Homepage

Accessibility links

  • Skip to content
  • Accessibility Help
BBC Account
Notifications
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Video
  • Live
More menu
Search BBC
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Video
  • Live
Close menu
BBC Arts at Hay Festival
  • 2015 Home
  • Video
  • Radio
  • /
  • BBC at Hay archive
  • Hay Video Player
  • Hay 2025

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
The author talks about his career with live input from illustrator Chris Riddell
  1. Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
    02:04
    Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
  2. Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
    03:32
    Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
    View More From Sandi Toksvig
  3. Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous
    00:54
    Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous
    View More From Sandi Toksvig
  4. Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
    01:20
    Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
    View More From Sandi Toksvig
  5. Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in
    00:58
    Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in
  6. Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university
    01:20
    Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university
  7. Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons
    03:37
    Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons
  8. How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife
    01:18
    How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife
  9. Celebrating difference: Andrew Solomon on parents of exceptional children
    04:34
    Celebrating difference: Andrew Solomon on parents of exceptional children
  10. Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change
    05:15
    Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change
  11. Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians
    06:02
    Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians
  12. Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence
    04:51
    Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence
  13. Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
    01:47
    Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
  14. William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
    00:53
    William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54

    Watch the full clip on Halston and Studio 54

  15. Now playing
    Up next

Featured Collections

  • Hay Festival 2015: All clips
    Hay Festival 2015: All clips
    Authors and guests at the book festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
  • Music and musicians at Hay 2015
    Music and musicians at Hay 2015
    A selection of music-themed clips from the festival in Hay-on-Wye.
  • Kids' corner at Hay 2015
    Kids' corner at Hay 2015
    Children's authors at the book festival in Hay-on-Wye.
  • TV favourites at Hay 2015
    TV favourites at Hay 2015
    Stars of the small screen at the book festival in Hay-on-Wye.
  • Novelists at Hay 2015
    Novelists at Hay 2015
    Authors discuss their work at the festival in Hay-on-Wye.
  • Thinkers at Hay 2015
    Thinkers at Hay 2015
    Big ideas and award-winning writers at the festival in Hay-on-Wye.

Act Videos

  • Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner
  • Alex Salmond
  • Alexander McCall Smith
  • Andrew O’Hagan
  • Andrew Solomon
  • Anne Enright
  • Antonia Fraser
  • Ben and David Crystal
  • Call The Midwife
  • Celia Imrie and Terry Waite
  • Cressida Cowell
  • Dan & Peter Snow
  • David Mitchell
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • Germaine Greer: Liberation
  • Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Women
  • Helen Macdonald
  • Ian Bostridge
  • Irvine Welsh
  • James Rhodes
  • John Boyne
  • Jon Ronson
  • Karen Armstrong
  • Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests
  • Mary Portas
  • Meera Syal
  • Michael Morpurgo, Alison Reid, Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s Ensemble
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
  • Nigel Kennedy
  • QI’s Greatest Hits
  • Robert Macfarlane
  • Rose Tremain
  • Sheila Hancock
  • Simon Schama
  • Stephen Fry
  • Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests
  • Steve Punt, Will Smith and Marcus Brigstocke
  • Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Peter Stothard
  • Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
  • Vikram Seth
  • William Banks-Blaney
  • Yuval Noah Harari
  • Cymraeg
  • Gàidhlig
  • Gaeilge

Explore the BBC

  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Video
  • Live
  • Terms of Use
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Parental Guidance
  • Contact the BBC
  • Make an editorial complaint
  • BBC emails for you
  • Advertise with us
Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

You might also like:

news | sport | weather | worklife | travel | future | culture | world | business | technology