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# Hay Festival 2011 programme: Sunday, June 5
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## Hay Festival 2011 listings in full for events taking place on Sunday, June
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![Hay Festival 2011: Schedule for Sunday, June 5][1]
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Photo: Christopher Jones
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7:05AM BST 09 Apr 2011
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[Comments][2]
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**[Reserve your place online][3] or book via the box office on 01497 822 629
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for the Telegraph [Hay Festival][4]**
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**9am: Is a War on Terror Absurd?**
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With: Philip Bobbitt.
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## Related Articles
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* [Hay Festival 2011 programme: Thursday, May 26][5]
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09 Apr 2011
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* [Hay Festival 2011 programme: Friday, May 27][6]
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09 Apr 2011
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* [Hay Festival 2011 programme: Saturday, May 28][7]
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09 Apr 2011
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* [Hay Festival 2011 programme: Sunday, May 29][8]
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09 Apr 2011
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* [Hay Festival 2011 programme: Monday, May 30][9]
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09 Apr 2011
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* [Hay Festival 2011 programme: Tuesday, May 31][10]
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09 Apr 2011
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The answer from the author of The Shield of Achilles and Terror and Consent
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might surprise you, and might also tell us something about the nature of war
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in the C21st.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6_
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**9am: New History of Wales 5: The Welsh People**
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With: Huw Bowen, Madeleine Gray, Martin Johnes
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Religion, politics, education and popular culture. What type of people are we?
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**9am: Silence**
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With: Maggie Ross talks to Rachael Kerr
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The Anglican solitary and theologian, whose Writing the Icon of the Heart has
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been described by Rowan Williams as 'a really transformative book', explains
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how 'the work of silence' can help us toward a deeper understanding of God.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £4_
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**9am: The Renaissance of Talgarth Mill**
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With: Kate Brotherton-Ratcliffe, Tim Martin, Fiona Gray and Bruce Gray.
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The restoration of Talgarth Mill, derelict for 70 years, into a functioning
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artisan bakery is nearly complete.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, entry to this event is free but you must obtain a
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ticket_
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**9am: New Work **
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With: Hay and District Writers Circle
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The local writers' club members share their work.
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_Summer House, entry to this event is free but you must obtain a ticket_
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**10am: Made in Britain **
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With: Evan Davis
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What matters is what sells and for how much - from manufacturing to
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technology, design and the services industries.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £8_
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**10am**: **To War With Wellington (editor's choice) **
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With: Peter Snow. Chaired by Michael Prodger.
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A profile of Britain's greatest military commander from the Peninsula war to
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the Battle of Waterloo.
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_Oxfam Stage, £8_
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**10am: A World I Loved (editor's choice)**
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With: Vanessa Redgrave.
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A reading from Wadad Makdisi Cortas' haunting and beautiful memoir of Lebanon
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and the Middle East.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
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**10am: Unnatural - The Heretical Idea of Making People **
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With: Philip Ball
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Event 391 • Sunday 5 June 2011, 10am • Venue:
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The writer delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of
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'anthropoesis' - the artificial creation of people - to explore what it tells
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us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology. And what it
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tells us about the soul.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5_
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**10am: Amexica**
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With: Ed Vulliamy
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The harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico
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border - this is the secret war of drugs, gangs and guns that is destroying
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thousands of lives. Chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5_
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**10am: Get Writing With Jim Carrington **(workshop 10+ years)
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Join author Jim Carrington for a look at pacey narratives and sharp dialogue -
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two of the most challenging elements of writing.
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Each young person attending this workshop without an accompanying adult must
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fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form
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in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.
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_The Hexagon, £8_
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**11.30pm: The Oxfam Lecture: The Unfinished Global Revolution**
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Mark Malloch Brown talks to Jim Naughtie.
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National governments are no longer equipped to address complex global issues,
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from climate change to poverty. International organisations have not yet been
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empowered to step into the breach.
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_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
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**11.30: King James Authorised Version - Genesis, Psalms, Revelations
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(editor's choice)**
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With: Howard Jacobson, Maggie Ross, Roy Strong.
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Three of the hugest and most contentious books are on the table for this Good
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Read conversation.
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_Llwyfan Cymru-Wales Stage, £7 _
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**11.30am: Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine: 100 wines for the discerning
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drinker **
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With: Simon Hoggart.
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By popular demand, the journalist and wine writer leads another tasting.
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(price includes tastings)
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_Sky Arts Studio, £15_
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**11.30am: Make Room for the Jester **
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With: Philip Pullman, Dai Smith, Richard Davies and Jon Gower.
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We celebrate Stead Jones' classic tale - a haunting journey from the edge of
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childhood into a threatening adult world - now published in the Library of
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Wales series.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5_
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**11.30am: Bears On The Stairs **
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With: Lynne Chapman.
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Join the wonderful illustrator of this hairy story and perhaps pick up some
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crafty tactics for delaying bedtime along the way!
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3-5 years
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_The Hexagon, £3_
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**11.30am - 3.30pm: UPS Road Code **
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Take a spin on a driving simulator - dodge the hazards, pick up tips along the
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way and compete to be the safest driver.
