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# Hay Festival 2011 programme: Friday, June 3
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## Hay Festival 2011 listings in full for forums taking place on Friday, June
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![Hay Festival: schedule for friday june 3 2011][1]
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Photo: Christopher Jones
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7:15AM 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: Money and Power**
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With: William Cohan
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The skinny on Goldman Sachs - heavily embargoed until publication.
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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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_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
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**9am: In Shackleton's Footsteps**
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With: Henry Worsley
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A homage in travel and spirit to Ernest Shackleton one hundred years after the
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peerless leader and explorer ventured to the South Pole and returned. Chaired
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by Paul Blezard.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5_
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**9am: The Great Lie**
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With: Myrrha Stanford-Smith, chaired by David Crystal
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The octogenarian novelist's first novel features a young buck getting tangled
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in webs of spies, actors, intrigue and adventure in Christopher Marlowe's
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London.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**9am:_ _The Stranger in the Mirror (editor's choice)**
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With: Jane Shilling. Chaired by** [Sarah Crompton][11]**.
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The author of a moving memoir of the transition to middle age is in
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conversation with the Telegraph's arts editor.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £6 _
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**9am - 1pm: Farm Visit**
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With: Maesllwch Farm
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Join local agronomist Jonathon Harrington and vet Barney Sampson as they
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explore farms in the local area. Andrew and Rachel Giles' farm has a purely
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organic dairy herd of 350 cows producing milk for Yeo Valley, who make it into
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yoghurt and cheese. Visitors will have the opportunity to enter the milking
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parlour and help to milk some of the cows, as well as see the young calves.
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Watch how the cows are fed and learn how their four stomachs enable them to
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digest grass. Samples of whole milk and other dairy products will be provided
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for tasting.
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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £5 _
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**9am - 12pm: Primrose Earth Awareness Trust: Site Visit**
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With: Paul Benham
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The permaculture pioneer and PEAT Centre Director guides us around the Centre
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for Sustainable Food - the most productive acre and a half in the UK, and a
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blueprint for future food security.
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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £8 _
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**10am: The Battle of Britain**
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With: James Holland
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The historian tells the stories of the few who did so much for the many in the
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five months in 1940 that saved Britain_. _
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**10am: Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages That Made the
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Countryside (editor's choice)**
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With:[ **Clive Aslet**][12].
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The history of the countryside, told through some of its most noteworthy
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settlements. Sponsored by AJ Jones & Sons
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**10am: Oblivion**
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With: Hector Abad Faciolince, chaired by Rosie Boycott
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A heartrending, exquisitely-written memorial to the author's father, Hector
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Abad Gomez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by
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paramilitaries in 1987.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £4 _
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**10am: At the Bright Hem of God**
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With: Brenda Maddox, Peter Conradi, Tom Bullough
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The authors discuss how the wild, rural landscape of Radnorshire inspires
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their work and that of others before them, from Gerald of Wales to Vaughan and
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Traherne, Francis Kilvert, Eric Gill, David Jones and Bruce Chatwin.
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_The Moot _
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**10am: Punny Flannel** (7+ years & families)
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With:_ _Andy Stanton, Jeremy Strong, Tamsyn Murray, chaired by the hilarious
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James Campbell
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Three of the funniest children's writers come together in a wonderfully random
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mish-mash look at laughs.
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_Oxfam Stage, £4_
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**10am: Pirate Cruncher** (5 - 7 years)
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With: Jonny Duddle
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Ahoy there me hearties! Join this salty sea dog of an illustrator as he tells
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monsterish tales inspired by his role as an artist for Pirates of the
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Caribbean. Don't forget to dress the part, or you may have to walk the plank!
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_Starlight Stage, £4 _
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**10am: Travelling Tales **(3-5 years)
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With: Thomas Docherty
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Whisk away on a flight of fancy to sand dunes and high seas with this talented
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writer and illustrator. Packed full of giant props and lots of imagination,
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this is perfect for daydreamers and their families.
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_The Hexagon, £3 _
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**10am: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(5-9 years. Children must be accompanied.)
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Workshop
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Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious!
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_Mess Tent _
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**10am - 2pm: From Bluff to Book Town Along the Offa's Dyke Path**
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With:_ _Rob Dingle
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Join the National Trail Officer and National Park leaders on this lovely
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7-mile walk to the top of Hay Bluff for stunning views of the surrounding
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countryside before returning to the town along a pretty section of the Offa's
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Dyke Path National Trail which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
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_Meet at Box Office, £6 _
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**11.30pm: Britain's War Machine**
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With: David Edgerton
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The compelling new history shows WWII in a new light, showing Britain as far
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from the plucky underdog, but as a wealthy country, formidable in arms,
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ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global
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production system.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
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**11.30am: Masterclass South Riding (editor's choice)**
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With: Andrew Davies.
