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A C Grayling
The Oxford Debate: “Do we need God in our society to prevent self-destruction of us and our culture?
Sunday 25 March
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A Guided Chocolate-Tasting with The East India Company
A Guided Coffee-Tasting with The East India Company
The Story of Coffee
Wednesday 28 March
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A Guided Tea-Tasting with The East India Company
A N Wilson
Dante in Love
Monday 26 March
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Tolstoy
Monday 26 March
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Adam Nicolson
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Sunday 25 March
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Adrian Snell
Beyond Words: A Reflective Service with Contemporary Music and Conversation
Sunday 25 March
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Adrian Levy
The Meadow: Kidnapped in Kashmir
Sunday 1 April
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Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
Sunday 1 April
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Alan Parker
A life in film
Sunday 25 March
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Alan Moore
What’s the Point of the Arts and Humanities?
Monday 26 March
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Alastair Hazell
Dr John Kirk and Walter Tull: Hidden Heroes
Saturday 31 March
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Alastair Lack
Film Oxford with Alastair Lack
Saturday 24 March
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Inspector Morse with Alastair Lack
Sunday 1 April
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Inspector Morse with Alastair Lack
Saturday 31 March
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Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack
Wednesday 28 March
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The Choice
Tuesday 27 March
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Alastair Niven
Can Fiction and Memoir Change the World?
Saturday 24 March
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Celebrating Iraqi Culture: A Nation Shaped by Conflict
Sunday 1 April
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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Saturday 31 March
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Shakespeare in Kabul
Sunday 25 March
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Alex Preston
God and Money – What Happens When the Two Collide?
Saturday 24 March
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Alex Scarrow
The Scarrow Brothers’ Great Big Roman Quiz
Sunday 1 April
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Alex James
British Cheese – The Young Pretenders
Tuesday 27 March
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Alex Tickell
New India, New Voice
Thursday 29 March
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Alex Goody
Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Tuesday 27 March
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Ali Bader
Celebrating Iraqi Culture: A Nation Shaped by Conflict
Sunday 1 April
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Alison McQueen
Empire in 21st-Century Fiction
Wednesday 28 March
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Alison MacLeod
Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Friday 30 March
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Alistair Horne
Soldier, Spy, Journalist and Historian: A Literary Vagabondage
Saturday 24 March
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Alistair Darling
Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at No 11
Sunday 25 March
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Alvin Hall
The Stock Market Explained
Friday 30 March
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Amanda Askew
Anders Sandberg
Andrew Lambert
The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Friday 30 March
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Andrew Holgate
Capital – The Story of a Global Crisis
Sunday 25 March
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New writing: The Land of Decoration and The Lifeboat
Thursday 29 March
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Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Friday 30 March
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The Power of the Critic
Thursday 29 March
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Andrew Weale
Nora: The Girl who Ate and Ate and Ate
Saturday 31 March
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Andrew Gibson
I’ve always meant to read . . . Ulysses
Sunday 1 April
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Andrew Motion
Choral Matins: Speaker Andrew Motion
Sunday 1 April
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Silver: A Sequel to Treasure Island
Sunday 1 April
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Andrew Marr
Closing Festival Dinner: Alice’s Banquet in Wonderland
Saturday 31 March
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Andrew Erish
Film and Television: An Expression of American Culture
Saturday 31 March
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Andy Stanton
Andy Sawyer
Science Fiction – But Not As We Know It
Thursday 29 March
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Andy Briggs
Tarzan : The Greystoke Legacy
Saturday 31 March
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Andy Hamilton
Booze For Free: Tasting and Talk
Friday 30 March
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Angus Phillips
Digital Futures
Wednesday 28 March
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Anne Tyler
The Beginner’s Goodbye
Sunday 1 April
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Anthony Horowitz
Blue Peter Book Award
Sunday 1 April
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The House of Silk: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure
Saturday 31 March
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Anthony Sattin
Two Centuries of Travel in Egypt
Sunday 1 April
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Anthony Wall
Arena: Sister Wendy’s Gospel Story
Saturday 24 March
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Sonny Rollins – Beyond the Notes: An Arena Film
Thursday 29 March
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Avril Horner
Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Tuesday 27 March
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Axel Scheffler
Barry Norman
Bodyline to the Modern Day: Why Test Cricket Matters
Wednesday 28 March
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Beatrix Campbell
The Road to Wigan Pier: 75 years on
Saturday 31 March
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Ben Macintyre
Can You Love a Villain?
