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e Boy Who Bit picasso10am / Corpus Christi College / £5Family event (children aged 4 upwards)

When Antony Penrose was three years old he waslucky enough to meet and become friends with PabloPicasso, the greatest artist of the 20th century.

Tony – the son of the American photographer LeeMiller and the British surrealist artist Roland Penrose –recalls the many happy hours he spent with Picasso attheir family farm in Sussex, and in Picasso’s house andstudio in France. His memories include pretendbullfights on the floor, playing in Picasso’s messystudio, being given a drawing as a consolation for notbeing allowed to visit him – and the time he sank histeeth into the Spanish maestro.

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Machu picchu – rediscovering a lost inca City10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £10100 years ago explorer Hiram Bingham was leftbreathless by his first sight of this untouched Inca city:one of the great, dramatic moments of archaeologicallegend. Then 25 years ago, noted South Americanexplorer and travel writer Hugh Thomson set off intothe cloud-forest to find a ruin that had been carelesslylost again after its initial discovery. In this fully-illustrated talk, Hugh discusses the real significance ofMachu Picchu in the light of other remote Inca citiesthat have been discovered.

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peter sissons 805in conversation with iain daleWhen One door Closes

10am / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £10When One Door Closes is the revealing memoir of thelongest-serving news broadcaster and one of the mostrecognisable faces of British television, Peter Sissons.

Brought up in Liverpool he rubbed shoulders with JohnLennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison atschool. He takes us through poignant moments in hislife which included an Iranian Fatwa hanging over him,shot through both legs during the Nigerian Civil Warand hitting the headlines himself when poached by theBBC. Sissons has some fascinating stories to tell.

Now retired from broadcasting, he can finally lift thelid on his thoughts about the state of the Britishmedia, global affairs and what he really thinks of theBBC.

Peter Sissons anchored Channel 4 News for its firstseven years, and has presented BBC programmes fromQuestion Time to the Ten O’Clock News.

Peter Sissons talks to Iain Dale – one of Britain’sleading political commentators. Iain Dale presents theweeknight evening show on LBC 97.3 Radio, is acontributing editor and columnist for GQ Magazineand appears regularly as a political pundit on SkyNews, Newsnight and Radio 4.

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lyndall Gordon, Eleanor 802rawling and Katharine towers,Chaired by Nicolette Jonesplacing poetry10am / Christ Church: Library / £10Place is a potent source of inspiration for poets, whosework often illuminates not just a physical landscapebut what Seamus Heaney calls ‘a country of the mind’,with all the multi-layered presences of history,geography, community and experience ... LyndallGordon (biographer of T S Eliot, Charlotte Bronte,Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson) will be joined bygeographer and writer Eleanor Rawling (Ivor Gurney’sGloucestershire: Exploring Poetry and Place) and poetKatharine Towers (The Floating Man) to explore thepoetry and place connection.

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paula Mclain in conversation 801with andrew Holgatee paris Wife10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10Paula McLain is flying in from the US to be here inOxford and talk about her new book The Paris Wife –which has caused quite a stir in the States and hasreceived rave reviews.

Set during a remarkable time, the same period asErnest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Paula’s newnovel brilliantly captures the voice and heart of HadleyHemingway, wife of Ernest, as she struggles with herroles as a woman – wife, lover, muse, friend, andmother – and tries to find her place in the intoxicatingand tumultuous world of Paris in the twenties.

In Paris Hadley and Ernest fall in with a circle of livelyand volatile expatriates, including F Scott and ZeldaFitzgerald and Ezra Pound.

But Jazz-Age Paris does not lend itself to family lifeand fidelity. As Ernest’s literary endeavours begin tobear fruit, Hadley struggles with jealousy and selfdoubt and the couple face the ultimate crisis of theirmarriage.

The idea for the novel came to Paula by accident: ‘Ihad a general thought that I might write a book set inParis in the 20’s and knew I should rereadHemingway’s A Moveable Feast before I started. Thelove story, in particular, struck me as so very tragic.Hemingway’s portrayal of Hadley and of the depth andsolidity of their bond is so tender and poignant andsteeped in regret, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Andthat’s when I knew I had my next novel.

Paula talks to Andrew Holgate, Literary Editor of theSunday Times.

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Michael Waterhouse 806and dr Carolyne larringtone Beauty of Books10am / Merton College: T S Eliot Theatre / £10Producer and Director Michael Waterhouse and DrCarolyne Larrington introduce his film ‘MedievalMasterpieces: The Beauty of Books’. The 14th and 15thcenturies were the heyday of illuminated manuscriptsand a crucial turning point in the development ofbooks in English. This film examines two of the mostfascinating texts of the period: The Luttrell Psalter andGeoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. These wonderfulbooks contain clever, sometimes mysterious referencesfor their readers, and together they chart the lastphase of the manuscript and the arrival of the printedbook. The film was recently broadcast on BBC Four.<p>

Includes a special screening of ‘Medieval Masterpieces:The Beauty of Books’

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Happy Birthday, peepo! 80711am to 11:30amJustine de Mierre 11am / Christ Church: JCR / £5Suitable for children aged 2+

A fun, lively and interactive 30-minute celebration ofthis delightful picturebook by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.The wonderful descriptive and rhythmic language ofPeepo! is brought to life in this fabulous event,including songs, games and storytelling, withprofessional entertainer Justine de Mierre.


Highland park 819Keynotes readingstaster reading with complimentarydram of single malt whiskey11:30am / Christ Church: Next to Festival Café,Meadows Marquee / FREEOver both weekends of the festival,drop into the Festival Marquee, inChrist Church Meadows, and visitThe Highland Park Keynotes area totake in a series of free tasterreadings from some of the Festival’sbiggest authors, all accompanied bycomplimentary drams of theiraward-wining single malt.

Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whisky has beenmade with the same enduring belief and integrity since1798. It’s characterised by a rounded smoky sweetness,drawn from the aromatic Orkney peat, and wasawarded ‘The Best Spirit in the World’ for the 2ndconsecutive time in 2009.

It continues to inspire passion in both literary andsingle malt enthusiasts the world over and they aredelighted to be bringing you a full range of readingsfrom some of the best talents at the festival, as well assome local authors and unique music performances.The area is situated next to the Festival Café; and don’tforget to enter their prize draw for a weekend trip totheir spiritual home in Orkney before you take yourcomplimentary sample.

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inspector Morse tour 808with alastair lack11am-1pm11am/ Meet outside Balliol College Lodge,Broad Street / £25Mention Oxford and dreaming spires, colleges andquadrangles all come to mind – plus, of course,Inspector Morse. The television series featuring JohnThaw was based on the novels of Oxford writer ColinDexter and remain immensely popular in the UnitedKingdom and all over the world. Centred on theuniversity and city, Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewisencounter Heads of Houses, dons, murderers andcriminals in the course of their detective work, pausingonly to solve a tricky question over a pint or two in afavourite pub. This walk explores the Oxford ofInspector Morse and visits some of the scenes of hisbest-known cases.

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tom Burke and Matt ridley 821Chaired by tony Whiteare Man-made Catastrophesinevitable?12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10Will mankind’s thirst for resources push technologiesharder and harder so that Gulf of Mexico-like accidentsare inevitable, or are such events avoidable, containableor at least the price we are willing to pay? This difficultquestion will be discussed by our panel of highlyarticulate commentators, each an expert in their ownfield.

Tom Burke brings, on first notice, the contradictoryexperience of being an executive Director of Friends ofthe Earth and Environmental Advisor to RioTinto. MattRidley is a journalist, businessman and award-winningwriter of several books of popular science, mostrecently The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves.The discussion will be moderated by Tony White of BWEnergy.

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patrick, Father of the Brontës12 noon / Christ Church: Library / £12Actor Colin Pinney takes on the persona of theReverend Patrick Brontë, to reveal the story of Patrick’sson Branwell Brontë and his famous sisters: Charlotte,Emily and Anne. Such were the times that all threewere forced to pretend they were male authors. Thefame of the Brontës rests on their novels, but theywere equally proud of their verse, from the ‘simpleminded rhymes’ of the Reverend Patrick Brontë to thecompelling poetry of Emily and her brother Branwell.

Premiered at the National Portrait Gallery, Pinney’sperformance includes comments made by the Brontëson one another’s works. It also springs some surprisesin verse and prose from the Brontës, their friends andtheir critics. Colin Pinney is an actor and director. Hehas been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Companyand his television appearances include Jeeves andWooster, The Brittas Empire and The Bill.


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Catherine Hall, simon lelic 824and Clare Morgan Chaired by rachel HoreWriters round table12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £10Three gifted story-tellers with acclaimed early novelscome together to discuss their own and each other’swork, as well as the joys and sorrows of writingfiction.

Simon Lelic joins the table with his second novel TheFacility, following the success of Rupture (‘set forliterary stardom’ wrote The Times). Catherine Hallwhose debut novel Days of Grace was compared toSarah Waters and Daphne du Maurier, brings to thediscussion her second novel The Proof of Love. AndClare Morgan, Director of the Master of Studies inCreative Writing at the University of Oxford, presentsA Book for All and None.

They will be in conversation with novelist RachelHore, author of The Dream House, The MemoryGarden (Amazon top ten best seller) and The GlassPainter’s Daughter, short listed for Romantic Novel ofthe Year 2010.

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incognito: e Hidden life of the Brain12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £10Renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates thedepths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprisingmysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the brakepedal before you become consciously aware of dangerahead? Why do you notice when your name ismentioned in a conversation that you didn’t think youwere listening to? Why are people whose name beginswith J more likely to marry other people whose namebegins with J? And how is it possible to get angry atyourself: who, exactly is mad at whom?

David Eagleman presents an exploration of the mindand all its contradictions. He has flown in from the USspecially to talk at Oxford, and this is a rareopportunity to hear one of the globe’s most famousneuroscientists. David heads up the NeuroscienceDepartment in the world’s largest medical centre(Baylor College in Texas) and is one of the top fiveinternational experts in each of his three main fields ofresearch: neurolaw, synesthesia and time perception.

David Eagleman

p d James and Jill paton Walsh 825Chaired by Nicolette JonesCrime-Writing showcase: agatha v dorothy12 noon / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £10Every year for the past 17 years St Hilda’s Collegehas hosted a prestigious Mystery and CrimeWeekend, for the exchange of ideas about crimefiction. As a showcase of this significant annualevent, P D James and Jill Paton Walsh, two crime-writing stars from previous conferences, discuss therelative merits of our foremost Queens of Crime,Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers (respectively).Come along, hear the case for each, and vote foryour whodunnit best.




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Happy Birthday, peepo! 82812.30pm to 1pmJustine de Mierre [storyteller]12:30pm /Christ Church: JCR / £5Suitable for children aged 2+

A fun, lively and interactive 30-minute celebration ofthis delightful picturebook by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.The wonderful descriptive and rhythmic language ofPeepo! is brought to life in this fabulous event,including songs, games and storytelling, withprofessional entertainer Justine de Mierre.


