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<p>Literary feast: Miriam Margolyes, Toby Jones, Gary Lineker and Marian Keyes appear at Hay Festival 2024 </p>

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

<p>Our guide to what to read this May </p>

The best new books to read this May

<p>Porter Robinson: ‘Being with my normie jock friends at school, the family PC emerged as this beacon to me’ </p>

Porter Robinson: ‘Avicii’s death was a wake-up call for many people’

<p>‘I learnt about classism from a very young age – that my circumstances weren’t good enough for some people’</p>

Hilary Swank: ‘I take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

Features & Reviews

<p>Movie star: Zendaya in Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’ </p>

The Zendaya drama Challengers is thrilling and extravagantly sexy

<p>George Rexstrew as Edwin, Jayden Revri as Charles and Kassius Nelson as Crystal in ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ </p>

Netflix ghost show Dead Boy Detectives is convoluted and predictable

<p>Pet Shop Boys release their 15th album ‘Nonetheless’ on 26 April</p>

Pet Shop Boys’ canny cultural commentary remains right on the money

<p>‘The next thing I hear, Amy’s covering our song:’ The Zutons reflect on Winehouse’s ‘Valerie’ cover ahead of their new album </p>

Interview

The Zutons: ‘People texted me money emojis when Amy Winehouse died’

The Saturday Interview

<p>Marian Keyes: ‘I’m 60 now but my emotions are still very [close] to the surface – I’m still hurtable’ </p>

The Saturday Interview

Marian Keyes: ‘I really don’t like the myth that women don’t want sex’

<p>Billie Piper stars in ‘Scoop’, about the BBC’s quest to interview Prince Andrew: ‘I realised, Oh my God, there are these unsung women behind the story’ </p>

The Saturday Interview

Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

News

Rising Stars

Sophie Wilde

Interview

Talk to Me breakout Sophie Wilde: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’

<p>‘Consent isn’t binary, it’s not yes or no’</p>

Interview

How to Have Sex’s Mia McKenna-Bruce: ‘Consent is not yes or no’

<p>‘Everybody tries to do the Derry accent’ </p>

Interview

Jamie-Lee O’Donnell on being skint, Derry Girls, and prison show Screw

<p>Going her own way: Vasan says that ‘like any immigrant parents’, hers were ‘a little bit concerned’ about her choice to go into acting </p>

Interview

Black Mirror’s Anjana Vasan: ‘I’ve been underestimated. I’m small, brown and foreign’

Independent TV

<p>Claudia Winkleman</p>

Claudia Winkelman breaks silence on The Traitors future

<p>Jess Glynne explains why she rushed off Glastonbury stage in tears.</p>

Jess Glynne explains why she rushed off Glastonbury stage in tears

Ellen DeGeneres breaks silence on being ‘kicked out of show business’

The hidden pressures of playing real life figures

Explore news for you

Apple TV+

<p>Topping worldwide box offices during its theatrical release in 2023, it was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated films of last year</p>

How to watch Ridley Scott’s Napoleon at home this weekend

TV - The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ stands and delivers

<p>Clockwise from top left: ‘Bad Sisters’, ‘Hijack’, ‘Severance’, ‘Criminal Record'</p>

The best Apple TV+ shows to watch now

<p>The miniseries drops on 26 January </p>

How to watch Masters of the Air in the UK free

What to watch

<p>Netflix has a huge catalogue of dramas, sitcoms, cartoons and sci-fi series </p>

The best shows to watch on Netflix

<p>Amazon hits, clockwise from top right: ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’, ‘The Boys’, ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘Invincible’</p>

The 35 best original TV shows to watch on Prime Video

<p>Netflix hits (clockwise from top right): ‘Malcolm & Marie’, ‘The Irishman’, ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘Extraction’</p>

The 50 best original films to watch on Netflix, ranked

<p>Some of the stars leading the best telly of the year</p>

The 20 best TV shows of 2023 – ranked

Visit the USA

Art Me Up: A Gallery Guide to Miami’s Thriving Arts Scene

Sounds of the South: Exploring the Evolving Music Scene of Atlanta

Memphis to Maryville: Urban Adventures in Tennessee

Your Complete Guide to Baltimore

Culture

TV & Radio

Film

Music

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CBeebies presenter Justin Fletcher inadvertently signs rude word during Makaton show

CBeebies presenter Justin Fletcher inadvertently signs rude word during Makaton show

viral

Woman's 'real life GTA' escape from tow truck as it chases her

news

Celebrations mark 10th anniversary of The Kelpies

politics

The moment that made Donald Trump 'laugh' in court

celebrities

Savannah Bond slams Logan Paul and KSI's Prime Hydration on Twitter

celebrities

Savannah Bond slams Logan Paul and KSI's Prime Hydration on Twitter

news

In Pictures: Tweed Run brings a touch of old-fashioned style to London’s streets

science-tech

Scientists discover 'surprise' at beginning of time which changes understanding of universe

Sponsored

Why the Lenovo Yoga 5G is great news for streamers

How the new furlough scheme will help UK firms affected by Covid-19

Is your business ready for the UK’s transition out of the EU?

Musto and Land Rover launch performance-wear collaboration