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381. Edward Stourton and Guests talk to Bronwen Maddox
America 250: We Need to Talk About Trump
10:00
382. Rabih Alameddine and Elif Shafak talk to Daniel Hahn
Voices That Will Not Be Silenced
10:00
383. Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Francine Stock
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
10:00
F64. About Face Theatre Company
Just Visiting
10:00
384. The TLS Podcast Live
With Alex Clark
10:00
385. Character and Story Writing Workshop
With Alexandra Pringle, Alex von Tunzelmann and Faiza S Khan of Silk Road Slippers
10:00
MT25. Make & Take Crafting
Sunday Morning Session
  10:00
387. Magical World of Tea: Sip, Savour & Blend
Hay Festival 2026 x Bird & Blend Tea Co.
10:00
388. Wayfaring Walk 19: The Local Landscape
With Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Guides
10:00
386. Short Film Screenings
  
  
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11:3011:30 Sold Out
390. Maggie O’Farrell talks to Sophie Raworth
Land: A New Novel Inspired by Her Own Family History
11:30
391. Oliver Bullough
Everybody Loves Our Dollars: An Investigation into Money Laundering
11:30
F65. Dr Ranj
Dr Ranj’s Human Body Encyclopedia
11:30
392. Thant Myint-U talks to Lyse Doucet
Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s
11:30
393. Francesca Rhydderch and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch talk to Daniel Hahn
How Can We Hold on to Memory?
     
      
      
11:45     
      
      
12:0012:00
MT26. Make & Take Crafting
Sunday Lunchtime Session
     
      
      
12:15     
      
      
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394. The Hay Writers Live!
Hay Writers’ Circle
     
                  
12:45                 
                  
                    
13:0013:00
395. Sophie Raworth talks to Jeremy Bowen
Running on Air: From BBC Headlines to Life-Changing Finish Lines
13:00
396. Lea Ypi talks to Misha Glenny
Indignity: A Life Reimagined – A Memoir with a Difference
13:00
397. John Lanchester talks to Alex Clark
Look What You Made Me Do
13:00
398. Margaret Heffernan talks to Irenosen Okojie
Embracing Uncertainty: How Writers, Musicians and Artists Thrive in an Unpredictable World
13:00
F66. Alice Roberts
Wolf Mountain
13:00
399. Michael Rosen with Rabih Alameddine and Guests
Writers on Hope
      13:00
400. The TikTok Film Club
      
      
13:15     
      
      
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401. Wayfaring Walk 20: The Local Landscape
With Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Guides
 
               14:05
451. Choral Diversity Choir
Pop-up Music
   
                  
14:15                 
                  
                    
14:3014:30
F67. Michael Rosen and MC Grammar
Ridiculous Raps and Rhymes
14:30
402. Tim Wu and Sarah Wynn-Williams talk to Carole Cadwalladr
The Power of Tech
14:30
403. Kathy Lette and Arabella Weir
Barrel of Laughs: Never Let a Penis Come Between Us
14:30
404. Daniyal Mueenuddin talks to Sathnam Sanghera
Debut Discoveries: This is Where the Serpent Lives
14:30
405. Ben Rawlence talks to Nicola Cutcher
Think Like a Forest: Letters from a Father
14:30
406. Daniel Hahn, Philip Jones and Cathryn Summerhayes
How to Write a Bestseller in the Age of AI
      14:30
407. Persuasion with Monica Dolan
Book to Screen: The Read
      
      
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408. Alice Roberts
Domination
16:00
409. Sarah Raven
A Year of Cut Flowers: A Life of Growing and Arranging for All Seasons
  16:00
411. The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize Winner
The 2026 Winner talks to Irenosen Okojie
16:00
412. Bill Laws
The Story of the Herefordshire Pomona
        16:00
413. Queer
Book to Screen: Film Screening
          
          
16:15         
          
          
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414. Jeremy Bowen
The Christopher Hitchens Lecture: War, Peace and the Pursuit of Truth
17:30
415. William Sieghart with Denise Gough, Natascha McElhone and Danny Sapani
The Poetry Pharmacy LIVE
17:30
416. Daniel Hahn talks to Alex Clark
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
             
              
              
17:45             
              
              
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417. Jung Chang talks to Georgina Godwin
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
                19:00
418. Hot Milk
Book to Screen: Film Screening
                  
                  
19:15                 
                  
                  
19:3019:30
419. Aled Jones
Full Circle: Stories and Songs
               
                
                
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