Hay Festival
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The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, or simply the Hay Festival, is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter F
Hay Festival crowds reading between sessions (2016)
Sign at the entrance to the 2016 Hay Festival.
Welcome sign just south of Hay-on-Wye
Traffic in the town of Hay during festival
Tony Benn
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s.
Hay Festival
…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". Tony Benn said: "In my mind it's replaced Christmas". It has become a prominent festival in British culture, and sessions at the festival have been recorded for…
Benn in 2006
Benn in 1947
Benn speaks at the 5th National Convention of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in Philadelphia, May 1981
With Dennis Skinner at a May Day parade in Chesterfield, May 1992