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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
- Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school
- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
- Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks
- Jon Ronson: Can I interview you about your special brain anomaly?
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island
- Germaine Greer: My best book
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo, Daniel Pioro and the Storyteller's Ensemble
- Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'
- Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant
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