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Saturday 17 July 1999
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Today's highlight has to be Roy Hattersley talking about the pleasures of diary-writing and reading with Andrew O'Hagan.
Diarists offer an idiosyncratic and often entertaining view of their lives and times, a subject Hattersley must have debated on walks with his dog Buster, immortalised in Buster's Diaries, who I hope gets a chance to contribute to the discussion.
Ways with Words Literature Festival, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon (01803 867373) today and tomorrow
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- 2 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 3 Amanda Knox agrees $4m deal for tell-all book
- 4 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 5 Whitney Houston, the greatest voice of her generation
- 6 Homer Simpson and the gang hit 5oo
- 7 First Listen: Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball, Theatre Marigny, Paris
- 1 Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics
- 2 Vatican told to pay taxes as Italy tackles budget crisis
- 3 The West Bank's Bobby Sands
- 4 Prehistoric cybermen? Sardinia's lost warriors rise from the dust
- 5 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 6 Female teachers accused of giving boys lower marks
- 7 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 8 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 9 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 10 Can you master a language in a weekend?
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