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Lori Anne Ferrell
The Bible and the People
From manuscripts to Gutenbergs and Gideons we trace how the Bible has been endlessly retailored to meet the changing needs of religion, politics and the reading public while retaining its special status as a sacred text.Hay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5:30pm
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Michael Pawlyn
Architecture and Biomimicry
As part of the ‘RIBA Trust International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change’ Programme.Hay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5:30pm
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Lavinia Greenlaw
The Housman Lecture 2009: The Name and Nature of Poetry
The novelist and poet, author of Minsk, Mary George of Allnorthover, and The Importance of Music to Girls gives this year’s lecture about poetry.Hay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5:30pm
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Jasper Fforde, Cressida Cowell, Patrick Ness and Jenny Valentine
Writers' Question Time
Join some of the nation’s best writers for a unique opportunity to quiz them on all things writerly. The entire session will be run by you, the audience, so come prepared with lots of questions!
9 years–adultHay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5.30pm
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Ben Fogle and James Cracknell
Race to the Pole
Dreamboat Brit adventurer-heroes race two Norwegian teams on foot across the Antarctic. Mush!Hay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 6:45pm
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Roger McGough
That Awkward Age
‘At that awkward age now between birth and death…’ – the patron saint of poetry wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette, perspires in the Foreign Legion, snaps Henri Cartier Bresson in Liverpool and jives in Macca’s trousers.Hay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 6:45pm
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John Kay, Nick Robins and James Marriott chaired by Andrew Simms
The Dark City
Does the behaviour of a handful of investors in the City of London hold the key to our collective survival? With economist John Kay, sustainable investor Nick Robins and art activist James Marriott. Chaired by nef Policy Director Andrew Simms.Hay Festival 2009, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 6:45pm
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Andrew Mottram
The God Boxes
Until the Reformation churches were huge multi-functional spaces. There was no other centre. No pubs. No civic centres or courts. Everything happened in the parish church. Then it all got stuck. The church became a ‘God box’ full of pews. The radical Director of Ecclesiastical Property Solutions discusses the role of church buildings in their communities today.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 9am
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Green Valleys
Ever wondered about making your own green energy and selling it back to the National grid for a profit? Ben Fogle introduces the inspirational Green Valleys – Wales’ entry to the million pound Big Green Challenge Competition – who have done just that.
Entry to this event is free, but you must book a ticket.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 9am
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Rowan Williams talks to AN Wilson
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s reading of the great Russian master asks us to imagine what might be possible if we – characters and readers – saw the world in another light; the light provided by faith.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 10am
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William Nicholson
The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
The novelist and screenwriter introduces his witty and acute social comedy set in a Sussex village.
'No one is perfectly happy. But when are we happy enough?' William Nicholson's new novel, The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, enters the minds and hearts of a group of 'new villagers', the people who live in the country and work in the city. It's about marriage and sex, work and money, being a parent and being a child; about life not turning out the way you hoped, and about life being richer than you dreamed. The main plot – a wife whose long-ago lover returns, to remind her how intense her feelings once were – is borrowed from past experiences of the author's wife, Virginia Nicholson, herself a writer (Singled Out). She will be on the platform with him to discuss turning real life into fiction, whether her husband understands women, and the married life of two writers.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 10am
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Roger McGough
Slapstick
If Philosophy is the Why? And Science is the How? Then Poetry is the Wow! Join one of Britain's best loved poets, as he showcases his new collection of slapstick verses.
10 years – adultHay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 10am
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MG Harris
The Joshua Files
Mayan mystery, fast-paced thrills and nail-biting adventure. If you haven’t discovered the Joshua Files yet, now is your chance – miss it if you dare.
10 years +Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 10am
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The Michael Ramsey Prize
A conversation with the writers shortlisted for the £15,000 biennial prize for theological writing: Sebastian Moore – The Contagion of Jesus; David Brown – God & Grace of Body: Sacrament in Ordinary; Richard Burridge – Imitating Jesus; Anthony Thiselton – The Hermeneutics of Doctrine; Richard Bauckham – Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Chaired by Madeleine Bunting.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 11.30am
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Alan Macfarlane
Cambridge 800 Series: How the World Works
The sociologist asks – are there laws and tendencies in human history and culture and, if so, what are they and how do we discover them? Chaired by Claire Armitstead.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 11.30am
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Rory Maclean
The Traveller
The intrepid wanderer charts the evolution of travel writing from the fall of the Wall to the rise of the Taliban. His books, including Magic Bus, Stalin’s Nose, and Under The Dragon, have invited realistic comparisons with Chatwin and Kapuscinski.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 11.30am
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Alistair Sawday, Barbara Haddrill and Elaine Brook talk to Andy Fryers
How Green is my Money?
Can eco-friendly lifestyles be more enjoyable and healthy, better quality and actually less expensive than our current planet-guzzling habits? Alastair Sawday looks at the ‘Go Slow’ food and lifestyle movement in Italy, Barbara Haddrill tells tales of her aviation-free journey to Australia, and Elaine Brook explores how businesses themselves are cooperating to develop a radically new enterprise culture.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 11.30am
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Anthony Horowitz
The Power of Five: Necropolis
Action, adventure and ancient evil – join this stellar author to hear all about the fourth Power of Five and get the inside take on his forthcoming graphic novels and ‘Alex Rider 8’.
10–16 yearsHay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 11.30am
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Rob Hopkins, Simon Forrester, Rosie Boycott and Andrew Simms
Transition Now
Frontline news from the UK’s fastest growing social experiment – the Transition Town Movement – with movement founder Rob Hopkins, Simon Forrester of Transition Towns Hay and journalist and smallholder Rosie Boycott. Chaired by nef Policy Director Andrew Simms.Part of the nef series ‘Surviving the Crash’. nef is sponsored by The Ecology Building SocietyHay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 1pm
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Robert Hutchinson
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
From Bosworth to the Armada the historian traces the fortunes of England’s grandest Catholic family, the Dukes of Norfolk.Hay Festival 2009, Thursday 28 May 2009, 1pm
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