Welcome to the first of the 2010 Haycasts, direct from the Hay festival site. We're starting this year with a bang: today's programme opens with an interview with one of the most festival's hottest names, Kazuo Ishiguro. Best-known for his novels - including the Man Booker prize-winning The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro has returned to short fiction with his first collection for nearly 30 years, Nocturnes. He talks to Richard Lea.
Over the next 10 days, we'll hear from both the Hitchens brothers: first up is Peter, talking to Guardian columnist Madeline Bunting about his memoir of a life grappling with the question of religion, The Rage Against God.
Finally, poet and novelist Tobias Hill reads from his most recent collection, the superb Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow.
And we hear from festivalgoers about what they're looking forward to and how they feel things are shaping up so far.
Next, we'll be interviewing Bill Bryson, James Lovelock and Nadine Gordimer. If you've questions for any of them, please post them below; we'll do our best to include as many as we can.
