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Get Creative at Hay Festival 2015

Get Creative has decamped to Hay for the week and as well as running some special sessions at the book festival, we've also met authors, actors and personalities who have shared their love of getting creative. Oscar-nominee Jude Law said creativity can be 'the life-blood of who you are' while CBBC presenter Hayley Hassall told us about her love of painting.

Author Neil Gaiman and his wife, singer Amanda Palmer
Broadcasting House presenter Paddy O'Connell

Jude Law

Jude Law

The actor talks about getting creative

Mary Portas Queen of Shops
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Poet Simon Armitage
Screenwriter and poet Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Poet John Hegley
CBBC presenter Katie Thistleton
Historian and author Dominic Sandbrook
Author Alexander McCall Smith

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman

The author and Children's Laureate talks about creativity

TV Presenter Hayley Hassall
The National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke
The People The Poet

Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts

In conversation with Francine Stock about her debut novel Miss Carter's War.

Ideas to exercise your mind