Events on Thursday 21 March 2013
Joanne Harris Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé
Mark Rowlands
Running with the Pack: On Meaning and Mortality
Sarah Williams, Susan Skedd , Lawrence Goldman and David Hey
Researching Local And Family History
Rupert Thomson Interviewed by Ross King
Secrecy
Adam Roberts
Can Science Fiction Turn into Science Fact
A Guided Coffee-Tasting with The East India Company
The Story of Coffee
Jason Lewis
The Expedition: First Human-powered Circumavigation of Earth
Ruth Rendell Interviewed by Peter Kemp
The Child’s Child by Barbara Vine
Dieter Helm Interviewed by Tony White
The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong
Javier Marias Interviewed by Kevin Jackson
The Infatuations
Richard Davenport-Hines
An English Affair: Sex Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
Paul Murdin
Are We Being Watched? Search for Life in Cosmos
Klaus Dodds
The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction
A Guided Chocolate-Tasting with The East India Company
Beans of Paradise
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Clare Mulley and Chris Morgan Jones Chaired by Mark Huband
The Spying Game: Reality and Fiction
Pauline Stainer Interviewed by Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets
Jane Ridley
Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
Michael Phillips
William Blake and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Frances Harrison and Roma Tearne Chaired by David Freeman
Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War
Patricia Fara
Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science and Serendipity
A Guided Tea-Tasting with The East India Company
The Finest Teas with the Tea Master
Paddy Ashdown and Eugene Rogan
Universal Values: Are They a Basis For World Order?
Paula Byrne
The Real Jane Austen
Christopher French
Weird Science: An Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology
Peter Hennessy
Distilling the Frenzy
Richard O Smith and Nicholas Chrimes
Oxbridge Leisure and Eccentricity
Clare Morgan and Susan Sellers
The Ruffian in the Market Place: What Do We Read Fiction For?
Lynda Mugglestone
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
Sara Wheeler
O My America! Second Acts in a New World
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Ruth Rendell and Deborah Cohen Chaired by Alastair Niven
Shame : A Force for Good or Bad?
Caspar Henderson
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-century Bestiary
Paddy Ashdown
A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Greatest Raid of WWII
Tracy Chevalier Interviewed by Peter Kemp
The Last Runaway
Barry Miles and Anthony Wall Interviewed by Graham Benson
The Beats








