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As Melvyn Bragg reminds us in his introduction to this year's programme, the Hay Festival has always taken pride in making new thoughts crackle into life. This year promises more surprises for the mind than ever before. There are the star attractions, of course – John le Carré makes his festival debut, Miranda Hart and Rupert Everett will grace the Wye valley with glamour and wit – but as exciting as those are debates that are impossible to predict. Hans Blix recalls his search for Weapons of Mass Destruction; Simon Schama invites teachers to discuss how we should learn history; Rowan Williams talks about religious imagery with Neil MacGregor; Watergate legend Carl Bernstein grapples with the freedom of the press.
While you digest such matters, follow in the footsteps of your meditative predecessors, William Wordsworth and Francis Kilvert, by walking in the Black Mountains - then spend the evening listening to Malian stars Amadou & Mariam, or to a piano solo by Philip Glass.
My personal recommendation? Make sure you catch the Cambridge lecture series, and the children's events at Hay Fever – Hay is for the curious, of every age and at any time. Welcome to our Haylights.
To book tickets, and to see the full programme, go to hayfestival.org/boxoffice.
You can also book tickets by calling 01497 822 629
Cressida Cowell: Programme for Primary Schools
For the third year running, the festival opens with two days of free events for schools. Aimed at complementing curriculum work, the events are nevertheless hosted by writers closer to children's hearts than the word "curriculum" suggests. The celebrated author of How to Train Your Dragon opens proceedings.
Venue: Wales Stage, Free but ticketed
Event: 2.
Molly Scott Cato and Polly Higgins
Creating a Resilient World
Is it possible to manage resources fairly and equitably? How self-reliant can a local economy be? What part should the law play in creating a resilient environment for all, and preventing over-exploitation by a few? A thoughtful event to open the festival.
Venue: Hay on Earth, £5
Lauren Child
Programme for Primary Schools
The much-loved author and illustrator of Charlie and Lola and the Ruby Redfort series shares tips on how to write stories, draw faces, and solve one or two mysteries in between. She joins Cressida Cowell (above), Korky Paul and Jeremy Strong, among others, for two days of free events for primary school children.
Venue: Digital Stage, Free but ticketed
Event 4.
Quentin Blake
The Hay Library Lecture: The Uses of Illustration
The work of Quentin Blake is as instantly recognisable as that of the other illustrator Blake, and he has also been an energetic creator of the texts. But, as his talk will make clear, his interests - and his work - go well beyond books.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £5 (or free to holders of a library card)
Event: 5.
Sandy Black
The Sustainable Fashion Handbook
One of the world's leading authorities in the field explores important questions about the fashion industry. Can it ever be truly sustainable?
Venue: Hay on Earth, £5
Event: 9.
Jane Davidson
Literature and Sustainability
For this year's lecture, the INSPIRE director asks how literary scholarship can engage with the sustainability debate.
Venue:Hay on Earth, £3
Noah and The Whale
Heart of Nowhere
The band release their fourth studio album in five years on May 6. Since their breakthrough single, "Five Years Time," in 2008, they have won over critics and fans with their catchy, pop-infused folk rock. Their previous album, Last Night On Earth, went platinum.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £18.50
John Bulmer talks to Revel Guest
The North
The photo-journalist and pioneer of colour photography shows and discusses his seminal 1960s reportage. Bulmer's black and white and colour photography offers a glimpse into the industrial heartlands untouched by the Swinging Sixties.
Venue: Starlight Stage, £5
Antony McDonald, David Pountney, Tom Service
Wagner 200 – Lohengrin
The day after the premiere, the WNO creative team and members of the cast discuss their bi-centenary production of Wagner's great opera. With Welsh National Opera
Venue: Digital Stage, £6
Event: 14.
John McCarthy talks to Sandi Toksvig
You Can't Hide the Sun: A Journey Through Israel and Palestine
The journalist travels from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Bedouin encampments of the Negev desert, and asks how humanity can endure in the face of relentless oppression. McCarthy will be able to draw on his own experience of five years in captivity in Lebanon with Brian Keenan between 1986 and 1991.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 16.
Dave Goulson
A Sting in the Tale
Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the descendants of a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century. The conversationalist describes his drive to reintroduce it to its native land and the consequences of extinction.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5.50
Elizabeth Day and Margaret Evison
Death of a Soldier
A session examining writing about the human experience of warfare. Evison discusses her award-winning account of the impact of the death of her young lieutenant son, Mark who had been serving in Afghanistan. Day's novel Home Fires is a fictional account of two generations of a family dealing with the reality of war.
Venue: Starlight, £5
Event 18.
Nick Robinson
The Inside Story
The BBC star political editor and author of Live from Downing Street focuses on Churchill, Thatcher and Blair in his examination of the fraught relationship between the media and the politicians. Neither feral nor beastly, but a subtle historian and a killer mimic.
Sponsored by Mr and Mrs Robin Herbert
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event 19.
Coming Up Roses: Cath Kidston talks to Lisa Armstrong
Cath Kidston's designs might be called retro, except that they have so come to define the look of our kitchens, our curtains and the bedrooms of our children that they have made a lasting mark on at least two new generations. In her books, such as Sew! and Patch!, she has shared the secrets of her craft. She has called her business "a glorified junk shop"; she will be in conversation with Lisa Armstrong about how she built an empire on shabby chic and turned car boot sales into a source of inspiration. Lisa is the fashion editor of The Daily Telegraph and the author of four novels, as well as the brains behind the invaluable Harper's Bazaar Fashion: Your Guide to Personal Style, which not only fits perfectly into your bag, but will also tell you how to choose it.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £7
Event: 20.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Echoes of a Vanished World: A Traveller's Lifetime in Pictures
The explorer and founder and president of Survival International, the world's leading organisation supporting tribal peoples, has been a tireless champion of their cause. He showcases his photographs, focusing on their homelands, which are fast being eroded by the modern world.
Sponsored by Mostlymaps.com
Venue: Digital Stage, £6
Event: 23.
John Whaite, Tom and Henry Herbert
Bake On
The 2012 Great British Bake Off champion is joined on stage by The Fabulous Baker Brothers. They share their experiences, celebrate the national obsession with all things doughy and design a 26th birthday cake for the festival. Chaired by Sarah Crompton.
Venue: Digital Stage, £7
Event: 26.
Rokia Traore
Beautiful Africa
The Malian world music superstar, who found fame under the guidance of Ali Farka Toure in the late Nineties, performs at Hay before heading to the Glastonbury and Womad festivals. Expect tracks off her latest album, Beautiful Africa, as well as classics. The first of three concerts this week honouring the people of Hay's twin town of Timbuktu.
Venue: Wales Stage, £15
Event: 27.
Christy Moore in concert
The 67-year-old Irish singer and songwriter, once named the country's greatest living musician, plays Hay and celebrates his 2011 album Folk Tale, the latest in his long and fruitful musical collaboration with Declan Sinnott. A compilation of old classics, it includes his famous rendition of "On Morecambe Bay" (christymoore.com).
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £28.50
Event: 30.
Elizabeth Chapman
The LSE Lecture – 100 Years and Counting
In 2013 The Women's Library joins forces with the LSE library to create an archive of the history of campaigning women. The Library Director explores some of the stories featured. Chaired by Gaby Wood.
With the London School of Economics
Venue: Google Big Tent, £5.50
Event: 31.
Rebecca Solnit
The Faraway Nearby
One summer, the author was bequeathed a hundred pounds of apricots from a neglected tree that her mother could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories, invitations and adventures. Chaired by Rosie Goldsmith.
Venue: Digital Stage, £6
Event: 33.
Mariella Frostrup and Guests
Mariella's Book Show at Hay
Mariella Frostrup interviews an exciting line up of authors and special guests at the festival in this exclusive recording by Sky Arts.
Watch Mariella's Book Show on Sky Arts 1 HD 8pm 30th May
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £7
Event: 35.
