All literary life is here ... a sunny day at the Hay festival. Photograph: David Levene

This year's Hay festival - the 20th - kicks off on Friday. If you can't make it, never fear: we'll bring the festival to you with our daily Hay podcast - or Haycast, if you will. Presented by Sarfraz Manzoor, the 30-minute programmes will be made up of interviews with our pick of the festival's authors, features on everything from bookshops to the beautiful Brecon countryside and daily roundups of the festival highlights.

And to whet your appetites, you can listen now to our preview Haycast, in which Sarfraz talks to Claire Armitstead, Clare Purcell of the Hay festival office and me(!) about what's coming up at this year's festival.

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