Hay Festival Podcast

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...

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 F...

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

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 o...

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@ha...

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@hay...

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 ov...

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 Bailli...

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...

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...

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.or...

The legendary and deeply inspiring writer and activist Gloria Steinem discusses her memoir The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion with the founder of The Everyday Sexism Project. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Conta...

Michael Morpurgo ’s compelling Hay Library Lecture is a marvel of storytelling, an impassioned argument for the rights of every child to have access to books and education, and a celebration of his novel I Believe in Unicorns. 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 pu...

Matthew Francis ’ re-telling of the first four stories of the Welsh classic The Mabinogi is the first to situate it in poetry, and captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world. Permeating the whole sequence is a delight in the power of the imagination to transform human experience into works of tragedy, comedy and wonder. Chaired by Daniel Hahn. Francis’ new poetry collection W...

A conversation with the social historian Hallie Rubenhold describing how she mined untapped Victorian sources to illuminate the stories of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper in her Baillie Gifford Prize-winning The Five. 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 publi...

A compelling and hilarious rallying call for our times from journalist and superstar author Caitlin Moran tackling topics as pressing and diverse as a women only language, revolution, flawed heroes and the reasons the internet is like a drunken toddler, in conversation with Stephanie Merritt. Moran’s books include her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman , her two volumes of collected...

For #WorldBookDay, the day of Shakespeare’s birth, here's actress Judi Dench talking about her Shakespearean work and celebrating her album of great speeches, Exits and Entrances . The event is chaired by the great director Richard Eyre . The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer . Cont...

How did humans turn themselves from hustling African apes into the rulers of planet earth? The Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari looks at the secrets of our success and explores the themes of his bestselling debut Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind in conversation with Rosie Boycott in Cartagena de Indias in January 2016. Lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew Unive...

The Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , author of Half of a Yellow Sun , Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists talks about how she discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She responds to his statement “I am a journalist above everything else” in an intriguing exploration of how imagination turns historical fact into fictional truths. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford...

Stephen Fry and the international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discuss his award-winning book East West Street , a compelling family detective story and an exploration of the legal principles that defined the Nuremberg War Trials. The conversation is riveting and exacting and you’d expect that, of course. But it’s also hilarious, and the laughter is the light in this deep darkness. #ImagineT...

Festival Director, Peter Florence introduces the new podcast series where you can hear conversations from some of greatest writers and thinkers of our time. In the coming weeks, you will hear from Yuval Noah Harari, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Caitlin Moran, Judi Dench, Naomi Klein and many more, as we remix and recurate stories and conversations heard at our international festivals from Hay in Wal...