Hay Festival 2015

Hay brings writers and readers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events on five continents.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rw9sq
Free Thinking
Hay Festival: PJ O'Rourke, Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Boom-Wasnt-Fault-Never/dp/1611856116/

Think Like a Freak: Secrets of the Rogue Economist

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Like-Freak-Smarter-Everything/dp/1846147557/
Presenter Rana Mitter, is joined on the BBC stage at the Hay Festival by writer and provocateur, PJ O'Rourke and the Freakonomics authors, the economist Steven D Levitt and journalist Stephen J Dubner to discuss decision-making, how emotional and economic stability leads to self-absorbtion, how difficult it is to stop and think about anything and why there is such a gulf between the economic and political and personal rationales for the nature of health care provision here in the UK, the US and around the world.
First broadcast 28/05/2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0449kmf