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• Philosophy can still teach science a lesson

  5 Jun 2012: Letters: Popular and some other science has made a mess of the subjects of time, the mind, the nature of religious utterance, and consciousness above all

• Philosophy: Back to big thinking

  4 Jun 2012:

  Editorial: There is a new more expansive mood taking shape in British philosophy, as borne out at Hay-on-Wye

• Banning Kindles is no way of celebrating books

  1 Jun 2012: Alison Flood: Is your e-reader turning you into a 'robot'? A campaign from Hay bookseller Derek Addyman to drive Amazon's Kindle out of town is just silly

• The case for celebrities at book festivals

  10 Feb 2012:

  Cheltenham literary director says the word literature 'frightens people' and appeals to book festivals to 'stop knocking each other'

• Simon Hoggart's week: No country for ordinary folk

  11 Jun 2011: More and more, Britain is run by the rich and well-placed on behalf of the rich and well-placed

• Rob Lowe plus books – what could be better?

  5 Jun 2011: Mariella Frostrup: Hay continues to be a delight, especially when you can get up close to Rob Lowe

• Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping the good life in the family

  4 Jun 2011:

  Fifa is a cosy organisation which – like Soviet Union party trusties – looks after its own

• Love bluebells, give up the dogs – Germaine Greer tells Britons

  3 Jun 2011: Author calls for banning dogs from woodland, claiming their excrement is killing the spring flower

• Illiteracy in London's schools is a scandal

  2 Jun 2011: Books might be aplenty at Hay, but one in three of the capital's pupils don't own a single one

• Country diary: Hay-on-Wye

  2 Apr 2011: Jim Perrin follows the trilling of birdsong along the river

• Book festivals bring out the brains in Britons

  18 Aug 2010: Jonathan Jones: Turn off the TV, put down the papers, and take a tour of Britain's book festivals. We are a lot more cultured than you think

• Puffin of Puffins? Why, Goodnight Mister Tom of course

  17 Jun 2010:

  Alison Flood: With all due respect, small children, your choice of the admittedly excellent Artemis Fowl as the 'Puffin of Puffins' is deranged and wrong. It should clearly be MY choice: Goodnight Mister Tom

• Haycast extra: David Remnick

  Audio (12min 27sec), 7 Jun 2010:

  The New Yorker editor, David Remnick, talks to Xan Brooks about his biography of Barack Obama, and the best young fiction writers in America

• Val Mcdermid on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

  Video (3min 03sec), 7 Jun 2010:

  Crime writer Val McDermid tells Mariella Frostrup how Agatha Christie influenced her writing in this clip from the Sky Arts Book Show

• Brian May on Sky Arts' The Book Show at the Guardian Hay festival

  Video (3min 05sec), 7 Jun 2010:

  The guitarist Brian May appears on the Sky Arts Book Show to show off the spectroscopic glasses he designed to view the Victorian tableaus in his new book, A Village Lost and Found

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