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Karl Ove Knausgaard and Tiffany Murray talk to Rosie Goldsmith

Fiction: Love and Death, and Rock ’n’ Roll

Event 206 • • Venue: The Moot

A Death in the Family is hailed as the great masterpiece of contemporary Norwegian literature, exploring love, parental death and a teenage infatuation for rock music. The Welsh tale of Diamond Star Halo riffs on the same eternal themes.
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Álvaro Enrigue, Frank Wynne, Rosalind Harvey and Daniel Hahn

BCLT – Word for Word 1

Event 207 • • Venue: Digital Stage

Translators Wynne (winner of the IMPAC, Foreign Fiction Prize etc) and Harvey produce English versions of the same short story originally written in Spanish by the Mexican novelist and Bogota 39 star Álvaro Enrigue. The author and his translators discuss the nuances, divergences and creativity of their translations with the Director of the BCLT.
 
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Dragons’ Innovation Den - The Power of Youth

Event 208 • • Venue: Hay on Earth Stage

Four short testimonies followed by a wide-ranging discussion about the value and opportunities offered through the insights of youth – ‘Why does it have to be like that?’
 
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The Princes Drawing School

Event 527 • • Venue: The Summer House

Come to the Pop Up Studio and learn how to look and to draw with the only art school dedicated to drawing from observation. Spend a morning drawing and change the way you see! Suitable for all ages and abilities. No equipment required.
 
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From Bluff to Book Town, along Offa’s Dyke Path

Event 539 • • Venue: Meet at Box Office for Bus

Join Richard Ball, Access and Uplands Officer from the Brecon Beacons National Park and Rob Dingle, Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail Officer, on this lovely, moderate 7 mile (11km) walk to the top of Hay Bluff for stunning views of the surrounding countryside before returning to the town along a pretty section of the Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail.
 
Sorry No Dogs.
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Thomas Penn

Winter King

Event 543 • • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's crown who through luck, guile and ruthlessness had managed to win the throne and stay on it for sixteen years. Although he built palaces, hosted jousts, gave out lavish presents and sent ambassadors across Europe, for many he remained a usurper, a false king.
 
But Henry had a crucial asset: his queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Now, in what would be the crowning glory of his reign, his elder son would marry a great Spanish princess. On a cold November day this girl, the sixteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon, arrived in London for a wedding upon which the fate of England would hinge...
 
In his remarkable debut, historian Thomas Penn recreates an England which is both familiar and very strange - a country that seems medieval yet modern, in which honour and chivalry mingle with espionage, realpolitik, high finance and corruption. It is the story of the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at its heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will to power.
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Andy Stanton

Mr Gum

Event HF53 • • Venue: Barclays Pavilion

Bigger, better, grislier, crazier... No, not Andy, Mr Gum of course! Make sure you and your Snocklehead friends don't miss out.
 
7+ years
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Tallulah Swirls Theatre Company

When Eggy Met Peggy

Event HF54 • • Venue: Starlight Stage

What happens when the lonely egg sat on a wall meets the sparkling pea from under that huge pile of mattresses? Join Eggy and Peggy the pea, a rock-n-rolling raspberry and cha-cha-cha-ing carrots in this funny and original twist on The Princess And The Pea.
 
3+ years
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Annie Dalton

Moonbeans

Event HF55 • • Venue: The Hexagon

Come and hear all about Moonbeans the magical moon cat who can help dreams come true. Stickers, recipes and lots of fun.
 
Duration 40 mins.   7+ years
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Institute of Physics

Physics in the Field

Event HF56 • • Venue: The Mess Tent

A team of top-notch scientists will be performing eye-catching physics tricks, using things that can be found at home, to wow all ages. Some are messy, some are noisy, but all of them are crowd pleasing and help illustrate different areas of physics. So come along and find out how to make a balloon kebab, a tame tornado and much more.
 
Families
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Mix Music and JamPod

Are you good enough?

