The Guardian Hay Festival

What's it all about? Devised by actor and director Peter Florence in 1988, Hay is one of the largest literary festivals in the world boasting internationally acclaimed speakers and merging literature with theatre and arts. One of the largest literary festivals in the UK. Past programme events and performances crossed literature with cabaret, cinema, circus, comedy, environment, film, music, politics, science, screenwriting and visual arts.

Children's Festival Hay Fever runs alongside the Guardian Hay Festival every year.

Where? Hay-on-Wye, Wales AA Route Planner | multimap

When? 27 May - June 6, 2010

Who in 2010 ? Check Official Site for all events.

Highlights? Bill Bryson’s At Home: An Informal History of Private Life, the first Hay interviews with novelist Roddy Doyle and playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, the festival’s opening concert by Irish folk legend Christy Moore , and a conversation with Hilary Mantel about her 2009 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.

Further events featuring Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer and Mohammed ElBaradei, comedians Andy Hamilton and Ross Noble, and world music superstars Toumani Diabate and the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club.

How much? Check Official Site

Festival Website: www.hayfestival.com

Previous festivals: Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureshi, Louis de Bernieres, Martin Amis, ex-President Jimmy Carter, Salman Rushdie, Jools Holland, Cherie Booth, Howard Davies, Gary Kasparov, Boris Spassky , Marcus Brigstocke, George Monbiot, Tim Smit, Julian Barnes, Claire Armitstead,Will Self, Fay Weldon, Lemn Sissay, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Judith Kerr, Julia Donaldson.. Nam Le, Jeanette Winterson, Jackie Kay, Paddy Ashdown, Rose Tremain, Stephen Fry, Kate Adie, Michael Morpurgo, Graham Swift, Will Fiennes, Alain de Botton, Libby Purves, Kamila Shamsie, Simon Armitage, Joan Bakewell, Julian Clary, Geoff Dyer, Shaun Tan, Jenny Valentine, , Jamila Gavin, Philip Ardagh,Claire Armitstead, Jonathan Dimbleby, Barry Cryer Graeme Garden, Kevin McCloud, Philippe Sands, Jeremy Paxman, Rick Stroud, Cornelia Funke, Sarfraz Manzoor, David Crystal, Colin Tudge , John Polkinghorne, David Adjaye, Deyan Sudjic, Amanda Ballieu, Howard Jacobson talksNicholasBealeLisa Jardine, Jan Zalasiewicz, Roy Hattersley, Anthony Horowitz,, Michio Kaku, Diana Quick, Fflur Dafydd, Kathryn Gray, Adama Bah, Michel Pimbert, Patrick Jones, Ceivan Zokaei, Trewin Restorick, Ian Williams, Eammon McCabe, Frank Close Charles Avery David Gilman, Adrian Goldsworthy John Fardell and Tanya Landman, Simon Blackburn, Eric Maddern, Tony de Saulles, Stephen Anderton Jo Herbert Jackie Morris, Francine Stock, Homero, Aridjis, Harriet Lamb, Tony Curtis, Hannah Rothschild, Rosie Boycott, Antony Worrall Thompson, John Vidal, Steve Trent, Julian Orbach, Simon Jenkins, Nicholas Stern, Adrian Lambert, Chris Blackwell, Chris Salewicz,Julia Donaldson,John Brewe, Richard Evans, Sana Krasikov, Emily Perkins, Andrew Roberts Samuel Turvey Brenda Maddox Julia Donaldson, Christopher Hogwood, GF Newman, Marcel Berlins, Horatio Clare, Peter Florence, Samir El Youssef, Brian Chikwava, Georgina Goodwin, Frank Skinner, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Snow, Noel Kingsbury, Tim Richardson, Dan Pearson, Simon Jenkins, Caroline Bird, Olivia Cole, Imtiaz Dharker, Jan Ravens, Marcus Brigstocke, David Buckland, KT Tunstall, Marcus Brigstocke, Andre Vincent, Carrie Quinlan, Siobhan Freegard, Julia Hobsbawm, Fiona Millar, Susie Dent Timothy Garton Ash, Robert Peston David Aaronovitch Lucy Shuttleworth Kate Williams Polly Dunbar Matthew Engel, Monty & Sarah Don, Ignacio Martinez de, Timothy Garton-Ash, Slawomir Sierakowski, Anne Applebaum, Anita Prazmowska, Paul Preston, Caroline Lawrence Denise Inge, Mark Vernon, Nicola Coldstream, Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman, Kristina Stephenson, Cressida Cowell Marcus Brigstocke, Andre Vincent, Carrie Quinlan, John Bulmer, Eammon McCabe, Miri Rubin, Roger McGough Lori Anne Ferrell Lavinia Greenlaw Michael Pawlyn, Ben Fogle and James Cracknell, John Kay, Nick Robins, James Marriott, Andrew Simms, Ruth Padel Caryn Franklyn, Tricia Jones, Madeleine Bunting, Alistair Sawday, Barbara Hadrill, Elaine Brook Alan Macfarlane, Titania Woods, Jonathan Stroud Adam Workowski Marcus Brigstocke, Andre Vincent, Carrie Quinlan Rob Hopkins, Caroline Lucas, Rosie Boy, Hugh Warwick and so forth...