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Friday 31 March

Caroline Moorehead Interviewed by Alexandra Pringle

Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
Exeter College: Marquee 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Maxim Osipov Interviewed by Lucian Hudson

Kilometer 101
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Ever Obi, Ikenna Okeh and Ivan Sršen

The Immigrant’s Story in Modern Fiction CANCELLED
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Dan Snow and Alice Loxton

Why History Remains a Big Hit
Sheldonian Theatre 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Alessandro Gallenzi

Written in Water: John Keats’s Final Journey
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Catherine Ashton

Voices of Europe. And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Timothy Phillips

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey along Europe’s Cold War Border
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney Chaired by Irene Tracey

Vice-chancellor’s Interview. Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionise Medicine
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Paterson Joseph Interviewed by Suzi Feay

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
Exeter College: Marquee 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Tanya Goodin and Rory Cellan-Jones

Switching off and Switching in: Living in the Digital Age
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Bodleian Guides

Literary Oxford with the Bodleian
Weston Library Steps 1:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Nicola Rollock Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Peter Stothard

Crassus: The First Tycoon
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Jasper Becker

Why Communism Failed
Exeter College: Marquee 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Viola di Grado Interviewed by Suzi Feay

Blue Hunger
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Alastair Lack

The Oxford of Morse, Lewis and Endeavour SOLD OUT
St John’s College 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Al Murray Interviewed by Ashley Jackson

Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Benedict Macdonald Interviewed by Lucian Hudson

Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Anjan Sundaram and Erroll McDonald Chaired by Alexandra Pringle

Promoting African and Caribbean Voices CANCELLED
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Elias Chacour Interviewed by Diarmaid MacCulloch

A Palestinian Christian Working for Peace and Reconciliation in Israel CANCELLED
Bodleian: Divinity School 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Kate Bingham and Tim Hames

The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Wendy Joseph Interviewed by Susannah Jowitt

Unlawful Killings. Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
Exeter College: Marquee 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Alexander Stoddart Interviewed by Gregory Platten

Art and Christianity
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Justin Schlosberg, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Iain Dale Chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debate. Is Our Press Free . . . To Lie and Manipulate? SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Jane Stevenson

Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Tom Crewe, Maddie Mortimer, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Santanu Bhattacharya Chaired by Matthew Stadlen

New Writers of Fiction
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Nick Wallis Interviewed by Nick Higham

The Great Post Office Scandal
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Clare Morgan and Susan Sellers

Conversations Across Time: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield SOLD OUT
Blackwell’s bookshop 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Greta Scacchi Interviewed by Peter Guttridge

An audience with Greta Scacchi
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Kathleen Wyatt Interviewed by Susannah Jowitt

The Social Superpower: The Big Truth About Little Lies
Exeter College: Marquee 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Judith Robinson and Scott Pack Chaired by Angus Phillips

Literary Cats
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Jonathan Keates

La Serenissima: The Story of Venice SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Gregory Platten and Alexander Stoddart

Festival Evensong
Pusey House: Chapel 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event
Italian Dinner

Celebrating the Programme of Italian Literature and Culture SOLD OUT
Exeter College: Hall 7:15pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event

Festival information:

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.

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 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.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

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.