Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.