Oxford Literary Festival 2015
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Tickets selling fast for Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett
Nicholas Hytner talks to Alkan Bennett and receives Bodley Medal
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Festival box office opens in Blackwell’s bookshop
Tickets can now be purchased in person and by telephone
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Novelist David Lodge to talk about his new memoir at festival
Comic Tony Hawks and sci-fi writer Diana Gabaldon join programme
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Featured Events
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A C Grayling
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
12:00pm | Thursday 26 March 2015 | Philosophy
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David Crystal and Ben Crystal
The Shakespeare Dictionary
6:00pm | Tuesday 24 March 2015 | Language & Literature
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Paul Heiney
One Wild Song: One Man’s Quest to Find his Son’s Voice at Sea
2:00pm | Friday 27 March 2015 | Biography & Memoir
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Anita Anand
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
10:00am | Thursday 26 March 2015 | Biography & Memoir
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Amitav Ghosh Interviewed by Chris Clark
Chancellor’s Lecture: History and Fiction – a Conversation
6:00pm | Monday 23 March 2015 | Fiction
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Elif Shafak Interviewed by Rebecca Abrams
The Architect’s Apprentice
6:00pm | Thursday 26 March 2015 | Fiction
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Kazuo Ishiguro Interviewed by Lorien Kite
The Buried Giant
6:00pm | Thursday 12 March 2015 | Fiction
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Liz Pichon
Tom Gates: A Tiny Bit Lucky
10:00am | Sunday 22 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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Philip Pullman Interviewed by Nicolette Jones
His Dark Materials
12:00pm | Saturday 28 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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Celia Imrie
Not Quite Nice: A Debut Novel
6:00pm | Tuesday 24 March 2015 | Fiction
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Steve Cole and Andrew Lane Chaired by Tony Bradman
Sherlock Holmes Versus James Bond
4:30pm | Saturday 28 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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Diana Gabaldon Introduced by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Arizona State University Lecture: Outlander: Sci-fi Adventure-Romance
12:00pm | Sunday 22 March 2015 | Fiction
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Christopher Frayling
The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia
4:00pm | Friday 27 March 2015 | Contemporary Society
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Cressida Cowell and Lauren Child Chaired by Nicolette Jones
Friends and Bestselling Writers: How it all Began
12:00pm | Saturday 21 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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David Lodge
Quite a Good Time to be Born
12:00pm | Friday 27 March 2015 | Fiction
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Jack Gantos and Phil Earle
Joey Pigza and Being Billy
12:00pm | Saturday 21 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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Joanne Harris and Christopher Fowler
Thriller Writing: Blueeyedboy and The Burning Man
6:00pm | Friday 27 March 2015 | Fiction
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Madhur Jaffrey and Prajwal Parajuly
Family, Place and Culture in Fiction and Food
4:00pm | Saturday 28 March 2015 | Food and Drink
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Tony Hawks
Once Upon a Time in the West . . . Country
6:00pm | Saturday 21 March 2015 | Comedy
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Gill Lewis and Tom Moorhouse Chaired by Caroline Sanderson
Wild Places and Wild Animals: An Inspiration
4:00pm | Saturday 21 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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Princess Michael of Kent
Agnès Sorel Mistress of Beauty
4:00pm | Wednesday 25 March 2015 | History
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Jessye Norman Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Life’s memories to The Music of the Orchestra of St John’s Conducted by John Lubbock
6:00pm | Friday 27 March 2015 | Biography & Memoir
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Nicholas Hytner Interviewed by Alan Bennett
Bodley Lecture: A Life in Theatre, Film and Opera and Award of Bodley Medal
6:00pm | Thursday 26 March 2015 | Language & Literature
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Will Hutton
How Good Can We Be? Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
2:00pm | Saturday 21 March 2015 | Contemporary Society
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Melvyn Bragg Interviewed by Paula Byrne
The Healing Power of Literature
6:00pm | Thursday 26 March 2015 | Language & Literature
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George Carey and Alister McGrath
Warfare or Mutual Enrichment? Ways of Thinking about the Relation of Science and Faith
5:00pm | Saturday 28 March 2015 | Faith and Religion
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter: Celebrating the Magic
2:00pm | Sunday 22 March 2015 | Children and Young People
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Mary Portas
Mary Portas: Shop Girl
10:00am | Saturday 28 March 2015 | Biography & Memoir
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Oxford Literary Festival 2015
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Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro opens the 2015 FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival with a talk on his new novel, The Buried Giant, at Oxford Town Hall on Thursday 12 March. Find out more.
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