Sarah Churchwell talks to Sarah Crompton
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
The American-born academic tells the inside story of F Scott Fitzgerald's New York of 1922. With its speakeasies, high society and organised crime, it set the backdrop for the creation of Fitzgerald's great American novel.
Venue: Wales Stage, £6
Event 39.
Eric Schmidt: The New Digital Age
In his book The New Digital Age - written with Jared Cohen, Google's Head of Ideas - the co-founder of Google tackles the big questions about the world his work has transformed. Schmidt peers into the future of education, global security and the individual. If, as they say, "the internet is among the few things humans have built that they don't truly understand", this pioneer is our best hope of grasping its implications.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £10
Event: 40.
Will Self talks to Sarfraz Manzoor
Fictions - Experiment
The super-verbal and brilliantly inventive journalist and author discusses his Booker-shortlisted novel Umbrella, films of his work and the possibilities of the digital form.
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 45.
Melvyn Bragg
Fictions – Grace and Mary
Visiting his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, the protagonist of this new novel sets out to recreate their buried family history, delving into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother, Grace.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 46.
Anne Applebaum
Iron Curtain – The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
The Pulitzer-prize winning author of Gulag mines new archive material to chronicle Stalin's brutal evisceration of the civil societies newly liberated from Nazi occupation. Chaired by Oliver Bullough.
Sponsored by RPC
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 50.
Hugh Dennis talks to Marcus Brigstocke
Britty Britty Bang Bang
The Now Show and Outnumbered star muses on a self-confident, pluralist Olympic Britain – a country where a politician can dangle helplessly from a zip wire and gain in popularity and whose Jubilee Queen can send herself up and then descend by parachute.
Venue: Wales Stage, £9
Event: 56.
In Conversation: Caitlin Moran talks to India Knight
The Times columnist, and author of the fabulous How To Be A Woman and the Moranthology collection, shoots the breeze. It promises to be impassioned and political as well as tremendously funny.
Sponsored by Soho House
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 57.
Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Joanna Bourke, Patricia Tutt, Costas Douzinas
The Eric Hobsbawm Lecture: The Age of Anxieties
In this first lecture honouring Birkbeck College's late President, who died last October, four historians and political thinkers discuss the nature of his legacy and the writing of modern history.
In association with Birkbeck College
Venue: Wales Stage, £6
Event: 71.
Phil Jupitus
You're Probably Wondering Why I've Asked You Here
U-boat Captain, Welsh pornstar, Dutch roadie or noted broadcaster and comedian? Adult content delivered very childishly.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £13
Event 79.
Telegraph Question Time
The Telegraph's Question Time was a huge success at Hay last year. This year's event achieves what the BBC almost never does: by accident as much as design, all its members are women, including Jenny Abramsky (who was, until her retirement in 2008, the BBC's most senior woman employee). She joins the Telegraph's columnist Allison Pearson; the historian Lucy Worsley, and Joan Bakewell. Sarah Crompton chairs the debate.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £6
Event: 82.
Peter Stothard
Alexandria – The Last Nights of Cleopatra
The TLS editor, classicist and former editor of the Times – who was stranded in Alexandria in 2010 – explores his life-long fascination with Cleopatra. Amid the fracturing police state of Hosni Mubarak, before the uprising in Tahir Square, he reflects on Egyptian history.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5
Event: 89.
Hans Blix talks to Jon Snow
The Rotblat Lecture
This year's lecture is given by the Swedish politician and diplomat. As Head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspecting Commission, he led the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq between 2000 and 2003, finding none.
In association with the WMD Awareness Programme
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £10
Event: 92.
Colm Toibin and Nadeem Aslam
Fictions – Love and Death
The Testament of Mary is the Virgin's version of the life of Christ, the new novel by the author of Brooklyn. Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden is a novel set in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the months after 9/11.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £5.50
Event: 96.
Elif Shafak
The Raymond Williams Lecture
The acclaimed Turkish novelist develops her mesmerising exploration of writing and identity deriving from her fascination with the silent letter of her alphabet, The Ghost G.
In association with PEN International
Venue: Wales Stage, £7.50
Event: 97.
Daniel Dennett
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, Dennett offers thinking tools built for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. Chaired by AC Grayling.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £6
Event: 100.
Mohammad Yunus
The Hamlin Lecture
The Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize-winning pioneer of microfinance and founder of the Grameen Bank talks to Nicholas Stern.
Sponsored by OR-Consulting, 'The Art of Seeing Differently.'
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £10
Event: 103.
Jesse Norman
Edmund Burke
A compelling analysis and portrait of the eighteenth century theorist, subversive and founder of modern conservatism from the 2012 Parliamentarian of the Year.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event: 106.
Carl Bernstein
In Conversation
The journalist who – with Bob Woodward – broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post discusses the second-term Obama administration, and the resonant American anniversaries of Gettysburg, the end of the Vietnam War and JFK's assassination. With Peter Florence.
In association with Barclays
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £15
Edna O'Brien talks to Lee Brackstone
Country Girl
In her acclaimed autobiography, the novelist brings us face to face with a literary life full of high drama and contemplation. Along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, politicians and literary titans.
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 116.
George Saunders and James Salter talk to Gaby Wood
Fictions – American Beauty
Two of America's greatest fiction writers read and talk. Saunders introduces and reads from his wryly hilarious Tenth of December. Salter launches his novel, All That Is, which tells the story of a Second World War veteran trying to make his way as a book editor in a Manhattan on the verge of tremendous change.
Venue: Digital Stage, £6
Event: 121.
Hari Kunzru
Sky Arts Ignition - Memory Palace
This new exhibition brings together a piece of fiction by Kunzru with original art works by 20 international graphic designers, illustrators and typographers, exploring the power of memory. The author is joined by V&A curators to discuss how words and images interact, the power of memory and how stories are told.
In association with Sky Arts and the Victoria & Albert Museum
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event: 131.
Jack Straw talks to Peter Florence
Last Man Standing
A conversation with the plumbers-mate, lawyer, politician and memoirist, who spent 13 years at the heart of the New Labour government. He was Foreign Secretary at the time of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £6
Event: 143.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The historian traces his adventures in history from Stalin and the Borgias to Catherine the Great and Mrs Thatcher.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £6.50
Event: 144.
Stella Rimington talks to Gaby Wood
Fictions – Spooks
The former MI5 chief discusses The Geneva Trap, the latest of her Liz Carlyle spy novels, and the fictions and facts of espionage.
Venue: Wales Stage, £6.50
Event: 147.
Lucy Boyd talks to Monty Don
The Rose Gray Tabletalk – Kitchen Memories
Given in the name of the River Cafe founder, this year's foodie debate includes her daughter Lucy Boyd talking to Don, the head gardener at Petersham Nurseries.
Venue: Digital Stage, £6
Event 150.
Thomas Keneally
Fictions – The Great War: Thomas Keneally talks to Damian Barr
Throughout a career that goes back to 1964, Thomas Keneally has brought the past to life with shrewdness and compassion, in such works as The Tyrant's Novel, which vividly imagines life under Saddam Hussein, and Schindler's Ark – the basis of Stephen Spielberg's film. He will be discussing his latest, and, many have said, best book – The Daughters of Mars, now appearing in paperback. It is written on a huge canvas as it follows two sisters who become nurses and witness the horror of Gallipoli. The Telegraph's critic, James Walton, counted "seven wholly convincing love affairs".
Venue: Wales Tent, £7
Event: 152.
Katherine Boo talks to Rosie Boycott
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
This multi-award winning investigation into the under-city of Mumbai has become the benchmark for great writing about poverty and justice in 21st century India.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £5
Event: 154.
Edith Grossman
Why Translation Matters
The doyenne of literary translators, the English voice of Garcia Marquez, Cervantes, and Vargas Llosa, discusses her craft.
Venue: Hay on Earth, £5
Event: 149.
Martin Rees
A Post-Human Future?
The Astronomer Royal and former Royal Society President, who retired as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge last year, discusses his hopes and fears for the future, and speculates about more distant time-horizons, and a possible post-human era. With Cambridge University
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £6.50
Event: 155.
