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# Hay Festival 2011 programme: Wednesday, June 1
## Hay Festival 2011 listings in full for forums taking place on Wednesday,
June 1.
![Hay Festival 2011: schedule for Wednesday, June 1, 2011.][1]
Photo: Rex Features
7:25AM BST 09 Apr 2011
[Comments][2]
**[Reserve your place online][3] or book via the box office on 01497 822 629
for the Telegraph [Hay Festival][4]**
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**9am - 1pm: Farm Visit**
Hill Farm
Join local agronomist Jonathon Harrington and vet Barney Sampson as they
explore farms in the local area. Richard and Penny Chantler's farm sits high
on the side of the Black Mountains and produces New Zealand Romneys. See a
demonstration of sheep dogs at work and sheep shearing, and handle newly-born
lambs. Lamb rolls made from farm produce will be served at the end of a short
farm walk.
_Meet at Box Office for bus, £5_
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**9.30am - 1.30pm: A Tour of Glanusk Estate**
With: Brooke Boothby and Harry Legge-Bourke
A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at the beautiful ancestral home of
the Legge-Bourke family. A Historic Houses Association event.
_Meet at Box Office for bus, £22_
**9.30am - 3pm: National Trust Pen y Fan Walk**
With: Rob Reith
A strenuous 5-mile walk led by the National Trust access warden, to the top of
the highest point in southern Britain. Good boots, wet weather gear and warm
clothing essential.
_Meet at Box Office for bus, £15 _
**9.30am - 4.30pm: CADW: Llanthony Priory Walk**
With: Gwilym Hughes
CADW's Chief Inspector will lead this energetic guided hike from the Festival
site to historic Llanthony Priory. Walking boots essential.
_Meet at Box Office, £8_
**10am: Je t'aime a la Folie (editor's choice) **
With: Michael Wright.
The bucolic French provincial life is twisted with an improbable transatlantic
love affair.
_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
**10am: Cambridge Series 12: Past, Present and Infinite Future?**
With: Gerry Gilmore
Was there anything before the beginning? Why does science claim to know the
apparently unknowable? Where do I come from? What do we know about the
infinite future?
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5_
**10am: Scapegoat - Why We Are Failing Disabled People**
With: Katherine Quarmby
The campaigning journalist traces the history of disability and our discomfort
with disabled people, from Greek and Roman culture through the Industrial
Revolution and the origins of Britain's asylum system to the eugenics movement
and the Holocaust, 'Ugly Laws' and 'Community Care'.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £4 _
**10am: The Absolutist**
With: John Boyne, chaired by Paul Blezard
The new novel examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two
young privates, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the
confusion of their friendship.
_The Moot, £4 _
**10am: EUREKA! **(9+ years)
With: StoryBoard & Young Film Academy
Have you ever had an idea for a brilliant movie? This is your chance to have
that dream come true at a cinema near you. Help us launch a pioneering project
at Hay: a major motion picture, made for kids, by kids. The story starts here,
so bring your imagination. This is brainstorming for the big screen...
_Sky Arts Studio, £4_
**10am: Laura Marlin Mysteries **(9+ years)
With: Lauren St John
Messages in bottles, forbidden caves; adventure is never far away when Laura
moves to Cornwall in this new Blue Peter award winning series from the beloved
creator of White Giraffe.
_Starlight Stage, £4 _
**10am: Get Writing With Jill Hucklesby **(12+ years)
Workshop
Join author Jill Hucklesby to discover how to unravel stories gradually to
readers and why drama is so crucial.
_The Hexagon _
**10am: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(5-9 years. Children must be accompanied.)
Workshop
Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious!
_Mess Tent_
**11.30am: Sportswriters**
With: James Cracknell and Brian Moore, chaired by Mark Skipworth
The Telegraph's world champions and sportswriters talk shop - rowing, rugby
and Olympic ideals - with the Saturday Editor.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £6 _
**11.30am: Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey**
With: Rachel Hewitt
'An endlessly absorbing, lively and informative narrative that highlights the
Ordnance project's legion of draughtsmen, surveyors, dreamers and eccentrics'
- The Observer.
_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
**11.30am: The End of Discovery**
With: Russell Stannard
The Open University's Emeritus Professor of Physics explores the scientific
frontiers and the limitations of the human brain. He asks whether we are
approaching the boundaries of the knowable.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
**11.30am: When Bunnies Turn Bad **(7+ years)
With: Philip Ardagh
Ardagh shows just what it is that would make any sane-minded person avoid
visiting Grubtown for business or pleasure at all costs, and exactly why we
love it so.
