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
- Frank Cotterell Boyce: How culture works
- Ian Rankin: Read crime fiction to find out about a culture
- Philippe Sands on the Manchester bombing
- Michael Sheen: The Welsh mining community that made the NHS possible
- Elif Shafak: European writers need to be more political
- Tom Daley: The story behind my tattoo
- Garry Kasparov: Deep Blue was as intelligent as an alarm clock
- Lucy Worsley: What did Jane Austen REALLY look like?
- Michael Sheen: Empathy should be our foundation
- Nadya Tolokno: What you need to know about Putin
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