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Events on Thursday 29 March 2012

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New writing: The Land of Decoration and The Lifeboat

9:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Fiction
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Believing Bullshit

9:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Philosophy
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Death Comes to Pemberley and a Passion for Jane Austen

9:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Crime Fiction
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Voices from the Titanic

9:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 History
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East

9:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 History
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What on Earth Happened?

10:09am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Children and Young People
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Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory has Shaped Modern History

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Contemporary Society
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The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 History
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Play up! And play the game!

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Sport
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A Question of Forgiveness

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Contemporary Society
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Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Contemporary Society
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New African Fiction

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Language & Literature
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Blandy’s Madeira Masterclass

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Food and Drink
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Charles Dickens: A Life

11:00am | Thursday 29 March 2012 Biography & Memoir
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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

12:15pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Very Short Introductions
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Conversations with Poets

1:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Poetry
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An Afternoon with Anthony Trollope

1:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Language & Literature
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Sandstorm: The Inside Story of Gadaffi’s Regime

1:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Current Affairs
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God, Mammon and Biotechnology

1:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Science
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The Power of the Critic

1:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Language & Literature
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The Hunting of the Shark: The Sculpture that Crash Landed in an Oxford Street

1:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Biography & Memoir
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What on Earth Evolved?

2:10pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Children and Young People
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Clouds That Look Like Things

3:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Nature and The Environment
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Does God Exist?

3:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Faith and Religion
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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

3:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Music
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New India, New Voice

3:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Language & Literature
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Emotional Flashpoints in Women’s Lives

3:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Fiction
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Ashmolean Museum:  Tour of the New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia

3:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Walking Tours
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Graham’s Port Masterclass

4:00pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Food and Drink
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Magic: A Very Short Introduction

4:15pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Very Short Introductions
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Franz Kafka: A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

5:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Language & Literature
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Sonny Rollins – Beyond the Notes: An Arena Film

5:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Music
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Science Fiction – But Not As We Know It

5:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Fiction
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Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy

5:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 History
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Libya: Imposing Western Democracy on the Middle East

5:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Contemporary Society
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Christ Church in Words and Music

6:30pm | Thursday 29 March 2012 Walking Tours