Audio & Video
Hay we go!
An introduction to the delights of the Hay Festival, ahead of the 2017 event.
- Hay we go!
- Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I
- Bettany Hughes: Protest has always happened in Istanbul
- Bettany Hughes: Istanbul has been sheltering refugees for 1,700 years
- Helena Kennedy: Why right-wing populism is bad for women
- Frank Cotterell Boyce: How culture works
- Stephen Fry: The Enlightenment bit itself on the backside
- Tracey Emin: Art is my life support
- Frank Cotterell Boyce on the book that inspired the Olympic opening ceremony
- Lemn Sissay: Why foster care kids make great heroes
- Nicholas Hytner: How Iraq shaped audience reaction to Henry V
- Philippe Sands: I stumbled upon an unbelievable coincidence
- Tom Daley: The story behind my tattoo
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Act Videos
- Bernie Sanders
- Bill Bailey
- 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