Events on Saturday 16 March 2013
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies
Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Ros Asquith
Letters from an Alien Schoolboy translated by Ros Asquith
Alastair Lack
Film Oxford with Alastair Lack
Calder Walton
Empire of Secrets: Espionage at the End of Empire
Henrietta Garnett Interviewed by Jenny Uglow
Wives and Stunners: The Pre-Raphaelites and their Muses
A C Grayling
The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury
Oxford Word Wizards
Ian Goldin
Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What We Can Do About it
Aleksandar Hemon Interviewed by Bill Heine
The Book of My Lives
Roger Lovegrove
Islands Beyond the Horizon
Shirley Hughes, Clara Vulliamy , Ed Vulliamy and Tom Vulliamy Chaired by Mark Ellen
Shirley Hughes: Keeping it in the Family
Spot the Dog
Where is Spot?
Manil Suri and Prajwal Parajuly
The Land Where I Flee and The City of Devi
Tim Stanley-Clarke
A Special Tasting of Graham’s Vintage Port
Alexander McCall Smith Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Trains and Lovers and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Jenny Uglow
The Pinecone: The Story of Forgotten Romantic Sarah Losh
Andrew Miller Interviewed by Jem Poster
Pure
Dan Smith, Ian Goldin and David Goodhart
Where Will We Be in 2050?
Ronald Blythe and Henrietta Garnett
People and Places: ‘The land of spices, something understood’ George Herbert
Charles Fitzroy
The Sultan’s Istanbul on Five Kurush a Day
Cathy Cassidy
Afternoon Cake and Crafts with Cathy Cassidy
Lawrence Goldstone Interviewed by Ross King
Inherently Unequal: Racial Bigotry and US Law
Roger McGough
As Far As I Know
Jon Ronson
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
American Literature and Culture Programme
Opening Festival Dinner
