Welcome to the tenth day of the Guardian Hay Festival.
This Morning
11.30am
NEW EVENT: Helena Kennedy, Philippe Sands, and
Marcus Brigstocke rip up the Westminster cabal of
fraudsters, opportunists and scoundrels. Chaired by Jim Naughtie.
Coming up later – don’t miss
2.30pm Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr talks to
Rosie Boycott about his work and investigative
documentary Pig Business.
5.30pm Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Alan Bennett, playwright, novelist and diarist discusses his work with Peter Florence.
Hay Fever Event of the day
Hay Fever Space
Illustrations.pt, located in the Hay Fever Space, is a comprehensive exhibition showcasing the creativity and richness of Portuguese contemporary illustration for children’s books.
Tomorrow morning
11.30am Guardian Stage
Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former head of the Secret Intelligence Service talks to Philippe Sands.
Quote of the day
"We are in for a period of sobriety and austerity. Britain deep down has a kind of nostalgic yearning for going back to the days of aertex shirts and camping holidays." George Ferguson, former president of RIBA, speaking at Hay
Thought for the day
"Maybe in this credit-crunching, economic-backsliding, sub-depression, pseudo-recession maybe we are already changing. We've come off the boil of rampant consumerism and maybe, quietly, we are all of us re-assessing our relationships with our environments." Kevin McCloud speak at Hay