In a programme rich in strategy and politics, international lawyer Philippe Sands joins ex-Python and historian Terry Jones and Blair's right hand man Jonathan Powell in the house of Hay.
Powell was chief of staff at Downing Street during the Blair years, and has just published Great Hatred, Little Room, which details how the prime minister worked towards peace in Northern Ireland.
He is firmly put on the spot by Sands over Blair's support of America. Sands has just written Torture Team, an exposé of US interrogation techniques, in which he blames "a small group of bad apples at the top".
Sands is a big fan of Monty Python – he used a reference to the Black Knight to make key points in a Suriname-Guyana border dispute.
You'll also hear from John Prescott, who drops into the house of Hay to tell us why he thinks class still matters in today's Britain. Plus: there is music from award winning folk singer Seth Lakeman, we reveal who won the deckchair competition and Sarfraz Manzoor challenges the legendary Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky to a match.
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