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We are delighted that FT Weekend is the new title HSBC have renewed their exceptional foundation sponsor of the Oxford Literary Festival. As one of sponsorship, supporting a key programme of events on the greatest and most authoritative newspapers in leadership and women in society and the prestigious the world, FT Weekend provides the festival with a closing dinner at Christ Church, which will be hosted unique global reach and reinforces our major by Antonio Simoes, deputy chief executive of international partnerships with the University of HSBC Bank plc. Oxford, the BBC and HSBC. Blackwell’s have committed vital new resources to This year's festival presents a powerful line-up of the festival, becoming our online as well as on-site novelists including the Nobel Prize Winner from bookseller and sponsoring a large marquee between Turkey, Orhan Pamuk (delivering the Chancellor's the Sheldonian Theatre and the Bodleian Library. Lecture), and five Booker Prize winners: Eleanor The marquee will include the festival bookshop, ticket Catton (2013); John Banville (2005); Margaret office, café and bar – a wonderful social hub and Atwood (2000), who will speak at the HSBC meeting place. festival closing dinner; Ian McEwan (1998), who will deliver the Bodley Lecture; and Ben Okri We welcome The Savoy as our London Hotel partner; (1991), who will give the inaugural Gibraltar the Oxford Martin School as the festival’s ideas partner; Lecture. and thank Ian and Carol Sellars, Sir Martin Smith and Dr Elise Becket Smith, Paul and Marlene Oberschneider, The festival’s opening weekend features many and Eileen and Dr Munir Majid for their generous speakers from the USA for our annual tribute to support of the festival. American literature and culture; while our new partnership with the Kolkata Literary Meet is As the only one of the ‘big four’ literary festivals in celebrated with Indian speakers and events Britain to receive no state or public funding or grant, we during the week. are deeply grateful to all our sponsors and partners who make the festival possible as well as to the festival’s There are again over 500 speakers from more than many voluntary stewards and helpers. 20 countries, and a special day featuring talks on Italian literature and life. FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival has a remarkable atmosphere of excitement, curiosity and revelation. We We greatly appreciate the tremendous support of look forward to sharing it with you over nine days, with the Bodley’s Librarian, Richard Ovenden. The all events staged in some of the most historic and Bodleian Libraries have become the festival’s beautiful university buildings in Europe. cultural partner as a prelude to the opening of the magnificent Weston Building in the Spring of 2015. Sally Dunsmore Festival Director

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Becoming a sponsor of one of the world’s most prestigious literary events was a natural move for our newspaper. We share the festival’s commitment to intelligent and thought-provoking coverage of literature, culture and the arts, and its efforts to bring together some of the finest writers. Our aim is to inspire our readers in all aspects of their lives - from macro-economics to wine choices, from our celebrated book reviews to an intelligent look at global travel, property, style and culture.

We are particularly pleased to bring our classic interview ‘Lunch with the FT’ to the festival, hosting a live edition in the Gothic splendour of the Divinity School. ‘Lunch with the FT’ is a weekend institution, with interviews ranging from film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus. Conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table, these encounters have a relaxed intimacy that often leads to candid conversation – so the ‘live’ version should be a fascinating event.

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HSBC is proud to be the banking partner of the Oxford Literary Festival for a fourth year, once again sponsoring the series on ‘leadership’ and of ‘women in society, past, present and future’.

We are particularly proud to also be associated with the festival’s focus this year on the literature and culture from such diverse parts of the world. We believe that the pursuit of excellence in literature and the arts is mirrored in the service HSBC seeks to provide to its customers around the world.

The closing dinner and the dedicated customer lounge at Christ Church provide HSBC with the opportunity to offer its clients access to high-profile speakers and stimulating events.

We look forward to welcoming all of our guests to Oxford and are pleased to be able to help stage such a memorable festival for the thousands who will be joining us for nine days of exceptional and inspiring talks, debates, lectures and events.

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Patrons Dame Joan Bakewell Professor Colin Blakemore Professor Janet Beer Professor John Carey Professor Richard Dawkins Daisy Goodwin Joanne Harris Baroness James of Holland Park Peter Kemp FESTIVAL TEAM Mark Lawson The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Festival Chief Executive Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC Sally Dunsmore Philip Pullman Dr David Starkey Festival Board Directors Sir Peter Stothard Bruce Thew (Chairman) Ian and Carol Sellars John Harris (President) Graham Benson (Deputy Chairman)

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10 CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S PROGRAMME and and even a author author Sophie Missing adventures, will bring another adventures, and and some very special guests. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Phoenix Comic,The Matilda Matilda Ruby Redfort Ruby Redfort Photos: KT Photos: Bruce McKenzie go McKenzie head to head on thriller writing. In the year that turns we 50, are Dahl Roald celebrating with a including event for songs splendiferous fans, from the hit show There’s a treat There’s for fans of Enid as Blyton too, Kate Alison Gwynn from and Seven Stories, Edwards Books for National Children’s explore the Centre Enid Blyton phenomenon and what her stories mean to children today. Winnie the the Pooh very For we youngest have a picnic songs with and stories, honey sandwiches and a special party with Dick Miffy Bruna’s with stories, bags goody and craft, fun. a there’s comic-making workshop from Finally, own Oxford’s surprise appearance from surprise Merlin (thanks to author and Crossley-Holland Kevin the Story Museum). really There is something for everyone. Director Director of young programme people’s Andrea Andrea Reece Lauren Child, creator Lauren of Child, the Charlie and Lola books and new should Teenagers touch of style and glamour. definitely get out of bed to hear Cherub author Robert Muchamore and won War HorseWar series series with to the festival. to the festival. , Oliver and Philip the , Seawings illustrator Martin Brown, and Martinillustrator the Brown, Noughts Noughts and Crosses Goth Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse CHILDREN’S ANDYOUNG PROGRAMME PEOPLE’S author Michael Morpurgo. Malorie Blackman author Michaelwill be Morpurgo. discussing her Carnegie Award; Book Children’s this Costa year’s Almond and and Medal winners Meg David Rosoff; Prize winner Dahl Roald Liz Funny Pichon. Guaranteed to have children laughing in the aisles is Horrible Histories genius team behind Lauren wildlife lovers, and For Reeve Sarah McIntyre. founder of the McKenna, Born Virginia St John joins to tell amazing Foundation, animal Free stories. There is There lots to delight and inspire on the young Oxford Weekend of programme people’s the FT 2014 with Literary Festival from events for everyone tots to and teens, some of the very best children’s authors of today. are proud We to be welcoming both the current Malorie as Blackman, Laureate, a Children’s special and guest, Laureate former and Children’s Chancellor Chancellor of and University Brookes Oxford director of Liberty Shami Michael Chakrabarti. is his bringing specially devised musical adaptation of MozartThe Question authors include Other Chris award-winning Riddell, whose book Christ Church is the most magnificent and architecturally imposing of all the Oxford colleges. Cardinal’s College was founded by Thomas Wolsey – Lord Chancellor of England – in 1525. Following Wolsey’s fall from power, it was re- founded by King Henry VIII in 1546 – as a unique dual foundation of both college and Cathedral. Celebrated old members include 13 British Prime Ministers (see list opposite), John Locke, William Penn, John Wesley, Lewis Carroll and W H Auden.

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The Great Hall – built by Wolsey, and the venue Christ Church today is one of the foremost for the festival closing dinner, talks and tastings colleges in the University of Oxford – with – is the largest Tudor college hall in either undergraduate and postgraduate students from Oxford or Cambridge. home and overseas reading a great range and variety of academic subjects. It has a major During the English Civil War, Oxford was the contingent of research fellows and leading Royalist capital, with the King and court based scholars. The Cathedral (and College Chapel) at Christ Church (1642-1646). King Charles I serves the diocese of Oxford, as well as the addressed both houses of the Royalist student body – and the world-famous Christ Parliament in the Great Hall – which was the Church Cathedral Choir reflects a tradition focus for all court pomp and ceremony. The Hall established by Cardinal Wolsey, who appointed also provided the setting for Hogwarts Hall in John Taverner as the first organist. the Harry Potter films.

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10am / Corpus Christi College / £6 Ages 5 -9 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Have some piratical fun with Winnie the Witch and her The distinguished critic, illustrator, the one and only Korky Paul. Join him for an reviewer and broadcaster, energy-filled event of quick sketching, story book Professor John Carey, talks adventure and plenty of audience participation. to the Sunday Times chief fiction reviewer, Peter Korky Paul is one of the best-known and most popular Kemp, about his new illustrators of children’s books and is particularly memoir, The Unexpected known for the Winnie the Witch series which has Professor. Carey describes enthralled children since the first was published in the events that formed him 1987 and won the Children’s Book Award. He has – his escape from the Blitz illustrated many successful books for a lot of the big to an idyllic rural village, publishing firms. army service in Egypt and an academic career that saw him elected to Oxford’s oldest English professorship at the age of 40. He portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford and recounts his inspiring meetings with the likes of Auden, Graves, Larkin and Heaney. Carey is emeritus Merton Professor of English at the University of Oxford. He is well known for his provocative take on cultural issues in works such as The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good are the Arts? He is the author of many works on English literature, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Korky Paul Thackeray and a guide to 20th-century literature, Pure Pleasure. He is chief book reviewer for The Sunday Times and has been a reviewer for the paper for 40 years.

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18 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 22 SATURDAY Melanie King Alastair Lack S O L D O U T

Secrets in a dead Fish: e World Film Oxford with Alastair Lack War I Spying Game MARCH 2014 MARCH 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 11am / Meet outside Balliol College Lodge, How did German Broad Street / £25 intelligence agents use From Charley’s Aunt to the latest episode of Lewis, a dead fish to convey Oxford has proved a magnate for filmmakers and critical information to filmgoers alike. Whether it is a Bollywood spectacular their operatives? What or Harry Potter, the streets and quadrangles of Oxford did an advertisement are a familiar background to numerous films. In this for a dog in the Times walk, explore the city that has provided the setting for have to do with the films as diverse as The Golden Compass and A Yank at movement of British Oxford and hear about ‘film’ Oxonians such as troops into Egypt? And Rosamund Pike, Emma Watson, Kris Kristofferson and why did British officers Rowan Atkinson. The walk lasts two hours and ends at suddenly become Christ Church. suspicious of the trousers hanging on a Alastair Lack Belgian woman’s washing line? Throughout World War I, spymasters and their networks of secret agents developed many clever – and sometimes comical – methods of covert communication. Stacks of bread in a bakery window, puffs of smoke from a chimney, and even woollen pullovers were all used to pass on secret messages that were decipherable only to the well-trained eye. Melanie King will share some of these clever and long- forgotten ruses, interspersed with the stories of the spies themselves.

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Photo:Smith Gavin of a free imagination. profoundly brain-damaged five- year-old daughter who can do Goldberg has received the Theodore Roethke Poetry nothing for herself to write a Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The moving first novel, The Mouse- University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry Proof Kitchen. It tells the story of Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She is currently professor of Anna, a chef, and her husband, English at Arizona State University. Goldberg also Tobias, a composer, who are appears at the Poetry in the Making master class at about to realise their dream to Gill Hornby the Rothermere American Institute. move to France, where Anna will work in a cookery school, when Beckian Fritz Goldberg they have a daughter, Freya, who is born with ‘brains like scrambled eggs’. Gill Hornby’s first novel, The Hive, was the subject of a heated auction among publishing Simon Wroe houses. It is set at the school gate and is a wickedly funny study of female friendships and group politics. The school is St Ambrose Primary but the story Presented by This event is part of revolves around the friendships, betrayals, power games the American strand and lunches of the mothers. at this year’s festival. Simon Wroe is a food and culture writer and former chef. His first novel, Chop Chop, follows the fortunes of a young graduate forced to take a lowly chefing job at a gastropub where his fellow workers are crooks and his boss a sadist. Hore is author of The Dream House, The Memory Garden and The Glass Painter’s Daughter, shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year 2010. Her most recent novel is The Silent Tide. In association with FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES

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THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY LECTURE Neill Cameron Jewell Parker rhodes talks to Jessica harris e Phoenix Comic Workshop e Fabulous Miss Marie: New Orleans’ Legendary Voodoo Queen 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar Exhibition 4pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Room / £6 Ages 7-12 Renowned American novelist Dr Jewell Parker Rhodes talks to culinary historian Dr Jessica Harris about New Orleans’ legendary

19th-century voodoo queen, SATURDAY Marie Laveau. Rhodes’ highly acclaimed first novel, Voodoo Queens, recreated the story of Laveau, who exerted an extraordinary influence over both black and white followers. There is little known for certain about her life. She was a hairdresser with wealthy MARCH 2014 MARCH clients and it is believed she mixed Roman Catholic beliefs with African spirits and religious ideas. It is thought she was able to exert power by acquiring inside information on her wealthy clients. Rhodes’ novels on the themes of history, African- American spirituality, race and gender. have won awards such as the American Book Award and the Black Voyage through deepest darkest space in a giant space Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary ship . . . that is also a cat! Battle with pirates . . . on the Excellence. She is Piper Endowed Chair of the Virginia back of gargantuan prehistoric monsters. Meet the G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State recently exhumed . . . for a quick interview. Hang on, University. Harris is the author of 11 cookbooks these are not delirious dreams, but a small sample of documenting the foods and foodways of the African the adventures waiting in The Phoenix weekly story Diaspora including Hot Stuff: A Cookbook in Praise of comic. the Piquant and Sky Juice and Flying Fish: Traditional Make sure that you join our workshop with the Caribbean Cooking. This is an opportunity to see two brilliant Neill Cameron (artist of Pirates of Pangaea), great US writers who are flying over especially to be at where you can learn some of his top-secret, comic- the festival. creating tips! Think tyrannosaur trapeze artists, robotic rhinos or even medieval monkeys. There is plenty of Jewell Parker Rhodes inspiration for everyone, so sign up for the comic creation fun.

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29 SAtUrdAy 22MArCh 2014 rachel Johnson and Paul Blezard Bruce hood introduced by Stephen Law Saving Grace and e Lady and the e Self Illusion: Why ere is No revamp you Inside your head 4pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Hall / £11 Editor of The Lady and author Rachel Johnson is Experimental pysychologist Bruce Hood argues that the reunited with Paul Blezard, the literary editor she was self is an illusion but one that we cannot live without. famously seen to sack in a Channel 4 fly-on-the wall He says most of us believe that we exist as a self – an documentary, The Lady and the Revamp, made shortly internal individual who resides inside our bodies, after her arrival in 2009. Things could get heated as making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free the pair lock horns over the past. Johnson produced will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self her own story of her first year as editor, A Diary of The inhabits the body – the 'me' inside me – is compelling Lady, My First Year as Editor, in which she describes and inescapable. This is how we interact as a social how she was brought in by the owner to give the animal and judge each other's actions and deeds. But traditional magazine a makeover to help it to that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threat compete with modern women’s magazines. Blezard, from science as our understanding of the brain meanwhile, has written his own fictional account of advances. Rather than a single entity, the self is really a his time at the magazine, Saving Grace, which he constellation of mechanisms and experiences that create the illusion of the internal you. We only emerge describes as a comic novel in the tradition of P G as a product of those around us as part of the different Wodehouse and Tom Sharpe. The novel has been storylines we inhabit from the cot to the grave. It is an pitched on the author crowdfunding website, ever-changing character, created by the brain to Unbound, and will be published when the target provide a coherent interface between the multitude of number of pledges have been met. internal processes and the external world demands that Johnson is known for her wickedly funny novels, The require different selves. Mummy Diaries, Notting Hell and its sequel Shire Hell Hood is director of the Bristol Cognitive Development – winner of the Literary Review’s infamous Bad Sex in Centre in the experimental psychology department at Fiction Award in 2008. Blezard hosted Between the the University of Bristol. He recently published The Self Lines on Oneword radio for nine years, during which Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity. time he interviewed more than 1,600 authors. He regularly interviews authors at literary festivals at Bruce Hood home and abroad, including at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.