Saturday 31 March
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day spies
Saturday 31 March
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Ben Pink Dandelion
Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
Tuesday 27 March
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Ben Markovits
Childish Loves
Saturday 24 March
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Ben Okri
Festival Choral Evensong with biblical readings by Ben Okri
Wednesday 28 March
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Wild: Official Launch of a New Collection of Poetry Including Drinks Reception
Friday 30 March
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Bettany Hughes
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Saturday 31 March
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The State of Education
Saturday 31 March
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Bhavit Mehta
New India, New Voice
Thursday 29 March
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Bill Cash MP
John Bright: Statesman, Orator and Agitator
Friday 30 March
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Bill Manley
A Two-Hour Masterclass in Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Young or Old
Sunday 1 April
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Bill Heine
The Hunting of the Shark: The Sculpture that Crash Landed in an Oxford Street
Thursday 29 March
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Brenda Maddox
My Sister Rosalind Franklin: Discovering Structure of DNA
Wednesday 28 March
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Brian Aldiss
An Exile on Planet Earth
Sunday 25 March
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Bruce Hood
The Self Illusion
Sunday 25 March
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Bryan Appleyard
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Friday 30 March
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The Brain is Wider than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don’t Work in a Complex World
Wednesday 28 March
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Camilla de la Bedoyere
Blue Peter Book Award
Sunday 1 April
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Carlo Petrini
Go Slow with Carlo Petrini
Monday 26 March
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Caroline Brothers
Can Fiction and Memoir Change the World?
Saturday 24 March
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Caroline Lawrence
Caroline van Zyl
Getting the Most out of the Law (and Lawyers)
Friday 30 March
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Cassian Harrison
Cathy Scott-Clark
Cathy Galvin
Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Friday 30 March
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Charlie Higson
Chitty and Bond: An Ian Fleming Celebration
Saturday 24 March
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Charlotte Rogan
New writing: The Land of Decoration and The Lifeboat
Thursday 29 March
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Chibundu Onuzo
New Writing: Absolution and The Spider King’s Daughter
Saturday 24 March
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Chris Wormell
Big Ugly Monsters
Saturday 31 March
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Chris Cooper
Cheating in Sport
Monday 26 March
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Chris Patten
The Chancellor’s Lecture: The Rivered Earth
Tuesday 27 March
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Chris Doyle
Libya: Imposing Western Democracy on the Middle East
Thursday 29 March
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Christian House
But is it Literature?
Tuesday 27 March
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Christine Plews
Getting the Most out of the Law (and Lawyers)
Friday 30 March
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Christopher Edge
Dickens’ Legacy
Saturday 24 March
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Christopher Priest
But is it Literature?
Tuesday 27 March
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Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Evolved?
Saturday 24 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Monday 26 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Sunday 25 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Sunday 1 April
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What on Earth Evolved?
Saturday 31 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Friday 30 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Thursday 29 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Wednesday 28 March
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What on Earth Evolved?
Tuesday 27 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Saturday 24 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Sunday 1 April
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What on Earth Happened?
Saturday 31 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Friday 30 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Thursday 29 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Wednesday 28 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Tuesday 27 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Monday 26 March
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What on Earth Happened?
Sunday 25 March
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Christopher Butler
Art and Science: Where the Two Collide
Monday 26 March
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Claire Tomalin
Clara Vulliamy
Introducing Lulu and Martha
Saturday 31 March
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Clare Conville
Clare Morgan
Fictional Freedoms: Rewriting Virginia Woolf
Friday 30 March
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Clare Beaton
The Secret Seahorse
Sunday 1 April
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Claudia Roden
Food writing – the state of the art
Monday 26 March
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Clive Aslet
The Arts & Crafts Country House: From the Archives of Country Life
Sunday 25 March
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Colin Harrison
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Sunday 25 March
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Craig Brown
One on One
Sunday 25 March
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D J Taylor
Can a book change your life?
Sunday 1 April
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Historic Mystery: Enveloping the Reader in the Past
Sunday 1 April
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Martin Amis: The Biography
Friday 30 March
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The Road to Wigan Pier: 75 years on
Saturday 31 March
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Dan Lyndon
Dr John Kirk and Walter Tull: Hidden Heroes
Saturday 31 March
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Dan Cruikshank
Tale of Two Cities
Sunday 25 March
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Daniel Friebe
Cheating in Sport
Monday 26 March
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Darren Tinkler
Dave Farrar
Cheating in Sport
Monday 26 March
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David Stuttard
The Romans Who Shaped Britain
Tuesday 27 March
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David Hare
South Downs and a Life in Theatre
Saturday 24 March
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David Frith
Bodyline to the Modern Day: Why Test Cricket Matters
Wednesday 28 March
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David Freeman
Dangerous Women: The Guide to Modern Life
Wednesday 28 March
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Empire in 21st-Century Fiction
Wednesday 28 March
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The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Saturday 31 March
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Twelve Minutes of Love: A Life Through Tango
Sunday 25 March
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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
Thursday 29 March
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David Jones
Angels: A Very Short Introduction
Monday 26 March
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David Lammy
The 2011 English Riots: What Can We Learn?
