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Join the well-known broadcaster, historian and writer Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch for dinner in the magnificent Victorian Gothic dining hall of Keble College and to hear him talk about his forthcoming BBC television series, Sex and the West.

7:30pm reception, 8:30pm dinner in Keble College Hall. Price of £130 includes reception, dinner, wines and a signed copy of MacCulloch’s Silence: A Christian History. Dress Code – Black Tie.

Dinner, prepared by the college chefs, will be in the Victorian dining hall of Keble College, the longest dining hall in Oxford. Keble was founded in 1870 with the aim of making an Oxford education more widely available and was designed by the architect William Butterfield. It is now one of the largest Oxford colleges.

Following dinner, MacCulloch, a writer, broadcaster and academic best known for his 2009 BBC TV series and book, A History of Christianity, will talk about his forthcoming six-part BBC television series, Sex and the West. He argues that the West’s obsession with sex has its roots in Christianity’s complex and divisive ideas on the subject, and explores how Christianity’s ideas on sex have evolved over time.

MacCulloch is professor of the history of the church at the University of Oxford.  His books include Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Silence: A Christian History. His most recent work for BBC2 was How God Made the English in 2012 and Henry VIII’s Fixer – the Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell  in 2013.