Welcome to the seventh day of the Guardian Hay Festival.
This Morning
11.30am Cafédirect Friends Café
Intrepid wanderer Rory Maclean
charts the evolution of travel writing
from the fall of the Wall to the rise of the Taliban.
Coming up later – don’t miss
7.30pm Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Archbishop Desmond Tutu presents
the Hamlin Lecture.
Hay Fever Event of the day
2.30pm Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Two of the UK’s leading children’s writers Michael Morpurgo and Jamila Gavin commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Tomorrow morning
10am Oxfam Studio
William Fiennes discusses his memoir about childhood and the relationship with his older brother Richard in The Music Room.
Quote of the day
"I simply did not know that language could do this - that language could do what music does, or what painting does, that it could address not the intellectual, the cold part of one’s mind but could address the heart; could make something inside one resonate, vibrate with sheer joy, absolute pleasure." Stephen Fry talking at the Guardian Hay Festival
Thought for the day
"The only advice I would give anybody who wants to start writing today is: first of all write - don’t think about it!" Dennis Norden speaking at the Guardian Hay Festival