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Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
A celebration of reading and books from Toksvig at the Hay Library Lecture.
Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction- Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school
- Jenny Agutter: I saw a beautifully crafted character
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews
- Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue
- Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy
- Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks
- Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta
- Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear
- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
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