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Sheldonian events
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Sat 25 Mar
Henry Dimbleby Introduced by Philip Lymbery
Ravenous: Why our Appetite is Killing us and the Planet
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Sat 25 Mar
Val McDermid and Sue Black
The Facts of Fiction: The Author and the Forensic Anthropologist
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Sat 25 Mar
Michael Morpurgo Interviewed by Philip Lymbery
Farms for City Children: The Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
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Sun 26 Mar
Anthony Horowitz
Thrills and Spills: From the Diamond Brothers to Alex Rider
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Sun 26 Mar
Michael Morpurgo
Tales from the Farm: Writing about Nature, Animals and the Landscape
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Sun 26 Mar
Cressida Cowell
Which Way to Anywhere
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Sun 26 Mar
Anthony Horowitz Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
The Twist of a Knife and a Writing Life
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Sun 26 Mar
John Banville, John Boyne and Neil Jordan Chaired by Claire Armitstead
Voices of Ireland: Literature, History and Nation
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Mon 27 Mar
Jeremy Bowen
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
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Mon 27 Mar
Martin Rees Interviewed by Nick Higham
Science and Innovation Award: If Science is to Save Us
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Tue 28 Mar
Joseph Coelho
The Power of Poetry with the New Children’s Laureate
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Tue 28 Mar
Mikhail Khodorkovsky Interviewed by Martin Sixsmith
The Russia Conundrum
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Wed 29 Mar
Tom Holland
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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Wed 29 Mar
Gary Younge, Deborah Meaden, Kenan Malik and David Starkey Chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Oxford Debate: You Ask the Questions
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Wed 29 Mar
Mick Herron Interviewed by Chris Patten
Chancellor’s Lecture: A Life of Crime
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Thu 30 Mar
Simon McDonald Interviewed by Nick Higham
Leadership: Lessons for Running a Better Government
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Thu 30 Mar
Juliet Davenport, Rupert Read, Simon Sharpe and Gaia Vince Chaired by Stephen Law
Climate Breakdown: Habit, Fear, and Progress
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Thu 30 Mar
Thomas Hertog
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
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Thu 30 Mar
Colm Tóibín Interviewed by Richard Ovenden
Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal: Life and Work
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Fri 31 Mar
Dan Snow and Alice Loxton
Why History Remains a Big Hit
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Fri 31 Mar
Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney
Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionise Medicine and Change Your Life
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Fri 31 Mar
Al Murray
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
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Fri 31 Mar
Kate Bingham and Tim Hames
The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain
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Fri 31 Mar
Greta Scacchi Interviewed by Peter Guttridge
An audience with Greta Scacchi
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Sat 1 Apr
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The World: A Family History
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Sat 1 Apr
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Am I Made of Stardust?
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Sat 1 Apr
Eleanor Catton Interviewed by Alex Preston
Birnam Wood
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Sat 1 Apr
Tim Harford
The Truth Detective
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Sat 1 Apr
Thomas Simpson and Alice Sherwood Chaired by Stephen Law
Oxford Debate. Trust, Corruption, and Politicians
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Sat 1 Apr
Isabel Wilkerson
American Lecture. Caste: Exposing America’s Invisible Scaffolding
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Sat 1 Apr
Martin Wolf Interviewed by Gillian Tett
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism and How to Fix It
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Sun 2 Apr
Rob Biddulph
Draw with Rob
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Sun 2 Apr
Robin Stevens
Ministry of Unladylike Activity
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Sun 2 Apr
Peter Frankopan Interviewed by David Isaac
Provost of Worcester College Lecture. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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Sun 2 Apr
Adam Rutherford and Matthew Cobb
Genetic Control: A Fantastic Opportunity or a Dark Future
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