The 2024 festival takes place between Saturday March 16 and Sunday March 24.
Read about the new partnership for 2023 between Netflix and Oxford Literary Festival.






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Sheldonian events
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Sat 25 Mar
Henry Dimbleby Introduced by Philip Lymbery
Ravenous: How To Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape
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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
Martin O’Neill Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
On Days Like These: My Life in Football
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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 Interviewed by Amanda Craig
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 Interviewed by Mary Hockaday
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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Tue 28 Mar
Mary Berry Interviewed by James Naughtie
Felicity Bryan Tribute Conversation: Cook and Share
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Wed 29 Mar
Tom Holland Interviewed by Andrew Lownie
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 Chaired by Irene Tracey
Vice-chancellor’s Interview. Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionise Medicine
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Fri 31 Mar
Al Murray Interviewed by Ashley Jackson
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 Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
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
Tim Harford
The Truth Detective
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Sat 1 Apr
Thomas Simpson, Alice Sherwood and Marina Purkiss 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 Yuan Yang
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 Chaired by Stephen Law
Genetic Control: A Fantastic Opportunity or a Dark Future
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Sun 2 Apr
Jordan Peterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life SOLD OUT
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Mon 22 May
Simon Schama
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
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