Hay Festival is back in-person for its 35th spring edition, bringing writers and readers together for inspiring conversations, debates, workshops and performances 26 MayвЂ“5 June 2022. He talks to geneticist Professor Veronica van Heyningen FRS. Adam RutherfordвЂ™s Control tells the story of attempts by the powerful throughout history to dictate and dominate reproduction and regulate the interface of breeding and society. It was a cornerstone of the policies of the Third Reich and led directly to the gates of Auschwitz. In the Victorian era, in the shadow of DarwinвЂ™s ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over unruly biology developed and was enshrined in a political movement that bastardised science: eugenics. But this goes hand-in-hand with the urge to impose control over who can procreate and ultimately who is permitted to live. People have always sought to reduce suffering, eliminate disease or enhance desirable qualities in their children. Imagine.Science: Control - the dark history and troubling present of eugenicsДr Adam Rutherford talks to Professor Veronica van Heyningen FRS Each year, the winner is selected by judging panels made up of thousands of young people at schools across the country. The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and to inspire them to read about science. Join Young PeopleвЂ™s Book Prize shortlist panel member and childrenвЂ™s author Sharna Jackson and data journalist and winning author Miriam Quick as they explore the wonders of our world through this yearвЂ™s winner, I Am a Book. The winner of this yearвЂ™s prize is a book like no other, where data can not only be visualised but also heard and touched. This event will be held at Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales Festivalgoers can explore the programme and book tickets at /wales. Over 11 days, this yearвЂ™s programme promises a thrilling line-up of over 500 events, launching the best new fiction and nonfiction, while offering insights and debate around some of the biggest issues of our times in a programme of conversations featuring more than 600 award-winning writers, policy makers, pioneers, innovators and performers.

Professor Catherine Heymans is Astronomer Royal for Scotland.

His latest book, co-written with Donald Goldsmith, is The End of Astronauts. The United KingdomвЂ™s Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees was previously Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. As our robot explorers grow more competent, governments and corporations must ask, does our desire to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars justify the cost and danger? Lord Martin Rees FRS believes that beyond low-Earth orbit, space exploration should proceed without humans. But the thrill of space travel for astronauts comes at enormous expense and is fraught with peril. Human journeys into space fill us with wonder. Lord Martin Rees FRS talks to Professor Catherine Heymans

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