Thursday 27 March

David Rose, Robert Wainwright and Stewart Purvis Chaired by Christine Spolar

The Future of Investigative Journalism

Nicholas Shakespeare

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

Edward Stourton Interviewed by Paul Blezard

Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees

Kathryn Sutherland

A Writer’s Apprenticeship: Jane Austen’s Teenage Notebook

Vanessa Able Interviewed by David Freeman

Never Mind the Bullocks

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth? Shakespeare

Jans Ondaatje Rolls Interviewed by Lucy Atkins

The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art – with Tastings SOLD OUT

Ben Crystal

The Once and Future Shakespeare

Ben Ramalingam and John Holmes Interviewed by Bidisha

Aid on the Edge of Chaos: How Do We Make it Count

Mary Midgley Interviewed by Gwenan Edwards

Are You an Illusion? CANCELLED

Alan Titchmarsh

Bring Me Home

Roger Scruton

The Soul of the World SOLD OUT

Roderick Matthews

The Indian Uprising of 1857.  New Perspectives

David Rothery

Planets: A Very Short Introduction

Jeremy Paxman

Great Britain’s Great War

Robert Wainwright

Sheila: The Australian Legend who Bewitched British Society

New Building Tours

Horatio Clare

Down to the Sea in Ships

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth? Science & Engineering

Jim Eyre

The Transformation of the New Bodleian

Jill Dawson Interviewed by Jem Poster

The Tell-Tale Heart

Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter

The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger

Anjali Joseph and Prajwal Parajuly Interviewed by Bidisha

New Indian Writing

Philip Lymbery

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Arne Dahl Interviewed by Bill Heine

Bad Blood

Harry Eyres Interviewed by Graham Benson

Horace: Helping us to Live and Wine-Tasting

Ian McEwan Interviewed by Richard Ovenden

The 2014 Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal to Ian McEwan

Richard Davenport-Hines

One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper

Alexander Lee

The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Disease and Excess in an Age of Beauty

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth? Shakespeare

Robert Eaglestone

Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction

Ian Goldin

The Princeton Lecture: The Butterfly Defect – How Globalisation Creates Systemic Risks

Damon Galgut

Arctic Summer: Life and Work of E M Forster

David Crystal and Hilary Crystal

Wordsmiths & Warriors: The English-Language Tourist’s Guide to Britain SOLD OUT

Alfred Brendel Interviewed by Nicholas Kenyon

A Pianist’s A-Z

Tim Dee, James Cook and Pippa Haywood

Poetry Please: A Celebration

David Stuttard

Parthenon: Power and Politics on the Acropolis

Eric Bibb Interviewed by David Freeman

Stories of the Blues