Hay Festival & Sir John Major
Sir John Major will be visiting Mid and West Wales later this month to speak about his love of cricket at the Hay-on-Wye Festival. I am a huge fan of John’s and there is no doubt in my mind that as the years have passed he has become regarded as a truly leading world statesman.
Hay-on-Wye is famed for its 39 bookshops and the festival has grown steadily in size and stature since its launch in 1988 and I am sure that this years festival with a line-up including Gordon Brown, novelists Doris Lessing and Thomas Keneally and comedy veterans Ronnie Corbett and Leslie Phillips will be truly outstanding.
I strongly encourage people to attend this year’s festival. Bill Clinton famously referred to the festival as “the Woodstock of the mind” and Tony Benn said it was the closest thing to heaven on earth. It will run from the 24 May until 3 June.
I will be attending and have no doubt in my mind that the festival will continue to go from strength to strength. However it will be hard to do so following the very successful launch of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” last year.
