Welcome to the fifth day of the Guardian Hay Festival.
This morning
11.30pm Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Niall Ferguson offers a financial history of the world.
Coming up later – don’t miss it
2.30pm Oxfam Studio
Leading participants and commentators of the Polish revolution Timothy Garton Ash and Slawomir Sierakowski assess the progress and effects.
5.30pm Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Labour party statesman Roy Hattersley envisions a fourth way ahead.
Hay Fever Event of the day
2pm Meet at Booth’s Bookshop in Hay FREE event
Parkour Generations, leading association of free-running practitioners scale the heights of Hay.
Tomorrow morning
11.30pm Oxfam Studio
Simon Blackburn discusses the current debate between militant atheists and theists as part of the Cambridge 800 lecture series.
Quote of the day
“Speech is not free in this country it is expensive”. Geoffrey Robertson QC