Author Charles Cumming on the Hay-on-Sky '08 webcam CLIP 1

Charles Cumming, Hay-on-Sky ’08 webcam exclusive:
Tackling China for his latest novel…(we get rudely interrupted by a car alarm going off on this one!)

Red House prize for children's books awarded last night to...

Derek Landy popped into the web office here backstage at the Sky Arts Studio at the Hay Festival to tell us a little bit about the trials and tribulations of physically getting himself to Hay-on-Wye!



Turns out it was well worth the hassle as he bagged the Red House children's book prize at the awards doo last night - see the piece in the Guardian HERE.

Sinead, Editor-in-Field.

Hay! We're coming back!

We're all really excited that we're coming back to Hay-On-Wye again this year for what promises to be a great 10 days of glorious HD broadcasting for us and a great festival for all book lovers.

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This is where the team will be sharing the stories of what goes on behind the scenes on such a massive production and we should have a few amusing photos and web videos to share with you too... Join us from from May 23rd when it all gets underway - until then, see what's on Sky Arts today and relax in front of something cultural and entertaining :-)

Sky Arts' scheduler Tracy measures up against the literary giants at last year's Hay Festival