Plant Based Diet

Amber Husain talks to Gary Francione

Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 4:00pm Sun 17 Sunday, 17 March 2024 See this event
Bill Tara

How to Eat Right and Save the Planet: A Plant-Based Survival Guide
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sat 23 Saturday, 23 March 2024 See this event
Marlene Watson-Tara

Go Vegan: A Guide to Delicious Everyday Food
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sat 23 Saturday, 23 March 2024 See this event
T Colin Campbell in conversation with Ron Weiss

The Future of Nutrition: Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1 4:00pm Sat 23 Saturday, 23 March 2024 See this event
Gary Francione and Anna Charlton

Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 6:00pm Sat 23 Saturday, 23 March 2024 See this event

Festival information:

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.