What do the Chapman brothers not have in common with Paddy Ashdown - apart from the fact that one is a politician and the others are the enfants terribles of British art? Listen to Jon Henley's account of
four days schmoozing all-comers in the G2 yurt, and one answer will become clear.
What do none of them have in common with Robert Peston? Well, none of them can recite Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy with the credit-crunch superstar's unique rhetorical technique, the Pestonian pause - as Peston demonstrates to Stephen Moss, with just a little help from his young son.
Hay is nothing if not a family event, and another guest is Fiona Millar, one-time special adviser to Cherie Blair, who talks about the trials of the working mother. We also meet Markus Zusak, author of the best-selling novel The Book Thief and listen in to John Crace's impression of publishers' publicists.
