The New Yorker editor, David Remnick, talks to Xan Brooks about his biography of Barack Obama, and the best young fiction writers in America

The creator of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend, on becoming the doyenne of British satire, Roy Hattersley on the borders of Englishness and first impressions of the new deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg

Claire Armitstead, Antony Beevor and Helen Dunmore discuss how fact and fiction can meet, Yotam Ottolenghi cooks us lunch and Ranulph Fiennes talks family history with Charlotte Higgins

We put Robert Winston on the spot, while classicists Richard Miles and Paul Cartledge put history in perspective and Rick Gekoski finds a gem on the secondhand shelves

We step into a parallel world, with Hay festival children's authors Mal Peet, Kjartan Poskitt and William Nicholson, while Julia Eccleshare assesses the longlist for the Guardian children's ficton prize

David Mitchell talks about going straight, Jeanette Winterson celebrates 25 years since Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and ecologist James Lovelock discusses the future of the planet

Lawyer Michael Mansfield reacts to the Israeli storming of the Gaza-bound aid boats which he was due to be on along with novelist Henning Mankell. Nadine Gordimer talks about her non-fiction and Simon Armitage reads from his latest collection Seeing Stars

We work the queue as the former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, ratchets security up a few notches, while Christopher Hitchens talks tragedy and confrontation and Bill Bryson goes looking for history in one of the festival's cafes

Jon Snow tests out London's new hire bikes on the cobbled roads of Hay and Claire Armitstead talks to Ian McEwan about his latest book, Solar. We also ask the question which, despite all the items in the festival programme about the economy, no one has yet dared ask: are the tickets to festival events good value for money?

In the first of our podcasts from Hay festival 2010, Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new collection of short stories, Peter Hitchens talks about his conversion back to Christianity, and Tobias Hill reads from his most recent poetry collection

As the Hay festival draws to a close, Kamila Shamsie discusses her Orange-shortlisted novel, Burnt Shadows, Reza Aslan talks about god and globalization, and Ruth Padel, Gillian Beer and Steve Jones consider Charles Darwin through the lens of literature

At the Hay festival, Kate Adie discusses dicing with death, Dave Gorman yearns for a world without brands, Rowan Williams talks God over breakfast and we celebrate Faber's 80th birthday

Andrew Dickson gives David Starkey a Hay festival history exam, festival-goers recite poems, and poet Lavinia Greenlaw reads 'Blue Field'. Miri Rubin looks at the various guises of the Virgin Mary plus a taste of Hugh Masekela's concert

Today's Haycast explores what's on site for the children who get taken to the Hay festival

Ruth Padel talks to Charlotte Higgins about her resignation as Oxford poetry professor. John Harris talks to Roy Hattersley about the moral integrity of MPs, and Andrew Dickson visits playwright Arnold Wesker at his home in the Black Mountains

In our fourth Haycast, we meet author Markus Zusak and Fiona Millar, the Chapman brothers drop into the G2 yurt, and financial crisis supremo Robert Peston demonstrates the art of the Pestonian pause

In our third Haycast, Joan Bakewell talks about writing her first novel at 75, Clive James reads us some poetry and AC Grayling, Claire Armitstead and Sarah Crown discuss the ongoing Oxford poetry professorship scandal

In today's Haycast, Nicholas Stern offers his predictions on climate change over the coming century, Giles Foden talks about his new novel, Turbulence, and Jay Rayner takes a culinary tour of the festival