Audio & Video
Hay we go!
An introduction to the delights of the Hay Festival, ahead of the 2017 event.
- Hay we go!
- Stephen Fry: We all just need to grow up
- Bettany Hughes: Why we tell ourselves stories
- Stephen Fry: The Enlightenment bit itself on the backside
- Tracey Emin: Art is my life support
- Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I
- Paul Beatty: LA is such a crazy place
- Helena Kennedy: Why right-wing populism is bad for women
- Elif Shafak: There are two ways to write a book
- Ian Rankin: The origins of Rebus
- Paul Beatty: Someone gave me a book called the 'Directory of Uncle Toms'
- Lucy Worsley: What did Jane Austen REALLY look like?
- Elif Shafak: European writers need to be more political
- Stephen Fry: Question and answer session
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Bernie Sanders
- Bettany Hughes
- 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
- Tom Daley
- Tony Robinson
- Tracey Emin
- Will Self