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  • Billy Bragg, Henry Porter, Philippe Sands

    Power Inquiry 1

    In this first Power Inquiry session examining the nature of democracy in Britain, the singer Billy Bragg, author of The Progressive Patriot, is joined by Observer and Vanity Fair journalist Henry Porter and Professor Philippe Sands QC. Chaired by New Statesman editor John Kampfner.

    Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 8.30pm

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  • Libby Purves

    Love Songs and Lies

    The broadcaster discusses her novel of C20th friendship, music and romance.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 9am

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  • Jeremy Leggett, Mark Lynas and David Miliband

    Greening Britain

    The author of Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and The Global Energy Crisis is joined by Lynas (Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet) and the Secretary of State for the Environment. Chaired by Guto Harri.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 10am

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  • Trevor Fishlock

    In This Place

    A celebration of the remarkable survival and triumph of the National Library of Wales, as it celebrates its centenary.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 10am

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  • Brenda Maddox

    Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones

    The amazing tale of the brilliant and sexually voracious Welsh psychoanalyst who rescued Sigmund from Vienna in 1938.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 10am

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  • Hugh Kennedy

    The Great Arab Conquests

    How, within a generation, Arab armies had overrun Persian and Byzantine civilizations and created an empire that reached from Spain to China.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 10am

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  • Maureen Lipman talks to Jim Naughtie

    The national treasure receives the 2007 Listening Books Award, celebrating outstanding contribution to the spoken word. Chaired by LBA Trustee Jim Naughtie.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 10am

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  • Danny Postel

    Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran

    A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 11.30am

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  • Leslie Phillips talks to John Walsh

    Hello

    The national treasure receives the 2007 Listening Books Award, celebrating outstanding contribution to the spoken word. Chaired by LBA Trustee Jim Naughtie.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 11.30am

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  • Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones and Martin Rees

    The Guardian Science Experiment: Have We Abandoned the Enlightenment?

    Chaired by The Guardian’s Science Editor James Randerson.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28th May 2007, 11.30am

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  • Sioned Davies talks to Revel Guest

    The Mabinogion

    We celebrate the new translation into English of the greatest Welsh literary work. Chaired by Revel Guest.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 1pm

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  • Edna O'Brien talks to Francesca Rhydderch

    The great Irish novelist discusses her classic debut The Country Girls and her new novel The Light of the Evening with the New Welsh Review Editor.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 1pm

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  • Josephine Hart's Poetry Hour with Dame Eileen Atkins and Dan Stevens

    The Great War Poets

    The British Library's cult poetry show comes to Hay with readings from the golden generation of Great War poets, introduced by the author of Catching Life By The Throat. Readers include Dame Eileen Atkins and Dan Stevens.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 1pm

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  • Jo Tatchell and Nabeel Yasin

    Nabeel's Song

    The Baghdad poet was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled Iraq in 1980. Tatchell’s book tells his story, and that of the family that he left behind.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 2.30pm

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  • Ian Rankin talks to Marcel Berlins

    We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Rebus series.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 2.30pm

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  • Clive James

    Cultural Amnesia

    The Australian polymath maps his influences and heroes who’ve formed contemporary civilization, from Satchmo to Kafka.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 2.30pm

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  • Mike Figgis talks to Ariane Koek

    Digital Film-making

    The director (Leaving Las Vegas, The Sopranos, Timecode) teaches aspiring cineastes how to get the best from easily available digital technology.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 4pm

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  • George Alagiah

    A Home from Home: From Immigrant Boy to English Man

    The Sri-Lankan-born broadcaster and writer views the issues of racism and multiculturalism in his adopted Britain.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 4pm

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  • Vivienne Westwood

    Harpers Bazaar Presents: No Art No Progress

    The iconoclast fashion Dame issues her cultural manifesto.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 4pm

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  • Alison Owen and Helen de Winter talk to Hannah Rothschild

    What I Really Want to do is Produce

    The Producer of Shaun of the Dead, Elizabeth and the forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl discusses the Producer’s role with Helen de Winter, editor of What I Really Want to do is Produce. Chaired by Hannah Rothschild.

    Hay Festival 2007, Monday 28 May 2007, 5.30pm

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