The festival is back with two days of events at the Sheldonian Theatre on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 September. Speakers include novelist Ian McEwan, the last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, and Dragons Den’s Deborah Meaden. See the full line-up.






























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September events
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 Interviewed by Rana Mitter
Hong Kong Diaries
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Fri 16 Sep
Philip Lymbery and Deborah Meaden
Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future
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Sat 17 Sep
Ian McEwan
Lessons
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