Hay 2014

BRYONY GORDON
THE WRONG KNICKERS: A DECADE OF CHAOS

Event 381 • Saturday 31 May 2014, 11.30am • Venue: The Oxfam MootLike Carrie Bradshaw, Gordon may have had a column in a national newspaper, but her twenties weren’t one long episode of Sex and the City. They were a decade of hangovers, heartbreak, and hideously awkward mornings-after, all over her overdraft limit. She tells the tales to Georgina Godwin.

MONIQUE ROFFEY AND MITCH CULLIN
FICTIONS – INVENTIONS

Event 389 • Saturday 31 May 2014, 1pm • Venue: Good Energy StageSet on the fictional Caribbean island of Sans Amen, Roffey’s House of Ashes tells the story of three characters, a gunman, a hostage and a boy soldier, caught up in a botched coup d’etat. Cullin’s A Slight Trick of the Mindintroduces a nonagenarian Sherlock Holmes. In the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking – about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. The authors talk to Georgina Godwin.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
THRIVE: THE THIRD METRIC TO REDEFINING SUCCESS AND CREATING A HAPPIER LIFE

Event 410 • Saturday 31 May 2014, 7pm • Venue: The Tata TentThe Huffington Post founder argues that a successful life is made up of more than just money and success and must also include what she calls The Third Metric: personal care, health, and fulfillment. She talks to Georgina Godwin.

ALEX MONROE
TWO TURTLE DOVES: A HISTORY OF MAKING THINGS

Event 430 • Sunday 1 June 2014, 10am • Venue: The Oxfam MootGrowing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled gardens, the celebrated jeweller was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-karts and guns, cross-bows and booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then it was jewellery. He talks to Georgina Godwin.

ATEF ABU SAIF AND ABDALLAH TAYEH
FICTIONS – THE BOOK OF GAZA

Event 444 • Sunday 1 June 2014, 1pm • Venue: Good Energy StageThe novelist Atef Abu Saif introduces his groundbreaking anthology of ten Palestinian writers who have been translated into English for the first time. Each story takes place in a different part of the Strip and provides a ‘literary map’, navigating its readers around the cities. He is joined by one of the contributing short story writers, Abdallah Tayeh. They talk to Georgina Godwin.

Here are a few highlights you can expect on The Weekend Edition on Saturday 12th April. Between 8 and 9 London time I'll be going through the papers and playing some relevant music.

At 12.30 an ABBA special on the 40th anniversary of their Eurovision win. We feature the Swedish Cultural Attache from Paris and the Ambassador to London talking about the Soft Power effect of music and how social democracy in Sweden meant the group were always lauded more abroad. I talk to the author of a new book about ABBA backstage stories, hear from their manager, lighting designer, and the publisher of a photographic tome about the group. I speak to producer Pete Waterman, interview a Swedish Vicar about how he whirled Queen Silvia round the floor at his wedding, to the tune of Dancing Queen, talk to Katrina of Katrina and the Waves about her Eurovision win in '97, and ask Frida herself what ABBA's favourite ABBA tune is.

Then, at 14. 15 I speak to Maureen Freely. She has just been appointed President of English PEN. She's also an author and the translator of Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk.

Those are just some of the highlights you can expect on Saturday on The Weekend Edition on www.monocle.com/24. Hit listen live....and it would be great if you felt like voting for us in the Webby Awardshttp://pv.webbyawards.com/2014/web/general-website/radio-podcasts