Hay festival on audio

A fantastic resource for anyone (like me) who missed Guardian Hay Festival this year….

Here’s a selection of their biggest events captured on audio. All you need is your own deckchair and iPod.

my personal recommendations:
Genius satirist and comedian Aramando Iannucci talks to Francine Stock

our very own David Crystal on the treasures and eccentricities of English culture and language

A nice man called Chris Yates on the joys of sitting on a riverbank with rod and line

The completely brilliant Louise Rennison, teen fic writer, in conversation

What’s Left - our own Nick Cohen and Stephen Marshall examine leftism and liberalism today

Billy Bragg, Henry Porter, and Philippe Sands examine the nature of democracy in Britain

One of the best historians today, Adam Zamoyski, on chaos, corruption and sexual depravity in 1815.