Country diary: Hay-on-Wye
Book festivals bring out the brains in Britons
Puffin of Puffins? Why, Goodnight Mister Tom of course
Hay festival video: ‘No child is born a criminal’ | Camila Batmanghelidjh
Hay festival audio slideshow: What are you reading?
Hay festival 2010: Wednesday at Hay
Overheard at Hay 2010
Audience question to former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd: "What ways and means, covert and otherwise, would you use to address British failure in the Eurovision song contest?"
In the green room: Antony Beevor: "I'm doing four events." AC Grayling: "Well, I'm doing six events." Beevor: "What about Simon Schama?" Grayling: "Oh,...
National Theatre Wales puts Cymru centre-stage | Michael Billington
According to a lively debate at Hay festival, immersive theatre is opening our eyes to the rich diversity of Wales
To Hay for the festival. My first visit. What astonished me was the sheer scale of the event: it's like a literary six-ring circus. On Sunday evening, as I...
Coping in extremistan | Mark Vernon
Mark Vernon: In a world of total uncertainty, can religion's accumulated wisdom offer solace?
Uncertainty was a theme, I think, over the bank holiday at Hay-on-Wye, during the literary festival. Perhaps that's not surprising. Much of what we thought we knew has recently been thrown into doubt, be...
Jo Brand charms Hay festival with anecdotes of her pre-comedy life | Sarah Boseley
The standup Jo Brand's tales of her former career as a psychiatric nurse had the Hay audience in stitches – and also displayed plenty of warmth towards her former patients
There was a moment in Jo Brand's former career as a psychiatric nurse when she found herself running up...
Monty Don calls on Hay festival audience to fight for their back yard
Celebrity gardener defends nimbyism as he, Simon Schama and Fiona Reynolds discuss the 'spirit' of the British landscape
Nimbyism isn't such a bad thing, celebrity gardener Monty Don told an audience at the Guardian Hay festival yesterday evening: after all, "if we can't care about our back yards we...
Clegg at Hay: Iraq papers will be published | Philippe Sands