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6.6K to 33K
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S3, Ep4 Stephanie Merritt
Jan 7, 2021
S3, Ep3 Sarfraz Mansoor
Dec 31, 2020
S3, Ep2 Georgina Godwin
Dec 24, 2020
S3, Ep1 Philippe Sands
Dec 17, 2020
S2, Ep10 The Future of Europe
Sep 17, 2020
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| 1/7/21 |  S3, Ep4 Stephanie Merritt | The best-selling historical thriller writer (SJ Parris) choices include Wallander author Henning Mankell from 2011, Toni Morrison talking about her novel Beloved in 2014 and the irrepressible Jilly Cooper from 2018. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 12/31/20 |  S3, Ep3 Sarfraz Mansoor | The journalist and author of Greetings from Bury Park selects three distinctive and distinguished actors; Harry Belafonte from 2012, Charlotte Rampling in 2017 and the inimitable Peter Falk speaking in 2007. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 12/24/20 |  S3, Ep2 Georgina Godwin | The broadcast journalist chooses The Tiger who came to Tea author Judith Kerr speaking in 2017, Toni Morrison talking to Razia Iqbal in 2014 and her brother and author Peter Godwin speaking at Storymoja in Nairobi in 2013. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 12/17/20 |  S3, Ep1 Philippe Sands | The Professor of Law and author of Baillie Gifford Prize winning East West Street and Sunday Times bestseller The Ratline selects President Jimmy Carter from 2008, the Director of Public Prosecutions, now Leader of the Labour party, Keir Starmer speaking in 2012 and interpreter Amanda Galsworthy in 2013. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 9/17/20 |  S2, Ep10 The Future of Europe | Five inspiring women writers Elif Shafak, Leila Slimani, Kapka Kassabova, Janne Teller and Hilary Cottam offer their visions for the future of Europe on the event of our digital Hay Festival Europa28. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 9/10/20 |  S2, Ep9 The Next Big Things – 10 Years of Emerging Science from the Royal Society | Royal Society Research Fellows Rachel Lowe, Gemma Modinos, Adi Kliot, Aquila Mavalankar, Nicole Grobert and Alicia El Haj discuss their work at the forefront of science. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 9/3/20 |  S2, Ep8 Theology | Desmond Tutu, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Gene Robinson, Marie-Elsa Bragg and Gene Robinson talk faith, tradition, conflict and hope. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 8/27/20 |  S2, Ep7 Education Education Education | Tara Westover, author of bestseller Educated, teacher and author Margaret White and Senior Director of the Global Learning Lab and author of Natural Born Learners, Alex Beard explore how we learn. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 8/20/20 |  S2, Ep6 Ageing | Journalist-politicians Joan Bakewell and Camilla Cavendish, and Sarah Harper, the Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, reflect on a time of super-centenarians, third and fourth ages, and what keeps us vital. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 8/13/20 |  S2, Ep5 Climate change in a time of Coronavirus | Ed Hawkins, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, Nick Stern and Gabrielle Walker give some perspective on the ways in which the pandemic is changing the term of reference for dealing with the climate crisis. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
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| 8/6/20 |  S2, Ep4 War Poetry | A reflection on poetry and the Great War, sampling the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour and our Armistice anthology - The Echoes Last So Long - with actors Eileen Atkins and Dan Stevens and poets Margaret Atwood, Tishani Doshi, Mererid Hopwood, Ulrike Almut Sandig and Owen Sheers. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 7/30/20 |  S2, Ep3 Artificial Intelligence | A very brief introduction to machine learning, neural networks, darkest fears and wild intelligence as dreamed into being by Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing. Garry Kasparov and Stephen Fry, Beth Singler, James Scott, Ian McEwan, Marcus du Sautoy, Nigel Shadbolt and Margaret Boden share insights into Artificial Intelligence, fiction and (then) fact. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 7/23/20 |  S2, Ep2 Romeo and Juliet | Could you have married your first love? Why does it matter who played Peter? What if Juliet wakes 27 lines earlier? Sarah Crossan, Germaine Greer, Abigail Rokison-Woodall, Erin Sullivan, Tahmima Anam and Stephen Fry share insights into Shakespeare’s play. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 7/16/20 |  S2, Ep1 Global Health | In this first episode of the new series we glean insight and analysis of the historical and contemporary context of pandemics, zoonotic disease, and international collaborations from experts Mary Dobson, Jeremy Farrar, Thomas J Bollyky, Devi Sridhar, Chelsea Clinton and Sally Davies. