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Overheard at Hay 5 Jun 2013 | 11:17 pm
During this year’s festival we couldn’t help but notice that Twitter became a channel for people posting remarkable things that they had “overhead at Hay”. Here’s a selection of the best of them… @r...
Stewarding at Hay 4 Jun 2013 | 03:57 pm
Another blog from my other half: For someone who has been going to the Hay literary festival for the last 7 years, I have a confession to make. I rarely read novels. The last I finished was Engleby, b...
Jo Caulfield 4 Jun 2013 | 12:46 am
i was still poorly on the Saturday, so my other half went on his own to see Jo – here is his review: It’s so refreshing to listen to a very funny comedienne, as there aren’t that many about. Jo Caulfi...
Hay Festival Tweets of the Day – Sunday 2 June 3 Jun 2013 | 01:02 am
@rachel_CRCymru @hayfestival we’re here! Very excited to see if giraffes can dance! @mark_haddon even nicer being up on lord hereford’s knob & away from 4 million compacted book people (much as i love...
Wifi, Hay and The Twitterati 2 Jun 2013 | 04:08 pm
It’s seems that this year more than ever people are tweeting from and about the Hay Festival. For me this is a fabulous thing, not least because this year I’m not there. There has been tweeting fro...
Rupert Everett 2 Jun 2013 | 03:04 pm
Rupert Everett is one of our most feted actors but he’s a great essaying too having been compared to Evelyn Waugh, Noel Coward and even Lord Byron. His new memoir ‘Vanished Years’ is brim full of vi...
Hay Festival Tweets of the Day – Saturday 1 June 2 Jun 2013 | 03:05 am
@LizClifford13 Just saved a lamb from getting run over by the postman. That doesn’t happen in Tottenham #hayfestival @Pete2Boogie: #firstworldproblems *Alert* the co-op has sold out of The Guardian, b...
Recording now on – the joy of radio at Hay 1 Jun 2013 | 05:28 pm
On the basis that Hay is best when you have those wonderful serendipitous moments that surprise you, then do try and go to a live recording of a radio programme, or a TV show. It’s good fun, professio...
Hay Festival Tweets of the Day – Friday 31 May 1 Jun 2013 | 01:24 pm
@CraigMorrison01 Philip glass exits #hayfestival in a helicopter straight off stage that’s rock and roll @NYR_Jugs88 Portaloo tweet, an ‘ideas tent’, lemongrass pie and PowerPoint stand up comedy, of...
John le Carré Talks to Philippe Sands 1 Jun 2013 | 11:28 am
One of the most anticipated events of the entire Hay Festival was the double-length interview with acclaimed author of espionage novels and former officer in the British intelligence services MI5 and ...
