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Philippe Sands talks to Stephen Fry
Peter Frankopan and Roger Robinson
Esther Duflo, chaired by Evan Davis
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Dara McAnulty and Steve Silberman
Cressida Cowell
Onjali Q Rauf
Wordsworth 250: A Night in with the Wordsworths
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Gary Northfield
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Kate DiCamillo
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Ade Adepitan
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Mae Martin
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David Baddiel
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Yaba Badoe
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Michael Rosen
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Alex Wheatle
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Amy Lamé
Inspiring Personal Stories
Tara Westover talks to David Runciman
Inua Ellams in conversation with Peter Florence
Elizabeth Day talks to Clemency Burton-Hill
Walking one step at a time. Erling Kagge in conversation with Yael Weiss
Tracey Thorn talks to Xan Brooks
David Nott talks to Rosie Boycott
Wales
Gillian Clarke
Eric Ngalle Charles and Owen Sheers
Nigel Owens, Sam Warburton and Martyn Phillips talk to Carolyn Hitt
Alan Llwyd, Aled Eirug, Mererid Hopwood
Jackie Morris and Mererid Hopwood
Matthew Francis
Hay Festival Classics
Ian McEwan talks to Christopher Hitchens
Orhan Pamuk in conversation with Peter Florence
Judith Kerr & Michael Morpurgo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Seamus Heaney
Margaret Atwood and Gaby Wood
Press Freedom
Emily Maitlis talks to Hannah MacInnes
Carole Cadwalladr
Mark Thompson in conversation with Moisés Naím
James O’Brien talks to Sarfraz Manzoor
Svetlana Alexievich talks to Bridget Kendall
Tina Brown talks to William Boot
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Elif Shafak – The Wellcome Book Prize Lecture 2019
Robert Macfarlane talks to Horatio Clare
Leila Slimani talks to Philippe Sands
Paul Dolan
Emily Maitlis talks to Hannah MacInnes
Hay Festival Cartagena 2020 – See all events
The challenges of climate change 1. Jennifer Ackerman, Philip Ball and Rosie Boycott in conversation with Peter Florence
Money Heist. Javier Gómez in conversation with Javier Lafuente
Andrea Wulf in conversation with Guillermo Altares
Community leaders: Jonathan Luna and Isabel Cristina Zuleta in conversation with Juan Cárdenas
Constitutional populism. Allan Brewer-Carias and Rodrigo Uprimny in conversation with Sergio Dahbar
Hay Festival Abu Dhabi 2020 – See all events
Izzeldin Abuelaish
Jokha Alharthi
Adonis with Zulaikha Aburisha, Volker Braun, Qassim Haddad, Pierre Joris, Yang Lian, Serge Pey, André Velter
The Future of Literature in the UAE
Lydia Wilson
Hay Reformations
Stephen Fry
Nemat Shafik
Sarah Churchwell
Gillian Tett
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Danny Dorling
Philippe Sands
Sayeeda Warsi
Sarah Harper
Helena Kennedy
Marie-Elsa Bragg
Andrea Wulf
Tahmima Anam
Rosie Boycott
Jerry Brotton
Jonathan Godfrey
Peter Frankopan
Lemn Sissay
Suzanne O’Sullivan
Owen Sheers
Gabrielle Walker
Jenny Valentine
Miriam González Durántez
Elif Shafak
Jeanette Winterson
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Jonathan Bate
Preti Taneja
Jerry Brotton
Simon Callow, Rachael Jolley, David Aaronovitch, Alexa Huang
Jeanette Winterson
Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
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Hannah Critchlow
Anne-Marie Imafidon
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks to Rosie Boycott
Richard Dawkins talks to Joan Bakewell
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