Events on Friday 22 March 2013
Kate Mosse and Antony Beevor
Historical Fact and Fiction
John Sutherland and John Crace
Sex and Marriage . . .
Stephen Grosz Interviewed by Kate Summerscale
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
Julie Summers
Jambusters: The Women’s Institute at War 1939-1945
Alexandra Harris
Virginia Woolf
Catherine Bailey Interviewed by David Freeman
The Secret Rooms: The Mysterious Death of the Duke of Rutland
James Buchan and Mehri Honarbin-Holliday Chaired by Ann Leslie
Iran: The Atomic State
Gordon Campbell
The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome
Philip Howard
Lost Words
Julian Barnes Interviewed by Hermione Lee
Julian Barnes: Through the Window
Artemis Cooper
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Simon Stokes, Christine Plews and Caroline van Zyl
Blake Lapthorn – Lawyers to the Festival Present Getting the most out of the Law (and Lawyers)
Nigel Warburton
Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction
Barry Millington Interviewed by David Freeman
Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth
Lionel Shriver
The New Republic
John Fowles
An afternoon celebrating John Fowles
Ian Cobain
Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture
Antony Beevor
The Second World War
Students of Oxford Academy and of Oxford Brookes MA Creative Writing Course
Our Words: Oxford Academy and Oxford Brookes Creative Writing Project
Mark Tredinnick Interviewed by Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets
William Ayot
Email From the Soul
Ian Donaldson
Ben Jonson and Fame
Alison MacLeod, Joanna Trollope , Lionel Shriver and Andrew Holgate
How to Write a Successful Short Story
Linda Yueh, Rana Mitter and Jonathan Fenby
China: Rising Power and Land of Contradictions
Nick Groom
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
Seamus Heaney and Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Chancellor’s Lecture: Seamus Heaney – The Life of a Poet
Jonathan Wilson and Duncan Hamilton
Football – The Ball is Still Round
Poetry Platform
Poetry Platform Hosted by Jenny Lewis
D J Taylor and John Crace
Parody
Wendy Moore
How to Create the Perfect Wife
William Bynum
A Little History of Science
