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To celebrate 70 years of bringing the world's greatest writers and brightest minds to Cheltenham, we've scoured our incredible archive in search of some seminal moments. We're bringing audio from past events to life to showcase the heritage and history of the Literature Festival.

Funny, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the greatest writers of the 20th-century with an incredible body of work including Under The Net, The Bell and the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, the Sea. In this very special recording at the 1994 Cheltenham Literature Festival, Iris appeared in conversation with John Bayley and Peter Conradi for an event examining 40 years of her life as a novelist.

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Image credit - Peter Conradi's Family Business: A Memoir

To celebrate 70 years of bringing the world's greatest writers and brightest minds to Cheltenham, we've scoured our incredible archive in search of some seminal moments. We're bringing audio from past events to life to showcase the heritage and history of the Literature Festival.

In this intensely personal and revealing interview, Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses her memoir, What Happened. She gives a no-holds barred account of the experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. This is a candid account of that campaign and its aftermath from the extraordinary woman in the eye of the storm.

Tickets go on sale for the 2019 programme to Members on 28 August and are released on general sale on 4 September: cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

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To celebrate 70 years of bringing the world's greatest writers and brightest minds to Cheltenham, we've scoured our incredible archive in search of some seminal moments. We're bringing audio from past events to life to showcase the heritage and history of the Festival.

We're thrilled to reveal a podcast from the 1993 archive featuring American poet, philosopher, writer and considered to be one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg. This podcast features two distinct halves: the first half, Allan speaks with John Calder about the Beat Generation and the second half concludes with Allan reading poetry with musical accompaniment.

The work of Allen Ginsberg © Allen Ginsberg, LLC. All rights reserved.

Allen Ginsberg's Selected Poems is published by Penguin Modern Classics.

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Cheltenham Music Festival Artistic Director Alison Balsom sat down with the brilliant Nicola Benedetti, Jess Gillam and Lucy Crowe to preview this year's festival.

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Every single one of us carries the history of our species in our genes – a tale of births and deaths, war and famine. Anatomist Alice Roberts and geneticist Adam Rutherford discuss how these hidden tales and the accompanying chapters in the genomes of the dogs, horses, crops and other species which have shaped us, are rewriting and uncovering our history.

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The UK has seen a sharp rise in both far-right and Islamist violence, from hate-crime to devastating attacks that have claimed innocent lives. How much do we know about the psychology of extremism, and what are the triggers that put people at risk? Barrister Hashi Mohamed joins far-right extremism specialist Vidhya Ramalingam and terrorism expert Andrew Silke, as they examine the common characteristics of extremist behaviour and consider how we might better respond to and prevent radicalisation.

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Tickets go on sale to the general public on 24 April.

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We sat down with Cheltenham Jazz Festival Head of Programming Emily Jones & Programme Adviser Tony Dudley-Evans to talk: Festival programming, the evolution of the Festival, Keychange 50/50 gender split, Jazz for Schools, dream bookings dead or alive and much more.

Interviewed by Theo Wright and Holly Dunworth-Miller

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Produced by Barleyfield Records

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David Mitchell, the acclaimed author of The Bone Clocks, Cloud Atlas and Slade House accepts the prestigious prize and joins an elite list of winners that includes Ted Hughes, Muriel Spark, Kazuo Ishiguro, Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood and John Le Carré. He is interviewed by The Sunday Times Chief Fiction Reviewer Peter Kemp.

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Double Oscar-winning actor Sally Field is renowned for her artistic range and rich characters in TV and films including Forrest Gump, Lincoln and Mrs Doubtfire. Now she turns her attention to her own remarkable story and discusses her memoir In Pieces.

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Award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED talk 'We Should All Be Feminists' started a worldwide conversation. On a rare UK visit to receive the PEN Pinter Prize, she speaks to Ellah Wakatama Allfrey at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival about the remarkable impact of her work.