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Louise Rennison
The bestselling and brilliantly funny author talks about Georgia Nicolson on page and screen, with sneak peeks from the upcoming movie of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and the upcoming book, Stop in the Name of Pants.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 1pm
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Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma
Archaeological surveyor Anthony Johnson uses hi-tech analysis to nail one of the world’s great mysteries.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 1pm
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RIBA Lecture
Ken Shuttleworth of MAKE Architects, who’s previously worked on groundbreaking buildings like Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok Airport and St Mary’s Axe (The Gherkin) in London looks at the challenge of designing a new generation of compelling, dynamic and environmentally responsible buildings within our globally changing landscape. In conversation with Wayne Hemingway.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 1pm
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Eoin Colfer
Airman is the newest swashbuckling adventure from the brilliantly entertaining creator of Artemis Fowl.
Hay Fever 10 yrs +Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 2.30pm
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Charles Freeman
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and The Christian State
Charles Freeman narrates the end of religious pluralism and Emperor Theodosius’ ruthless establishment of Christian Orthodoxy.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 2.30pm
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The British Academy Warton Poetry Lecture 2008
Poet and professor Tony Curtis:‘We keep the bread and wine for show’: Consistent irony and reluctant faith in the poetry of Dannie Abse. Chaired by Professor Christopher Morgan.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 2.30pm
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Joseph Silk
Infinite Cosmos
Oxford astronomer Joseph Silk analyses the Big Bang from the frontiers of technology, and tells of supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, curved spacetime, colliding galaxies, and supermassive black holes.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 2.30pm
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Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour De France
Jeremy Whittle and William Fotheringham discuss the agony, the ecstasy, the drugs and the disillusion.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 2.30pm
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Georgia Byng and Andy Stanton
Super Powers
Byng’s once-miserable orphan, Molly Moon, finds excitement and bizarre adventure through her hypnotic abilities. Stanton’s dastardly anti-hero Mr Gum is even more menacing and laugh-out-loud wicked with the use of his Power Crystals. The authors talk adventure, laughter and character with Jonathan Douglas.
Hay Fever 8 yrs +Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 4pm
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David Andress and Mike Rapport
Revolution
Two of Britain’s most brilliant historians, David Andress (1789) and Mike Rapport (1848) discuss the turning points of European history.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 4pm
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Martin Rowson
Cartoons, Offence and Religion
The cartoonist and author of Stuff and The Dog Allusion explores the boundaries of satire.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 4pm
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Tariq Ramadan
The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad
The charismatic scholar sets the story of the Prophet in context.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 5.30pm
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Rita Carter
Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality
Multiple personalities are traditionally the stuff of horror movies, thrillers and bizarre mental disorders. Rita Carter argues that every one of us consists of different and often competing selves.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 5.30pm
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Jenny Valentine talks to Julia Eccleshare
Valentine’s debut novel, Finding Violet Park, won the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction. Broken Soup is set to consolidate its author’s reputation as a unique and compelling writer who can combine heart-rending tragedy, quirky characters and intriguing mystery with a masterly lightness of touch.
Hay Fever 12 yrs +Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 5.30pm
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Homero Aridjis
The eminent Mexican writer ("Eyes to See Otherwise", "1492 The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castille"), environmentalist and diplomat talks about his lifelong crusade to save the Monarch butterfly, which migrates every year from Canada to overwinter in Mexico's oyamel forests.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 5.30pm
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Jeremy Clarkson talks to Rosie Boycott
Top writer talks cars and opinions.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 7pm
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Jo Wood
The model and cosmetics producer lays out an holistic organic manifesto—Naturally: How to Look and Feel Healthy, Energetic and Radiant the Organic Way.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 7pm
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Sam Taylor-Wood and Patrick Marber
Love You More
The YBA photographer and video artist Sam Taylor-Wood discusses and introduces her collaboration with screenwriter Patrick Marber (Closer, Asylum, Notes on a Scandal, Saturday) on a short film inspired by the Buzzcocks single of the same name. The film is a tender love-story set in the heady punk days of 1978.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 7pm
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Building St Pauls
James WP Campbell describes not just the feats of Christopher Wren, but the work of the quarrymen, stonemasons, carpenters and craftsmen who collaborated on Britain’s most imposing cathedral.Hay Festival 2008, Tuesday 27 May 2008, 8.15pm
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Horrid Henry
Francesca Simon
Francesca Simon tells why she created Horrid Henry, revels in his terrible antics, and lets us in on some mischievous adventures she has planned for him in the future.
Hay Fever 7 yrs +Hay Festival 2008, Wednesday 28 May 2008, 10am
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