Suits you...browsing in Hay. Photograph: Martin Godwin
Can't be at Hay? Never fear, we're bringing the festival to you with our daily podcast of Hay's highlights.
Sarfraz Manzoor kicks off the first of our daily Haycasts with a tour around Hay-on-Wye with the town crier Ken Smith, they pop into Richard Booth's Bookshop and talk to the self-appointed King of Hay about how and why he saturated the town with bookshops, and Sarfraz seeks out Peter Florence, the Hay festival's director to find out the reasoning behind this year's programme. Sarfraz talks to Beryl Bainbridge and her documentary film-maker grandson Charlie Russell about Beryl's Last Year. Beryl superstitiously believed she was going to die at the age of 71 and Charlie followed her for the year as she contemplated her own death. And books editor Sarah Crown talks to Steven Hall about his debut novel The Raw Shark Texts.
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