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  • Salman Rushdie

    The Festival Lecture: The Composite Artist

    The novelist tells tales of demons, dragons and derring-do in this magnificently illustrated lecture about the 100 Indian artists who created the Hamza-nama paintings for the C16th Grand Mughal Akbar.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 4pm

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  • Dry Store Room No.1

    Paleontologist Richard Fortey conjures the eccentric people, ancient artefacts and ultra-modern technology that makes The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 4pm

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  • PetroPower and Geopolitics

    Vijay Vaitheeswaran (Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future) and Parag Khanna (The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order) challenge assumptions about energy with climate change thinker Nick Butler.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 4pm

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  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Director Mark Herman introduces clips from the forthcoming movie and does Q&A with the novelist John Boyne.

    Hay Fever 12 yrs+

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 4pm

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  • The State of the Union

    NY-based internationalist Shashi Tharoor hosts this conversation about American society with Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian, Matt Frei author of Only in America and Jacob Weisberg, author of The Bush Tragedy and online editor of Slate online magazine.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 5.30pm

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  • Hanif Kureishi talks to Francesca Rhydderch

    The tensions between transgression, maturity, rebellion, race, desire, family and masculinity play though the new novel Something to Tell You.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 5.30pm

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  • Mob Mentality or People Power?

    Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet - and How To Stop It, Lee Siegel, author of Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, and Emily Bell, the Director of Digital Content, Guardian News and Media, ask: is the web a force for good?

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 5.30pm

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  • Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

    Mark Lynas introduces the National Geographic film of his climate change book, predicting advancing deserts, melting glaciers and mass extinctions. Followed by Q&A.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 5.30pm

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  • Jimmy Carter

    The Guardian Lecture

    The Nobel Laureate and former US Presidenton conflict resolution and human rights, and the work of the carter foundation. Introduced by Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian. Chaired by Philippe Sands

    THIS EVENT WILL BE RELAYED TO SCREENS IN THE FRIENDS CAFÉ AND ASCARIS CAFÉ

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 7pm

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  • Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq

    Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn presents a revelatory portrait of the much demonised Iraqi power- broker and leader of the Mehdi militia.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 7pm

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  • Fay Weldon

    The sparkling novelist introduces her witty, compassionate, casually libidinous updating of Boccaccio’s medieval masterpiece, The Spa Decameron.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 7pm

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  • Hard Rain

    From a chance encounter with a Touareg nomad in1969, acclaimed photographer Mark Edwards has developed a spectacular portfolio to accompany Bob Dylan’s lyrics, documenting and imagining Our Headlong Collision with Nature.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 7pm

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  • Intelligence Squared Debate: 1968 was an ending and not a beginning

    John Walsh chairs. Speakers include Rosie Boycott, Christopher Hitchens and Matthew Engel.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 8.30pm

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  • AL Kennedy talks to Jon Gower

    The novelist discusses her awesome account of a second world war Lancaster tail-gunner, Day, which won the Costa Book of the Year.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 8.30pm

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  • Crossing Borders

    Owen Sheers and Fflur Dafydd

    Poet and novelist Owen Sheers and singer/songwriter Fflur Dafydd move through song, instrumental, verse and prose exploring dialogues between music and words, English and Welsh, poetry and song.

    Hay Festival 2008, Sunday 25 May 2008, 8.30pm

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  • Start the Day

    Daniel Start explores the best lakes, rivers and waterfalls for Wild Swimming. In This Little Britain Harry Bingham hymns the eccentricities of the countries that gave the world football, Shakespeare, Churchill and Yorkshire pudding.

    Hay Festival 2008, Monday 26 May 2008, 9am

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  • Power House

    Robert Peston (Who Runs Britain?) and Peter Oborne (The Triumph of the Political Class) discuss the nature of power and influence in Britain, chaired by Robert Yates (Extreme Nation).

    Hay Festival 2008, Monday 26 May 2008, 10am

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  • Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius

    The historian Richard Holmes profiles John Churchill, C17th Duke of Marlborough, and by all measures Britain’s greatest ever military commander.

    Hay Festival 2008, Monday 26 May 2008, 10am

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  • Fiction International

    New Zealander Lloyd Jones was Booker-shortlisted for Mr Pip; Tim Winton’s Australian masterpiece Breath is a hot tip for this year. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith.

    Hay Festival 2008, Monday 26 May 2008, 10am

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  • Richard Fortey

    Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

    The palaeontologist introduces his scintillating long view of evolution and cataclysm.

    Hay Festival 2008, Monday 26 May 2008, 10am

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