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  • Jenni Murray talks to Fiona Lindsay

    Memoirs of a Not-So-Dutiful Daughter

    The great broadcaster describes her relationship with her mother.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 1pm

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  • Reza Aslan talks to Sarfraz Manzoor

    How to Win a Cosmic War

    ‘Why do they hate us?’ And who exactly are They? Al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world? The writer and scholar lays out a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 1pm

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  • Graham Swift

    Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

    The Booker-winner offers a varied and brilliantly realised version of a writer’s life, work and friends. Chaired by Peter Guttridge.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 1pm

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  • Kamila Shamsie and Reif Larsen talk to Claire Armitstead

    Story: Maps

    Shamsie’s epic Burnt Shadows weaves history through Nagasaki, Pakistan, Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. Larsen’s The Selected Works of TS Spivet sends his 12-year-old genius map-maker on a journey across America in a debut full of wonders.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 1pm

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  • Robert Kennedy Jr talks to Rosie Boycott

    The Guardian Sessions: Environmental Justice

    The environmental lawyer discusses his work and Pig Business an investigative documentary into the corporate takeover of pig farming and the devastating impacts this is having on our environment, local communities, small farmers, human health and animal welfare.

    The Guardian Sessions at Hay
    For the eighth year, the Guardian is proud to be the headline sponsor of the Hay Festival. 

    Over the past year, the world has seen momentous change – a deepening economic crisis; the dawn of a new era in America; environmental concerns moving higher up the agenda; and increased challenges to our civil liberties... As the world's leading liberal voice, the Guardian is committed to the exploration and debate of these issues. 

    At this year's festival, the Guardian Sessions, with insight from leading individuals in their fields, will further examine and debate the most pressing concerns facing us today.

    Come and join us.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 2.30pm

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  • Antony Beevor

    D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

    The Samuel Johnson Prize-winner launches his study of the D-Day landings and the liberation battles that turned the war and marked, forever, the relationship between Europe and America.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 2.30pm

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  • Melvyn Bragg

    Autobiography and Fiction

    The award-winning novelist and biographer explores his book Remember Me and the ethics and practice of writing fiction that reflects real lives.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 2.30pm

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  • Monica Ali talks to Sarfraz Manzoor

    In the Kitchen

    The new novel from the author of Brick Lane opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart, cosmopolitan hotel and then peels back the layers of polyglot London to reveal the melting pot that exists below.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 2.30pm

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  • Patrick Hannan talks to Jim Naughtie

    A Useful Fiction: Adventures in British Democracy

    Ten devolved years on, we survey the trials, tribulations, powers and glories of the assemblies and parliaments in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 2.30pm

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  • Chris Patten

    What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century

    Migration, climate, conflict, and the myriad challenges for the global communities. The former EU Commissioner, Governor of Hong Kong is now co-Chair of the International Crisis Group. Chaired by BBC World anchor Nik Gowing.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 4pm

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  • Jan Morris, Simon Armitage, DBC Pierre and Tobias Hill

    Faber @ 80

    We toast the 80th birthday of the blue-chip publishing house with readings by four of its star writers, chaired by publisher Lee Brackstone.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 4pm

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  • Arthur Smith

    My Name is Daphne Fairfax

    The hilarious, scandalous and delightfully rude memoir from the comedian – ‘My name is Arthur Smith, unless there’s anybody here from the Streatham tax office. In which case, I’m Daphne Fairfax’.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 4pm

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  • Sophie Dahl

    Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

    The author reads from and discusses her recipe for the art of eating a little of what you fancy in Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights. Chaired by Rosie Boycott.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 4pm

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  • Jane Davidson AM, Joan Herrera MEP, Caroline Lucas MEP and Andrew Simms

    A Green New Deal

    Can the environment save the economy? Featuring Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MEP, Jane Davidson AM, Welsh Assembly Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, and Spanish MEP Joan Herrera. Chaired by nef Policy Director Andrew Simms.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 4pm

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  • Alan Bennett

    The playwright, novelist and diarist discusses his work with Peter Florence. He is the recipient of Listening Books Award for outstanding contribution to the spoken word.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 5.30pm

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  • Edna O’Brien

    Byron in Love

    The Irish novelist is a perfect match for the subject of her biography, the heroic Romantic poet. Chaired by Peter Guttridge.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 5.30pm

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  • Tristram Hunt

    The Frock-Coated Communist

    The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, huntsman and author of The Communist Manifesto.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 5.30pm

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  • Zoe Heller talks to John Mullan

    The Believers

    The superbly entertaining new tragi-comic novel from the author of Notes From a Scandal.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 5.30pm

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  • Stanley Greenberg

    Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders

    As a hired gun strategist, the seasoned pollster and political consultant recounts his work with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ehud Barak, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Nelson Mandela.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 5.30pm

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  • Jeremy Paxman

    The Victorians

    Starting out from the hugely popular masterpieces of Victorian art, the grand inquisitor challenges our assumptions about the birth of modern Britain.

    Hay Festival 2009, Saturday 30 May 2009, 7pm

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