Stephanie Flanders
From fiscal cliffs to Triple Dips and Cypriot banks, the BBC Economics editor explains everything you ever wanted to know about economics but were afraid to ask. Expect clear and concise summaries of complex issues.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £9
Event: 158.
Chris Wells and Ian Ridpath
Navigating by the Stars
How did our mariner manage without digital GPS? Captain Wells, master of Cunard's QM2, traces the history of navigating the oceans by measuring the heavens using sextants and astrolabes. Author and broadcaster Ridpath, fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, explores the mythology surrounding key constellations.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £7
Event: 157.
Barbara Kingsolver talks to Ariane Koek
Flight Behaviour
The Orange Prize-winning author of The Lacuna, who was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for The Poisonwood Bible in 1998, discusses her suspenseful and brilliant new novel about catastrophe and denial set in the fictional town of Feathertown, in the Tennessee section of the Appalachian mountains.
Google Big Tent, £5
Event: 165.
Aminatta Forna and James Meek
Fictions – Scale
Forna's The Hired Man is a powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town. Meek's The Heart Broke In is a rich, ambitious family drama of love, death and money in the era of gene therapy and internet exposés.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5
Roger McGough
As Far As I Know
A reading of the new collection by the man hailed by Carol Ann Duffy as "the patron saint of poetry": "Take comfort from this / You have a book in your hand / not a loaded gun or a parking fine / or an invitation card to the wedding / of the one you should have married."
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 169.
Gareth Marsh and Victoria Broackes
David Bowie is at the V&A
The curators of this year's blockbuster retrospective exhibition provide an insight into the making of this innovative show, which traces Bowie's design collaborations and shifting style across five decades. See how David Jones from Brixton reinvented himself from Space Oddity to Ziggy Stardust and beyond, right up to his latest album, The Next Day.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £8
Event: 181.
Barry Cunliffe
Britain Begins
Using archaeological and DNA evidence, Cunliffe tells the remarkable story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the retreat of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC right through to the eve of the Norman Conquest.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £5.50
Event: 184.
Andy McNab
Bravo Two Zero
Twenty years on from the publication of his iconic tale of disaster and endurance in the first Iraq War, the Special Forces veteran revisits the compelling story with extensive new material. McNab will be talking to Paul Blezard, ex literary editor of The Lady.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 190.
Sarah Crompton and Lucy Moore
Dance Talk: Sadlers Well and Nijinsky
On the centenary of The Rite of Spring, Moore's Nijinsky captures the spirit of the great genius of 20th century ballet, his relationship with Diaghilev, the controversy of his radial choreography and his descent into madness. In Sadler's Wells Dance House, Crompton chronicles how this London theatre and its creative impulses have shaped the course of dance over the last two centuries from classical to hip hop.
Venue: Google's Big Tent, £6
Event: 189.
Daniel Swift
Shakespeare's Common Prayers – The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
In the prayer book's ambiguities and fierce contestations, Swift argues, William Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through a number of plays, Swift redirects scholarly attention to the religious heart of Shakespeare's work.
Venue: Wales Stage, £6
Event 196.
Rowan Williams and Neil MacGregor
Images of Faith: Help or Hindrance?
The former Archbishop, now de-mob happy and ready to take up the mastership of Magdalene College, Cambridge, will discuss iconography and the role images play in religion, with Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum – another public intellectual with a happy knack for making the arcane accessible.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £9
Event: 198.
Simon Horobin
Does Spelling Matter?
A professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and an expert on the language of Chaucer, Horobin offers a history of English spelling, from the Anglo-Saxons to the present day, and shows how tradition, modernity and technology have formed our language.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £5.50
Event: 199.
Rebecca Miller talks to Gaby Wood
Fictions - Past and Present
Miller's is a rare and quiet talent: she has written fiction and directed films, and even directed films of her own books. In Personal Velocity, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, she creates characters who indelibly haunting. In her new novel, Jacob's Folly, she introduces twin tales of Paris and New York and considers the hold of the past on the present, and the collision of fate and free will.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5
Event: 201.
John Sutherland and John Crace
The Two Johnnies do Sex and Marriage - from Austen to McEwan
Can literature show us how to have a good sex life and a successful marriage? Professor Sutherland, author of Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, and Digested Reads satirist John Crace, romp through the multiple bedrooms and letters of literature.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £6
Event: 202.
Con Coughlin
Churchill's First War – Young Winston and the Fight against the Taliban
The young cavalry lieutenant wrote a vivid account of his experiences fighting Pashtun tribesmen – the great-great grandfathers of today's insurgents – on the North West Frontier. The Telegraph's defence editor gives an insight into nineteenth-century military history but also throws light on a modern conflict that has lasted longer than the Second World War. Chaired by Mark Skipworth.
Venue: Wales Stage, £6
Event: 203.
Jenny Uglow
The Pinecone
The story of Sarah Losh – forgotton Romantic heroine, antiquarian, architect and visionary. Her masterpiece is the church in Wreay which is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £5.50
Event: 206
Simon Thurley
Men from The Ministry
Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed an impressive collection of more than 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public, thus establishing a modern state on deep historical and rural roots.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £6
Event: 212.
Jonathan Steinberg
A prize-winning portrait by an eminent historian of Prussia's charismatic and authoritarian Iron Chancellor. Bismarck dominated 19th Century Europe, uniting Germany between 1862 and 1890, and causing Kaiser Wilhelm to observe that "it was hard being Emperor under a man like Bismarck."
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event: 216.
What Happens When Your Twin Goes AWOL?
How did a small town in the Welsh borders come to be twinned with an ancient seat of learning on the edge of the Sahara? Members of the Welsh and Malian twinning teams discuss the challenges of last year and explore the possibilities of the future.
Venue: Hay on Earth, Free but ticketed
Event: 222.
Mary Fulbrook talks to Philippe Sands
A Small Town near Auschwitz
The town of Bedzin lies 25 miles from Auschwitz. The principal civilian administrator there, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews, yet he later claimed that he had 'known nothing about it'. His case is so important because it is so typical.
Venue: Wales Stage, £5.50
Event: 224.
Maggie O'Farrell and Rupert Thompson talk to Stephanie Merritt
FIctions – Secrets and Lies
Instructions for a Heatwave, the stunning new novel from Costa Novel Award winning writer O'Farrell, is a mystery portrait of an Irish family in crisis during the legendary heat wave of 1976. When Robert Riordan goes missing, it precipitates the return of his children to their family home. Thomson's Secrecy, meanwhile, is set in Florence in 1961. It is a love story, a murder mystery, and a portrait of a famous city in an age of austerity, but it is also an exercise in concealment and revelation.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5.50
Event: 229.
Kevin Maher, Taiye Selasi and Gavin Extence chaired by Chris White
Fictions – Watertsones 11
Debut novelists give us the freshest glimpses of a world in change. Taiye Selasi coined the term "Afropolitan"; her Ghanaian-Nigerian heritage, together with her American upbringing, helps to explain this vision, of an optimistic Africa looking forwards and outwards. Her novel, Ghana Must Go, traces a man's life from Massachusetts back to his roots in West Africa. The wry columnist Kevin Maher depicts an Ireland more able to confront its dark past in The Field, and Gavin Extence will talk about his own splendidly unpredictable world, as portrayed in The Universe Versus Alex Woods.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5
Event: 233.
Kathleen Taylor
The Brain Supremacy – Notes from the Frontiers of Neuroscience
Research funds are pouring into brain research but what does this relatively new science mean for us? Taylor looks at the promise of drugs that could boost our brainpower, at the potential for subtler marketing techniques and even at the prospect of machines that could read our minds, whilst analysing the science behind these claims.
Venue: Google's Big Tent, £7
2:30 and 5:30
Events 247 and 281 respectively.
