Events on Wednesday 20 March 2013
Michael Jacobs
The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia
Con Coughlin
Churchill’s First War: Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban
Kate Clanchy
Poets of the City
Edzard Ernst
Alternative Medicine: Facts and Fallacies
Esther Woolfson
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary
William Sutcliffe and Victoria Brittain Chaired by Jon Snow
Beyond Walls
Guy Halsall
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
Paul Torday and Joseph Connolly
Light Shining in the Forest and England’s Lane
Andrew Dilnot
Living Longer: How Should We Pay For Care
Fiona Mountain Interviewed by Paul Blezard
Cavalier Queen: Torn Between Two Men
David Gwynn
The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction
Jane Dunn
Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters
James Fergusson and Peter Woodward Chaired by Sean Ryan
The Most Dangerous Place in the World: Politics, Piracy and Terror
Alastair Lack
Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack
Lexden and Frank Field Chaired by Richard Ritchie
Enoch at 100: A Re-evaluation of the Life, Politics and Philosophy of Enoch Powell
Clive Wilmer Interviewed by Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets
Melanie King
Can Onions Cure Ear-ache? Medical Advice from 1769
Antony Horder, Patricia Kessler and Martin Vaughan Lewis
Lewis Carroll meets Edward Lear
Norman Stone
World War Two: A Short History
Susie Boyt and India Knight Chaired by Paul Blezard
The Small Hours and Mutton
Neil Shah
The 10-step Stress Solution: Live More, Relax More, Re-energise
Robyn Arianrhod Chaired by David Freeman
Seduced by Logic: Emilie du Châtelet and Mary Somerville
Philip Pullman Interviewed by Peter Kemp
His Dark Materials Trilogy
Barry Cunliffe
The Druids: A Very Short Introduction
Leo Hollis
Cities are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis
John Batchelor
Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find
Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes , Helena Kennedy and Timberlake Wertenbaker
Fifty Shades of Feminism
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Evgeny Morozov
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism








