Wednesday 25 March

Sophie Grigson, Geraldene Holt and Paul Bailey Chaired by Donald Sloan

Jane Grigson: the Food Writers’ Food Writer

Mark Bostridge and Rosie Alison

Vera Brittain and the First World War

David Vaisey

Some Unusual Bodleian Treasures

Marc Morris

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

Fred Plotkin and Charles Spence

Music in the Mouth: How Music Affects the Way Things Taste

Sam Jefferson

Sea Fever: True Adventures That Inspired Great Maritime Authors

Karen Armstrong

A History of God

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie Unplucked

Louise Stern Interviewed by Paul Blezard

Ismael and his Sisters

Madhur Jaffrey

Literary Salon: Lunch with Madhur Jaffrey SOLD OUT

Julian Baggini

Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

Frank Close

The Gibraltar Lecture: Half Life – The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

Caroline Moorehead Interviewed by Rebecca Abrams

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France SOLD OUT

Jesse Armstrong, Samantha Shannon and Eliza Robertson

Writers Roundtable

Ben Okri, Joanne Harris and Jessica Harris

Enemies of Greatness: Literature and Freedom

Hannah Fry

The Mathematics of Love: The Search for the Ultimate Equation

Dominic Symonds Interviewed by David Freeman

We’ll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers and Hart

Jancis Robinson Interviewed by Sheila Dillon

The Oxford Companion to Wine and A Tasting

Julian Baggini

Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will

Munro Price

Napoleon: The End of Glory

Princess Michael of Kent

Agnès Sorel Mistress of Beauty

Don Paterson

A Hundred Years of The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock

Carlo Petrini

The Slow Food Revolution

Richard English

Modern War: A Very Short Introduction

Jane Brown Introduced by John Pontin

Dorothy Elmhirst: Founder of the Dartington Hall Trust – A Work in Progress

Matthew Plampin

Will and Tom: the Life and Times of the Young JMW Turner’

Martin Wolf

The Shifts And The Shocks: What We’ve Learned – and Still Have to Learn – from the Financial Crisis

Mark Billingham and Thomas Mogford Chaired by Paul Blezard

The Craft of Thriller Writing

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee Prepares Dinner in Honour of Carlo Petrini SOLD OUT