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Guardian Hay festival 2009

October 2009

  • Hay booksellers behead effigy of Richard Booth

    Books blog
    Overthrowing the King of Hay

    Sean Dodson: Richard Booth's entrepreneurship saw him open the town's first secondhand bookshop and help create an economic boom. So why was he 'executed' last weekend?

September 2009

  • Hay booksellers behead effigy of Richard Booth

    Booksellers 'behead' the King of Hay

    Disgruntled bookshop owners have executed an effigy of the "King of Hay" Richard Booth and declared the town to be a 'commonwealth'

5 June 2009

  • Deckchairs at the Hay festival

    Hay festival highs

    The Hay festival's over for another year. If you missed it this time around, here's our pick of the Hay highlights

2 June 2009

  • Ruth Padel

    Charlotte Higgins on culture
    Ruth Padel: the final word?

    Charlotte Higgins: It was an ugly affair all right, and whose side people were on - Walcott's or Padel's - came down to whether they were men or women

  • David Simon, creator of The Wire, speaking at the Hay festival on 30 May 2009. Photograph: Paul Owen

    Organ Grinder
    The Wire re-up: season two, episode two – David Simon hits the Hay

    SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have already seen The Wire in its entirety. This week: class in The Wire, and David Simon's appearance at the Hay literary festival

  • Live from Hay

    Letter: In contradiction to Dave Walsh's statement, I spent four hours as a books panellist on a live broadcast for the BBC

1 June 2009

  • liberty central
    What C told us about torture

    Philippe Sands
    Hay festival: Philippe Sands: The former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, appeared at Hay to speak candidly about 9/11, rendition and the war in Iraq
  • The Little Angel theatre's production of Jonah and the Whale

    Theatre blog
    How to become a puppet master

    Imogen Russell Williams: Velcro, pipe cleaners and kapok at the ready: giving these little models a personality is a delight whatever your age

  • John Harris

    Crisis, what crisis?

    John Harris

    Hay festival: John Harris: Think the current debacle is bad? Just wait for the double crunch of public spending cuts and devolutionary revolt to come

31 May 2009

  • British agents would have had ministers' OK for collusion in torture – ex-MI6 chief

  • Vince Cable tells Hay festival he does not want to be chancellor under Labour

  • Zoe Heller in New York

    Zoe Heller tells Hay audience of casting concerns for film of The Believers

  • Martin Kettle

    The humbug of war

    Martin Kettle

30 May 2009

  • A disarming encounter

    Joe Queenan

  • Cif belief
    How we can win against al-Qaida

    Reza Aslan
  • Martin Kettle

    Leeds Modern and ancient

    Martin Kettle
  • Kate Atkinson

    Kate Atkinson tells Hay festival she'd rather not be a published author

  • After the party

    Matt Seaton

  • Nothing to fear but fear itself

    John Harris

  • Writers' rooms
    The green room at the Hay Festival

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