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Modern art: a Very shortintroduction – FrEE EVENt1:15pm / Christ Church: Meadows MarqueeBookshop / FREEWelcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A shorttalk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. Thetalk is free and takes place in the Blackwell book tent.

David Cottington offers information and ideas aboutmodern art, and explains its contemporary relevanceand history. He focuses on interrogating the idea of‘modern’ art by asking: What makes a work of artqualify as modern? How is the selection made? Whatis the relationship between modern and contemporaryart? Is ‘postmodernist’ art no longer modern, or just nolonger modernist?

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richard Bradford 842and dJ taylorliterary Biography2pm / Christ Church Library / £10How do you set about writing the life of a ‘live’ subjectrather than somebody long dead? How is biographychanging, in a world where technology is transformingits raw materials? What does the future hold for thelife-writer? Here Professor Richard Bradford, author ofbiographies of Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin and AlanSillitoe joins D.J. Taylor, whose Orwell: The Life won the2003 Whitbread Biography Prize, to discuss the pitfallsawaiting the 21st century biographer.

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Vampirates2pm / Corpus Christi College / £5Suitable for 10+

Justin Somper’s high-octane Vampirates sequence,fusing pirate adventure and vampire myth, is publishedin 34 countries and 24 languages. Anthony Horowitzsaid of it, ‘Totally original ... I wish I’d had this idea!’Hear Justin talk about the world of Vampirates in thishighly interactive session, and enjoy a sneak preview ofImmortal War, the sixth and final book in thesequence, ahead of its publication in June. Find outmore and read Justin’s blog, at www.vampirates.co.ukor follow him at www.twitter.com/JustinSomper.


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e Home of the surrealists lee Miller and roland penrose atFarley Farm2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10Farley Farm was the home of legendary model andphotographer Lee Mill and her husband RolandPenrose for over 30 years. In its heyday, Farley Farmentertained a list of visitors that reads like a Who’sWho of twentieth-century artists, from PabloPicasso and Max Ernst, to Man Ray and HenryMoore; and it housed one of the world’s mostimpressive collections of modern art.

Antony Penrose, the son of Lee Miller and RolandPenrose, talks about his parents and about thedramas and outrageous surprises that were part ofeveryday life during the years when he was growingup in this colourful milieu. He presents a revealingfirsthand account of a Surrealist artists’ colony andthe story of one of the most remarkable artcollections ever assembled.

As well as lovingly maintaining Farley Farm as it wasin his parents’ day, Antony also runs the Lee MillerArchive, which supplies photographs and mountsexhibitions all over the world.

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Highland park 839Keynotes readingstaster reading with complimentarydram of single malt whiskey1:30pm / Christ Church: Next to Festival Café,Meadows Marquee / FREEOver both weekends of the festival,drop into the Festival Marquee, inChrist Church Meadows, and visitThe Highland Park Keynotes area totake in a series of free tasterreadings from some of the Festival’sbiggest authors, all accompanied bycomplimentary drams of theiraward-winning single malt.


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Women in love12 noon to 1:30pm / Merton College: T S EliotTheatre / £10

Rosamund Pike, Rachael Stirling, Rory Kinnear andJoseph Mawle star in Women In Love, a compellingnew two-part drama by William Ivory (writer of Faith,A Thing Called Love, Common As Muck).

Drawing on two novels by DH Lawrence – The Rainbowand Women In Love – which Lawrence originallyintended to publish as one, Ivory has melded the bookstogether in line with Lawrence’s original vision.

Women In Love recently transmitted on BBC Four aspart of the channel’s Modern Love season exploringlove and sexuality in 20th-century literature. TodayWilliam Ivory will talk about how he adapted andknitted the books together for this film.

Includes a special screening of Women in Love.



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Civilization: e West and the rest2pm / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £10If you had been able to circumnavigate the globe in1411, you would have been impressed by the dazzlingcivilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City wasunder construction in Ming Beijing and in the NearEast the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople.By contrast, England would have struck you as amiserable backwater ravaged by plague and incessantwar. The other kingdoms of Western Europe wouldhave seemed little better. As for fifteenth-centuryNorth America, it was an anarchic wildernesscompared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas.

Niall Ferguson, one of Britain’s most renownedhistorians, reveals how the civilization of WesternEurope trumped the superior empires of the Orientand argues that the West developed six “killerapplications” that the Rest lacked: competition,science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and thework ethic. The key question today is whether or notthe West has lost its monopoly on these six things. Ifso, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the endof Western ascendancy.

Civilization is accompanied by a six-part Channel Fourseries.

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Tower Poetry is an organisation based at ChristChurch, University of Oxford, which offersopportunities and resources to young British poets.The winners of the 2011 competition for 16-18year olds in the UK will be announced on Monday

9 May in the House of Commons.

Since 2000, when Tower Poetry was created, over6,000 students have taken part in the annualcompetition, over 80 have attended 7 summerschools, 6 volumes of contemporary poetry havebeen published and over 10 workshops and events

have been organised.

Visit www.towerpoetry.org.uk to see moreand sign up for our email newsletter or join our

Facebook group.

“A CREATIVE AND WELL EXECUTED MENU AND LOVELY VIEWS OF OXFORD’S DREAMING SPIRES”

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Magical ice lollies2pm / Christ Church: JCR / £5Suitable for 5-7s

Come and make your very own magic ice lolly whileauthor and illustrator Thomas Docherty tells his lateststory, Ruby Nettlesip and the Ice Lolly Adventure.Using audience participation, live drawing and giantprops, this is a fun-filled event for 5-7s.


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GOLDING AND EVIL Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively andthe eminent philosopher John Gray discuss the darkside of Golding’s writing, from the recurring motifsof mythology and Christian symbolism to thepessimism about humanity – the boys in Lord of theFlies, the “new people” in The Inheritors – that wasa common feature of much of his work. Chaired byJohn Carey.

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GOLDING ON FILM Highly acclaimed documentary maker and BBC

Arena’s series producer Anthony Wallwill be introducing some terrific BBCarchive footage of Golding from BBCArts programmes ‘Monitor’, made in1959, and ‘Bookmark’, made in 1984.

6-7pm Merton College drinks receptionwith all the speakers

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Conversations with poets2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £7Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which hefounded in 1978, and has edited over a thousandpoetry books. His own books include two poetrycollections and several anthologies, including StayingAlive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Earth Shattering:ecopoems (2007) and Being Human (2011), and twocollaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, SoulFood (2007) and the DVD-book In Person: 30 Poets(2008).

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2pm-7pm / Merton College: T S Eliot Theatre/ £45 for all three events and receptions

In William Golding’s Centenary year, theSunday Times Oxford Literary Festival isdedicating an afternoon to the NobelPrize-winning novelist whose worksinclude Lord of the Flies, The Spire and theacclaimed trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.

Complicated and troubled, Golding brought awholly original voice to fiction. Arthur Koestlercompared his second novel, The Inheritors, to ‘anearthquake in the petrified forests of the Englishnovel’. He won not only the Nobel Prize forLiterature, but also the Booker Prize for Rites ofPassage, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize forDarkness Visible. He was knighted for services toliterature in 1988.

The event will be chaired by John Carey, EmeritusMerton Professor of English Literature, University ofOxford, and author of William Golding: The ManWho Wrote Lord of the Flies, the first biography ofGolding, which draws on the huge archive ofunpublished material including a journal thatGolding kept every day for twenty years.

During the afternoon, we will explore thisextraordinary figure: a war hero, an energetic, funnyman who also suffered depression and struggledagainst alcoholism, a family man and a writer whotrusted the imagination above all things.

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GOLDING THE FAMILY MAN Judy Golding, William Golding’s daughter andauthor of the moving and engaging family memoirThe Children of Lovers, talks to John Carey abouther father’s warmth and fun as well as the painfulside of her upbringing with a sometimes-difficult parent, and the problems thatcame with his success. This will be aspecial preview of Judy’s memoir and thefirst time she has talked publicly about thebook.

3pm Tea with the speakers

Judy Golding, John Gray, penelope lively and anthony Wall. 846Chaired by John Careya Celebration of Golding


literary Oxford 849with alastair lack2pm-4pm2pm / Meet outside St John’s College Lodge, StGiles / £25Explore Oxford Colleges and landmark buildings in thecompany of the poets AE Housman, AC Swinburne,Edward Thomas and Robert Bridges, as well as writerssuch as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and PhilipPullman – not forgetting JRR Tolkein and Lewis Carroll(Charles Dodgson). Starting from St John’s College,where Housman and Larkin were undergraduates, andending at Christ Church.

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e World’s Biggest Ever Book!FrEE EVENt3:10pm / Christ Church Meadows Quad / FREEA giant ‘Pavement Edition’ of the What on Earth?Wallbook – 2.5m high and nearly 8m long – will be onshow outside during the Sunday Times Oxford LiteraryFestival 2011. It comprises a graphical timeline thattells the story of planet, life and people from thebeginning of time to the present day in more than1,000 pictures and captions. On the back is a 7,000-word guide to the history of the world. During thefestival What on Earth? author Christopher Lloyd,dressed in a gown of many pockets, will be giving aseries of 45-minute long Big History talks for membersof the public of all ages telling the story of planet, lifeand people from the Big Bang to the present day!

For more information contact Christopher [email protected]


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a time for New dreams4pm /Christ Church: Library / £10This year is the 20th anniversary of the publicationof Ben Okri’s The Famished Road which won theBooker Prize for Fiction. Ben Okri is a passionateadvocate of the written word. In A Time for NewDreams he breaks new ground in an unusualcollection of linked essays, which address suchdiverse themes as childhood, self-censorship, therole of beauty, the importance of education and thereal significance of the recent economic meltdown.

Proving that ‘true literature tears up the script’ ofhow we see ourselves, his essays are bothprovocative and thought-provoking studies of ourmodern world by one of the leading literary figuresof our time.

Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including TheFamished Road and Starbook, as well as collectionsof poetry, short stories and essays. His work hasbeen translated into more than 20 languages. He isa Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and hasbeen awarded numerous international prizes,including theCommonwealthWriters Prize forAfrica and the AgaKhan Prize forFiction. He is aVice-President ofthe English Centreof InternationalPEN and waspresented with aCrystal Award bythe WorldEconomic Forum.


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Miranda Glover, 861sarah Mukherjee, sue saville, Chaired by Nicolette Jonesscreen and print: Media panel4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10

For adults. Minimum age 15

Miranda Glover, novelist, publisher and co-founder ofthe Contemporary Women Writers’ Club; SarahMukherjee, former BBC environment correspondent(now, as Environment Director of Water UK, entirelyfree to say what she thinks) and ITN Senior Reporterand medical correspondent Sue Saville discuss theircareers in fiction, publishing, journalism, radio andtelevision, and their thoughts about the experience ofwomen in the media.