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30 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 22 SATURDAY Meg rosoﬀ Adriantinniswood talks to Nicolette Jones how I Write Now rainborowes: One Family’s Quest to Build a New England MARCH 2014 MARCH 4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £6 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Ages: teenagers and adults Acclaimed historian Adrian How I Live Now was published in 2004 to huge critical Tinniswood follows one acclaim and has now been made into a major feature mid-17th-century family film. Since then, novelist Meg Rosoff has published a as its members struggle substantial work of fiction approximately every 18 with civil war and social months, each one different from the last. Hers is the upheaval in England and most condensed and spectacular writing career of the help to forge a new world new millennium. Rosoff talks to the consultant director across the Atlantic in New of the festival’s children and young people’s England. The Rainborowes, programme, Nicolette Jones, about her novels, a family of shipmasters, including her latest, Picture Me Gone, and the recently soldiers, entrepreneurs filmed How I Live Now. and idealists, were at the centre of one of the most Photo: Zoe NorfolkPhoto:Zoe Meg Rosoff tumultuous periods in western history between 1630 and 1660. Through their eyes, Tinniswood paints a picture of both the brutal Civil War and the birth of the New World. Tinniswood is a social and architectural historian. He is visiting fellow in heritage at Bath Spa University and the author of many books, including Pirates of Barbary and The Verneys, which was shortlisted for the BBC Sponsored by Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Photo:RogersHelen AdrianTinniswood In association with FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES

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31 SAtUrdAy 22MArCh 2014 Peter Snow robert harris talks to John Gapper

When Britain Burned the An Oﬃcer and a Spy White house 6pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £15-50 6pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Bestselling thriller writer Robert Harris talks about his One of Britain’s best-known latest novel, An Officer and a Spy, set in late 19th- journalists and television news century France. Harris has turned to one of the most presenters Peter Snow takes a famous miscarriages of justice in history, the Dreyfus look at events that saw British affair, for the backdrop to his latest work. It is a troops enter and set fire to scandal, with a rogue intelligence agency, justice the White House in corrupted in the name of national security, and Washington DC. It was August government cover-up, that has echoes today. 1814 and the US army had Army officer Georges Picquart witnesses the just been defeated in battle convicted spy Capt Alfred Dreyfus being publicly outside Washington. The humiliated. He is promoted to the shadowy President and his wife had intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus but enough time to pack their begins to realise that there is something corrupt at belongings and escape before the heart of it. the British army entered. The invaders found dinner still laid Harris is author of eight bestselling novels including out on the dining table. Fatherland, Enigma, The Ghost and The Fear Index. Several have been filmed, including The Ghost Writer Snow tells of the changing (The Ghost) directed by Roman Polanski and starring fortunes of both sides in this Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and war, which inspired the writing Olivia Williams. of the American national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner. He describes the Robert Harris talks to John Gapper, FT business colourful personalities on both sides, including Britain’s columinist and novelist. fiery Admiral Cockburn and President James Madison and his courageous and determined wife Dolley. Snow was appointed ITN diplomatic and defence correspondent in 1966 and reported from all over the world. He moved to the BBC in 1979 and was one of the first and regular presenters on Newsnight when it started in 1980. He is particularly well known for his contribution to the BBC’s election coverage.

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44 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 SUNDAY Jesmyn Ward Margaret MacMillan talks to Jewell Parker rhodes Men We reaped e War at Ended Peace MARCH 2014 MARCH

12 noon / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Hall / £11 Novelist Jesmyn Ward lost Multi-award-winning historian and writer Margaret five men in her life to MacMillan provides a fascinating portrait of Europe drugs, accidents, suicide between 1900 and the outbreak of World War I. Europe and the bad luck that had been enjoying its most peaceful century since the follow people living in fall of the Roman Empire and many felt the continent poverty in the deep south was heading for a happy and prosperous future. of America, particularly MacMillan brings to life the military, political and black men. Here she talks business leaders who failed to stop the descent into to fellow US novelist Dr war and explains how the decisions of a few powerful Jewell Parker Rhodes people changed the course of history. about the story of her life MacMillan is warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and family in Men We and author of Paris 1919 – winner of the Duff Cooper Reaped. It is a story of Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, and the entrenched racism and Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History – Nixon and Mao and grinding poverty and of men who can do no right and Women of the Raj. women who stand in for family. Ward’s mother cleaned the homes of wealthy white people so she could send Margaret MacMillan her daughter to school.

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45 SunDAy 23MArCh 2014 Kate Edwards and Alison Gwynn Tom Standage

Enid Blyton: Mystery, Magic and Writing on the Wall: Social Media – Midnight Feasts e First 2000 years 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £6 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Ages 7 - 11 Writer and digital editor Tom Standage argues that there is nothing new about social media – people have been using it for thousands of years. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and their peers are recent forms of instant, critical communication that have sprung up at key times throughout human history, and they connect us directly to history. Standage highlights wall posts on actual walls in ancient villas, how Cicero’s readers would share his letters and how readers in the Elizabethan court created and shared personal profiles. And he shows what John Milton did for today’s blogger and how poems passed along social networks undermined France’s ancien régime. Standage is digital editor at the Economist and editor Enid-Blyton answering letters at Green Hedges in chief of economist.com. He is author of six history books including An Edible History of Humanity and A Were you a member of The Famous Five Club? Did you History of the World in Six Glasses, a New York Times dream of adventures with the Secret Seven and bestseller. escaping into strange and enchanted worlds at the top of Tom Standage The Magic Faraway Tree? Join Kate Edwards and Alison Gwynn from Seven Stories, National Centre for Children’s Books for a discussion exploring the Enid Blyton phenomenon, discovering how she developed a love of reading across generations and Kate Edwards what her stories mean to children today. Seven Stories is the custodian of a unique Enid Blyton collection of original typescripts and illustrations. All of the material purchased by Seven Stories in 2010 came from the estate of Gillian Baverstock, Blyton's elder daughter. Despite Enid Blyton’s huge output and immense Alison Gwynn popularity, there is no other substantial archive of her work in a public institution anywhere in the UK.

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46 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 SUNDAY rachel hore and Jane ynne Simon usherwood Chaired by David Freeman historical Fact and Fiction European union:

A Very Short Introduction 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 1.15pm / Blackwell's Marquee / Free Two novelists discuss their latest work and the way Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short they weave history into them. Photo:Ring Jonathan talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell’s Marquee. Rachel Hore is author of The Dream House, The Memory Politics lecturer at the University of Surrey Simon Garden and The Glass Painter’s Usherwood looks at the early history of the European Daughter, shortlisted for Union and how it has developed today, the workings of Romantic Novel of the Year its institutions, and the interplay between the 2010. Her most recent novel eurosceptics and the federalists. is The Silent Tide, set in the world of London publishing Simon Usherwood past and present. She is well known for stories that grippingly entwine the past and present. Rachel Hore Photo:FrantzescoKangaris Jane Thynne is author of The Winter Garden, a story about dangerous liaisons and torn loyalties in pre-war Nazi Sponsored by Germany. Clara Vine finds herself in the world of the secret services in Berlin after travelling to Germany to find work as an actress. Thynne is a journalist who has worked at the BBC, the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and The Independent. Jane Thynne

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47 SunDAy 23MArCh 2014 Anita Shreve talks to Paul Blezard Gabrielle rifkind talks to Susie Orbach e Lives of Stella Bain e Fog of Peace: e human Face of Conﬂict resolution 2pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25 Bestselling American Photo:FeingoldDeborah 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 novelist Anita Shreve Psycotherapist and flies in from the Middle East analyst United States to talk Gabrielle Rifkind talks to about her new work, psychoanalyst, writer The Lives of Stella Bain. and critic Susie Orbach Shreve is the author of about a new approach 17 novels that have to end the cycle of sold millions violence in places such worldwide, including as Syria. In The Fog of Rescue, A Change in Peace, she and her Altitude, Testimony, co-author, UN diplomat and The Pilot’s Wife. Giandomenico Picco, say Her novel, Resistance, that this new approach was turned into a needs to recognise movie of the same geopolitical complexities name starring Bill but also to understand how people think. They argue Paxton and Julia Ormond. that understanding your opponent is the most The Lives of Stella Bain is set against the backdrop of important condition of conflict resolution, as it is not World War I and follows a woman searching for the institutions that make peace or war, but individuals. secret of her identity. The American woman wakes Rifkind is a specialist in conflict resolution and has in a field hospital in northern France to the smell of many years’ experience of promoting dialogue behind gas and gangrene and the sound of men in pain. She the scenes, particularly in the Israel-Palestine conflict. has an almost complete loss of memory, She is director of the Middle East programme at remembering only her name, Stella Bain, and that Oxford Research Group and a regular contributor to she can drive an ambulance. She makes her way to national newspapers. London in a quest to find out what made her leave her tranquil New England home to serve on the Gabrielle Rifkind front. This event is part of the American strand at this year’s festival.

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48 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 SUNDAY John Campbell Ben Outhwaite

roy Jenkins: A Well-rounded Life ‘A Battleﬁeld of Books’:

Cambridge, Oxford and the 2014 MARCH Lewis-Gibson Collection 2pm / Bodleian: Convocation House / £11 Biographer John Campbell explains why Roy Jenkins 2pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 was the best Prime Minister we never had. Although he In August 2013 Cambridge University Library and the never reached 10 Downing Street, Jenkins was behind Bodleian put to rest more than 100 years of bitter some of the most seminal reforms of the 20th century. rivalry over a vast trove of manuscripts from an He drove through decriminalisation of homosexuality Egyptian synagogue, the famous Cairo Genizah, and and legalisation of abortion, abolished theatre joined together to purchase for £1m one of the first censorship, introduced the first anti-discrimination collections of Genizah fragments. Acquired in the laws, reformed the police and courts, played a decisive 1890s by two remarkable and intrepid sisters, Agnes role in achieving EU membership for the UK and Lewis and Margaret Gibson, it led to the discovery of served as the first and only British president of the the world’s greatest collection of Jewish manuscripts, a European Commission. His founding of the Social medieval archive like no other. Democrat Party led to the formation of today’s Liberal Democrats and paved the way for Tony Blair’s New Dr Ben Outhwaite, head of the Taylor-Schechter Labour. On top of that, he was a prolific writer, had a Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, genius for friendship and enjoyed an unconventional tells the story. private life. Ben Outhwaite Campbell is the author of many biographies including one of Edward Heath, which won the 1994 NCR Award, and The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady.

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54 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME SUNDAY Michael Broers Tom Burns

napoleon: A new Biography Our necessary Shadow: e nature and Meaning of Psychiatry 2014 MARCH 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 Professor Michael Broers uses Napoleon’s own The UK’s leading expert in psychiatry Professor Tom uncensored words for the first time to throw fresh light Burns describes the ideological battleground on the life of the French leader. Volume one of his new surrounding psychiatry and explains why psychiatry is biography is the first in any language to make use of a essential to explaining ourselves. Burns says that new version of Napoleon’s correspondence compiled psychiatry is a polemical battleground – an instrument by the Fondation Napoléon to replace the sanitised of social control or barbaric practice on one hand, and version published under the Second Empire. Broers potentially a lasting solution to mental illness on the reveals a man of intense emotion, iron discipline, acute other. Burns reviews the history of psychiatry and says intelligence and boundless energy. He tells how that, for all its flaws, it represents our best attempts to Napoleon rose to power through sheer determination, relieve human suffering. ruthlessness, and careful calculation. Burns is professor of social psychiatry at the University Broers is professor of Western European history at the of Oxford and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed University of Oxford and author of The Napoleonic articles. Empire in Italy, 1796-1814, winner of the Grand Prix Napoléon prize, and Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Tom Burns Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions.

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55 SunDAy 23MArCh 2014 Sally Bayley, Suzie hanna and Beckian Goldberg Poetry in the Making: e Shared Stories of Sylvia Plath and Ted hughes A Special Afternoon Created by e rothermere American Institute 2pm – 5pm / The Rothermere American Institute / £25

Poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes did not only share a marriage: they shared myths, stories and imagery. They shared voices and settings, and with this material they created dynamic words and images. Influenced by the traditions of theatre and the plastic arts, both poets arouse complex emotional and mental responses. This three-hour master class will explore the relationship between poetry and the moving image in the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Animator Suzie Hanna and poetry expert Sally Bayley will engage in the exciting relationship between images on screen Sally Bayley Suzie Hanna and on the page. Working closely with published and rare unpublished poetry manuscripts, the class will Hanna is professor of explore the process of translating the word and image animation education at on the page to a two and three-dimensional moving Norwich University of image. The practice of object theatre will be a central the Arts. She is a component of the class. Participants will work with practising animator who objects, lights and lenses as a means of opening up the has trained in puppetry dense language of poetry. Tutors will demonstrate how performance. She works the creation of miniature theatrical worlds – worlds in collaboration with built from objects – can offer a new way of thinking artists, musicians, poets about metaphor. and academics to create films and projections in Prize-winning poet Beckian Goldberg will lead a closing diverse media. Beckian Goldberg reflection on the role of myth, story and metaphor in her poetry. Goldberg is the author of several volumes of poetry. She has received the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The Master class was developed at the Rothermere The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The American Institute Summer School in 2013 and this University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry course is designed to extend creative thinking and Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. Goldberg is currently confidence in your relationship to poetry. Numbers are professor of English at Arizona limited to 30. The price includes tea and cake and an State University. opportunity to talk informally to Bayley, Hanna and Goldberg. This event is part of the American strand at this The Rothermere American Institute is the foremost year’s festival. academic institution outside America for teaching and research in US history, culture, literature and politics. The institute aims to promote within and beyond In association with Oxford a greater public and academic understanding of the culture and politics of the United States. Bayley is a teaching and research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute. She has published two books on Sylvia Plath’s visual poetics. For the past seven years she has collaborated with Hanna in Rothermere American Institute creating several films responding to poetry. Oxford’s American Home

56 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 SUNDAY Miﬀy Martin Kemp

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A Talk and Guided Tour with Drinks 2014 MARCH 2pm / Christ Church: Blue 2.30pm / Trinity College: Danson Room / £15 Boar Exhibition Room / £6 Renowned art historian Professor Martin Kemp pays Ages 4+ tribute to the masterpiece of art and architecture that Everyone’s favourite bunny is Trinity College chapel and offers a guided tour of its Miffy has a special birthday beauties. Kemp has long admired the chapel of his to celebrate in 2014! Come home college, and it is the subject of his latest book. and party with her at this He argues that Ralph Bathurst, the 16th-century special event. There will be president of the college, is the effective ‘author’ of the stories, songs, games and chapel. The interior of the chapel is renowned for much more! having one of the most integrated collections of sculpture and painting of any chapel in Britain. It The small rabbit, includes altar carvings by Grinling Gibbons and a Miffy, was created ceiling painting of Christ in Glory by Pierre Berchet. by Dutch artist The talk will be followed by the opportunity to enjoy a Dick Bruna nearly 70 glass of wine and to visit the chapel with Kemp. years ago. The series has sold more than 85 million Kemp is emeritus professor in the history of art at the copies, and Miffy has University of Oxford and an honorary fellow of Trinity featured in two television College. He is a world authority on Leonardo da Vinci series and a feature and his previous books include Leonardo and Christ to length film. Coke: How Image Becomes Icon. This event lasts one hour 45 minutes. Sponsored by Photo:BoyleMarie Martin Kemp

57 SunDAy 23MArCh 2014 LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME Chris riddell Luke Johnson

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse Start it up: Why running your Own Business is Easier than you ink 4pm / Corpus Christi College / £6 Ages 7+ 4pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 Join the multi-award- Luke Johnson has a personal fortune estimated at winning author and £120m built up by being one of Britain’s most illustrator Chris Riddell successful tycoons, including spells as chairman of as he take readers into Channel 4 and of Pizza Express, which he grew from the magical world of 12 restaurants to more than 250. Here he talks about his acclaimed new finding the right business idea, how to source funds, novel, Goth Girl and the and how to get the best out of people you meet on Ghost of the Mouse. the way. Above all, he argues that running your own Meet the characters business is not as tough as you might think. from his beloved Johnson is chairman of Risk Capital Partners and the novels, find out the Royal Society of Arts. He writes columns for the inspiration behind his Financial Times and owns Giraffe and Patisserie Valerie. writing and drawing and see the different Luke Johnson tools of his trade. With lots of artistic tips, this is a must-see event for any budding artist. Riddell is an artist and political cartoonist for the Observer. He is well known for collaborations with author Paul Stewart on books such as Muddle Earth. He writes and illustrates the award-winning OTTOLINE young fiction series and holds a Nestlé Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals. Sponsored by

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58 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 WOMEN IN SOCIETY SUNDAY Beltrán Domecq helen Taylor and Janet Beer

Sherry uncovered: A history and 75 years of Gone With the Wind Guided Tasting 2014 MARCH 4pm / Christ Church: Hall / £20 4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Beltrán Domecq tells the 3,000-year history of sherry Two scholars of American literature and leads a guided tasting of some fine examples. He discuss the enduring appeal of looks at the solera system, how blends work, the Gone With the Wind, one of the different types of sherry, their evolution during the most successful and fêted ageing process, how best to drink different sherries and books and films of all time. how they pair with local and international dishes. Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 bestseller became the supreme Domecq comes from a long line of sherry and Jerez triumph of Hollywood’s golden brandy producers on both his mother’s and his father’s era, winning eight Oscars, side. He is a professionally trained oenologist and has including one for British actress worked for Williams Humbert Bodgeas and for the Vivien Leigh. 25 years ago, in Domecq Bodegas. He has led educational tastings In Scarlett’s Women: Gone With Spain, England, United States, Holland and Canada and the Wind and its Female Fans, has now written a new book about the history of Professor Helen Taylor set out sherry and its nature today, Sherry Uncovered. Domecq to analyse what was so special is the grantee – person responsible for ensuring the about Gone With the Wind and Royal Warrant is used correctly – for Queen Elizabeth why it was adored and revered II’s Royal Warrant for Domecq and Harvey’s sherries. by women. Today, in the 75th anniversary year of the film, Beltrán Domecq she discusses with fellow American literature scholar, Professor Janet Beer, women’s special relationship to this iconic work. Taylor is professor of English at the University of Exeter and has written extensively on women’s writing and popular culture. Beer is vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and has published widely on late 19th and early 20th-century American and Canadian Sponsored by literature and culture. This event is part of the American strand at this year’s festival. Festival London Hotel Partner

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60 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 23 SUNDAY William Allen THETHE MMAGAZINEAGGAAZ Classical Literature: A Very Short FFOROR WOMENWO

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61 SunDAy 23MArCh 2014 Lucy Mangan and Philip Ardagh. Chaired by nicolette Jones

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5.30pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £6-£15 Ages 9-12 As the world celebrates 50 whipplescrumptious years of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we have a truly splendid event for all fans of Roald Dahl (whatever your age). Come and join Lucy Mangan, Guardian columnist and author of Inside Charlie’s Chocolate Factory, and author and Roald Dahl Funny Book prize winner, Philip Ardagh, for a session of Roald Dahl story-telling and discussion, chaired by Nicolette Jones, children’s books editor of The Sunday Times. We are delighted to announce too that special musical accompaniment will be provided by Matilda, star of the RSC’s West End smash hit show. This is guaranteed to be a gloriumptious event, we suggest you snap up a ticket now.

