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Saturday Live: Hay Festival - Mishal Husain, Stephen and Anita Mangan, Conn Iggulden, Kiell Smith-Bynoe

Hay Festival - Mishal Husain, Stephen and Anita Mangan, Conn Iggulden, Kiell Smith-Bynoe

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Huw Stephens and Kiri Pritchard-McLean bring Radio 4's Saturday morning show LIVE to Hay.

Broadcaster and journalist Mishal Husain, multi-award-winning writing duo Stephen and Anita Mangan, the emperor of historical fiction Conn Iggulden.

We’re kicking off the festival season in style, and in the sun, with three very different books… but who’s authors have more in common than you may think. 

This week’s events haven’t stopped Mishal Husain making her way to us this weekend – for what will surely be the only down time she’ll have over the next 6 weeks. Mishal’s new memoir charts her families experiences through partition and the events which have allowed her to become one of the UK’s most trusted journalists. 

Stephen and Anita Mangan have promised not to steal each other's pocket money or put bubblegum in each other’s hair and behave for the next hour.  The brother and sister writing duo have cracked the code for what it takes to work with your sibling having written 5 books together – but it was their debut work that allowed them to channel familial grief. 

The emperor of historical fiction, Conn Iggulden, has taken a break from playing his fiddle whilst ancient Rome burns to join us in the Hay-on-Wye countryside. But for someone who has made a living from writing about the history – it's the story of his parents who both lived it and taught it that perhaps should 

All that plus the Inheritance Tracks of the actor, comedian and new host of the Great British Sewing Bee – Kiell Smith-Bynoe. 

Presenters: Huw Stephens and Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Producer: Ben Mitchell

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