Whether you want to write fantasy fiction, paranormal romance, thrillers or mysteries, this session will show you how. Be inspired and unlock you best-seller.
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.
Join the author of Hitler’s Angel and the screenwriter of Hollywood hits such as The Scorpion King, Thunderbirds and Twins and get to grips with dialogue, fast-paced plots and cliffhangers.
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.
The professor of poetry lays bare Shakepeare’s depiction of boy lovers and the explorations of sex, love and marriage in the plays. With special reference to Romeo & Juliet. Chaired by Clemency Burton-Hill.
The War is Dead, Long Live the War - Bosnia: the Reckoning
Event 337 • •
Venue: Sky Arts Studio
The journalist bears witness to the Serbian death camps he uncovered in 1992 and examines the aftermath of the catastrophic Bosnian war and its terrible human consequences.
The economist examines the political will and practicalities needed to address the global problems of climate change and energy security. Chaired by Peter Oborne.
The Old Woman, The Buffalo, and the Lion of Manding – Part 1
Event 339 • •
Venue: Hay on Earth Stage
The Birth of Sundiata Keita, legendary founder of the great Malian Empire in West Africa, is one of the most exciting birth-of-a-hero tales in the world. Featuring hunters, kings, prophecy, a buffalo woman, a jealous first wife, curses, insults, and acts of honour, this passionate and inspiring tale is the beloved story of the origin of a nation. Part 2 tomorrow - see event 393.
The political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through 100 key places you can still visit today - from Stonehenge to The Gherkin.
The classicists explore the idea of Greece - the aspirations and the concepts of civilisation, democracy, drama, virtue, victory, liberty and xenia, and discuss what the study of Classics has meant in the wider world.
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over 100km an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings?
We are delighted to launch a biting political satire set in the Portuguese backwater of Barba by the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need To Talk About Kevin and So Much For That.
Passions fly high in Crace’s fanatical Spurs homage Vertigo and the Glass novel Bring Me The Head of Ryan Giggs - a fantasist’s relationship with the United winger.
The story of our fishermen's fight for survival, told from firsthand experience. Accompanying the BBC 2 series of the same name, Monty spends a year working as a fisherman from Cadgwith Cove in Cornwall, the last defiant outpost of Britain's traditional fishing industry. Through relentless labour of working on his own boat and the drama of great spiralling storms, Monty experiences a way of life that is quietly dying. Exploring the impact of industrial scale trawling on our small-scale fishing industry, with consumer advice on how we can save it and sustain it for the future, this is the story of British fishing today.
The iconic Welsh singer-songwriter and her band return to the festival with her own new music and poetry and a tribute to Woody Guthrie. She is supported by the award-winning folk singer FFLUR DAFYDD launching her fourth album Ffydd Gobaith Cariad - Faith Hope Love.
The film of the book by Michael Morpurgo. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on. Directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, produced by Revel Guest. UK, 2011, 146’. PG. Also see events, 334, and 423.
More than one thing is about to go bump in the night at Noel Coward’s Kent retreat, Goldenhurst. The higher the society the looser the morals. A dark, and wickedly funny ghost story.
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged From Nature
Event 349 • •
Venue: Sky Arts Studio
The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industry and agriculture is leading to the Earth’s sixth great extinction of species, an extinction thousands of times more extensive than that counted in the fossil record before the emergence of modern man.
