Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2024

Welcome to our 2024 Hay Festival Winter Weekend Programme.

If you are unable to attend in person, don't worry, you can buy an online pass for front row access from the comfort of your own home. You can also pre-order signed copies of the books for this year's events or visit the Winter Weekend online bookshop for unsigned copies.

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ConversationJim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) and Nancy Moir talk to John Mitchinson

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Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) and Nancy Moir talk to John Mitchinson

More Birds: Paintings of Birds

–  Castle Marquee
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Spend a raucous night out in the company of Jim and Nancy Moir, as they share their weird and wonderful adventures of tracking down birds so Jim can paint them. Under the name Vic Reeves, Jim is one of the UK’s best known and most successful comedians. But since leaving behind the comedy persona that made his name, Moir has spent his time focusing on a passion from childhood: birds, and creating beautiful paintings of them. Moir shares his excitement about painting birds with his wife Nancy, and the pair’s hit television show Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir is about to be commissioned for its third series. Join the couple for this exclusive event as they give an insight into their adventures tracking down and painting birds of all kinds and tell stories about the lives of our feathered friends. Moir and Nancy speak to publisher John Mitchinson of Unbound, which has published Moir’s paintings in the books Birds and More Birds.

Moir is most famous for his work as Vic Reeves alongside Bob Mortimer, with TV shows including Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer, and the comedy quiz show Shooting Stars. He is also a successful artist and he exhibits regularly around the world.

Nancy is an actress and television presenter, best known for her roles in Love Actually, Catterick and Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy.

There will be a book signing after this event
Price: £15.00
Buy this pass to watch selected streamed events online
£25.00
TalkNoel Fitzpatrick talks to Adam Rutherford

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Noel Fitzpatrick talks to Adam Rutherford

Dogs and Their Humans

–  Castle Marquee
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Spend a joyous and healing hour in the presence of vet Noel Fitzpatrick, as he shares stories of some of the extraordinary dogs he’s treated, and their connections with their humans.

In his latest book, Dogs and Their Humans: Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet’s Surgery, Professor Fitzpatrick marks the funny and uplifting, and occasionally heartbreaking, connection we have with our canine friends, and the hope that all those who visit him for help display.

Professor Fitzpatrick is a world-renowned neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon. He is best known to the general public as the Supervet from the popular Channel 4 television series.

Globally recognised for his innovative surgical solutions for animals, Professor Fitzpatrick has developed dozens of new surgical techniques and implants, including world-firsts, that have provided hope where none seemed possible. He talks to scientist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford.

There will be a book signing after this event
Price: £15.00
Buy this pass to watch selected streamed events online
£25.00

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