Audio & Video
Hay we go!
An introduction to the delights of the Hay Festival, ahead of the 2017 event.
- Hay we go!
- Colm TóibÃn: I try to escape it but my past always ends up in my books
- Colm TóibÃn: I had to build up to the idea of a son killing his mother
- Bettany Hughes: Why we tell ourselves stories
- Michael Sheen: Empathy should be our foundation
- Stephen Fry: We all just need to grow up
- Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I
- Bernie Sanders: Most Americans don't agree with President Trump
- Stephen Fry: Question and answer session
- Frank Cotterell Boyce on the book that inspired the Olympic opening ceremony
- Tracey Emin: The Tent was misunderstood
- Helen Fielding: I can say it now, Bridget Jones was me
- Garry Kasparov: Deep Blue was as intelligent as an alarm clock
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Bernie Sanders
- Bettany Hughes
- Bill Bailey
- Charlotte Rampling
- Chris Riddell
- Christina Lamb, Helena Kennedy, Rachael Jolley and Joan Bakewell
- 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