The second weekend of the Guardian Hay festival swings into action today, but although the sun is out and the site is awash with strawberries and ice cream, as ever at Hay, serious issues lie just below the surface. Kate Adie talks to Natalie Hanman about a career of bullet-dodging and why she believes human beings are prepared to risk their lives; Rowan Williams discusses matters of faith over breakfast with Madeleine Bunting; and fresh back from a trip across the US during which he tried to avoid giving a cent to the big chains, Dave Gorman explains why he hankers for the days before brands.
Plus, in honour of its 80th birthday, Faber authors Giles Foden, Lavinia Greenlaw and Philip Ardagh talk about what it means to work with the publisher that employed TS Eliot as an editor, poets Daljit Nagra and Alice Oswald read from their Faber collections and customers at Hay's poetry bookshop explain what the sight of the famous "ff" means to them.
And as if all that weren't enough, Joan Bakewell reveals her guilty reading pleasure.
