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Hay 2025
26 May – 5 Jun 2016, Hay-on-Wye
BBC at Hay Festival 2016
Sacred texts
Hay stars choose their favourite books of all time
10 things we learned at Hay
As the sun sets on this year's festival, we look back on 10 days of ideas, insight and inspiration
What would YOU ask Shakespeare?
We put the question to stars at Hay - from Ruby Wax to Salman Rushdie
Highlights
Literature
In-depth conversations with great novelists - from Salman Rushdie to Edna O'Brien
Film, television and music
Directors, actors, TV personalities and singers - from Sam Mendes to David Gilmour
Science, history and ideas
The best thinkers at the festival on everything from economics to feminism.
Talking About Shakespeare
Simon Schama
The historian examines Shakespeare’s making of the myths of England
Jeanette Winterson
The novelist and essayist celebrates the work and gift of the playwright
Gregory Doran
The Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses the Bard's legacy
Malorie Blackman
The author pays tribute to Shakespeare in a new novel inspired by Othello
Jonathan Bate
The British Academy Lecture: William Shakespeare 1616-2116
Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
The poets respond with their own poems to their choice of Shakespeare’s sonnets
Germaine Greer
The writer and lecturer discusses Shakespeare's poetry
Lunatics and Lovers
Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez on Cervantes and Shakespeare
Playing Hamlet
Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu talk to Jerry Brotton about the great Shakespearean role
Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
The screenwriter and star of A Midsummer Night's Dream discuss the BBC One adaptation
James Shapiro
On 1606: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra
Links
Hay Festival official site
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