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William Cash and lara Feigel 863Chaired by robert CollinsGraham Greene’s Oxford4pm / Corpus Christi College / £10Graham Greene spent much of his life in and aroundOxford – as an undergraduate at Balliol, an aspiringwriter in a Cotswolds cottage, and a successful novelistwith a family home on Beaumont Street.

William Cash is the author of the The Third Woman,the definitive account of Graham Greene’s passionate,destructive affair with the younger and very beautifulCatherine Walston. This was the relationship thatinspired Greene’s novel The End of the Affair. As part ofhis research William Cash conducted lengthyconversations with Vivien Greene – Greene’s wife ofover fifty years – at her Dickensian Oxford house. Itwas her last ever interview.

During the talk, Cash will play some excerpts from theoriginal recording of this interview, including Vivien’sview of Catherine Walston and her marriage to Greene.It will be the first time any of the interview has everbeen played in public.

Lara Feigel, writer and Lecturer in English at King’sCollege London, is currently writing a new book onGraham Greene and other writers in the Second WorldWar. She has unearthed exciting new material aboutGraham Greene’s experiences in London during theBlitz and in Oxford after the war.

William Cash and Lara Feigel discuss Graham Greene,his time in Oxford and his place in the 21st-centuryliterary canon, with Robert Collins, Assistant BooksEditor of the Sunday Times.


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The David Shepherd Archive Collection is the most beautiful hand-bound limited edition book, printed to archival standards throughout and finished in English Vellum with 22ct Gold decoration.

The book contains the highest quality reproductions of a wide selection of David’s original paintings.

The pictures were chosen by the Artist himself and come from his lifetime’s work, including new and unpublished paintings from his personal collection or private commissions, as well as the iconic images for which he is world famous.

The Collection will be published in April 2011 and celebrates the 80th birthday of one of England’s best known artists.

Published by Gateway Publishing Ltd, Sark in association with Chris Andrews Publications Ltd, Oxford

Tel: +44 (0)1865 723404 Fax: +44 (0)1865 725294 Web: www.gatewaysark.co.uk Email: [email protected]

THE DAVID SHEPHERD ARCHIVE COLLECTION

David is appearing at The Festival on Friday 8th April at 12 noon to talk about his Archive Collection as well as his life of painting

and conservation

David with an advance copy

To see details of the book go to www.gatewaysark.co.ukhttp://oxfordgastronomica.brookes.ac.uk

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Oxford Gastronomica, based at Oxford Brookes University,

is the UK’s only dedicated centre for the study of food, drink and culture.

Through education, short courses and events, it satisfies our appetite to learn

about food and drink and their place in our lives.

The literature of food and drink reveals much about our heritage,

our sense of belonging and our place in the world.

Oxford Gastronomica’s series of events at the

Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival will provide a fascinating insight into the cultural significance of this form of writing.

Speakers will include

Madhur Jaffrey, Ken Hom, Prue Leith, Charles Campion,

Jessica Harris and Pete Brown.

For full programme details visit the events page at

http://oxfordgastronomica.brookes.ac.ukAt this year's festival Oxford Gastronomica will award the

Bombadier Prize for Beer Writing.

oxfordgastronomicaTHE CENTRE FOR FOOD, DRINK AND CULTURE

Oxford Gastronomica holds one of the world’s most

comprehensive collections of culinary texts,

including the private libraries of Jane Grigson,

John Fuller, Prue Leith and Ken Hom.

The collections are open to the public and bookings

can be made through the

Oxford Gastronomica website.

Supported by Kikkoman

Highland park 879Keynotes readingstaster reading with complimentarydram of single malt whiskey5 :30pm / Christ Church: Next to Festival Café,Meadows Marquee / FREEOver both weekends of the festival,drop into the Festival Marquee, inChrist Church Meadows, and visitThe Highland Park Keynotes area totake in a series of free tasterreadings from some of theFestival’s biggest authors, allaccompanied by complimentarydrams of their award-winning single malt.


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using History to tell stories4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £5Suitable for 7-12s

K. A. S. Quinn, former publisher of the Spectator andthe author of the gripping time-travel adventure TheQueen Must Die, set in Victorian England, tells, withprops and pictures, how the Victorians inspired her, thechallenges of writing a novel, and how history canstimulate budding authors. Come and join this livelyinteractive experience, find out what it was like to be achild in 1851, and have your imagination ignited.


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Forensic psychology: a Very shortintroduction – FrEE EVENt5:15pm / Christ Church: Meadows MarqueeBookshop / FREEWelcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A shorttalk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. Thetalk is free and takes place in the Blackwell book tent.

David Canter discusses all the aspects of psychologythat are relevant to the legal and criminal process as awhole. He includes explanations of criminal behaviorand criminality, including the role of mental disorder incrime, and discusses how forensic psychologycontributes to helping investigate the crime andcatching the perpetrators.


lewis Wolpert – introduced 865by professor sarah Harperyou’re looking Very Well: e surprising Nature of Getting Old4pm / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £10We now live longer today than at any time inhistory. In the UK, more people are aged over 65than under 16 and by 2050, over a third of thedeveloped world will be over sixty. How should wedeal with this phenomenon? What are the scientificreasons for ageing? And can – or should – weprevent it?

Lewis Wolpert, distinguished biologist andoctogenarian, explores the scientific background andthe implications of our ageing population, coveringeverything from ageism to euthanasia to anti-ageing cream and, through it all, tries to understandhis own ageing.

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Katherine parkinson and 881triona adams, Chaired by Nicolette Jonese ‘it Girls’: Women in Comedy6pm / Corpus Christi College / £10


St Hilda’s graduates and professional funny womenKatherine Parkinson and Triona Adams discuss, debateand possibly giggle over the serious subject of WomenIn Comedy.

Having appeared alongside Kristen Scott Thomas inThe Seagull (Royal Court) and most recently withCatherine Tate in Alan Ayckbourn’s Seasons Greetingsat the National Theatre, Katherine Parkinson, agraduate of LAMDA, has carved out a career in TVcomedy. A series regular in Doc Martin and contributor,as well as performer, in comedienne Katy Brand’s BigAss show, Parkinson shot to fame in the quirkyChannel 4 comedy, The It Crowd. She also appeared inWhites, and The Boat that Rocked.

Triona Adams spent 10 years as a leading West Endtheatrical agent representing actors, writers anddirectors in everything from The Archers to Z Cars, atime interrupted only by a year in which she followedher vocation as an enclosed Benedictine nun, notentirely successfully. Now, having written the acclaimedradio play The Lemon Squeezer for BBC Radio 4, she ison the other side of the desk, touring in her ownautobiographical comedy show Nun The Wiser.


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Christopher ricks, Jon stallworthy, 882Clare Morgan, Bernard O’donoghue,Jane draycott and Jenny lewis

Joining Music with reason6:30pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10

The Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing, incollaboration with the Sunday Times Oxford LiteraryFestival and Waywiser Press, is proud to present aselection of readings from Christopher Ricks’santhology, Joining Music With Reason, published byWaywiser Press. The readers will be poets JonStallworthy, Bernard O’Donoghue, Jane Draycott andJenny Lewis with an additional reading of selectedpoems by Christopher Ricks himself.

Christopher was Oxford Professor of Poetry between2004 and 2009, and during his tenure arranged for 29poets – a roughly equal mixture of British andAmerican, established and new – to read from theirwork. Joining Music with Reason brings together agenerous selection of work by all of those poets.

Dr Clare Morgan, Director of the Kellogg College WritingCentre and the Oxford University Creative Writing MSt.says, ‘Christopher Ricks did a huge amount to promotepoetry while he was in Oxford and we are delighted tosupport this fine and varied anthology.’

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e perfect Nazi: uncovering myGrandfather’s secret past and HowHitler seduced a Generation6pm / Oriel College: Library / £10

Award winning television director Martin Davidson hasdone a brave thing: he has confronted and revealed hisown family’s Nazi past. His grandfather BrunoLangbehn joined the Nazi party in 1926. He was oneof the first young men to sign up and as the party rosein power he was there every step of the way.

Eventually his loyalty was rewarded with a high-ranking position in Hitler’s dreaded SS, the elitesecurity service charged with sending Germany’s‘racially impure’ to the death camps. His family keptthis secret for 50 years after the Second World War,until Martin uncovered the truth.

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Herculaneum: past and Future6:30pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £10On August 24 79 AD, the volcano Vesuvius erupted,burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum underash and rock, leaving them remarkably well preservedfor centuries. Although Pompeii has been written aboutextensively, the remains of its sister city, a smaller yetwealthier community close to the sea are less widelyknown.

Based on the latest excavation work, and incorporatingnew material that has revolutionised ourunderstanding of the site, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill(Head of the Herculaneum Conservation Project) offersthe definitive overview of what we now know andunderstand about Herculaneum.

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6.30pm Reception, 7.30pm Dinner in HallChrist Church. £120 (includes reception,dinner and wines). Dress Code – Black TieChrist Church educated eleven Governors-Generaland Viceroys of India. Food historian, Annie Menzies,has created a ‘Burra Khanah’ – a celebration ofAnglo-Indian cookery.

Dishes have been drawn from 16th- to 20th-century recipes. They reflect the fusion of thesubcontinent’s remarkable range of cultures. Thishistoric dinner will be produced by Christ ChurchExecutive Chef Chris Simms and his team.

The guest speaker is the Indian film star andcookery writer, Madhur Jaffrey. Born and educated inNew Delhi, her film career began with ‘Shakespeare

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e Brave6:30pm / Christ Church: Library / £10Nicholas Evans’s first novel, The Horse Whisperer, sold15 million copies and was made into a film by RobertRedford starring Kristin Scott Thomas and ScarlettJohansson.

In his long-awaited new novel, The Brave, he traces thelegacy of violence behind the myth of the AmericanWest and explores our quest for love and identity, thefallibility of heroes and the devastating effects offamily secrets.

It opens in 1959 when eight-year old Tom Bedford issent away to a brutal English boarding school. The onlycomfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboysand Indians. But when his sister Diane, falls in love withone of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane,Tom’s life is transformed. They move to Hollywood andall his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however,the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and ashocking act of violence changes their lives forever.

What happened all those years ago remains a secretthat corrodes Tom’s life and wrecks his marriage. Onlywhen his son, a US Marine serving in Iraq, is chargedwith murder do the events resurface, forcing him toconfront his demons. As he struggles to save his son’slife, he has to learn the true meaning of bravery.


Nicholas Evans

Edna O’Brien 883in conversation with James Waltonsaints and sinners6:30pm / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £10

Saints and Sinners is a new collection of shortstories by award-winning Irish writer Edna O’Brien.Her stories take readers on a journey through thestreets of Manhattan and streets of north Londonwhere an Irishman retraces his life as a young mandreaming of the apocryphal gold, and many otherplaces besides.

