Health

Gavin Francis

Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
St Cross College 4:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Derek Frost Interviewed by Nick Higham

Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
Rose Anne Kenny

Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life CANCELLED
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Hilali Noordeen Interviewed by Muir Gray

Letters to a Young Doctor: Exploring and Surviving a Career in Medicine
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Tue 29 Tuesday, 29 March 2022 See this event
Jenny Goodman

Staying Alive in Toxic Times: A Seasonal Guide to Lifelong Health
St Cross College 12:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
Muir Gray Interviewed by Nick Higham

Increase your Brainability and Reduce your Risk of Dementia
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Fri 1 Friday, 1 April 2022 See this event
Athena Aktipis

The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps us Understand and Treat Cancer
Blackwell’s bookshop 2:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event

Festival information:

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.

I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: - the size of the audience: at the top end of the range - their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted - the beauty and the grace of the place itself – incomparable - the willingness of my hearers to buy books afterwards; I’ve never sold more.