It is a town at times at odds with itself, like so many small Welsh towns that attract a lot of incomers, and so, it seems, like Richard Booth himself, who appears often, by turns radical and right-wing. The Hay Festival is there too, its origins and history, controversies and successes, the massive impact it has had on the town
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