Poet and Professor of Languages Mererid Hopwood selects Ifor ap Glyn from Hay Festival 2017, who took Hedd Wyn as his theme for the Gwyn Jones Hay Festival Lecture, Rutger Bregman discussing his book Humankind with Lily Cole at Hay Festival 2020 and Daniel Williams , Leanne Wood and Michael Sheen discussing the work of Raymond Williams at Hay Festival 2021. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival...
Jul 01, 2021
Artist, poet, rapper, literary activist and songwriter Rufus Mufusa selects Caleb Femi talking about his astounding debut collection to Max Porter from the Hay Book of the Month, November 2020, Kayo Chingonyi accepting the International Dylan Thomas Prize from Hay Festival 2018, and the award winning poet and linguaphile Mererid Hopwood from Hay Festival 2020. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfesti...
Jun 24, 2021
The award winning author of Bearmouth Liz Hyder selects Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane talking Lost Spells at the Winter Weekend 2020, the magnificent mathematician Marcus du Sautoy from Hay Festival 2013, and the incomparable Lemn Sissay performing his poetry at Hay Festival 2017. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, ...
Jun 17, 2021
Journalist and broadcaster Guto Harri selects the magnificent Maya Angelou from Hay Festival 2002, Dr David Jarret discussing a good death and Poet and Chair of Welsh and Celtic studies Mererid Hopwood exploring language at Hay Festival 2020. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineT...
Jun 10, 2021
Writer, novelist and columnist Tahmima Anam selects her very first Hay event back in 2012 with Helena Kennedy , Joan Bakewell , Martin Rees and Anita Anand , Shahidul Alam speaking at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014 and the novelist, cultural commentator and founder of Palfest, Ahdaf Soueif talking to George Alagiah at Hay Festival 2017. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact ...
Jun 03, 2021
Writer, broadcaster and comedian Natalie Haynes has chosen Colm Toibin and Lisa Dwan giving a rehearsed reading of Pale Sister in 2018, Troy Story, the Trojan War from a female perspective, an event she presented with Chris Riddell at Hay Festival 2020, and star gazer Maggie Aderin Pocock ’s event from the Winter Weekend in 2018. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us ...
May 27, 2021
Welsh writer and former Hay Festival International Fellow selects the inimitable American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison from 2014, the much missed and remarkable Jan Morris from 2009 and a conversation he held with Diana de la Vega at Hay Festival Cartagena in 2019. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook ...
May 20, 2021
Former BBC journalist, writer, presenter and director of the European Literature Network Rosie Goldsmith selects the incomparable Clive James from 2007, the Man Booker International Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk from 2010 and the David and Ben Crystal double act from the Winter Weekend in 2014. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twi...
May 13, 2021
The Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and author of Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration , selects Adam Rutherford on the Book of Humans from 2019, Matt Hancock talking to Amol Rajan pre-Covid in 2018 and Jeanette Winterson giving the Raymond Williams lecture in 2016. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twit...
May 06, 2021
Founder of the Everyday Sexism project and author Laura Bates selects Jeanette Winterson talking Shakespeare from Hay 2016, Ali Smith ’s 2005 interview with Francine Stock and writer and political activist Gloria Steinem from Hay Festival Digital 2020. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival....
Feb 18, 2021
Associate Editor for Culture at The Guardian Claire Armitstead selects poet, writer, musician and activist Akala , speaking about his memoir Native , Professor of Psychology Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the secret life of the teenage brain, both from Hay Festival 2018, and the award-winning Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh from 2019. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at p...
Feb 11, 2021
Journalist and author Oliver Bullough selects the Serbian revolutionary Srdja Popovic from 2015, Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexeivich and author Tom Bullough from Hay Festival 2016, and the magical and musical Julia Donaldson from 2017. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWo...
Feb 04, 2021
Magazine Journalist Kitty Corrigan selects nature writer and farmer John Lewis-Stempel from 2015, award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak from 2013, and one of the major poets of the 20th Century and Nobel Prize winner for literature, the magnificent Seamus Heaney from Hay Festival 2006. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or ...
Jan 28, 2021
The author and editor of GQ selects the remarkable Tracy Emin speaking in 2017, Simon Schama on the Story of the Jews, an epic tale of endurance against destruction, from Hay Festival 2014 and Brigadier James Cowan , who commanded the Black Watch in Iraq and the multinational 11 Brigade in Helmand from 2011. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestiv...
