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Stephen Marshall and Nick Cohen
What's Left?
Two searing and brilliantly entertaining examinations of Liberalism here and in America, from eco-shopping to Iraq, with Marshall’s Wolves in Sheeps Clothing and Cohen’s What’s Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way. Chaired by Palash Dave.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 11.30am
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Geoffrey Robertson
Crimes Against Humanity and The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
The leading human rights lawyer discusses his work on war crime tribunals in Africa, and his latest books Crimes Against Humanity and The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 11.30am
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Ruth Rendell talks to Stephanie Merritt
The great psychological thriller and crime writer discusses her work.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 11.30am
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Kathy Lette and John Mortimer
Murder - A Beginner's Guide
Lette (married to Geoffrey Robertson) wrote How To Murder Your Husband. Mortimer created Rumpole. Chaired by meettheauthor.com’s David Freeman.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 1pm
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Steve Jones
Why Intelligent Design is Stupid
Scientists are professional pessimists, always dubious about what they find. Believers, in contrast, are certain: full of joy that their own Big Book contains the truth. The geneticist talks about science and faith as conflicting explanations of what we are; and how biology, in the end, is blind.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 1pm
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Dan Rhodes, Helen Oyeyemi and Lucy Eyre
Chaired by Paul Blezard
Challenging and inspiring new fiction with Eyre’s philosophical adventures in If Minds Had Toes, the wry comedy of Rhodes’ Gold and the Nigerian-London-Cuban dislocations of Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House. Chaired by Paul Blezard.Hay Festival 2007, Tuesday 27 May 2007, 2pm
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Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers
River Café at Twenty
We celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Hammersmith restaurant, whose creative visionaries, Gray and Rogers, and kitchen alumni (Oliver, Fearnley-Whittingstall, Clark & Clark, etc). have changed the way we eat in Britain. Chaired by John Mitchinson.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 2.30pm
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Simon Jenkins
Thatcher and Sons
The journalist examines how the Iron Lady changed our country and the nature of democratic leadership.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 2.30pm
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Richard Dawkins talks to Rosie Boycott
The God Delusion
The geneticist eviscerates religion, intelligent design, and the idea of a supreme being.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 2.30pm
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Robert Wyatt talks to Simon Reynolds
presented by Domino Recording Co.
Wyatt’s distinctive and emotive voice is instantly recognisable as an instrument of compassion, integrity and, occasionally, righteous indignation. His last studio album Cuckooland was nominated for the Mercury Prize.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 4pm
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Charles Leadbeater
WE-THINK: The power of mass creativity
The rise of YouTube, Linux, MySpace and Wikipedia defines a new society in which participation will be the key organising idea. Join us for a last chance to shape Leadbeater’s groundbreaking investigation before publication. Chaired by Ariane Koek, Director of the Arvon Foundation.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 4pm
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Wole Soyinka talks to Alastair Niven
The Nigerian Nobel Laureate, ferocious and heroic champion of freedom of speech, discusses his plays, novels and poetry with the Director of Cumberland Lodge.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 4pm
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Antonia Fraser
Love and Louis XIV
The historian examines the women in the life of the Sun King.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 4pm
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Liz Calder and Jorge Herralde
Life in Books
The two outstanding international publishers discuss their adventures in the book world. Calder co-founded Bloomsbury and the Brazilian lifest FLIP. Herralde at Anagrama is the most admired independent publisher in the Spanish-speaking world. They talk to Peter Florence.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Peter Stothard, Peter Godwin and Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Classic Book Club: White Man in Africa
The TLS editor is joined by Godwin, author of Mukiwa, and the brilliant Zimbabwean novelist Mushakavanhu to discuss Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Chaired by Paul Blezard.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Neil MacGregor
The British Museum: A Global Treasure
The Director of the British Museum gives the annual lecture. Chaired by Festival President Tom Bingham.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Dave Eggers with Valentino Achak Deng
What is the What
The true story of the courage and endurance of a boy wrenched by conflict from his Sudanese family home and joining thousands of other orphans on the exodus to Ethiopia. Chaired by David Freeman.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 5.30pm
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Amerigo
The tale of the merchant, explorer and creative travel writer, Amerigo Vespucci, who despite trailing his friend and rival Christopher Columbus, gave his name to the New World.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 7pm
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Simon Schama
The Power of Art
‘The power of the greatest art is the power to shake us into revelation, and rip us from our default mode of seeing … We don’t look at a face, a colour, a sky, a body in the same way again.’Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 7pm
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The Guardian Debate: Further Investigation into Tony Blair's War is Pointless
Jonathan Freedland, Phillipe Sands QC
‘Further investigation into Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq is pointless. It is time to move on.’ Jonathan Freedland chairs a debate featuring a panel of first-rank speakers, including Philippe Sands QC.Hay Festival 2007, Sunday 27 May 2007, 7pm
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