Welcome to the eighth 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
5.30pm Sony Screen
Oscar-winning producer of The Italian Job
Michael Deeley tells tales from his life in film.
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
Whenever I come to Hay
I'm guaranteed a warm reception
For I always bring a brand new poem
And this year is no exception
Roger McGough, reading at the Guardian Hay Festival
Thought for the day
"Whatever is making the hair stand up on the back of your neck depends upon a poem's intellectual, technical and structural content. It has nothing to do with being poetic." Lavinia Greenlaw, delivering the Housman Lecture 2009 at Hay.