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 6/4/20 |  S1, Ep10 Hilary Mantel | The novelist Hilary Mantel discusses The Mirror and the Light, the third book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy with Peter Florence. The interview was recorded at Hay Festival Digital on 30 May 2020, where Hilary was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Prose. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 5/28/20 |  S1, Ep9 Gloria Steinem & Laura Bates | The legendary and deeply inspiring writer and activist Gloria Steinem discusses her memoir The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion with the founder of The Everyday Sexism Project. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 5/21/20 |  S1, Ep8 Michael Morpurgo | Michael Morpurgo’s compelling Hay Library Lecture is a marvel of storytelling, an impassioned argument for the rights of every child to have access to books and education, and a celebration of his novel I Believe in Unicorns. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 5/14/20 |  S1, Ep7 Matthew Francis and Daniel Hahn | Matthew Francis’ re-telling of the first four stories of the Welsh classic The Mabinogi is the first to situate it in poetry, and captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world. Permeating the whole sequence is a delight in the power of the imagination to transform human experience into works of tragedy, comedy and wonder. Chaired by Daniel Hahn. Francis’ new poetry collection WING is out now from Faber. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 5/7/20 |  S1, Ep6 Hallie Rubenhold | A conversation with the social historian Hallie Rubenhold describing how she mined untapped Victorian sources to illuminate the stories of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper in her Baillie Gifford Prize-winning The Five. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 4/30/20 |  S1, Ep5 Caitlin Moran | A compelling and hilarious rallying call for our times from journalist and superstar author Caitlin Moran tackling topics as pressing and diverse as a women only language, revolution, flawed heroes and the reasons the internet is like a drunken toddler, in conversation with Stephanie Merritt. Moran’s books include her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman, her two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and Moranifesto, and her novel, How to Build a Girl. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 4/23/20 |  S1, Ep4 Judi Dench and Richard Eyre | For #WorldBookDay, the day of Shakespeare’s birth, here's actress Judi Dench talking about her Shakespearean work and celebrating her album of great speeches, Exits and Entrances. The event is chaired by the great director Richard Eyre. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at publicity@hayfestival.org or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 4/16/20 |  S1, Ep3 Yuval Noah Harari | How did humans turn themselves from hustling African apes into the rulers of planet earth? The Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari looks at the secrets of our success and explores the themes of his bestselling debut Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind in conversation with Rosie Boycott in Cartagena de Indias in January 2016. Lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harari’s other books include Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, available at all good bookshops and libraries. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Join us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 4/9/20 |  S1, Ep2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists talks about how she discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She responds to his statement “I am a journalist above everything else” in an intriguing exploration of how imagination turns historical fact into fictional truths. The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
| 4/2/20 |  S1, Ep1 Stephen Fry and Philippe Sands | Stephen Fry and the international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discuss his award-winning book East West Street, a compelling family detective story and an exploration of the legal principles that defined the Nuremberg War Trials. The conversation is riveting and exacting and you’d expect that, of course. But it’s also hilarious, and the laughter is the light in this deep darkness. #ImagineTheWorld Our Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers | — | ||||||
| 4/1/20 |  Hay Festival Podcast Introduction | Festival Director, Peter Florence introduces the new podcast series where you can hear conversations from some of greatest writers and thinkers of our time. In the coming weeks, you will hear from Yuval Noah Harari, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Caitlin Moran, Judi Dench, Naomi Klein and many more, as we remix and recurate stories and conversations heard at our international festivals from Hay in Wales to Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. #ImagineTheWorld | — | ||||||
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