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62 Creative Writing Course at Corpus Christi College, Oxford Saturday 22nd to Friday 28th March 2014

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A five-day college based residential course led by novelist and poet Professor Jem Poster, and award-winning novelist Anjali Joseph. Course includes ten one-hour masterclasses and lunches and dinners with leading writers, publishers and agents including: Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat Ben Okri, Booker Prize winning novelist Jacqueline Yallop, author of Obedience Jewell Parker Rhodes, prizewinning African-American novelist Luigi Bonomi, founder-director of the LBA Agency Lee Brackstone, Publishing Director of Faber and Faber

Based in the beautiful and historic Corpus Christi College, a remarkable opportunity to experience life as a member of a creative community. Includes tuition, accommodation and all meals – taken in the 16th century hall. Maximum numbers 30 – places go quickly. To book see: oxfordliteraryfestival.org

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Champagne Evening Tour Southern Sunday Supper at the Bodleian 2014 MARCH 7pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £45 7.30pm / Oxford Brookes Restaurant / £95

Spend an exclusive evening as a guest of the Bodleian Join Jessica B Harris and Photo: TonyCook after the library has closed for the day. You will enjoy Jesmyn Ward for dinner in Champagne and canapés in the dramatic 15th-century the award-winning Brookes Divinity School and, during the evening, experienced Restaurant in Headington, guides will take groups of guests to see inside the Oxford, to celebrate the oldest part of the library, the atmospheric Duke culinary culture of New Humfrey’s Library, and to see the stately Upper Orleans. Drawing on its Reading Rooms with its famous painted frieze. There African, Spanish, French and will also be several historic books from the 17th, 18th Italian heritage, the cuisine of and 19th centuries on display. Louisiana maintains a sense of place like no other in the Presented by Jesmyn Ward This event lasts two hours United States. The dinner includes; brandy milk punch, sazerac or Bodleian Libraries bourbon and ginger ale on UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD arrival; savouray calas, okra Festival Cultural Partner stuffed with goats cheese (deep fried), devilled eggs and ham biscuits; roast ham with cracklin’, fried chicken and gravy, served with Dr Jessica B. Harris candied sweet potatoes, collard greens, black-eyed peas and rice; pecan pie or bread pudding; café brulôt with toasted pecans. Our menu has been designed by Harris, of City University New York, one of the most admired food writers in the United States. Her many books, including High on the Hog and Hot Stuff: A Cookbook in Praise of the Piquant, track the food and food-ways of the African-American Diaspora. Ward is author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award for fiction. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama. Ward and Harris both appear at other festival events. This event is part of the American strand at this year’s festival. Presented by

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Storming the Eagle’s nest: hitler’s e ark Before noah: War in the alps decoding the Story of the Flood 12 noon / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Award-winning biographer Jim Ring tells the little- British Museum expert Irving Finkel explains how the known story of war in the Alps during World War II. discovery of an ancient tablet is challenging our view Hitler built his Alpine headquarters, the Eagle’s Nest, in of ancient history. The Babylonian cuneiform tablet the Bavarian Alps, from where he conceived and was brought into the museum by a member of the directed the war. Ski resorts were turned into training public in 2008. It proved to date from 1850BC and told grounds for mountain warfare and concentration the Babylonian story of the flood, including camps were opened in Alpine valleys. The Alps were instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. also home to British spies and resistance fighters and The discovery set Finkel on the trail of more evidence witnessed deeds of great courage. Ring explains how about the flood and allowed him to throw new and the Alps resisted the Nazis and how the allies and the exciting light on the ancient story. Red Army raced each other to find Hitler’s Alpine Finkel is assistant keeper of Ancient Mesipotamian retreat. script, languages and cultures at the British Museum. Ring is also author of Erskine Childers, winner of the He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on Marsh Prize for biography, and of How the English Made tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. the Alps. His story of Cold War submariners, We Come Unseen, won the Mountbatten Prize. Irving Finkel

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68 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 24 MONDAY John crace Klaus dodds

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a Very Short Introduction 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 1.15pm / Blackwell's Marquee / Free Guardian journalist John Crace brings his witty Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short parodies of the written word bang up to date in The talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The Digested 21st Century. Each week in the Guardian, talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell's Marquee. Crace takes a published work, whether a novel by a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society Professor Booker winner or a cookery book by Nigella Lawson, Klaus Dodds highlights the main issues facing the and reduces it to a few hundred words, capturing the Antarctic today. He explains how globalisation means tone of the writer and gently sending them up along the continent is increasingly involved in a wider circuit the way. In Brideshead Abbreviated, he captured the of ideas, goods, people, trade and governance, all of classics of the 20th century. The Digested 21st Century which have an impact on its future. Dodds is professor is his take on this century so far. of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, Crace is a feature writer for the Guardian. He has and a visiting fellow at St Cross College, University of written several books including Vertigo: One Football Oxford. Fan’s Fear of Success and Harry’s Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp. Klaus Dodds Photo: David Randell GoddardPhoto:Randell David John Crace

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69 Monday 24March 2014 andrew Graham-dixon Mike Webb

artists of War: david Bomberg From downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand accounts from the Great War 1.30pm / Corpus Christi College / £12 Renowned art critic and television presenter Andrew 2pm / Bodleian: Convocation House / £11 Graham-Dixon introduces a preview of a new BBC Four Mike Webb, of the Bodleian Libraries, looks at the war documentary on the British artist David Bomberg. through the eyes of politicians, soldiers and civilians, Bomberg was a reclusive figure who created some of centring on the experiences of Oxford alumni whose the most memorable paintings of the first half of the papers are in the Bodleian. The reactions, beliefs, 20th century. He was a pioneer of the English opinions and arguments of these individuals, expressed movement known as Vorticism and developed ways to in diaries and letters to friends and family, give us a express the spiritual aspirations of a generation scarred valuable insight into the war as it was perceived at the by war. The documentary is one of a new series time, without the interpretations of hindsight or the presented by Graham-Dixon. The Artists of War accumulated wisdom of the last 100 years. The documentaries also include broadcasts on Walter accounts range from the decision-makers in the Sickert and Paul Nash. Following the showing, Graham- Cabinet to the soldiers on the front line, and take in Dixon will take questions about the documentary. the stories of public and private figures at home Graham-Dixon is a leading arts critic. He has presented caught up in the events. many television programmes on art and artists Webb is head of cataloguing of the Western including the acclaimed BBC programmes, A History of manuscripts section, Bodleian Libraries. British Art; Renaissance; and Art of Eternity. He has a column on art in the Sunday Telegraph and is author of Mike Webb many acclaimed books on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to modern art. This event will last one hour 15 minutes.

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83 tueSDay 25MaRCh 2014 tim Parks Christopher Duggan

Italian Ways: On and Oﬀ the Rails Fascist Voices: an Intimate history from Milan to Palermo of Mussolini’s Italy 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 12 noon / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 Bestselling travel writer and Historian Professor Christopher award-winning novelist Tim Duggan talks about his Wolfson- Parks returns to the subject of Italian Day Prize-winning Fascist Voices: An Italian Day his adopted homeland with a Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy. fresh portrait of Italy through a Duggan explores how the Italian witty account of its train system. Parks uses his 30 fascist movement became embodied in Benito years’ experience of travelling on the Italian system, Mussolini, who attained an almost divine status in whether a daily commute from Verona to Milan, his many Italian’s eyes. He makes use of rarely examined regular trips to Florence and Rome, or his occasional sources to show how the ordinary Italian experienced forays to Naples and Sicily, to reveal what he terms the fascism on a daily basis, and how it influenced their ‘charmingly irritating dystopian paradise of Italy’. beliefs, language and lifestyle. Why did fascism enjoy so much support and why does the ‘cult of the Duce’ Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. His accounts of life still resonate in modern Italy? in Northern Italy, Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona, were all Duggan is professor of Italian history at the University bestsellers. He has also written more than a dozen of Reading. He has written several books on modern novels and other works of non-fiction and has won Italian history. Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys This event is part of the Italian Day. awards His novel, Europa, was shortlisted for the Booker. Christopher Duggan This event is part of the Italian Day.

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84 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 TUESDAY Jamie Davies It never felt Life unfolding: how the human

Body Creates Itself like I was at school, 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 and yet I learnt Professor Jamie Davies uses cutting-edge science to explain one of life’s deepest mysteries: how can a complex human body organize itself from a simple everything here... fertilized egg? Why do we have two arms but one head? How come the left leg is the same size as the Tom Hiddleston, Old Dragon & Actor right? And why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? Davies argues that a convergence of ideas from embryology, genetics, physics, networks, and control theory is beginning to provide the real Summer Open Morning 17 May 2014 answers. Co-educational, boarding and day Davies is professor of experimental anatomy at the prep school, 4 to 13 years University of Edinburgh. He runs a laboratory that focuses on how the organs of mammals construct themselves and how that knowledge can be used in medicine. Dragon School, Oxford [email protected] Jamie Davies www.dragonschool.org

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85 tueSDay 25MaRCh 2014 LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME John Curtis tim Robson

e Cyrus Cylinder and ancient Showing up: Making a Greater Persia Impact in the Work you Do 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects Management consultant Tim Robson says do not just to have survived the ancient world and has become a live for the weekend, enjoy your job, be enthusiastic symbol of respect and tolerance for different peoples about it and really show up. Robson explains how to and different faiths. It was inscribed in Babylonian show up with enthusiasm to make a difference at work cuneiform at the behest of Persian King Cyrus in the and inspire those working with you to do the same. He sixth century BC and is often referred to as the first bill offers advice on how to engage at work and encourage of human rights. It appears to allow freedom of engagement in others; looks at what gets in the way of worship in the Persian empire and for deported people us showing up; and examines how you can be good at to return to their homes. what you do. The Cyrus Cylinder is held by the British Museum and Robson held senior positions in Prudential, Marks and was the centrepiece of an exhibition touring the Spencer and HBOS before launching Coracle Learning, United States in 2013. John Curtis, keeper of the which provides advice and support to some of the UK’s British Museum’s Middle East collections and curator leading companies. of the exhibition, explains the history and importance This event is part of a series at the festival on of the Cyrus Cylinder. leadership. John Curtis Tim Robson

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2pm / 2.30pm / 3pm / Oxford Centre for Islamic 2014 MARCH Studies / Free The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, a recognised independent centre of the University of Oxford, is constructing a unique new building on the Marston Road to house all its academic activities. The architecture of the building blends traditional Oxford features with the forms and styles of the classical period of Islam and stands as a unique symbol of harmony between two ancient artistic and scholarly traditions. Visitors will have the opportunity to visit the main areas of the building, which is nearing completion, and to learn about the centre’s work. Note: Tickets are free but must be booked either online or through the festival box office. Tours, lasting 30 minutes, take place daily between Tuesday, March 25, and Saturday, March 29, at 2pm, Presented by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. 2.30pm and 3pm, at the Oxford Centre for Islamic OCIS is also presenting a special screening on March Studies, Marston Road, Oxford. 28 of Nelson Mandela’s speech made on his 1997 visit to Oxford.

87 tueSDay 25MaRCh 2014 Paul Cartledge Peter heather

ancient Greece: a Very Short e Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Introduction Popes and Imperial Pretenders 1.15pm / Blackwell's Marquee / Free 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Professor of medieval history and talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The acclaimed author of Fall of the talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell's Marquee. Roman Empire Peter Heather tells Italian Day the story of three great pretenders Professor of Greek culture at the University of who attempted to revive the Roman Cambridge Paul Cartledge uses the histories of 11 Empire in Western Europe, Theoderic, Justinian and major Greek cities to demonstrate the most important Charlemagne. He also shows how their successors themes in ancient Greek history. He ranges from the failed to uphold the imperial dream, proof that a first documented use of the Greek language in 1400 Roman empire of the old kind, created by conquest, BC through to the foundation of the Byzantine empire was not possible in the Middle Ages. Instead, Heather in 330AD. Cartledge is professor of Greek culture in the shows how churchmen from the barbarian north Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. reinvented the papacy and restored imperial power that has lasted more than 1,000 years. Paul Cartledge Heather is professor of medieval history at King’s College London. He is author of the bestselling Fall of the Roman Empire and Empires and Barbarians. This event is part of the Italian Day.

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88 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 TUESDAY Geordie Greig Marc Morris

Breakfast with Lucian: e Norman Conquest

a Portrait of the artist 2014 MARCH 2pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Newspaper editor Geordie Greig recounts the Historian and broadcaster Marc Morris throws new extraordinary and sometimes shocking tales told to light on 1066 and the Norman conquest of England. him by his friend, the artist Lucian Freud. Greig was The story of how William the Conqueror defeated among a group of friends who regularly met Freud for Harold at the Battle of Hastings is just one part of an breakfast over a ten-year period. Greig recalls Freud’s epic tale told by Morris. He goes back a generation to stories of death threats, escaping the Nazis, falling out explain how the less sophisticated Normans were able with his brother Clement, hating his mother, escaping to defeat the all-powerful and united English. He the Krays and painting the Queen. And he recounts follows William to the end of his career to show how how Freud spoke candidly about dancing with Garbo his hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm were and painting Kate Moss naked. Greig has also spoken dashed on the back of English rebellions, Viking to those close to Freud, including his many girlfriends, invasions and the demands of his fellow conquerors. models, dealers and bookmakers, to provide an And he demonstrates how life in England was forever intimate portrait of one of the great British artists as a changed by the coming of the Normans. young and old man. Morris studied and taught history at the universities of Greig is editor of the Mail on Sunday and a former London and Oxford. He presented the highly acclaimed editor of the London Evening Standard and of Tatler. He television series Castle and is also author of the has also written a book, The Kingmaker, about his accompanying book and of A Great and Terrible King. grandfather’s friendship with King George V. Marc Morris Photo: Glen CopusPhoto:Glen Geordie Greig

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90 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 TUESDAY alastair Lack Julian Baggini, antonio Carluccio and Michael Caines talk to Donald Sloan Oxford Poets with alastair Lack e Virtues of the table MARCH 2014 MARCH

2pm / Meet outside St John’s College Lodge, 4pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 St Giles / £25 You might assume we are living in a golden age of Oxford University produced a rich crop of poets in the food. Our restaurant sector is thriving; ethically reared 20th century – from First World War poets such as meat and environmentally friendly produce are widely Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, through the available; exotic ingredients, once hard to find, can be ‘pylon poets’ of the 1920s and 1930s (such as sourced in supermarkets; and pride in regionally W H Auden and Louis MacNeice) to Philip Larkin, Keith distinctive cuisines is on the rise. Is this culinary Douglas and distinguished contemporary poets, not renaissance connecting us with food in any meaningful forgetting, of course, John Betjeman. Enjoy readings way? Or does our obsession with celebrity chefs, the from their poetry and prose, from St John’s College to latest fad diets, the glossiest cookbooks and ‘must- Merton. This walk lasts two hours and ends at Christ have’ kitchen gadgets, signify that food is nothing Church. more than an object of fashion? Donald Sloan, of Oxford Brookes University, is joined Alastair Lack by philosopher Julian Baggini, and two of the UK’s most admired chefs, Antonio Carluccio and Michael Caines, to explore our relationship with food. In Virtues of the Table, Baggini argues that we are lacking a coherent philosophy of food and that our culinary habits are shaped by contradictory forces. Baggini is the author of several books on philosophy including The Pig that Wants to be Eaten. Carluccio has championed genuine, regional Italian food and wine for more than 50 years. He founded the successful Carluccio’s restaurant chain, has published Antonio Carluccio 13 cookery books and recently returned to UK television with Gennaro Contaldo in Two Greedy Italians. Caines is the acclaimed executive chef of Gidleigh Park, where he has held two Michelin stars since 1999. He is also responsible for Michael Caines Restaurants in the Abode hotel chain. He appears regularly on British television and his first book, Michael Caines At Home, was published in 2013. Sloan is chair of Oxford Gastronomica and head of the Oxford School of Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University.

