The trouble with fictional Troubles
Festival author Linda Anderson challenges writers to abandon Northern Irish cliches of thuggish gunmen and harridans banging binlids, and get to grips with the new political situation in the province.
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
‘People with a political agenda will attack you’
Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett talks to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger about making the Hamburg Cell, his controversial film about the terrorists behind the attacks on 9/11.
Newsreading? My boy of 4 could do it
Humphrys hits out as Hawn makes Hay.
The big league
The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson on how 1970s sitcom On the Buses helped inspire their first wide-screen outing.
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.
‘I didn’t want to make something without hope’
His urban drama Bullet Boy has been called 'Kes with guns' and an indictment of the gun culture in inner city Britain. But Saul Dibb hopes his controversial feature goes beyond the headlines
The producers
Interview: Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, co-chairmen Working Title Films.