Hay Festival 2012 in pictures

  • Hay Festival 2012

    Hay 25

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    Marcus du Sautoy

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    Choosing events

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    Harry Belafonte

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    Audience Questions

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    Speech Debelle

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    Bill Bailey

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    Main square

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    Salman Rushdie amuses Peter Florence

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    Children's Bookshop

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    Andrew Marr

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    Bryn Terfel

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    Bunting

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    David Walliams talks to Chris Evans

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    Face Painting

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    Rain Forest Rescue

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    Jenny Valentine teaches a creative writing class

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    Children

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    The Hayley

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    Main Square

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    Hilary Mantel

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    Site Crew

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    Lianne La Havas

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    Adam Henson

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    Boris Johnson

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    Audience

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

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    Bunting

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    Ian McEwan

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    Rain, rain, go away :(

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    Tom Moggach talks to Rosie Boycott

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    Book Signing

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    Kier Starmer

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    Ghostpoet

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    Farm walk: Trefythal Cider Orchards

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    Raindrops

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    Main Square

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    Ghostpoet

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    Google Big Tent

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    Stephen Fry

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    Main Square

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    Ruby Wax

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    Hay Castle

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    Jubilee day

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    Jubilee Day

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    Ian Rankin

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    Farm walk at Trefythal Court Cider Orchards

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    Kids queue for James Campbell

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    Festival stewards on Jubilee day

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    Monty Don and Stephen Fry

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    Festival site with Hay Bluff behind

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

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    Main Square

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    Readin en masse

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    Jung Chang

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    Dragons

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    Phil Rickman queue

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    Frank Turner plays the Soundcastle

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    Audience sing along

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    Main Festival site

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    Julian Clary

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    Eric Hobsbawm turns 95

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    Eric Hobsbawm turns 95

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    Jacqueline Wilson

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    Audience

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    Kate Humble

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    The heavens open again :(

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    Frank Turner

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    Marcus du Sautoy

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    AA Gill

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    Mary Portas at the artist reception desk

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    Dylan Moran

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    Stewards checking tickets

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    Tony Robinson

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    Audience

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    Alain de Botton

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    Mary Portas meets Stuart the Hay-on-Wye greengrocer

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    Sun finally turns up!

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    Family reading on the square

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    Shehan Karunatilaka winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize

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    Reading

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    Georg Alagiah

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    A changeable weather forecast!

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    Justin's House

  • Hay Festival 2012

    Justin's House

  • Hay Festival 2012

    Mary Portas

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    Main Square

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    Recycling

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    William Boyd talks to Peter Florence

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    Pirates!

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    Main Square

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    Simon Schama

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    The Wildlife Trust seaside stand

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    Martin Amis taks to Gaby Wood

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    Main Square

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    Simon Callow

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    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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