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Photo credit: Chris Andrews/Oxford Picture LibraryThank you to all for making 2014 such a special year for the Literary Festival
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Oxford Literary Festival 2014
Latest News
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More tickets available for Margaret Atwood
More tickets on sale for festival closing dinner
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Fantastic opening weekend with much more to come
Paxman and McEwan head Sheldonian programme
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FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival opens on Saturday
Speakers include James Naughtie, Robert Harris and Philip Pullman
18 / Mar / 2014 Read on →
Featured Events
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Orhan Pamuk Interviewed by Jason Cowley
Chancellor’s Lecture: Orhan Pamuk – Nobel Winner
6:00pm | Saturday 29 March 2014 | Fiction
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Louis de Bernières Interviewed by Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets: Imagining Alexandria
2:00pm | Sunday 23 March 2014 | Poetry
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Kirsty Wark Interviewed by Bidisha
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle
2:00pm | Wednesday 26 March 2014 | Fiction
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Malorie Blackman and Shami Chakrabarti
Writing for Young People and Human Rights
2:00pm | Saturday 29 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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Brian Sewell
Sleeping with Dogs: A Peripheral Autobiography SOLD OUT
4:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Biography & Memoir
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Michael Morpurgo
The Mozart Question Concert
12:00pm | Sunday 30 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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John Julius Norwich Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Darling Monster: Lady Diana Cooper’s Letters to her Son SOLD OUT
2:00pm | Wednesday 26 March 2014 | Biography & Memoir
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Lucy Mangan and Philip Ardagh Chaired by Nicolette Jones
Roald Dahl Mischief Mayhem and Music
5:30pm | Sunday 23 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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Hanif Kureishi Interviewed by David Freeman
The Last Word
6:00pm | Wednesday 26 March 2014 | Fiction
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Count Arthur Strong Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Through It All I’ve Always Laughed SOLD OUT
2:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Comedy
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Margaret Atwood
HSBC Closing Festival Dinner: Margaret Atwood
7:30pm | Saturday 29 March 2014 | Dinners
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Claudia Roden Interviewed by Donald Sloan
The Food of Italy
10:00am | Tuesday 25 March 2014 | Food and Drink
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James Naughtie Interviewed by Paul Blezard
The Madness of July
12:00pm | Saturday 22 March 2014 | Fiction
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Alexander McCall Smith Interviewed by Jan Dalley
What W H Auden Can Do For You
12:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Language & Literature
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Madhur Jaffrey and Mark Tully
The Magic of India
6:00pm | Monday 24 March 2014 | Contemporary Society
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Robert Harris Interviewed by John Gapper
An Officer and a Spy
6:00pm | Saturday 22 March 2014 | Fiction
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Gavin Hewitt
The Lost Continent: Europe’s Darkest Hour Since World War Two
4:00pm | Saturday 29 March 2014 | Current Affairs
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Margaret Drabble
The Life and Works of Jules Verne
4:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Fiction
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Kevin Crossley-Holland Interviewed by Nicolette Jones
The History of the Wizard
2:00pm | Sunday 30 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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Lauren St John and Virginia McKenna Interviewed by Nicolette Jones
Born Free: The Animals That Inspire Us
10:00am | Saturday 29 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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Kamila Shamsie
A God in Every Stone
12:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Fiction
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Ian McEwan Interviewed by Richard Ovenden
The 2014 Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal to Ian McEwan
4:00pm | Thursday 27 March 2014 | Fiction
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Jan Morris Interviewed by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Jan Morris: Life and Work
6:00pm | Tuesday 25 March 2014 | Exploration, Travel & Travel History
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Jonathan Aitken Interviewed by Stephen Glover
Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality
12:00pm | Sunday 23 March 2014 | Politics & Memoirs
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Anita Shreve Interviewed by Paul Blezard
The Lives of Stella Bain
2:00pm | Sunday 23 March 2014 | Fiction
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Alan Titchmarsh
Bring Me Home
12:00pm | Thursday 27 March 2014 | Fiction
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Eleanor Catton Interviewed by Natalie Haynes
The Luminaries
2:00pm | Sunday 30 March 2014 | Fiction
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Korky Paul
Winnie’s Pirate Adventure
10:00am | Saturday 22 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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Edward Stourton Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees
10:00am | Thursday 27 March 2014 | History
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Robert Muchamore and Sophie McKenzie Chaired by Geraldine Brennan
Excitement and Adventure: Rock War and Split Second
2:00pm | Saturday 22 March 2014 | Children and Young People
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Jancis Robinson Interviewed by Sheila Dillon
World Atlas of Wine: A Talk and Tasting SOLD OUT
6:00pm | Monday 24 March 2014 | Food and Drink
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Melvyn Bragg
Grace and Mary
2:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Fiction
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Philip Pullman and John Lubbock Interviewed by Paul Blezard
A Life’s Memories to the Music of the Orchestra of St John
7:00pm | Wednesday 26 March 2014 | Music
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Joanne Harris Interviewed by Paul Blezard
The Gospel of Loki
5:00pm | Friday 28 March 2014 | Fiction
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Jeremy Paxman
Great Britain’s Great War
2:00pm | Thursday 27 March 2014 | History
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A C Grayling
Friendship
12:00pm | Saturday 29 March 2014 | Philosophy
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Oxford Literary Festival 2014
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