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Food

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Rowley Leigh talks to Rosie Boycott

No Place Like Home

Event 79 • • Venue: Starlight Stage

The award-winning food writer and chef, founder of Kensington Place and Le Café Anglais, discusses his classic celebration of Seasonal English Cooking.
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Simon Hoggart

Life’s too Short to Drink Bad Wine

Event 81 • • Venue: Digital Stage

A delightful tasting of wines for the discerning drinker.
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Nicholas Ostler

The Last Lingua Franca - The Rise and Fall of World Languages

Event 260 • • Venue: Barclays Pavilion

In their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. And yet they have all been displaced, just as the linguist predicts English will be. With a working knowledge of twenty-six languages, Nicholas now runs an institute for the protection of endangered languages.
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Tom and Henry Herbert

The Fabulous Baker Brothers

Event 390 • • Venue: Sky Arts Studio

Tom is a master baker who runs the famous Hobbs House Bakery that has been the family business for five generations. His brother Henry is the acclaimed chef who runs the Hobbs House Butchery right next door. They’re fabulous.
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Prue Leith talks to Sarah Crompton

Relish: My Life on a Plate

Event 431 • • Venue: Sky Arts Studio

The extraordinary, zestful life of the celebrated cook, restaurateur, food writer, businesswoman and lover.
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Claire Preston

A Brief History of Cider

Event 511 • • Venue: Digital Stage

In C17th England, apples were the national fruit and Herefordshire cider was the patriotic tipple. Wholesome, nutritious, strengthening, and morally pure, cider’s virtues would nourish the nation, establish Empire, and win wars. How did cider knock French wine and the Dutch navy into a cocked hat?
 
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ABOUT US

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.