Martin Chilton

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Hay Festival 2013: day one live

telegraph.co.uk — The Hay Festival 2013 in Hay-on-Wye takes place between Thursday 23 May and Sunday 2 June. For reviews, news and pictures from the event see The Telegraph'sHay Festival page, or follow the latest Hay updates on Twitter @TelegraphBooks Latest: 11.14 Useful travel info linkage on Twitter, via @TravelineTim : #hayfestival If you're going along, click here for travel info ow.ly/kFpk0 11.06 Today's biggest event is probably Noah and the Whale, who play live at the Barclays Pavilion at 8pm.
@sophielording thanks Sophie - hope to see you sometime and glad the job going well. Martin

Hay Festival 2013: Mariella Frostrup Q&A on books

telegraph.co.uk — I'm reading Colum McCann's new novel having loved his last, Let The Great World Spin,and Ruby Wax's fascinating account of how she found peace in a crazy world, called Sane New World. * What will you be taking to read at Hay? Elle, Decoration and Interiors.
@robbiereviews good shout-out for O Brother, Where Art Thou? by the way . . . 'I was not hit by a train. Damnit, I am the paterfamilias!'

Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis, review

telegraph.co.uk — Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen; Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund. 105 min. Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen, is a hymn to squandered potential, missed opportunities and unsung genius.
RT @EarlOfEdgecombe: Nice piece about Treme in The Telegraph today bit.ly/13ClFjK. Consensus is gathering and will surely continue …

Tremé: Best thing on TV and so few are watching

telegraph.co.uk — Tremé, unusually for modern television, features a range of really strong female roles. Six of the main parts are women: Oscar winning Melissa Leo (who plays a spirited civil rights lawyer called Antoinette 'Toni' Bernette); Emmy-winning Khandi Alexander (as bar owner LaDonna Batiste-Williams); Kim Dickens (as chef Janette Desautel, below); Lucia Micarelli (as violinist Annie), Phyllis Montana LeBlanc (as Desiree) and India Ennenga (as teenager Sofia Bernette) are all excellent.
@guy_in_london thanks for reply - there will be a short season - they gave David Simon a limited budget so prob no more than 6 episodes

Tremé: Best thing on TV and so few are watching

telegraph.co.uk — Tremé, unusually for modern television, features a range of really strong female roles. Six of the main parts are women: Oscar winning Melissa Leo (who plays a spirited civil rights lawyer called Antoinette 'Toni' Bernette); Emmy-winning Khandi Alexander (as bar owner LaDonna Batiste-Williams); Kim Dickens (as chef Janette Desautel, below); Lucia Micarelli (as violinist Annie), Phyllis Montana LeBlanc (as Desiree) and India Ennenga (as teenager Sofia Bernette) are all excellent.
@philearle welcome & look forward to catching up, too . . . but decided not to check the long-range weather forecast!

Heroic by Phil Earle: review

telegraph.co.uk — divides the action in his new novel Heroic between a tough housing estate in the northeast and war-torn Afghanistan. It's sometimes hard to tell which holds the greater danger.
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