Characterised by her trademark lyricism, powerfulevocation of place and a glorious, often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires andcontradictions, this varied, far-reaching collection isfull of passion, pain and beauty.

Since her debut novel The Country Girls EdnaO’Brien has written over twenty works of fictionalong with biographies of James Joyce and LordByron. She is the recipient of many awards includingthe Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, theAmerican National Art’s Gold Medal and the UlyssesMedal.

Edna O’Brien talks to James Walton. James Waltonwrites and presents Radio 4’s literary quiz, The WriteStuff and has written a book based on the series,Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts.

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Closing Festival dinner 887Hosted by e dean (Head of House) of Christ Church, Christopher lewis

‘Burra Khanah’ – a celebration of anglo-indian cookeryGuest speaker Madhur Jaffrey

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Wallah’ (1965), for which she won the Best Actress Award at The BerlinFilm Festival. Other Merchant-Ivory films followed, including ‘Heat andDust’ (1983) and ‘Cotton Mary’ (1999).

Her first book appeared in 1974; 15 more have followed, culminatinglast year with the acclaimed ‘Curry Easy’. Madhur Jaffrey is widelyregarded as the world authority on Indian food.

She will be introduced by Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor ofOxford Brookes University.

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leah axton, Julia Churchill 903and John NewmanBookcamp: How to Get a Children’sBook published. 10am until 1pm10am / Christ Church: Library / £25


Back by popular demand, for all those who could notget into the sold-out event last year, a three-hourmaster-class (with breaks for refreshment) on how toget ahead in the children’s book business. Presented byLeah Thaxton, Senior Publisher at Egmont (publishersof Enid Blyton, Michael Morpurgo and Andy Stanton),and Julia Churchill of the Greenhouse Literary Agency,which specialises in discovering new voices. This eventwill look at how at the children’s book business worksand prevailing trends, and analyses in depth whatmakes a submission stand out for an agent, and whatpublishers want to see. Presentations will be followedby a panel discussion and questions, chaired by JohnNewman, also an industry expert as chair of theBooksellers’ Association’s Children’s Bookselling Group.

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e possessed: adventures withrussian Books and the people whoread em10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £10This is the true story of one woman’s intellectual,sentimental and often hilarious adventures whileexploring the Russian classics and the stories of thosewho wrote them. Beginning with a description of aconference about Isaac Babel in California at whichvarious destinies intersect, Elif Batuman follows thefootsteps of her favourite authors both literally andmetaphorically, searching for the answers to the bigquestions.

She investigates a possible murder at Tolstoy’sancestral estate, travels to Samarkand and StPetersburg; retraces Pushkin’s wanderings in theCaucasus; learns why Old Uzbek has 100 differentwords for crying; and sees an 18th-century ice palacereconstructed on the Neva.

Elif received fantastic reviews for her book. It was aNew York Times bestseller and won the JaffeFoundation Writer’s Award and the prestigious WhitingAward. She has come over from the US especially to bewith us in Oxford and appear at the Festival.

Elif Batuman

tim Gardom, stephen Greenberg, 905Martin Kemp and rick Mather.introduced by dr Christopher Browninspirational ideas in Museum design10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10Dr Christopher Brown, Director of the Ashmolean, willintroduce this lively discussion about innovation anddesign in museum collections. Professor Martin Kempwill chair a panel with architect Rick Mather, CreativeDirector of Metaphor Stephen Greenberg, and Directorof Interpretive Planning Tim Gardom, exploring howideas and vision have transformed some of the UK’sgreatest collections and displays.

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Choral Matins 902preacher Geoffrey HillChrist Church Cathedral10am / Christ Church: Cathedral / FREEThe preacher at this special service is Geoffrey Hill,Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

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ackeray versus dickens10am / Corpus Christi College / £102011 marks the 200th anniversary of Thackeray’s birth.Dickens’s bi-centenary follows in 2012. But the twogreatest novelists of the early-Victorian era had avolatile relationship, which several times boiled overinto outright hostility. D.J. Taylor, Thackeray’sbiographer, and Professor John Carey, author ofThackeray: Prodigal Genius and The Violent Effigy, aseminal study of Dickens’s imagery, discuss a clashbetween two Victorian titans that was simultaneouslya conflict of opposed personalities and an argumentbetween contrasting views of how literature works.

Francesca simon and steven Butler 906Chaired by Nicolette JonesHorrid Henry, Zombies, trolls ande Wrong pong10am / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £6

Suitable for children aged 5-9

Find out about Henry’s latest dreadful deeds in HorridHenry Rocks and what it’s like being Horrid Henry inthis wickedly fun and unique event. Join FrancescaSimon and Steven Butler – who played Horrid Henryon stage – as they talk about ideas, writing, and allthings horrid, and Steven introduces his first, hilariousnew children’s book, The Wrong Pong, about a nervousboy who gets snatched down the loo by trolls. And,who knows?, Francesca might even give a sneak peakof Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire….

Chaired by Nicolette Jones.


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inspector Morse tour 909with alastair lack11am-1pm.11am / Meet outside Balliol College Lodge,Broad Street / £25Mention Oxford and dreaming spires, colleges andquadrangles all come to mind – plus, of course,Inspector Morse. The television series featuring JohnThaw was based on the novels of Oxford writer ColinDexter and remain immensely popular in the UnitedKingdom and all over the world. Centred on theuniversity and city, Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewisencounter Head of houses, dons, murderers andcriminals in the course of their detective work, pausingonly to solve a tricky question over a pint or two in afavourite pub. This walk explores the Oxford ofInspector Morse and visits some of the scenes of hisbest-known cases.


Highland park 919Keynotes readingstaster reading with complimentarydram of single malt whiskey11:30am / Christ Church: Next to Festival Café,Meadows Marquee / FREEOver both weekends of the festival,drop into the Festival Marquee, inChrist Church Meadows, and visitThe Highland Park Keynotes area totake in a series of free tasterreadings from some of theFestival’s biggest authors, allaccompanied by complimentarydrams of their award-winning singlemalt.


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When God spoke English: e Making of the King James Bible10am-11:30am / Merton College: T S EliotTheatre / £10The King James Bible is a worldwide best seller – theonly authorised English translation of what many believethe greatest story every told. The majesty and beauty ofits prose rivals that of Shakespeare. Its influence hasshaped not only our own language, culture and societybut indeed that of the rest of the world.

Presenter and author Adam Nicolson, reveals why themaking of this great and powerful book shares much incommon with his experience of a very differentnational project – the Millennium Dome. This sessionalso offers the opportunity to see Adam’s BBC Fourdocumentary, When God Spoke English: The Making ofthe King James Bible.

Includes a special screening of When God SpokeEnglish: The Making of the King James Bible.

Event lasts 90 minutes


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a dear Zoo animal Menagerie!10am / Christ Church: JCR / £5

Suitable for children aged 2+

Come and join in the animal menagerie. Inspired byRod Campbell’s classic children’s book, Dear Zoo, thisevent will have you roaring like a lion, trumpeting likean elephant and miaowing like a kitten as you searchfor the perfect pet. With professional entertainer LizFrost.



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Mr Gum and the Hundred-Mile-an-Hour laughs12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £6


Laugh your socks off with Jeremy Strong and AndyStanton. An unmissable event with two of the funniestchildren’s authors currently in print: ‘The King-of-Comedy’ Jeremy Strong and Andy Stanton, author ofthe bestselling and utterly hilarious Mr Gum series. Justthe thing to rib-tickle children of 7+


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EVENING LITERARY LECTURESat the ESU

The English-Speaking Union

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, VOL. 1Wednesday 4 May, 6.30 – 9 pmSpeaker: Professor Peter StoneleyJoin us as we welcome Peter Stoneley, Professor of English Language and Literature at The University of Reading and author of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic as he sheds light on the hidden secrets of Twain’s fi rst autobiographical instalment, left unpublished for 100 years by Twain’s instruction, his expectations for volumes 2 and 3, and what we can learn from the author of the ‘Great American Novel’.

LANCASTER: THE BIOGRAPHYWednesday 1 June, 6.30 – 9 pmSpeaker: Squadron Leader Tony Iveson DFCA pilot of the 617 Squadron (the ‘Dambusters’), Squadron Leader Tony Iveson DFC will join the ESU to speak about Lancaster: The Biography, an insightful look into the history of this most famous of aircrafts, the crew that fl ew and maintained them and even the enemy pilots who were sent to destroy them. Sqn Ldr Iveson will also talk about his experience of fl ying the Lancaster across the North Sea to sink the battleship Tirpitz and to drop the infamous ‘bouncing bombs’ on Germany’s Ruhr Valley Dam and how the Lancaster has emerged as a lasting icon.

All lectures take place at Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street, London W1J 5EDNearest Tube stations - Bond Street, Green Park

Tickets: £10 ESU members, £11 ESU alumni, £12 non-ESU membersto include two glasses of wine/two soft drinks

If you are interested in attending or holding a literary event with the ESU please contact

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announces

A new annual short story competition

The Jeremy MogfordPrize for Food & Drink Writing 2012

First Prize £7,500

Full details and brief will be available June 2011Please contact - The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

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“Jeremy Mogford has had a transforming influence on Britishrestaurants and hotels. He founded the Browns Restaurant group

and went on to create Oxford’s most distinctive collection ofhotels and restaurants winning worldwide acclaim.”

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em and us: politics, Greed andinequality – Why We Need a Fairsociety12 noon / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £10

The suddenness and depth of the recession has raisedquestions about the workability of capitalism not seensince the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery isthe growing belief that if the old model didn’t workthere is no new one on offer.

Executive Vice-Chair of The Work Foundation and aformer editor of The Observer, Will Hutton sets out toprovide a new model and argues that reconstructing abust financial system is not just a technical question. Itcannot be done without a wholescale revision of thewider system and the values on which it is based. Hisarguments address the mood of the moment and aimto set the current-affairs agenda for 2011 and beyond.

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Jenny lewis and yasmin sidhwa 922Chaired by Gill Jaggerspegasus eatre’s after Gilgamesh:Questions of power and the power of Questions12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2/ £10Why must we constantly go to war? How can we holdour elected leaders to account and how much haschanged between the world of 2,700 BC Uruk andmodern-day Iraq? A discussion by writer Jenny Lewis,director Yasmin Sidhwa and members of the companyto explore the vital role of young people in bringingissues and epics alive through their staging of Jenny’sverse-drama After Gilgamesh – a contemporaryinterpretation of the Gilgamesh epic.

After Gilgamesh, developed by Jenny and Yasmin withdramaturg Rabab Ghazoul, choreographer Allan Hutsonand musical director Anita Daulne, is produced andperformed at Pegasus Theatre from March 30 – April 2and on July 21 2011 by Pegasus Youth TheatreCompanies with the Afropean Choir.

The discussion will include readings from the play textof After Gilgamesh, published by Mulfran Press, whichwill be launched at the event.

