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Welcome to the 24th FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival. We have more than 240 confirmed events available to book now.
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Sheldonian events
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Fri 27Onjali Q Raúf
The Star Outside My Window
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Fri 27Penelope Lively Interviewed by Chris Patten
Chancellor’s Lecture: Life and Work
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Sat 28Harry Potter
Celebrating the Harry Potter Books
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Sat 28Alexandra Harris, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Roy Foster Chaired by Hermione Lee
Princeton Conversation: Lives of Houses
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Sat 28Val McDermid and Emma Smith Chaired by Triona Adams
Shakespeare and Marlowe: Rivals, Collaborators, or Aliases – an Early Modern Mystery
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Sat 28Prue Leith and Peta Leith Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
The Vegetarian Kitchen
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Sat 28Chris Packham Interviewed by Philip Lymbery
Peter Roberts Compassion in World Farming Lecture
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Sun 29Dermot O’Leary and Nick East Chaired by Matthew Stadlen
Toto the Ninja Cat
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Sun 29Jung Chang Interviewed by Nick Higham
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of 20th-Century China
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Sun 29Allie Esiri, Gina Bellman, Samuel West and Diana Quick
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
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Sun 29Sebastian Barry, Kevin Barry and Sinéad Morrissey Chaired by Boyd Tonkin
Voice of Ireland
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Mon 30Katherine Rundell
The Good Thieves
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Mon 30Brenda Hale and Vernon Bogdanor
British Academy Lecture: Is the UK Constitution Fit for Purpose?
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Mon 30James Barr Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate Middle East
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Tue 31Trevor Eve Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
An Acting Life and Lomita for Ever
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Tue 31Jim Al-Khalili Interviewed by Clive Cookson
The World According to Physics
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Wed 1Levison Wood
The Last Giants: Walking with the Elephants
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Wed 1John Humphrys Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
An Audience with John Humphrys
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Wed 1Henry Blofeld
My A-Z of Cricket: A Personal Celebration of our Glorious Game
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Wed 1Maggie O’Farrell Interviewed by Claire Armitstead
Hamnet
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Wed 1Jonathan Sacks Interviewed by Nick Higham
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
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Thu 2Karen Armstrong
The Lost Art of Scripture
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Thu 2David Lammy Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
Tribes: How our Need to Belong can Make or Break the Good Society
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Thu 2Pat Barker Interviewed by Richard Ovenden
2020 Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal: The Silence of the Girls
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Fri 3Michael Wood
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and a People
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Fri 3Greta Scacchi Interviewed by Peter Guttridge
An audience with Greta Scacchi
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Fri 3Ruth Goodman
Ironbridge Lecture: The Domestic Revolution
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Fri 3Alexander McCall Smith
A Celebration of A Writing Life and Honorary Fellowship
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Fri 3Donna Leon Interviewed by Peter Kemp
Trace Elements
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Sat 4Robin Stevens
Murder Most Unladylike
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Sat 4A C Grayling
The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy
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Sat 4Maggie Aderin-Pocock
An Interactive Tour of Space
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Sat 4Anthony Horowitz Interviewed by Amanda Craig
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alex Rider
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Sat 4Ken Clarke Interviewed by Roula Khalaf
FT Weekend Lecture: A Lifetime in Politics
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Sun 5
Anthony Horowitz
Licence to Thrill
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Sun 5Julia Neuburger
Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn’t. Why It Matters
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Sun 5Tom Holland Interviewed by Alex Preston
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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Sun 5Lucy Worsley
The Austen Girls
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