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Article: A-listers make Hay; Guy Newey finds out why world famous names flock to the humble Hay Festival.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2006
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Byline: Guy Newey
If you were the former vice-president of the most powerful nation on earth, able to command astronomical speaking fees at glamorous locations across the world, why would you come to a sleepy Welsh border town and address an audience in a souped-up tent?
Al Gore, the man who lost the "stolen" election to George W. Bush in 2000 and has now reinvented himself as an arch-environmentalist and beard-grower, has made a strange choice.
But according to the man who can now add Gore's name to the litany of A-list poets, politicians, movie ...