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The best of the Hay festival from Sky Arts
  • Alexander McCall Smith on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    The creator of Precious Ramotswe, Alexander McCall Smith, appears on the Sky Arts Book Show and talks to Mariella Frostrup about his detective's latest case, The Double Comfort Safari Club

  • Val Mcdermid on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    Crime writer Val McDermid tells Mariella Frostrup how Agatha Christie influenced her writing in this clip from the Sky Arts Book Show

  • Brian May on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    The guitarist Brian May appears on the Sky Arts Book Show to show off the spectroscopic glasses he designed to view the Victorian tableaus in his new book, A Village Lost and Found

  • Allegra Huston on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    The writer and editor Allegra Huston tells Mariella Frostrup how she found out that the film director John Huston wasn't her biological father

  • William Dalrymple on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    Award-winning historian and travel writer William Dalrymple visits the Sky Arts Book Show to talk about Nine Lives, his new book on the changing nature of religion in India

  • Jacqueline Wilson on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    Childrens' author Jacqueline Wilson talks on Sky Arts' Book Show about celebrity culture and the lure of fame

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  • Simon Schama on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

  • Joss Ackland on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

  • Audrey Niffenegger on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    The author of The Time Traveller's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry tells Mariella Frostrup how Highgate cemetery inspired her second novel

  • Jo Brand on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

    Comedian and author Jo Brand tells Mariella Frostrup how stand up comedy compares to her previous job as a psychiatric nurse

  • Bill Bryson at the Guardian Hay festival

    Bill Bryson talks to Ian Katz, the Guardian's deputy editor, about his new book, A Short History of Private Life, at the Guardian Hay festival

  • Nadine Gordimer and Carlos Ruiz Zafón on Sky Arts' The Book Show at Hay

    In an extract from Sky Arts' The Book Show at Hay, Mariella Frostrup talks to the Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer and the author Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  • Grayson Perry and Bill Bryson on the Sky Arts' Book Show at Hay

    In the first episode of the Sky Arts' Book Show at the Hay festival, Mariella Frostrup talks to artist Grayson Perry about his image, and to the US author Bill Bryson on British citizenship

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