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The screenwriter analyses key scenes in his adaptation of Winifred Holtby's
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classic in conversation with Peter Florence.
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_Llwyfan Cymru-Wales Stage, £5 _
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**11.30am: At The Water's Edge: A Personal Quest for Wildness**
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With: John Lister-Kaye, chaired by Corisande Albert
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The nature writer's close observation of his Scottish home also forges
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wonderful connections between the most unlikely subjects, from photosynthesis
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and the energy cycle to Norse mythology, to weasels and perfume and to the
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over-population of our planet.
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Sky Arts Studio, £5
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**11.30: William Golding Centenary (editor's choice)**
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With: John Carey, Judy Golding and Tobias Hill.
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Join the Nobel Laureate's biographer, his daughter and the poet to celebrate
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the novelist whose work included The Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage and
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The Spire.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**11.30am: Fictions: Dragons**
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With: Simon Thirsk and Tessa Hadley, chaired by Anita Sethi.
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Hadley's The London Train is a remarkable portrayal of a man and woman whose
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lives collide on the Cardiff to London train. In Thirsk's Not Quite White, the
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young Jon Bull is sent by Westminster to Wales' last remaining Welsh-speaking
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town to see why all attempts to bring it into the twenty-first century have
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failed.
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_The Moot, £4 _
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**11.30am: Lily Alone **(9+ years)
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With: Jacqueline Wilson
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An enchanting visit from the most borrowed author in Britain's libraries.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £4_
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**11.30am: Bedtime for Monsters** _(_3-5 years)
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With: Ed Vere
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What if a monster were looking for a you-shaped bedtime snack? GULP! Fear not,
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the brilliant creator of Chick, Mr Big and Banana! returns to Hay with so much
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energy even the biggest of tummy rumbles will be silenced.
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_Starlight Stage, £4 _
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**11.30am: Warduff And The Corncob Caper **(5-7 years)
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With:_ _Mat Head
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There's mischief down on the farm and there's only one cat you can call. Come
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and help outwit the wiliest of foxes and hear all about the joys of napping
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and fish cakes.
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_The Hexagon, £3_
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**11.30am: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(5-9 years. Children must be
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accompanied.)
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Workshop
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Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious!
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_Mess Tent _
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**11.30am: Nominet **(hf2 for teens)
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Tech Session
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Get digital in this computer session with e-commerce experts.
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_Scribblers Hut, £5 _
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**1pm: The Golden Age (editor's choice)**
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With: Hugh Thomas. Chaired by Revel Guest.
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The historian on The Spanish Empire of Charles V -- a time of unprecedented
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colonial conquest and subjugation in South America.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**1pm: Millions Like Us**
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With: Virginia Nicholson
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The social historian examines the decade that revolutionised gender relations
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in C20th Britain in her Women's Lives in War and Peace, 1939-1945.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £6 _
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**1pm: LSE Lecture 2: Can We Trust Our Moral Intuitions?**
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With: Alex Voorhoeve
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In 2008, Dr Hootan Roozrokh was charged with hastening the death of a patient
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in order to extract his organs for transplantation before these organs
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deteriorated. The author of Conversations on Ethics explores how far we can
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trust our judgments and intuitive and emotional responses to such crises.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**1pm: The Sky's Dark Labyrinth**
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With:_ _Stuart Clark
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This is the story of Kepler and Galileo, two men whose struggle with
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themselves, with the forces of reaction and with the evidence changed not
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simply themselves but our world.
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_The Moot _
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**1pm: Swansongs 4**
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With: Igor Levit
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In the last of four lunchtime concerts, the young German pianist gives a
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complete performance of Beethoven's last major work for piano, the monumental
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Diabelli Variations, Op.120.
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_St Mary's Church, £6 _
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**1pm: The Cartoon Kid **(7+ years)
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With: Jeremy Strong
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Wham-bam-jelly-and-jam! I think it's about time you became a superhero, don't
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you? Join the comic maestro behind The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog and My
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Brother's Hots Cross Bottom as he introduces his brand new series.
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_Oxfam Stage, £4 _
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**1pm: Caddy's World **(9+ years)
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With: Hilary McKay, chaired by Gaby Wood
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Hay is delighted to revisit the colourful Casson family as Hilary takes us
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back in time with her latest book, which once again shows the lightness of
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touch and warmth that has won over millions of fans.
