Events on Saturday 31 March
Andrew Weale
Nora: The Girl who Ate and Ate and Ate
John Guy
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim
Bettany Hughes Interviewed by Nicolette Jones
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Eliza Griswold Interviewed by Rowan Williams
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline between Christianity and Islam
Stefanie Powers and Andrew Erish
Film and Television: An Expression of American Culture
Noo Saro-Wiwa Interviewed by Alastair Niven
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Sherard Cowper-Coles
Cables from Kabul: Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign
Alastair Lack
Inspector Morse with Alastair Lack
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Happened?
Simon Brett and Sophie Hannah
Murder Mystery: Bloodbath or Brainteaser?
Clara Vulliamy and Emma Chichester Clark
Introducing Lulu and Martha
Eileen Battersby
Ordinary Dogs
Elif Shafak
Storytelling and politics
Justine Picardie
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Anthony Horowitz Interviewed by Peter Kemp
The House of Silk: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure
Simon Glendinning
Derrida: A Very Short Introduction
Chris Wormell
Big Ugly Monsters
Kathy Lette
The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Andy Briggs
Tarzan : The Greystoke Legacy
Gavin Stamp
Edwin Lutyens Country Houses: From the Archives of Country Life
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Hurricane
Ben Macintyre
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day spies
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Evolved?
Sherard Cowper-Coles and Ivor Roberts Chaired by Leslie Fielding
Is Diplomacy Dead?
Derek Landy
Death Bringer and the Skulduggery Pleasant Adventures
Robert Harris Interviewed by Peter Kemp
The Fear Index
Raymond Tallis
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
Alastair Hazell and Dan Lyndon
Dr John Kirk and Walter Tull: Hidden Heroes
Bettany Hughes, Zeinab Badawi and Gillian Shephard Chaired by Sarah Baxter
The State of Education
Jeanne Willis
Olympic laughs and dinosaur bones
Jonathan Bate
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
William Boyd Introduced by Nicolette Jones
Waiting for Sunrise
Ben Macintyre and Kim Newman
Can You Love a Villain?
Rebecca Stott
Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
Emrys Westacott
The Virtues of Our Vices: In Defence of Gossip, Rudeness and Other Bad Habits
Stephen Armstrong, Beatrix Campbell and Paul Mason Chaired by D J Taylor
The Road to Wigan Pier: 75 years on
Andrew Marr
Closing Festival Dinner: Alice’s Banquet in Wonderland







