Sarfraz Manzoor listens to what Gordon Brown has to say about courage and talks to Jonathan Freedland about how the prime minister designate's talk went down in Hay. Literary editor Claire Armitstead talked to Kiran Desai about her Booker-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss and Sarah Crown asks David Mitchell, author of Black Swan Green, what is was like writing a conventional novel. Plus, we visit the Little Angel Theatre's puppet show and ask the Hay festival-goers if they read in their downtime here.
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