is online this year, and free. Starts tomorrow, by which I mean Friday, which is already today for most of you. You can watch live and join in the question-asking, or catch up through the video recording for 24 hours afterwards. Full programme here. You're welcome.
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Yeah, I did the same thing when I first found out (via the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading forums), ad hoc. My memory of it is a total blank until I came to, dazed and drooling, and noticed that two hours had passed and looked at my inbox to find that I had eleven confirmation emails for talks I'd signed up to.
Don't forget you can view them up to 24 hours later, by the way, so being out isn't necessarily an obstacle. I plan to watch Maggie O'Farrell (whose novel Hamnet I am literally about to start reading when I switch my computer off in a minute) that way, because I'm not getting up at 8am or whatever time it's on.
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There's also a Hay Festival podcast with some highlights from past festivals and their international editions, which I'm really enjoying. Chimamando Ngozi Adichie giving the Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez talk in Cartagena de Indias (in English, don't worry!) was fascinating, especially having read and loved Half of a Yellow Sun last year.
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I’m going to big up my mate Patrice Lawrence’s contributions, I think she’s on a panel or two, but there’s also this short film (her daughter does the speaking ). https://youtu.be/Rb427N9BWLM
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Yeah. I actually stuck it on to see what it was like for a few minutes with the plan of watching it whole today (I started watching at about 3:50am), and ended up watching all of it. I liked the quite slow reveal of the fact it was set not today but a generation or two into the future (well it was slow to me. At first I thought 'Oh, her grandma's a cool old lady,' and never having lived in a household where non-underwear items would get worn once before being washed (unless they were my brother's football kit) I didn't find the part where she talks about that as an odd practice jarring). And having barely used shampoo this century, and not for lack of hair, I chuckled a bit at that.
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