Saturday 24 March
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Tottenham to Westminster: Has the Door Closed on Social Mobility?
Saturday 24 March
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David Blockley
Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
Tuesday 27 March
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David Grylls
The Power of the Critic
Thursday 29 March
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Voices from the Titanic
Thursday 29 March
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David Aaronovitch
Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory has Shaped Modern History
Thursday 29 March
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David Piper
A Genteel Tipple Through Gin in Literature
Saturday 24 March
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David Smith
Politics and the Press
Sunday 1 April
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Declan Kiberd
Culture and the Irish Future
Sunday 1 April
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Derek Landy
Death Bringer and the Skulduggery Pleasant Adventures
Saturday 31 March
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Diana Athill
A Life Fully Lived
Friday 30 March
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Dick Fontaine
Sonny Rollins – Beyond the Notes: An Arena Film
Thursday 29 March
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Dinah Birch
Donald Sloan
Made in Sicily
Monday 26 March
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The British Food Revolution: Rhetoric or reality?
Tuesday 27 March
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Donna Dickenson
God, Mammon and Biotechnology
Thursday 29 March
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Donna Leon
Beastly Things and a Life of Crime Writing
Tuesday 27 March
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Food in Fiction
Monday 26 March
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Dorothy Crawford
Viruses: A very Short Introduction
Friday 30 March
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Duncan Hamilton
Bodyline to the Modern Day: Why Test Cricket Matters
Wednesday 28 March
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Duncan McRae
A Genteel Tipple Through Gin in Literature
Saturday 24 March
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Ed Smith
Play up! And play the game!
Thursday 29 March
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Edmund Newell
Ethics in Investment Banking
Wednesday 28 March
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The Choice
Tuesday 27 March
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Eileen Battersby
Ordinary Dogs
Saturday 31 March
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Eleanor Bron
One on One
Sunday 25 March
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Eleanor Mills
Emotional Flashpoints in Women’s Lives
Thursday 29 March
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Elif Shafak
Storytelling and politics
Saturday 31 March
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Eliza Griswold
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline between Christianity and Islam
Saturday 31 March
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Elizabeth Noble
Emotional Flashpoints in Women’s Lives
Thursday 29 March
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Emma Chichester Clark
Introducing Lulu and Martha
Saturday 31 March
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Emma Dodd
Emma Dawson Varughese
New African Fiction
Thursday 29 March
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New India, New Voice
Thursday 29 March
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Emrys Westacott
The Virtues of Our Vices: In Defence of Gossip, Rudeness and Other Bad Habits
Saturday 31 March
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Eoin Flannery
Culture and the Irish Future
Sunday 1 April
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Fiona MacCarthy
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Sunday 25 March
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Fiona Carnarvon
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
Sunday 1 April
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Fiona Neill
Emotional Flashpoints in Women’s Lives
Thursday 29 March
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Frances Wilson
Voices from the Titanic
Thursday 29 March
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Francesca Simon
Norse Code: Writers Inspired by Norse Myths and Legends
Sunday 25 March
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Francesca Kay
Writers Round Table
Sunday 1 April
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Francisco J Romero Salvado
Homage to Catalonia: The Spanish Civil War
Friday 30 March
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Frank Cottrell Boyce
Chitty and Bond: An Ian Fleming Celebration
Saturday 24 March
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Frank Close
Franny Moyle
Gaby Hinsliff
Politics and the Press
Sunday 1 April
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Gareth P Jones
Blue Peter Book Award
Sunday 1 April
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Clouds That Look Like Things
Thursday 29 March
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Gavin Stamp
Edwin Lutyens Country Houses: From the Archives of Country Life
Saturday 31 March
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Geoff Ryman
New African Fiction
Thursday 29 March
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George Garnett
Norman Conquests: A Very Short Introduction
Friday 30 March
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George Magnus
The Age of Ageing: Global Timebomb or Economic Triumph?
Wednesday 28 March
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Gerard Baker
The British Food Revolution: Rhetoric or reality?
