Apocalypse sooner or later?

Robert McNamara knows all about the threat of nuclear annihilation - he was US defence secretary during the Cuban missile crisis. Forty-three years later, he believes the danger from nuclear weapons is still very real. He talks to Julian Borger

Academic leaves Hay lost for words with book on dyslexia

Like many other speakers at Hay, Vicki Goodwin read her audience a short, world-famous passage of literature: "The nwhile er at pusieb hi msel ffet ching qla te sanpk nive sanbfor ksanp mu stapr which chhem lxeb i nanegg. Cudt he m molehi sposoms till he aving wit."

You, the editor

Yesterday the Guardian features team attempted to produce today's edition with the help of an audience at Hay-on-Wye literary festival. Sam Wollaston looked on.

Not the ten o’clock news

What do newsmen read apart from the headlines? Oliver Burkeman gave Jon Snow and Andrew Marr £50 to find out.

Wrist watch

It was the issue that animated the G2 audience more than anything else: charity wristbands and why we wear them. Are they effective in helping a cause, or just a style item? And if they're made in sweatshops, what then? Oliver Burkeman attempts to get answers while we ask other Hay-goers what their bracelets mean to them

The big league

The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson on how 1970s sitcom On the Buses helped inspire their first wide-screen outing.

Village voice

The son of a Senegalese fisherman, Ousmane Sembène was expelled from school for slapping a teacher. After fighting with the French in the second world war, he joined the struggle for independence. A lifelong Marxist, he wrote novels and made pioneering films about the struggles of African people. His latest, award-winning feature opens in the UK next month.

Abbas Kiarostami

Acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami spoke about working with non-actors, losing enthusiasm for digital video and why his car is his best friend, before receiving the Fellowship of the British Film Institute from Anthony Minghella. Here's a full transcript.

The producers

Interview: Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, co-chairmen Working Title Films.