly Wigglers and Management Assistant, Lyndy Cooke Managing Director, Penny the Old Railway Line Nursery Compton Box Office Manager, Maria Sheila Cremaschi Directora Spain, Andy Davies Archive, Paul Elkington Technical Director, HOUSEKEEPING

HAY TEAM HAY Oscar Montes Erikson Hay Festival Mexico, Peter Florence Director, Caroline and Joanna Davies Andy Fryers Sustainability Director, Cristina Fuentes La Roche International Director, Diana Gedeon Cartagena, Izara García PARKING Rodríguez Producer Latin America, Gareth Howell-Jones Bookshop Martin Tong, Jenny Thomas and team, Oxfam Stewards Manager, Rebecca Hughes Artist Management Assistant, Jesse Ingham Editor, Maggie Kerr Producer, Marian Lally Accounts, Adrian SITE CREW Lambert Media Director, Angharad Lloyd Correspondent, Hannah Andy Brewer, Stan Charity, Elliot Cooke, Georgie Docker, Matt Lort-Phillips PR (maternity leave), Nessie Mason Hay Fever, Amalia Harding, Jack Lloyd, Craig Muir, Dan Scaife, Andy Smith Gaffer de Pombo Development Director Cartagena, Paul Richardson Online Systems, Jo Rodell-Jones Co-producer, Zoe Romero Miranda Artists STEWARDS Management Latin America, Heather Salisbury Artist Manager, Becky Emma Jones Head Steward, Jan Pitman Stewards Administration, Shaw Communications Director, Niamh Wallis Assistant to the Cathy Norris Steward Coordinator, Lou Moore Deputy Head Steward, Director, Pete Ward Administrator, Fred Wright Site Designer Stella Ward Steward Services BOX OFFICE TECHNICAL Amy Le Bailly, Maria Carreras Accommodation, Ru Florence, David Darby Head of IT, Richard Harris Head of Vision, Jen Payne Deputy Technical Director, Rob McNeil Head of Sound, John Turtle Althea Kibblewhite, Bronwyn Lally, Sandra Nicholson, Wilf Technical Manager, Clive Meredith Chief Electrician Ratcliffe, Poppy Sinclair, Honor Spreckley COMMUNICATIONS HAY FESTIVAL COUNCIL Vice Presidents Hay – Corisande Albert, Justin Albert, Robert Marsha Arnold Photographer/Picture Editor, Emily Banyard, FMcM Ayling, Rosie Boycott, Marcus Brigstocke, Nick Broomfield, Press, Christopher Bone, FMcM Press, Oliver Bullough News Editor, Rosanna Bulmer, Clemency Burton-Hill, Terry Burns, Nick Butler, Kitty Corrigan News Editor, Fiona McMorrough Press and PR, Maria Sheila Cremaschi, Amelia Granger, Geordie Greig, Sabrina Caitlin McNamara News, and with thanks to the students of Cardiff Guinness, Rhian-Anwen Hamill, Julia Hobsbawm, Dylan Jones, School of Journalism and the Documentary Photography faculty at Helena Kennedy, Denise Lewis, Brenda Maddox, Cerys Matthews, the University of South Wales John Mitchinson, James Naughtie, Hannah Rothschild, Andrew DRIVERS Ruhemann, Marc Sands, Philippe Sands, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Stan Charity, Stephen Evans, Philip Ferguson, Rachel Ferrington, Schama, William Sieghart and Jon Snow Sally Glass, Paul Harris, Mark Havard, Martyn Jenkins, Geoff PARTNERS AND ADVISORS Magnay, Les Mogford, Darren Mossey, Barry Pilton, Garry Pryce- BWA Design, Robert Albert Legal Advisor, J Geraint Davies CBE Mason, Sandy Rowden, Becky Runciman, Chris Runciman, Robert FCA Financial, Patrick Dyke, Beltran Gambier Spain & Runciman, Sean Taylor, Donna Salisbury, Jim Saunders, Nino International Legal Advisor, Sanjoy Roy & Sheuli Sethi India, Robin Williamson Driver Coordinator. Mason Acre Accountancy, Savage & Gray Graphic Design, Sadaf In loving memory of Dave Chennell (‘Chen’). Siddiqi and Tahmima Anam Hay Festival Dhaka, Carlos Julio Ardila FESTIVAL TEAM Presidente Cartagena de Indias, Jaime Abello, Raimundo Angulo, Ana Olivia Barber Press Intern, Ellian Bell Make & Take, Danielle Maria Aponte, Cecilia Balcazar, Victoria Bejarano, Alfonso López Blackledge Intern, Olivia Buckland Intern, Emma Burleigh Make & Caballero, León Teicher, Patricia Escallón de Ardila Vice Presidents Take, Lorna Cartledge Team, Penny Chantler Green Room, Miriam Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias Cocker Intern, Charlotte Colwill Intern, Eleanor Cooke Make & Take, Elin Davies Intern, Olga Davies Friends of Hay Festival, Laura THE ELDERS Davis Intern, Kate Duffy Intern, Kelsi Farrington Intern, Lillie Lorna Cartledge, Frances Copping, Rhoda Lewis, Jo Gregory Flawn-Powell Press Intern, Maisie Glazebrook Intern, Rachel Hard BENEFACTORS Intern, Mair Harries Intern, Sanpreet Janjua Intern, Isabel Jeakins Elizabeth Bingham, Kate Bingham & Jesse Norman, Lord & Lady Intern, Penelope Jenkins Intern, Alice Key Intern, Matthew Lampitt Burns, Nick Butler & Rosaleen Hughes, Sue Carpenter & Mike Intern, Alex Lawrence Intern, Sarah Lough Intern, David Lynch Metcalfe, Sian Facer & Terry Sinclair, Rhian-Anwen & Michael Intern, Richard McKeand Paramedic, Lily Morris Make & Take, Hamill, Tom & Karen Kalaris, David & Pauline Maydon, Danny Barbara Murrell Food Hall, Kim Murrell Food Hall Manager, Xana Rivlin, Mark & Moira Hamlin, Maurice Saatchi Murrell Make & Take, Tim Pearce Paramedic, Katie Powell Press Intern, Michela Rogers Driver Assistant, Ellie Smith Intern, Carol CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Sykes Green Room, John Thomas Green Room, Colin Thompson Lawrence & Liz Banks, Amelia Fawcett DBE, Robin & Philippa Grub, Alice Venables Make & Take, Liz Wootton Intern Herbert, Jesse Norman

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