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Sheldonian events
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Fri 25 Mar
Jim Al-Khalili
The Joy of Science
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Fri 25 Mar
A C Grayling
Technology, Climate, Justice and Rights: Can We Get The Whole World To Agree On Any Of Them?
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Fri 25 Mar
Charlie Higson Interviewed by Triona Adams
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
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Fri 25 Mar
Penelope Lively Interviewed by Chris Patten
Chancellor’s Lecture: Life and Work
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Sat 26 Mar
Harry Potter
Celebrating 25 Years of the Harry Potter Books
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Sat 26 Mar
Delia Smith Interviewed by Nick Higham
You Matter: The Human Solution
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Sat 26 Mar
Katherine Rundell
The Good Thieves
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Sat 26 Mar
Lemony Snicket Interviewed by Imogen Russell Williams
Poison for Breakfast
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Sat 26 Mar
Val McDermid Interviewed by Emma Smith
The Past is Never Dead: Crime Fiction from Christopher Marlowe to 1979
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Sun 27 Mar
Kate Pankhurst
Fantastically Great Women
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Sun 27 Mar
Freya North and Wendy Holden Chaired by Lucy Atkins
Little Wing and The Duchess CANCELLED
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Sun 27 Mar
Sola Akingbola Interviewed by Nicholas Janni
Music as a Gateway of Connection
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Sun 27 Mar
Allie Esiri, Natascha McElhone, Ronni Ancona, Mark Quartley and Diana Quick
Poetry for Every Day of the Year
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Mon 28 Mar
David Owen Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of Britain-Russian Relations SOLD OUT
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Mon 28 Mar
John Bell, Andrew Pollard, Sarah Gilbert, Teresa Lambe and Catherine Green Chaired by Nick Higham
The Race Against the Virus: A Tribute to the Oxford Vaccine Team
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Tue 29 Mar
Onjali Q Raúf
The Boy at the Back of the Class
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Tue 29 Mar
Elijah Lawal, Gary Younge and Alex von Tunzelmann Chaired by Stephen Law
Oxford Debate: Toppling Statues and Fallen Idols
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Tue 29 Mar
Edmund de Waal Interviewed by James Naughtie
Felicity Bryan Tribute Conversation: Letters to Camondo
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Wed 30 Mar
Nicholas Crane Interviewed by Nick Higham
Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition
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Wed 30 Mar
Ian McEwan, Karen Leeder and Laurence Laluyaux Introduced by Richard Ovenden
The Gift of Translation CANCELLED
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Thu 31 Mar
Richard Moxon Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
Brain Fever: How Vaccines Prevent Meningitis And Other Killer Diseases
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Thu 31 Mar
Howard Jacobson Interviewed by Sophie Ratcliffe
Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings
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Thu 31 Mar
Ed Miliband
The Provost of Worcester College Lecture. Go Big: 20 Bold Solutions to Fix our World
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Thu 31 Mar
Zadie Smith Interviewed by Richard Ovenden
2022 Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal: Life and Work
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Fri 1 Apr
Peter Hain Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
A Pretoria Boy: The Story of South Africa’s Public Enemy Number One
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Fri 1 Apr
Martin Rees Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity and The End of Astronauts
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Fri 1 Apr
Muir Gray Interviewed by Nick Higham
Increase your Brainability and Reduce your Risk of Dementia
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Fri 1 Apr
Donna Leon Interviewed by Peter Kemp
Vice-chancellor’s Lecture: Give Unto Others
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Sat 2 Apr
Chris Bail Interviewed by Mary Hockaday
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms less Polarizing
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Sat 2 Apr
Joanna Lumley Interviewed by Philip Lymbery
The True Meaning of Compassion: The Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
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Sat 2 Apr
Jacqueline Wilson
The Primrose Railway Children and The Runaway Girls
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Sat 2 Apr
Mariana Mazzucato Introduced by Martin Sandbu
Voices of Europe. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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Sat 2 Apr
Tom Tugendhat Interviewed by Alec Russell
FT Weekend Lecture: Britain, the Conservative Party and the World
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Sun 3 Apr
Richard Dawkins Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
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Sun 3 Apr
Ben Garrod
Why did Dinosaurs go Extinct and Saving Endangered Species
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Sun 3 Apr
Michael Morpurgo
Animal Tales CANCELLED
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Sun 3 Apr
Maureen Lipman, Norma Winstone, Christian Garrick, Art Themen and Jeremy Robson
Festival 25 Celebration: An evening of Song, Humour, Poetry, and Jazz
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Fri 16 Sep
Chris Patten
Hong Kong Diaries
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