(AMR), but it may also hold the key to combating it - both at home and globally, researchers say.
"People would turn up at his hotel room with a bottle and want him to drink it in front of them."When people were feeding him lots of whisky he could get irascible.
"I think he liked to be the centre of attention, in a pub he would tell great stories and people would buy him drinks, but I don't think he was known for a temper in any way."[His wife] Caitlin had the temper and she would give him a right hiding."Actress and writer Ruth Jones has been awarded this year's Hay Festival medal for drama.
The Gavin and Stacey co-creator was honoured in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, where she was speaking about her new novel.War Horse author Michael Morpurgo won the fiction medal, while British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak won the medal for prose.
"We are honoured to celebrate three exceptional storytellers," said Hay Festival chief executive Julie Finch, who said the three winners had "each done much to push the boundaries of contemporary writing and spread the joy of stories here and around the world".
Jones, from Bridgend, writes about finding joy in unlikely connections in her new book, By Your Side.But UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has announced the UK now supports a plan that would give Western Sahara autonomy but Morocco ultimate sovereignty.
On a visit to Moroccan capital Rabat, Lammy said Morocco's autonomy proposal was "the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting resolution of the dispute".Lammy also signed an agreement to boost collaboration between the two countries on critical infrastructure projects for the World Cup, which Morocco is hosting alongside Spain and Portugal in five years' time.
The deal would allow "British businesses to score big on football's biggest stage", Lammy said.Algeria, which backs the Western Saharan independence movement, said it "regrets" Lammy's announcement.