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_Starlight Stage, £4_
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**1pm: Ruby Nettleship And The Ice Lolly Adventure **(5-7 years)
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With: Thomas Docherty
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Join us for a magical tale of imagination and rainbow dreams from the creator
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of the enchanting Little Boat, then trot home with your very own magical
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lolly!
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_The Hexagon _
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**1pm: Nominet **(hf2 for teens)
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Tech Session
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Get digital in this computer session with e-commerce experts.
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_Scribblers Hut, £5 _
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**1.30 - 3.30pm: Dragons' Playground**
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Connecting Communities
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Five organisations shortlisted for the Green Dragons' Den will be telling
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their stories, practising their pitches and sharing ideas on how they'd use
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the £10,000 prize if they win in the Den. Today focuses on finding new and
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better ways to bring together the shared interests of local councils,
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businesses, communities and the third sector to build resilience and reduce
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impacts.
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_Summer House, Free - drop in _
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**2.30pm: Begat**
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With: David Crystal
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The Linguistics Prof plays with the extraordinary impact and influence of the
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King James Bible on the English language.
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_Oxfam Stage, £8 _
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**2.30pm: Cambridge Series 16: The Ape On Your Bird Table**
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With: Nicky Clayton
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Crows are as smart as apes. They manufacture tools, they are socially
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sophisticated, and they plan where to cache tomorrow's breakfast. These
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findings have led to a re-evaluation of avian cognition, and resulted in a
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theory that intelligence evolved independently in apes and crows.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
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**2.30pm: It's All About The Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels**
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With: Rob Penn
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This is the story of a journey to design and build a dream bike of perfect
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components - parts that set the standard in reliability, craftsmanship and
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beauty - and of how the bicycle has changed the course of human history.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**2.30pm: Rural Noir: Down these mean lanes**
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With: Phil Rickman, Belinda Bauer, Elly Griffiths, chaired by Paul Blezard
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Rickman's Merrily Watkins series is one of the great treasures of contemporary
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crime fiction set in the Border Country. Bauer's Exmoor thriller Blacklands
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won the CWA Gold Dagger. Griffiths' forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway goes
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down the mean lanes of Norfolk.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**2.30pm: Goodnight Mr Tom **(10+ years & families)
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With: Michelle Magorian, chaired by Julia Eccleshare
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Delve inside the covers of this touching and powerful classic as it reaches
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its 30th birthday.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £4_
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**2.30pm: Dinkin Dings **(7+ years)
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With: Guy Bass
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Dinkin is afraid of everything (and we mean everything, not just scary
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things). Join his infectiously enthusiastic creator and learn how to protect
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yourself from Zombaliens and whatnot.
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_Starlight Stage, £4_
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**2.30pm: Warduff And The Corncob Caper **(5-7 years)
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With: Mat Head
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There's mischief down on the farm and there's only one cat you can call. Come
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and help outwit the wiliest of foxes and hear all about the joys of napping
|
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and fish cakes.
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_The Hexagon, £3 _
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**2.30pm: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(10-14 years)
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Workshop
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Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious!
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_Mess Tent _
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**2.30pm: Nominet **(hf2 for teens)
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Tech Session
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Get digital in this computer session with e-commerce experts.
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_Scribblers Hut, £5 _
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**2.30pm: Family Story Bazaar 4 **(7+ years)
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Storytelling
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Three dynamic storytellers from three different countries present a joyous
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riot of stories. Featuring Cat, Kasper & Joshua.
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_The Moot, free - drop in _
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**3pm - 5pm: The Treasures of Hereford Cathedral**
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Library Staff lead a guided tour of the Chained Library, the redesigned Mappa
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Mundi exhibit, the new King James Bible exhibition and other treasures not
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normally on public display.
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_Hereford Cathedral, £20 _
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**3.45pm: A Conspiracy of Friends (editor's choice)**
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With: Alexander McCall Smith. Chaired by Anne Robinson.
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The prolific, witty and endlessly inventive author discusses his career and
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the third in his [**Corduroy Mansions**][13] series of novels.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7 _
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**3.45pm: The Royal Society Lecture 4: The Origin of Our Species**
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With: Chris Stringer
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The pre-eminent palaeontologist asks: can we define modern humans, and how can
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we recognise our beginnings in the fossil and archaeological record? What of
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language, art, diet, society? Has human evolution stopped?
