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Book festivals previously sponsored by Baillie Gifford seek donations

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine book festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

The Guardian - UK

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry criticises MCC at Hay Festival: ‘Stinking of privilege and classism’

Actor and writer said legacy cricket club was full of ‘betroot-coloured gentlemen’

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Trump beating Biden in 2020 would have made the world a better place, says political expert

A different result would mean that ‘American politics would now be moving on’, David Runciman told Hay Festival audiences

The Independent UK

How Harry can repair his relationship with King Charles, royal insider reveals

The King finds his rift with his youngest son ‘unsettling’, royal biographer Robert Hardman told Hay Festival audiences

The Independent UK

James O’Brien: I wouldn’t be where I am without private school

The LBC host went to fee-paying Ampleforth because his dad wanted to buy him a ‘golden ticket’, he told Hay Festival audiences

The Independent UK

Don’t ruin my Netflix series with awful Irish accents, says Marian Keyes

Bestselling author, speaking at Hay Festival, made a plea to the creators of her book adaptation

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Viagra gets better funding than women’s health, says Laura Bates

Speaking at Hay Festival, the Everyday Sexism founder said that postnatal care in Britain is ‘absolutely dire’

The Independent UK

David Nicholls reveals unfilmable Starter for Ten scene that was ‘expensive mistake’

Novelist, speaking at Hay Festival, explained how some great moments in literature are unadaptable

The Independent UK

Britain not ready for ‘inevitable’ next pandemic, warns ex-chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

Speaking at Hay Festival, the scientist who helped lead UK through Covid called for pandemics to be planned for in the same way as wars

The Independent UK

Patrick Vallance recalls Boris Johnson’s G7 Zoom gaffe: ‘the other leaders found it amusing’

Speaking at this year’s Hay Festival, the former government scientific advisor also said it was ‘about time’ for a general election

The Independent UK

11 brilliant writers on the books that made them who they are today

Anne Enright, Rory Stewart, Adam Kay and more authors from the Hay Festival lineup tell Ellie Harrison about the books that they’ve loved and felt inspired by

The Independent UK

Hay Festival of Literature and Arts 2024 travel guide – things to do, hotels and more

Bound for the literary festival? Here’s how to spend your time in Hay-on-Wye

The Independent UK

The new voices and hidden gems of Hay Festival 2024

Hear from up-and-coming stars of the literary world before they rocket up the bestseller lists, and make sure you don’t miss some of the eclectic treats on Hay Festival’s vast programme, writes Jessie Thompson

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The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

Evening Standard

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to the top events at this year's 'Woodstock of the mind'

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP Dawn Butler withdraws from Hay festival in sponsorship row

Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged involvement in ‘technology and arms in Israel’

The Guardian - UK

Gary Lineker, Theresa May and David Nicholls join the Hay festival 2024 lineup

This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generation

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Evening Standard

OPINION - From Hillary Clinton to Elton John and Arsène Wenger — the Hay Festival's idiosyncrasies have made it special

This week I step down from the Hay Festival, where for the past decade or so I’ve been a trustee, vice-president and chairman (or, alternatively, chief cook and bottle washer). I’ll be staying on in an advisory (and probably quite annoying) capacity, but operationally I’m done. Ten years is long…

The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’

Evening Standard

Dua Lipa and Douglas Stuart at Hay Festival: “Reading has always been a form of escapism for me”

The pop star invited the Shuggie Bain novelist along for a live recording of her podcast At Your Service

Evening Standard

Malorie Blackman and Stormzy at Hay Festival: ‘Libraries are the great equaliser’

The pair discussed the power of literature, representation and five years of #Merky Books

Evening Standard

Margaret Atwood and Rob Delaney at Hay Festival: ‘I don’t want to live forever’

The pair discuss grief, the process of writing, and what awaits after death

Evening Standard

Tracey Emin at Hay Festival: ‘Keir Starmer has no edge’ – the artist talks politics, illness and Margate life

The artist took part in a candid conversation with the Standard’s incoming editor-in-chief Dylan Jones at the literature festival

Wales Online

15 free things to do with the family in Wales during late May half term 2023

The May 2023 half term does not need to break the bank with great activities for free including Hay Festival, Elan Woodland Fair and Victoria splash pad

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