Hay Literary Festival
Saturday 27 May 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
An audio spectacular awaits as Ian McMillan and guests attend this year's Hay Literary Festival.
Playlist
This week's Verb is a special programme from the Hay Festival. Every year a small town on the Welsh borders becomes the international capital of literature, playing host to stars like Bill Clinton, John Updike, Margaret Atwood - and Ian McMillan.
Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm joins Ian to talk about journalism: how he gets close to his subjects, how his interest and observation affect the story, and how the stories he has told affect him.
Lavinia Greenlaw, award-wining poet and novelist, performs a new piece of work about growing up - how teenagers use noise and speed and danger to break the boundaries, visible and invisible, that bind them.
Shane Koyczan's may not be a familiar name in this country, but in Canada he is famous for his extraordinary poetry performances: Ian McMillan will be finding out why.
Also on the programme novelist Jane Smiley talks about her latest project - a 500 page book subtitled What To Read and How To Write - and Peter Blegvad, The Verb's audio cartoonist performs a live experiment in time travel, and very possibly steals the whole show.
Tune in and see what happens on The Verb at Hay, at 9.30pm here on BBC Radio 3.
Additional Information
13 Ways Of Looking At The Novel by Jane Smiley is published by Faber
A Death In Belmont by Sebastian Junger is published by Fourth Estate
Producer: Horatio Clare
