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284. Frank Cottrell-Boyce and guests
Speaking Up for Success: Hay Festival Exclusive |
10:00
285. Nicholas Crane talks to Nicola Cutcher
The Path More Travelled: The Secret History of Britain’s Footpaths |
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F47. David Litchfield
The Bear and the Piano Show |
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F48. Olaf Falafel
The Far-Out Five: Snot Jelly Island |
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286. Nha Thuyên with MontenegroFisher, Wanda O’Connor and Lowri Hedd Vaughan
Rising and Sinking Like Mountains in Streams: An International Poetry Performance |
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287. Short Film Screenings |
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Friday Morning Session |
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288. Magical World of Tea: Sip, Savour & Blend
Hay Festival 2026 x Bird & Blend Tea Co. |
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292. Saira Hameed talks to Sara Pascoe
Signals: The Inside Story of Our Hormones |
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293. Imani Erriu, Hazel McBride and Rachel Winterbottom
Romantasy Rules |
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F49. Inclusive Books for Children Award Winners Chanté Timothy, Greg Stobbs and Sophia Payne.
Inclusive Storytelling |
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F50. Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Ship of Strays |
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W13. Simurgh: Flights of Imagination Arts Workshop
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294. AC Grayling
For the People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy |
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F51. Cressida Cowell
How to Train Your Dragon School: Fight of the Flamestrike |
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295. James Marriott talks to Georgina Godwin
The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society |
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F52. Anna Fiteni
The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire |
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296. Claire Fuller talks to Alex Clark
Hunger and Thirst |
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W14. Simurgh: Flights of Imagination Arts Workshop
With the University of Worcester |
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297. Colin Grant, Suzanne Harrington, Eric Ngalle Charles and Amanda Vilanova
What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain |
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299. Emma Thompson in conversation with Elizabeth Day
My Life in Books: Hay Festival Exclusive |
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300. Ocean Vuong talks to Keshia Hannam
The Emperor of Gladness: Unexpected Friendship and Healing |
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301. Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks to Tom Gatti
A British Childhood: How Our Children Live Now |
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F53. Creative Industry Insights: Paterson Joseph talks to Cariad Lloyd |
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F54. Jim Smith
My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary 5: The Phantom Pooper |
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302. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Reece Shearsmith
Book to Screen: The Read |
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MT21. Make & Take Crafting
Friday Afternoon Session |
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303. Catrin Finch talks to Carys Eleri
Notes to Self |
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304. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall talks to Jules Hudson
Matters of Taste: High Fibre Heroes |
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305. Nicola Sturgeon talks to Decca Aitkenhead
Frankly: The Future for Scotland |
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306. Cristina Bendek and Shon Faye talk to Georgina Godwin
Literary Pairs: From Colombia to the UK |
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F55. Bea Fitzgerald
A Beautiful Evil |
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307. Liam Higginson talks to Claire Fuller
Debut Discoveries: The Hill in the Dark Grove |
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308. Let The Right One In
Book to Screen: Film Screening |
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309. Miriam Margolyes, Greg Davies, Larry Lamb, Paterson Joseph, Cressida Cowell and Joanna Pickering with Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
Speaking Up for Success: A Spoken Word Gala |
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310. Damien Lewis
SAS Great Escapes |
17:30 Sold Out
311. Samantha Shannon and Saara El-Arifi in conversation
Among the Burning Flowers: The Seduction of Fantasy Fiction |
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312. Jarred McGinnis talks to Colin Grant
The Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award Winner |
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313. Gwen Adshead talks to Catherine Loveday
Unspeakable: Stories of Survival and Transformation After Trauma |
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314. Greg Davies talks to Jay Hunt
Barrel of Laughs: Life and Times of the Welsh Legend |
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420. Iran : Inside the Crisis, Beyond the Headlines
Lyse Doucet, Maryam Alemzadeh, Jon Lee Anderson in conversation with David Shariatmadari |
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316. Rhys James talks to Cariad Lloyd
Barrel of Laughs: You’ll Like It When You Get There – A Life Lived Reluctantly |
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317. Charlotte Cross and Mairi Kidd talk to India Ysabel
Gothic Greats: Retelling Horror Classics |
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318. An Evening with Larry Lamb |
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319. The Platform |
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320. Surprise Screening
Book to Screen: Film Screening |
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455. Don’t Harm the Animals
A Performance by Joanna Pickering |
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It’s Not a Cult & The Amazing Devil: Book Talk and Live Music |
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A Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants |
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Maryville |
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324. Patrick McGuinness and Angharad Price talk to Dylan Moore
Building Bridges: Welsh Writing and Europe |
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325. Austentatious
Live: Improvised Jane Austen |
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326. Gwenno
Live at Hay Festival |
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