The sun is still shining on the Hay festival site, and in the literary world, too, things are hotting up. In today's Haycast, festival author AC Grayling talks to Sarah Crown and the Guardian's literary editor Claire Armitstead about the latest twist in the controversy over the Oxford poetry professorship, and explains why he believes Ruth Padel must now stand down. Meanwhile, Clive James reads from his own poetry, and Joan Bakewell, one of the festival's established stars, discusses Harold Pinter, how it feels to be labelled "the thinking man's crumpet" and what moved her to write her first novel at the age of 75.
Plus, John Crace gives us his latest festival stereotype, Sandi Toksvig reveals her favourite book, and Jane Birkin plays us out.
