Memoir

Delia Smith Interviewed by Nick Higham

You Matter: The Human Solution
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Sat 26 Saturday, 26 March 2022 See this event
James Crowden

The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in Ladakh
St Cross College 6:00pm Sat 26 Mar 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
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
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
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
Alastair Niven Interviewed by Romesh Gunesekera

In Glad or Sorry Hours: A Life in Education and the Arts CANCELLED
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Tue 29 Tuesday, 29 March 2022 See this event
Martin Bell Interviewed by Mary Hockaday

War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
Frances Stonor Saunders

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
George Carey Interviewed by Angela Tilby

The Truth Will Set You Free: Memoirs Continued
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
Norman Scott Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power and Lived to Tell the Tale
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
Zadie Smith Interviewed by Richard Ovenden

2022 Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal: Life and Work
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Thu 31 Thursday, 31 March 2022 See this event
Jeremy Robson, Martin Reed and Andy Croft

A Celebration of Vernon Scannell
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 1 Friday, 1 April 2022 See this event
Mohsin Zaidi Interviewed by David Isaac

A Dutiful Boy
Bodleian: Divinity School 12:00pm Sat 2 Saturday, 2 April 2022 See this event
Jess Phillips Interviewed by Nick Higham

Everything you Really need to Know about Politics: My Life as an MP SOLD OUT
Randolph Hotel: Ballroom 12:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Leslye Obiora Interviewed by Stephen Embleton

Life and Work and A Million Bullets and a Rose
Bodleian: Divinity School 12:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event
Amy Bloom and Xanthi Barker Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

On Love and Loss
St Cross College 4:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event

Festival information:

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

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.

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 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.

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.