Welsh actor and presenter Joanna Page switched on Hay-on-Wye’s Christmas lights yesterday evening (28 November), officially beginning Hay Festival Winter Weekend.

Page, most well known for her role as Stacey in Gavin and Stacey, officially did the honours of lighting up the town for the festive season. She was accompanied by co-Gavin-and-Stacey-star Larry Lamb.

Joanna Page is just one of few stars in Hay this weekend for the Hay Festival Winter Weekend, with the likes of Raymond Blanc and Nick Clegg.

Headline guests include political activist Maria Alyokhina; actors Joanna Page and Jonathan Pryce; novelists Mick Herron, Sebastian Faulks, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Carlos Fonseca, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Cynan Jones, Nikita Gill and Natalie Haynes; lexicographer Susie Dent; comedians Olga Koch, Mark Watson, Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke; politicians Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Kim Leadbeater; journalists Imran Khan, Jehan Alfarra and Lyse Doucet; writer Jung Chang; documentary maker Jamie Tahsin; chef Raymond Blanc; artist Charlie Mackesy; poets Hollie McNish and Mererid Hopwood; physicists Paul Davies and Vlatko Vedral; criminal psychologist Julia Shaw; historians Alison Weir, Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga; and Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman Huey Morgan.