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Margaret Anstee talks to Nik Gowing

The House on the Sacred Lake

The diplomat tells of a love affair with Bolivia that started when she was first posted there by the UN in 1960.

Chris Goodall, Eugenie Harvey and Duncan Clark talk to Andy Fryers

10:10 – Halfway There

10:10, the exciting campaign to cut people and organisation's carbon emissions by 10%, was conceived on a train journey back from Hay Festival in 2009. A year on, how is the campaign getting on, and what can you do to cut your 10%?

Welsh Venison Centre Visit

Local agronomist Jonathon Harrington and Hay Vet Barney Sampson lead a visit to the Welsh Venison Centre run by Andrew and Elaine Morgan. Walk round the farm, see the deer calving and handle some of the lambs. 

Sponsored by Hay Veterinary Group

Computing Workshop

Addicted to your DS? A whiz on the Xbox? Get hands-on with a range of new digital technologies and explore the future ofcomputers.

In association with UK Youth

Stephen Marsh-Smith

River Walk 1

Join the Wye and Usk Foundation trip around the Wye and its tributaries near Hay, see the rare and unusual creatures that live in the river, and see what progress is being made to restore the run of salmon. 

Why Paths Need Friends

Powys’ footpath officer leads a leisurely circular walk that follows the river to Llowes and returns to Hay via Clyro. There will be a stop at Clyro by the Kilvert museum. Please wear sensible shoes or boots, appropriate clothing and bring your own drinking water and sun-cream if you need it. 

Sponsored by Ramblers Cymru and Powys County Council

David Priestland

The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World

20 years after the fall of the Wall the historian charts the mutations and movements of Communist ideas across the barricades of 1848 Europe and around the world to Latin America and Asia where the ideologies still prevail today.

Martin Kemp

Art & Science

The art historian talks to Ken Arnold of the Wellcome Institute about the relationship between visualizations in art and science, and explores his motion of structural intuitions. He will also look more broadly at major themes that have emerged during the writing of his column in Nature (since 1997), as expressed in his books Visualisations and Seen/Unseen and in the volume produced by his friends and collaborators, Acts of Seeing.

Rick Gekoski talks to Claire Armitstead

Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir

The book-dealer, writer and Booker judge offers a captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy, and a memoir of a reading self. ‘Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.’

Cressida Cowell

Hiccup Hits Hollywood

Fresh from the bright lights of LA the writer of the superb How To Train Your Dragon series talks Toothless, trouble and Tennant. Includes film clips.