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  • Charlie Higson talks to Jonathan Douglas

    Young Bond

    To celebrate the centenary of Bond’s originator, Charlie Higson discusses recreating the superspy for a young audience.

    Hay Fever 9 yrs +

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 2.30pm

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  • A World Without Bees

    Guardian Environment Editor John Vidal faces the cataclysm with eco-authors Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 2.30pm

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  • Joann Fletcher

    Cleopatra the Great

    Joann Fletcher profiles the last and greatest Egyptian Pharoah-politician, mother, scholar and icon. Chaired by Corisande Albert.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 4pm

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  • Robert Muchamore and Mark Walden

    The adults in charge of CHERUB and HIVE, the Higher Institute of Villainous Education discuss the good, the bad and the acronym with Jonathan Douglas.

    Hay Fever 10 yrs +

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 4pm

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  • The RSPB Cymru Lecture: Saving Special Places 2

    Tim Stowe looks at the Severn Estuary and assesses the potential impact of the barrier.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 4pm

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  • Geraint Talfan Davies talks to Patrick Hannan

    Great and good Taffia boss (BBC Wales, WNO, Arts Council, etc.) discusses his At Arm’s Length: Recollections and Reflections on the Arts, Media and a Young Democracy.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 4pm

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  • John Bolton talks to Nik Gowing

    President Bush's Ambassador to the UN (2005-06) discussed international relations.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 6pm

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  • Frieda Hughes

    The Name and Nature of Poetry The Housman Lecture 2008

    Given by the poet whose collections include Stonepicker Waxworks and Forty-Five.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 6pm

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  • Julian Bell

    Mirror of the World: A New History of Art

    Julian Bell introduces his brilliant global perspective, pulling together connections across continents and cultures.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 6pm

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  • Mary Warnock and Elisabeth McDonald

    Easeful Death

    Mary Warnock and Elisabeth McDonald examine the philosophical and ethical issues around assisted suicide and euthanasia.

    Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 6pm

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  • Anthony Pagden

    Worlds at War

    Anthony Pagden maps The 2,500- year Struggle Between East and West from the secession of Asia and Europe, via Xerxes and Alexander to the present day divergence of Islam and the Christian and secular West.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 10am

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  • Marcus Sedgwick and Cliff McNish

    Demons and Angels

    Marcus Sedgwick uses ancient myths and traditions as the base for his lyrical vampire novel My Swordhand is Singing. Cliff McNish uses angels of both darkness and light to explore teenage morality and fragility in his latest, breathtaking Angel. They talk to Paul Blezard.

    Hay Fever 13 yrs +

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 10am

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  • Christopher Stocks talks to John Mitchinson

    Forgotten Fruits

    Christopher Stocks talks to John Mitchinson about his Guide to Britain’s traditional fruit and vegetables, from Kelvedon King Leeks to White Princess Tomatoes.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 10am

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  • The Tiger Who Came to Tea

    Judith Kerr

    As the treasured picture book celebrates its fiftieth birthday the much loved author talks to Julia Eccleshare about her children’s classics–from the classroom staple When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit to the serial adventures of Mog the Cat.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 11.30am

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  • Alan Weisman

    The World Without Us

    Alan Weisman asks how the world would change if human beings vanished from the earth right now, for good. What would the planet be like in a day, a week, a month…a millennium?

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 11.30am

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  • Cinnamon Press Presents New Fiction

    The launch of Holly Howitt’s brilliantly inventive debut collection of ‘micro-fictions’ Dinner Time and the novella The Fugitive Three by award- winning poet and short story writer Mike Jenkins; they are joined by Kate North, author of the startlingly original Eva Shell.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 11.30am

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  • Kevin Crossley-Holland and Philip Reeve

    CILIP Carnegie Celebratory Event Arthur

    Kevin Crossley-Holland and Philip Reeve–both winners of the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction and both shortlisted for the 2008 CILIP Carnegie Medal–discuss Arthurian legend with Claire Armitstead.

    Hay Fever 10 yrs +

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 1pm

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  • Virginia Nicholson

    Singled Out

    Virginia Nicholson introduces her richly nuanced and brilliantly perceptive tale of How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 1pm

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  • David Nash

    Blasphemy in the Christian World

    David Nash seeks to understand why this medieval offence of ‘denial or denigration of God’ has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 1pm

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  • Marcus Brigstocke & guests

    The Early Edition 5

    The brilliant corduroy comedian satirises the day’s papers and media.

    Hay Festival 2008, Thursday 29 May 2008, 1pm

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