_Sky Arts Studio, £4_
**11.30am: Hell's Bells **(10+ years)
With: John Connolly
A strange novel for strange young people. Is that you? Connolly invites us in
to witness the coming of a sequel to the demonically dark The Gates.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £4_
**11.30am: Wolf Won't Bite! **(5-7 years)
With: Emily Gravett
A whistle-stop tour of the two-time Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator's
favourite creations; from her adventurous meerkat to her three new cheeky
little circus pigs.
_Starlight Stage, £4_
**11.30am: How Many Sleeps? **(3-5 years)
With: Layn Marlow
We all know birthdays can never come quickly enough! And Toast, a little field
mouse, is no exception. Join the illustrator behind Puddle's Big Step for
Toast's story and lots more.
_The Hexagon, £3 _
**11.30am: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(5-9 years. Children must be
accompanied.)
Workshop
Join us in making freshly baked herby flowerpot bread.
_Mess Tent_
**11.30am - 12.30pm: CADW: Get To Know Hay 1**
With: Judith Alfrey
Join CADW's Head of Regeneration and Conservation as she explores the unique
architectural character of Hay-on-Wye.
_Meet at the Clock Tower in Hay, Free but ticketed_
**11.30am: How to Manage Your Parents - and Others! **(hf2 for teens)
With: Karen Doherty
Karen reveals simple strategies to help you get along better with the adults
in your life and improve communication lines.
_Scribblers Hut, £5_
**1pm: Business No Longer As Usual (editor's choice) **
With: Stuart Rose, Peter Marks. Chaired by [**Kamal Ahmed, the Business Editor
of The Sunday Telegraph**][11]**.**
Can big business be truly sustainable? Join the architect of M&S, Plan A and
Co-op's CEO. Sponsored by Grant Thornton
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £6 _
_ _
**1pm: Life in a Cottage Garden (editor's choice) **
With: Carol Klein.
A year in the Gardener's World presenter's garden at Glebe Gottage. Sponsored
by Wyevale Nurseries.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
**1pm: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense**
With: Michael Brooks
From the celestial irregularities that led Copernicus to realise that the
Earth goes around the sun to the placebo effect: The Most Intriguing
Scientific Mysteries of Our Time.
_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
**1pm: If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home (editor's choice)
**
With: Lucy Worsley.
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel
Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep
sitting up?
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
**1pm: Swansongs 2**
With: Leonard Elschenbroich
In the second of four lunchtime concerts, the brilliant young virtuoso
performs sensuous late sonatas for cello and piano by Debussy and Beethoven.
_St Mary's Church, £6 _
**1pm: The Western Mysteries **(9+ years)
With: Caroline Lawrence
Yee-hah! Saddle up as the creator of The Roman Mysteries reveals her brand new
series at Hay. Some rootin' tootin' prizes for the best-dressed cowboys and
cowgirls.
_Oxfam Stage, £4_
**1pm: Animal Magic! **(3-5 years)
With: David Bedford
Join us as we hear all about George the zebra, Morris the mole and his mole
babies. Don't forget your dancing shoes!
_Starlight Stage, £3 _
**1pm: Get Writing With Jill Hucklesby **(12+ years)
Workshop
Join author Jill Hucklesby to discover how to unravel stories gradually to
readers and why drama is so crucial.
_The Hexagon_
**1pm: How to Improve Your Relationships with Your Siblings **(hf2 open to
all)
With: Karen Doherty
Whether you're struggling with small, petty irritations or deep-seated rifts
and resentments, Agony Aunt Karen offers up solutions in this session.
_Scribblers Hut, £5 _
**1pm: Family Story Bazaar 2 **(7+ years)
Storytelling
Storytelling mischief and magic from Kasper Sorensen (Denmark) and Joshua
Muraya (Kenya). Boys will be boys!
_The Moot, free - drop in_
**1.30pm: Field to Fork**
With: Dragons' Playground
Five organisations shortlisted for the Green Dragons' Den will be telling
their stories, practising their pitches and sharing ideas on how they'd use
the £10,000 prize if they win in the Den. Today focuses on improving the way
we grow, transport, process and use the food we eat.
_Summer House, free - drop in _
**2.30pm: Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence (editor's
choice) **
With: Ian Stewart. Chaired by Jesse Norman.
How mathematicians and biologists are working together on the genome.
