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Natalie Haynes, Victoria Bateman, Steve Jones & Ifor ap Glyn

Guto Harri in conversation with the most exciting thinkers appearing at this year’s Hay Festival. Today's guests are Natalie Haynes, Victoria Bateman, Steve Jones and Ifor ap Glyn

Lively discussion from Guto Harri and guests in the BBC Tent at this year’s Hay Festival. Comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes brings an all-female perspective to the devastating consequences of the Trojan War, and economist Victoria Bateman explores how women made the West rich. Plus poet Ifor ap Glyn on the intersections of language and landscape and geneticist Steve Jones on why our past, and our future, is a story told in the stars.

30 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Tue 28 May 201905:30
  • Tue 28 May 201918:30

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