Hay Festival Podcast

A compelling and hilarious rallying call for our times from journalist and superstar author Caitlin Moran tackling topics as pressing and diverse as a women only language, revolution, flawed heroes and the reasons the internet is like a drunken toddler, in conversation with Stephanie Merritt.

Moran’s books include her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman, her two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and Moranifesto, and her novel, How to Build a Girl.

The Hay Festival Podcast is supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers. Full-length Festival events can be watched over at hayfestival.org/hayplayer. Contact us at [email protected] or on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @hayfestival.

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The Pakistani activist and writer Malala Yousafzai won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in favour of the right of children, particularly girls, to education. Aged 17 when she received the award, she became the youngest ever person to receive a Nobel in any category. A BBC blogger since 2009, she has been a persistent critic of the Taliban in her country, which resulted in an attempt on her life when she was on a bus near her home in Pakistan in 2012. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford, and has an honorary doctorate from Kings College University, Halifax, Canada.
We open this episode with an excerpt from an event at Winter Weekend 2018 from Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai. For more than 20 years, Ziauddin Yousafzai has been fighting for equality – first for Malala, his daughter – and then for all girls throughout the world living in patriarchal societies. Taught as a young boy in Pakistan to believe that he was inherently better than his sisters, Ziauddin rebelled against inequality at a young age. And when he had a daughter himself he vowed that Malala would have an education, something usually only given to boys, and he founded a school that Malala could attend.

Malala Yousafzai in conversation with Lydia Cacho
Ziauddin Yousafzai talks to Rosie Boycott

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Five inspiring women writers Elif Shafak, Leila Slimani, Kapka Kassabova, Janne Teller and Hilary Cottam offer their visions for the future of Europe on the event of our digital Hay Festival Europa28.

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Festival Director, Peter Florence introduces the new podcast series where you can hear conversations from some of greatest writers and thinkers of our time. In the coming weeks, you will hear from Yuval Noah Harari, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Caitlin Moran, Judi Dench, Naomi Klein and many more, as we remix and recurate stories and conversations heard at our international festivals from Hay in Wales to Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. #ImagineTheWorld

Award-winning neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan talks to writer Oliver Balch about her book The Sleeping Beauties and travelling the world to investigate so-called mystery illnesses, before joining Poppy Evans backstage to talk about storytelling and the influences on her work.

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