Higgins at Hay
Charlotte Higgins's daily diary from the Guardian's Hay festival
Hay festival diary: A call for peace
Charlotte Higgins on Desmond Tutu's warning over the Middle East, poet laureates Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke trading rhymes, and the ticket-price pecking order at the Hay festival
Hay festival diary: The Archbishop's silent prayer
Charlotte Higgins looks at Rowan Williams's call for quiet, talks to poet Lavinia Greenlaw about politics, gender and power, and basks in the glamour of TV dreamboat Ben Fogle
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Hay festival diary: Stephen Fry's helicopter
Chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins on Stephen Fry's helicopter, Ruth Padel bravely taking to the stage after her resignation, and the art of growing old disgracefully
Hay festival diary: Ruth Padel talks about the poetry professorship scandal
Ruth Padel talks to chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins about the 'grave error of judgment' that resulted in her resignation as Oxford poetry professor
Hay festival diary: Books, politics and sunshine
Charlotte Higgins on the highlights of an idyllic bank holiday weekend at the Hay festival, including Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gillian Tett and Julia Donaldson, as well as experiencing life on the other side of the fence