_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
**2.30pm: Fixing Britain: The Business of Reshaping Our Nation**
With: Digby Jones, chaired by Andrew Simms
The former Trade Minister and CBI Director General, now firmly and widely back
in the private sector while remaining an active crossbencher in the Lords,
prescribes a future for industry and politics. He is joined by author and nef
Fellow Andrew Simms.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
**2.30pm: Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge**
With: John Gimlette, chaired by Anita Sethi
The Guianas have always defied human kind. Despite 400 years of colonial
effort, they remain some of the wildest, weirdest and most beautiful lands on
the continent.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
**2.30pm: My Henry **(7+ years & family)
With: Judith Kerr
Judith's creations sit at the heart of every good bookshelf. Gather round as
she introduces her charming new picture book and looks back on Mog, The Tiger
Who Came To Tea and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
_Sky Arts Studio, £4_
**2.30pm: Spies, Lies and Bad Guys **(9+ years)
With: Ali Sparkes & Graham Marks
Two top writers take a closer look at edge-of-your-seat drama. Frozen in Time
and Mean Streets: The Chicago Caper are bursting with conspiracy and danger,
but how do they come up with all their ideas?
_Starlight Stage, £4_
**2.30pm: How Many Sleeps? **(3-5 years)
With: Layn Marlow
We all know birthdays can never come quickly enough! And Toast, a little field
mouse, is no exception. Join the illustrator behind Puddle's Big Step for
Toast's story and lots more.
_The Hexagon _
**2.30pm: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(10-14 years)
Workshop
Join us in making mouth-watering Strawberry Shortcake with Cream, delicious!
_Mess Tent_
**2.30 - 3.30pm: CADW: Get To Know Hay 2**
With: Judith Alfrey
Join CADW's Head of Regeneration and Conservation as she explores the unique
architectural character of Hay-on-Wye.
_Meet at the Clock Tower in Hay, free but ticketed _
**4pm: The Great Outsider (editor's choice) **
With: Roy Hattersley.
A portrait of David Lloyd George and a study in charisma, coalition and
flouting of conventions. Sponsored by Grant Thornton.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £6 _
**4pm: Cambridge Series 13: Quantum Theory (editor's choice) **
With: John Polkinghorne.
The mathematician, theoretical physicist and priest explains the subatomic
world. In association with Cambridge University.
_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
**4pm: The Omnipotent Magician**
With: Jane Brown, chaired by Hannah Rothschild
A landscape of the great garden and nature designer Lancelot 'Capability'
Brown.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
**4pm: Field to Fork**
Green Dragons' Den: The Final 2
Five participants, four dragons and three minutes to tell a story that will
capture the Dragons' hearts, minds and cheque books, and win a chance of
£10,000 for their project.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre _
**4pm: Where's Spot? **(3-5 years)
Spot the playful puppy is coming to Hay for a game of hide and seek, with
plenty of storytelling and songs along the way.
_Sky Arts Studio, £3_
**4pm: Ghosts, Gossip & Glee **(10+ years)
With: Joanna Nadin & Tamsyn Murray
Join the lovely authors of Buttercup Mash and My So-Called Phantom Lovelife
for a chat about their new characters Buttercup Jones and Skye Thackery.
_Starlight Stage, £4 _
**4pm: Flat Stanley **(5-7 years)
One day Stanley wakes up as flat as a pancake, but why worry? He can fly like
a kite! Join us to hear his story and make your very own Flat Stanley to pop
in the post.
_The Hexagon, £3 _
**4pm: Easy Peasy Cookery School **(10-14 years)
Workshop
Join us in making freshly baked herby flowerpot bread.
_Mess Tent, £10 _
**4pm: THINK BIG **(hf2 for teens)
Every day at 4pm UK Youth and O2 will be hosting conversations on issues that
matter to you. The question is, how can you make a difference? Check out
hayfestival.org/hf2 for the full bill and suggest ideas on the hf2 Facebook
page.
_Scribblers Hut _
**4pm: Cat Weatherill: The Woman Who Married The Moon **(16+ years)
Storytelling
Polyamory and toy boy lovers, elegantly explored by the inimitable Cat
Weatherill.
_The Moot, free - drop in_
**5.30pm: You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old**
With: Lewis Wolpert, chaired by Rosie Boycott
Why must we age? And how should we cope with our physical decline?
_Oxfam Stage, £6_
**5:30pm: Neutrino**
With: Frank Close
What are these most enigmatic particles in the universe? And how may they have
shaped the balance between matter and anti-matter?
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
**5.30pm: The Housman Lecture: The Name and Nature of Poetry**
With: Ruth Padel
The 2011 lecture is given by the poet and writer whose recent books have been
Darwin - A Life in Poems and On Tigers in Red Weather.