Kate Humble
The broadcaster and farmer is the affable star of two events today. At 5:30, Humble, who has presented a number of wildlife and nature programmes for the BBC and written for this newspaper, tells the story of her relocation to a Welsh farm in order to realise a lifelong dream. Earlier in the day, she joins maths genius Marcus du Sautoy and environmentalist Mark Lynas to discuss how we might all power the UK. The title of the event? "Powering the Country: Marcus and Kate Try to Keep the Lights On". It should be an entertianing – not to say enlightening – struggle.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8 and £6
Event: 237.
Andrew Williams talks to Ed Vulliamy
In Our Name
Williams, who wrote A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa, talks to Vulliamy, author of Bosnia – The Reckoning, about the grotesque misconduct of war and the insidious moral corruption of everyone involved.
With Cambridge University
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 242.
Mark Price talks to Kamal Ahmed
Super Markets
After an annus horribilis for the major supermarkets, where questions about food sourcing and integrity have been continually raised, here is your opportunity to come and quiz the Waitrose MD on food and farming, ethical and essential consumption, partnership and price. Chaired by Kamal Ahmed, a Telegraph business editor.
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 243.
John Guy
The Children of Henry VIII
Henry fathered four living children, each by a different mother. Their inter-relationships were often scarred by jealousy, mutual distrust, sibling rivalry and even hatred. Possessed of quick wits and strong wills, their characters were defined partly by the educations they received, and partly by events over which they had no control.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event: 256.
Nikki Gemmell, Brooke Magnanti, Jojo Moyes and Linda Kelsey
Good Housekeeping Debate: Sex Changes Everything
Is erotica changing the literary landscape? Nikki Gemmell (The Bride Stripped Bare), Brooke Magnanti (Belle du Jour series) and Jojo Moyes (Me Before You) talk to Linda Kelsey, Good Housekeeping contributor and ex-editor of Cosmopolitan.
In association with Good Housekeeping
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £8
Event: 261.
Dara O'Briain
The comedian and champion of popular science brings his fabulous stand up show, Craic Dealer, to Hay. O'Briain has proved his ability to mix it with comedy's leading talents, hosting the panel show, Mock the Week. More recently he has presented Stargazing Live with Professor Brian Cox. You might just learn something whilst you laugh.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £26
Event: 268.
Guy Walters
The Real Great Escape
Roger Bushell masterminded an audacious attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel right under the noses of the guards of Stalag Luft III, a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 274.
Michael Vaughan
Blowing on the Ashes
As a formidable opening batsman, Ashes winning England Test captain, Telegraph columnist and author, Vaughan is well qualified to preview the Ashes series. Sponsored by Grant Thornton.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 287.
Owen Sheers in conversation with Carolyn Hitt
Calon – A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby
This year's Hay Festival International Fellow spent the last two years as "Artist in Residence" with the World Rugby Union, producing this astonishing book about sport, myth, nationhood and identity. Sheers is joined in conversation by the author of Wales Play in Red. Expect Wales' Six Nations triumph, in particular their 30-3 drubbing of England, to come up at some stage.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £7
Event: 288.
TJ Clark
Picasso and Truth – From Cubism to Guernica
The eminent art historian explores the battle between intimacy and monstrosity in Picasso's art of the 1920s and 1930s from The Blue Room to Guernica, possibly his most turbulent and creative period.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £7
Event: 286.
Simon Schama and teachers
Our Children, Our History
What kind of past is it that Michael Gove's proposed history curriculum offers to schoolchildren and their teachers? Can it be taught? Should it be taught? And what are the consequences for our national culture and identity? Free for teachers.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £5
Event: 294.
The Earl of March
The Goodwood Festival of Speed: The Earl of March talks to Mark Skipworth
For those with petrol flowing through their veins, Charles Gordon-Lennox, known better as Lord March, has nothing short of hero status. In 1993, he brought the roar of racing engines back to his Goodwood estate with the inaugural Festival of Speed. Back then 30,000 people turned up to what was in effect a garden party mixed with motorsport. In July this year, that garden party celebrates its 20th anniversary, and will play host to 185,000 visitors.
Knitting together the many and varied businesses on his estate – horseracing, organic farming, a hotel – is a daunting task. As Lord March described in The Aristocrats, a Channel 4 documentary screened over the winter: "The idea of us sitting here nicely in the library every day and reading the papers, just forget it; that's just not happening. If I'm sleeping fine every night then I'm not doing the job properly".
Venue: Google Big Tent £8
Event: 293.
Ed Stourton
Cruel Crossing – Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees
This is the shocking history of the hundreds of men, women and children who, despite malnutrition and exhaustion, made the arduous and desperate climb through the Pyrenees during the Second World War to escape the Nazis.
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 297.
Marcus du Sautoy
The Irrational, The Chaotic and the Incomplete
The brilliantly entertaining and inspiring Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science explores the mathematical limits of science.
With the Royal Society
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 298.
Oliver James
Office Politics
The psychologist and author of Affluenza offers a fascinating exposé of modern office life and suggestions on "How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks".
Venue: Google Big Tent, £6
Event: 300.
Glyn Maxwell talks to Simon Armitage
On Poetry
The poet discusses his literary philosophy - that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities: breath, heartbeat, footstep and posture.
Venue: Digital Stage, £7
Event: 308.
David Crystal
Spell It Out: the Singular Story of English Spelling
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton and his Flemish employees are to blame: in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears. The linguistics professor takes us on an epic journey to unearth the stories behind the rogue words that confound us. Sponsored by the Society of Indexers.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 314.
Sebastian Faulks talks to Gaby Wood
Fictions – A Possible Life
Faulks's dazzling new novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. In this open workshop he describes how he came to write it this way, and discusses his search for the language and form. Having written as Ian Fleming, and now working on a new Jeeves & Wooster book, Faulks is expert at finding other voices, as well as his own.
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 313.
Tom Holland
The London Library Lecture - Decline and Fall?
The historian, author of Rubicon and Persian Fire, explores whether the Romans had any comprehension that their empire could possibly fall. He attempts to identify a moment in history when the Roman Empire could be said definitively to have come to an end.
In association with the London Library
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 315.
Rhianna Pratchett
BAFTA presents Writing Games
The representation of women, both in games and the games industry, has been changing over the last few years, as more women become involved in the industry and audience expectations evolve. Come and meet Pratchett, the lead writer on the new Tomb Raider game. She played a key role in the re-imagination of the character, Lara Croft, long associated with stereotypical male fantasies. In association with BAFTA
Venue: Google Big Tent, £8
Event: 320.
Nick Harkaway
The Blind Giant
Is an age of isolation, warped communication and disintegrating communication destroying what it means to be human., or are we in an age of marvels? Ultimately the choice is ours: engage with the machines that we have created, or risk creating a world designed for corporations and computers rather than people.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event 324.
John le Carré
John le Carré talks to Philippe Sands
Opportunities to hear John le Carré speak are rare, but his eloquence is utterly captivating. This is his first visit to the Hay Festival, and he comes not only with his remarkable back-catalogue, including A Murder of Quality and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, but also a new novel, A Delicate Truth, about the intrigues within Whitehall and beyond surrounding a counter-terrorism operation. Telegraph readers will have an early chance to enjoy the whole of the first chapter on April 6.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £30
Event: 331.
John Boyne talks to Sarfraz Manzoor
This House is Haunted
The bestselling Irishman, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Absolutist introduces his new novel. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night… This Dickensian ghost story channels the spirit of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and will linger long in the imagination.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event: 334.
Alexander McCall Smith
Happy Birthday Precious Ramotswe
Join the party to celebrate fifteen years of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, which now comprises 13 novels, and catch up with favourite characters from Botswana, Scotland and beyond. A university lecturer, McCall Smith is as accomplished a speaker as he is with a pen in his hand.
Venue: Wales Stage, £9
Event: 340.
Philip Glass talks to John Berry
The Perfect American
An evening celebrating the UK premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass. The Perfect American imagines the final years of Walt Disney's life, including mythical imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol. In part 1 the composer will discuss this groundbreaking new work and will be joined by the Director, Phelim McDermott, ENO Artistic DIrector John Berry and members of the production team. The opera is designed by Dan Potra with video design by 59 Ltd. Chaired by Clemency Burton Hill.