Tuesday 27 March
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Gilbert Giggles
Amazing Esme Circus Event
Saturday 24 March
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Giles Andreae
World of Happy
Sunday 25 March
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Gill Lewis
Wildlife Tales: Sky Hawk and My Favourite Animals
Sunday 1 April
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Gillian Shephard
The State of Education
Saturday 31 March
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Giorgio Locatelli
Made in Sicily
Monday 26 March
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Grace McCleen
New writing: The Land of Decoration and The Lifeboat
Thursday 29 March
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Graham Benson
A life in film
Sunday 25 March
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Sonny Rollins – Beyond the Notes: An Arena Film
Thursday 29 March
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Guy Newbury
Representing Sylvia Plath: An Evening
Saturday 24 March
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Gwyneth Jones
Science Fiction – But Not As We Know It
Thursday 29 March
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Hanif Kureishi
Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Friday 30 March
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Harriet Sergeant
The 2011 English Riots: What Can We Learn?
Saturday 24 March
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Helen Rappaport
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy
Thursday 29 March
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Helen Dunmore
The Greatcoat: A Ghost Story
Wednesday 28 March
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Helen Bynum
Helen Arney
Unknown Unknowns: A fusion of stand-up comedy and science.
Saturday 24 March
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Helen Nathan
Chartwells: Putting Fun into Food
Saturday 24 March
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Flossie Crums and the Fairies’ Cupcake Ball
Saturday 24 March
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Helen Graham
Homage to Catalonia: The Spanish Civil War
Friday 30 March
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Helen Small
Helena Matheopoulos
Fashion Designers at The Opera
Friday 30 March
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Henrietta Green
British Cheese – The Young Pretenders
Tuesday 27 March
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Henry Cockburn
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son’s Story
Wednesday 28 March
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Henry Volans
Digital Futures
Wednesday 28 March
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Ian Rankin
The Impossible Dead
Tuesday 27 March
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Ian Goldin
Ian Hart
Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Friday 30 March
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Inaam Kachachi
Celebrating Iraqi Culture: A Nation Shaped by Conflict
Sunday 1 April
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Ivor Roberts
Is Diplomacy Dead?
Saturday 31 March
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J D Sharpe
Dickens’ Legacy
Saturday 24 March
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Jack Harris
Representing Sylvia Plath: An Evening
Saturday 24 March
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James Hawes
Chocolate is the Word
Friday 30 March
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Scenes from Early Life
Friday 30 March
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James Delingpole
Humanity’s Impact on the Climate
Tuesday 27 March
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Jan Zalasiewicz
The Goldilocks Planet: The Four-Billion-Year Story of Earth’s Climate
Friday 30 March
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Jane Draycott
Tokens for the Foundlings
Tuesday 27 March
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Jane Shilling
The Stranger in the Mirror: Women in Middle Age
Friday 30 March
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Jane Fallon
Emotional Flashpoints in Women’s Lives
Thursday 29 March
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Janet Cronin
World of Happy
Sunday 25 March
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Janet Beer
Beastly Things and a Life of Crime Writing
Tuesday 27 March
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Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Tuesday 27 March
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Janie Hampton
The Austerity Olympics
Sunday 1 April
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Jaromir Malek
Two Centuries of Travel in Egypt
Sunday 1 April
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Jay Griffiths
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Sunday 25 March
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Jean Seaton
Homage to Catalonia: The Spanish Civil War
Friday 30 March
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Politics and the Press
Sunday 1 April
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Jeanne Willis
Olympic laughs and dinosaur bones
Saturday 31 March
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Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets
Friday 30 March
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Conversations with Poets
Monday 26 March
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Conversations with Poets
Saturday 24 March
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Conversations with Poets
Thursday 29 March
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The Beautiful Indifference
Tuesday 27 March
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The Greatcoat: A Ghost Story
Wednesday 28 March
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Wild: An Elemental Journey
Sunday 25 March
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Jenifer Glynn
My Sister Rosalind Franklin: Discovering Structure of DNA
Wednesday 28 March
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Jennifer Potter
The Rose: A True History
Monday 26 March
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Jenny Lewis
Tokens for the Foundlings
Tuesday 27 March
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Jeremy Strong
Jeremy Paxman
Jessica Harris
Food in Fiction
Monday 26 March
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
Hurricane
Saturday 31 March
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Ninth Ward: Coming of Age and Hurricane Katrina
Saturday 24 March
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Jill Dawson
Lucky Bunny
Tuesday 27 March
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Jim Godfrey
Christ Church in Words and Music
Thursday 29 March
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Christ Church in Words and Music
Monday 26 March
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Joan Bakewell
A Life Fully Lived
Friday 30 March
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She’s Leaving Home
Friday 30 March
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Joanna Blythman
The British Food Revolution: Rhetoric or reality?
