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Hay festival 2017

All the latest news from the 2017 Hay literary festival in Hay-on-Wye

June 2017

  • Hay Festival 2017 - Hay on Wye, Wales, UK - Monday 29th May 2017 - Bank Holiday Hay a young boy sits and reads his Michael Morpurgo book on a gloomy dull overcast BankHoliday Monday at the Hay Festival - the Hay Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in<br>Alamy Live News. J8MXT9 Hay Festival 2017 - Hay on Wye, Wales, UK - Monday 29th May 2017 - Bank Holiday Hay a young boy sits and reads his Michael Morpurgo book on a gloomy dull overcast BankHoliday Monday at the Hay Festival - the Hay Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2017 - the literary festival runs until Sunday June 4th. Steven May / Alamy Live News This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check.

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    Selfies, Sophocles and Stephen Fry – the week at Hay festival

  • Salman Rushdie appears at the 1992 Hay Festival, despite the fatwa against him.

    From Heaney’s poetry to Rushdie’s surprise appearance: inside Hay’s 30-year archive

31 May 2017

  • Peter Wohlleben, a former state forester.

    Trees talk to each other, have sex and look after their young, says author

  • Paddy Ashdown

    Paddy Ashdown 'horrified' by parallels between UK and 1930s Germany

30 May 2017

  • Older couple jogging

    Don't call people 'old' until death is near, says gerontologist

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    Hay festival 2017: Cory Doctorow, Helen Fielding and Shashi Tharoor – podcast

29 May 2017

  • Lady Warsi, Conservative party politician, at the Hay literary festival

    Sayeeda Warsi: UK policy on radicalisation 'has been flawed for years'

    Speaking at Hay festival, Conservative peer says government is too focused on ideology as the sole cause of radicalisation

28 May 2017

  • Tracey Emin at the Hay festival

    Tracey Emin: 'Being an artist is about making art, not money'

  • Stephen Fry at Hay literary festival on Saturday

    Stephen Fry: Facebook and other platforms should be classed as publishers

  • Ed Balls at the Hay festival

    Ed Balls on truth behind Gordon Brown's 'what is polenta?' outburst

  • Colm Tóibín at the Hay festival.

    Bad memories: Colm Tóibín urges authors to lose the flashbacks

  • Thirty years on, Hay festival is still thinking, talking and laughing

  • Jeremy Paxman at Hay festival: 'Media must stop sneering at Trump'

27 May 2017

  • Salman Rushdie

    Thirty years of Hay: Christopher Hitchens, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel – in conversation

    Christopher Hitchens on God, Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale, Hilary Mantel on Wolf Hall … highlights from Hay’s most memorable interviews

26 May 2017

  • Novelist, Helen Fielding.

    Helen Fielding says Bridget Jones books are not anti-feminist

    Fielding says humour is a ‘very powerful tool’ and describes being able to laugh at yourself a mark of strength, not a weakness
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