BBC Arts Online offers a selection of full talks and short clips from Hay Festival 2017 and on iPlayer.
Listen again online at BBC Radio’s iplayer to the live Festival recordings of BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Broadcasting House, Start the Week, Inside Science and BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, Free Thinking, The Verb, The Listening Service. Coming up: BBC Radio 4’s Front Row airs their interview with Steven Moffat, Book Club speaks to Hari Kunzru, special editions of Beyond Belief and Four Thought, BBC Radio 3 air their Lunchtime Recitals.
You can catch up on BBC Radio 3’s Sound Walk over the Black Mountains above Hay on iplayer. See CBBC Book Club for their Schools Days special.
Coming up in June: BBC World’s HardTalk air their one-to-one with Bernie Sanders; BBC World’s Click air their Hay Festival special; BBC World’s Talking Books air interviews with Ahdaf Soueif, Elizabeth Strout, Tim Winton and Sebastian Barry; BBC World’s Arts Hour presents Sabrina Mahfouz, Jaroslav Kalfar, Elif Shafak and Inna Modja;
BBC One’s Countryfile broadcasts their Hay Festival special at 7pm on Sunday, June 18. Students studying for their A-Levels can browse the wealth of resources/short films now available via the Hay Levels YouTube channel: Hay Levels.
THE HAY 30 selection of young novelists, scientists, philosophers, performers and activists who will help imagine and shape the world in the next 30 years appeared.
#HAYTREES: a project in partnership with the Woodland Trust and National Trust in Wales launched. #HAYTREES aims to create a Hay Festival Wood as part of an education programme which will see tree plantings in schools across Wales and at Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons National Park. The activity will culminate with a tree-themed Hay Festival Winter Weekend, November 24-26 2017.
#HAY30BOOKS were announced following an international call to select 30 ‘essential’ books from the past 30 years that deserve more attention, to be celebrated in events and digitally around the world.
HAY FESTIVAL MEDALS were awarded to four exceptional writers: storyteller Daniel Morden was given the Hay Festival Medal for Drama, Philippe Sands the Hay Festival Medal for Prose, Ahdaf Soueif was given the Hay Festival Medal for Festivals, and Cressida Cowell the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction. Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year (2012), the medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry.
Meanwhile, great comedy, music, and THE SOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, a new late-night club venue at Clyro Court, ensured celebrations continued into the night.