Events on Wednesday 28 March
George Magnus
The Age of Ageing: Global Timebomb or Economic Triumph?
John Sutherland
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
Jenifer Glynn Interviewed by Brenda Maddox
My Sister Rosalind Franklin: Discovering Structure of DNA
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Happened?
Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
John Reynolds and Edmund Newell
Ethics in Investment Banking
Jonathan Fenby
Tiger Head Snake Tails: China Today
A Guided Coffee-Tasting with The East India Company
The Story of Coffee
Peter Watson
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Nick Barratt
Roots: Our Rural Ancestors
Paul Slack
The Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Helen Dunmore Interviewed by Jem Poster
The Greatcoat: A Ghost Story
Nigel Warburton
Little History of Philosophy
Tim Birkhead
Bird Sense: What it’s Like to be a Bird
Alastair Lack
Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack
Barry Norman and David Frith Chaired by Duncan Hamilton
Bodyline to the Modern Day: Why Test Cricket Matters
Nicolas Sagovsky
I’ve always meant to read . . . The Waste Land
A Guided Chocolate-Tasting with The East India Company
Beans of Paradise
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Evolved?
Kevin Murray and Tim Phillips
The Language of Leaders and Talk Normal
Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn Chaired by Patrick Jephson
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son’s Story
T D Griggs and Alison McQueen Chaired by David Freeman
Empire in 21st-Century Fiction
A Guided Tea-Tasting with The East India Company
The Finest Teas with the Tea Master
Bryan Appleyard
The Brain is Wider than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don’t Work in a Complex World
Helen Berry
The Castrato and his Wife
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum: Tour of the Ancient World Floor and New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Raymond Wacks
Privacy: A Very Short Introduction
Poetry Platform
Poetry Platform Hosted by Jenny Lewis
Ben Okri
Festival Choral Evensong with biblical readings by Ben Okri
Sarah-Jane Lovett and Liz Hoggard Chaired by David Freeman
Dangerous Women: The Guide to Modern Life
John Crace and John Sutherland
Brief Encounters – Charles Dickens
Laetitia Maklouf
Sweet Peas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year
Richard Mabey and Paul Farley Chaired by Simon Kövesi
Edgelands: Nature Writing in Estranged Places
Henry Volans, Michael Bhaskar and Kate Wilson Chaired by Angus Phillips
Digital Futures