Gill Jaggers, Head of Marketing at Pegasus Theatre,who will Chair the event, sat in on the early meetingsfor After Gilgamesh and has watched the growth of theplay from first thoughts through research at theAshmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums and seven monthsdevelopment of script, music, dance and design.

Jenny Lewis andYasmin Sidhwa

linda Grant and rachel Hore 923Chaired by Joanne Harrisportraying Families12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £10How do novelists portray families and createcharacters within them that engage our attention andcommand our concern?

Linda Grant, winner of both the Orange Prize forfiction for When I Lived in Modern Times, and theSouth Bank Show Literature Award for The Clothes ontheir Backs, has just published her new novel We Had itSo Good.

Rachel Hore’s first novel was The Dream House,followed by The Memory Garden (an Amazon Top TenBestseller). The Glass Painter’s Daughter was short-listed for Romantic Novel of the Year and her latestnovel, A Place of Secrets, was published in 2010.

Linda and Rachel are in conversation, chaired byJoanne Harris (author of 12 novels, including Chocolatand her new psychological thriller Blueeyed Boy).

ocolat and her new psychological thriller BlueeyedBoy.

Joanne Harris

Michael Frayn 929in Conversation with peter KempNovelist, playwright, Memoirist,translator and screenwriter: a life in Words12 noon / Sheldonian Theatre / £10-£25Michael Frayn is not only one of the most multi-talented writers in Britain today, but also one of themost entertaining and engaging to meet. Novelist,playwright, memoirist and screenwriter, author ofthe seminal plays Noises Off and Copenhagen, ofthe Whitbread prize-winning novel Spies and of thescreenplay for the John Cleese film Clockwise, he isalso, among his many talents, the country’sforemost translator of Chekhov. In this specialplatform appearance.

Michael will talk to Sunday Times chief fictionreviewer Peter Kemp about his extraordinary andvaried career, his recent, critically acclaimed memoir,My Father’s Fortune (which was shortlisted for theCosta Biography award), and will accept the SundayTimes Award for Literary Excellence from the SundayTimes Literary Editor Andrew Holgate.

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sexuality: a Very short introductionFrEE EVENt1:15pm / Christ Church: Meadows MarqueeBookshop / FREEWelcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A shorttalk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. Thetalk is free and takes place in the Blackwell book tent.

Is our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society,culture, and politics? How have views of sexual normschanged over time? And how have feminism, religion,and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? VeroniqueMotier examines these questions and many more,exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how oursexuality shapes us.


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Family Carvery lunch in HogwartsHall – a rare opportunity for childrenand parents to dine in Hogwarts Hall12:30pm / Christ Church: Hall / £27£27 Two course Adults’ Menu£15.00 Two course Children’s Menu (suitable for age10 and under)

Come and enjoy a traditional carvery Sunday Lunch inHall at Christ Church under the direction of Head Chef,Chris Simms and Hall Manager, Andrew Hedges.

Make your choice of Roast Beef or Roast Pork Bellywith all the trimmings from the carvery. This will befollowed by a traditional British Pudding, served toyour table with coffee to follow. Small portions of thesame menu are available for children under 10 years ofage.

The Hall reflects Christ Church’s long association withchildren’s literature. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandwas inspired and written in this college by LewisCarroll. His portrait and the Alice Window can both beseen here. More recently, the Hall was used as themodel for the dining hall of Hogwarts in the HarryPotter films.

The carvery lunch will be served in three sittings.This is the first sitting at 12:30pm. Enjoy a leisurelylunch with family and friends. Each sitting is located ina separate section of the Great Hall – so there are notime pressures.

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stinky socks show12 noon / Christ Church: JCR / £5Suitable for children aged 3-6

Back by popular demand, with an entirely new showfor a new book, Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the ReallyDreadful Spell, author and illustrator KristinaStephenson takes you on a really big adventure in thecompany of her hero Sir Charlie Stinky Socks, in thethird book in her ever-popular series. With interactivemusical storytelling and hilarious songs.


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in eir Own Words: British Novelists12 noon / Merton College: T S Eliot Theatre / £10Jonty Claypole is Executive Producer of the ‘In TheirOwn Words’ documentary strand on BBC Four. In thispresentation, he will show rarely seen footage of greatwriters who have been filmed by the BBC over the past75 years and talk about the ever-changing relationshipbetween literature and television.

Includes a special screening of In Their Own Words:British Novelists


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Make your choice of Roast Beef or Roast Pork Belly withall the trimmings from the carvery. This will be followedby a traditional British Pudding, served to your tablewith coffee to follow. Small portions of the same menuare available for children under 10 years of age.


The carvery lunch will be served in three sittings. This is the second sitting at 1:15pm. Enjoy a leisurelylunch with family and friends. Each sitting is located ina separate section of the Great Hall – so there are notime pressures.

Children’s and Young People’s Event


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The Oxford Literary Festival announces

New Writers in Residence Programme

for 2012�� Each year during the festival celebrated writers and novelists from

the UK and overseas will be offered the opportunity to stay and work in the Landmark Trust’s two beautiful historic properties in Oxford.

Full details will be announced in October 2011

The Landmark Trust is a charity that rescues historic buildings and restoresthem for holidays. There are 190 buildings throughout the UK, and in Italyand France. For more information please visit www.landmarktrust.org.uk

or telephone 01628 825920.

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Brian W. aldiss, Mark Brake 941and stephen r. lawheadscience Fiction to science Fact2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £10Flying machines, robots, virtual worlds – once therealm of imagination: now reality. Three leading figuresin the science-fiction world debate the relationshipbetween science-fiction and science fact. Influentialscience fiction author Brian W. Aldiss’s interest in thegenre began in his youth: his many novels over thepast 50 years have won awards from Grand Master ofScience Fiction Writers to the OBE. Futurist andcommunicator of science, Mark Brake produces bothacademic works and those for the younger generationsuch as ‘Space Hoppers’, also a TV programme. AuthorStephen R. Lawhead is currently working on a five-book science-fiction series which is underpinned bycutting-edge quantum physics. Will we ever be able tosay: ‘Beam me up Scotty?’

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Make your choice of Roast Beef or Roast Pork Belly withall the trimmings from the carvery. This will be followedby a traditional British Pudding, served to your table withcoffee to follow. Small portions of the same menu areavailable for children under 10 years of age.


The carvery lunch will be served in three sittings. This is the third sitting at 13:45pm

rosamund Bartlett 942in conversation with Julie Curtistolstoy – a russian life2pm / Corpus Christi College / £10In November 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remoteRussian railway station, attended by the world’s media,taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape hisdecadent (as he saw it) aristocratic family life.

Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a colossusof world literature by both his contemporaries andcritics. Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina areconsidered two of the greatest novels ever written

In this exceptional biography Rosamund Bartlett drawsextensively on the many fascinating new sourceswhich have been published about Tolstoy since thecollapse of Communism to write about one of themost compelling, maddening, brilliant and contrarypeople who has ever lived.

Rosmaund Bartlett discovered a remarkable and longlife in one of the most fascinating and turbulentperiods of Russian history, straddling the 19th andearly 20th centuries. Rosamund Bartlett talks to JulieCurtis, Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford.

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Highland park 939Keynotes readingstaster reading with complimentarydram of single malt whiskey1 :30pm / Christ Church: Next to Festival Café,Meadows Marquee / FREEOver both weekends of the festival,drop into the Festival Marquee, inChrist Church Meadows, and visitThe Highland Park Keynotes area totake in a series of free tasterreadings from some of the Festival’sbiggest authors, all accompanied bycomplimentary drams of theiraward-winning single malt.


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a still untitled (not quite) autobiography2pm / Christ Church Library / £10Ron Moody has enthralled generations with hismasterly performance as Fagin in both the stage andfilm versions of Oliver! (for which he was nominatedfor an Oscar). Now, in this frank, highly original andidiosyncratic memoir, he reveals the twists and turns ofhis career, and the people he met and worked withalong the way.

Planning to become an academic, Ron Moody firsttook to the boards in student revues at the LondonSchool of Economics. But his ability to create a stringof eccentric and original characters quickly caught theattention of West End theatre producers, and thecourse of his life changed for ever.

He provides fascinating insights into the attention todetail involved in creating characters, the role ofanarchy and clowning in his performances, and thenature of theatre itself. He also reveals how tensionsboth on and off stage – as there were in Oliver! – canstimulate actors to create something especiallymemorable.

Ron Moody’s 50-year career spans theatre, film andtelevision and includes Candide, Oliver!, TV’s DavidCopperfield, and EastEnders.


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artemis Fowl’s 10th anniversary2pm / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee / £5


A rare opportunity to hear from the fantastically funnyand bestselling author Eoin Colfer. Eoin will becelebrating the 10th anniversary of the phenomenalArtemis Fowl series, as well as the much anticipatedpaperback release of ‘Artemis Fowl and the AtlantisComplex’. You may even get to meet Artemis himself!An entertaining event both for fans and those new tothe series.

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literary Oxford with 948alastair lack2pm-4pm2pm / Meet outside St John’s College Lodge, St Giles / £25Explore Oxford Colleges and landmark buildings in thecompany of the poets AE Housman, AC Swinburne,Edward Thomas and Robert Bridges, as well as writerssuch as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and PhilipPullman – not forgetting JRR Tolkein and Lewis Carroll(Charles Dodgson). Starting from St John’s College,where Housman and Larkin were undergraduates andending at Christ Church.

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Birth of the British Novel2pm-3:30pm / Merton College: T S Eliot Theatre / £10In Birth of the British Novel, author Henry Hitchingsexamines the evolution of the novel in the 18thcentury. He shows how a handful of pioneering authorsincluding Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding,Laurence Sterne and Fanny Burney laid down thetemplate for the art form, creating most of the majorgenres we’re familiar with today. This programme wastransmitted on BBC Four, as part of the BBC’s Year ofBooks.

Includes a special screening of Birth of the BritishNovel.

Event lasts 90 minutes.


Henry Hitchings


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Crown and Country: Our Historyrough the Monarchy2:30pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £10-£25No historian has brought the Tudors to vivid,passionate life as brilliantly as Dr. David Starkey, inhis bestselling books and popular televisionprogrammes.

His new book, Crown and Country, synthesises andupdates two earlier books to provide an outstandingoverview of the British Monarchy from the retreatof the Romans to the rise of the Windsors.

Starkey charts the history of British royalty throughthe Wars of the Roses; the confusion of the CivilWar; and the fall of King Charles I, the Restoration,the Georgians and Hanoverians to the time whenBritish royalty finally came face to face with theModern World.

Britain’s most provocative and entertaining historiansweeps us through the centuries, gives a preview ofhis long-awaited second volume on King Henry VIII,and provides an inimicable perspective on theforthcoming Royal Wedding

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e Mango Orchard – e Extraordinary true story of a Family lost and Found2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £10Robin Bayley talks about his book, The Mango Orchard,in which he undertakes an extraordinary journey in hisgreat grandfather’s footsteps across the Americas.