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_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
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**3.45pm: CADW Lecture: Medieval Castles**
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With: John Goodall
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An ambitious and groundbreaking journey depicting the English castle and its
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architecture from the C11th to the C17th.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**3.45: Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War
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in Afghanistan (editor's choice)**
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With:** [Toby Harnden][14]. **
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The Telegraph's US editor has had unprecedented access to the battalion over
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the last 15 years, and in Helmand in 2009.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £7 _
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**3.45pm: Green Dragons' Den: The Final 4**
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Five participants, four dragons and three minutes to tell a story that will
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capture the Dragons' hearts, minds and cheque books, and win a chance of
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£10,000 for their project.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, Entry to this event is free but you must reserve a
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ticket._
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**3.45pm: Are Apps the Picture Books of the Future? **(Parents)
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With: Kate Wilson
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Join one of the leading lights of children's publishing to discover the latest
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picture book developments for your little ones.
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_Starlight Stage, £5 _
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**3.45pm: Silly Doggy! **(3-5 years)
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Join the illustrator of Bottoms Up! and see why little Lily's new dog is a dog
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with a difference. With jokes, songs and general merriment for all.
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_The Hexagon, £3 _
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**4pm: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(10-14 years)
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Workshop
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Join us in making freshly baked herby flowerpot bread.
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_Mess Tent _
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**4pm: THINK BIG **(hf2 for teens)
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Every day at 4pm UK Youth and O2 will be hosting conversations on issues that
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matter to you. The question is, how can you make a difference? Check out
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hayfestival.org/hf2 for the full bill and suggest ideas on the hf2 Facebook
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page.
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_Scribblers Hut _
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**4pm: Cat Weatherill: The Siren Wife **(14+ years)
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Storytelling
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Adultery, murder and luscious women... Full blooded folktales from Italy,
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compellingly told with passion and grace.
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_The Moot_
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**5.15pm: 43 Principles of Home (editor's choice)**
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With: Kevin McCloud.
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The design guru looks at the internal spaces of home and celebrates Enjoying
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Life in the 21st Century. Sponsored by American Hardwood Export Council.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £8 _
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**5.15pm: In Conversation**
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With: Eoin Colfer and Mark Billingham
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The old pro crime master, creator of the DI Thorne series, discusses the dark
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side with the ingenious creator of Artemis Fowl, who launches his first adult
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crime novel Plugged.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
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**5.15pm: The Man Who Cycled the World**
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With: Mark Beaumont, chaired by Rob Penn
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There are some tales to tell from the young Scot's adventure 18,000 miles
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around the world on two wheels in 194 days and 17 hours.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5_
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**5.15pm: Counter-Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan**
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With: James Cowan, chaired by Dylan Jones, editor of GQ
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The Brigadier commanded the Black Watch in Iraq and the multinational 11
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Brigade in Helmand. He is now Head of Counter-Terrorism in the Ministry of
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Defence.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £8 _
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**5.15pm: True Taste Chefs of Wales 4**
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With: Bryn Williams
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The chef patron of Odette's and author of Bryn's Kitchen discusses his cooking
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with QI gastronome John Mitchinson.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**5.15pm: There Is No Dog **(Teen event)
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With: Meg Rosoff, chaired by Gaby Wood
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What if the world was created by a teenage boy called Bob? Hay is thrilled to
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welcome Meg back as she gives us an exclusive preview of her future-classic
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before its August release.
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_Starlight Stage, £4_
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**5.15pm: Animating The Afterlife With The British Museum **(10-14 years)
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Workshop
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Join staff from the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre at the British Museum to
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create short films based around the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Become
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the star of your own film as you transform yourself into ancient Egyptian gods
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and creatures. Use Samsung HD video cameras and a green screen to record your
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masterpiece, then edit it and add special effects, before uploading to the web
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to share with family and friends.
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_The Hexagon _
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**5.15pm: Adult Story Bazaar 4**
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Storytelling
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A final chance to catch the unique story-spinning talents of Cat Weatherill
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(UK), Kasper Sorensen (Copenhagen) and Joshua Muraya (Nairobi).
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_The Moot _
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**6pm: Thomas Andrew Knight and the 1811 Pomona Herefordiensis**
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With: Murray Mylechreest
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A lecture about the life and work of this pioneer in plant breeding and
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physiology, forerunner to Darwin and Mendel, and second President of the Royal
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Horticultural Society.
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Cider Museum, Hereford, £5
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**6.30pm: Racing Through The Dark**
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With: David Millar talks to Jeremy Whittle
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The cyclist was a Tour de France stage-winner who got banned for doping. He is
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now a part-owner of the Garmin-Chipotle team and a key figure of the World
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Anti-doping Agency's athletes committee. He talks to his co-writer and author
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of Bad Blood.
