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Festivals and Carbon Reduction
A Greenprint Debate
Martin Orbach (Abergavenny Food Festival), Penny Kemp (Big Green Gathering), Andy Fryers (Hay) and Alan Gwynant (National Eisteddfod) propose greener ways to manage power, waste and visitors' travel. Chaired by Sky News Environment Correspondent Robert Nisbit.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 24 May 2007, 1pm
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The Media and Carbon Reduction
A Greenprint Debate
Executive Editor of The Guardian, Jo Confino, and Sky Communications Director Matthew Anderson discuss how their respective organizations are dealing withcarbon reduction and sustainability.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 24 May 2007, 2.15pm
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Concentrated Solar Power
A Greenprint Debate
Designer Katharine Hamnett joins Neil Crumpton (Friends of the Earth) and Gerhard Knies (TREC) to discuss the potential power revolution of CSP. Chaired by Nicola Heywood Thomas.Hay Festival 2007, Thursday 24 May 2007, 3.45pm
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Ian Kershaw
Fateful Choices
The historian recreates ten critical political and military decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain decided to fight on rather than surrender, and the autumn of 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews.Hay Festival 2007, Friday 25 May 2007, 11.30am
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Country Living Debate: No Cows = No Countryside
Rosie Boycott, Charlotte Hollins, Peter Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Jane Clarke, Barbara Crowther
With 18% of us buying British food, thousands of farms have been lost and the countryside is endangered. Rosie Boycott talks to farmers Peter and Juliet Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Charlotte Hollins of Fordhall Farms, Jane Clarke, Meat buyer for Waitrose and Barbara Crowther of the Fairtrade Foundation about the Fair Trade for British Farmers campaign, and how we can help rural Britain by changing our food-shopping habits.Hay Festival 2007, Friday 25 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Michael Nyman talks to Francine Stock
The prodigious composer discusses his international cinema work and collaborations with Peter Greenaway and Michael Winterbottom.Hay Festival 2007, Friday 25 May 2007, 7.45pm
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Martin Rees, Neil Turok and Bernard Carr
Universe or Multiverse?
The pre-eminent astronomers and cosmologists discuss how recent developments in cosmology and particle physics have led to the remarkable realization that our universe – rather than being unique – could be just one of many universes. This multiverse proposal may explain the fine-tunings which appear necessary for the emergence of life, as well as the origin of our universe. Chaired by science broadcaster Quentin Cooper.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 10am
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John Major
More than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years
The politician celebrates the golden ages of Gentlemen and Players, underarm bowling, the Empire, the gaming and the MCC.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 10am
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AC Grayling
The Form of Things
‘Humankind’s great conversation with itself about what is best in life involves reading, thinking, conversing, learning, enjoying, judging, being sceptical, being open-minded – and, in bad times, maintaining trust in all that these endeavours prove to be valuable.’Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 11.30am
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Alexander McCall Smith talks to Paul Blezard
The creator of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency celebrates the eighth novel in the series, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 11.30am
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Rosie Boycott talks to Monty Don
Our Farm: A Year in the Life of a Smallholding
The former newspaper editor discusses her new life on her small farm and her local town’s battle with Tescos and the planners; she explores the complexities of the food chain and its frequent cruelty, the rhythms of the natural world, the healing patterns of nature and the therapeutic effects of a herd of boisterous pigs.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 1pm
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JPR Williams talks to Peter Florence
Given the Breaks
Rugby’s greatest full-back talks about his career with his biggest fan.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 2.30pm
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Thomas Keneally talks to Alastair Niven
The Australian Booker winner (Schindler’s Ark) discusses his work and his new novel The Widow and her Hero.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 2.30pm
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William Dalrymple
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty; Delhi 1857
Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty, found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s Stalingrad: the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture. Chaired by Hannah Rothschild.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 4pm
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Wole Soyinka talks to Nik Gowing
Writing on the Wall of Silence
The Nigerian Nobel Laureate talks about freedom of expression, the need to articulate truths and the power of literature.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 4pm
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Kiran Desai and Stevie Davies talk to Claire Armitstead
The Indian novelist discusses her 2006 Man Booker-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss. Davies introduces her beautiful and politically passionate The Eyrie. They talk to The Guardian's Literary Editor.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Eric Hobsbawm talks to Simon Schama
The Memory of an Empire
‘A world almost entirely composed of empires 100 years ago, has gone for good and is beyond reconstruction. It should not be remembered with superior nostalgia, nor with mythologies of national liberation.’Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Gordon Brown
Courage
The former Chancellor celebrates his political heroes from Martin Luther King and Aung San Suu Kyi to Bobby Kennedy and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 7pm
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Gruff Rhys talks to Phil Rickman
The Super Furry Animals singer-songwriter talks music, politics and the subtle art of being angry. He'll also perform some of the songs from his new solo album Candylion. Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio Wales.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 7.20pm
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George Monbiot
Heat
How to Stop the Planet Burning analyses the issue of carbon emission with ruthless rigour and elegant clarity. The action and commitments Monbiot proposes are politically compelling and define how we might all move forward.Hay Festival 2007, Saturday 26 May 2007, 8.30pm
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