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Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
The Canadian poet gives us her inversion of Homer's Odyssey, retold by Penelope and the twelve handmaids Odysseus slaughtered on his return from Troy, Dido and twenty years away from his palace.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 7pm
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Christopher Hitchens and Shashi Tharoor
Freedoms of Speech
Vigorous late-night debate around the Danish cartoons, David Irving, and contrarian culture. Tharoor is Under-Secretary General for Communications at the UN and a novelist. Chaired by Joan Bakewell.Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 27 May 2006, 10pm
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Will Self talks to Alexander Linklater
The superverbal and imaginatively thrilling novelist and journalist launches his The Book of Dave, based around the rants of Dave Roth, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.Hay Festival 2006, Sunday 28 May 2006, 11.30am
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Sheila Hancock talks to Joan Bakewell
The actress and RSC Artistic Director discusses her portrait of her own marriage The Two of Us: My Life With John Thaw.Hay Festival 2006, Sunday 28 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Andy McNab
A rare interview with the author of Bravo Two Zero, Firewall, Last Light and Aggressor. Chaired by Phil Rickman.Hay Festival 2006, Sunday 28 May 2006, 7pm
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Free to Offend?
Joan Bakewell, Madeleine Bunting, Ziauddin Sardar, Philip Hensher, Reza Aslan and Anthony Julius
How are both religious sensibility and freedom of expression to be accommodated in pluralistic societies? Is offence the price believers must pay for living in a free society? Or do those who advocate free speech have to accept that in some circumstances other beliefs and principles may have to take priority?Hay Festival 2006, Sunday 28 May 2006, 7pm
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Howard Hodgkin talks to Simon Schama
Thames & Hudson Series
To celebrate his forthcoming retrospective at Tate Britain, and to mark the publication of the catalogue raisonnés of his paintings and prints, the artist talks to Simon Schama.Hay Festival 2006, Sunday 28 May 2006, 7pm
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The Poetry Gala
Margaret Atwood, Tishani Doshi, James Fenton, John Fuller, Seamus Heaney, Don Paterson, Owen Sheers and Hugo Williams, hosted by Wales’ Poet Laureate Gwyneth Lewis. Chaired by Paul Blezard.Hay Festival 2006, Sunday 28 May 2006, 8.30pm
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Christopher Hitchens
The Rights of Man
The contrarian traces the history of The Rights of Man from the publication of Part One in 1791 in London and its rapturous reception across the Atlantic. He analyses the meaning it has acquired since its creation, and its significance as the cornerstone of contemporary debates about our basic human rights.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 11.30am
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Margaret Atwood
The Tent
A conversation and reading from her new short story collection.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 1pm
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Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis
Jeremy Leggett
The global marketplace is built on the notion of a stable supply of cheap oil and gas. But that bedrock is about to crumble. As geologists, civil servants and the oil industry knows, the end of oil is a lot closer than we think. Leggett is Chief Executive of Solarcentury.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Graeme Gibson
The Bedside Book of Birds
Folktales, stories and excerpts from a naturalist's journal where creation myths, recipes, and the most stunning illustrations lace Gibson's own graceful and erudite essays telling of the pleasure, fear, confusion, or hope that birds inspire, and their imperiled place in nature.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Laurence Lessig
The Director's Lecture
The Stanford Law Professor, author of Free Culture, The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace examines the questions of copyright, ownership and access, to determine whether and how the western literary tradition is being imperilled in the digital age. Chaired by Damian Tambini.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 4pm
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Graydon Carter, Christopher Hitchens and Gary Younge
America
The Vanity Fair editor, author of the savagely critical What We’ve Lost, joins the Hitch and The Guardian’s US correspondent Gary Younge, who launches Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States, to consider the state of the union.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 4pm
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Seamus Heaney
The poet reads and discusses his new collection District and Circle. In conversation with Peter Florence.Hay Festival 2006, Monday 29 May 2006, 5.30pm
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For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies
Robert Irwin
Irwin makes an impassioned case for ardent scholarship against the allegation of western imperialism from ancient Greece to the present day.Hay Festival 2006, Tuesday 30 May 2006, 2.30pm
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Not for the Faint-hearted
John Stevens
The much-admired Met Commissioner (2000–2005) discusses shoot-to-kill, terrorism, corruption, Blunkett, and Ongoing – his investigation into the death of Princess Diana.Hay Festival 2006, Tuesday 30 May 2006, 4pm
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Chris Patten
Not Quite the Diplomat
Free from office, the former Hong Kong Governor and EU Commissioner speaks out on the players and interests driving world politics.Hay Festival 2006, Tuesday 30 May 2006, 5.30pm
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Richard Holmes and General Sir Rupert Smith
Holmes reports from his regiment’s frontline tour of duty in Iraq, on the day-to-day experience of infantrymen in 2006 in his Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War. His experience commanding in the Gulf War, UNPROFOR and Kossovo informs The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World, Smith’s radical exploration of conflicts fought no longer as industrial absolute war, but as war ‘among the people’.Hay Festival 2006, Tuesday 30 May 2006, 7pm
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Maureen Lipman
The actress, writer, widow of the peerless Jack Rosenthal, and national treasure.Hay Festival 2006, Tuesday 30 May 2006, 7pm
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