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# Hay Festival 2011 programme: Saturday, June 4
## Hay Festival 2011 listings in full for forums taking place on Saturday,
June 4.
![Hay Festival 2011: schedule for Saturday, June 4][1]
7:10AM BST 09 Apr 2011
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**[Reserve your place online][3] or book via the box office on 01497 822 629
for the Telegraph [Hay Festival][4]**
**9am: Women in Journalism (editor's choice)**
With: Anne Robinson, Rosie Boycott, [**Gaby Wood **][5]and Kitty Corrigan.
New research shows the media is getting more male, even in the areas of
features and lifestyle. Why? How?
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £8 _
**9am: New History of Wales 4: Global Nation **
Isolated provincials or a global people? Where is Wales in the world?
_Oxfam Stage, £5 _
**9am: The Beautiful and the Damned**
With: Siddhartha Deb
A panoramic portrait of the new India from its least advantaged countryside to
its high-tech tiger economy.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £4 _
**9am: The First Novel**
With: Clare Jacob, Ceri Radford and Amy Sackville, chaired by Peter Florence
The challenge of starting out met in three ways: Jacob's Ophelia in Pieces
charts the fall and rise of a young lawyer; Radford (who attended the
Festival's Beacons Project when she was at school) conjures a comic gem of a
life-crisis in A Surrey State of Affairs; Sackville's award-winning The Still
Point is an intriguing family story set across a hundred years.
_Sky Arts Studio, £4 _
**9am: In The Bend Of The River**
With: Robert MacCurrach, chaired by Paul Blezard.
A personal view of the Danube province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £4_
**9am: Adam Stower** (3 - 5 years)
_The Hexagon, £3 _
**10am: Eoin Colfer **(9+ years)
Join this utterly brilliant writer in an adrenaline-fuelled expose of his
teenage criminal mastermind.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £4 _
**10am: Liberty's Exiles**
With: Maya Jasanoff, chaired by writer and critic Michael Prodger
Extraordinary tales of the defeated individuals who left America after the
British departed in 1783 to seek refuge elsewhere in the British Empire.
_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
**10am:_ _Discovery **
With: Rolf Heuer, chaired by Jon Snow
The Large Hadron Collider is now running at CERN in Geneva, the world's
greatest collaborative science project, and its most exciting. The Director
General discusses what might be discovered and what's at stake.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
**10am: Cerys Matthews **(5+ years)
_Sky Arts Studio, £7_
**10am: The Dragon and the Crescent**
With: Grahame Davies, chaired by Merryl Wyn Davies
Nine centuries of contact between Wales and Islam. Chaired by the Director of
the Muslim Institute.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £5 _
**10am: David Roberts** (5 - 7 years)
Bertie is particularly dirty; he's also pretty infamous now (thanks to his
terrifically smelly trumps!). Join his oh-so-clean creator for comic chaos and
giggles.
_Starlight stage, £4 _
**10am: Scritture Giovani 2011**
With: Paolo Piccirillo, Kallia Papadaki, Anna Lewis and Susanne Heinrich,
chaired by Daniel Hahn, Chair of the BCLT
Young writers from Italy, Greece, Wales and Germany discuss their stories
commissioned on the theme of 'Names'.
_The Moot, free but ticketed _
**11.30am: Alfred Brendel talks to Nicola Heywood Thomas**
The pianist and poet discusses his life and work.
_The Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £9 _
**11.30am: Cables From Kabul (editor's choice)**
With: Sherard Cowper Coles. Chaired by Anne Robinson.
Britain's Afghan Envoy and special representative for Pakistan 2007-10 argues
for constructive engagement in the pursuit of conflict resolution.
_Oxfam Stage, £9 _
**11.30am: Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight**
With: James Attlee
Moonlight and its meanings, from the kitsch to the sublime - in the modern
world, the ancient world, in art, books, music and in science.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
**11.30am: Early Edition 1**
Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan and Andre Vincent
The satirists rip up the weekend papers.
_Sky Arts Studio, £7 _
**11.30am: Diary of a Dog Walker**
With: Ed Stourton
The journalist considers his Time Spent Following a Lead - and the
conversations, engagements and digressions that he and his best friend
encounter.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £7 _
**11.30am: Johnny O'Brien **(9+years)
Jack Christie is back in The Day of Deliverance, but can he foil the plot to
assassinate Elizabeth I? Travel back in time and for the ultimate espionage
challenge. Have you got what it takes?
_Starlight Stage, £4 _
**11.30am: Tracey Corderoy **(3 - 5 years)
Dylan the Duckling and the Little White Owl each have adventurous spirits.
Pull up a cushion and hear all about their travels.
_The Hexagon, £3 _
**11.30am: Fictions: Survival**
With: Deborah Kay Davies and Tahmina Anam, chaired by Ariane Koek
True Things About Me is a novel about a woman, about risk and sex and
survival. The Good Muslim is a family love story set in Bangladesh and
explores the challenges of peace in the long shadow of war.
