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
- Paul Beatty: LA is such a crazy place
- Elif Shafak: There are two ways to write a book
- Elif Shafak: European writers need to be more political
- Tony Robinson: I thought the Blackadder script was rubbish
- Graham Norton: I don't think critics expected my book to be good
- Tracey Emin's proudest moment
- Chris Riddell on his first Goth Girl book
- Ian Rankin: The origins of Rebus
- Lemn Sissay: Why foster care kids make great heroes
- Bill Bailey: Why I love the collective nouns for birds
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Bernie Sanders
- Bill Bailey
- Charlotte Rampling
- Chris Riddell
- Christina Lamb, Helena Kennedy, Rachael Jolley and Joan Bakewell
- Colm T贸ib铆n
- 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