As a boy, Robin Bayley loved the stories about hisancestor’s Latin American adventures: brushes withbandits, wild jungle journeys, hidden bags of silver anda narrow escape from the Mexican Revolution. Butthere was something in these family tales that he feltwas missing: the truth.

On Robin’s quest for the truth, he encounters witches,drug dealers, an ex-Nazi diamond trader andColombian guerrilla fighters. He eventually tracks downthe village in western Mexico where his great-grandfather had lived and worked. There, Robindiscovers the secret family his forebear had left behind,now numbering over 300 people. He also discoversthat not only did his ancestor have a narrow escapefrom the revolution; he also had a hand in starting it.

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Family event for age 6+

Twenty years after the publication of their first, andenduringly popular, collections of Fairy Tales andFantastic Stories, multi-award-winning illustratorMichael Foreman and former Python Terry Jonespresent their just-published, all-new collection of talesand stories, Animal Tales! Meet an ambitious fox whoruns a circus of trained chickens, learn the secret ofimmortal jellyfish and hear the amazing tale of theGolden Snail of Surbiton. A rare delight.


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talk with david FreemanWhat is it about love that Keeps usComing Back for More?4pm / Corpus Christi College / £10We know it has the potential to hurt like hell, but wepersist in its pursuit. In her attempt to get to thebottom of love’s elusive hold over us, psychoanalystAnouchka Grose draws on numerous case studies, thecombined wisdom of philosophers, poets and scientistsas well as her own romantic entanglements to look atlove from a myriad of different perspectives.

Julian Baggini is the editor and co-founder of ThePhilosophers’ Magazine. His books include Do You ThinkWhat You Think YouThink?, What’s It All About? –Philosophy and the Meaning of Life and The Pig ThatWants to be Eaten. With his usual wit, infectiouscuriosity and bracing scepticism, Julian Baggini isconsidered the UK’s most accesible and entertainingpopular philosopher.

Talking with writer and broadcaster David Freeman,Anouchka Grose and Julian Baggini take us into thecomplex geography of the human heart and offerserious solutions to the conundrums of love. A must forall those in search of love and romance.

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e World’s Biggest Ever Book!FrEE EVENt3:10pm / Christ Church Meadows Quad / FREEA giant ‘Pavement Edition’ of the What on Earth?Wallbook – 2.5m high and nearly 8m long – will be onshow outside during the Sunday Times Oxford LiteraryFestival 2011. It comprises a graphical timeline thattells the story of planet, life and people from thebeginning of time to the present day in more than1,000 pictures and captions. On the back is a 7,000-word guide to the history of the world. During thefestival What on Earth? author Christopher Lloyd,dressed in a gown of many pockets, will be giving aseries of 45-minute long Big History talks for membersof the public of all ages telling the story of planet, lifeand people from the Big Bang to the present day!

For more information contact Christopher [email protected]


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Meet poppy Cat4pm / Christ Church: JCR / £5


Meet Poppy Cat and all of Poppy Cat’s friends, fromthe books by Lara Jones (see www.poppycat.com). Getready to play some fun games and sing songs. Withprofessional entertainer Liz Frost.


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imagine: tolstoy4pm - 5:30pm /Merton College: T S Eliot Theatre / £10The centenary of Leo Tolstoy’s death last year wasmarked around the world. Now Alan Yentobinvestigates why he thinks there was a deafeningsilence in official Russian circles.

This two-part Imagine special for BBC One looks intothe life of the venerable novelist, a difficult, restless,ferociously brilliant man with an appetite for causingtrouble with his fundamentalist views on God, violenceand government.

Guided by the writer’s astonishingly honest andconfessional diaries, Alan takes a train journey throughTolstoy’s Russia to bring one of the most extraordinaryand influential men of the 19th century to life,discovering what made him perhaps the greatestnovelist of his time and how he turned his back onthat achievement.

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Nagaland4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £10A journey to Nagaland, a beautiful and dangerouscorner of North Eastern India, whose impact on worldaffairs is larger than we know. Landlocked, almostinaccessible to foreigners, Nagaland has been fighting asecret, often brutal war for independence for morethan half a century. Portrayed either as a land ofruthless guerrillas, or exotic natives, Nagaland is in facta complex and divided region, with an incrediblehistory.

Jonathan Glancey is the third generation of his familyto be seduced by Nagaland, which is why he tries toreconcile his childhood idealism with the reality hefinds there and explores his family ties to the region.Through his ancestral history, extensive travels beyondthe tourist zone, and through the voices of the Nagashe meets, he tells the true story of this forgotten land.

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in conversation with donald sloan4pm /Christ Church: Library / £10

Ken Hom studied Art and French History at theUniversity of California. As part of his degree, he spenta year in France where he found the French passion forfood infectious. On his return, he began giving cookinglessons to supplement his scholarship. His career breakcame when his first book about Chinese cookery led toa two-page article in the New York Times. This wasclosely followed by the launch of Ken’s first BBC TVseries, in 1984, which made him known worldwide forhis inventive yet down-to-earth style. The companioncook book to the series broke all records, selling wellover 1.2 million copies. Since then, Ken has written 22best-selling books on Asian cuisine. His latest, KenHom – Complete Chinese Cookbook, was published bythe BBC in January 2011.


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linda Grant, Ed Howker, aaron 965porter. Chaired by Will Huttone Jilted Generation?4pm / Christ Church: Master’s Garden Marquee/ £10Governments since Thatcher have sold the idea ofindividualism to the nation, without thinking aboutfuture generations. Baby boomers got away withhandouts consequential to that opportunistic world.But now we have jobless youth bearing the brunt ofeconomic downturn, with fears of raising a ‘lostgeneration’ of workers, having to deal with lesshousing, higher student fees, higher house prices,higher taxes and less benefits. Is there a ‘jilted’generation, in a ‘broken’ Britain, could it have beavoided, and what of the future?

Orange Prize-winning novelist Linda Grant, whoselatest novel We Had It So Good examines the ‘toxic’legacy of the baby-boomer generation, is joined by EdHowker, journalist at The Spectator and co-author ofThe Jilted Generation, and Aaron Porter, NUS Presidentand face of student protest. Chaired by Will Hutton,writer, columnist and former editor of The Observer.

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Highland park 979Keynotes readingstaster reading with complimentarydram of single malt whiskey5:30pm / Christ Church: Next to Festival Café,Meadows Marquee / FREEOver both weekends of the festival,drop into the Festival Marquee, inChrist Church Meadows, and visitThe Highland Park Keynotes area totake in a series of free tasterreadings from some of theFestival’s biggest authors, allaccompanied by complimentarydrams of their award-winning single malt.


Those staying at Christ ChurchMay enter via Tom Tower at all times.

Stay at Christ ChurchThe Festival has arranged for visitors to stay at ChristChurch, one of Oxford’s largest colleges, in the heart ofthe historic city, and where most of the Festival eventsare taking place.

To book accommodation at Christ Church at specialFestival rates, please go to:

www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com

All Bookings should be made on-line. If you areexperiencing technical difficulties please follow the AnyQuestions link on the website. If you need to enquireabout your booking please follow the instructions onyour confirmation email. For any other enquiries pleasecall our helpline number – 01865 286848 – which isavailable on weekdays between 9.00 am-1.00 pm and2.00 pm-5.00 pm.

If Christ Church is full, accommodation can be bookedat nearby historic colleges.

Christ Church Buttery BarCome and enjoy an evening drink in Christ Church’svery own Buttery Bar (situated next to the Hall).

The opening hours are:

Saturday 2nd 6.45pm to 9.30pmSunday 3rd 5.30pm to 7.00pmMonday 4th 5.30pm to 7.00pmTuesday 5th 6.45pm to 9.30pmWednesday 6th 6.45pm to 9.30pmThursday 7th 6.45pm to 9.30pmFriday 8th 6.45pm to 9.30pm(not open on Saturday 9th)Sunday 10th 11.30am – 3.00pm

The Buttery Bar is open to all Festival goers who canproduce a ticket.

Access for the disabled at Christ ChurchPlease see Accessibility and Safety on pages 202-204for full information. There is a map on page 207showing the disabled access points.

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Both are available in either full- or part-time mode. If you already have a rst degree (in any subject) and are interested in exploring your potential as a writer within a rmly structured and imaginatively sustaining academic framework, please contact us at the address below for further information.

Facing the sea and surrounded to landward by rolling green hills in one of Britain’s most notably unspoiled areas, Aberystwyth provides an inspiring environment for writers. With a 130-year history of academic excellence to its credit, the University blends traditional values with a thoughtfully progressive outlook. The Department of English was rated ‘excellent’ in the most recent teaching assessment exercise.

Further advantages of enrolling at Aberystwyth include access to the National Library of Wales (ve minutes’ walk from the English Department) and a thriving university-based Arts Centre.

For information on the MA and PhD programmes, please contact:Ms Julie Roberts email: [email protected] Tel. (01970) 621946 (International: +44 1970 621946)

For information on the undergraduate degree, please contact:Mrs June Baxter email: [email protected] Tel. (01970) 622534 (International: +44 1970 622534)

Creative Writing at Aberystwyth UniversityIn recent years, Aberystwyth University has established itself as one of the leaders in the expanding �eld of Creative Writing Studies. In addition to an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing, the University o�ers two postgraduate degrees in the subject: the one-year MA in Creative Writing and the three-year PhD in Creative Writing.

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Christ Church has introduced a number of measuresto support visitors with disabilities and furtherimprovements are being actively planned andprogrammed. If you require further detailedinformation, please consult the Christ Church websitewww.chch.ox.ac.uk where an ‘Access to Christ Church’leaflet is available and may be downloaded. You arealso welcome to contact the Christ Church Porters’Lodge (01865 276150 and 01865 276151).

Parking and drop-offBadge holder designated parking is available in OrielSquare (adjacent to Canterbury Gate) and in StAldate’s (immediately to the south of Tom Gate).

Festivalgoers with limited ambulant ability may bedropped off and picked up from the entrance to themarquee, accessed via the cobbled road, 75 yards tothe south of Tom Gate, or at Tom Gate itself forevents taking place in the Junior Common Room,Music Room, Festival Rooms 1 & 2, the McKennaRoom, Hall, the Cathedral and Blue Boar LectureTheatre.

These are strictly drop-off/pickup points only: carparking is not available on the festival site at ChristChurch.

Entrances, Quads and GardensThe main access to the Festival is via the WarMemorial Garden on St Aldate’s. There is rampedaccess within the War Memorial Garden, leading tothe level area of the Broad Walk and the entrance tothe Festival Marquee. Please take care when crossingthe vehicular route that traverses this entrance.

There is ramped access to Tom Quad, from St Aldate’svia Tom Gate. Visitors attending events in the MusicRoom and Junior Common Room are welcome toenter via Tom Gate.

