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This weekend saw the start of the Hay Literary Festival in Hay on Wye, Wales. Monday was a killer day of presentations with Al Gore handing down his ongoing environmental message for the first time in the UK and ex-SAS member Andy McNab giving his first public appearance for some years. As if that wasn’t enough, Michael Morpurgo was on hand to read from his award winning children’s novel Private Peaceful and Lawrence Lessig gave a great talk about how we may be turning our kids into pirates by stifling their creativity through extreme copyright laws.
The quality of speakers at Hay has always been amazing for such a little known event. It rarely garners much publicity in the UK to be honest, and because of that has remained somewhat of a gem. Obviously, it’s reputation is spreading, probably fuelled in recent years by former President Clinton’s patronage, and I suspect it may be reaching it’s peak. The Hay Festival is a totally amazing event to go to, and a totally fab place to visit too. It’s one of my family’s favourite places in the UK.
The BBC has some fairly good coverage of the festival – Lessig – Gore – McNab
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