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Chris Packham on his passion for wildlife and responsible farming

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Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes an interactive tour of the solar system

Michael Morpurgo hosts a magical hour of music, storytelling and poetry

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Political activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu challenges us to end oppression

Alexander McCall Smith receives festival honorary fellowship

We are busy finalising a full programme of events for the 2022 festival (March 25-April 3) and expect to have them listed here by the end of January 2022.

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The festival hotel

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Sponsor of American novelists and poets

Sponsor of programme on science and medicine

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St Cross College: Festival college partner.

Lincoln College

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Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design

Alumni Office

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Siren Communications - corporate consultants

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K T Bruce Photography

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Wines of the Douro Valley

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Wines of Provence

Sheldonian events

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It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal. As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories.

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.

FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

Festival cultural partner

Festival ideas partner

International radio partner

Title partner

Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture

Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture

Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture

Prestige publishing partner

The festival hotel

Festival on-site and online bookseller

Festival London hotel partner

Supporter of Italian programme

Partner of Jewish programme

Sponsor of American novelists and poets

Sponsor of programme on science and medicine

Accountants to the festival

Woodstock festival hotel

St Cross College: Festival college partner.

Lincoln College

Worcester College

Regional media partner

Local radio partner

Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design

Alumni Office

Oxford University Images

Siren Communications - corporate consultants

Estate agents

K T Bruce Photography

Festival printers

Wines of the Douro Valley

Wines of Tuscany

Wines of Provence

Chris Packham on his passion for wildlife and responsible farming

Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes an interactive tour of the solar system

Michael Morpurgo hosts a magical hour of music, storytelling and poetry

Political activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu challenges us to end oppression

Alexander McCall Smith receives festival honorary fellowship

Sheldonian events

Mary Beard Interviewed by Nick Higham

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

Alexander McCall Smith

A Celebration of A Writing Life and Honorary Fellowship

Noreena Hertz Interviewed by Ian Goldin

The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect

Stephanie Shirley Interviewed by Nick Higham

So To Speak

Marc David Baer Interviewed by Nick Higham

The Ottomans: Khans, Caesers, and Caliphs

Maggie Aderin-Pocock Introduced by Bridget Holligan

An Interactive Tour of Space

Chris Packham Interviewed by Philip Lymbery

Peter Roberts Compassion in World Farming Lecture

Michael Morpurgo, Natalie Walter and Clare O’Connell Introduced by Suzanne Aspden

The Carnival of the Animals

Julia Neuberger Interviewed by Nick Higham

Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn’t. Why It Matters