Hay Festival 2012 in pictures

Hay 25

Marcus du Sautoy

Choosing events

Harry Belafonte

Audience Questions

Speech Debelle

Bill Bailey

Main square

Salman Rushdie amuses Peter Florence

Children's Bookshop

Andrew Marr

Bryn Terfel

Bunting

David Walliams talks to Chris Evans

Face Painting

Rain Forest Rescue

Jenny Valentine teaches a creative writing class

Children

The Hayley

Main Square

Hilary Mantel

Site Crew

Lianne La Havas

Adam Henson

Boris Johnson

Audience

Bill Swainson rasies a glass to Carlos Fuentes who died last month

Bunting

Ian McEwan

Rain, rain, go away :(
Tom Moggach talks to Rosie Boycott

Book Signing
Kier Starmer

Ghostpoet

Farm walk: Trefythal Cider Orchards

Raindrops

Main Square
Ghostpoet

Google Big Tent

Stephen Fry

Main Square
Ruby Wax

Hay Castle

Jubilee day

Jubilee Day

Ian Rankin

Farm walk at Trefythal Court Cider Orchards

Kids queue for James Campbell


Festival stewards on Jubilee day

Monty Don and Stephen Fry

Festival site with Hay Bluff behind


Terry Pratchett has a pig named in his honour after winning the 13th Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

Main Square

Readin en masse

Jung Chang

Dragons

Phil Rickman queue

Frank Turner plays the Soundcastle

Audience sing along

Main Festival site

Julian Clary

Eric Hobsbawm turns 95

Eric Hobsbawm turns 95

Jacqueline Wilson

Audience

Kate Humble

The heavens open again :(

Frank Turner

Marcus du Sautoy

AA Gill

Mary Portas at the artist reception desk

Dylan Moran
Stewards checking tickets

Tony Robinson

Audience

Alain de Botton

Mary Portas meets Stuart the Hay-on-Wye greengrocer

Sun finally turns up!

Family reading on the square

Shehan Karunatilaka winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize

Reading

Georg Alagiah

A changeable weather forecast!

Justin's House

Justin's House

Mary Portas

Main Square

Recycling

William Boyd talks to Peter Florence

Pirates!

Main Square

Simon Schama
The Wildlife Trust seaside stand

Martin Amis taks to Gaby Wood

Main Square

Simon Callow

See you next year!
Hay Festival is set in the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye in the staggering beauty of the Brecon Beacons.
The festival continues to attract the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians to inspire, delight and entertain.
For 10 days in May, Hay is full of stories, ideas, laughter and music.
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