_Summer House, £4 _
**1pm: The London Library Platform: The Popes**
With: John Julius Norwich
The historian surveys the rich and controversial history of the papacy from St
Peter to Benedict XVI today.
_Oxfam Stage, £8 _
**1pm: Vanessa Redgrave talks to Philippe Sands (editor's choice)**
A conversation with the actress and campaigner.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £10 _
**1pm: Garth Nix and Sean Williams** (9+ years)
Join two bestselling writers (Nix with Sabriel and The Keys to the Kingdom,
Williams with The Fixers and Star Wars: Force Heretic) as they introduce their
brand new supernatural series. A rare treat.
Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £4
**1pm: How To Avoid Getting Killed In A War Zone**
With: Rosie Garthwaite and Marc DuBois, chaired by Jim Naughtie
The frontline journalist reviews best practice with the Medecins Sans
Frontieres Director in her Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places.
_Sky Arts Studio, £7 _
**1pm: Fictions: Then and Now**
Stella Tillyard and Andrew Miller, chaired by Rosie Boycott
The historian's first fiction Tides of War is an epic, panoramic novel about
love and war, set in Regency England and Spain during the Peninsular War;
Miller's Pure is set in 1785, as a young engineer is charged with demolishing
Paris' oldest cemetery.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £5 _
**1pm: Ian Whybrow **(5 - 7 years)
Delve into the bucketful of stories, to hear more adventures from one of
Britain's best-loved picture book authors. With songs and games galore, it's
going to be raaah-tastic!
_Starlight Stage, £4 _
**1pm: Tracey Corderoy **(3 - 5 years)
The Grunt and the Grouch are two of the most disgusting and badly-behaved
trolls in the world - and the most fun! Come and discover a world of no baths,
bogies and burps. It's time to bring out your inner-troll!
_The Hexagon, £3 _
**1pm: A Brief History of Welsh Rhyme**
With: Tom Anderson and Eurig Salisbury
The travel writer and the poet discuss the legacy of Welsh rhyme and its
influence today.
_Summer House, £4 _
**2.30pm: God Collar**
With: Marcus Brigstocke, chaired by Peter Florence
A special preview of the comedian's book questioning atheism, faith and the
meaning of life.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7 _
**2.30pm: Two Jews... (editor's choice)**
With: Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
The two historians from very different backgrounds reflect on their identities
and their experiences of being Jewish.
_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
**2.30pm: Brave New Worlds**
With: Mansoura Ez Eldin, Kamel Riahi and Youseff Rakha talk to Ariane Koek
Three of the extraordinary writers from Egypt and Tunisia who are part of the
Beirut39 project discuss their work and their countries' revolutions.
_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
**2.30pm: Cambridge Series 17: History, Memory and Ideas About the Past**
With: Rosamond McKitterick
The historian mines the cultural memory of the Dark Ages and shows how
medieval ideas about the state echo down the ages.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £5 _
**2.30pm: Jason Wallace, Jim Carrington and Irfan Master** (Teens)
Three coming-of-age fictions, three continents, three striking new voices that
need to be heard.
_Starlight Stage, £4 _
**2.30pm: Jon Blake and David Roberts** (9+ years)
All aboard SS Bounty (yes that's right, it's a School Ship!) for swashbuckling
adventures and tall-ship tales with this writer and illustrator team.
_The Hexagon, £3 _
**4pm: The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible,
1611-2011 (editor's choice)**
With: Melvyn Bragg.
This became the Bible of wars, of politics, of struggles for democracy and
freedoms. It defined attitudes to modern science, education and sex. Sponsored
by Hay Wholefoods & Delicatessen
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7 _
**4pm: A World on Fire**
With: Amanda Foreman, chaired by Philip Bobbitt
The historian looks at the American civil war and the role of the Britons
caught up on both sides of the conflict.
_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
**4pm: Wartime Lies**
With: Louis Begley, chaired by Philippe Sands
The novelist and screenwriter discusses his work, including About Schmidt and
the Holocaust classic Wartime Lies.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
**4pm: The Immortalization Commission**
With: John Gray
The great and terrible implication of Darwin's ideas was that natural
selection made humans into animals like any other, doomed one day to disappear
from the face of an uncaring Earth. The refusal to follow this logic and to
insist instead on our immortality resulted in a series of experiments that
carry on to the present day, some of which ravaged whole countries and some of
which generated more private forms of pain.
_Sky Arts Studio, £7 _
**4pm: It's All True**
With: Sofi Oksanen and Sonia Faleiro, chaired by Rosie Boycott
Purge is a hauntingly intimate portrait of one family's shame against a
backdrop of European war. Beautiful Thing, one of the most original works of
non-fiction from India in years, is a vivid and intimate portrait of one
reporter's journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of
Bombay.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £5 _
**4pm: Lucy Christopher and Gill Lewis **(9+ years)
Two breathtaking wildlife tales to discover and treasure.