_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
**5.30pm: True Taste Chefs of Wales 2**
With: Simon Wright, chaired by Carolyn Hitt
The True Taste 2010-11 Champion from the Carmarthenshire restaurant Y Polyn
was formerly the editor of the AA restaurant guide.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
**5.30pm: The China Project**
With: Caroline Hands
The Herefordshire painter reflects on her life and work in China over the last
seven years, and what she's learned in the rich exchange of 'ways of seeing'.
_The Moot, £4 _
**5.30pm: Eat My Shorts - Happy Days! **(5+ years & families)
Memories are made of this. From films featuring the iconic Saturday matinee to
information shorts telling us how to sneeze properly - a look at how things
used to be. Introduced by the BFI's Joanna van der Meer.
_Starlight Stage, £3_
**5.30pm: Animating The Afterlife With The British Museum **(10-14 years)
Workshop
Join staff from the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre at the British Museum to
create short films based around the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Become
the star of your own film as you transform yourself into ancient Egyptian gods
and creatures. Use Samsung HD video cameras and a green screen to record your
masterpiece, then edit it and add special effects, before uploading to the web
to share with family and friends.
_The Hexagon_
**6.45pm: Mummy's Boy**
With: Larry Lamb and George Lamb
The cult actor (Gavin & Stacey, East Enders) talks to his DJ son.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £6 _
**6.45pm: Ox-Travels 3 **
With: John Gimlette, Ruth Padel, Tom Bullough, chaired by Peter Florence
More meetings with remarkable travellers from the new Oxfam anthology.
_Oxfam Stage, £6 _
**6.45pm: The Curious Gardener (editor's choice) **
With: Anna Pavord.
Reflections on the weather, soil and the English landscape and a guide to the
gardening year, by the best-selling author of The Tulip.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £6 _
**6.45pm: Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain**
With: Leo McKinstry, chaired by Paul Blezard
A hymn to the fighter plane that made up over half Fighter Command's flight in
the Battle of Britain and its revolutionary design.
_Sky Arts Studio, £6 _
**6.45pm: Nef Debate 3: What if a 21-Hour Working Week Became the Norm?**
With: Anna Coote, Neal Lawson and Mark Boyle, chaired by Andrew Simms
Is it time to rethink the working week? We're surrounded by overwork and
unemployment, overconsumption and too little time to do things for ourselves
that increase our wellbeing.
_Elmley Foundation Theatre, £5 _
**6.45: How to Manage Big Family Issues of the 21st Century (editor's choice)
**
With Oliver James,** [Cassandra Jardine][12], [Judith Woods][13]** and
Victoria Woodhall. Chaired by Susanna Reid.
Influential family journalists and authors, including the Telegraph's
Cassandra Jardine and Judith Woods, address some of the most pressing issues
facing parents today. In association with UK Youth
_Starlight Stage, free but ticketed _
**7pm: Adult Story Bazaar 2**
Storytelling
Three dynamic storytellers from three different countries work wonders with
words. Featuring Joshua Muraya, Cat Weatherill and Kasper Sorensen.
_The Moot _
**8pm: Going, Going - Best of British (editor's choice) **
With: Germaine Greer, Philippe Sands, John Mitchinson.
In three short counterblasts, festival guests champion three national
treasures that are endangered by our lack of care. Greer talks about English
bluebells; Sands talks about the sheikh up of football club ownership;
Mitchinson mourns the quite interesting loss of lunch -- a potential disaster
for work and play. All proceeds support free tickets for schools. Sponsored by
Merchant and Mills.
_Barclays Wealth Pavilion, £7 _
**8pm: Discovered in Time**
With: Mark Redknap
The Keeper of Archaeology at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales
examines the relationship between casual or amateur archaeologists and the
role of museums and curators in shaping the national 'story'.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £5 _
**8pm: Talking to Terrorists**
With: Gutto Harri, chaired by Peter Taylor
Forty years of investigative reporting from Bloody Sunday to Guantanamo Bay in
A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda.
_Sky Arts Studio, £5 _
**8pm: The Ego Trick**
With: Julian Baggini
Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen,
ten or five minutes ago? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant
over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented and fluid?
_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, £25 _
**9.30pm: Penguin Cafe in concert**
Presented by Brecon Jazz
The show-stopping festival band play their Hay debut with their wonderful
eclectic mix of global sounds and their easy, captivating stage presence.
_Oxfam Stage, £15 _
**9.45pm: Idiots of Ants**
The brand new sketch show from the dynamic comedy quartet. Back by popular
demand after last year's success. 'Rock 'n' roll hysteria meets sharp and
brilliant comedy.' Time Out.
_Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage, £10 _
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[**Reserve your place online**][3]** or book via the box office on 01497 822
629 **
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