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Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous
A celebration of reading and books from Toksvig at the Hay Library Lecture.
Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
- Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel
- Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
- Stephen Fry on the Queen Mother's new television
- Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy
- Courr猫ges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue
- Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'
- Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians
- Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- Mary Portas on growing up on the high street
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