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Judith Kerr talks to Clemency Burton-Hill –
Fifty years of The Tiger who Came to Tea
Family Fun
Tim Peake
Mischief and Mystery in Moominvalley
Oti Mabuse
Connor Allen
Beano Boomics
Dr Shini Somara
MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman
Karl Nova
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Miriam Margolyes talks to Natalie Haynes
Will Gompertz and Jeremy Deller talk to Katy Hessel
Afua Hirsch talks to David Olusoga
Helena Bonham Carter, Allie Esiri, Tom Goodman-Hill, Jessica Raine, Tony Robinson, Simon Schama, Jordan Stephens, Samuel West and Olivia Williams
Hamza Yassin talks to Nicola Cutcher
Nigel Owens talks to Paul Abbandonato
Winter Weekend 2023 –
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Hamza Yassin talks to Nicola Cutcher
Afua Hirsch talks to David Olusoga
James O’Brien talks to Laura Bates
Helen Rebanks talks to Louise Minchin
Sarah Bernstein, Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding, Paul Lynch, Chetna Maroo and Paul Murray talk to Gaby Wood
Nigel Owens talks to Paul Abbandonato
Hay Festival 2023 –
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Rowan Williams, Laura McAllister and Miguela Gonzalez in conversation with Auriol Miller
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Alastair Campbell and Rafael Behr talk to Katie Razzall
Jack Edwards and guests
George Webster in conversation with Julia Eccleshare
Lviv BookForum –
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Anne Applebaum (digital), Slavenka Drakulich (digital), Vakhtang Kebuladze and Maksym Yakovliev, chaired by Tetiana Oharkova
Armando Iannucci (digital), David Schneider (digital) and Nastia Zukhvala, chaired by Oleksandha Hontar
Pankaj Mishra (digital) and Volodymyr Yermolenko, chaired by Sevgil Musaieva
Rachel Clarke, Halyna Kruk and Ben Okri (digital) in conversation with Olesia Khromeichuk
Emma Antoniuk, Vakhtang Kebuladze and Peter Pomerantsev, chaired by Olena Huseinova
Tamara Hundorova (digital), Philippe Sands (digital) and Rebecca Solnit (digital), chaired by Sasha Dovzhuk
Programme for Schools –
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Jeffrey Boakye
Joseph Coelho
Mererid Hopwood
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Dr Ranj
Abi Elphinstone
Jacqueline Wilson
Jeffrey Boakye
Cressida Cowell
Anthony Horowitz
Christine Pillainayagam
MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman
Ben Garrod
Iszi Lawrence
Piers Torday
Eric Ngalle Charles
Louisa Reid
Laura Bates
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Hay Festival 2022 –
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Antony Beevor
Greg Jenner in conversation with Sarah Crook
Jess Phillips talks to Hugh Muir
Deborah Levy talks to Rosie Goldsmith
Jeffrey Boakye talks to Chris Power
Caryl Lewis talks to Rachel Parris
Book of the Month Live Events –
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Deborah Levy talks to Lisa Appignanesi
Charlie Mackesy & Mererid Hopwood
Richard Powers in conversation with Georgina Godwin
Elif Shafak talks to Manveen Rana
Leïla Slimani talks to Philippe Sands
Suzanne O'Sullivan talks to Rachel Clarke
Jordan Ellenberg talks to Helen Czerski
Sunjeev Sahota talks to Alex Clark
Benjamin Myers talks to Laura Bates
Minouche Shafik talks to Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Francis Spufford in conversation with Rebecca Watson
Ruth Coker Burks talks to Philippe Sands
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Eric Ngalle Charles
Monica Ali talks to Chris Power
Laura Bates and Laurie Penny in conversation with Viv Groskop
Sophie Hughes and Chris Power
Bernardine Evaristo talks to Rosie Goldsmith
A Poet for Every Day of the Year
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Micro Lectures for the Perennially Curious
David Crystal
Pragmatics
Sarah Churchwell
The Turn of the Screw
Greg Jenner
What is History?
Peter Singer
Utilitarianism
Germaine Greer
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet Barker
The Peasants Revolt
Cedric Villani
Differential Equations
David Walker
The Civil Service
Margaret Macmillan
Origins of WW1
Hannah Critchlow
Neurons
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens
Azar Nafisi
Huckleberry Finn
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Synapses
David Olusoga
Black British History
Marcus Du Sautoy
Gödel's Theorem
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Telescopes
Janina Ramirez
The Angevin Empire
Fiona Sampson
Mary Shelley
Michael Stewart
Heathcliff
Emily Wilson
The Odyssey
Jaideep Prabhu
Frugal Innovation
Daniel Davis
The Immune System
Linda Yueh
Perfect Competition
Anne Applebaum
Russian Famine
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Hay Festival 2021 –
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Tony Blair talks to Alastair Campbell
Natasha Brown talks to Meena Kandasamy
Isabel Allende in conversation with Sophie Hughes
Gary Younge, introduced by Ian Goldin
Julia Gillard and Mary Ann Sieghart in conversation
Lemn Sissay presents...When Bonnie met Ash
Talking About Shakespeare –
Short Films about the Bard
Tony Robinson
Ruby Wax
Howard Jacobson
Kamila Shamsie
Jung Chang
Salman Rushdie
Maxine Peake
Greg Doran
Eric Ngalle Charles
James Naughtie
Miles Jupp
Toby Jones
Cressida Cowell
Martha Kearney
Imtiaz Dharker
Marcus du Sautoy
Juno Dawson
Sarah Crossan
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Hay Festival Classics
Ian McEwan talks to Christopher Hitchens
Orhan Pamuk in conversation with Peter Florence
Judith Kerr & Michael Morpurgo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Seamus Heaney
Margaret Atwood and Gaby Wood
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