Hay Festival 2023: Top 10 Events on Opening Date

Hay Festival is back in-person for its 36th spring edition, bringing writers and readers together in Hay-On-Wye for inspiring conversations, debates, workshops and performances. The full festival programme includes more than 500 in-person events taking place from 25 May to 4 June. 

Over 11 days, this year’s programme promises a thrilling line-up of over 500 events, launching the best new fiction and non-fiction, while offering insights and debate around some of the biggest issues of our times in a programme of conversations featuring more than 600 award-winning writers, policy makers, pioneers and innovators. Here we give you the list of programme they have on their opening date means tomorrow 25^th May.

EVENT 1

Hay on Earth Forum: We Need to Talk About Food

Thursday 25 May 2023, 2.30pm–8pm Venue: Wye Stage.

EVENT 2

Louise Gray and Kimberley Wilson talk to Andy Fryers

HAY ON EARTH FORUM: FOOD ANXIETY

Thursday 25 May 2023, 2.30pm Venue: Wye Stage

EVENT 3

Jake Fiennes

HAY ON EARTH FORUM: LAND HEALER

Thursday 25 May 2023, 4pm Venue: Wye Stage

EVENT 4

BBC Radio 4: Loose Ends

Thursday 25 May 2023, 5pm Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

EVENT 5

Alastair Campbell and Rafael Behr talk to Katie Razzall

POLITICS WITHOUT RAGE

Thursday 25 May 2023, 5.30pm Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage

EVENT 6

Louise Gray, Sheila Dillon, Duncan Fisher, Ian Rasmussen and Bryce Evans

HAY ON EARTH FORUM: MILLTIR SGWAR: THE NEXT CHAPTER – A SQUARE MEAL ON A SQUARE MILE

Thursday 25 May 2023, 5.30pm Venue: Wye Stage

EVENT 7

Bear Grylls in conversation with Tori James

MIND FUEL

Thursday 25 May 2023, 7pm Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage

EVENT 8

BBC Radio 4: News Quiz

Thursday 25 May 2023, 7pm Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

EVENT 9

Gareth Wyn Jones, Mark Lynas, Solitaire Townsend and Martin Wright

HAY ON EARTH FORUM: FOOD FOR THE FUTURE – SHOULD WE TRUST IN TECH?

Thursday 25 May 2023, 7pm Venue: Wye Stage

EVENT 10

New York Brass Band

BRASS BAND BLOWOUT

Thursday 25 May 2023, 8.30pm – 10pm Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage

For more info you can visit here- https://www.hayfestival.com