Monday 28 March 2022

Robert Sackville-West

The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 12:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Sarah Burton and John Spurling Interviewed by Jem Poster

A Mirror for Monkeys and The Strange Adventures of H
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Patrick Mackie Interviewed by Gwenan Edwards

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Bruce Clark

Voices of Europe. Athens: City of Wisdom
Bodleian: Divinity School 12:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Stuart Sillars Interviewed by Jem Poster

Picturing England between the Wars: Word and Image 1918-1940 CANCELLED
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Sharon Ruston

The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
John Barton

The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion
Bodleian: Divinity School 2:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Catherine McCormack and Rebecca Birrell Interviewed by David Isaac

Women and Art: Women in the Picture and This Dark Country
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Richard Harries

Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter
Bodleian: Divinity School 4:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Anna Keay

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Helen Thompson Interviewed by Gwenan Edwards

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Salley Vickers Interviewed by Triona Adams

The Gardener
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Bodleian Libraries

Old School Tours
5:30pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
David Owen Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of Britain-Russian Relations SOLD OUT
Trinity College 6:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Joe Mulhall and Paul Mason Interviewed by Gwenan Edwards

Rise of the Far Right: How do we Halt Fascism?
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Joe Moshenska Interviewed by Alison Gomm

Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 6:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
John Blair

Building Anglo-Saxon England
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Christopher Prendergast

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Bodleian: Divinity School 6:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
John Bell, Andrew Pollard, Sarah Gilbert, Teresa Lambe and Catherine Green Chaired by Nick Higham

The Race Against the Virus: A Tribute to the Oxford Vaccine Team
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event

Festival information:

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.

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

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.

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.