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Frank cottrell boyce
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Runaway Robot and Broccoli Boy

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Sunday, 29 March 2020

2:00pm

1 hour

Weston Lecture Theatre

£8

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What would you do with a robot best friend? How would you react if you suddenly turned green? How would you spend millions of pounds in just a few days? Award-winning author Frank Cottrell-Boyce has some ideas. He shares these as he talks about his writing and his funny, charming, life-affirming books including Runaway Robot, The Astounding Broccoli Boy and Millions.

Cottrell Boyce is an award-winning author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children’s novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of Cosmic, Framed, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again – the sequel to the Ian Fleming original. He is a judge for the BBC Radio2 500 Words competition and, along with Danny Boyle, devised the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics.

Age 8+

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FT Weekend Title partner BBC World Service International radio partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner University of Oxford New College Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme Irish Embassy, London Supporters of the Irish programme MIT Press MIT Press. Sponsors of the programme of American literature and culture The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Princeton University Press British Academy Festival academic partner Ian and Carol Sellars Emily Rose and James Marrow Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture George Warren Mary and Cecil Quillen Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Hilda’s College 11th St Hilda's day at the festival St Cross College St Cross College: Festival college partner. All facilities generously donated to the festival The Feathers Hotel Woodstock Macdonald Bear Hotel Woodstock Critchleys HM Government of Gibraltar Festival green room sponsor Felicity Bryan Associates Conference Oxford Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Said Business School Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner The Oxford Times Regional media partner Oxford Brookes University Oxford University Images Oxford University Images The Sheldonian Theatre Floris of London City Audio Visual Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography OX magazine History of War All About History Glyndebourne Chamberlain Evans Estate agents Ironbridge Gorge Museums Foodbuy Chêne Bleu Frescobaldi Toscana Wines of Tuscany Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Sloane Club Steer Oxford Botanic Garden Cinnamon Kitchen Compassion in World Farming The Wild Geese Nicholas Hunter Ltd