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