In association with English National Opera
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £25
Barclays Pavilion
Philip Glass
Solo Piano
A solo piano recital from the American composer featuring music from his classic repertoire.
Event: 361.
Deborah Moggach talks to Peter Florence
The novelist discusses her recent projects, including the film adaptation of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the screenplay for Joe Wright's Anna Karenina and her new novel, Heartbreak Hotel.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 363.
Robert MacFarlane
In his new book, the acclaimed Cambridge academic and explorer uses a trip with Roger Deakin in 2005 as a starting point for a fresh examination of South Dorset's sandstone holloways.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £7
Event: 367.
Steve Jones
The Joy of Sects
The geneticist, author of The Serpent's Promise: the Bible Retold, looks beyond the "believers vs non-believers" debate to explore the shared mysteries of science and religion.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 374.
Rolf Heuer, Frank Close and Tara Shears
This year's keynote science lecture will be given by the Director General of the Cern laboratory, which announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson on July 4 last year. Followed by a discussion with physicists Frank Close and Tara Shears.
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 373.
Robert Lindsay talks to Fiona Lindsay
Other People
The actor discusses the influences on his craft from sitcom to Broadway.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £7
Event: 376.
Roy Strong talks to Peter Florence
Self Portrait as a Young Man
The makings of the man - from a North London suburb to one of the most charismatic sensibilities of the 20th century arts world.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £7
Event: 379.
William Dalrymple
The Return of a King
The historian tells the story of British forces as they invade Afghanistan in 1839 and re-establish Shah Shuia ul-Mulk on the throne. After early successes, the British started to suffer as Afghan jihadis fought back, and were eventually forced into their most humiliating retreat of the 19th century.
Sponsored by Lawrence & Elizabeth Banks
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £9
Event: 380.
Rose Tremain talks to John Mullan
Fictions – Merivel
The novelist discusses her new book, in which she brings back the hero of Restoration, Sir Robert Merivel. The physician, and courtier to Charles II, faces up to the anxieties and agitations of middle age.
Part of the British Council Series
Venue: Wales Stage, £6
Event: 385.
Antonia Fraser talks to Simon Jenkins
Perilous Question
The historian's new book explores the period between 1830 and 1832, when the most landed Cabinet in history undertook a series of sweeping reforms to bring liberty to Britain, culminating in the Great Reform Act.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 392
Rupert Everett
Vanished Years: Rupert Everett talks to Paul Blezard
For those who watched the early phases of Rupert Everett's career wondering if he had talent or taste (neither of which explain what he was doing in films with Jennifer Aniston or Madonna) his books bring the answer. Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins and The Vanished Years have won him a reputation as a writer to savour, not least for his catty, polished put-downs. However delicious the gossip, there is more to his work (even) than that: here are reflections on fame, family, moral compromise and memory, and he manages to be especially lacerating about his own meandering career. This is the most literary kind of celebrity memoir, with the sort of lush cover that somehow manages to work on a coffee table, and which would surely please the most discerning reader as a present (so long as you're not bffs with Jennifer Aniston, or Madonna).
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £10
Event: 396.
Robin Lustig talks to Phillipe Sands
The Veteran broadcaster, anchor of The World Tonight, reflects on his 23 years at the BBC, the management of news and the Corporation in crisis.
Venue: Starlight, £6
Event: 394.
Paul Theroux talks to Gaby Wood
The Last Train to Zona Verde – Overland from Cape Town to Angola
In what he feels will be his last African journey, Theroux sets out from Cape Town townships into the Namibian bush, to find a world increasingly removed from tourist itineraries.
Venue: Wales Stage, £8
Event 399.
Irvine Welsh talks to Stephanie Merritt
Trainspotting At 20
The Scottish novelist celebrates the 20th anniversary of his iconic book, and discusses his recently published prequel Skagboys.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £10
Event: 404.
Jo Brand
The unmistakable Bafta-winning comedian and actor, star of Getting On and a firm festival favourite, returns for a live stand-up performance. Hilarity and plenty of rudeness guaranteed.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £17
Event: 406.
Jonathan Dimbleby
Destiny in the Desert
The historian discusses the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle of El Alamein in November 1942. Widely regarded as one of the Allies' greatest land victories of the Second World War, the battle turned the tide of the conflict in the Mediterranean and ensured Viscount Montgomery's place in British history.
Sponsored by Nic & Sukie Paravicini
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 409.
Rob Penn
The Wild Woods
A year ago, Rob Penn took over the job of managing Strawberry Cottage Wood, 50 acres of abandoned woodland at the entrance to Llanthony Valley in the Brecon Beacons. He discusses his experiences, looking at how we can make them pay as well as how we can value them in non-economic ways.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event: 416.
NoViolet Bulawayo and Meike Ziervogel talk to Gaby Wood
Fictions – Elsewhere
In We Need New Names, the Zimbabwean novelist explores the process of leaving a country in dire trouble for the comforts of the West. Ziervogel's Magda looks at the relationships of Joseph Goebbels' wife.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5
Event: 418.
Monty Don
The Road to Le Tholonet
In his latest book and BBC series, Monty Don tours the gardens of France. He takes in everywhere from Versailles to the kitchen gardens of the Michelin-starred chef Alain Passard. Along the way he takes in potagers, back gardens and allotments.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £8
Event: 425.
Vikas Swarup
The Accidental Apprentice
In his new novel, the author of Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of Sapna Sinha, a young girl from Delhi who must pass seven tests to become the heir to one of India's biggest companies, after she is approached by a man claiming to be its CEO.
Venue: Wales Stage, £6
Event: 427.
Roy Hattersley
The Devonshires
Hattersley tells the story of the first eight Dukes of Devonshire. From 1381, when Sir John Cavendish was killed during the Peasants Revolt, to 1906, when the Duke's resignation brought down the Tory government, the Cavendish family's extraordinary history has mirrored the fortunes and misfortunes of the nation.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £7
Event: 426.
Nick Ross
Crime: How To Solve It and Why So Much of What We're Told is Wrong
The broadcaster who founded the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at UCL challenges our assumptions about crime and what causes it.
Venue: Google Big Tent, £7
Event: 428.
Michael Jacobs
The Robber of Memories
The Magdalena river is considered by some to be the most dangerous route in Colombia. On a journey down its length, Jacobs is captured by the Farc, has a chance encounter with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and reflects on memory, identity and the nature of mystery.
Venue: Digital Stage, £5
Event: 431.
Cerys Matthews
Hook, Line and Singer
The singer and guitarist introduces her celebratory journey exploring songs, lullabies and ballads from family life through the centuries.
Presented by The Sound Castle
Venue: Wales Stage, £7
Event: 434.
Kevin Fong
The anaesthetist and television presenter shares his experience of extreme medical practices, where human life is often held in the balance. On television he routinely uses his own body to test certain techniques, so he has a stock of experiential anecdote to draw on, as well as professional knowledge.
Venue: Sky Arts Studio, £6
Event 437
Miranda Hart
Miranda, in conversation
Miranda Hart, whose performances in Call the Midwife are revelations, is the author of Is It Just Me? in which she pinpoints the silliness she so often finds in life with top-drawer prose: the relaxed, improvised feel to her musings are likely to appeal to anyone, no matter which side of the "Is her sitcom reliably funny?" debate they're on. This is a chance to encounter the persona her most loyal fans will remember from her Radio 2 show, Miranda's Joke Shop.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £16
Event: 443.
Alan Davies
Life is Pain
For the past ten years, the comedian and actor has stayed away from live stand-up, instead sticking to much-loved roles as the magician's assistant Jonathan Creek and the whipping boy of the other panellists on QI. He returns to the stage to close out the festival with a well-reviewed new show, in which he addresses the trials and tribulations of middle age.
Venue: Barclays Pavilion, £27
To book tickets, and to read the full programme, go to hayfestival.org/boxoffice
You can also book by phoning 01497 822 629


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Backpacking Missouri
The Kansas City Public Library and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources present a series of five programs in March that highlight many of the recreational offerings available in the state of Missouri.
