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Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall
River Cottage Meat
The chef and writer conjures shepherds pie, glazed baked ham, Irish stew, roast grouse with all the trimmings, toad in the hole and oxtail stew, pot au feu, cassoulet, bolito misto, pasticcio, jerked pork, feijoida, cozido, curried goat...Hay Festival 2004, Saturday 29 May 2004, 4pm
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Jon Snow talks to Rosie Boycott
The Channel 4 News anchor and author of Shooting History discusses broadcast news, conflict and the New World Disorder with Rosie Boycott.London Events 2004, Tuesday 12 October, 5pm
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John Pilger
Tell Me No Lies
My Lai, Watergate, Hiroshima and Palestine. The heroic war correspondent and film-maker has collected the greatest investigative reporting of the last sixty years exposing the hidden agendas of oppressive regimes in Tell Me No Lies. He talks to Peter Florence.London Events 2004, Tuesday 12 October, 6pm
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Anna Politkovskaya
Putin's Russia
A devastating appraisal by the country's leading radical journalist, admired for her fearless reporting on human rights issues, especially the wars in Chechnya. In Russian with simultaneous translation.Hay Festival 2005, Saturday 28 May 2005, 4pm
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Stephen Fry, Christopher Hitchens and Joan Bakewell
The Blasphemy Debate
Joan Bakewell chairs a debate on the boundaries of freedom of speech, religious tolerance, multiculturalism and orthodoxy.Hay Festival 2005, Saturday 28 May 2005, 9.50pm
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Ian McEwan talks to Christopher Hitchens
The Booker-winner and author of Atonement discusses his new novel Saturday.Hay Festival 2005, Sunday 29 May 2005, 5pm
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Ali Smith talks to Francine Stock
The Accidental is a compelling adventure in literature from the most inventive and entertaining novelist of my generation. Don't miss this. You can tell your grandchildren you were there when it launched.Hay Festival 2005, Sunday 29 May 2005, 7pm
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William Hague
Pitt the Younger
The former Welsh Secretary gives a brilliantly acute and witty account of the life and times of Britain's youngest and longest-serving Prime Minister, brought low by an attritional war and royal ructions.Hay Festival 2005, Wednesday 1 June 2005, 7.15pm
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Roberto Fontanarosa
Roberto Fontanarosa speaks at Hay Festival Cartagena 2006.Please note: This talk is conducted entirely in Spanish.Cartagena 2006, Thursday 26 January, 2pm
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Orson Welles – Hello Americans
Simon Callow
The actor introduces the second volume of his biography taking the American wunderkind through the career-disaster years from Citizen Kane to Macbeth.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 9.45am
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First Iraq, Next Iran?
Simon Jenkins
The Guardian's political columnist discusses the US strategy in the Middle East.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 10am
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George Saunders talks to Zadie Smith
Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty) in conversation with the American short story master of blackest comedy, and author of Pastoralia.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 11.30am
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One-stop Literary Festival
Craig Brown, Eleanor Bron, and imaginary friends
'If there were a Parodist Laureate, Craig Brown would step up unchallenged to the title' – The Observer. In this, his own one-stop literary festival, Brown conjures up forgotten works by, among many others, WG Sebald, Graham Greene, Jeanette Winterson, Martin Amis and Jilly Cooper. 'We love Craig Brown!' – Sir Elton John.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 11.30am
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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore?
Bettany Hughes
The historical quest for the most desired and destructive woman that myth has ever known.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 2.30pm
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The Greenpeace Debate
Clare Short MP and Michael Codner, Director Military Service, RUSI
Is there a rationale for continuing Britain's nuclear force in the twenty-first century? Chaired by Stephen Tindale.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Reza Aslan
No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
Can an Islamic state be founded on democratic values? Aslan believes we are now living in the era of 'the Islamic Reformation'. He examines the roots of this reformation and the future of the Islamic faith.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 4pm
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Barbarians
Terry Jones
This isn't the imperial version of the Caesars' conquests, this is the story of Roman history as seen by the Britons, Gauls, Germans, Hellenes, Persians and Africans. And suddenly the Romans don't look at all familiar...Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 4pm
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Cars Are Killing The Planet
The Economist Debate
Channel 4 News' Jon Snow chairs as freedom, practicality and pleasure are set against pollution, asthma, global warming and terrifying geopolitics. Will post-petrol tech save the day? Speakers include Jeremy Leggett of SolarCentury, Vijay Vaitheeswaran of The Economist and Edmund King, Executive Director, RAC Foundation.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 5.30pm
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Germaine Greer
Poetry as Male Display
In her annual poetry masterclass, Greer explores the idea that 'Literature is a masculinist invention; poetry in particular is a spectacular form of male display. Women have to adapt a language which objectifies them absolutely to become the speakers, the verbal aggressors.'Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 5.30pm
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Sebastian Faulks
The novelist (Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, On Green Dolphin Street) discusses his new work Human Traces with Tatler editor Geordie Greig.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 7pm
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