Thinkers at Hay 2015
Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
The fashion expert discusses the man behind the dress for the 21st century woman.
- Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people
- Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews
- Sandi Toksvig on the need for equal representation for women
- Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta
- Germaine Greer: My best book
- Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch
- Dan and Peter Snow: Introduction to Waterloo
- Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans
- Silk, sass and shimmer: William Banks-Blaney on Coco Chanel
- Halcyon Halston days: William Banks-Blaney on the first super-designer
- Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear
- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare
- Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer
- Germaine Greer: If the English are sane it's because their national playwright is Shakespeare
- Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony
- Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead
- Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told
- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel
- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
- Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
- Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks
- Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence
- Mary Portas on growing up on the high street
- Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'
- Jon Ronson: Can I interview you about your special brain anomaly?
- Jon Ronson on the Stanford prison experiment
- Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university
- Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people
- Celebrating difference: Andrew Solomon on parents of exceptional children
- Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous
- Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
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