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tueSDay 25MaRCh 2014 Sarah Marder, Fred Plotkin harry Freedman and Ivan Scalfarotto e Future of Italy e talmud: a Biography

4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 A filmmaker, expert on Italian Academic, writer and culture and an Italian politician entrepreneur Dr Harry join forces to discuss the future Italian Day Freedman tells the of Italy. Italy is a country of engrossing story of The dreams for many in the UK and Talmud, an ancient for millions of visitors from other parts of the world. scripture that contains Its history, architecture, beauty and food promise a over a million words and more fulfilled life to the outsider. Many places, such as runs to 35 volumes. The Venice and Florence, are overwhelmed by visitors, so Talmud is a central text of just how much does tourism impact on Italy? And Rabbinic Judaism and what can be done to ensure that the country’s natural covers law, faith, medicine, and historical treasures remain intact for future magic, ethics, sex, humour generations? and prayer. It has been banned and burnt, Sarah Marder is a corporate manager turned filmmaker provided guidance for both monarchists and focused on sustainability. She is filming a feature- republicans, inspired artists and poets and been upheld length documentary, The Genius of a Place, about the by Protestants and by Popes. Above all, the story of The ancient town of Cortona’s attempts to promote Talmud provides a fascinating insight into Jewish development without losing its way of life. Cortona history. was catapulted to notoriety by Frances Mayes’s book Under the Tuscan Sun and the subsequent film. Preview Freedman is a Jewish scholar who has published a extracts of the documentary will be shown during the number of books including Encyclopedia of Modern event. Jewish Culture and Gospels Veiled Agenda. He is a contributor to the Jewish Chronicle, New Law Journal, Fred Plotkin is one of America’s foremost experts on Jewish Quarterly and the Huffington Post. opera and an expert on all things Italian. He has written six renowned books on Italian cuisine, including Harry Freedman Recipes from Paradise: Life and Food on the Italian Riviera and Italy for the Gourmet Traveler. Ivan Scalfarotto is a centre-left Italian politician and activist, vice-president of the Democratic Party and a member of the Italian parliament. This event is part of the Italian Day.

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96 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 TUESDAY Richard Parkinson Christopher Butler

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Diversity across the World 2014 MARCH 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 5.15pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free British Museum curator and egyptologist Richard Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Parkinson examines a series of artefacts to see what talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The they tell us about love and sexuality in the ancient and talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell Marquee, modern world. How old is the oldest chat-up line next to the Sheldonian Theatre. between men, who was the first lesbian, and were English literature tutor Christopher Butler provides an Greek men who had sex together necessarily gay? introduction to modernism across various aesthetic Parkinson uses objects ranging from Egyptian Papyri and cultural fields. Is a tower block, an unmade bed, a and the Roman Warren Cup to work by modern artists lavatory basin or a bicycle chained to a gate a work of including David Hockney and Bhupen Khakhar in his art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, an search for answers. end, or even a story? Butler, tutor in English literature Parkinson is professor of egyptology at the University and curator of pictures at Christ Church, Oxford, says of Oxford and a curator in the Department of Ancient everything has been influenced by the legacy of Egypt and Sudan, British Museum. modernism.

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Jan Morris: Life and Work

6pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-25 2014 MARCH One of Britain’s greatest and best-loved travel writers Jan Morris talks to poet and novelist Kevin Crossley- Holland about her life and work and receives the 2014 Honorary Fellowship of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival. Morris is a historian, travel writer and novelist best known for her Pax Britannica trilogy on the history of the British Empire and for her travel writing on cities, most notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York. She famously accompanied the first successful Everest expedition in 1953 and was first to report the triumph, before going on to write a series of acclaimed travel books. Morris wrote and lived under the name James Morris in her early years before undergoing a change of sexual role in the early 1970s. Alongside her many travel books, she has also written a novel, Last Letters from Hav, and her trilogy on the history of the British Empire, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire, and Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat. This event is the second in a series at which well- known poet and author Kevin Crossley-Holland speaks to an author of his choosing. Last year, he Jan Morris spoke to the late poet Seamus Heaney and there will be a third event in 2015. This occasion will also be marked by the awarding of the 2014 Honorary Fellowship of the Oxford Literary Festival to Jan Morris, with a presentation of a special edition by the Folio Society. The previous recipients of the Fellowship have been Philip Pullman (2013), William Boyd (2012), Kazuo Ishiguro (2011), Dame Antonia Byatt (2010), and Baroness P D James (2009). In association with

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99 tueSDay 25MaRCh 2014 MUSIC AND WORDS WITH DAVID FREEMAN Jenny Lewis Richard havers talks to David Freeman taking Mesopotamia Verve: e Sound of america

6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 6pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Poet Jenny Lewis explores the Iraq War through a Jazz consultant Richard Havers talks mixture of diaries, witness statements and formal and to broadcaster David Freeman about free verse. Lewis’s father, T C Lewis, was a casualty of the history of Verve Records, the the World War I campaign in Mesopotamia – modern label that changed the course of day Iraq, Iran and Syria – and died later, aged 50, when modern music and brought the she was just a few months old. He joined the South sound of America to the world. Wales Borderers in 1915 and served in Mesopotamia This event includes the playing of until 1917 when he was wounded at Kut al Amara some of the seminal music from the while on a working party. Taking Mesopotamia links the label. Verve signed virtually every major jazz artist of Iraq War to its roots in the World War I campaign. the 1950s and 1960s, and its founder, Norman Granz, organised highly influential racially integrated concerts Lewis is a poet, playwright and children’s author and in the United States and around the world. Havers’ has had plays and poetry cycles performed at theatres illustrated history of Verve marks the 70th anniversary across the UK. She teaches poetry at the University of in 2014 of the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. Oxford. Lewis won a prestigious Hawthornden Fellowship during which she translated extracts from Havers is jazz consultant to the Universal Music Group The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of Mesopotamia’s oldest where he has produced box sets including Louis works of literature. Armstrong: Ambassador of Jazz and Ella Fitzgerald. His books include Sinatra, Rolling With the Stones, and Tony Jenny Lewis Visconti: Bowie, Bolan and the Boy from Brooklyn.

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100 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 25 TUESDAY Gioacchino Lanza tomasi tobias hill and tim Pears talks to David Gilmour Chaired by Bill heine Giuseppe tomasi di Lampedusa: War and its aftermath: two Novels

a Biography rough Images 2014 MARCH 6pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 The great Italian novelist Two award-winning Lampedusa’s cousin and heir novelists talk about their Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi provides Italian Day approach to writing fiction a unique insight into the people about World War II and its and places that inspired the author aftermath. of The Leopard. Tomasi talks to Lampedusa’s Tobias Hill’s novel, What biographer, Sir David Gilmour, about his pictorial Was Promised, is set in biography of his cousin. A sense of time and place is London in the aftermath central to Lampedusa’s masterpiece, The Leopard, a of war as children run wild novel that captures traditional Sicilian society at a on bomb sites and adults time of great upheaval and transformation. Tomasi’s strive for better lives in a biography includes a wealth of unpublished images country ravaged by the from Lampedusa’s private albums and from the family effects of war. Tim Pears’ archives. new work, In the Light of Morning,

Tomasi is professor of is the story of three British BassettPhoto:Mark music history at the parachutists who drop into University of Palermo and Slovenia in May 1944 to help the author of several books on resistance in their fight against opera and major the Axis forces. Relationships in composers. He is the the group begin to fray and one Italian editor of of them has to face up to his Lampedusa’s works and deepest and most secret desires. executor of his estate. Hill was shortlisted for the Gilmour is one of Britain’s Sunday Times Young Writer of the Tobias Hill best-known historical Year in 2004. His collection of writers and biographers. stories, Skin, won the Pen- His biography of Macmillan Prize for Fiction and Lampedusa, The Last Leopard, won the Marsh What Was Promised is his fifth Biography Award. novel. Pears is a graduate of the This event is part of the Italian Day. National Film and Television School. He is the author of eight Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi previous novels, including his first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, winner of the Hawthornden Prize Tim Pears for Literature and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, and In a Land of Plenty, which has been adapted for television. Discussions are chaired by BBC Radio Oxford broadcaster Bill Heine.

101 tueSDay 25MaRCh 2014 Michael Caines S O L D O U T

Literary Dinner – award of the Jeremy Mogford Prize for Food & Drink Writing 7.30pm / Gee’s Restaurant / £95 This dinner prepared by two-star Michelin chef Michael Caines will be a celebration of Oxford Gastronomica’s association with the festival. Guests will be joined by leading figures from the culinary scene. Caines is an original British chef whose flagship restaurant Gidleigh Park, in Devon, has been voted second only to Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck for the Don Sloan (Oxford Gastronomica), Jeremy Mogford, last three years. He lost his right arm in a car accident Emma Seaman (winner of the Mogford Prize 2013), shortly after starting as head chef at Gidleigh Park in with chef Atul Kochhar. 1994 but was soon back at work, earning his second Michelin star and gathering many awards and accolades, including an MBE. His first book, Michael Caines at Home, contains 100 recipes suitable for the domestic kitchen taken from a lifetime of cooking. Oxford Gastronomica is a specialist centre for the study of food and drink based within the Oxford School of Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University. The dinner will also see the award of the second annual £7,500 Jeremy Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing.

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www.examschools.ox.ac.uk • [email protected] Te l : 0 1 8 6 5 2 7 6 9 0 5 WeDnesDAy 26 MArCh 2014 Ali Allawi Carolyne Larrington and talks to Bidisha Diane Purkiss Faisal I of Iraq Magical Tales: Wolves and Volumes

10am / Corpus Christi College / £11 10am / Bodleian: Convocation House / £11 Researcher and former government minister Ali Allawi Carolyne Larrington and Diane Purkiss talk about explains why King Faisal I of Iraq was such a seminal Magical Tales, the book accompanying last summer’s figure in the making of the modern Middle East and record-breaking Bodleian exhibition, Magical Books: why his impact is still felt today, 80 years after his From the Middle Ages to Middle Earth. Hear how the death. Faisal organised the Arab Revolt against the medieval literature studied in Oxford by some of the Ottoman Empire with the help of Lawrence of Arabia, world’s best-loved children’s authors inspired magical represented the Arab cause at the 1919 Paris Peace landscapes and mythic beings in their fiction. The Conference and was the king of the first independent wolves of winter; the ancient book holding hidden state of Syria and first king of Iraq. Allawi gives the first secrets, and medieval traditions continue to delight full account of his dramatic life and assesses his impact and enthral. on the Middle East. Larrington is a supernumerary fellow and tutor in Allawi is a research professor at the University of Medieval English at St John’s College, Oxford. Diane Singapore and a former civilian minister of defence and Purkiss is fellow and tutor in English at Keble College, minister of finance in the post-war Iraq government. Oxford. He was recently named the world’s fourth top thinker by Prospect magazine. Here he talks to critic, journalist and broadcaster Bidisha.

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110 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY David Constantine, Brian Aldiss and Michael scott stuart evers. Chaired by ra Page Morphologies: short story Writers on Delphi: A history of the Centre of short story Writers the Ancient World 10am / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 MARCH 2014 MARCH Historian and broadcaster Professor Michael Scott explains why Delphi was one of the most important places in the ancient world. He describes the founding of the sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi and its modern rediscovery, how it became a contested religious site for the Greeks and Romans and a storehouse of treasures for rival city states, and how it eventually declined. And for modern visitors he outlines the key things to see and some of the little- known treasures. David Constantine Stuart Evers Scott is assistant professor of classics and ancient What makes for a good history at the University of Warwick. He has presented short story? Being short, a number of ancient history documentaries for you might think the National Geographic, the History Channel, Nova and story's structure would the BBC. yield an answer to this question more readily Michael Scott than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged as Brian Aldiss to what it should and shouldn't be made up of, what it should and should not do. Join award-winning authors David Constantine, Brian Aldiss and Stuart Evers as they analyse the works of DH Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Sherwood Anderson, and discuss their contributions to Morphologies, a new collection of essays by leading contemporary short story writers on past masters of the form. The event will be chaired by the book’s editor and founder of Comma Press, Ra Page

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111 WeDnesDAy 26 MArCh 2014 Lucy newlyn simon stokes Blake Lapthorn – William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Lawyers to the Festival Present All in each Other Authors, self-publishing and eBooks: 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Promises and Pitfalls Brother and sister William and Dorothy Wordsworth 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £6 enjoyed a close collaboration for almost 50 years, so The UK publishing industry is being transformed by much so that it even led to rumours of incest. eBooks. Authors now have a choice to publish through Professor Lucy Newlyn says their cohabitation was a traditional publisher or self-publish via a range of more the expression of a deep emotional need that channels. This workshop will explore the legal issues arose out of their family history. The two were parted facing authors wanting to publish eBooks, from the on the death of their mother and grew up separately, creation of their works onwards, with practical advice only being reunited on the death of their father. on what to look out for in publishing contracts, how to Newlyn argues that their work was partly about re- avoid expensive libel law suits, what steps to take to building their family and re-claiming their communal protect and preserve your copyrights and other identity. intellectual property assets, and how to ensure you get Newlyn is professor of English language and literature the royalties you are entitled to. The focus will be on at the University of Oxford and has published widely digital publishing, whether you have an existing on English romantic literature. Reading Writing and publisher or want to self-publish. The workshop will be Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception won the British led by partner Simon Stokes, of Blake Lapthorn’s Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay prize. publishing team. Stokes is a publishing partner with Blake Lapthorn and Lucy Newlyn has been advising authors and publishers for over 20 years. He is the author of several books including Digital Copyright Law & Practice (4th edition 2014). The UK legal directories recommend him for his expertise in copyright, technology and publishing law. Simon is also a trustee of charitable publisher SPCK, one of the UK’s oldest publishers, founded in 1698.

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112 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY sebastian Barry hanneke Grootenboer and talks to Joan Bakewell Barrie Juniper e Temporary Gentleman e Tradescants’ Orchard and the still Life Tradition 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 12 noon / Bodleian: Convocation House / £11 MARCH 2014 MARCH Mysterious as the history of the botanical manuscript Tradescants’ Orchard may be, it is deeply embedded in the long, artistic tradition that links the visual arts with the natural sciences, as well as the rich tradition of still life painting. The fruit paintings share characteristics with Dutch and Flemish still life paintings, in particular the role that insects and amphibians play in such compositions, but was its maker directly influenced by such images? Hanneke Grootenboer and Barrie Juniper, joint authors of The Tradescants’ Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book, discuss the various links between this fascinating manuscript, the visual arts and natural science. Juniper is emeritus reader in plant sciences at the University of Oxford and Grootenboer is a lecturer in Sebastian Barry the history of art at the University of Oxford. Multi-award-winning Irish novelist Sebastian Barry talks to journalist and television presenter Dame Bakewell about his latest book, The Temporary Gentleman. It follows the life of Jack McNulty, brother of Eneas and Tom, who finds himself washed up in Accra at the end of the Second World War. The novel is a portrait of his life, his demons and his lost love, and of his bid for freedom from the realities of his past. Barry’s novels and plays have won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Hanneke Grootenboer Barrie Juniper Costa Book of the Year Sponsored by Presented by award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Two Bodleian Libraries consecutive novels, A Long UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Long Way and The Secret Festival Cultural Partner Scripture, were shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. Joan Bakewell is a journalist, television presenter, Labour Party peer and president of Birkbeck, University of London. She is well known as the presenter of many BBC programmes, particularly the documentary and discussion series Heart of the Matter. She has written an autobiography, The Centre of the Bed, and a novel, All The Nice Girls.

