Hay Festival Digital will feature performances, discussions, and interactive Q&As with over 100 of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers. Hay Festival Digital Sam Hardwick Hay Festival runs 18–31 May 2020 and features free live broadcasts and interactive events from more than 100 award-winning writers, global policy makers, historians, pioneers and innovators, celebrating the best new fiction and non-fiction, and interrogating some of the biggest issues of our time. The British Council is thrilled to announce that we’re supporting a specially selected programme of events from 22–25 May at the Hay Festival Digital. The first ever Hay Festival Digital came to a triumphant close this year, earning close to half a million event streams over two weeks of events. Hay Festival Digital brings writers and readers together online and runs from 22 – 31 May 2020 with free live broadcasts and interactive Q&As from over 100 of the world's greatest writers and thinkers. The festival's brand line ‘imagine the world’ sums up the positive change they bring to people around the globe. Founded in 1987, the festival today encompasses a myriad of activities and platforms that include international festivals around the world, one-day forums, educational projects, a digital player, and the Hay Festival Foundation. So organisers have taken the two-week long festival online - Hay Festival Digital - with writers, policy makers, historians and activists taking part live … Hay Festival Digital. Hay Festival Digital will feature performances, discussions, and interactive Q&As with over 100 of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers. Book lovers tuned in from around the world to engage and converse with writers, and with each other, in interactive events. The festival is the first of five Hay is organising globally this year, all of which will be digital. A five-day Hay Festival Programme for Schools will be broadcast from 18–22 May. Tony Benn said: "In my mind it's replaced Christmas". The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts better known as the Hay Festival (Welsh: Gŵyl Y Gelli), is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for ten days from May to June.Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind". The British Council is thrilled to announce that we’re supporting a specially selected programme of events from 22-25 May at the Hay Festival Digital. Wednesday 6 May 2020. The British Council are thrilled to announce that we’re supporting a specially selected programme of events at the 2020 Hay Festival Digital. Hay Festival Digital will feature performances, discussions, and interactive Q&As with over 100 of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers. Hay Festival Digital Winter Weekend brings writers and readers together for one weekened between 26th – 29th November 2020 in a free digital wonderland of thoughtful conversation, storytelling, comedy and family fun. Hay Festival Digital will see more than 100 award-winning writers, global policy makers, historians, pioneers and innovators take part, celebrating the best new fiction and non-fiction, and interrogating some of the biggest issues of our time, from Covid-19 and world health, to the climate crisis and our future, under the theme of #ImagineTheWorld. It will stream online from 22–31 May 2020. It will stream online from 22 – 31 May 2020.