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Festival news

HowTheLightGetsIn, the philosophy and music festival at Hay on Wye, has just finished its sixth outing - and it was bigger and better than ever before.

 

This year's festival featured over 500 events, plus a spectacular array of live performances, comedy nights and film screenings. Leading thinkers in every field mixed with cutting edge musicians to excite the imagination and renew the spirit.

 

If you came to HowTheLightGetsIn and want to relive the experience, or if you missed out and want to know what all the fuss is about, we will be releasing videos of the events fortnightly on IAI TV.

 

Finally, a big thank you to the 35,000 of you who came - we can't wait to see you all again next year.

 

The Panel

Leading cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton, CERN particle theorist and coiner of the term ‘Theory of Everything’ John Ellis, and mathematical physicist Roger Penrose go back to the beginning.

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The Panel

David Malone asks feminist and Guardian journalist Julie Bindel, biologist Rosalind Arden, and radical sociologist and author of Genes, Cells and Brains Hilary Rose to envisage new ways of seeing ourselves.

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