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A message from our President 🫡

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Repair. Rework. Renew.

Woodworker Callum Robinson shares lessons from his craft in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! https://t.co/GKTepkpyxb

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Actress, comedian, writer and producer Ruth Jones shares her latest novel – By Your Side – in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! https://t.co/GKTepkq6mJ

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Writer Horatio Clare shares stories from the frozen Bay of Bothnia, just short of the Arctic Circle, in our Winter Solstice playlist. 

Enjoy! https://t.co/t3Mv8G8Gsg

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.@hayfestival is launching The Pleasure List campaign for the National Year of Reading, crowdsourcing reading recommendations for new readers to combat falling literacy rates in the UK 👇

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Get involved! https://t.co/Fw41SyOAt2

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A message from our President 🫡

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Love reading? Share the joy!
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When the world is in crisis, where should we look for comfort?

Author, academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff examines the concept of solace in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! https://t.co/GbEHNCCFBl

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@susie_dent @hayfestival Segue. Took me years to get the hang of that one.

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@susie_dent @hayfestival Aged 12, I mispronounced 'tarry' when it was meant in context as 'covered in tar'. I mispronounced 'misled' as 'my-zled'. A bit older I was reading out loud an Ezra Pound poem and pronounced 'whore' as 'war'.

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Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.

Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?

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The Wall Street Journal’s Sune Engel Rasmussen joins historian David Olusoga, journalist Jennifer Nadel and ITV Wales correspondent Rob Osborne to discuss the year’s biggest stories in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! https://t.co/GKTepkq6mJ

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Hay Festival has released 45 earlybird events for its flagship edition next spring, taking place in May 2026 in the booktown of Hay-on-Wye https://t.co/P2OXYgoltl

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PUBLIC BOOKING STARTS NOW.

Roll up, roll up! https://t.co/0At4xxdMNj

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Tickets on general sale at noon tomorrow.

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Open books, open minds.

Browse some of the new titles launching at Hay Festival 2026 over on our @bookshop_org_UK page now, drawn from this week’s event drop.

Dive in! https://t.co/frBxgU5LZN

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PRIORITY BOOKING IS NOW OPEN.

Roll up, roll up! https://t.co/4JhuvpEagr

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Surprise!!!

45 earlybird events are out NOW for Hay Festival 2026.

Dive in 📚 https://t.co/ZDwG5O1r6w

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Pssst.

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Novelist Sebastian Faulks shares insights from a life in writing in our film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! https://t.co/GKTepkq6mJ