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# Hay Festival 2011 programme: Thursday, June 2
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## Hay Festival 2011 listings in full for forums taking place on Thursday,
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June 2.
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![2011 Hay Festival: literature festival, schedule for june 2 2011][1]
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7:20AM 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 - 1pm: Farm Visit**
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Trevithel Court 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. Walk through David and Catherine James's
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orchards, see how the trees are managed and sample the cider. Look inside the
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beehives, and learn how honey is made. An extensive range of farm machinery
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will be laid out for inspection.
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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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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £5 _
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**9.30am - 4.30pm: CADW: The Three Castles Tour**
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With: Jeremy Knight
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The three castles of Grosmont, Skenfrith and White are a fascinating trio of
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historic sites. Join the author of CADW's official guidebook to these border
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castles, for a memorable day out_. _
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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £12 _
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**9.30am - 2pm: River Walk 2**
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With: Stephen Marsh Smith
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Join the Wye & Usk Foundation trip around the Wye and its tributaries near Hay
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to see the rare and unusual creatures that live in the river, and to see what
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progress is being made to restore the run of salmon.
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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £9 _
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**10am_: _Bomber County (editor's choice) **
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With: Daniel Swift.
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In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with 83 Squadron of the Royal
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Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Munster and
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disappeared. Searching for his grandfather, the author examines the
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relationship between the bombing campaigns of the Second World War and poetry.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
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**10am: Fictions: Hearts of Darkness**
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With: Edward Docx and Rahul Bhattacharya, chaired by Anita Sethi
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Docx's scientist finds extremes of love and horror deep in the South American
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jungle in his novel The Devil's Garden. In Bhattacharya's The Sly Company of
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People Who Care an Indian journalist ventures into the dark rainforest
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interior of Guyana.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**10am: Is Small Still Beautiful?**
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With: Andrew Simms, Caroline Lucas and Charlie McConnell, chaired by Andy
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Fryers
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On the 100th anniversary of the birth of EF Schumacher, author of the landmark
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book Small Is Beautiful, Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the Green Party, is
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joined by Andrew Simms, author and Fellow of nef (the new economics
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foundation) and Charlie McConnell, director of Schumacher College, to ask if
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the message of the book is more relevant today than ever. With a personal
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message from Schumacher's former colleague George McRobie.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**10am: Peter Rabbit Puppet Show **(3-5 years)
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Hop along to this charming storytelling show where The Tale of Peter Rabbit is
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brought to life. Help Peter escape from Mr McGregor's garden and send him on
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his journey.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £3_
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**10am: S.W.I.T.C.H. **(7+ years)
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With: Ali Sparkes
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Boy or insect? Josh and Danny are in big bug trouble! Come and hear how to
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write creep crawly adventures and why you might want to think twice before
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squishing ants in the future.
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_Starlight Stage, £4 _
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**10am: Flat Stanley **(5-7 years)
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One day Stanley wakes up as flat as a pancake, but why worry? He can fly like
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a kite! Join us to hear his story and make your very own Flat Stanley to pop
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in the post.
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_The Hexagon _
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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 - 5pm: Milling Around Talgarth**
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A linear 8-mile walk across the tops of the Black Mountains to visit a
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restored flour mill and water wheel in the heart of Talgarth.
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_Meet at Box Office, £4 _
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**10am - 2.30pm: The King James Bible and Other Treasures**
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A trip to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth to see their first
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edition King James Authorised Version Bible and a wealth of other unique
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highlights of the collection in this exclusive guided tour hosted by senior
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curators.
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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £18 _
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**11.30am: The Country House Revealed (editor's choice) **
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With: Dan Cruickshank. Chaired by Paul Blezard.
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The scholar and broadcaster examines the nation's most spectacular piles in A
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Secret History of the British Ancestral Home. Sponsored by
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[Haybookcases.com.][11]
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7 _
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**11.30am: Cardiff Series 3: Climate Change and the Media**
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With: Justin Lewis, chaired by Rosie Boycott
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How have the media informed - or failed to inform - our understanding of
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climate change? Ranging from news coverage of the environment to the role of
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advertising in shaping a consumer culture.