In the fourth of five programs, Jim Yancy discusses backpacking in general and the backpacking opportunities available in Missouri in a talk titled Backpacking in Missouri's State Parks on Tuesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Yancy will demonstrate the proper use of some essential backpacking gear and will provide a multi-media look at some of the best parks for backpacking and sightseeing.
The final event in the Experiencing Missouri series is Fishing Missouri on Tuesday, March 31.
Admission is free. Click here or call 816.701.3407 to RSVP. Free parking is available in the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore.
The series complements the Painting Missouri exhibit now on display at the Central Library. Painting Missouri is a collection of 115 oil paintings by internationally known artist Billyo O'Donnell depicting all 114 Missouri counties and the city of St. Louis. The exhibit is on display through May 3rd at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.


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Ulysses (or "Youwussies" as a surly Joyce would say, berating his weak-kneed friends such as captain spock) is a novel/Captain's Log/Telephone Book/Menu/Cookbook/Zionist Tract written, during a seven year drinking binge, poofboy kunterson. The book is considered one of the greatest acts of plagiarism ever created by single man (though Joyce was convinced, for several years of his early life, that he was Franciscan Nun called Mary). The original manuscript is made up of various cut-outs and clippings from the gargantuan amount of Teen magazines and pornographic novels Joyce had stolen from numerous places throughout Europe.
Critics and several species of chimpanzees consider Ulysses to be one of the greatest novels ever "written". Others, usually the ones not bribed by Joyce, consider it a dirty con engineered by a sly confidence man looking to make his mark on the streets.
Conservatives dislike Ulysses for its lewd subject matter. Weaklings dislike the book for its burdensome weight.
Always the perfectionist, Joyce only worked on Ulysses when standing on his head and post-coital. Joyce disliked working without some background noise, so he asked Samuel Beckett to sit in wicker chair behind him and moan over the pessimistic nature of human existence. Joyce found this deeply arousing.
The first half of the book was completed in March 1918. Joyce then gave the completed half to a one-legged chicken farmer who buried it in the middle of field two miles outside Lyons. Joyce found this deeply arousing.
When the second half of the book was completed in early 1922, Joyce had the two halves welded together in a bicycle shop in Zurich. Present at this event was Nora Joyce, The Artist Formerly Known As Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot accompanied by Macavity the Mystery Cat, and the mayor of Zurich (though it was later discovered he was only present to use the bathroom). Joyce found this deeply arousing.
The book completed, Joyce went looking for a publisher. He did this by forming his own Country Western band (Jim Joyce and the South Navan Buckaroos) which preformed in the streets of Paris. Though he and his band got a six album deal with EMI, no publisher would accept Ulysses. But it was during this time that Joyce was being stalked by William Faulkner. Disgruntled by this, Joyce fired a copy of Ulysses at Faulkner, killing him instantly. As he lay dead, effusing alcohol through his ears like a sinewy stream in autumn in Mississippi, Faulkner's corpse drew the attention of Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare and Co. book shop and publisher. Beach realised immediately that Faulkner was out, and Joyce was in. She agreed to publish Ulysses. Joyce found this deeply arousing.
Plot Summary[edit]
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(Warning! Do not attempt to summarise a piece of 20th Century Modernist Literature without wearing gloves.)
Episode One[edit]
"Telemachus, or How James Joyce Learned To Stop Worrying and Started To Love the (your) Mom"
Stately plump Uck Ulyssesigan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
-- There she was, just a walkin' down the street, singing "Do-Wah-Diddy Diddy-Dom Diddy-Do!"
Halted he peered behind him at the winding staircase and shouted:
-- Come up Joyce, you fearful Jesusit!
Emerging from the stairhead now was the young James Joyce, sullen and gloomy. He stopped abruptly at the top of the stairway.
-- Don't be afraid of the cold Joyce, said Ulyssesigan, It's the fresh air of the snotgreen scrotumtightening sea.
-- I've got better things to be doing than freezing my balls off, replied Joyce.
-- Like what?
-- Your Mom.
Episode Two[edit]
--What's a pier? What about Pyrrhus? ANSWER ME KENNY YOU DOLT!
--I'm too stupid to add. Teach me O glorious one. DO you know the way to San Jose?
--I'm too stupid to save money. Teach me frugality ya tight arsed bastard. Are you listening Kenny
--I'm God, shouting in the streets. I am woman hear me roar. Give me drugs I am crackwhore
--I hate jews. Everybody persecutes Jews. Except for Ireland. She never let them in. Ha. HA. HA HA HA.
Episode Three[edit]
Stephen walks on the beach. Pondering with the aid of LSD takes place
Note: There is speculation that in Episode Three, Dedalus fell asleep on the beach and the rest of book was just a dream.
Episode Four[edit]
Ulysses walks in onto a horrid scene. Bodies are scattered about.
Ulysses talks for a hundred pages about the previous three episodes, then summarizes the fourth episode.
Episode Five[edit]
"The Lotus Eaters"
At this portion of the novel, it appears that Joyce has assumed the reader has stopped reading Ulysses long ago, and thus the first thirty pages of this section simply consist of "asdf asdf asdf. "
At the end of the section, Joyce enigmatically writes "I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle," an obvious anachronism that has led many scholars to believe that Joyce may potentially be a time travelling robot, sent back from the future to eliminate Sarah Connor.
Episode Five is also known for its stream-of-consciousness format.


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Grand Tour of the Cosmos (SOLD OUT)
50 St. George Street
April 25, 2019
Showtimes: 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Rocket away from the Earth on a tour through our solar system and beyond. Starting with highlights from the Toronto night sky, this show will take you on an epic cosmic journey. We'll follow human spacecraft on their visits to the planets and moons of the solar system, then warp far beyond the furthest reaches of human exploration to visit exoplanets, galaxies, quasars, and the very edge of the observable universe. This show is intended for audiences aged 8 and older, although families with younger children are welcome to attend.
There are no refunds or exchanges available for these tickets. Please make certain that the date and time of the show work well for you before reserving tickets.
If you have questions, please contact us at email@example.com
Please arrive 10 minutes before your show. To ensure the best experience for guests during shows, the doors to the planetarium will be closed and locked to outside entry for the duration of each show. If you arrive after the scheduled start time of your show, you will not be able to enter the planetarium and your ticket will not be refunded or transferred to another show.
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed, glabrous or hairy, rarely glandular, generally rhizomed
Stem sprawling, climbing, or erect; stem angled, flanged, or winged
Leaves even-1-pinnate; stipules persistent, upper lobe > lower; main axis ending as a tendril or short bristle; leaflets 016, ± opposite or alternate, linear to widely ovate
Inflorescence: raceme, generally axillary, 1many-flowered
Flower: upper calyx lobes generally < and wider than lower; corolla 830 mm, pink-purple or pale, sometimes white or yellow; 9 filaments fused, 1 free; style flat, finely hairy on concave side
Fruit dehiscent, oblong, ± flat
Species in genus: ± 150 species: temp North America, Eurasia
Etymology: (Ancient Greek name)
Reference: [Broich 1987 Syst Bot 12:139153]
Some species variable, intergrading with others; some hybridization probable.
Seeds of most alien species. TOXIC to humans (especially young males) and livestock (especially horses).
Perennial, generally glabrous or ± puberulentSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stem angled, flanged, or narrowly winged
Leaf: stipules lanceolate, lower lobe conspicuous; leaflets generally 6, sometimes 4 or 8, opposite, 2.55.5 cm, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate; tendril branched, coiled
Inflorescence 36-flowered
Flower: calyx tube ± = lower lobes; corolla 1520 mm, banner bent ± 90°, pink-purple or purple, rarely white
Fruit glabrous or initially glandular
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: UNCOMMON Moist coastal areas
Elevation: generally < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: n North Coast
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STOCK, Sweden, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Researchers say Russia intentionally withheld information about a Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
The assertion is based on a new book, "Secrets of the Third Reich Diplomacy," which includes transcripts of interrogations of German diplomats imprisoned after World War II by the Soviet Union, including the cellmate of the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, The Local in Sweden reports.
