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Repair. Rework. Renew.
Woodworker Callum Robinson shares lessons from his craft in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Woodworker Callum Robinson shares lessons from his craft in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Repair. Rework. Renew.
Woodworker Callum Robinson shares lessons from his craft in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
Woodworker Callum Robinson shares lessons from his craft in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
Actress, comedian, writer and producer Ruth Jones shares her latest novel – By Your Side – in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Enjoy! hayfestival.org/anytime/
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Actress, comedian, writer and producer Ruth Jones shares her latest novel – By Your Side – in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Enjoy! hayfestival.org/anytime/
Writer Horatio Clare shares stories from the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic Circle, in our Winter Solstice playlist.
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Enjoy! hayfestival.org/anytime
December 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Writer Horatio Clare shares stories from the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic Circle, in our Winter Solstice playlist.
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Enjoy! hayfestival.org/anytime
A message from our President 🫡
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A message from our President 🫡
Love reading? Share the joy!
Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure
The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading
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December 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Love reading? Share the joy!
When the world is in crisis, where should we look for comfort?
Author, academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff examines the concept of solace in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Author, academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff examines the concept of solace in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime
December 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When the world is in crisis, where should we look for comfort?
Author, academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff examines the concept of solace in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Author, academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff examines the concept of solace in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime
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Thanks for all the excellent responses to this. It might make you smile on this dreich day.
Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks for all the excellent responses to this. It might make you smile on this dreich day.
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Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
The Wall Street Journal’s Sune Engel Rasmussen joins historian David Olusoga, journalist Jennifer Nadel and ITV Wales correspondent Rob Osborne to discuss the year’s biggest stories in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Wall Street Journal’s Sune Engel Rasmussen joins historian David Olusoga, journalist Jennifer Nadel and ITV Wales correspondent Rob Osborne to discuss the year’s biggest stories in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
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Hay Festival has released 45 earlybird events for its flagship edition next spring, taking place in May 2026 in the booktown of Hay-on-Wye
Hay Festival previews flagship edition in May 2026
Hay Festival has released 45 earlybird events for its flagship edition next spring, taking place in May 2026 in the booktown of Hay-on-Wye. The Festival has teased a dynamic programme of 600+ events t...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Tickets on general sale at noon tomorrow.
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tickets on general sale at noon tomorrow.
Open books, open minds.
Browse some of the new titles launching at Hay Festival 2026 over on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now, drawn from this week’s event drop.
Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/shop/hayfest...
Browse some of the new titles launching at Hay Festival 2026 over on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now, drawn from this week’s event drop.
Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/shop/hayfest...
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Open books, open minds.
Browse some of the new titles launching at Hay Festival 2026 over on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now, drawn from this week’s event drop.
Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/shop/hayfest...
Browse some of the new titles launching at Hay Festival 2026 over on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now, drawn from this week’s event drop.
Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/shop/hayfest...
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Novelist Sebastian Faulks shares insights from a life in writing in our film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.
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Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Novelist Sebastian Faulks shares insights from a life in writing in our film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/
Up and away ✨🌙✨
Thank you for coming, Haymakers.
If you enjoyed this weekend’s event and wish to get early access to upcoming editions, become a Hay Festival Member now and stay tuned for some exciting news next week…
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
Thank you for coming, Haymakers.
If you enjoyed this weekend’s event and wish to get early access to upcoming editions, become a Hay Festival Member now and stay tuned for some exciting news next week…
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Up and away ✨🌙✨
Thank you for coming, Haymakers.
If you enjoyed this weekend’s event and wish to get early access to upcoming editions, become a Hay Festival Member now and stay tuned for some exciting news next week…
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
Thank you for coming, Haymakers.
If you enjoyed this weekend’s event and wish to get early access to upcoming editions, become a Hay Festival Member now and stay tuned for some exciting news next week…
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
Remembering Tom Stoppard (1937–2025), speaking here at Hay Festival 2010.
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Remembering Tom Stoppard (1937–2025), speaking here at Hay Festival 2010.
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Spooky trees at @hayfestival.bsky.social !
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Spooky trees at @hayfestival.bsky.social !
Your Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2025 bestsellers.
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Your Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2025 bestsellers.
Virtuoso guitarist and conductor Michael Poll performing in the atmospheric surroundings of St Mary’s Church.
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Virtuoso guitarist and conductor Michael Poll performing in the atmospheric surroundings of St Mary’s Church.
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
📸: Adam Tatton-Reid
Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw on how we can start taking green crimes more seriously.
November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw on how we can start taking green crimes more seriously.
Bring out the sausage!
Journalist Jennifer Nadel on compulsory voting.
Journalist Jennifer Nadel on compulsory voting.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Bring out the sausage!
Journalist Jennifer Nadel on compulsory voting.
Journalist Jennifer Nadel on compulsory voting.
Live now!
Jung Chang talks to Erica Wagner - Hay Festival
A rare chance to hear from the author whose generation-defining book offered readers an essential understanding of China’s recent history, and whose follow-up promises to do the same again.
www.hayfestival.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Live now!
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Duw duw!
I'm so pleased, and proud that this came from an open vote - so thanks to all the readers and advocates and allies who have lifted me up in the last year. Genuinely blindsided by this, and humbled. Thanks @hayfestival.bsky.social x
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I'm so pleased, and proud that this came from an open vote - so thanks to all the readers and advocates and allies who have lifted me up in the last year. Genuinely blindsided by this, and humbled. Thanks @hayfestival.bsky.social x
www.hayfestival.com/news/blog.as...
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland named Hay Festival Book of the Year 2025
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland has been named Hay Festival Book of the Year 2025 after hundreds of book lovers nominated their favourite titles of the year online.
www.hayfestival.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Duw duw!
I'm so pleased, and proud that this came from an open vote - so thanks to all the readers and advocates and allies who have lifted me up in the last year. Genuinely blindsided by this, and humbled. Thanks @hayfestival.bsky.social x
www.hayfestival.com/news/blog.as...
I'm so pleased, and proud that this came from an open vote - so thanks to all the readers and advocates and allies who have lifted me up in the last year. Genuinely blindsided by this, and humbled. Thanks @hayfestival.bsky.social x
www.hayfestival.com/news/blog.as...