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_Oxfam Stage, £5 _
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**11.30am: Mathematics, Magic and the Electric Guitar**
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With: David Acheson
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Why are so many people scared of maths? It's full of wonderful surprises that
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anyone can enjoy, from mind-reading tricks with the number 1089 to helping to
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play the electric guitar.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**11.30am: Just My Type: A Book About Fonts**
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With: Simon Garfield
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About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama
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opted for Gotham. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to
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Zapf, and about Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are
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used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £6 _
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**11.30am: Winnie the Witch **(5-7 years)
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With: Korky Paul
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Have fun with The World's Greatest Portrait Painter and Dinosaur Drawer! Join
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Korky for an energy-filled event of quick sketching and story-book adventure.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £4_
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**11.30am: Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy **(9+ years)
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With: Andy Briggs
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With the blessing of the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, comes a Tarzan for the
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21st century. The author of Villain.net talks warring guerrillas, poaching,
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illegal logging and the environment, before putting your survival knowledge to
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the test.
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_Starlight Stage, £4 _
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**11.30am: Write Your Own Storybook With Graham Marks **(9+ years)
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Workshop
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Writing tips, techniques and methods to make every story a masterpiece;
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including writing from different points of view and creating characters,
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settings and storylines.
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_The Hexagon _
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**11.30am: Easy Peasy Cookery School**
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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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**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_
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**1pm: Cambridge Series 14: Dressing Up - Cultural identity in Renaissance
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Europe**
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With: Ulinka Rublack
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The historian will show why clothes made history and history can be about
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clothes. Her research imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people's
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appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what images they
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created, and how all this made people feel about themselves.
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_Oxfam Stage, £5 _
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**1pm: Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the
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Meteorite**
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With: Ted Nield
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470 million years ago, a stupendous collision in the Asteroid Belt bombarded
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the Earth with meteorites of all sizes. A revolutionary idea is emerging that
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the resulting ecological disturbance may have been responsible for the single
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greatest increase in biological diversity since the origin of complex life.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
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**1pm: A New History of Western Philosophy**
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With: Anthony Kenny
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Reflecting on the history of philosophy from Thales to Derrida, the
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philosopher considers the enduring influence, for good or ill, that Aristotle
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exercised not only on philosophy but also on science.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £6 _
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**1pm: The Brittle Sea, Hafan Cymru**
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With: Paul Henry & Patrick Jones, chaired by Benna Waites
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The poet reads and discusses his New and Selected Poems. The individual human
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voice, the ragged vagaries of the heart and soul, the joys and sorrows of
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family life feature here but this poetry is personal without being
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confessional, preferring tender observation to sensationalism or didacticism.
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Jones reads writing arising from his work with victims of domestic abuse.
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_The Moot, £4 _
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**1pm: Swansongs 3**
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With: Elias String Quartet and Xuefei Yang
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In the third of four lunchtime concerts, the BBC R3 New Generation artists are
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joined by the Chinese guitarist to play Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F
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Minor, opus 80, solo guitar works by Bach and Poulenc, and the fireworks of
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Boccherini's 'Fandango' Guitar Quintet.
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_St Mary's Church, £6_
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**1pm: Time Riders: Doomsday Code **(10+ years)
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With: Alex Scarrow
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Join Alex for some serious time travel adventure, as he introduces the third
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book in his thrilling series. Take part in the interactive game show and
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challenge your history knowledge.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £4 _
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**1pm: Ladybird Live **(0-3 years)
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Stories, songs and rhymes galore for tinies from a professional storyteller.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, free but ticketed_
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**1pm: Penny Dreadful **(7+ years)
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With: Joanna Nadin
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Penny is a magnet for disaster. Take cover as her creator shares tales of
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mischief-making, mayhem and…hairdressing?!