Tuesday 27 March
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Joanna Dunkley
Joanne Harris
Food in Fiction
Monday 26 March
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Norse Code: Writers Inspired by Norse Myths and Legends
Sunday 25 March
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Reader, I married him
Tuesday 27 March
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Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
Wednesday 28 March
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Joe Dunthorne
Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Friday 30 March
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Joe Berger
John Lanchester
Capital – The Story of a Global Crisis
Sunday 25 March
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John Gray
Slightly Foxed Presents John Gray on John Cowper Powys
Saturday 24 March
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John Crace
Brief Encounters – Charles Dickens
Wednesday 28 March
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Play up! And play the game!
Thursday 29 March
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John Sutherland
Brief Encounters – Charles Dickens
Wednesday 28 March
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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
Wednesday 28 March
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John Gittings
The Glorious Art of Peace: Taking War off its Pedestal
Saturday 24 March
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John Welshman
Voices from the Titanic
Thursday 29 March
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John Guy
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim
Saturday 31 March
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John Reynolds
Ethics in Investment Banking
Wednesday 28 March
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John Gribbin
John Simpson
Filching-morts and Shabberoons: Reviving Old Dictionaries
Saturday 24 March
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John Bowen
Jon McGregor
This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
Sunday 1 April
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Jon Turney
Jonathan Fenby
Tiger Head Snake Tails: China Today
Wednesday 28 March
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Jonathan Freedland
Pantheon
Monday 26 March
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Jonathan Arnold
Christ Church in Words and Music
Thursday 29 March
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Christ Church in Words and Music
Monday 26 March
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Jonathan Steele
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
Monday 26 March
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Jonathan Bate
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Saturday 31 March
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Josie Long
What’s the Point of the Arts and Humanities?
Monday 26 March
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Judith Curthoys
The Cardinal’s College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse
Tuesday 27 March
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Julia Churchill
Bookcamp: How To Get a Children’s Book Published
Sunday 25 March
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Justine Picardie
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Saturday 31 March
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Kamin Mohammadi
Can Fiction and Memoir Change the World?
Saturday 24 March
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Kapka Kassabova
Twelve Minutes of Love: A Life Through Tango
Sunday 25 March
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Kate Williams
Bringing the Past to Life: The Whore’s Asylum and The Pleasures of Men
Sunday 25 March
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Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen
Sunday 25 March
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Kate Clanchy
Chocolate is the Word
Friday 30 March
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Other Worlds in Oxford
Sunday 25 March
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Kate Wilson
Digital Futures
Wednesday 28 March
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Katherine Rundell
The Joy of Writing, Reading and Cartwheels
Sunday 1 April
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Katherine Bosworth
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
Sunday 25 March
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Kathy Lette
The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Saturday 31 March
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Katy Darby
Bringing the Past to Life: The Whore’s Asylum and The Pleasures of Men
Sunday 25 March
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Katy Guest
Can a book change your life?
Sunday 1 April
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Kelly Gerrard
Kenneth Howse
The Age of Ageing: Global Timebomb or Economic Triumph?
Wednesday 28 March
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Kevin Murray
The Language of Leaders and Talk Normal
Wednesday 28 March
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
Norse Code: Writers Inspired by Norse Myths and Legends
Sunday 25 March
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Kim Newman
Can You Love a Villain?
Saturday 31 March
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Korky Paul
Kristina Stephenson
Songs, Secrets and Stinky Socks: Sir Charlie Returns
Sunday 1 April
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Laetitia Maklouf
Sweet Peas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year
Wednesday 28 March
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Lance Price
Politics and the Press
Sunday 1 April
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Laurane Marchive
Chartwells: Putting Fun into Food
Saturday 24 March
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Lavinia Greenlaw
Conversations with Poets
Saturday 24 March
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Layn Marlow
Marlow and the Mole
Saturday 24 March
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Leah Thaxton
Bookcamp: How To Get a Children’s Book Published
Sunday 25 March
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Leslie Fielding
Is Diplomacy Dead?
Saturday 31 March
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Lev Grossman
Storytelling: The Past and Future of the American Novel
Friday 30 March
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Linda Gates
Representing Sylvia Plath: An Evening
Saturday 24 March
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Lindsey Hilsum
Libya: Imposing Western Democracy on the Middle East
Thursday 29 March
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Sandstorm: The Inside Story of Gadaffi’s Regime
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