Accessible ToiletsWheelchair user unisex accessible toilets are providedadjacent to the Festival Marquee, at Blue Boar LectureTheatre and in Tom Quad (beneath the Hall). Pleaseask a Festival Volunteer or College Custodian fordirections.

Induction Loops for the Hard of HearingInduction loops for hearing aid users are provided insections of the Master’s Garden Marquee, in Blue BoarLecture Theatre, the Cathedral, Festival Room 2, theLibrary, Corpus Christi College’s MBI Al Jaber Building,Merton College’s TS Eliot Theatre, the Divinity School,Convocation House and the main auditorium of theSheldonian Theatre.

Assistance DogsAssistance dogs are welcome. Other dogs are notpermitted.

Paths and LightingChrist Church’s historic built environment comprisesbuildings from several centuries and therefore notbuilt in accordance with contemporary buildingnorms. Of course buildings and external areas aremaintained to a good standard, but please note thatlevel walking surfaces may not be encounteredeverywhere. The college maintains levels of lightingappropriate to the environment. Festivalgoers areasked to take special care at all times.

Comments and Suggestions and the DisabilityEquality SchemeIn accordance with good practice, Christ Churchoperates a Disability Equality Scheme. This is keptunder active review, taking into account the views ofvisitors and others. An Accessibility Open Day washeld recently to encourage advice and comment frompeople with disabilities, their carers and families.Comments and suggestions are welcomed at anytime, and may be directed to the Steward of ChristChurch by letter, telephone (01865-286580) or e-mail([email protected]).

Fire Safety EvacuationTo ensure safe evacuation of wheelchair users in caseof emergency, it may occasionally be necessary toplace a limit on the number of wheelchair users at agiven event. Evac-chairs are provided and dutyvolunteers trained to assist. A safety briefing for allfestivalgoers is provided at the start of each event.

Venue Accessibility• Cathedral: there is ramped access to and level

going throughout the Cathedral. An induction loopis provided for hearing aid users.

• The Hall and the McKenna Room: these areas areaccessed via a flight of 25 stone steps with a stonebalustrade to each side and a large landing. Fromthe top of the steps, there is a further step into theMcKenna Room and a further two steps into theAnte Hall, from which point level going access tothe Hall is available. A wheelchair user platform lifthas been introduced: this is located beneath theHall stairs and is reached from the level goingupper level of Tom Quad. This lift accommodatesone wheelchair user and a carer or companion.Detailed operating instructions are provided andthe duty Custodian will be glad to provideassistance. (A local portable ramp provideswheelchair user access from the Ante Hall to theMcKenna Room).

• Festival Room 2: this is on the ground floor andramped and stepped access are provided.

• Master’s Garden Marquee: there is level goingaccess from the Broad Walk.

• Music Room and Junior Common Room: althoughlocated at ground floor level, there is steppedaccess to these rooms. Wheelchair users bookingevents are asked to provide advance notification sothat a temporary ramp may be provided.

• The Lee Building including the Freind Room: thisis approached across a cobbled quadrangle andaccessed up a flight of 10 steps. Rooms at upperlevels within the Lee Building are not accessible towheelchair users; stairclimber access to the FreindRoom will gladly be provided: advance notice isrequested so that suitable arrangements can bemade.

• The Kitchen: this is wheelchair user accessiblefrom the kitchen yard, access to which will gladlybe provided, subject to advance notice.

• Christ Church Library: events held in the UpperLibrary are not accessible to wheelchair users. Thereare three steps up from the exterior level going tothe ground floor lobby which is reached through avery heavy inward opening timber door. Ascent tothe Upper Library is by a flight of 40 (21 then 19)smooth stone steps without nosings and with asingle handrail. These steps can be slippery and careshould be taken. An induction loop for hearing aidusers is available.

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spanish and Neapolitan drawings of the Baroque 19 February to 15 May 201119 February to 15 May 2011A wide variety of approaches to drawing is boldlyapparent in this exhibition, with 29 striking works thatillustrate the intensity of Neapolitan and Spanishartists: through a studied naturalism Jusepe da Riberacaptures the subtle gesture of Saint Irene; withintense shadows Luca Giordano evokes the violence ofHercules’ struggle against the Hydra; Mattia Preti’sbold chalk and Salvator Rosa’s rapid lines providecontrasting approaches to casting novel insights onreligious scenes. This exhibition provides valuableinsights into a still little-known corpus of drawings,while also offering a fascinating survey ofseventeenth-century art in Naples whichencompasses the theatricality of Baroque art and theartists’ diverse reflections on the relationship of art tonature.

Opening TimesMonday - Sataurday: 10:30am to 1pm & 2pm to 4:30pmSunday: 2pm to 4:30pm

For further information please contactChrist Church Picture GalleryChrist Church, Oxford Ox1 1DPTel. 01865 276172Email: [email protected]/gallery

Current Exhibition• The MBI Al Jaber Building in Corpus ChristiCollege: there is level going access for wheelchairusers via the college’s principal entrance in MertonStreet. Directional signage is provided within theCorpus Christi College precincts. It will be notedthat, within Christ Church, stepped and rampedaccess from the upper level walkway in Tom Quadinto the Cathedral Garden is provided: part of thisroute is, however, not suitable for wheelchair usersand the directions given above are recommended.An induction loop for hearing aid users is available.

• Christ Church Cathedral School (William WaltonHall): this is on the west side of St Aldate’s,opposite the festival’s main entrance. Level goingaccess to the William Walton Hall is provided viaBrewer Street and the school’s playground.

• The Sheldonian Theatre: this is fully accessible towheelchair users from Broad Street and thenthrough door E to the main hall. Wheelchair usersare normally offered places within the central ‘D’ atground level. A wheelchair user accessible toilet isprovided at ground level close to the entrance. Aninduction loop is system is provided in the mainauditorium for hearing aid users.

• The Bodleian Library (Divinity Schools andConvocation House): badge holder designatedparking is provided in Broad Street. Works arecurrently in hand to improve accessibility. Forfurther information please contact the DisabilityLibrarian, Teresa Pedroso on 01865 283861. Aninduction loop for hearing aid users is available.

• Merton College and the TS Eliot Theatre: levelgoing wheelchair user access is provided fromRose Lane. There are designated wheelchair userspaces within the theatre and the accessible lift isprovided to the upper level. A wheelchair useraccessible toilet is provided. An induction loopsystem is provided for hearing aid users.

• Oriel College (Senior Library): there are 40 stepsto the Senior Library with no lift or stairclimber.Visitors with limited ambulant ability are advisedto call ahead to secure a parking space directlyoutside the College in Oriel Square – 5 spaces.Telephone: 01865 276555.

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BOOKiNG iNFOrMatiON

Prior to the Festival(up to 2pm on Friday 1st April)

Tickets can be bought as follows:

• In person: Tickets can be booked at the Box Officeat Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX12LW. The Box Office opening hours are Monday toSaturday, 10am to 6pm

• By telephone: Please call: 0870 343 1001. The BoxOffice opening hours are Monday to Saturday,10am to 6pm

• Online: Please visit www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com

• NB: No fax bookings can be accepted

All tickets booked prior to Monday 21 March, eitherby telephone or online, will be mailed on Monday 21March. Tickets will not be posted outside the UK.

Tickets booked between Monday 21 March andSunday 27 March will be posted immediately, unlessrequested for collection at the Festival Box Office atChrist Church.

Tickets booked after Sunday 27 March can only becollected from the Festival Box Office at ChristChurch.

A £1.50 handling charge is added to the total cost forall credit/debit card bookings, plus 60p postage chargeif applicable. The online booking fee is 20pence perticket plus 60p postage charge.

Children’s Events

• Ticket prices shown are for children and adults.There are no concessions. Children under 2 yearsold are admitted free.

• Children under 13 years old must be accompaniedby an adult (aged 18 or over); the Festival cannotaccept responsibility for the safety ofunaccompanied children. The accompanying adultmust have a valid ticket.

• Children over 13 cannot be responsible for youngerchildren, although they may attend events alone aslong as they are taken to and collected from thespecific event venue.

During the Festival(from 2pm on Friday 1st April)

Tickets can be bought as follows:

• In person: At the Festival Box Office in theMeadows Marquee, Christ Church.

• By telephone: Please call: 0870 343 1001.

• NB: Tickets will not be available online during theFestival.

All tickets booked by telephone during the Festivalwill be available for collection at the Festival BoxOffice.

A handling charge of £1.50 is added to the total costfor all credit/debit card bookings.

Festival Box Office opening hours are

• Friday 1 April 2pm to 6.30pm

• Saturday 2 April 9am to 6.30pm

• Sunday 3 April 9am to 4.30pm

• Monday 4 April 11am to 6.30pm

• Tuesday 5 April 9am to 8.00pm

• Wednesday 6 April 9am to 8.00pm

• Thursday 7 April 9am to 8.00pm

• Friday 8 April 9am to 6.30pm

• Saturday 9 April 9am to 6.30pm

• Sunday 10 April 9am to 4pm

Immediately prior to events

Any remaining tickets will be on sale at the FestivalBox Office in the Meadows Marquee immediatelyprior to events, and at the door for events at TheSheldonian, Bodleian, Oriel and Merton Colleges.

Concessions and Discounts

• Friends of the Festival receive a £1.00 concessionon tickets to adult events and walks, up to amaximum of 5 tickets.

• Book tickets for 5 or more events in the sametransaction and get a 15% discount (not applicableon dinners).

• Schools and youth groups get a concessionary rateof £1.00 off, plus one in every 15 tickets free.

• Only one reduction applies per ticket.

• No reductions apply to children’s events.

Please note

Disabled access: please check with the Box Office for each event.Unless otherwise stated, events and panel discussions last one hour.

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival reserves the right to alter the programme or substitute writers, if circumstances so dictate. Tickets are not refundable and cannot be exchanged.

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Free public entry every dayEntrance Entrance by the Meadows Gate in St Aldates.

Festival Box Office Ticket Office and Information Desk.

The place to go for information on events, where tofind venues, and everything to make your visit to theFestival as easy and enjoyable as possible.

Plus you can find out how to become a friend of theFestival.

HSBC Premier stand

Blackwell’s Festival BookshopThe extensive Festival Bookshop stocks a full range ofFestival authors’ books, including signed copies fromevents you may have missed.

Book signings in the bookshop after talks and eventsin The Master’s Garden Marquee.

VSIVery short, but perfectly formed ‘soap box’ lectures inthe Blackwell Festival Bookshop every day.

OUP Children’s Writers and Illustrators.

Union Club CaféLocated beyond the Festival Bookshop, – The Bar andCafé – serving delicious food and meals throughoutthe day.

Hendricks Gin TastingLibrary Bar

Presentation of Hendrick’s Gin with complimentarysamples.

Cava and Wine Bar Castillo Perelada pay bar – fine Cavas and Wines fromCatalunya – presented by The Feathers Hotel,Woodstock.