113 WeDnesDAy 26 MArCh 2014 LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME Fred Plotkin Mike Carson

richard strauss – 150th Anniversary e Manager: Inside the Minds of Football’s Leaders 12 noon / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Leadership expert and football fan Mike Carson brings Richard Strauss, one of the most important opera together the thoughts of some of the greatest football composers of all. He was both a radical and a managers in the modern game including Sir Alex conservative, dependent on whom you speak with. In Ferguson, Roy Hodgson and Carlo Ancelotti in a session his lifetime (1864-1949) were the Franco-Prussian War, that will appeal to those interested in leadership and the rise of Germany, and the First and Second World football alike. How do the great football leaders Wars. His music was both a reflection and a rejection manage outrageous talent, how do they inspire loyalty, of the outside world. He lived in a time of falling and how do they manage to sustain success or turn empires, the rise of Freudian thinking – from gilt to around a team in crisis? guilt. There are food elements too in operas such as Carson’s book features chapters based on interviews Elektra (bad food), Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella. He is a with some of today’s leading managers including big hitter and a divisive one, and 2014 is his year. Ferguson, Hodgson and Ancelotti, as well as Arsène Fred Plotkin is one of America’s foremost experts on Wenger, José Mourinho and Harry Redknapp. Carson is opera and has distinguished himself in many fields as a a founding director of Aberkyn Change Leadership writer, speaker, consultant and as a compelling teacher. Partners, where he works with the leaders of large, He is an expert on everything Italian, the person other multi-national organisations to enable so-called Italy experts turn to for definitive transformational change amongst their people. This information. Plotkin discovered the concept of ‘The event is part of a series on leadership at this year’s Renaissance Man’ as a small child and has devoted festival. himself to pursuing that ideal as the central role of his life. His book, Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning Mike Carson and Loving Opera is the best-selling standard text in America on the art form. He has also written six books on Italian cuisine, including the renowned Italy for the Gourmet Traveller, the sixth edition of which will be published in March 2014.This session forms part of a series presented by Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University’s centre for food and cultural studies. Sponsored by

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MUSIC AND WORDS WITH DAVID FREEMAN WEDNESDAY ewan Clayton Christopher howse talks to David Freeman e Golden read: e story of e Train in spain: Destination – Writing seven spanish songs 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 MARCH 2014 MARCH Distinguished calligrapher Professor Ewan Clayton tells Music in Spain is as the story of the written word from the first surprising as its varied representative shapes used by the ancient Egyptians to landscape, from gypsy song the drop-down menus on a Macbook Pro. Clayton in the wilds of Extremadura explores each step in the progress of writing and its to a Baroque guitar classic social and cultural impact on the age, covering the of dusty Zaragoza that invention of the alphabet, the replacement of Papyrus inspired Rodrigo’s Fantasía. with the codex in the late Roman period, the perfection of printing and its industrialisation, and the The bestselling author impact of digital. And he asks the fundamental Christopher Howse has just question: ‘What does it mean to be literate in the 21st completed a 3,000-mile century?’ railway journey round the Spanish interior. In The Train Clayton is professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design and in Spain, he describes the

Media at the University of Sunderland. He has Photo:Roger Bamber highlights of the experience, from the top of the exhibited and taught calligraphy across the world. Pyrenees – through the Spaghetti Western deserts of the south, to the ancient hilltop city of Cuenca and Ewan Clayton beyond. On the way he meets troglodytes, visits a city ruined by an earthquake, runs into a dancing lion, stumbles across a body-snatching plot and, everywhere, listens to the music. Broadcaster David Freeman joins him to take the slow train and choose seven of the best musical numbers on the way.

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115 WeDnesDAy 26 MArCh 2014 Pedro Ferreira Catriona Kelly

e Perfect eory: A Century of russian Literature: Geniuses and the Battle over General A Very short Introduction relativity 1.15pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Seminar Room / £11 talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The Astrophysics expert Professor Pedro Ferreira offers a talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell Marquee, popular history of Einstein’s General Theory of next to the Sheldonian Theatre. Relativity. He outlines the sheer magnificence of its Expert in Russian culture and literature Professor discovery and lays bare the infighting that the theory Catriona Kelly looks at what shaped the creation of a sparked across a whole century. Einstein’s theory was national Russian literature, how Pushkin, the ‘Russian met with both enthusiasm and tremendous resistance Shakespeare’, influenced every Russian writer who when it was first published in 1915. Anything that came after him, and how Russian writers have been involves gravity can be explained by it. Ferreira interpreted both inside and outside the country. describes the battles, feuds and vendettas surrounding the theory, how it is entangled with the flashpoints of Catriona Kelly history, and how it has informed our understanding of what the Universe is made of. Ferreira is professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford and has spent more than 25 years working at the frontline of general relativity and cosmology research.

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116 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY John Julius norwich Kirsty Wark talks to Paul Blezard talks to Bidisha Darling Monster: Lady Diana e Legacy of elizabeth Pringle Cooper’s Letters to her son 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 2pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 MARCH 2014 MARCH Writer and television presenter Viscount Norwich talks to Paul Blezard about his mother, the aristocrat, society darling and actress of stage and early screen, Lady Diana Cooper. John Julius Norwich is the only son of Lady Diana and the politician Duff Cooper, who became the golden couple of their age. He has edited and written an introduction to a collection of letters to him from his mother. The letters are a portrait of a dramatic time in history including the Blitz, life in the Far East before Pearl Harbour and post-liberation Paris, and a touching record of a love between a mother and a son separated by war and the constraints of the time they lived in. Norwich is author of histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and The Popes. He has written on architecture, music and Shakespeare and presented Kirsty Wark 30 historical documentaries on television.

Photo: Camilla PanufnikPhoto:Camilla One of Britain’s best known journalists and broadcasters Kirsty Wark talks to critic, journalist and broadcaster Bidisha about her debut novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. As if on a whim, the 95-year-old Elizabeth Pringle bequeaths her Arran island home, Homelea, to a woman she saw pushing a pram down the road 30 years earlier. That young mother, Anna, had pushed a letter through Elizabeth’s letter box asking to buy the home but Elizabeth did not pursue it. Anna, however, is now in a home with dementia and it is her daughter Martha, the baby in the pram, that takes up the inheritance. Martha, an unfulfilled journalist bruised by a bad relationship and struggling to cope with her mother’s illness, discovers that Elizabeth’s legacy and her own future are more connected than she thought. John Julius Norwich Wark is an experienced and award-winning journalist. She presents a variety of BBC programmes including Sponsored by In association with FELICITY BRYAN Newsnight and The Review Show. Her own family’s ASSOCIATES connection to Arran goes back many years.

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117 WeDnesDAy 26 MArCh 2014 Oliver James Jacqueline yallop talks to Jem Poster e school of Life: Marlford how to Develop emotional health 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Broadcaster and bestselling author of They F*** You Up Novelist Jacqueline Oliver James outlines the five key elements for good Yallop talks to fellow emotional health. James argues that rather than writer Jem Poster seeking to be happy, something that means different about her latest novel, things to different people, we should cultivate our Marlford. Marlford is emotional health. The five key elements for that are the local village insightfulness, a strong sense of self, fluid relationships, founded by Ellie authenticity and playfulness in our approach to life, he Barton’s grandfather. says. James offers strategies for optimising each of Ellie has spent her life these elements in our daily lives. living in a dilapidated manor house in the James trained and practised as a child clinical village with her elderly psychologist. Since 1988 he has worked as a writer, father, and is often journalist and broadcaster. reminded of her duty to her aristocratic Oliver James lineage. Marlford, however, is a village in decline. Subsidence from old salt mines is destroying buildings, books in the library are mouldering and old loyalties are shifting. When two idealistic young men squat in the closed wing of the house, they reveal to Ellie a world much wider than Marlford. Yallop has worked as the curator of the Ruskin Collection in Sheffield and now teaches on the creative writing course at Aberystwyth University. She is author of two other novels, Kissing Alice and Obedience.

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118 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY Gabriel hemery and John Lennox and stephen Law sarah simblet e new sylva: Forest and Orchard Designed by God? Trees for the 21st Century 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 2pm / Oxford Martin School: MARCH 2014 MARCH It is 350 years since Lecture Theatre / £11 John Evelyn created the Does observation of the first comprehensive universe provide us with study of British evidence for, or against, the woodland, his landmark existence of God? Is there work Sylva. Silvologist – evidence of cosmic design? forest scientist – Dr Might there be evidence Gabriel Hemery and against the existence of the artist Dr Sarah Simblet Judeo-Christian God? These explain how they have and other fascinating John Lennox created a contemporary questions concerning God, version. Illustrated with design and our ultimate Simblet’s breathtaking purpose are discussed by a artwork, The New Sylva examines British woodland Christian professor of today, profiling all the important species of tree that mathematics and an atheist populate our landscape. Hemery and Simblet discuss philosopher. the project, its history, and the state of British woodland today – bringing it to life with extraordinary Professor John Lennox is drawings. professor of mathematics at Oxford University and a Hemery is co-founder and chief executive of the Sylva fellow in mathematics and the Stephen Law Foundation and has played a leading role in philosophy of science at Green campaigning to save England’s public forests. Simblet is Templeton College, Oxford. He is also interested in the an artist, writer and broadcaster with an international interface of science, philosophy and theology and his reputation in the fields of drawing, human anatomy recent books in this area include Gunning for God, and botany. Seven Days that Divide the World, God and Stephen

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126 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY simon Blackburn Catriona Kelly

Mirror, Mirror: st Petersburg: shadows of the Past e Uses and Abuses of self-Love 4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 MARCH 2014 MARCH Narcissism, vanity, pride and self-esteem are more Expert in Russian culture and literature Professor complex than they might appear and have good and Catriona Kelly uses oral history, personal bad sides, says philosophy teacher and bestselling observation, literary and artistic texts, and archive writer Simon Blackburn. He draws on philosophy, materials to paint a picture of a fragile, gritty and psychology, literature, history and popular culture to vital St Petersburg. Kelly, who lives in Oxford and examine self-love, from the myth of Narcissus to St Petersburg, explains how a creative engagement today’s industry in self-esteem. Blackburn looks at with the past has always been a fundamental part of what many of the great thinkers, including Aristotle, life for the residents of this great city. She explains the Cicero, Adam Smith, Kant and Iris Murdoch, have said feelings of anxiety and pride present both in socialist about self-love, and he considers some of today’s Leningrad and in today’s St Petersburg. And she paints manifestations of self-love such as the ‘selfie’, plastic a picture of the city that encompasses its glamorous surgery and the overconfidence of Tony Blair and centre and promenades, and its rubbish dumps and George W Bush. grimy suburbs. Blackburn taught philosophy at the University of Kelly is professor of Russian at the University of Oxford Oxford, University of North Carolina and University of and author of many books about Russian literature and Cambridge. He is author of bestselling philosophy culture including Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia books including Think, Being Good, Lust and Truth. 1890-1991. Photo:Snow Sasha Simon Blackburn Catriona Kelly

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127 WeDnesDAy 26 MArCh 2014 Graham Farmelo and Phillip Ball Jonathan herring Chaired by nicolette Jones science and War: Family Law: A Very short Working for Churchill and hitler Introduction 4pm / Oxford Martin School: 5.15pm / Blackwell's Marquee / Free Lecture Theatre / £11 Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Two award-winning writers explore the ethical talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The dilemmas faced by scientists working for countries at talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell's Marquee. war. Graham Farmelo and Phillip Ball have both Law lecturer Jonathan Herring asks: what is a family; published new works that respectively look at how what makes someone a parent; and what rights should scientists worked for Churchill and Hitler on the children have? He examines how laws have had to nuclear bomb. change in line with social changes such as the rise in Farmelo’s Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science divorce rates and arrival of surrogate mothers and War and Politics takes a fresh view of Churchill’s explains how the family courts often struggle to keep pioneering role in the age of nuclear science. He shows up with change. Herring is a fellow in law at Exeter how British physicists first demonstrated that the College, Oxford. bomb was a practical possibility in 1940 but that Churchill, on the advice of the controversial scientist, Jonathan Herring Frederick Lindemann, allowed leadership to pass to the Americans. Ball’s Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler explains how some leading scientists continued to work for Hitler. Some eventually left Germany and others later maintained that they had deliberately delayed production of an atomic bomb.

Farmelo is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Sponsored by His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. Ball is a writer and former editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books include H2O: A Biography of Water; Critical Mass, winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books; and The Music Instinct.

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128 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY hanif Kureishi Frederick Muller talks to David Freeman talks to ross King e Last Word Don’t Look now: Film screening and A Look Behind the scenes 6pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 6pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 MARCH 2014 MARCH One of the great modern Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now is British writers Hanif consistently near the top of lists of the best films of all Kureishi talks about his time. In 2011, in Time Out a panel of writers, actors new novel, The Last Word, and directors voted it the greatest British film ever an outrageous and funny made. To mark the 40th anniversary of its European tale of sex, lies, art and of release, Frederick Muller, owner of Eldorado Films, the what defines a life. A film’s Italian co-producer talks to writer Ross King young writer, Harry, is about the making of the film, followed by a screening commissioned to write the of Don’t Look Now. biography of fading and Muller was responsible for arranging all of the locations ageing Indian-born writer, in Venice, and for finding, among other things, the Mamoon, in an effort to dwarf and the red coat. He will give a behind-the- revitalise the writer’s scenes look at the making of Don’t Look Now, from career and bank balance. casting and budgets to the famous love scene. Harry admires Mamoon and wants to uncover the truth of the artist’s life. His This event will last two hours 40 minutes. publisher wants a story of sex and scandal to generate headlines. Mamoon, however, is after a different kind of Frederick Muller truth altogether. The struggle between them raises questions of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailty of age versus the recklessness of youth. Kuresihi is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker. His The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel and his plays, Outskirts and Borderline won the George Devine Award. He won an Oscar nomination for best screenplay for My Beautiful Launderette. Photo: Kier KureishiPhoto:Kier Hanif Kureishi

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nick hunt S O L D O U T Patience Agbabi and Mark Watson Walking the Woods and the Water: In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor Why Does it still resonate? 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 Writer Nick Hunt spent It is 650 years since Chaucer’s seven months walking Canterbury Tales was first through Holland, Germany, written, so how does it Austria, Hungary, Romania, manage to still resonate with Bulgaria and Turkey in the us? This session sets out to footsteps of the 18-year- find out why. Canterbury old Patrick Leigh Fermor. Laureate 2009-2010 and The journey from the Hook Oxford Brookes University of Holland to writing fellow Patience Agbabi Constantinople made by performs from her new Patience Agbabi the late Leigh Fermor in collection, Telling Tales, an 1933 was remembered in a inspired 21st-century remix of series of travel books, A all the stories. Like Chaucer’s Time of Gifts, Between the original competition, Telling Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road. Hunt Tales is a one-round poetry discovers what remains of the hospitality, kindness to slam and the reader decides strangers, freedom, wilderness, adventure and who wins. Agbabi is joined by mysterious that Leigh Fermor encountered on his way. novelist, award-winning comedian and broadcaster Hunt studied English literature and creative writing at Mark Watson. Watson has the University of East Anglia and has worked as a published four novels and was Mark Watson journalist, teacher, and recently winner of Celebrity Mastermind, with the storyteller. specialist subject of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

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Festival Choral evensong 6.30pm / Christ Church: Cathedral / Free This service combines music from the Anglican choral tradition sung by the Cathedral Choir, Bibilical readings and the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer. All are welcome to attend this act of worship lasting approximately 45 minutes, and there is no charge for admission. Presented by Christ Church Cathedral

130 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 26 WEDNESDAY Philip Pullman and John Lubbock talk to Paul Blezard

A Life’s Memories to the Music of the Orchestra of st John

7pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25 Photo:EddieGallacher Renowned novelist Philip Pullman discusses his life and musical loves with author and broadcaster Paul 2014 MARCH Blezard. Members of the outstanding Orchestra of St John, conducted by John Lubbock, will perform Pullman’s favourite pieces. Pullman is author of the multi-award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy, the first volume of which was turned into the Hollywood movie, The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. He is a winner of the Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children’s Book Award and Whitbread Book of the Year, and has published nearly 20 books. Pullman has written mostly for children, and his other work includes a series featuring Victorian adventurer Sally Lockhart that opens with Ruby in the Smoke. He holds the Honorary Fellowship of the Oxford Literary Festival. Lubbock is the founder and conductor of the Orchestra of St John. The orchestra’s aim is to bring together outstanding musicians who share an ethos of bringing music to people of all ages and from all walks of life. It has performed with world-famous soloists such as Dame Felicity Lott, Sir James Galway, Yuri Bashmet, Tasmin Little and Stephen Isserlis. Philip Pullman Alongside its public performances, the orchestra gives around 40 concerts a year to autistic children and others with learning difficulties through the charity, Music for Autism, founded by Lubbock following the birth of his own autistic son. This event lasts one hour 40 minutes including a 20-minute break.

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Madhur Jaﬀrey: 80th Birthday Party

Reception 6.30pm, dinner 7.15pm / University Photo:EddieGallacher College / £120 MARCH 2014 MARCH Join Madhur Jaffrey, acclaimed actor, food writer and author for her 80th birthday party. The evening will be a celebration of Jaffrey’s immense contribution to British culture. In the stunning setting of University College, guests will enjoy a champagne reception before moving into the gothic-style dining hall, undoubtedly one of the most impressive in Oxford, for a three-course dinner prepared by Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar. The evening will be hosted by comedian, food-writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli. Before dinner is served, Jaffrey will deliver a speech, in which she will reflect upon her childhood in India, and her fascinating and diverse career. Jaffrey was born in Delhi and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London following a performance in Tennessee Williams’s Auto-da-Fe. From there her career took off. She appeared in various BBC TV and radio plays and enjoyed a spell in New York before her big success in Shakespeare Wallah.She went on to star in further Merchant Ivory films and to win accolades for theatre performances on Broadway and in the West End, and continues to appear in movies and TV films today. She has also carved out a second career as a food writer and broadcaster and is regarded Madhur Jaffrey as a world authority on Indian cuisine. She has published many cookery books and a memoir Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India. Atul Kochhar, who will prepare dinner, has changed the way that people perceive and experience Indian cuisine. He draws inspiration from his Indian heritage and his love of British ingredients to create truly distinctive modern Indian cuisine. At Benares, his renowned restaurant in Berkeley Square, he has held a Michelin star for eight years. This event is one of a series organised by Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University’s centre for food and cultural studies, of which Madhur Jaffrey is a founding patron. Atul Kochhar Hardeep Singh Kohli Presented by This event is part of India Day at the festival, presented by Kolkata Literary Meet. The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival will present an Oxford Day at the 2015 Kolkata Literary Meet. 133 Critchleys can provide compliance, consultancy and advisory services for every financial stage of business or personal life. We are delighted to be part of&47EEKEND Oxford Literary Festival 201.

