Marches.TV at the Hay Festival
For the next ten days Marches.TV will be reporting from the Hay Festival.
We will be out and about around Hay and the Festival Site so look out for us filming. Whether your local or a visitor we’d love to hear you. We will update the site with footage from Sunday onwards.
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Saturday 23rd May
The festival got off to a great start yesterday with dry weather and plenty to smile about for the festival diehards that came in wellies and cagoules, prepared for the worst. As locals rubbed shoulders with celebrities and visitors the expectation was palpable.
The Rural Media Company presents: Still Life
Adrian Lambert
We attended the premier of Still Life, a story about an eleven-year-old girl, from Bromyard in Herefordshire, which was made by the Hereford-based Rural Media Company. An ambitious community film production created with the people of Bromyard, it dealt with the emotional turmoil children feel during the divorce of their parents. The making-of documentary, which can be seen below, tells the story of not just how the drama was made, but what such work can bring to a rural community.
Elsewhere we bumped-in Alison and Annette from the 350 campaign. As part of Festival’s emphasis on climate change, 350.org are running a competition for children who must find the words in the shop windows around Hay and then make up slogans around climate change. Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity but we are currently at 388. A worldwide awareness campaign is under way, leading up to an international day of climate action on October 24th. Find out more at www.350.org
Tonight, the tables are turned on Frank Skinner as he interviewed about his memoirs by Fiona Lindsay, Jan Ravens from Dead Ringers and Spitting Image stars in her solo show. David Buckland, director of Cape Farewell, the organization set-up to inspire a cultural response to climate change is joined by two of his colloborators, Marcus Brigstocke and KT Tunstall, and Jane Birkin performs tracks from her new album.
Highlights to look out for Sunday will be Dave Gorman recounting his attempts to drive from coast to coast of the United States, giving money to only independent businesses, and David Frost being interviewed by Festival Director Peter Florence. In the evening Big Chill DJs from the iconic Ledbury festival will be spinning the decks at Clyro Court.
Dan Pearson
Spirit: Garden Inspiration
Sunday 24th May, 10am
Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion Buy tickets £6.00
The garden writer explores the idea of a sense of place, illustrated with design influences as diverse as his childhood garden, the desert of southern California, the Thames houseboat moorings near Tower Bridge, the Villa d’Este, the Pantheon and a Japanese forest lodge.
Gerald Scarfe
Monsters
Sunday 24 May, 11:30am
Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion Buy tickets £7.00
The savage satirist celebrates 50 years of his political cartoons.
David Aaronovitch talks to Jon Snow
Voodoo Histories
Sunday 24 May, 2.30pm
Venue: Guardian Stage Buy tickets £6.00
From moon landings to the Parisian underpass and the twin towers, the journalist probes and explodes The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History.
Dave Gorman
America Unchained
Sunday 24 May, 7pm
Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion Buy tickets £8.00
David Frost talks to Peter Florence
Frost Frost
Sunday 24 May, 8.30pm
Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion Buy tickets £15.00
The Guardian presents: Big Chill DJs
15th Birthday Party
Sunday 24 May, 11pm
Venue: Clyro Court sold out
DJs from the iconic music festival, now housed at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, celebrate its 15th birthday and launch The Big Chill Guide to Summer Living. There may be cake. There will be dancing.
