Hay Festival

Revel Guest, documentary-maker who ran the Hay book festival and helped bring War Horse to the big screen – obituary

She stood for the Conservatives in Swansea East at the 1955 General Election, the youngest female candidate the Tories had ever put up

By Telegraph Obituaries 21 Jun 2022, 3:25pm
Children being wrongly diagnosed with ADHD if they fall behind at school

Leading neurologist says medical profession is ‘pressured’ into labelling patients ‘by softening the definitions’ for chronic mental illness

By Anita Singh 31 May 2022, 5:02pm
Lenny Henry says making CBBC online-only means children miss out on ‘seeing themselves’

'If you can’t see it, you can’t be it' the comedian tells Hay Festival as he criticises the broadcaster's cost-cutting measures

By Anita Singh 29 May 2022, 10:44pm
Jenny Packham: Lazy Britain needs to smarten up after lockdown

By Anita Singh 27 May 2022, 1:32pm
Hay Festival's co-founder quits after bullying claims are upheld

By Lizzie Roberts 1 Aug 2021, 6:56pm
The Twitter row over full stops shows that we still have a passion for punctuation

Susie Dent 30 Nov 2020, 12:55pm
Millennials have a point about 'offensive' full stops, says Susie Dent

By Tammy Hughes 29 Nov 2020, 6:00am

Hay Festival curator allegedly assaulted by sheikh does not 'feel safe' and calls for judicial review

Caitlin McNamara claims that Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan kissed and groped her

By Telegraph Reporters 1 Nov 2020, 6:31pm
‘No legal case’ to try sheikh over alleged sex attack

CPS says claim by Hay Festival curator that she was tortured in UAE does not fit exceptional criteria

By Steve Bird 29 Oct 2020, 10:12pm
Hay Festival boss suspended after staff bullying complaint

Peter Florence, who was awarded a CBE in 2018 for services to arts and culture, has seen the festival grow into an international phenomenon

By Telegraph Reporters 25 Oct 2020, 6:37pm

Hay Festival severs UAE ties after claims of sexual assault by Emirati minister

Caitlin McNamara claimed Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan assaulted her on a private island in the UAE in February, a claim he denies

By Tony Diver 18 Oct 2020, 9:07pm
Do you tsundoku? The art of owning more books than you'll ever read

Nothing can beat the pleasure of a cluttered bookshelf - especially in the time of a coronavirus lockdown, writes Laura Freeman

By Laura Freeman 18 May 2020, 1:13pm

Nell Gifford, founder of the popular, village-green style Giffords Circus – obituary

By Telegraph Obituaries 10 Dec 2019, 7:56pm
Nell Gifford understood the magic of the circus and brought out the inner child in us all

By Victoria Lambert 10 Dec 2019, 8:24am
Stop gender-swapping Shakespeare characters because it ruins rhythm, former National Theatre director says

By Sarah Knapton 2 Jun 2019, 7:37pm
Henry VIII 'may have divorced Anne of Cleves because she already had a baby with someone else'

By Sarah Knapton 1 Jun 2019, 5:00pm
Worsley scotches scandalous tale of Victoria's late love affair with servant John Brown

By Sarah Knapton 31 May 2019, 6:24am
Our Planet producer recalls 'most terrifying moment' of career after buggy fell through ice in Arctic

By Jessica Carpani 29 May 2019, 9:08pm
Google Maps increases risk of developing Alzheimer's, expert warns

By Sarah Knapton 29 May 2019, 3:48pm
Outrages by Naomi Wolf, review: a bad book in a good cause is still a bad book

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By Tim Smith-Laing 29 May 2019, 2:14pm

Are men really better at parking because of Lego? Because I’m not...

Tom Ough 29 May 2019, 1:53pm
Radio's routing of author Naomi Wolf was ferociously polite

Charlotte Runcie 29 May 2019, 7:00am
Publisher promises to correct errors in Naomi Wolf's latest book after they were exposed on radio

By Steve Bird 28 May 2019, 7:13pm

Publisher promises to correct errors in Naomi Wolf's latest book after they were exposed on radio

By Steve Bird 28 May 2019, 6:38pm
Germaine Greer says Leonardo da Vinci was a 'sloppy' artist with The Last Supper 'one of the worst'

By Anita Singh 27 May 2019, 9:18pm

Britain’s most senior black policeman says football clubs failing to protect players from racism

By Anita Singh 25 May 2019, 7:18pm
Key to happiness? Avoid having children, going to university or living near a lottery winner, says expert

By Anita Singh 25 May 2019, 5:30pm
Jo Brand felt she couldn't 'make a fuss' after sexual assault at charity event

By Jessica Carpani 25 May 2019, 4:39pm
Britain’s 50 best music festivals 2019: from Glastonbury to Green Man

By James Hall 5 May 2019, 11:56am
Comic fiction prize accused of sexism produces shortlist with majority women

By Biba Kang 17 Apr 2019, 10:04am
Hay Festival delivers £70m boost to local economy

By Oliver Gill 12 Sep 2018, 6:29pm
From cultural appropriation to clean eating: Lionel Shriver's most controversial quotes

By Telegraph Reporters 13 Jun 2018, 1:56pm
Male writers are too busy patting each other on the back to notice that women are funny

Allison Pearson 4 Jun 2018, 5:26pm