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hf2 for teens
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_Scribblers Hut, drop in - no need for a ticket _
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**1pm: Jersualem **
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With: Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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The biography of the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of
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three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment Day and the
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battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. Chaired by Clemency Burton-
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Hill.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7_
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**1pm: Galileo **
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With: John Heilbron.
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A profile of the Renaissance genius that celebrates the 400th anniversary of
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the publication of Siderius Nuncius - The Starry Messenger, one of the turning
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points of science that changed perceptions of the perfection of the heavens
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and the centrality of the Earth forever.
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_Oxfam Stage, £7_
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**1pm: If Bursts Out **
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With: Steve Bell.
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The outrageous and savage satirist draws the madness of the world and the
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ugliness of politics with cruel brilliance.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6_
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**1pm: Ox-Travels 4 **
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With: Sonia Faleiro, John Julius Norwich, Peter Godwin.
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Three more Meetings With Remarkable Writers from our new Oxfam anthology.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £6_
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**1pm: Motherlove (editor's choice)**
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With: Justine Roberts and Amy Chua.
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What constitutes encouragement, discipline and abuse? The Mumsnet chief goes
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toe to toe with the terrifying author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**1pm: Miss Shirley Bassey **
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With: John Williams.
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Event 403 • Sunday 5 June 2011, 1pm • Venue:
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The meteoric life - from the vibrant, multicultural oasis of Tiger Bay in the
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Cardiff docklands through the club-lands of Soho and Las Vegas to New York's
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Carnegie Hall. Helluva soundtrack too.
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_Summer House, £5_
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**1pm: There Are No Cats In This Event…No, Really!** (5-7 years Rib Ticklers)
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With: Viv Schwarz
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Tiny, Moonpie and Andre from There Are Cats In This Book are back - or are
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they? Join their creator for a hands-on look at how your doodles can turn into
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the most amazing stories.
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_The Hexagon, £3_
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**2.30pm: An Historian's Alphabet (editor's choice)**
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With:** **Simon Schama. Chaired by Peter Florence.
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A mesmerising tour of passions and digressions that span the breadth of
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Austerity to Zabaglione. Sponsored by Claridge Nursing Homes Limited.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £8 _
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**2.30pm: Collected **
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With: Hanif Kureishi. Chaired by Ariane Koek.
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We celebrate the publication of the novelist and screenwriter's Collected
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Essays and Collected Stories.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6_
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**2.30: The Birth of Modern Britain (editor's choice)**
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With: Francis Pryor. Chaired by Michael Prodger.
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Ranging over topics as diverse as the birth of modern agriculture, the growth
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of towns and cities, and the development of roads, canals and railways, the
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historian takes us on A Journey into Britain's Archaeological Past: 1550 to
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the Present.
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_Llwyfan Cymru-Wales Stage, £6 _
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**2.30pm: Early Edition 2 **
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With: Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan and Andre Vincent
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The satirists rip up the Sunday papers.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £7_
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**2.30pm: Cambridge Series 18: Is Toleration Still A Virtue? **
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With: Onora O'Neill.
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The philosopher is an exacting examiner of great issues such as freedom of
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speech, assisted suicide and stem cell research. Here she explores one of the
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fundamental assumptions of liberal societies.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, 5_
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**2.30pm: Of Mutability**
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With: Jo Shapcott.
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The poet's new collection won the Costa Book of the Year Award. In a series of
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poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world,
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and in the shifting relationships between people - Shapcott looks freshly but
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squarely at mortality.
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_Summer House, £5_
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**2.30pm: Dragon's Dinner **(3-5 years)
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With: Lynne Chapman
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Join in the rhymes, as Dragon searches for snacks in the woods.
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_The Hexagon, £3 _
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**4pm: The Annual Hamlin Lecture (editor's choice)**
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With: Bob Geldof. Chaired by Peter Florence.
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The sixth in a series of conversations over the last 20 years with the
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musician, campaigner and businessman focuses on song-writing, the environment
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and African trade. Sponsored by ORConsulting - 'The Art of Seeing
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Differently'.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £8 _
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**4pm: JMG Le Clezio **
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A conversation with the French Nobel Laureate, whose translated novels include
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The Interrogation, The African, Desert, War and The Book of Flights.
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_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
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**4pm: The Morville Hours, The Rain Tree **
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With: Katherine Swift and Mirabel Osler.
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Swift's The Morville Hours is a history of all the people who've lived in a
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special Shropshire house, and an exploratory journey through the seasons and
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the self in the form of a medieval book of hours. Osler's The Rain Tree is a
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graceful and profoundly affecting meditation on the pleasures of writing,
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gardens, travel and food.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6_
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**4pm: Food Security **
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With: Jonathon Harrington, Rosie Boycott, Colin Spedding, Christie Peacock,
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Denis Murphy.
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What can we do? Encourage organic farming? Eat less meat? Reduce food waste?
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Support GM plant breeding? Grow our own?
