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Lucy Hughes Hallett

Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen

Hay Festival 2005, Monday 30 May 2005

From Garibaldi and the greatest of them all, Achilles, to David Beckham, the writer explores how the truest mark of the hero is the ability to inspire in others forms of madness: desire, terror or both.

Eleanor Updale, David Starky, Michael Wood, Andrew Marr

Ronan Bennett, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Lelia Aboulela

James Delingpole, Michael Collins, Tristram Hunt

Garth Nix

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Lucy Hughes Hallett

Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen

Hay Festival 2005, Monday 30 May 2005

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Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen

Hay Festival 2005, Monday 30 May 2005

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