_Starlight Stage, £4 _
**5.30pm: The Rotblat Lecture 2011:The Age of Deception - Nuclear Diplomacy in
Treacherous Times**
With: Mohamed ElBaradei, chaired by Jon Snow
The Egyptian Nobel Laureate and Presidential candidate describes his work as
the lead UN weapons inspector in Iraq. Beamed in live from Cairo.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £10 _
**5.30: The Finkler Question (editor's choice)**
With: Howard Jacobson. Chaired by Peter Florence.
Booker winner on his comic masterpiece.
_Oxfam Stage, £9 _
**5.30pm: All About Love**
Lisa Appignanesi, chaired by Hanif Kureishi
The writer tangles with the paradoxes of love through the span of our lives -
from rapturous love to love in 'marriage', in the family and in friendship.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
**5.30pm: The Inner Life of Empires**
With: Emma Rothschild, chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor
Tracing the lives of a single Scottish family whose eleven siblings roamed the
globe to seek their fortunes, the historian explores the great elements of the
C18th world: empire, politics, slavery, warfare and Enlightenment thought and
sensibility.
_Sky Arts Studio, £6 _
**5.30pm: Nature's Patterns **
With: Philip Ball
Scientists have found that there is a patternforming tendency inherent in the
basic structure and processes of nature, so that from a few simple themes, and
the repetition of simple rules, endless beautiful variations can arise.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £6 _
**5.30pm: Peter Cox and Keren David **(12+ years)
These two compelling writers know how to deliver their thrillers ice-cold.
Join them as they talk flawed heroes, plot twists and danger.
_Starlight stage, £4 _
**7pm: Philip Pullman talks to Rosie Boycott (editor's choice)**
The novelist discusses his latest book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel
Christ.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £10 _
**7pm: A Long Lunch - My Stories And I'm Sticking To Them**
The humorist and political analyst sketches some parliamentary and media gems
from his trove of forty years on Fleet Street.
_Oxfam Stage, £8 _
**7pm: Coriolanus (editor's choice)**
With: Ralph Fiennes, chaired by Francine Stock
The actor and director on his modern war-zone film of Shakespeare's play.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £14 _
**7pm: The Perfect Nazi**
With: Martin Davidson, chaired by Simon Schama
The historian's investigation: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past And
How Hitler Seduced A Generation.
_Sky Arts Studio, £6 _
**7pm: Fictions: Great American Novels**
With: David Vann and David Bezmozgis, chaired by Jon Gower
Two of America's brightest and best: Vann's Alaskan novel Caribou Island is a
beautiful portrait of marriage and dreams. Bezmozgis' The Free World is a
tragic and comic tale of passage from Communist Russia to the West.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £5 _
**7pm: The Lapidus Conversation**
With: Gwyneth Lewis, chaired by Raymond Tallis
The poet reads her works and discusses creative writing and mental health.
_Summer House, Free but ticketed _
**8pm: Bandemonium Ceilidh**
Dancing shoes, please, for a joyful family evening of reeling with the
22-piece Herefordshire party band. No experience needed.
_Hay Community Centre, £5 _
**8.30: Hay Festival and The Tricycle Theatre, London present: Torture Team**
With: Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Fiennes, Jay Sanders, Philippe Sands, Damian
Lewis and Gillian Anderson
An inquiry into the interrogation techniques used by the American
administration and military in Guantanamo and beyond. When do lawyers who
authorise abuse cross a line into criminality? Directed by Indhu Rubasingham.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £15 _
**8.30pm: Super Sad True Love Story (editor's choice)**
With: Gary Shteyngart. Chaired by [**Gaby Wood**][5].
A comic love story masterpiece set in a catastrophically fallen USA, from the
author of Absurdistan. Magic.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
**8.30pm: The Royal Society Lecture 5: Ballet Rambert**
With: Nicky Clayton & Mark Baldwin
The scientific advisor to the ballet company and its artistic director discuss
the cross-currents between choreography and cognition.
_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
**8.30pm: What Makes Civilization?**
With: David Wengrow
The archaeologist relates the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and
Mesopotamia (today's Iraq) to other more recent attempts at reshaping the
world order to an ideal image.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £5 _
**9.45pm:_ _Life in a Day - Screening**
With: Kevin MacDonald, chaired by Francine Stock
The director introduces his astounding documentary film about a single day on
earth, edited from the thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube on 24 July
2010.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
**10pm: Shappi Khorsandi**
The brilliant Anglo-Iranian stand-up in her brand new show. She's feisty,
flirty and effortlessly funny, and she handles every subject with a razor
sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously dizzy delivery and endless charm.
'Britain's best young female comic by any yardstick' - The Guardian.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £8 _
**10pm: The Portico Quartet**
The London band with their distinctive sound driven by use of the hang
percussion instrument are the rising superstars of British jazz and world
music. They play music from their albums Knee-Deep In The North Sea and Isla.
_Oxfam Stage, £10 _
**10pm: Open Mic 2**
With: Paul Blezard MCs
Roll up! All readings are (rigorously) 5 minutes long.
_Elmley Foundation Theater, £4 _
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