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_Sky Arts Studio , £4_
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**4pm: People Power in the Middle East **
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With: Mansur Rajih, Pegah Ahmadi and Basim Mardan talk to Shenaz Kedar
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Exiled writers from Yemen, Iran and Iraq discuss their work and the upheavals
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in the Middle East with the director of the Writers' Centre Norwich Shahrazad
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project.
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Decades of silence, self-censorship and repression have been confronted by an
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explosion of social demands and movements for change by the people for the
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people stretching from Tunisia across the Middle East. What kind of reforms
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are needed to satisfy the dreams and demands of the people? Join Shenaz Kedar
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in a panel discussion with exiled International Cities of Refuge writers
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Mansur Rajih (Yemen), Pegah Ahmadi (Iran) and Basim Mardan (Iraq) for a
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discussion on these issues and their hopes for the future.
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This is a Writers' Centre Norwich Shahrazad event organised as part of our
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Norwich City of Refuge scheme and supported by the EU Culture programme.
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Writers' Centre Norwich is a literature development organisation focused on
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the artistic and social power of creative writing.
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[www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk][11]
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Norwich City of Refuge** **
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Under the auspices of WCN, Norwich joined the International Cities of Refuge
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Network (ICORN) In July 2006 and remains the only UK City of Refuge. We use
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literature to raise awareness of issues faced by asylum seekers and refugees
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in imaginative and engaging ways through a varied arts education programme.
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Shahrazad is a Europe-wide collaboration between five International Cities of
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Refuge that spreads the stories of refugee and exiled writers who have found
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sanctuary in Europe through the Cities of Refuge Network (www.icorn.org). It
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is run by literary organizations in Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Stavanger,
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Stockholm and Norwich. [www.shahrazadeu.org][12]
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, entry to this event is free but you must obtain a
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ticket _
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**4pm: A Place To Call Home** (5-7 years Knapsacks & Ginger Beer)
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With: Viv Schwarz
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A band of hamster brothers embark on a quest, but will they find what they're
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looking for? Meet their illustrator and discover how the biggest of worlds can
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exist in the smallest of spaces.
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_The Hexagon, £3_
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**5.30pm: The World Wildlife Fund at 50 **
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With: Jonathon Porritt in conversation with Andy Fryers
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The WWF ambassador examines the evolution of conservation. What have we
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learnt, and how do we address the challenges facing us for a sustainable
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future where people and nature thrive?
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Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £5
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**5.30pm: Visions of England (editor's choice)**
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With: Roy Strong.
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This is England seen not through its warring monarchs and global traders, but
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as conceived as a nation in the cultural imagination - through the works of
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Shakespeare and Turner and Elgar and Wordsworth.
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_Oxfam Stage, £5 _
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**5.30pm: Cardiff Series 4: The Car of the Future **
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With: Paul Nieuwenhuis
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The car is clearly not sustainable now, but can it adapt or evolve, or will it
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have to go, as some have suggested? How will we use it and how will it be
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made? Chaired by Rosie Boycott.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5_
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**5.30pm: Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of
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Mankind **
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Raymond Tallis talks to David Papineau
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Welcome to an all-out assault on the 'Neuromythology' and pseudo-Darwinian
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thought that is increasingly dominating discussion of human nature. Tallis
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pulls the rug from under neuro-aesthetics, evolutionary economics, neuro-
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theology and other fashionable pseudo-disciplines.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**5.30pm: Long Time, No See**
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With: Dermot Healy talks to Glenn Patterson
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An epic in miniature peopled by a cast of innocents and broken misfits; the
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lyrical power of Healy's new novel casts a miraculous literary spell.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5_
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**7pm: Revelations, conclusion **
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With: Roy Strong, Peter Florence, Ian Charlesworth
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The full reading of the King James Authorised Version that's been running
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through the week comes to an end.
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_Oxfam Stage, entry to this event is free but you must obtain a ticket _
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**7pm: Two Towns, One World - From Hay to Timbuktu and Back Again **
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With: Julie Grigg, Roger Hammond, Jonathon Harrington, Barney Sampson
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Motorbikes for midwives, linking schools, improving access to ante-natal care
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- just some of the successful twinning projects to date. Now the twinning
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story of Hay-on-Wye and Timbuktu takes a new turn.
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_Sky Arts Studio , entry to this event is free but you must obtain a ticket _
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**7pm**:** Surface Detail (editor's choice)**
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With: Iain M Banks. Chaired by Paul Blezard.
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The ninth book in the writer's acclaimed Culture series is a huge science
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fiction highlight.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £4_
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**8.15pm: Bob Geldof's last night party **
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The house band return from their tour of Hay Festivals in Mexico, Colombia and
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Kerala to play a joyful celebration concert to end the festival. Geldof's new
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album How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell is fantastic.
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All proceeds will fund Hay Festival's work in Kenya and South Africa.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £10 _
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[**Reserve your place online**][3]** or book via the box office on 01497 822
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**For full listings on other days of the festival see our [Hay Festival 2011
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programme.][13] **
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## [Hay Festival][4]
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[![Telegraph correspondent Emma Barnett goes in search of the most expensive
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tome in the 'town of books', Hay-on-Wye.][20] ][21]
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### [The most expensive book in Hay?][21]
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