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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.

Evento HF123

Hill Farm

Farm Visit

– Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
Join local agronomist Jonathon Harrington and vet Barney Sampson as they explore farms in the local area. Expedition parties meet at 9am at the box office on the day of their excursion, to return at around 1pm.
On the day please wear suitable footwear and waterproof clothing in case of inclement weather.

Richard and Penny Chantler’s farm sits high on the side of the Black Mountains and produces New Zealand Romneys. See a demonstration of sheep dogs at work and sheep shearing, and handle newly-born lambs. Lamb rolls made from farm produce will be served at the end of a short farm walk.

With thanks to Richard and Penny Chantler of Hill Farm.
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Evento 880

Brooke Boothby and Harry Legge-Bourke

A Tour of Glanusk Estate

– Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at the beautiful ancestral home of the Legge-Bourke family. A Historic Houses Association event.

For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
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Evento 881

Rob Reith

National Trust Pen y Fan Walk

– Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office for bus
A strenuous 5-mile walk led by the National Trust access warden, to the top of the highest point in southern Britain. Good boots, wet weather gear and warm clothing essential.

For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
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Evento 882

Gwilym Hughes

CADW: Llanthony Priory Walk

– Sede del evento: Meet at Box Office
CADW’s Chief Inspector will lead this energetic guided hike from the Festival site to historic Llanthony Priory. Walking boots essential.
 
Minibus provided for return

For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
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Evento 209

Michael Wright

Je t’aime à la Folie

– Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
The bucolic French provincial life is twisted with an improbable transatlantic love affair.
 
More about the La Folie adventure
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Evento 210

Gerry Gilmore

Cambridge Series 12: Past, Present and Infinite Future?

– Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage
Was there anything before the beginning? Why does science claim to know the apparently unknowable? Where do I come from? What do we know about the infinite future?
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Evento 211

Katherine Quarmby

Scapegoat – Why We Are Failing Disabled People

– Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
The campaigning journalist traces the history of disability and our discomfort with disabled people, from Greek and Roman culture through the Industrial Revolution and the origins of Britain’s asylum system to the eugenics movement and the Holocaust, ‘Ugly Laws’ and ‘Community Care’.
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Evento 212

John Boyne talks to Paul Blezard

The Absolutist

– Sede del evento: The Moot
The new novel examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two young privates, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the confusion of their friendship.
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Evento HF150

Easy Peasy Cookery School

Workshop

– Sede del evento: Mess Tent
Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious! 

Duration 60 mins. 

5–9 years. Children must be accompanied.
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Evento HF149

Get Writing With Jill Hucklesby

Workshop

– Sede del evento: The Hexagon
Join author Jill Hucklesby to discover how to unravel stories gradually to readers and why drama is so crucial.

Duration 60 mins.

12+ years

Each young person attending this workshop without an accompanying adult must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.

Jill Hucklesby
Jill lives and works by the sea near Brighton. As well as being a children’s author, she has written for children’s TV and the stage. She is currently working on her third book for young teens. Deeper Than Blue was long-listed for the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding first novel for children. If I Could Fly is her latest novel.
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Evento HF53

Lauren St John

Laura Marlin Mysteries

– Sede del evento: Starlight Stage
Messages in bottles, forbidden caves; adventure is never far away when Laura moves to Cornwall in this new Blue Peter award winning series from the beloved creator of White Giraffe.
 
9+ years Knapsacks & Ginger Beer
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Evento HF52

StoryBoard & Young Film Academy

EUREKA!

– Sede del evento: Elmley Foundation Theatre
Have you ever had an idea for a brilliant movie? This is your chance to have that dream come true at a cinema near you. Help us launch a pioneering project at Hay: a major motion picture, made for kids, by kids. The story starts here, so bring your imagination. This is brainstorming for the big screen...
 
Duration 75 mins.
 
9+ years
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Evento 213

James Cracknell and Brian Moore talk to Mark Skipworth

Sportswriters

– Sede del evento: Barclays Wealth Pavilion
The Telegraph’s world champions and sportswriters talk shop – rowing, rugby and Olympic ideals – with the Saturday Editor.
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Evento 214

Rachel Hewitt

Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

– Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
‘An endlessly absorbing, lively and informative narrative that highlights the Ordnance project’s legion of draughtsmen, surveyors, dreamers and eccentrics’ – The Observer.
 
Read a full review here www.guardian.co.uk/books/
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Evento 215

Russell Stannard

The End of Discovery

The Open University’s Emeritus Professor of Physics explores the scientific frontiers and the limitations of the human brain. He asks whether we are approaching the boundaries of the knowable.
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Evento 883

Judith Alfrey

CADW: Get To Know Hay 1

– Sede del evento: Meet at the Clock Tower in Hay
Join CADW’s Head of Regeneration and Conservation as she explores the unique architectural character of Hay-on-Wye.
 
This event is free but you must reserve a ticket.

For all outdoors events and walks we recommend walking boots and warm and waterproof clothing. Please bring packed lunches.
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Evento T52

Karen Doherty

How to Manage Your Parents – and Others!

– Sede del evento: Scribblers Hut
Karen reveals simple strategies to help you get along better with the adults in your life and improve communication lines.
hf2 for teens


Karen Doherty is the author of Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting and an Ambassador for UK Youth
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Evento HF151

Easy Peasy Cookery School

Workshop

– Sede del evento: Mess Tent
Join us in making freshly baked herby flowerpot bread.

Duration 60 mins. 

5–9 years. Children must be accompanied.
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Evento HF56

Emily Gravett

Wolf Won't Bite!

– Sede del evento: Starlight Stage
A whistle-stop tour of the two-time Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator’s favourite creations; from her adventurous meerkat to her three new cheeky little circus pigs.
 
5–7 years
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Evento HF57

Layn Marlow

How Many Sleeps?

– Sede del evento: The Hexagon
We all know birthdays can never come quickly enough! And Toast, a little field mouse, is no exception. Join the illustrator behind Puddle’s Big Step for Toast’s story and lots more.
 
Duration 40 mins. 
 
3–5 years
 
See event [HF62]
 
 
 
 
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Evento HF54

Philip Ardagh

When Bunnies Turn Bad

– Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
Beardy Ardagh (it’s ok, we’re allowed to call him that!) shows just what it is that would make any sane-minded person avoid visiting Grubtown for business or pleasure at all costs, and exactly why we love it so.
 
7+ years Rib Ticklers
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Evento 216

Stuart Rose and Kamal Ahmed

Business No Longer As Usual

– Sede del evento: Barclays Wealth Pavilion
Can big business be truly sustainable? Join the architect of M&S Plan A, chaired by the Business Editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
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Evento 217

Carol Klein

Life in a Cottage Garden

– Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
A year in the Gardener’s World presenter’s garden at Glebe Cottage.
 
More information and a review of Life in a Cottage Garden
 
 
 
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Evento 218

Michael Brooks

13 Things That Don’t Make Sense

– Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
From the celestial irregularities that led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun to the placebo effect: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time.
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Evento 219

Lucy Worsley

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

– Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up?
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