Marches.TV reports from the Hay Literary Festival; meets some festival-goers on a Sandy Toksvig-induced high and Rachel from local firm Wiggly Wigglers.

In this report from The Hay Literary Festival we enjoy the atmosphere around Hay-on-Wye in Powys and talk to Clare Keil, local designer of the American Tulipwodd seating area, the Wave and Splash, on the Festival Site.

This year’s Ludlow Food Festival was the 15th and the most popular, as record numbers made their pilgrimage to Foodie Heaven.

Summer finally arrived in the Marches and the sun shone on three days of demonstrations, talks, trails and tasting, of course. 21,000 people from near and far sampled the quality and variety of food and drink lovingly created by Marches producers.

Visitors could sample and vote for their favourite sausage, bread or ale, try out the UKs first potato vodka or go nuts for smoked, well, nuts.

Marches.TV was there to capture the buzz, talk to demonstrators, producers, organisers and visitors and perhaps sample some of the fine fayre for ourselves.

Marches.TV dropped in on the launch of the first Hay-on-Wye British Film Festival where patron Francine Stock kindly took the mic to interview Directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon, Croupier), Colin Thomas (Border Crossing: The Story of Raymond Williams) and Havana Marking (Afghan Star). She asked them about the making of their films and why a Film Festival dedicated to British Film is so unusual.

Marches.TV joined members of CAMRA and fellow beer-lovers for the first Green Hop Beer Festival at Kilvert's in Hay-on-Wye

Green Hop beer is a burnished gold colour with a quite bitter but hoppy flavour. The freshly picked hops are added to the brew only hours after having been picked to guarantee their freshness and the maximum impact on the taste of the beer.

We spoke to Ed Davies, proprietor of Kilvert's about the beer, the festival and ...the ferrets!

Within 18 months of opening, La Bécasse gained its first Michelin Star. Now voted into the 100 Top Restuarants in the UK, Marches.TV caught up with Head Chef, Will Holland at The Ludlow Food Festival in Shropshire. We asked him why cooking with local food is so important, what's on the menu and more about La Bécasse.