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142 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 WOMEN IN SOCIETY THURSDAY Katheryn Sutherland Nicholas Shakespeare

A Writer’s Apprenticeship: Priscilla: e Hidden Life of an Jane Austen’s teenage Notebook Englishwoman in Wartime France 10am / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 2014 MARCH Professor Kathryn Sutherland puts Volume the First, a Award-winning novelist and biographer Nicholas manuscript notebook of Jane Austen’s earliest surviving Shakespeare uncovered a new and unexpected side to teenage writings, in the context of Austen’s later life his late aunt when he came across a box of and works. She offers a literary appreciation of the documents. The Priscilla he found in the resulting short items (stories, poems, plays) contained in the investigation was glamorous, morally ambiguous and manuscript and considers the enduring importance to living the dangerous life of an Englishwoman in Austen’s art of the comic, even anarchic, spirit they occupied France. He finds out why her marriage to a represent. The facsimile edition, issued by Bodleian French aristocrat broke down, why she was interned in Library Publications, reveals for the first time the care a prisoner-of-war camp and how she escaped, and with which Austen crafted the manuscript, using its uncovers the Otto she was having an affair with when physical features as a vital part of the work’s meaning. Paris was liberated. Along the way, Shakespeare gained Austen’s family preserved the notebook as a treasured access to first-hand accounts and information about possession; since 1933 it has been held in the Bodleian life in occupied France. Library. The manuscript will be on display during the Shakespeare is a novelist and biographer. His novels talk. include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Sutherland is a professor in bibliography and textual Somerset Maugham Award and Betty Trask Award, and criticism at the University of Oxford. Snowleg, shortlisted for the 2004 Booker. His biography of Bruce Chatwin was published to Kathryn Sutherland widespread acclaim, and he has produced several extended biographies for television including of Chatwin and of Evelyn Waugh and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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143 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Vanessa Able Christopher Lloyd / John Gordon-Reid Never Mind the Bullocks What on Earth? Wallbooks 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Free presentations, Thursday, 27th to Sunday, Travel writer and journalist Vanessa Able tells how she 30th March in the marquee got behind the wheel of the world’s cheapest car, the Christopher Lloyd and his colleague, John Gordon-Reid, Tato Nano, for a 10,000-km trip around India. Able will stage dramatic presentations and talks with their braved white-knuckle traffic in the sub-continent’s big famous wall books for children over 6 and adults. cities, was helped by spiritual gurus and professional driving instructors, and narrowly escaped death by a Lloyd is the founder of What on Earth Publishing Ltd, truck. She learned to appreciate that the real kings of the company behind the What on Earth? wallbook. His the road were the bullocks, and fell in love with a books include: What on Earth Happened? and What on mathematician, Thor. Earth Evolved? Lloyd’s presentations, featuring his wallbooks and his coat of many pockets, are Able began writing for an English weekly in post- extremely popular in schools and at literary festivals Saddam Iraq before settling in Turkey where she was across the UK. editor in chief of Time Out Istanbul. She writes for several national and international newspapers and The talks will cover sessions on: magazines. Shakespeare, science and engineering, nature and sport This event is part of India Day at the festival, presented The schedule of talks is: by Kolkata Literary Meet. The FT Weekend Oxford Thursday 27th March Literary Festival will present an Oxford Day at the 11am – Shakespeare, 2pm – Science and Engineering, 2015 Kolkata Literary Meet. 4pm – Shakespeare Friday 28th March 11am – Science and Engineering, 2pm – Shakespeare, 4pm – Science and Engineering Saturday 29th March 11am – Shakespeare, 2pm – Science and Engineering, 4pm – Shakespeare Sunday 30th March 11am – Nature, 2pm – Science and Engineering, 4pm – Sport

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144 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 THURSDAY Alan titchmarsh

Bring Me Home

12 noon / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25 MARCH 2014 MARCH Broadcaster, celebrity gardener and novelist Alan Titchmarsh talks about his latest novel, Bring Me Home. It follows Charlie Stuart, owner of a Scottish castle, but a disappointed father of a group of grown- up children. His path to inheriting the castle had not been easy following his mother’s death while he was at school and his father’s marriage to an unwelcome stepmother. Now, 30 years after inheriting the castle he loves so much, the past is about to catch up with him and tear his family apart. Titchmarsh is known to millions as a broadcaster and presenter of daytime television and as the face of gardening shows such as Ground Force, Gardeners’ World and the BBC’s coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show. He is the UK’s best-known gardening celebrity and holds the highest award the Royal Horticultural Society can bestow, the Victoria Medal of Honour. He has written more than a dozen gardening and non-fiction books and three volumes of biography. In 2001, he turned to writing fiction and has published eight previous novels including Only Dad, Folly and The Haunting.

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145 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Roger Scruton Ben Crystal

e Soul of the World e Once and Future Shakespeare

12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 12 noon / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 Renowned philosopher As we approach Shakespeare’s 450th birthday Roger Scruton defends celebration, what do the next 50 years hold for his the sacred against works? Actor and producer Ben Crystal, author of fashionable forms of Shakespeare on Toast, Springboard Shakespeare, and atheism. He argues that co-author of Shakespeare’s Words and Shakespeare’s our friendships, intuitions Miscellany discusses why our current approach to and aesthetic judgements Shakespeare’s works may need to change, how we can cannot be understood learn from the practices of the past to see our way through science alone forward, and the dramatic effect these lessons may and that to be fully alive have on the existing canon. is to acknowledge the Excerpts from Shakespeare will be performed by reality of sacred things. Crystal and members of his Shakespeare ensemble, all His latest book, The Soul trained in cue-script rehearsal techniques, where each of the World, does not is only given their lines, and the first encounter with argue for the existence of one’s fellow actors is on stage, in front of a paying God but reflects on why a sense of the sacred is audience. essential to human life and what its loss would mean. He says that humans would not be at home without Ben Crystal the sacred. Scruton is a writer and philosopher who has written more than 40 books, including The Aesthetics of Music, The Face of God, and Green Philosophy. He is a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC.

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146 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 WOMEN IN SOCIETY THURSDAY Jans Ondaatje Rolls Roderick Matthews talks to Lucy Atkins e Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes e Indian uprising of 1857. for Life, Love and Art – with tastings New Perspectives MARCH 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Christ Church: Hall / £15 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Cookery writer Jans Ondaatje Rolls throws new light on Roderick Matthews takes a new the Bloomsbury Group with a particular eye on what view of the Indian Uprising of they were eating as they debated literature, life and 1857. Rejecting conventional the big issues of the time. Many of the biggest figures interpretations, he sees it as in early 20th-century art, literature and economics the single greatest disaster to gathered round the Bloomsbury Group dining table, befall the indigenous Indian including E M Forster, Roger Fry, J M Keynes, Lytton project of modernization, which it Strachey and Virginia Woolf. has also done a great deal to erase from history. It set back Indian self-government by decades. Matthews Rolls, also author of Bosham Bisque and Chester asks the question – should Indians revere the leaders Chowder, tells the story of the Bloomsbury Group in a of the Uprising as they do? The cruelty of the British series of narratives accompanied by an appropriate response has also clouded our understanding of recipe, sketches, paintings, photographs, quotations, imperial government, and has even bred a quite letters and handwritten notes. The book contains more unwarranted sentimentality for the late Mughal court. than 170 recipes from the personal recipe books of Time for fresh thinking. Bloomsbury Group members, including Frances Partridge, Helen Anrep, and David and Angelica Matthews, a freelance writer specialising in India, has Garnett, and from other contemporary sources. There published two books on Indian history, with two more will be an opportunity to taste food made from recipes to come in the next year. His second, Jinnah vs. Gandhi, in the book. was a best seller in India. He has also written and reviewed for, among others, the Observer, the Literary Rolls talks to Lucy Atkins, author of The Missing One. Review, the Independent on Sunday and the Times of Atkins appears with India Knight on March 29 to India. discuss ‘domestic chillers’. This event is part of India Day at the festival, presented Jans Ondaatje Rolls by Kolkata Literary Meet. The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival will present an Oxford Day at the 2015 Kolkata Literary Meet.

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147 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Mary Midgley Ben Ramalingam and talks to Gwenan Edwards John Holmes talk to Bidisha Are you an Illusion? Aid on the Edge of Chaos: How Do We Make it Count 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: Renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgley Seminar Room / £11 investigates the self and defends the importance of our Two leading experts discuss the future of aid to the own experiences against the scientific orthodoxy that developing world. Are current forms of aid having the regards the self to be nothing more than an elaborate desired impact on poverty and helping people to illusion. Midgley argues that the subjective sources of develop sustainably? If not, why not? And what can thought are necessary to our world and that countries and charities do to ensure that the resources philosophical problems in causality, subjectivity, they contribute help to break the cycle of poverty? empiricism, free will and determinism have been glossed over by scientists claiming the self is no more Ben Ramalingam is a researcher, writer and consultant than a jumble of cells. She investigates the gap that on international development and humanitarian issues has opened up between our own sense of the self and who has worked with leading charities and government current scientific thinking. organisations. In his book, Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Co-operation in a Complex Midgley is one of the most respected philosophers of World, he argues that current methods of providing aid her generation. She is the author of many books are outdated in today’s complex world and that by including Beast and Man, Wickedness and The Solitary embracing ideas of ‘complex systems thinking’ aid can Self. She is particularly known for her work on science, be transformed for the 21st century. ethics and animal rights. Sir John Holmes, a former diplomat now director of Gwenan Edwards is a journalist and a presenter for the Ditchley Foundation, was UN under-secretary- BBC Television. general for humanitarian affairs between 2007 and 2010 and was responsible for supplying UN relief to Photo: Martin Midgley Photo: Martin Mary Midgley areas such as Sri Lanka, Darfur, Somalia and the Congo. In The Politics of Humanity: The Reality of Relief Aid, he describes how the UN’s relief efforts were tolerated in the world’s trouble spots but often mistrusted and undermined by both sides in a conflict. Here they talk to critic, journalist and broadcaster Bidisha.

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In association with FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES Festival Ideas Partner 148 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 THURSDAY David Rothery Anjali Joseph and Prajwal Parajuly talk to Bidisha Planets: A Very Short Introduction New Indian Writing

1.15pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 2014 MARCH Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short The last few years has seen a big talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The rise in contemporary Indian talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell Marquee, writing translated into English. next to the Sheldonian Theatre. Here, as part of the festival’s new India Day presented by Senior lecturer in earth sciences at the Open Kolkata Literary Meet, two new University David Rothery gives an overview of the solar Indian-born novelists talk about system and its origins. He describes the worlds that the themes running though their new novels. Anjali make up our solar system – the terrestrial planets, Joseph’s Another Country follows 20-something Leela giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects who finds no straightforward answers about who she is such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans- or where she belongs, wherever she goes – Paris, Neptunian objects – and considers how our knowledge London or Bombay – or whatever she does. The novel has advanced. is about growing up and discovering that what you want is very different from what you thought it would David Rothery be. Prajwal Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee sees three grandchildren returning from London, Colorado and New York to their native Gangtok for their grandmother’s 84th birthday. All three have their issues and each wants to emerge from the celebrations with nerves intact and their grandmother’s blessing. Anjali was born in Bombay and read English at Cambridge. She graduated with distinction from the Sponsored by MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and India’s Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Another Country was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Parajuly’s hometown is in the Indian Himalayas but he now divides his time between New York and Oxford. His debut collection of short stories, The Gurkha’s Daughter, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

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149 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Jeremy Paxman Christ Church Picture Gallery Great Britain’s Great War Drawing in Siena from Sodama to Salimbeni 2pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £15-£50 One of Britain’s best-known broadcasters Jeremy Ten rarely seen drawings from Paxman explains what life was really like for the the Christ Church collection British during World War I. The Newsnight presenter brings to life the experiences of people during the 5 February to 19th May whole war, whether politicians, soldiers, journalists, nurses, factory workers, wives or children. Renaissance drawing and design is mainly Traditional images reinforce the view that the war associated with Florence and has dominated was a pointless waste of life, so why did the nation Tuscan art, despite the importance of other fight so willingly and endure suffering for so long? Paxman uses a wealth of first-hand source material artistic centres in Tuscany. The display of ten to explain how life and identity in Britain were drawings from Siena will show that Sienese completely transformed by the experience, often artists could measure up to their great for the better. Florentine rivals. Paxman is an award-winning journalist best known as the presenter of BBC 2’s Newsnight and for his combative interviewing style. He is author of seven non-fiction books including The English, The Political Animal and Empire, and presenter of University Challenge. Photo:Dave Williams

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodama (1477–1549), Portrait of a Young Man. The prominent inscription on the drawing, attributing it to Leonardo, was, unfortunately, wishful thinking of the 16th century.

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150 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 THURSDAY Jim Eyre

e transformation of the New Bodleian 2pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 2014 MARCH Architect Jim Eyre explains the transformation of the Jim Eyre New Bodleian into a new library, the Weston Library, for the Bodleian’s special collections and for major new facilities for public exhibitions and events. The changes will expand public access to some of the Bodleian’s great treasures, create a new entrance to the library The New Bodleian Library was designed by Sir Gilbert from Broad Street leading into a central hall and Scott in the 1930s and its redesign is being led by provide reading rooms and seminar rooms for Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The Wilkinson Eyre design academics and students. Among the Bodleian’s aims to respect the character of the original building, treasures are two Shakespeare first folios, four Magna open up the central space and relate the whole Cartas, the papers of six British prime ministers and building much better to its surroundings. Eyre is thousands of medieval manuscripts. director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

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Down to the Sea in Ships Sheila: e Australian Legend who Bewitched British Society 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Bestselling nature writer Horatio Clare describes his Investigative journalist Robert Wainwright tells the journey across the oceans on cargo ships to chronicle extraordinary life of one of the most glamorous society the collision of man and sea. Clare joined two women of the first half of the 20th century. container ships and travelled with their crews and Wainwright shows how Sheila Chisholm rose from captains from Felixstowe to Los Angeles via Suez and childhood on a remote Australian sheep station to from Antwerp to Montreal. He tells the story of a become a society lady with connections that ran from largely unseen world where ordinary men are living Buckingham Palace and Downing Street to Hollywood extraordinary lives and facing dangers from hurricanes and the Kennedys. She married three times – to a to pirates. It is also a story of how big business Scottish Lord, an English baron and a Russian prince – operates afloat. attracted many suitors, including a future king and Rudolf Valentino, and was friends with Evelyn Waugh, Clare is author of two memoirs, Running for the Hills, Wallis Simpson, Idina Sackville and Nancy Mitford. winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and Truant; of a travel book, A Single Swallow; and of a novella, The Wainwright, a journalist for 30 years and author of Prince’s Pen. He writes regularly on nature for the Daily eight books, uncovers the real story of Sheila Chisholm Telegraph and on travel for a variety of publications. and throws light on some of the scandals of the first half of the 20th century. He will also appear at a panel Horatio Clare event at the festival to discuss investigative journalism.

Robert Wainwright

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies New Building tours Christopher Lloyd 2pm / 2.30pm / 3pm / Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies / Free What on Earth? Tours, lasting 30 minutes, take place daily between Tuesday, March 25, and Saturday, March 29, at 2pm, Science & Engineering 2.30pm and 3pm, at the Oxford Centre for Islamic 2pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free Studies, Marston Road, Oxford. See page 87 for full See Thursday at 11am for further details details. Note: Tickets are free but must be booked either online or through the festival box office. Presented by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

156 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 THURSDAY Jill Dawson Michael Blastland and talks to Jem Poster David Spiegelhalter e tell-tale Heart e Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 2pm / Oxford Martin School: 2014 MARCH Novelist Jill Dawson Seminar Room / £11 talks to fellow writer Journalist and broadcaster Michael Blastland and and the festival’s academic expert Professor David Speigelhalter present academic director, their clever, entertaining and original take on risk. They Professor Jem Poster, follow Norm, an average guy, and his friends, the risk- about her new work, averse Prudence, and hard-living Kelvin, for a look at The Tell-Tale Heart. risk, chance, probability and coincidence. Through the story of 50-year-old professor, Blastland and Spiegelhalter introduce two new Patrick, who receives a measurements of risk, a micro mort – a million in one new heart from a chance of death, and a micro life – 30 minutes of life. teenager killed in a Find out what is the bigger risk, an all-body health scan motorcycle accident, or standing a mile-and-a-half from the epicentre of she explores the Hiroshima bomb. How do the risks compare for an fundamental questions average soldier in Afghanistan with those of a World about identity, the War II aircrew, and what are the risks of a glass of wine symbolic meaning of the heart and the possibility of or two, that cigarette, an extra sausage on your plate change. Patrick, a drinker and womaniser, recovers well or watching two hours of television? from his transplant but has a feeling the his ‘old life Blastland is a journalist and BBC Radio 4 broadcaster. won’t have him’. He becomes intensely intrigued about He co-authored with Andrew Dilnot The Tiger that Isn’t. the heart donor and what shaped him. Spiegelhalter is Winton Professor of the Public The Tell-Tale Heart is Dawson’s eighth novel. Fred and Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Edie was shortlisted for the Whitbread and Orange University of Cambridge. awards. She is director of Gold Dust, a mentoring scheme for writers.

