Bex and Bob reunite to share their “crumbs of joy” and relive their first-ever trip to the Hay Festival, from rainy Brecon Beacons drives and chance sightings of authors to the cozy charm of a town full of bookshops. They chat about the intimate magic of meeting writers like Elif Shafak and Anton Hur, the politics and power of language, and a Black Mirror–style AI voice experience that turns their own recordings into unsettling fake adverts – with plenty of serious biscuit talk along the way.

Books Mentioned:

1. Everyday Sexism – Laura Bates
2. Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society’s Legacy of Gay Shame – Matthew Todd
3. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World – Elif Shafak
4. The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak
5. Toward Eternity – Anton Hur
6. Ulysses – James Joyce