Events on Thursday 29 March
Grace McCleen and Charlotte Rogan Chaired by Andrew Holgate
New writing: The Land of Decoration and The Lifeboat
Stephen Law
Believing Bullshit
P D James Interviewed by Peter Kemp
Death Comes to Pemberley and a Passion for Jane Austen
John Welshman, Nic Compton and Frances Wilson Chaired by David Grylls
Voices from the Titanic
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Peter Frankopan
The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Happened?
David Aaronovitch
Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory has Shaped Modern History
Philip Marsden
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail
John Crace and Ed Smith Chaired by Roger Bannister
Play up! And play the game!
Marian Partington and Stephen Cherry Chaired by Marina Cantacuzino
A Question of Forgiveness
Margaret Heffernan
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Muthoni Garland and Geoff Ryman Chaired by Emma Dawson Varughese
New African Fiction
Tim Stanley-Clarke
Blandy’s Madeira Masterclass
Claire Tomalin
Charles Dickens: A Life
Lynda Mugglestone
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
Simon Armitage Interviewed by Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets
Anthony Trollope
An Afternoon with Anthony Trollope
Lindsey Hilsum
Sandstorm: The Inside Story of Gadaffi’s Regime
Donna Dickenson
God, Mammon and Biotechnology
Andrew Holgate and Peter Kemp Interviewed by David Grylls
The Power of the Critic
Bill Heine
The Hunting of the Shark: The Sculpture that Crash Landed in an Oxford Street
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Evolved?
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Clouds That Look Like Things
Richard Harries and Stephen Law
Does God Exist?
Peter Conrad Interviewed by David Freeman
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
Bhavit Mehta, Sampurna Chattarji , Alex Tickell and Nilanjana Bhattacharya Chaired by Emma Dawson Varughese
New India, New Voice
Fiona Neill, Elizabeth Noble and Jane Fallon Chaired by Eleanor Mills
Emotional Flashpoints in Women’s Lives
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum: Tour of the New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Tim Stanley-Clarke
Graham’s Port Masterclass
Owen Davies
Magic: A Very Short Introduction
Ritchie Robertson
Franz Kafka: A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
Anthony Wall and Dick Fontaine Chaired by Graham Benson
Sonny Rollins – Beyond the Notes: An Arena Film
Gwyneth Jones and Andy Sawyer
Science Fiction – But Not As We Know It
Helen Rappaport Interviewed by Ross King
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy
Lindsey Hilsum, Chris Doyle and Patrick Jephson Chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Libya: Imposing Western Democracy on the Middle East
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Jonathan Arnold and Jim Godfrey
Christ Church in Words and Music