Jill Dawson

Michael Blastland David Spiegelhalter

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157 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Ian McEwan talks to Richard Ovenden

e 2014 Bodley Lecture and Award of Bodley Medal to Ian McEwan

4pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £15-£50 Highly acclaimed novelist and Booker winner Ian McEwan talks to Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden about his life and work and receives the prestigious Bodley Medal for his outstanding contribution to literature. McEwan is the author of many award-winning and critically acclaimed novels including The Child in Time, winner of the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, winner of the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, winner of the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, On Chesil Beach, and Solar. His most recent novel is Sweet Tooth, a story about Cambridge undergraduate Serena Frome who is being groomed for work with MI5 in the Cold War era of the 1970s. She is sent on a secret mission that brings her into the world of promising young writer Tom Haley. She begins to love the man, but can she keep her cover of espionage? And must she abandon the first rule of espionage – to trust no one? McEwan’s achievements will be recognised at the end of this event by the award of the Bodley Medal by Bodley’s Librarian, Richard Ovenden. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to individuals who have made outstanding Ian McEwan contributions to the worlds of culture, learning, science and communication. Past winners include writer and actor Alan Bennett, film director Lord Attenborough, inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, technology pioneer John Warnock, and last year’s recipient, the novelist Hilary Mantel.

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158 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 THURSDAY Arne Dahl talks to Bill Heine Harry Eyres

Bad Blood Horace: Helping us to Live and Wine-tasting 4pm / Corpus Christi Collage / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Hall / £20 2014 MARCH Award-winning Swedish The Roman poet Horace crime novelist Arne Dahl was a lover of good wine introduces Bad Blood, and gave us such sayings the second book in his as ‘Now we must drink’ series about a team of and ‘carpe diem – sieze elite specialists who the day’. Journalist Harry investigate the dark side Eyres, creator of the of Swedish society. It Slow Lane column in the follows The Blinded Man, Financial Times, has and both novels have written a book, Horace been adapted for and Me, which sets out television and have been to show how the poet shown by BBC Four. In still has much to teach Bad Blood, the team us about dealing with receives a call from the life today. He explains FBI to say that a how Horace can help us navigate through difficult murderer, whose methods resemble those of a serial times and offers some wine to taste along the way. killer believed dead, is on his way to Sweden. Rome was facing a profound crisis in Horace’s day and, while efficiency and pragmatism were its watchwords, Dahl, who is travelling over from Sweden, has won Horace championed poetry, friendship and wine. several awards for crime fiction including the German Crime Award and the Danish Crime Writing Award. Eyres has worked as a wine writer, theatre critic and Here he talks to the BBC Radio Oxford broadcaster poetry editor. His Slow Lane column in the Financial Bill Heine. Times encourages enjoyment of the profound and free pleasures and values that make life worth living.

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Arne Dahl

159 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Richard Davenport-Hines Alexander Lee

One Hundred Letters From e ugly Renaissance: Sex, Disease Hugh trevor-Roper and Excess in an Age of Beauty 4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Hugh Trevor-Roper was not only one of the most gifted Historian Alexander Lee says the smile of the Mona historians of his generation but also one of the finest Lisa hides a seamy, vicious world of power politics, letter-writers. Biographers Richard Davenport-Hines perversity and corruption. The Renaissance is renowned and Adam Sisman have brought together 100 letters as an age of beauty and artistic brilliance, but it was an that illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s life. age populated by corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, Davenport-Hines explains what the letters reveal about sex-crazed priests, extravagance, excess and disease. the man, his intellectual sparkle, curiosity and playful Lee says that the sublime works of the Renaissance irony. He also throws light on his triumphant The Last were not the product of high-minded ideals but were Days of Hitler, his embarrassment over the Hitler created by flawed artists who lived in an age of bigotry diaries and his stormy period as master of Peterhouse. and hatred. Davenport-Hines is a historian and literary biographer Lee is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the and former research fellow at the London School of Renaissance at the University of Warwick. He has Economics. He won the Wolfson prize for Dudley written many studies on the Italian Renaissance Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior. including Petrarch and St Augustine: Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology, and the Origins of the Richard Davenport-Hines Renaissance in Italy.

Alexander Lee

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth? Shakespeare 4pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free See Thursday at 11am for further details

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Farmageddon: e true Cost of Cheap Meat 4pm / Oxford Martin School: 2014 MARCH Seminar Room / £11 The chief executive of Compassion in World Farming Philip Lymbery uncovers the trend towards mega- farming that he says is threatening our countryside, farms and food. He says farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as food production becomes a global industry. And the recent horsemeat scandal demonstrates that we no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain. Lymbery collaborated with Sunday Times journalist Isabel Oakesott on Farmageddon, an investigation into mega- farming that ranges from the UK to Europe, the USA, China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. Lymbery is a lifelong wildlife enthusiast. Under his leadership, Compassion in World Farming has won the Observer Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year and BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming awards for Best Campaigner and Educator.

Philip Lymbery

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161 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 Robert Eaglestone Alfred Brendel talks to Nicholas Kenyon Contemporary Fiction: A Pianist’s A-Z A Very Short Introduction 5.15pm / Blackwell's Marquee / Free 6pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £15-£50 Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short One of the greatest living musicians Alfred Brendel talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The talks to former director of the BBC Proms, now talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell's Marquee. managing director of the Barbican, Sir Nicholas Kenyon about his life and career. Brendel is a pianist Literature professor Robert Eaglestone explores the world-renowned for his interpretations of the great main themes, patterns and debates of contemporary composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, fiction, covering genre, form, experimentalism, Brahms and Liszt. He was born in what is now the modernism, postmodernism, globalisation and Czech Republic and spent his childhood travelling terrorism, and the impact of technology. He examines through Yugoslavia and Austria. Although he had his how works reflect the world in which we live and the first piano lessons at the age of six, he had little artistic concerns of writers and readers. Eaglestone is formal training and regards his unconventional professor of contemporary literature and thought at musical background as an advantage. Royal Holloway, University of London. Brendel slowly built his career to the point where his Robert Eaglestone discography was the most extensive of any pianist and his performances were guaranteed to sell out across the world. He has won countless awards for his recording, and his musical awards include the Léonie Sonning Prize, the Siemens Prize and the Prix Venezia. Now retired from the stage, he is able to pass on his experience in master classes, readings and lectures. He has also recently published A Pianist’s A-Z: A Piano Lover’s Reader, which he says Sponsored by ‘distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession’, and from which he will read during the event. Photo: Benjamin EalovegaPhoto:Benjamin

Alfred Brendel

162 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 THURSDAY David and Hilary Crystal Damon Galgut

Wordsmiths & Warriors: e English- Arctic Summer: Life and Work Language tourist’s Guide to Britain of E M Forster 6pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 6pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 2014 MARCH World-renowned writer Acclaimed novelist Damon Galgut on the English language evokes the life and work of E M David Crystal and his Forster, including his travels to wife Hilary drove India and the freedom and thousands of miles inspiration he found there, in across Britain to compile a fictional exploration of the a unique English- great writer’s life. Galgut explores language history and Forster’s trips to India, his struggle to find a way of travelogue. Wordsmiths living and being and the creative processes that went and Warriors explores the into providing some of the finest novels of his heritage of the English generation. language through the Galgut was born in Pretoria and wrote his first novel at places that shaped it. 17. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man The Crystals link the Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the invaders and warriors Dublin / IPMAC Award. In A Strange Room was also who transformed the language with the poets, scholars shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. and reformers who shaped its character. The result is a book where warriors such as Byrhtnoth and King Alfred This event is part of India Day at share pages with wordsmiths such as Robert Burns and the festival, presented by Kolkata Tim Bobbin. Literary Meet. The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival will present David Crystal’s recent works include The Story of an Oxford Day at the 2015 Kolkata English in 100 Words and Spell It Out: The Singular Story Literary Meet. of English Spelling. Hilary Crystal worked for a while in Photo:Maister Nigel clinical linguistic research before becoming a sub- Damon Galgut editor for various volumes in the Cambridge and Penguin families of encyclopedias. She has designed several books, and her first novel for tweenagers was published in 2013.

David and Hilary Crystal

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163 tHuRSDAy 27MARCH 2014 tim Dee and James Cook David Stuttard

Poetry Please: A Celebration Parthenon: Power and Politics on the Acropolis 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 Tim Dee and James Cook from the BBC Poetry Unit in Classicist, writer and theatre director David Stuttard Bristol present a celebration of the most requested tells the dramatic story of the conception and creation poems in the history of the Radio 4 broadcast Poetry of one of the world’s most iconic buildings, the Please. This unique event marks the publication of Parthenon in Athens. It symbolises Greece today and, Faber’s Poetry Please anthology, and tells the story of in the fifth century BC, was the embodiment of the the world’s longest-running poetry programme, power of the city’s empire and of its politicians, artists through live readings, audience requests and recorded and citizens. Stuttard places the Parthenon in its material from the show’s 34-year archive of our best- historical context, examines its place in the wider loved poems. ancient world and looks at its subsequent history. BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please is the longest-running Stuttard has a background in classics and drama. He is broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in well known for translating and directing Greek plays 1979, the programme, a request show that broadcasts and is also author of several books including AD410, to one million listeners a week, has become a unique The Year That Shook Rome; and The Romans Who record of the country’s best-loved poems over the Shaped Britain, both co-written with well-known decades since its inception. archaeologist Sam Moorhead.

Tim Dee David Stuttard

164 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • oxfordliteraryfestival.org 27 MUSIC AND WORDS WITH DAVID FREEMAN THURSDAY Ian Goldin Eric Bibb talks to David Freeman

e Princeton Lecture: Stories of the Blues e Butterﬂy Defect – How

Globalisation Creates Systemic Risks 2014 MARCH 8pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 6pm / Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre / Award-winning and world-renowned Blues singer- £11 songwriter Eric Bibb tells some of his favourite stories Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including to broadcaster David Freeman and performs the songs growth in incomes, education, innovation and they have inspired. Bibb’s career spans four decades connectivity. Professor Ian Goldin, director of the and includes 35 albums, countless radio and television Oxford Martin School, argues that it also has the shows and non-stop touring. His noted albums include potential to destabilise our societies. In The Butterfly the Grammy-nominated children’s album Shakin’ a Defect, to be published in May, he and co-author Mike Tailfeather; Friends; two collaborations with his father, Mariathasan, assistant professor of finance at the Leon Gibb, A Family Affair and Praising Peace: A Tribute University of Vienna, argue that the recent financial to Paul Robeson; and, more recently, Booker’s Guitar. crisis is an example of the risks that the world will face Bibb is an American-born acoustic blues singer- in the coming decades. The risks spread across supply songwriter, currently living in Finland. His first big break chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology, climate was with the album Good Stuff, released in 1997, and change, economics and politics. Unless these risks are he has since gone on to build an international addressed, says Golding, they could lead to greater reputation. protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism and to deglobalisation, rising conflict and slower growth. Goldin is professor of globalisation and development at the University of Oxford. He is a former vice-president of the World Bank and advisor to President Nelson Mandela. His books include Divided Nations, Globalisation for Development, and Exceptional People.

Ian Goldin

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FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Sally Potter James Campbell

Naked Cinema: Working with Actors e Library: Great Buildings of the World 10am / Corpus Christi College / £11 10am / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 One of Britain’s leading filmmakers, Sally Potter, offers Architectural and art historian James Campbell an insight into getting the best out of people, based on travelled to 21 countries with photographer Will Pryce her experiences of working with leading actors such as to document 82 great library buildings. Campbell tells Jude Law and Dame Judi Dench. Potter is the award- the story of the library from the invention of writing in winning writer/director of The Goldiggers, Orlando, The ancient Mesopotamia to modern China, where libraries Tango Lesson, The Man Who Cried, Yes, Rage, and Ginger are still being constructed today. The selection of and Rosa. She is renowned for her rapport with actors libraries, each illustrated by Pryce’s images, shows how and for the brilliant performances she is able to extract the acquisition of books led collectors and the wealthy from them. and powerful to commission magnificent buildings that would showcase their learning and culture. Here she demonstrates how to work positively with Campbell says it is evident that libraries must change people and extract the best from them. She will use but he argues they have always developed and will examples from her work with the likes of Dench, Law, continue to do so to meet the different needs of today. Tilda Swinton and Johnny Depp to show how actors and directors work together to drive the energy and Campbell is fellow in architecture and history of art, creativity that go into making a great film, and how Queens’ College, Cambridge, and also author with that can be used in other walks of life. Pryce of Building St Paul’s and Brick: A World History.

Sally Potter James Campbell

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170 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY robert Twigger and Toby Wilkinson. Matthew Kneale Chaired by david Freeman

e Nile: From Ancient Civilizations An Atheist’s history of Belief 2014 MARCH to the Arab Spring 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Award-winning novelist and non-believer Matthew Kneale argues that religion is not simply an expression of unreason but the greatest creation of the human imagination. He looks to history rather than science to disprove religion, arguing that religions are far less original than they claim to be and that most are a hotchpotch of ideas stolen from other beliefs. Religions, he says, evolved over time in response to believers’ needs and, once you understand that, you can never see them as truth again. Kneale is author of several novels including English Passengers, winner of the Whitbread Award and A poet and adventurer and a Toby Wilkinson shortlisted for the Booker. leading Egyptologist discuss the past and present of the Miuccio Photo:Liana Matthew Kneale fabled River Nile, a source of religion, life, stories, the script we use for writing, and the languages we speak. Robert Twigger led the first expedition to cross the Egyptian Sahara on foot, and in Red Nile: A Biography of the Robert Twigger World’s Greatest River, he turns his attention to the river that gives life to a large swathe of Egypt. Twigger, winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry and the Somerset Maugham Award for Literature, tells the story of the river from ancient times to the Arab Spring, recounting the most colourful stories in its history. Dr Toby Wilkinson is one of the leading Egyptologists of his generation and winner of the Hessel-Tiltman Prize for The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt. In The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present, he tells how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization and how it sustained its successors. It is a story of ancient gods, pharaohs, emperors, adventurers, archaeologists and historians, whose fates were all entwined with the river. Supported by Eileen and Munir Majid

171 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Nick Barlay

Scattered Ghosts: One Family’s Survival rough War, holocaust and revolution 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 Acclaimed novelist and journalist Nick Barlay tells the story of 200 years of Hungarian history through the eyes of his own large family. Barlay was born to Hungarian-Jewish refugee parents and has used family possessions, memories and extensive investigation and travel to research his family’s experiences of revolutions, the Austro-Hungarian empire, totalitarian regimes, two world wars and of contemporary Britain. Barlay is the author of four novels, including Curvy Lovebox and Hooky Gear, award-winning radio plays, and his journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Times and Time Out.

Nick Barlay

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What on Earth? Science & Engineering 11am / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free See Thursday at 11am for further details Photo:Chris LibraryOxfordPicture / Andrews

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172 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY Students of Oxford Academy and richard Overy of Oxford Brookes MA Creative Writing Course

e Bombing War: 2014 MARCH Our Words Europe 1939-1945 11am / Christ Church: Hall / £7 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 Historian Professor Richard Overy tells the full story of the bombing campaigns that dominated the war in Europe and the terrible, military, technological and ethical issues that drove all sides into an abyss. Overy gives the first full account of bombing campaigns that affected Europe. He shows how the more bombing failed to deliver a knockout blow, the greater the effort that went into bombing cities and civilian populations, eroding the ethical and moral constraints that had once operated for British, American and German forces. Overy is professor of history at the University of Exeter and author of a series of books on World War II Oxford Brookes and wider European disasters, including The Dictators: University, the Oxford Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, winner of the Academy in Littlemore, prestigious Wolfson Prize and of the Hessell-Tiltman Oxford, and the FT Prize. Weekend Oxford Literary Festival are running a Richard Overy joint project with year 7 and 8 Academy pupils, coached by three Oxford Brookes MA Creative Writing students: Mary Chesshyre, Beth Grimsdale, and Morgan Feldman. The Brookes students have been Sponsored by voluntarily visiting a group of the Academy children every week since January, to work collaboratively on a writing project. The project comes to an exciting end in two ways: the reading and launch at the festival of a full publication of their writing. This project is in its third year. Of this event in 2013, Jeremy Smith of the Oxford Mail wrote: ‘Both the quality of their writing and the assuredness of their performances made me fear for my job.’