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_Starlight Stage, £4 _
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**1pm: Make a Zombie Thriller **(Families)
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Workshop
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Bring your best crawls, falls and zombie arms and come play dead with the
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BFI's Joanna van der Meer. The living dead have been a horrifying feature of
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cinema since 1930s - watch snatches of some archive classics before grabbing a
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camera and creating your own.
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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 - 3pm: Home and Hearth**
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With: Dragons' Playground
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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 scaling up the good
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practices that save money and energy while reducing impact on the environment.
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_Summer House, Free - drop in _
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**2.30pm: On Being**
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With: Peter Atkins
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While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, and with his usual
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economy, wit and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, the Professor
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of Chemistry presents A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of
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Existence.
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_Oxfam Stage, £5 _
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**2.30pm: Volunteering and The Big Society**
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With: Martin Harper, Stuart Etherington, Justin Davis Smith, Jesse Norman
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What can you do? How can you make a difference? How will the Government's
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plans for a Big Society work? Chaired by Andy Fryers.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £4 _
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**2.30pm: Tate Lecture 2: Watercolours (editor's choice) **
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With: Alison Smith. Chaired by Hannah Rothschild.
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The curator of Tate Britain's blockbuster Watercolours exhibition explores the
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medium with illustrations from 12th century illuminated manuscripts to the
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work of Anish Kapoor and Tracey Emin.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
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**2.30pm: The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food**
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With: Lizzie Collingham
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Tracing the interaction between food and strategy, on both the military and
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home fronts, this wide-ranging, gripping and dazzlingly original account
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demonstrates how the issue of access to food was a driving force both within
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Nazi policy and for the Allies.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**2.30pm: Where's Spot? **(3-5 years)
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Spot the playful puppy is coming to Hay for a game of hide and seek, with
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plenty of storytelling and songs along the way.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £3_
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**2.30pm: Daisy **(5-7 years)
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With: Ellie Sandall
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Listen to the wonderful creator of Birdsong as she reads and illustrates from
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her beautiful new book Daisy Plays Hide-and-Seek. Then camouflage your very
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own cow. Bring a pad and pencil!
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_Starlight Stage, £4 _
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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_
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**2.30pm: Family Story Bazaar 3 **(7+ years)
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Storytelling
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Cat & Kasper, two of Europe's most playful storytellers, working together.
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Awesome!
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_The Moot_
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**4pm: The British Council Poetry Lecture: Nothing Is Until It Has A Word**
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With: Gillian Clarke
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The National Poet of Wales reflects on her Laureateship, and the place of
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poetry in the life of the nation.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £5 _
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**4pm: The Spanish Gold**
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With: David Cordingly
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The true story of the C18th Governor of the Bahamas and his mission to clean
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up the high seas - Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
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**4pm: Sudden Genius? Mozart and Marie Curie**
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With: Andrew Robinson
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Insight into two of the ten arts and sciences lives featured in his revelatory
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study of The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. Robinson is also the
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author of the Genius book in the Very Short Introductions series.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**4pm: Home and Hearth**
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With: Green Dragons' Den: The Final 3
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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 _
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**4pm: Mr Gum **(7+ years)
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With: Andy Stanton
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Join Polly and Friday on another crazy adventure on the streets of Lamonic
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Bibber.
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_Oxfam Stage, £4_
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**4pm: Stunt Bunny** (5-7 years)
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With: Tamsyn Murray
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we're delighted to introduce Harriet Houdini aka Stunt
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Bunny to Hay! Well, perhaps not in rabbit, but her wonderful creator will talk
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tricks and flips, with opera-singing poodles and giggling guinea pigs along
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the way.
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_Starlight Stage, £4_
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**4pm: Monster Mischief! **(5-7 years)
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With: Guy Bass
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Let's go monstering! Join monster expert Guy Bass to explore the weird and
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wonderful world of Gormy Ruckles.
