Sunday 27 March 2022

Jem Poster and Sarah Burton

Creative Writing Course. The Keys to Writing Fiction II: Detail and Description
St Cross College: Seminar Room 9:30am Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Peter Ricketts

Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Fred Pearce

A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 10:00am Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Kate Pankhurst

Fantastically Great Women
Sheldonian Theatre 10:00am Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Rebecca Abrams

Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries CANCELLED
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Keiran Goddard and Caelainn Hogan Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

The Passenger Ireland CANCELLED
St Cross College 10:00am Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Andrew Roberts

George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch
Randolph Hotel: Ballroom 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Peter Stanford

If These Stones Could Talk: The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland CANCELLED
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Patti Boulaye and Stephen Komlosy Interviewed by Nick Higham

The Faith of a Child and You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Pankaj Mishra

Run and Hide CANCELLED
St Cross College 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Freya North and Wendy Holden Chaired by Lucy Atkins

Little Wing and The Duchess CANCELLED
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Ben Okri Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

Every Leaf a Hallelujah
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Myles McLeod and Greg McLeod

Create your own Knight’s Tale
Blackwell’s bookshop 12:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Bodleian Guides

Children’s Stories: A Family Walking Tour
Weston Library 1:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Jacques and Alina Peretti Interviewed by Lucian Hudson

Voices of Europe. Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found our Family
Bodleian: Divinity School 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Ivan Gibbons

Partition: How and Why Ireland was Divided SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Alastair Lack

Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Thomas Halliday

Otherlands: A World in the Making
St Cross College 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Alison Moore

The Retreat CANCELLED
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Janina Ramirez

50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Sola Akingbola Interviewed by Nicholas Janni

Music as a Gateway of Connection
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Nicola Chester Interviewed by Melissa Harrison

On Gallows Down: Place, Protest, and Belonging
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Lianne Dillsworth, Rebecca Watson and Keiran Goddard Interviewed by Suzi Feay

Debut Panel: Theatre of Marvels, Little Scratch, and Hourglass CANCELLED
St Cross College 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Joe Zammit-Lucia Interviewed by John Kay

The New Political Capitalism: How Businesses and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicised World
Bodleian: Divinity School 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Lea Ypi and Pieter Waterdrinker Chaired by Boyd Tonkin

Voices of Europe. Living Through History: The Turbulent End of Communism SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 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
Allie Esiri, Natascha McElhone, Ronni Ancona, Mark Quartley and Diana Quick

Poetry for Every Day of the Year
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event

Festival information:

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.

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.

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.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.

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.

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.

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.