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Hay Festival 2025: ‘Carnival of ideas’ returns with new events programme

Annual literary event has become a prominent occasion in British culture and boasts a star-studded lineup with over 600 events

The Independent UK

Hay Literary Festival 2025 unveils first wave of speakers, including Michael Morpurgo and Richard Dawkins

Annual Hay Literary Festival announces next year’s guests ahead of first ticket sales

The Independent UK

Book festivals previously sponsored by Baillie Gifford seek donations

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine book festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

The Guardian - UK

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Gary Lineker, Theresa May and David Nicholls join the Hay festival 2024 lineup

This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generation

The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’

The Guardian - UK

The blockbuster book festival returns: Hay announces first wave of 2024 guest speakers

The annual festival will once again unite ‘great minds and fascinating people who’ve looked at the world from different viewpoints’ for a week of wide-ranging debate

The Independent UK

Donald Judd’s home and studio in New York: celebrating 10 years

The late Donald Judd’s home and studio in New York opened to the public in June 2013, after a three-year restoration process; we celebrate the occasion’s 10-year anniversary by revisiting our story from the archive

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Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup

The UK’s best-known literary festival has a new CEO and promises ‘11 days of different’ as it unveils its full lineup featuring Richard Osman, Dua Lipa, Margaret Atwood and more

The Guardian - UK

Hay festival to hold inaugural Eurovision book contest

Submissions will be made by the public as books festival parters with famed music event for a literary showdown

The Guardian - UK

‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup

Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage

The Guardian - UK

UK and Ukraine book festivals partner to protect freedom of expression

Hay festival’s CEO describes partnership with Lviv BookForum as ‘an act of solidarity’ as Ukrainian writers look to ‘tell our true story and why we are fighting’

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: Life after the BBC is liberating, says Andrew Marr

Londoner’s Diary: Marr free from Beeb managers / New Hay boss / Miriam Gonzalez Durantez hits out at sexism / Fox frenzy? / David Miliband circles / A brusing canvassing encounter

Evening Standard

Hay festival appoints Julie Finch as CEO after founder resigns over bullying claim

CEO-director of Compton Verney Art Gallery replaces Peter Florence after ‘an extensive nationwide recruitment process’

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