Event T10 • • Venue: Scribblers’ Hut

JamPod is changing the way the world engages with music. Are you an experienced contemporary musician? And do you think you are up to the challenge? Come along and produce a studio-quality track in an hour-long session led by JamPod creator and Mix Music Director Dan Jones and Dean Clarke, Head of Education at Korg UK.
 
Duration 60 mins.  14+ years
 
Each young person attending this workshop must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.
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Anne Somerset

Queen Anne

Event 210 • • Venue: Barclays Pavilion

A revelatory portrait of the great Stuart monarch, whose reign encompassed union with Scotland, Marlborough’s victories in France, some sublime architecture and rancorous rows with some of the highest Ladies of Court.
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Andrew Miller talks to Jon Gower

Pure

Event 211 • • Venue: Sky Arts Studio

The novelist discusses his Costa Award-winning Pure. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
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Tristan Gooley

The Natural Explorer

Event 212 • • Venue: Big Tent

A beautiful and engaging introduction to Understanding Your Landscape - a naturalist, countryman’s guide to ‘creative rambling’.
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Creative Intent – The Power of Youth

Event 213 • • Venue: Hay on Earth Stage

Do you have an idea for an innovation but don’t know where to start, or have you already started but are bogged down? This open session of design and creativity will teach you new tools for your projects.
 
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Jonathan Meades & Charles Fernyhough

MEMORY & PLACE

Event 542 • • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

Idiosyncratic filmmaker, novelist and architecture critic Jonathan Meades in discussion with fellow novelist and child psychologist Charles Fenryhough. Meades is publishing Museum Without Walls, the product of thirty years writing and thinking about places: their ingredients, how and why they were made, their capacity to illumine the societies that inhabit them and the ideas they foment. Charles Fernyhough's new book, Pieces of Light, examines the neuroscientific basis of memory and how it makes us the people we are. Expect an intellectually no-holds-barred exploration of how we invent the outside world and it invents us. Chaired by John Mitchinson
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The Great Big Animal Quiz

Event HF58 • • Venue: Digital Stage

Do you know why bees dance or the colour of a giraffe’s tongue? Come and give yourself a noggin workout - there are prizes to be won. Bring pad and pencil. Hosted by quizmasters extraordinaire Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow.
 
8+ years
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Ciaran Murtagh

Event HF59 • • Venue: Starlight Stage

The star of CBBC’s The Slammer returns to Hay for comedy, capers and magic carpet antics with his brand new adventure Genie in Training.
 
7+years
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Petr Horacek

Event HF60 • • Venue: The Hexagon

Hear about little puffins Peter and Paul, before creating your own bright and bold picture-book masterpiece.
 
5-7 years
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Mix Music and JamPod

Guitar Hero, but for real

Event T11 • • Venue: Scribblers’ Hut

Calling all budding guitar, bass, keys, drums players or vocalists. Find out about JamPod and meet its creator Dan Jones (Former UK Music Teacher of the Year). Have a go in the studio (where no one can hear you unless you want them to!) and produce an MP3 track.
 
Duration 60 mins.  14+ years
 
Each young person attending this workshop must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.
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hay festival

Hay Festival runs for ten days with a packed programme of debates and conversations with poets and scientists, novelists and historians, artists and gardeners, comedians and musicians, film makers and politicians.

hay fever

Hay Fever - our festival for families and children, runs across the ten days of the festival where children have the chance to meet and talk to their favourite writers and take part in workshops to create wonderful memories and develop new skills in imaginative thinking and self expression.

Hf2 is our festival for teenagers - with an awesome line-up featuring the movers and shakers of Young Adult writing, Hf2 is a mind-blowing experience for 13-plus.

hay on earth

We care passionately about our environment. Hay-on-Earth debates the latest thoughts on climate change and environmental awareness.

In 2006 we started the Hay-on-Earth Project to audit, address and change our ecological sustainability.