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_Summer House, £4 _
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**4pm: 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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**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: Kasper Sorensen: The Great Fire of Copenhagen **(16+ years)
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Storytelling
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Denmark's finest storyteller presents a glorious love story set during the
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British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.
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_The Moot _
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**5.20pm: The Forgotten Tradition: The Psalms and English Poetry (editor's
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choice) **
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With: Germaine Greer.
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Some of the greatest treasures of the English language were written for the
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Coverdale Bible, the Bible Shakespeare read, and the Geneva Bible that was
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suppressed by order of James I. In Association with The British Council.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £9 _
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**5.20: Born Wild (editor's choice) **
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With Tony Fitzjohn. Chaired by Ben Fogle.
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A story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African
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conservation in Kenya and Tanzania.
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_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
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**5.20pm: Cambridge Series 15: Molotov's Magic Lantern**
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With: Rachel Polonsky
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A luminous, original and unforgettable exploration of a country and its
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literature, viewed through the eyes of Vyacheslav Molotov, one of Stalin's
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fiercest henchmen.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
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**5.20pm: True Taste Chefs of Wales 3**
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With: James Sommerin and Mark Skipworth
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The celebrated chef from the Michelin-starred Crown at Whitebrook talks to the
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Saturday Editor of The Telegraph.
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
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**5.20pm: Comedy 4 Kids **(7+ years & families)
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With: James Campbell
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Back with a brand new show, James will cover ways to make parsnips
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interesting, how to look a chicken in both eyes at the same time and why owls
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don't like Easter. And just so you know, it may also involve three dancing
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oatcakes called Celia, Amelia and Deal-or-no-Delia. Warning: Side effects may
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include your sides hurting!
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £7 _
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**5.20pm: Eat My Shorts - Animation Imagination! **(5+ years & families)
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A look at the beauty, humour, quirkiness and sheer versatility of this
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wonderful medium - films that will make you laugh and cry...but mostly laugh!
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Introduced by the BFI's Joanna van der Meer.
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_Starlight Stage, £3 _
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**5.30pm: Beat Matching and Scratching **(For teens)
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For superstar DJs in the making. Learn the basics of mixing house, dubstep,
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drum 'n' bass beats and other DJ trickery.
|
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_Scribblers Hut_
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**6.45pm: Island Race**
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With: Philip Wilcocks, Tom MacSweeney, John Gould, Julian Lewis and Bil Loth
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Maritime experts and Navy top brass discuss the most urgent issues around the
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threat to the marine environment of deepwater drilling, the fisheries crisis,
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trade safety and piracy.
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_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7_
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**6.45pm: Family Values**
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With: Wendy Cope
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From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion,
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from childhood and love to ageing, the poet covers a wide range of experience
|
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in her new collection.
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_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
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**6.45pm: The Psychopath Test**
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With: Jon Ronson, chaired by Sarfraz Manzoor
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From the cells of Broadmoor to the corridors of power and the world's top
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boardrooms, the investigative humorist looks at where true madness lies, and
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what passes for 'normal'.
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_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
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**6.45pm: What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? (editor's choice) **
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With: Mavis Nicholson. Chaired by[** Sarah Crompton**][12].
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The broadcaster has interviewed women from lumber-jills and landgirls to
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undercover spies and entertainers about the new freedoms, the make-do and
|
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mend, the hopes and the fears, as well as the post-war adjustments they had to
|
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make.
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_Sky Arts Studio, £6 _
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**6.45pm: Ten Pound Poms, Fish Caught in the Wind and Everything I Found on
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the Beach**
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With: Niall Griffiths, Cynan Jones and Christien Gholson, chaired by Susie
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Wild
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Griffiths emigrated to Australia as a seven year old. Thirty years later he
|
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revisits and remembers why he left in the first place. Jones's second novel
|
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Everything I Found on the Beach returns to the west Wales coast in the shape
|
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of a taut sharp thriller. Wandering American poet Gholson's novel is about a
|
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shoal of fish and the dance troupe who once got naked at the Vatican.