"This ranks as one of the most significant findings in the Raoul Wallenberg case in the last 50 years," historian Susanne Berger told The Local.
From 1945 to 1947, Willy Rodel was the cellmate of Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from being sent to Nazi death camps while working as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest during the Soviet occupation of the Hungarian capital.
Historian Vadim Birstein, a Russian-born researcher who now lives in the United States, said Russia's Federal Security Service, the KGB's successor, had long told him and Berger a file on Rodel's investigation did not exist. The FSS published the book.
The statements by Rodel are from before the period he shared a cell with Wallenberg but came in the same 549-page file including other information about Rodel. The researchers had been told those pages were 543 to 549, which would make Rodel's the last case in the file.
The newly surfaced statements are on pages 477 to 484, which has led Berger and Birstein to conclude there may be 57 additional pages Russians had claimed didn't exist that have yet to be released.
"If the early statements made by Willy Rodel in Soviet imprisonment survived even though Russian officials have told us adamantly for two decades that they did not, we cannot help but wonder if Rodel's interrogations dating from the time he was held together with Raoul Wallenberg also continue to exist," Berger and Birstein said in a statement.
Soviet and Russian officials have said Wallenberg died in Soviet custody in 1947 but family members and experts doubt that, The Local said.


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- Have you ever watched someone turn into an OCP Roadie from scratch? Several people I know (various mailing lists, work, etc.) have -- over the last year or so -- gone from non-cyclists to wannabe racer superheroes complete with snide remarks, battling more for points of money spent and intellectual blows delivered than the number of races they can win. I'm not sure I'd call it evolution, but it's an interesting process to watch some of them interact with the others. A quick little jab about age or experience or number of miles ridden or an average speed (on the rollers/trainer this time of year, of course). It's kind of funny to watch the testosterone fly around in the wake of an inferiority complex.
- Yes, one or more of the people I am talking about might actually be reading this. I don't hate you, I promise. It provides me with entertainment. If you're a CAT 3 or better, I'm not talking about you.
- No, I'm not jealous, other than I wish I was riding my bike today.
- It's really funny to listen to cow-orkers whine about the recent gas price increase while I sit here in my sphere of smug. I love smugness. And I didn't even need to buy a canvas sack at the grocery store that was made in a Chinese sweatshop to get my smug on. Smugness sans rabid consumerism = Awesome.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Snarky Observations
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- dvicci said...
Oh yes. I found myself having tendencies towards being an OCP Roadie on a time. I've since realized that I'll probably never race, will probably never want to, and would probably suck with ferver if I tried. The people I've met who do race, or have aspirations to race haven't impressed me.
You nailed it by tying it to an inferiority complex.
My average speed is slow. Especially on my commuter, but even on my fancy schmancy Torelli.
My clothes don't match. Some of them don't even fit.
My helmet, while relatively expensive, is old and probably needs replacing. It's plain white, too. Imagine the horror.
I've been riding off and on for 30 years and I still don't know how to track stand. Just like I refuse to learn Hotel California on guitar, I refuse to learn how to track stand. I can clip in just fine most times, and sometimes, I like to relax at the stops.
I ride because it's fun. Trying to impress people takes away from that enjoyment as sure as a 40mph headwind at 15°F.
- February 28, 2008 12:19 PM
- Sirrus Rider said...
Yeah.. I've noticed it on the road sub-board of the bikeforums site. They jumped down my throat the first day I was there when I suggested that the road bike segment of biking was driven by the fantasy of professional racing. Ergo road bikers wear shoes they can't walk in, force themselves to carry water bottles that make them either have to stop to hydrate or remove their hands from the bars while in traffic. More of them need to embrace practical cycling. I get amused when I'm on an organized ride and only myself and hybrid/MTB Hybridized guys can walk around without flopping around and staggering..
- February 28, 2008 1:13 PM
- Yokota Fritz said...
Don't look now, but it looks like Sirrus also is more than a little smug! "LOOK AT ME! I'M A UTILITY CYCLIST AND THUS I'M INHERENTLY BETTER THAN YOU!"
- February 28, 2008 9:42 PM
- martinoffroad said...
I think I pretty much resemble a person with OCP, even though I have raced a few races, participated in a handful of du's and tri's I think keep my feet firmly on the ground and not reaching for something I am not, I am approachable and I will show respect for anyone riding a bike, we are started somewhere and if you lose sight of how it was when you first started, you then lose sight of what riding is all about. I wear matching attire and keep my bike clean, whether its a ride around the block, commuting to work or on a group ride on the weekend, its all about how I feel when I am turning the pedals...in the words of Billy Crystal playing Fernando Llamas on SNL, I like people to see me and say, "You look mahvelous." Besides "It's better to look good than to feel good.".
- February 29, 2008 8:57 AM
- Noah said...
It was kind of funny, Chuck. With a name like Martinoffroad I was expecting to find a gritty mountain biker when I ran into you at Longview Lake. Nope, definitely a roadie.
You're not constantly taking cheap jabs at people's inferior gear or choice of bike, though. You might look OCP, but you don't fit the bill all the way.
- February 29, 2008 2:59 PM
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Fraternal twins LouAnne and Seretta's days of serving ghastly glop to ungrateful high school students are numbered when their recipe lands them a job as personal chefs for the object of their adoration, Johnny Depp.
The sisters' road out of their hellish circumstances, however, is wrought with obstacles: travel expenses, a stingy school principal with impossible expectations and torment at the hands of an instantly insufferable head cheerleader.
Invoking the wisdom of their idol, the sisters ask themselves "WWJD?"-"What Would Johnny Do?"- in "Lunch Ladies," a short film written and produced by Hastings native Clarissa Jacobson.
A showing of "Lunch Ladies" will follow the premier of "Leatherface," a much-anticipated feature film showing in only 10 cities, at the late October Nightmares Film Festival in Ohio.
The film will also show at the HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood and Tulsa American Film Festival, where Jacobson said she hopes to gain interest in funding a feature-length film.
Dark humor
A grisly twist in "Lunch Ladies" does little to dampen the film's humor.
The script marks the first dark comedy for Jacobson, whose repertoire includes several comedy screenplays.
Her interest in more macabre themes first manifested in a screenplay she wrote about Elizabeth Bathory, a 17th century Hungarian countess credited as history's most prolific female murderer.
"I didn't think I knew much about writing horror, but I went to my screenwriting class with a lot of ideas," she said. "It's fun to write in that dark place."
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Although Jacobson started as an actress, earning a degree in theater and training with American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, she said she "didn't really like being looked at."
"I wasn't part of the thespian club, I didn't really relate to that," Jacobson said. "At the time, it was very clique-y, but I tried out for a lot of plays. Speech team was my thing. I'd go every weekend; I was in creative expression and I wrote all my speeches."
A "weird series of events" led Jacobson to write her first screenplay, which she submitted to a competition in New York City. That process introduced her to a writing coach who offered her a free class, which sparked her leap to screenwriting.
Family legacy
Jacobson said she drew inspiration for "Lunch Ladies" from her father, lauded outdoors author Cliff Jacobson, who penned more than a dozen books on camping and canoeing.
She described the film as a part "ode" to her father, who taught high school for almost 30 years, as well as cafeteria staff.
Tasked with serving edible meals on a miniscule budget, Clarissa said lunch ladies "have the hardest job in the world," for which they rarely receive due credit.
"I love the idea of the classic underdog," she said. "Everyone's against them and you get to live vicariously through them when their dream comes true."
Her father also helped her brainstorm names for the characters - Seretta was the first girl he kissed, while LouAnne was a lunch lady in his childhood cafeteria.
Although "Lunch Ladies" doesn't land within the genre of movies Cliff would watch, he said it's one that everyone can enjoy.