Jan 21, 2021
The writer and broadcaster selects Ted Hughes from 1998, reciting poetry while the wind battered the Hay marquees, the indomitable Jody Williams in 2013, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees in 2016 and the magnificent Maya Angelou from 2002. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Jan 14, 2021
The best-selling historical thriller writer (SJ Parris) choices include Wallander author Henning Mankell from 2011, Toni Morrison talking about her novel Beloved in 2014 and the irrepressible Jilly Cooper from 2018. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Jan 07, 2021
The journalist and author of Greetings from Bury Park selects three distinctive and distinguished actors; Harry Belafonte from 2012, Charlotte Rampling in 2017 and the inimitable Peter Falk speaking in 2007. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Dec 31, 2020
The broadcast journalist chooses The Tiger who came to Tea author Judith Kerr speaking in 2017, Toni Morrison talking to Razia Iqbal in 2014 and her brother and author Peter Godwin speaking at Storymoja in Nairobi in 2013. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Dec 24, 2020
The Professor of Law and author of Baillie Gifford Prize winning East West Street and Sunday Times bestseller The Ratline selects President Jimmy Carter from 2008, the Director of Public Prosecutions, now Leader of the Labour party, Keir Starmer speaking in 2012 and interpreter Amanda Galsworthy in 2013. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.o...
Dec 17, 2020
Five inspiring women writers Elif Shafak , Leila Slimani , Kapka Kassabova , Janne Teller and Hilary Cottam offer their visions for the future of Europe on the event of our digital Hay Festival Europa28. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Sep 17, 2020
Royal Society Research Fellows Rachel Lowe , Gemma Modinos , Adi Kliot , Aquila Mavalankar , Nicole Grobert and Alicia El Haj discuss their work at the forefront of science. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Sep 10, 2020
Desmond Tutu , Cormac Murphy-O’Connor , Gene Robinson , Marie-Elsa Bragg and Gene Robinson talk faith, tradition, conflict and hope. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Sep 03, 2020
Tara Westover , author of bestseller Educated, teacher and author Margaret White and Senior Director of the Global Learning Lab and author of Natural Born Learners , Alex Beard explore how we learn. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Aug 27, 2020
Journalist-politicians Joan Bakewell and Camilla Cavendish , and Sarah Harper , the Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, reflect on a time of super-centenarians, third and fourth ages, and what keeps us vital. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Aug 20, 2020
Ed Hawkins , Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac , Nick Stern and Gabrielle Walker give some perspective on the ways in which the pandemic is changing the term of reference for dealing with the climate crisis. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld...
Aug 13, 2020
A reflection on poetry and the Great War, sampling the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour and our Armistice anthology - The Echoes Last So Long - with actors Eileen Atkins and Dan Stevens and poets Margaret Atwood, Tishani Doshi, Mererid Hopwood, Ulrike Almut Sandig and Owen Sheers . The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram o...
Aug 06, 2020
A very brief introduction to machine learning, neural networks, darkest fears and wild intelligence as dreamed into being by Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing. Garry Kasparov and Stephen Fry , Beth Singler , James Scott , Ian McEwan , Marcus du Sautoy , Nigel Shadbolt and Margaret Boden share insights into Artificial Intelligence, fiction and (then) fact. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/ha...
Jul 30, 2020
Could you have married your first love? Why does it matter who played Peter? What if Juliet wakes 27 lines earlier? Sarah Crossan , Germaine Greer , Abigail Rokison-Woodall , Erin Sullivan , Tahmima Anam and Stephen Fry share insights into Shakespeare’s play. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfe...
Jul 23, 2020
In this first episode of the new series we glean insight and analysis of the historical and contemporary context of pandemics, zoonotic disease, and international collaborations from experts Mary Dobson , Jeremy Farrar , Thomas J Bollyky , Devi Sridhar , Chelsea Clinton and Sally Davies . The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter...
Jul 16, 2020
The novelist Hilary Mantel discusses The Mirror and the Light , the third book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy with Peter Florence. The interview was recorded at Hay Festival Digital on 30 May 2020, where Hilary was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Prose. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfesti...
Jun 04, 2020
