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Afro Celt to Headline UK Hay Festival
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Wednesday December 22, 2010
from www.telegraph.co.uk
By: Sameer Rahim
The Telegraph Hay Festival has announced the first tranche of novelists, historians, actors and musicians that will be gracing this year’s event at Hay-on-Wye, the annual festival of literature and the arts which runs next year from May 26-June 6.
Among the star names attending are the actor Simon Russell Beale who will discuss his many Shakespearean roles, Howard Jacobson on finally winning the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and Philip Pullman on his controversial re-writing of the Life of Jesus. Also present will be the French Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Le Clezio and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
As always at Hay there is a strong political element. As well as Sarah Brown, the wife of the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking on motherhood and politics, the former UN weapons inspector, Nobel Peace Laureate and potential Egyptian presidential candidate Mohammed ElBaradei will also be speaking.
On the musical front the headline act will be Afro Celt Sound System and Cerys Mathews, formerly of Catatonia.
A further set of names will be released in February and the final line up will be announced in April.
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