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Elaine Brook

The Solar House

Event [184]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 9:00am

Venue: Meet at Gaia Partnership stand onsite for bus

Site visit to an experiment in one-planet living with eco-pioneer Elaine Brook.

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Denise Inge & Mark Vernon

The Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Thomas Traherne and Back Again

Event [185]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 10:00am

Venue: Oxfam Studio

In this conversation on happiness Denise Inge will talk about the seventeenth-century priest and poet Thomas Traherne, Mark Vernon about the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato. Traherne's story, unparalleled in the history of English literature, surrounds recently found manuscripts; the ideas of the ancient Greeks, on whom Traherne drew, have never been more pressing and relevant.

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Nicola Coldstream

Builders and Decorators

Event [186]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 10:00am

Venue: Sony Screen

Medieval Craftsmen in Wales brought to vivid life by the eminent art and architecture historian.

Supported by CADW
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Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman

Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive

Event [187]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 10:00am

Venue: Guardian Stage

How do birds know when to return to their nesting grounds? What effect do the seasons have on our wellbeing, and how does the season in which we are born affect our subsequent life chances?

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John Kay

The Long and the Short of it

Event [188]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 11:30am

Venue: Guardian Stage

A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren’t in the Industry. Someone, somewhere, needs to know... Chaired by financial commentator and author of Compassionate Economics Jesse Norman.

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Alanna Mitchell

Seasick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

Event [189]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 11:30am

Venue: Sony Screen

99% of the planet’s living space is undergoing vast chemical changes at the hand of man.

Sponsored by UNESCO Cymru
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Ed Kessler

Cambridge 800 Series: Isaac and Ishmael – what next?

Event [190]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 11:30am

Venue: Oxfam Studio

The Executive Director of the Centre for Study of Muslim–Jewish Relations surveys the state of play.

In association with Cambridge University and The Cambridge Festival of Ideas
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Event [191]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 12:25pm–2pm

Venue: Sky Arts Studio

Mariella Frostrup presents the daily Sky Arts television coverage featuring performances and interviews with some of the biggest and best names at the festival.

Hay-on-Sky airs daily at 7pm from 22 May on Sky Arts 1 channel 256 and Sky Arts 1 HD channel 258.

All proceeds from this event go to Global Action Plan.

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Event [192]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 1pm

Venue: St Mary's Church

Copland’s Old American Songs together with songs by Barber, and African-American spirituals.

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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Event [193]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 1pm

Venue: Guardian Stage

The team play with the papers. Much laughter, and a fair bit of news anti-management. B&R out today. That’ll be fun.

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Event [194]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 1pm

Venue: Sony Screen

To celebrate his major show at the Hereford Photography Festival the film-maker and photographer shows and discusses his colour work from the 60s and 70s with The Guardian photographer.

In association with Hereford College of Art and Hereford Photography Festival
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Miri Rubin talks to Catherine Pepinster

Mother of God –A History of the Virgin Mary

Event [195]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 1pm

Venue: Oxfam Studio

Mary’s role in the Gospels is a relatively minor one, and yet in the centuries during which Christianity established itself she emerged as a powerful, strange and ungovernable force, endlessly remade and reimagined by wave after wave of devotees, ultimately becoming ‘a sort of God’, in ways that have always made some Christians uneasy.

Sponsored by The Tablet
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Irma Kurtz

About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully

Event [196]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 2:30pm

Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion

A fascinating and compassionate investigation into the art of ageing. Chaired by Revel Guest.

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John Toman

Kilvert’s Diary and Landscape

Event [197]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 2:30pm

Venue: Guardian Stage

A study of the Clyro and Bredwardine curate and great Victorian diarist.

Sponsored by Booth Books
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Helena Attlee

Gardens of Wales

Event [198]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 2:30pm

Venue: Sony Screen

The writer features her favourite Welsh gardens, illustrated by photographer Alex Ramsay.

Sponsored by The Railway Line Nursery
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Richard Reed and Dan Germain

Innocent Smoothies

Event [199]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 2.30pm

Venue: Cafédirect Friends Café

The co-founder and his creative director celebrate the 10th anniversary of the small and perfectly-formed drinks company.

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Event [200]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 4pm

Venue: Guardian Stage

To be human is to be hungry. Prof Tallis will take a biological, sociological, metaphysical, spiritual and political tour around the astonishing and disturbing metamorphoses of human hunger. Be prepared to have your soul X-rayed.

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Lori Anne Ferrell

The Bible and the People

Event [201]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5:30pm

Venue: Guardian Stage

From manuscripts to Gutenbergs and Gideons we trace how the Bible has been endlessly retailored to meet the changing needs of religion, politics and the reading public while retaining its special status as a sacred text.

Sponsored by The Elmley Foundation
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Michael Pawlyn

Architecture and Biomimicry

Event [202]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5:30pm

Venue: Dream Stage

As part of the ‘RIBA Trust International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change’ Programme.

Sponsored by Gleeds
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Lavinia Greenlaw

The Housman Lecture 2009: The Name and Nature of Poetry

Event [203]
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5:30pm

Venue: Oxfam Studio

The novelist and poet, author of Minsk, Mary George of Allnorthover, and The Importance of Music to Girls gives this year’s lecture about poetry.

Sponsored by The Housman Society
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