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Hay we go!
An introduction to the delights of the Hay Festival, ahead of the 2017 event.
Hay we go!- Bill Bailey: My grandfather used to set us a bird-watching challenge
- Bill Bailey: Why I love the collective nouns for birds
- Bill Bailey: Why St Kilda haunts my dreams
- Stephen Fry: Prepare for a technological reformation
- Frank Cotterell Boyce: How culture works
- Bernie Sanders: Most Americans don't agree with President Trump
- Bettany Hughes: Why we tell ourselves stories
- Elif Shafak: There are two ways to write a book
- Philippe Sands on the Manchester bombing
- Ian Rankin: Read crime fiction to find out about a culture
- Helen Fielding: I can say it now, Bridget Jones was me
- Paul Beatty: LA is such a crazy place
- Lucy Worsley: Did Jane Austen ever have sex?
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- Bernie Sanders
- Bettany Hughes
- Charlotte Rampling
- Chris Riddell
- Christina Lamb, Helena Kennedy, Rachael Jolley and Joan Bakewell
- Colm TóibÃn
- David Mitchell
- Ed Balls
- Elif Shafak
- Frank Cotterell Boyce
- Garry Kasparov
- Graham Norton
- Helen Fielding
- Ian Rankin
- James Rhodes
- Jeanette Winterson
- Lemn Sissay
- Lucy Worsley
- Michael Sheen
- Nadya Tolokno
- Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry
- Nicholas Hytner
- Paul Beatty
- Paula Byrne
- Philippe Sands
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Bettany Hughes, Lawrence Krauss and Martin Rees
- Tom Daley
- Tony Robinson
- Tracey Emin
- Will Self