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_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
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**6.30pm: Great Gardens of Italy (editor's choice)**
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With: Montagu Don and Derry Moore.
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To appreciate a garden fully you must know about the food grown in the area,
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of the politics, religion and weather. Sponsored by Baileys Home Store.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**6.30pm: Fictions: Crimes and Misdemeanours**
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With: Christopher Brookmyre, Philip Kerr and MR Hall, chaired by Marcel
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Berlins
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Brookmyre's latest Glaswegian crime satire is Where The Bodies Are Buried.
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Kerr's seventh Bernie Gunther thriller is set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp,
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Paris and Berlin of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Hall is the creator of the coroner
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Jenny Cooper and has written for Judge John Deed and Kavanagh QC.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**6.30pm: To The River: A Journey Beneath The Surface**
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With: Olivia Laing
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The Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941, from
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source to sea. Laing excavates all sorts of stories from the Ouse's marshy
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banks, from the brutal Barons' War of the C13th to the 'Dinosaur Hunters', the
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C19th amateur naturalists who first cracked the fossil code.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**6.30pm: Safety and Exploration in a Digital Age**
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With:_ _Luc Delany, Dan Sutch and John Dunford, chaired by Andrew Harvey
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What are the challenges and opportunities for the next generation using the
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internet? How do we ensure young people are safe, but encourage creative
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exploration and learning? We have detailed ways of addressing this in physical
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environments, but how should we deal with this when digital meets physical
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worlds? This lively panel debate will bring together a range of experts from
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Facebook, academia and the media to explore how to encourage responsible uses
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of the Internet that support creative exploration.
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_Starlight Stage _
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**6.30pm: Dancing with Darkness: Life, Death and Hope in Afghanistan**
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With: Magsie Hamilton Little, chaired by Andrew Davies
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An extraordinary personal journey of understanding, from the witnessing of 7/7
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in London to the heart of an Afghan community in Kabul.
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_The Moot _
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**7.30pm: 'Does classical music have to be entirely serious?'**
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With: Alfred Brendel
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An evening with the great maestro pianist: 'Can absolute music, without the
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assistance of words, movement, or the stage be funny? Some philosophers and
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even musicians have denied this. In this lecture I try to demonstrate that
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humour, wit and irony are indeed crucial elements of certain works of great
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music, particularly by Haydn and Beethoven, and that proof can be found in the
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compositions themselves.'
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_The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford (Gallery) _
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**8pm: Eliza Carthy Band**
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The multi-award-winning iconic folk star takes off in a new direction with her
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new album, with a harder string line, and driving drums and bass. The
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performance is visceral, emotional, exciting and full on.
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Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £10
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**8pm: The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe (editor's choice)**
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With: Peter Godwin, chaired by Richard E Grant.
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In 2008 after the election Mugabe lost, the journalist travelled widely
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through his home country to see the torture bases, the burned villages, the
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death squads.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
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**8pm: Anonymous - Screening**
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With: Roland Emmerich, chaired by Francine Stock
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The director discusses and previews clips from his forthcoming historical
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thriller, which stars Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave. John Orloff's script
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plays with the intrigues of the Elizabethan court and the age-old authorship
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debate surrounding the works of William Shakespeare.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**8pm: For Richer For Poorer: Confessions of a Player**
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With: Victoria Coren, chaired by Rosie Boycott
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Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, the writer finds an escape in
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the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million
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dollars and forgotten to have children.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £10 _
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**8pm: The Road From Ruin**
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With: Matthew Bishop & Michael Green
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The Economist writers propose their overhaul of financial regulation,
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government spending and business values in their manifesto for A New
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Capitalism for a Big Society.
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Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5
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**9.30pm: Madame Ida Preview Screening and Q&A**
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With: Lisa Forrell, chaired by Revel Guest
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The director previews her short movie about the last day in the life of Ida
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Rubinstein, the dazzling star of the Ballets Russes, and one of the 20th
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century's most extraordinary figures.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**9.30pm: Howard Marks talks to Jon Gower**
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Mr Nice talks nasty with the launch of his Cardiff-set crime novel Sympathy
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for the Devil.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £6_
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**10pm: Cerys Matthews in concert**
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Ten years after the former Catatonia superstar serenaded Bill Clinton at Hay,
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she returns to the festival with music from her beautiful albums Tir (land)
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and Dwr (water).
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Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £15
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**10pm: Mitch Benn**
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Hilarious solo performance from the_ Now Show_ star and best muscical comedian
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in Britain, loved forever for his magical _Im proud of the BBC_ song.
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_Oxfam stage, £8 _
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