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Children’s Stories: A Family Walking Tour

Bodleian Guides

Sunday, 3 April 2022

1:00pm

90 minutes

Weston Library

£10 - £20

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‘Once upon a time’ is how all good stories begin, and has Oxford got some stories for you. Join the Bodleian Libraries guides as they explore the winding streets of the city of dreaming spires. You will be introduced to tales of fun and of fantasy, stories of magic and of mayhem, and the unexpected and extraordinary journeys of children just like you. A whole world of adventure awaits with some of your favourite characters and perhaps you’ll meet some new ones too.

Please arrive 10 minutes before your tour start time. Meeting point is the Weston Library steps.

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The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture

The Cervantes Institute, London

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The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

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.

It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal. As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories.

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.

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Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK

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The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture

The Cervantes Institute, London

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