Events on Saturday 23 March 2013
Bee Wilson
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
Marie de Hennezel
The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting
Eoin Colfer
W.A.R.P: The Reluctant Assassin
Julia Donaldson
Stories and Songs with the Children’s Laureate
Meg Rosoff
Voice: How to Figure Out What You Should Be Writing About
Namita Gokhale, Anil Menon and Elleke Boehmer Chaired by Emma Dawson Varughese
Reading New India
Alastair Lack
Inspector Morse with Alastair Lack
Leonie Frieda
The Deadly Sisterhood: The Women Who Ruled Renaissance Italy
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth? – History of the World from Big Bang to Present Day
Sherard Cowper-Coles
Ever the Diplomat
Anna Dallapiccola
Indian Love Poetry
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Silence in Christian History
John Carey, D J Taylor and Richard Bradford
The Glamour Decade? Amis, Larkin and other 1950s’ writers
Robert Macfarlane Interviewed by Andrew Holgate
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Julia Golding
Young Knights of the Round Table
Ashley Jackson
The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
William Dalrymple
The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
Kathleen Taylor
The Brain Supremacy: Notes from Frontiers of Neuroscience
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth? – The Story of Life on Earth over Four Billion Years
Roy Strong Interviewed by Brian Sewell
Self-portrait as a Young Man
Mark Rowlands
Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from Wild on Love, Death and Happiness
Science and the Future
Death – Nothing More Certain?
Matthew Reynolds, Tim Leach , Thomas Mogford and Kerry Young Chaired by Rachel Hore
Writers Round Table
Bidisha , Rhiannon Lassiter and Abigail Gibbs
Are You Young Enough to Be Published?
Anne Applebaum Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth? The Saga of Sport from Ancient Greece to London 2012
Fabian Picardo
Deconstructing Self Determination
Gordon Bowker
Slightly Foxed Presents Gordon Bowker on Malcolm Lowry
Joanne Harris
A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String
Adam Michnik
Pitfalls on the Road to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (Havel, Geremek, Chodorkowski)
Malcolm Gaskill
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction
Helen Arney, Andrew Pontzen , Adam Rutherford , Kevin Fong , Mae Martin Suzie Sheehy
Death or Glory: A Fusion of Stand-up Comedy and Science
Susann Pasztor and Katharina Hagena
A Fabulous Liar and The Taste of Apple Seeds
Mikhail Shishkin, Irina Prokhorova and Andrei Makine Chaired by Oliver Ready
Culture and Politics in Russia Today
Annabel Pitcher and Sally Gardner Chaired by Nicolette Jones
Maggot Moon and Ketchup Clouds
William Dalrymple
Closing Festival Dinner: Sacred India








