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Hay Festival2015In Pictures: Hay Festival 2015, Part 1

Photo highlights from the book festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.

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Presenter and novelist Francine Stock, here backstage with Alan Yentob of BBC One's imagine...arts strand

Alan Yentob was in conversation with Colm Tóibín on the opening Saturday of Hay

  • Experiencing a few bugs backstage
  • Where has the sun gone?
  • Peter Rabbit comes to Hay
  • Fashion expert William Banks-Blaney signing copies of his book on Thursday
  • John Hegley delights the crowd at a Get Creative masterclass
  • Bill Oddie signing books after his session at Hay on Thursday
  • Enjoying the blue sky at Hay
  • Danny Wallace and Arabella Weir signing books in the festival bookshop
  • The festival bookshop filling up on Thursday morning
  • Another sunny day at Hay
  • The Royal Drawing School art class
  • Backstage in the artists' green room
  • Gillian Clarke and Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • Evening light
  • Radio 3 records The Essay
  • John Boyne signs books
  • Rain brings a rainbow
  • Alexander McCall Smith
  • Get a head in literature at Hay
  • Backstage entertainment
  • Wednesday sunshine
  • Colm Toibin meets his fans
  • Rolling clouds over Hay
  • Relaxing at Hay
  • Chairs missing
  • Gambolling near Hay
  • Friday evening outside the BBC Tent
  • Cassie
  • Bow Top vardo at Hay
  • Green fields
  • Guests on Radio 3's The Verb backstage on opening Saturday
  • Outside the BBC Tent
  • Daisy Hay at Hay
  • Stephen Fry and Irvine Welsh
  • Outside the Hay Bookshop
  • Cressida Cowell signs books at the Hay Bookshop
  • Cressida Cowell
  • Cressida Cowell signs books at the Hay Bookshop
  • Outside the BBC Tent
  • Colm Tóibín and Francine Stock
  • Outside the Hay Bookshop
  • Outside the BBC Tent
  • Presenter and novelist Francine Stock, here backstage with Alan Yentob of BBC One's imagine...arts strand
  • Radio 3 in the BBC Tent at Hay
  • Cressida Cowell: Dragons could be real
  • Crowds gather for Shami Chakrabarti
  • Andrew O'Hagan's talked to Rosie Boycott about childhood & the characters in his fiction

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