Search results
-
David Shields, John Sutherland, Sarah Hunter, Feargal Sharkey and Claire Armitstead
Copyright, Copyleft and Artistic Freedom in the Information Age: Who Owns the Words?
The author of the seminal manifesto Reality Hunger joins critics and Google’s policy chief to debate who owns the music, the images, the stories and touchstones of our culture? The individual artists, the distributing corporations, or the consumers who purchase it? Chaired by Kenan Malik of Index on Censorship.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 1pm
-
Marcus Brigstocke, Andre Vincent, Carrie Quinlan and Guest
The Early Edition
The home team satirists read the Sunday papers.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 2.30pm
-
Lyndall Gordon with Emily Woof
Lives Like Loaded Guns
The biographer sees the great poet as ‘a soul at white heat’ as she explores Emily Dickinson and her family’s feuds. With readings by actress Emily Woof.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 2.30pm
-
Blessing Musariri and Ethel Irene Kabwato with Menna Elfyn
Sunflowers in Your Eyes
The two Zimbabwean poets read their work and discuss the cultural and political world they work in.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 2.30pm
-
Tom Stoppard talks to Peter Florence
The London Library at Hay
A conversation with the playwright (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Jumpers, Arcadia, Rock ‘n’ Roll) and screenwriter (Professional Foul, Brazil, Shakespeare in Love).Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 4pm
-
Richard Woodman, Peter Hore, Brian Lavery and Lord Selsdon talk to Dan Snow
Empire of the Seas
A distinguished naval panel review Britain’s great maritime culture, and consider the resourcing and strategies for defence of the realm in a C21st when piracy is rife, military capability is servicing two major fronts and still more than 90% of our international trade is moved by ship. Woodman is Elder Brother of Trinity House and a Merchant Navy historian, Hore is former Head of Defence Studies, historian Lavery is Emeritus Curator at the National Maritime Museum, and Selsdon speaks on Defence and Trade. The event is introduced by the Royal Marine Corps of Drums from CTC Lympstone.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 4pm
-
Ed Hollis
The Secret Lives of Buildings
A radical re-imagining of architectural history From the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 4pm
-
Richard Herring talks to Fiona Lindsay
How Not To Grow Up
The 40-something comedian is a big kid kicking against maturity, and the author of A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort of.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 4pm
-
Sarah Dunant talks to Helena Kennedy
Sacred Hearts
In Renaissance Ferrara the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and hormones and determined to escape.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 4pm
-
Simon Jenkins faces Stephen Bayley and John Goodall
J’Accuse
The National Trust Chairman is in the dock for vulgarising and dumbing down the curating of Britain’s heritage. The celebrated style guru and the architectural editor of Country Life lead the prosecution. Fruit may be thrown.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 5.30pm
-
Jasper Conran talks to Sue Crewe
Country
The designer shows and discusses his passion for country living, country style, nostalgia, landscape, interiors, detail, still life, colour, texture, shape, mood and reflection.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 5.30pm
-
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
The Oxford Book of Exploration
The adventurer gathers the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples and new experiences, from Vasco de Gama, Magellan and Cook to Thesiger and Livingstone.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 5.30pm
-
Ben Shephard
The Long Road Home
Surprisingly early in the Second World War – long before an Allied victory was assured – people began to plan for its aftermath, haunted by memories of what had happened a generation earlier when millions more civilians were killed by disease and starvation after the conflict was over.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 5.30pm
-
Trezza Azzopardi, Jon McGregor
Fiction: Intimacy
The Song House is about language and music, memory and place; Even The Dogs is an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society; littered with love, loss, despair and a glimpse of redemption. Chaired by Kathryn Gray.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 5.30pm
-
Stephen Fry talks to Peter Florence
The Last Word
All talk – from Apple to Zeus. The next volume of the writer’s memoir will be available in September.Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010, 7pm
-
Melvin Burgess in conversation with Fitch O’Connell
Hay Festivalito for kids
The British author Melvin Burgess, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction award and the Carnegie Medal, will talk about the role of youngsters and adolescents in his novels and stories.Segovia 2010, jueves 23 septiembre 2010, 12:00–13:00 H
-
Antonio Muñoz Molina in conversation with Justo Serna
Antonio Muñoz Molina, a writer and member of the 'Real Academia Española’ (Royal Spanish Academy) will talk to Justo Serna, a professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia and a specialist in Cultural History. They will both expound on the latest novel by Muñoz Molina, La noche de los tiempos, a personal look at the causes which led to the Spanish Civil War.Simultaneous translation from Spanish to English will be provided.Segovia 2010, jueves 23 septiembre 2010, 19:00–20:00 H
-
From climate change to financial turbulence: The challenges of leadership in historical perspective
Geoffrey Parker in conversation with Rolf Strom Olsen
Geoffrey Parker, a distinguished historian, Hispanist and Andreas Dorpalen Professor at the Ohio State University, will talk to Rolf Strom Olsen, professor at the IE School of Arts & Humanities. Geoffrey Parker has received the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise.Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish will be provided.Segovia 2010, jueves 23 septiembre 2010, 20:30–21:30 H
-
Guiriguay: Michael Jacobs, Chris Stewart and Pepa Fernández
Michael Jacobs and Chris Stewart, two well-known British writers who have settled in Spain, frequently participate in the famous radio programme No es un día cualquiera (‘Today isn’t any old day’), presented by Pepa Fernández. Every Sunday they produce the radio slot ‘El guiriguay’, a cheerful look at Spanish life from the different points of view of two bar-loving foreigners who are urban intellectuals but who, at the same time, have the innocent and expert wisdom of the rural context.Segovia 2010, jueves 23 septiembre 2010, 20:30–21:30 H
-
Beverley Naidoo in conversation with Fitch O’Connell
Hay Festivalito for kids
The South African young people’s literature author, winner of the Carnegie Medal, will talk about reality through fiction in connection with her stories and her novel Journey to Jo'burg.This event is in EnglishSegovia 2010, viernes 24 septiembre 2010, 12:00–13:00 H
Page « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 »
Search podcasts
Filter the archive
Alternatively use the menu at the top of the page to search alphabetically, by festival and by year.
