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The Hay Festival celebrates it's silver jubilee in 2012
This year's Hay Festival is a bit of a special year for the organisers as it marks the silver jubilee of the event. Though more information about the programme of the festival is yet to come, early bird tickets are already on-sale for the 2012 festival.
First up are tickets for "comedy rock superstar", Tim Minchin's opening night concert where the flamboyant Aussie will be crooning out his own brand of rock n roll lyrics. The other event that has already been added for early bird tickets is Hilary Mantel's conversation about Bring Up The Bodies, her sequel to the Booker Prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall.
Tickets to Hilary Mantel's chat are £12.50, but sadly tickets for the Minchin megathon have already sold out for the show on the 1st of June 2012, although it looks like you can still pick up a few for the night of Thursday 31st May 2012, so you'd better get moving if you want to get in on the action.
The Hay Festival 2012 runs between the 31st May to the 10th June 2012 and a look at the first few entries on the programme page is a good indication that 25 is going to be a good year.
One of the coolest events has got to be the annual science lecture, which will be chaired by Ian McEwan (Solar) and delivered this year by James Watson, the 1962 Nobel Laureate, and author of The Double Helix, who in 1953 discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick. Should be good.
Image of the Festival Site by Finn Beales.
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