Highland Park WhiskyOn both Weekends of the Festival visit the keynotesarea of the Marquee for free Taster Readings andcomplimentary samples.

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INDEX OF EV

ENTS BY SUBJECT

iNdEx OF EVENtsBy suBJECt

212 213

AFRICA

HRH The Princess Royal 91

ART, ARCHITECTURE ANDDESIGN

Antony Penrose 158

Christopher Butler 79

Christopher Lloyd 66

David Shepherd 132

Deyan Sudjic 70

Does it make a Difference whoFunds the Arts? 72

Jeremy Musson 109

Lucy Worsley 86

Maggi Hambling 94

Manuel Fontån del Junco andChristopher Brown 135

Martin Gayford 51

Matthew Collings 105

Michael Petry 87

The Ashmolean Address: Gilbert & George 50

Tim Gardom, Stephen Greenberg,Martin Kemp and Rick Mather 177

Tom Phillips 34

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS

Adam Sisman and Ion Trewin 138

Carl Boardman 103

Christopher Bigsby 89

D.R. Thorpe, Philip Ziegler, VernonBogdanor and Kenneth O Morgan29

Daisy Hay 45

Edmund de Waal 78

Giles Milton 86

Ingrid Betancourt 64

Jean Baggott 105

Martin Davidson 170

Michael Holroyd 136

Molly Parkin in Conversation 144

Nigel Lawson 76

Peter Conradi and Mark Logue 103

Peter Sissons 153

Ron Moody 189

Rosamund Bartlett 189

Simon Winchester 19

Stefanie Powers 110

Stephen Clarke 23

Tom Renouf and Alistair Urquhart 73

BOOKS AND PUBLISHING

Janet McMullin 102

Nicolas Barker 115

Victoria Barnsley, Cathy Galvin andMarcus du Sautoy 42

CARVERY LUNCHES

184, 185, 188

CATHEDRAL SERVICES

After Eight with Steve Turner 57

Choral Matins with Geoffrey Hill 176

Festival Choral Evensong 93

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Anthony Browne and Joe Browne 27

Anthony Browne, Anne Fine,Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson 20

Antony Penrose 153

Candy Gourlay, Philip Reeve,Lauren St John and Barney Harwood 43

Chartwells’ ‘On your marks, getset, go’ live cookery session 31

Christopher Lloyd 28, 53, 163, 194

Dear Zoo 178

Eoin Colfer 190

Francesca Simon and Steven Butler 177

Giles Andreae 31

Happy Birthday, Peepo! 154, 157

Jan Fearnley 53

Jeremy Strong and Andy Stanton 179

Jo Schofield and Fiona Danks 30

Justin Somper 159

K. A. S. Quinn 168

Kristina Stephenson 184

Marina Boroditskaia (Russia) and

Michael Rosen (UK) 121

Meg Rosoff, Phil Earle and Sally Gardner 55

Michael Rosen, Shappi Khorsandiand Louise Rennison 26

Michelle Magorian 51

Poppy Cat 196

Sarah McIntyre 55

Terry Jones and Michael Foreman 195

Thomas Docherty 163

Trevor Baxendale, Colin Brake,Justin Richards, and Oli Smith 40

CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Anouchka Grose and Julian Baggini 195

Ben Okri 91, 165

Comedy and the Coalition 70

Diane Coyle 23

Elleke Boehmer, Remi Kapo, Simon Woolley 32

Gavin Weightman 135

Geoff Dyer 142

Ian Goldin 33

Katherine Parkinson and Triona Adams 169

Kitty Dimbleby 64

Lewis Wolpert 168

Linda Grant, Ed Howker, Aaron Porter 196

Mike Jay 64

Miranda Glover, Sarah Mukherjee,Sue Saville 164

Nathan Penlington 40

Patrick French 45

Paul Cann, Julia Neuberger andDavid Willetts 92

Peter Hennessy 18

Richard Aldrich, Keith Jeffery,Michael Smith 34

Richard English, David Loyn andPeter Taylor 62

Simon P. Walker 75

Sue Gerhardt, Michael Foley, Ann Leslie 54

Tristram Riley-Smith 133

CRIME FICTION

Ann Cleeves 144

Mark Billingham, Colin Dexter andVeronica Stallwood 88

PD James and Jill Paton Walsh 157

CURRENT AFFAIRS

David Smith 122

Mark Malloch-Brown 55

The Chancellor’s Lecture: By HM King Abdullah II of Jordan 77

The Road to Coalition; 2010 149

Tom Burke and Matt Ridley 155

Will Hutton 183

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Paul Staines,John Kampfner 75

DINNERS

Madhur Jaffrey 173

Sarah Raven and Adam Nicolson 96

Joanne Harris 123

EXPLORATION, TRAVEL ANDTRAVEL HISTORY

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 170

Colin Thubron 28

Hugh Thomson 153

John Gimlette 148

Jonathan Glancey 196

Robin Bayley 190

FAITH AND RELIGION

Session on Justice 74

John Cornwell and David Ranan 137

John Cornwell 130

Justin Barrett 92

Karen Armstrong 56

Simon P. Walker 138

Stephen Law and Alister McGrath 123

FICTION

A S Byatt, Melvyn Bragg, DaisyWaugh and Andrew Holgate 141

Adam Mars-Jones 121

Brian W. Aldiss, Mark Brake and

Stephen R. Lawhead 188

Catherine Hall, Simon Lelic andClare Morgan 156

Christopher Ricks, Jon Stallworthy,

Clare Morgan, BernardO’Donoghue, Jane Draycott andJenny Lewis 171

Daisy Goodwin 104

David Constantine 27

David Lodge 32

David Nicholls 71

Edna O’Brien 172

Elif Shafak 102

Esther Freud and Helena McEwen 94

Hisham Matar 115

Joanne Harris 123, 138

Jonathan Coe and Catherine O’Flynn 62

Kazuo Ishiguro 120

Linda Grant and Rachel Hore 182

Michael Johnson 30

Nicholas Evans 172

Patience Agbabi, Kate Clanchy andPhilip Pullman 19

Paul Bailey and Fay Weldon 51

Paula McLain 152

WordTheatre and The Sunday Times 80, 96, 124

FILM, TELEVISION AND RADIO

Adam Nicolson 178

Alan Yentob 197

Harold Pinter: An Oxford LiteraryFestival Tribute 145

Henry Hitchings 191

Jonty Claypole 184

Michael Waterhouse 154

FOOD AND DRINK

A Guided Tea Tasting with The EastIndia Company 141

Celebrating British Beer 134

Chris Simms 74

John Harris 66, 117

Josceline Dimbleby 22

Ken Hom 197

Madhur Jaffrey and Jessica Harris 131

Prue Leith 116

The Quintessential Anthology of Gin 93

Blandy’s Madeira Masterclass 108

Graham’s Port Masterclass 111

GARDENING

Katherine Swift 92

Mark Crick 102

GARDENING AND GARDENHISTORY

Stephen Harris 41

HIGHLAND PARK

Highland Park Keynotes Readings21, 26, 29, 32, 41, 44, 54, 57,155, 158, 164, 169, 179, 188,194, 198

HISTORY

Ashley Jackson and David Tomkins 54

Christian Wolmar 90

David Gilmour 95

David Starkey 191

Deborah Cadbury 131

Frances Welch 87

George Goodwin 33

Gregory Claeys 63

Jacqueline Yallop 73

John Julius Norwich 89

Julie Summers 72

Kate Colquhoun & Judith Flanders 71

Leif Jerram 67

Michael Wood 148

Niall Ferguson 159

Orlando Figes 31

Philip Mansel 23

Rachel Hewitt 75

Robin Waterfield 114

Simon Sebag Montefiore 65

Tristram Hunt 43

INDEX OF EV

ENTS BY SUBJECT

iNdEx OF EVENtsBy suBJECt

215

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Adrian Goldsworthy 110

Alexandra Harris 130

Ben Crystal and Adam Russ 130

Colin Pinney 155

Elif Batuman 176

Father Nicholas King and GeoffreyStrachan 78

Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood withDaisy Hay and Michele Hanson 40

Hanif Kureishi 42

Jenny Lewis and Yasmin Sidhwa 183

John Carey and D.J. Taylor 177

John Crace & John Sutherland 132

Judy Golding, John Gray, PenelopeLively and Anthony Wall 162

Lyndall Gordon, Eleanor Rawlingand Katharine Towers 152

Melvyn Bragg 114

Michael Dobson 74

Michael Frayn 182

Nicholas Ostler 136

Nicolas Pasternak Slater 40

Orwell vs Kipling 56

Richard Bradford and DJ Taylor 159

Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian 22

Simon Winchester – The EnglishSpeaking Union Lecture 27

William Cash and Lara Feigel 165

William Ivory 158

MUSIC

An Evening of History and Music inChrist Church Cathedral 80, 149

John Spurling 90

NATURE AND THEENVIRONMENT

Franny Armstrong, Benny Peiser,Mark Lynas 133

James Attlee 133

Tim Smit 108

PHILOSOPHY

A C Grayling 44

Anthony Kenny 30

Julian Baggini 89

Sarah Bakewell, Paul Kent and Saul Frampton 142

Simon Blackburn 70

POETRY

Jane Draycott talks to Jem Poster 137

Jasmine Donahaye talks to Jem Poster 63

Kelly Grovier talks to Jem Poster 73

Neil Astley talks to Jem Poster 163

Philip Gross talks to Jem Poster 89

POLITICS AND MEMOIRS

Antony Jay 104

D.R. Thorpe and David Faber 111

David Marquand 29

John Crace & Steve Bell 143

Jonathan Powell and Ross King 145

Matthew Parris & Andrew Bryson 67

Vernon Bogdanor 19

PUBLISHING

Blake Lapthorn Seminar 117

SCIENCE

Alex Bellos 27

Bruce Hood and Martin Jeffrey 86

David Eagleman 156

Frank Close 122

Jill Tarter 79

Jim al-Khalili 18

Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield 95

Peter Atkins 78

Raymond Tallis 41

Science and the Future 52

Ted Nield 87

SCIENCE AND NATURALHISTORY

Patrick Barkham 43

SPORT

John Stern, Simon Wilde andDuncan Hamilton 109

Kathryn McNicoll and Chris Ronaldson 88

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONSAndrew Bowie 117

Andrew Robinson 26

Bill Maguire 65

David Canter 169

David Cottington 157

Elleke Boehmer 134, 143

Frank Close 109

Keith Grint 44

Nick James 63

Owen Davies 31

Peter Atkins 93

Simon Blackburn 76

Stephen Law 73

Veronique Mottier 185

WALKING TOURS

Ashmolean Museum Tours 76, 116, 143

C.S. Lewis Tour 137

Film Oxford 41

Inspector Morse Tour 154, 179

Literary Oxford 53, 163, 191

Oxford Poets 90

WORKSHOP

Carole Angier and Sally Cline 21

Leah Thaxton, Julia Churchill and John Newman 176

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