Hay Festival 2015: All clips
Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel
Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes and Peter Stothard on Mary Renault鈥檚 Greek historical novels
Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel- Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people
- Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews
- Sandi Toksvig on the need for equal representation for women
- Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta
- Germaine Greer: My best book
- Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch
- Meera Syal on The House of Hidden Mothers
- Dan and Peter Snow: Introduction to Waterloo
- David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo, Daniel Pioro and the Storyteller's Ensemble
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro
- Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons
- How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife
- Jenny Agutter: I saw a beautifully crafted character
- How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- Celia Imrie on the importance of being bored
- Terry Waite on the book he received from a sympathetic guard
- Terry Waite on finding humour in the darkest of places
- Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people
- Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university
- Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence
- Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks
- Vikram Seth reads his moving poem, Caged
- Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer
- Will Smith on working with Armando Iannucci
- Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians
- Neil Gaiman's favourite memory of Terry Pratchett
- Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change
- Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare
- Neil Gaiman: Why illustrators need to be good readers
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Neil Gaiman's dark secret: A biography of Duran Duran
- Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear
- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- Halcyon Halston days: William Banks-Blaney on the first super-designer
- Courr猫ges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Silk, sass and shimmer: William Banks-Blaney on Coco Chanel
- Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue
- Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in
- Rose Tremain's brush with Royalty
- Rose Tremain on The American Lover
- Mary Portas on growing up on the high street
- Anne Enright: It's nice to come home to a country I recognise
- Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy
- Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school
- John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity
- John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island
- Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'
- Jon Ronson on the Stanford prison experiment
- Jon Ronson: Can I interview you about your special brain anomaly?
- Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
- Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous
- Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse
- Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts
- Sheila Hancock on idealism
- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
- Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead
- Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony
- Germaine Greer: If the English are sane it's because their national playwright is Shakespeare
- Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans
- Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant
- Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told
- Celebrating difference: Andrew Solomon on parents of exceptional children
- James Rhodes' guide to love
- James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry
- Tenor Ian Bostridge on inspirational pictures and hurdy-gurdy music
- Irvine Welsh on 'Juice' Terry Lawson from A Decent Ride
- Stephen Fry on an unexpected Royal visit
- Stephen Fry on Francis Bacon and his 'little man'
- Stephen Fry on the Queen Mother's new television
- Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Cressida Cowell: You can be a writer
- Cressida Cowell: Could dragons be real?
- Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination
- 蜜芽传媒 Arts at Hay 2015
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner
- Alex Salmond
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Andrew O鈥橦agan
- Andrew Solomon
- Anne Enright
- Antonia Fraser
- Ben and David Crystal
- Call The Midwife
- Celia Imrie and Terry Waite
- Cressida Cowell
- Dan & Peter Snow
- David Mitchell
- Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Germaine Greer: Liberation
- Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Women
- Helen Macdonald
- Ian Bostridge
- Irvine Welsh
- James Rhodes
- John Boyne
- Jon Ronson
- Karen Armstrong
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests
- Mary Portas
- Meera Syal
- Michael Morpurgo, Alison Reid, Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller鈥檚 Ensemble
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
- Nigel Kennedy
- QI鈥檚 Greatest Hits
- Robert Macfarlane
- Rose Tremain
- Sandi Toksvig
- Sheila Hancock
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests
- Steve Punt, Will Smith and Marcus Brigstocke
- Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Peter Stothard
- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Vikram Seth
- William Banks-Blaney
- Yuval Noah Harari