Events on Tuesday 27 March
Jill Dawson
Lucky Bunny
Gerard Baker and Joanna Blythman Chaired by Donald Sloan
The British Food Revolution: Rhetoric or reality?
Judith Curthoys
The Cardinal’s College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse
Joanne Harris and Rob Pope
Reader, I married him
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Happened?
Lucille Turner Interviewed by Martin Kemp
Gioconda: A Novel of Leonardo da Vinci
Tim Harford
Adapt and Iraq: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
Donna Leon Interviewed by Janet Beer
Beastly Things and a Life of Crime Writing
Franny Moyle
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde
Alex James and Henrietta Green
British Cheese – The Young Pretenders
David Blockley
Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
Janet Beer and Avril Horner Chaired by Alex Goody
Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard
The Romans Who Shaped Britain
Merlin Waterson
A Noble Thing: The National Trust and its Benefactors
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Evolved?
Mark Billingham and Christopher Priest Chaired by Christian House
But is it Literature?
Sarah Hall Interviewed by Jem Poster
The Beautiful Indifference
Tim Palmer, Roger Scruton , Tom Burke and James Delingpole Chaired by Tony White
Humanity’s Impact on the Climate
William Bynum and Helen Bynum
Great Discoveries in Medicine
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum: Tour of the New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Ben Pink Dandelion
Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
Vikram Seth Interviewed by Chris Patten
The Chancellor’s Lecture: The Rivered Earth
Ian Rankin
The Impossible Dead
Lisa Hilton
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London
Tony Curtis, Jenny Lewis and Jane Draycott
Tokens for the Foundlings
Edmund Newell Interviewed by Alastair Lack
The Choice







