Audio & Video
Hay we go!
An introduction to the delights of the Hay Festival, ahead of the 2017 event.
- Hay we go!
- Ian Rankin: Read crime fiction to find out about a culture
- Ian Rankin: The origins of Rebus
- Garry Kasparov: Deep Blue was as intelligent as an alarm clock
- Paul Beatty: Someone gave me a book called the 'Directory of Uncle Toms'
- Frank Cotterell Boyce: The importance of reading for reading's sake
- Elif Shafak: European writers need to be more political
- Paula Byrne on Jane Austen adaptations
- Chris Riddell on his first Goth Girl book
- Bettany Hughes: Why we tell ourselves stories
- Philippe Sands: I stumbled upon an unbelievable coincidence
- Lemn Sissay: Why foster care kids make great heroes
- Ed Balls: My embarrassing Strictly faux pas
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Bernie Sanders
- Bettany Hughes
- Bill Bailey
- Charlotte Rampling
- Chris Riddell
- Christina Lamb, Helena Kennedy, Rachael Jolley and Joan Bakewell
- Colm TóibÃn
- David Mitchell
- Ed Balls
- Elif Shafak
- Frank Cotterell Boyce
- Garry Kasparov
- Graham Norton
- Helen Fielding
- James Rhodes
- Jeanette Winterson
- Lemn Sissay
- Lucy Worsley
- Michael Sheen
- Nadya Tolokno
- Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry
- Nicholas Hytner
- Paul Beatty
- Paula Byrne
- Philippe Sands
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Bettany Hughes, Lawrence Krauss and Martin Rees
- Tom Daley
- Tony Robinson
- Tracey Emin
- Will Self