|
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|
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_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
|
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**6.45pm: Who Needs Our Aid Most? **(hf2 for teens)
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With: The Concern Universal Youth Debate
|
||
|
||
In the light of the DFID reassessment of budget priorities, how should we
|
||
target our overseas aid? India and China where there is most poverty, or
|
||
Somalia and Libya?
|
||
|
||
_Starlight Stage, free but ticketed _
|
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|
||
**6.45pm: Make a Zombie Thriller**
|
||
|
||
Workshop
|
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|
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Bring your best crawls, falls and zombie arms and come play dead with the
|
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BFI's Joanna van der Meer. The living dead have been a horrifying feature of
|
||
cinema since 1930s - watch snatches of some archive classics before grabbing a
|
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camera and creating your own.
|
||
|
||
_The Hexagon _
|
||
|
||
**6.45pm: Beat Matching and Scratching **(For teens)
|
||
|
||
For superstar DJs in the making. Learn the basics of mixing house, dubstep,
|
||
drum 'n' bass beats and other DJ trickery.
|
||
|
||
_Scribblers Hut _
|
||
|
||
**7pm - 9pm: National Trust Brilley Walk**
|
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|
||
A short guided walk through an old Welsh Border farm. Learn about our SSSI
|
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woodland, how we plan to manage it to return it back to coppice and how we
|
||
will improve the habitat to benefit the priority bird species and dormice
|
||
present in the woodland.
|
||
|
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_Meet at Box Office for bus, £6 _
|
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||
**7pm: Priory Ruins, Church and The Bull's Head, Craswall**
|
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With: Rev Ian Charlesworth and Richard Stockton
|
||
|
||
Craswall Priory (ruined) and Parish Church lure the Parson and the Publican to
|
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their wonderful setting, nestling in the bosom of a hidden valley in the Black
|
||
Mountains. A convivial supper in the Bull's Head to follow.
|
||
|
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Meet at Box Office, £5
|
||
|
||
**7pm: Adult Story Bazaar 3**
|
||
|
||
Storytelling
|
||
|
||
Roguish masculine energy from Kasper Sorensen, seductive feminine charm from
|
||
Cat Weatherill and infectious warmth from Joshua Muraya.
|
||
|
||
_The Moot, free - drop in _
|
||
|
||
**8pm: Memoirs of a Fruitcake (editor's choice) **
|
||
|
||
With: Chris Evans. Chaired by Anne Robinson.
|
||
|
||
Top chat about the broadcaster's new volume of memoirs.
|
||
|
||
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £10 _
|
||
|
||
**8pm: Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter (editor's choice) **
|
||
|
||
With: Stephen Anderton.
|
||
|
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The gloriously eccentric and opinionated 'Christo' was probably the greatest
|
||
C20th English plantsman, and his East Sussex garden is a national treasure.
|
||
|
||
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
|
||
|
||
**8pm: i-D Covers 1980-2010**
|
||
|
||
With: Tricia Jones, Terry Jones, Caryn Franklin and Dylan Jones
|
||
|
||
The founders of the iconic style and design magazine talk about its 30-year
|
||
history.
|
||
|
||
_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
|
||
|
||
**8pm: Great Food**
|
||
|
||
With: Penelope Vogler, chaired by John Mitchinson
|
||
|
||
Penguin's Great Food series brings together the sharpest, funniest, most
|
||
delicious food writing from the past four hundred years. The editor discusses
|
||
cooking from old recipes and invites the audience to try some tastes from the
|
||
past.
|
||
|
||
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £6 _
|
||
|
||
**9.30pm: Dara O' Briain**
|
||
|
||
The Irish storyteller and improvising genius returns to Hay with his live
|
||
stand-up show
|
||
|
||
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £22 _
|
||
|
||
**9.30pm: Monarchy**
|
||
|
||
Soaring synths and euphoric basslines from two of the foremost disco
|
||
house/electro pop musicians around.
|
||
|
||
_Oxfam Stage, £7 _
|
||
|
||
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