Does Nothing Matter?
The much publicised demonstration of the Higgs Boson, announced at CERN in March 2012, has brought...
View ArticleBestselling ice cream at the Hay Festival after two sunny weekends
1. Toffee and Honeycomb 2. Banana and Toffee Crunch 3. Peanut Butter and Chocolate 4. Mango...
View ArticleRebuild old capitalist values through education, says Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan, chief executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, told a...
View ArticleBestsellers at the Hay Festival on May 31
Adults 1. John Le Carre - A Delicate Truth 2. David Crystal - Spell it Out 3. Sebastian Faulks - A...
View ArticleDragon Spotting in Ancient China
Timothy Brook, the distinguished historian and author of The Troubled Empire, talked about...
View ArticleProfessor Steve Jones Warns of a Generation of Creationist Doctors
Professor Steve Jones warned today that Britain’s universities are training a new generation of...
View ArticleThe Magic of Patrick Leigh Fermor
The long awaited final instalment of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy, in which he describes his epic...
View ArticleBest-sellers at Hay Saturday 1 June
Adults Robert MacFarlane – Holloway Deborah Moggach – Heartbreak Hotel Rupert Everett – Vanished...
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Photos from our fabulous new Hay Festival Bookshop. Book signing...
Photos from our fabulous new Hay Festival Bookshop. Book signing queues reaching out of the shop and over the fields…
View ArticleLe Carré Gives Swan Song Interview at Hay Festival
In a wide-ranging interview that John Le Carré described as his ‘swan song’, the celebrated novelist...
View ArticleRupert Everett on being an actor, author and the ‘second-most difficult...
Rupert Everett treated a sell-out audience at the Hay Festival to a selection of his trademark...
View ArticleMalorie Blackman calls for more diversity in children's literature
Malorie Blackman, the multiple award-winning children’s author, yesterday described how her own...
View ArticleWilliam Dalrymple Exposes the Circle Game of Afghan History and Imperial Power
Best-selling author and historian William Dalrymple drew fascinating parallels between the failed...
View ArticleMaking Giant Leaps for Science
Physicist Rolf Heuer from CERN discussed the latest research on the universe and the 95 per cent of...
View ArticleBuy British Charcoal for Barbecue Summer
‘Britain has neglected its woods to such an extent that more than a million acres are neglected and...
View ArticleBattle in the desert: when Egypt was ‘English soil’
Winston Churchill told his troops to defend El Alamein, the Egyptian town where German General Erwin...
View ArticleWelsh Heroine Celebrated
This afternoon the work of Bangor-born Brenda Chamberlain was rediscovered and celebrated by a panel...
View ArticleGove’s downgrading of environment ‘terrifying’, says eco hero
Tony Juniper, dubbed ‘the most effective of Britain’s eco-warriors’ discussed ‘the economy of...
View ArticleSINEAD CUSACK WELCOMES LAUNCH OF HAY FESTIVAL KELLS
‘It’s so exciting that literature, Kells, the Irish and Hay are all coming together,’ said actress...
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And our next festival will be… Hay Festival Kells,...
And our next festival will be… Hay Festival Kells, launched at Hay today.
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