Guardian Hay festival 2002
Feminist economics
Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’Former Australian prime minister issues warning that young men’s thinking on the issue is going backward
Sheep return as 70,000 visitors leave
Women's writing leaves sex behind
Backlash left Irish writer in fear
Theatre's great malcontent
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How the computer 'killed' nation state
Screenwriter rejects $1m film rights
Why left-handers still feel left out
Mind games 'answer' to Alzheimer's
Size means everything as Harry's big secret slips out
A hunt began yesterday to identify an unknown, 8ft actor with a barrel chest who looks good in shaggy makeup. It was triggered by a film executive who gave away what is known in the trade as "Warner Brothers' big secret" - how they made Hagrid so big in the first Harry Potter film.
The Moving Finger
To mark this year's Guardian Hay Festival, eight writers were invited to contribute to a 'baton story'. Here Andrew Miller picks it up...
Book town bows to its founder
Forty years ago Richard Booth, a garage mechanic's son, hit on a truth - that second hand books are "a re-saleable economy with a product which has no sell-by date and is available in its billions".
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