"I basically don't like horror films, and I don't like comedy that much, but it's a great little film - all of a sudden I thought, 'Where did the time go?'" he said. "She writes brilliantly, and I'm very, very proud of her."
More information about the movie is available at www.lunchladiesmovie.com.


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Is One Guitar Enough?
Is One Guitar Enough?
The answer is simple: no. No, one guitar is not enough. Here's why.
Different Guitars = Different Vibe
Perhaps you really do want every one of your songs, and every part within a song, to sound exactly alike. Hey, we understand that you want consistency, and that's okay. But the reality is that it's likely your music deserves better than that. You might have a song that is edgy and bright, and another one that's deep and dark. A big step in achieving the different moods of a song is through a variety of tones and styles you can much more easily get on different guitars than you can using just one. Also, there's a technical reason for using different guitars on a single song: phase. A multitude of tracks using the same instrument will often cause phase cancellation. All of a sudden, those great tones that sounded so good on their own start to become weak and small because the sound of that one guitar is being cancelled out by the layers of the same guitar on the same track.
Many players use more than one tuning these days. Some dial the whole guitar down a full step (D tuning), or two steps (C tuning), or more. Much more. Others use alternate tunings like DADGAD, or Drop D, and so on. It obvious that standing there onstage while you retune your guitars isn't the makings of a good show. In the studio, having to constantly tune and retune your guitars isn't the best creative situation, and also leads to premature string death from the constant changing of string tension (and it's not all that great for the guitar either). Having a few guitars around means you can keep one for a particular tuning you use often, and have the other to instantly go back to your standard tuning as needed.
Maybe you have one guitar, and that's your style, your vibe, whatever you want to call it. The look of you standing onstage with that one guitar is what you want on posters and magazines around the world. But the reality is that different songs (or different bands you might be in) each call for their own feel. Note that most of your favorite guitarists likely turn to a variety of different axes for different songs they do. There's a reason for that; they choose the best tool for each job they take on.
Since nearly all of us at ESP are musicians, we know what it feels like to get inspired by picking up a diferent instrument now and then. Sometimes when you're stuck in a creative rut, turning to the same chord types and scales over and over again, the fastest way to break out into a new playing mode is to pick up a new guitar. Sometimes, the act of trying a different guitar or bass will literally lead you into writing a new song, based on the inspiration of the different feel of the neck, the weight of the body, the tone of the pickups, and more.
What If I Can't Afford Multiple Guitars?
Then you're like most musicians, and we're sure you'll make the best with what you have available to you. But ultimately, if you're serious about your music, at some point you're going to find a way to get that second (or third, fourth, and so on) guitar or bass that will keep your sound fresh and keep you inspired to do more and more cool stuff.
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Yesterday I thought that Barack Obama was probably the worst President in the entire history of the USA given his record on unemployment and Gross Domestic Product since he has been in office. But, then again, on second thoughts, he may be the only President that he could have been. The President in the USA is no longer the President since the office is just an empty shell, the fall-out fell long ago and the strings just get pulled for arms to wave and smiles to form. Long ago, back when Ronald Reagan took office he was the laughable derision of many a mirth-maker around the planet for being the actor, the far-west guy, that had a pea-sized brain and that made crass jokes about how he was going to push the button and blast the USSR off the planet. He was the guy who had a wife that did nothing but fall of podiums and stages; the stooges. But, all that time the cinema acting was just play and Barack was a youngster waiting in the wings, preparing his own entry onto the stage, to strut and fret his hour in front of the world. But, his acting school was much more insidiously secret than Reagan's. Obama's not the worst President of the USA.
He's nothing today but that actor, simply because the US has lost all notion of democracy.
Obama just acts for the shop-front window-dressing game that is played out on television and in the mainstream media. It's the others that are running the country. They are the ones that are mightily more powerful than any president will ever manage to be in the future, unless a dictator pops out of the wings and runs on stage to pull the final curtain. The spy-agencies, the National Security Agency, the private interest groups and the lobbies run the United States of America today, not Obama, not anyone else. Throw in a little bit of Wall Street and the Bankster Gangsters and hey presto we have a Republic. But, it's a republic in which bananas have been replaced by other such commodities as gold, or steel or gas and petrol, but the government employees are no less influenced to illegitimately exploit their positions to further their own personal gains, while the workers of the country actually pay back the sums that are siphoned off, embezzled and fraudulently obtained.
The media no longer reports on what is going wrong in the puppet-show as they have already suffered the consequences of an embittered NSA that has wrapped them over the knuckles in a stance that would liken them to patriots turned bad. Edward Snowden has just made a statement that accuses the National Security Agency of drawing up a list of journalists that were critical of the US state in the wake of 9/11.
In an interview to the New York Times Magazine he declared: "After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in American abdicated their role as a check to power – the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government – for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism".
Heightened nationalism and extended patriotism in the USA is the order of the day. Fall into line, or the guys that pull the strings on the puppet will target you.
Paul Craig Roberts, economist and former Assistant secretary of the Treasury under the Reagan Administration, believes that the US is a 'lawless' state in which 'humanity is drowning in Washington's criminality'.
James Risen, the New York Times national security reporter risks being jailed for refusing to provide the name of a source. A court of appeal in Virginia has just ordered that a journalist must provide a source upon request from the state and that puts journalism on a bad footing for the future. Risen says he'll stand by his convictions and go to prison if it comes down to that. The US administration has turned into a ministry of propaganda and a mouthpiece for the organs that stand behind the President.
The US administration has closed down embassies around the world and shipped the diplomats out, packing up and fleeing. The attack on the United States is so imminent that for the first time in history the US has fled? Really?
But, hang on, Al-Qaeda was done and dusted ages ago we were told when the government of the United States and President Obama announced that Bin Laden was dead, back in 2011. But, now the National Security Agency is justified in listening in on us. Without them, millions of Americans might have suffered around the world. I'm with you, now! The imminently 'strategically-significant' attacks caused 21 embassies to be closed. Then 9 reopened the following day.
James R. Clapper, the Director of the National Intelligence Agency itself, apologized not so long ago for lying to Congress about the activities of the NSA. When asked if the NSA collected data on millions of Americans he replied that "no, Sir" it did not. Clapper is still in his position at the head of the National Intelligence Agency, but it's hardly likely to change. Who would boot him out? It's one of the agencies running the show.
We should have realized long ago when Ben Bernanke said to Senator (when asked to whom $2.2 trillion had been lent in the bail-out program) just one short, sharp word: "No". Back then in 2009, it was Congress that had lost the battle and the Federal Reserve that had thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of the American people.
The Federal Reserve was no longer accountable to anybody, let alone those that had been elected by the people, for the people. But the Gettysburg Address is only history, isn't it? Impotency comes with old age, so we are told and Congress was getting on a bit, wasn't it?
The Americans are immensely proud of their country. Their nation was constructed on an idea of unity in diversity. Being diverse meant that they had to hold on to one thing. That one thing was incarnated in the body of the imaginary Presidential ideal. But, that's long gone. Although the pride exists and lingers on still today, but the only unity is that of repaying the national debt of close to $17 trillion. Although, Professor Lawrence Kotlikoff of the University of Boston has estimated that this figure too is pure wool-over-our-eyes fantasy. The real national debt, when we have included the full cost of unfunded liabilities such as Medicare and the Social Security programs, then we reach about $222 trillion in national debt.
Obama the worst President? Probably not in the light of the fact that he isn't President and nobody will be unless the system is modified. But, we love a scapegoat. We defend the underdog. How many of us have stood our ground and defended the banksters that were sent down for billions, the guys that have brought down the banks? How many of us have said that it was unfairly contemptible to condemn one single man as the lone wolf, the agitator of the banks' crimes? How many of us have seen the Kerviel-ing of bankers brought to justice for what they were told to do by the guys at the top lapping up the cream? Yet, we criticize one sole man that stands as a window-dressed statue in the shop front of the Oval Office in some big White House that stood for something once and bring him down like a crashing monument after the revolution has long moved on?


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