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173 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Alexander McCall Smith

What W h Auden Can do For you

12 noon / Sheldonian Theatre / £15-£50 Photo:EddieGallacher In an hour of gentle wisdom and good cheer, one of the world’s most prolific and popular authors Alexander McCall Smith explains his long-held fascination with the poet W H Auden, introduces his new stand-alone novel, The Forever Girl, and explores the recent activities of Precious Ramotswe in Botswana and Bertie in Edinburgh. In his book, What W H Auden Can Do For You, a tribute to Auden, he reveals how his life has related to and been inspired by Auden’s poems since he first encountered them in the 1970s. McCall Smith is best known for his bestselling books in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. At this event, he will talk about his new novel, a story of unrequited love travelling the globe from the Caribbean, through Scotland, to Australia and finally Singapore. He will explore what Auden has done for him and give us a sneaky peak at the next book in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Café and the latest in the Scotland Street series, Bertie’s Guide to Life and Mothers.

McCall Smith has had a varied career. He was a Alexander McCall Smith professor of medical law before publication of the highly successful No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold more than 20 million copies. His work has been translated into 40 languages and appeared in bestseller lists across the world. He has also written more than 30 books for children and was awarded a CBE for services to literature.

174 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY Simon Walker Kamila Shamsie

To Bless the Space Between Us A God in Every Stone 2014 MARCH

12 noon / Bodleian, Divinity School / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Simon P Walker explores Benedictus, the last work by Kamila Shamsie has been late Irish poet, author and priest John O’Donohue, with chosen by Granta as one readings by Tracey Shotliff and Milly Sinclair. Prior to of the Best of Young British his unexpected death in 2008, O’Donohue published Writers of 2013. Here she Benedictus, A Book of Blessings. The remarkable poetic talks about her new novel, invocations in this book offer a ‘shelter’ for those A God in Every Stone, a crossing thresholds in their lives, reawakening an older powerful story of form of speaking lost from our modern world. This is friendship, injustice, love an opportunity to sit under some of O’Donohue’s and betrayal. In 1914, a haunting benedictions, and to hear Walker explore the young Englishwoman, art of blessing as a way to accompany those Vivian Rose Spencer, is negotiating the boundaries of life. living in an ancient land and discovering the call of Walker is an author, thinker and speaker. He returns to adventure and ecstasy of Oxford three years after launching his most recent love. Thousands of miles away 20-year-old Pathan, book, The Undefended Life, at the 2011 festival. Qayyum Gul, is serving in the British Indian Army. A He has written extensively about the decline of social year later, Gul returns home after losing an eye at mobility in Britain. Walker taught at Oxford University Ypres and Vivian is following the trail of her beloved. from 2003-9 and has lectured internationally from They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a Africa to India, America and Europe. connection is about to be forged that will dramatically bring them together again 15 years later. Simon Walker Shamsie is the author of five novels including Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange prize and translated into 20 languages. She has received three awards from Pakistan’s Academy of Letters and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Kamila Shamsie

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175 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Alex Monroe ian Goldin, robyn Norton and Sarah harper Two Turtle doves: is the Planet Full? A Memoir of Making ings 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Lecture Theatre / £11 World-famous jewellery designer Alex Monroe reveals Can our planet continue to support a growing how he grew from being a small, curious boy in the population estimated to reach 10 billion people by the Suffolk coutryside to the owner of one of the most middle of the century? Are there unexplored benefits successful and iconic jewellery brands. Monroe grew up in increasing numbers of people in the world? And how in the 1970s in a giant, crumbling house without can we harness the benefits of a healthier, wealthier visible parental influence but with sisters and brothers and longer-living population? to love him and look out for him. Creativity became a Professor Ian Goldin, director of the Oxford Martin compulsion for him, whether he was designing go- School, Professor Robyn Norton, co-director of The carts, crossbows, guns, boats, bikes or scooters. In Two George Institute for Global Health at the Oxford Turtle Doves, he traces how an idea is transformed Martin School, Professor Sarah Harper, director, Oxford from a fleeting thought into an exquisite piece of Institute of Population Ageing at the Oxford Martin jewellery. School and professor of gerontology at the University of Oxford, and Dr Toby Ord, a James Martin fellow at Monroe trained at Sir John Cass School of Art in the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Whitechapel. He set up his business, Alex Monroe Future Technology, introduce a series of essays by Jewellery, in London in 1986. His work is strongly leading academics on the planet and population. The inspired by nature and British eccentricity. collection has been edited by Goldin and includes contributions from him, Norton, Harper, Ord and Alex Monroe fellow academics from the Universities of Oxford and Sydney and from the Club of Rome. Goldin is professor of globalisation and development at the University of Oxford. He is a former vice-president of the World Bank and advisor to President Nelson Mandela. His books include Divided Nations, Globalisation for Development, and Exceptional People. He also gives the festival’s Princeton Lecture on The Butterfly Defect.

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176 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY Peter higgins Count Arthur Strong talks to Paul Blezard

Numbers: A Very Short introduction rough it All i’ve Always Laughed 2014 MARCH

1.15pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Radio and television talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The comedy star Count talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell Marquee, Arthur Strong talks next to the Sheldonian Theatre. to broadcaster and writer Paul Blezard Professor Peter Higgins of the University of Essex takes about his hilarious an accessible and non-technical look at the rich variety autobiography, of numbers including primes, imaginary and complex Through It All I’ve numbers, to infinity and beyond, and explains how Always Laughed. they behave. He demonstrates how numbers are used Count Arthur is a in modern practical applications such as the encryption showbusiness of confidential data. legend, after-dinner speaker and leading Peter Higgins authority on Ancient Egypt, where he did his national service. The Count will read from his autobiography and take questions from the audience. Confusion and laughter is guaranteed. Count Arthur, aka Steve Delaney, is the star of Count Arthur’s Radio Show, which opened on Radio 4 to huge Sponsored by critical acclaim in 2005. The sitcom follows a confused and muddled day in the life of one-time variety star Count Arthur Strong, who has delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and a tendency to use malapropisms. It won the 2009 Sony Award for Best Radio Comedy. Its success led to the television version, aired on BBC 2 in summer 2013. A second television series has been commissioned for BBC2 in late 2015.

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177 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Melvyn Bragg Linda Blair

Grace and Mary e Key to Calm: Five Steps to Mindfulness – And Beyond 2pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25 One of Britain’s best-known novelists and the 2pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 country’s leading broadcaster on the arts, Lord Psychologist Linda Blair shares her five-step plan for Melvyn Bragg, talks about his latest novel, Grace and finding balance, purpose and tranquillity in everyday Mary. The novel follows one man’s re-creation of a life. She uses her 30 years’ experience as a clinical forgotten family history following visits to his ageing psychologist to approach such questions as: What is mother, Mary, in her nursing home and his attempts the best way to start the day? How much sleep do you to rekindle her fading memories of the past. He finds need? Does what you eat affect your mood? Are you himself delving into the secrets of Mary’s fractured using your abilities to best advantage? Is your social childhood and the sorrows of her spirited mother, life as fulfilling as it could be? Grace. Blair is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Bragg has written many novels and works of non- Society and a chartered scientist. She writes regularly fiction including Without a City Wall, winner of the for national newspapers and often appears on John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and The Soldier’s Return, television and radio. Her last book, Birth Order, on how winner of the W H Smith Literary Award. Three other your position in the family affects your personality, novels were longlisted for the Booker prize. He is was highly acclaimed. particularly known for his work as editor and presenter for more than 20 years of the ITV arts Linda Blair programme, The South Bank Show, and won an academy fellowship at the Bafta Television Awards in 2010.

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Mrs Moneypenny’s Careers Advice for England’s 100 Best Views 2014 MARCH Ambitious Women 2pm / Christ Church: Hall / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Mrs Moneypenny is a former investment banker who One of Britain’s best-known journalists and chairman has been entertaining readers of the Financial Times of the National Trust Simon Jenkins picks some of his with her weekly column about her business, three favourite views, telling the stories behind them and children and sport-obsessed husband for 14 years. explaining how they have inspired artists and writers. Here, the high-flying, super-connected, super-woman is Jenkins ranges from iconic views such as the White on a mission to get you ahead at work, with advice Cliffs of Dover and Hadrian’s Wall to less well known from nurturing your network to the art of outsourcing. ones. And he questions what makes a landscape beautiful and looks at what humans do to enhance or Mrs Moneypenny is author of several books including ruin a landscape. His intention, he says, is not only to Mrs Moneypenny: Survival in the City and Mrs examine a landscape but also our emotions in Moneypenny: Email from Tokyo. She has presented the responding to it. Channel 4 series Superscrimpers and appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe. Heather McGregor is a leading Jenkins is former editor of The Times and Evening London headhunter. She owns and runs Taylor Standard and now a columnist on the Guardian. He has Bennett and chairs the educational charity, Career written several bestselling books including A Short Academies UK. History of England, England’s Thousand Best Churches and England’s Thousand Best Houses. Heather McGregor Photo: NTPL Photo: – John Millar

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179 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Averil Cameron Tilly Culme-Seymour

Byzantine Matters island Summers: Memoirs of a Norwegian Childhood 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 Historian Professor Averil Cameron says there are many Food and travel writer Tilly Culme-Seymour recounts misconceptions about Byzantium and argues that it is the summers spent on a Norwegian island bought by important to integrate the civilization into wider her grandmother, Mor-Mor, in 1947. Family legend says histories. She explains why Byzantium should be that Mor-Mor bought Småhølmene in exchange for a central to debates about the relationships between mink coat. Every summer, she would take her young West and East, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and family away from their home in the English Eastern Orthodoxy and the ancient and medieval countryside to roam the island. She would scandalise periods. Prejudices, says Cameron, still deform both locals by wandering naked, while the children spent popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine days stealing gull eggs, rowing on the lagoon and civilization. foraging for wild raspberries. Thirty-five years later, Culme-Seymour experienced the same childhood Cameron is professor emeritus of late antique and rituals on the island with her own mother. Byzantine history at the University of Oxford and former warden of Keble College, Oxford. Her books Tilly Culme-Seymour include The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, The Byzantines, and The Later Roman Empire.

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180 Box Office 0870 343 1001• www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY Emma Bridgewater Brian Sewell

Toast and Marmalade Sleeping with dogs: 2014 MARCH and Other Stories A Peripheral Autobiography 4pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 4pm / Bodleian: Divinity School / £11 Britain’s most famous and controversial art critic Brian Sewell is also a passionate dog lover. He tells the story of 17 dogs he has known over 80 years of life, many of which were rescued, including from the Emma Bridgewater’s distinctive kitchen pottery railings of Kensington features on dresser shelves across the country. The Garden, the wilds of homely and welcoming designs include sweet peas and Turkey and from figs and the bold calligraphy of toast and marmalade. animal homes. They Here she talks about her life and designs and some of range from a Jack the stories that have provided the inspiration for her Russell to an Alsatian, hand-decorated pottery. half-boxer, half-pointer and a whippet with a noble pedigree. All of them were companions who shared Bridgewater founded her pottery business in Stoke-on- Sewell’s bed and rewarded him with loyalty and Trent, the home of British pottery manufacture, in affection. 1985 and has been designing its wares ever since. Sewell has been art critic of the London Evening Standard since 1984. He is widely known for his outspoken views on conceptual art and the Turner Prize. He studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute under the tutelage of Anthony Blunt, worked at Christie’s as an expert in Old Masters, and has been a consultant to museums and galleries. His television work includes The Naked Pilgrim on a pilgrimage to Santiago, and Dirty Dali: A Private View.

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181 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Margaret drabble Jacek hugo-Bader talks to Susan hitch e Life and Works of Jules Verne Kolyma diaries: A Journey into russia’s haunted hinterland 4pm / Christ Church: Hall / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Novelist and critic Dame Margaret Drabble discusses Polish journalist Jacek Hugo-Bader recounts his journey the life and works of Jules Verne. Known primarily as a through one of the remotest and baddest parts of master of science fiction writing, Verne is a figure Russia. Hugo-Bader travelled the 2,000km Kolyma whose reach goes beyond the boundaries of genre. A highway hearing the tales of those who live in the hugely influential writer concerned with the outermost region and being plied with vodka. The stories are of peripheries of scientific possibility, Verne was ‘a darling the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of of the French avant-garde’, and his thrilling narratives miners digging for gold and finding mass burials, of continue to resonate with generations of readers and conmen and corrupt politicians, and of sportsmen who writers. have run away to Russia’s remotest region to escape their troubles. Drabble is the author of The Pure Gold Baby, and she has recently introduced The Folio Society’s edition of Hugo-Bader is a journalist for the leading Polish daily, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. She has Gazeta Wyborcz, and author of the acclaimed White published 17 novels and is a winner of the John Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia. Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Hugo-Bader talks to former presenter of BBC Radio Memorial Prize and the Golden PEN Award. Her critical Night Waves Susan Hitch. works include studies of William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy. Supported by English Pen Photo: Ruth CorneyPhoto:Ruth Photo: Lidia Sokal Photo:Lidia

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182 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY Essie Fox and Wendy Wallace donna dickenson Chaired by Lucy Atkins

e English and the Exotic Me Medicine vs We Medicine 2014 MARCH

4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 4pm / Oxford Martin School: Historical novelists Essie Fox and Wendy Wallace Seminar Room / £11 explore the themes of travel, Award-winning expert on health ethics Professor freedom, spirituality and Donna Dickenson questions the rise of ‘me medicine’ exoticism in the mid- or personalised healthcare. Me medicine, she argues, is Victorian era. They talk about radically transforming ‘we medicine’ or the one-size- the inspirations for their fits-all model of healthcare such as vaccination. novels and the real-life tales Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic woven into their fictional testing claim to cater to a person’s individual biological worlds, such as of the Rosetta character. Some of these new personalised health Stone, of Egyptian and Hindu technologies have shown powerful potential, says deities, of glamorous, deposed Essie Fox Dickenson, but others have produced little or negative maharajahs and of diamonds effects. And she questions why me medicine is edging said to be cursed. out we medicine and whether our commitment to The latest novels of Fox and collective health could suffer as a result. Wallace take the reader to Dickenson is professor emerita of medical ethics at the exotic eastern realms where University of London and research associate at the the discovery of new cultures Centre for Health, Law, and Emerging Technologies at can lead to a new physical the University of Oxford. She is author of Body and spiritual freedom or a Shopping: Converting Body Parts to Profit, and is the crisis of belief. Fox’s The first and only woman to win the International Spinoza Goddess and the Thief Lens award for her contribution to public debate on examines the Victorian obsession Wendy Wallace ethics. with the occult and spiritualism, and the fascination with Britain’s troubled relationship Donna Dickenson with the Raj. Wallace’s The Sacred River follows three very different women who leave London for an Egypt in the grip of an earlier Arab spring. What they find will profoundly affect them all. Chaired by Lucy Atkins, author of The Missing One. Atkins appears with India Knight on March 29 to discuss ‘domestic chillers’.

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185 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 MUSIC AND WORDS WITH DAVID FREEMAN Jazz Summers and Joe Stretch Cyprian Broodbank talk to david Freeman Big Life: A Search for Music Making of the Middle Sea: A history and Balance of the Mediterranean 6pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 6pm / Oxford Martin School: One of the music industry’s most successful managers Seminar Room /£11 Jazz Summers and the collaborator on his Archaeologist Professor Cyprian Broodbank takes a look autobiography, novelist Joe Stretch, talk to broadcaster at the early history of the Mediterranean. Broodbank David Freeman about chronicling his extraordinary and looks at the emergence of the first humans, the origins colourful life and the story of the major bands he has of farming, trade and navigation, and at the rise of managed, The event is accompanied by some of the early civilisations such as Egyptian, Levantine, Hispanic, music that has played a big part in Summers’ life. Minoan, Mycenaean, Phoenician, Etruscan, and early Summers was a soldier who became a musician and Greek. He draws on rich archaeological and other then a successful manager, including of Wham, The evidence from the European, Asian and African flanks Verve and Snow Patrol. Boy George describes him as of the Mediterranean and challenges old prejudices ‘totally rock n roll, but a bit jazz’. such as on Africa’s influence on Europe. His life is told for the first time in Big Life, a biography Broodbank is professor of Mediterranean archaeology that he worked on with novelist Stretch. Life has taken at the Institute of Archaeology, University College Summers from 1960s Boogie Street to the 1970s folk London. His previous book, An Island Archaeology clubs of New York and the cocaine-fuelled boardrooms of the Early Cyclades, won the James R Wiseman Award of 1980s Los Angeles. He married Yazz, and his artists of the Archaeological Institute of America and the have sold more than 60 million albums and had more Runciman Prize. than 100 top-40 hits. He continues to be a major figure in the music industry today, managing La Roux, Cyprian Broodbank Badly Drawn Boy and Richard Ashcroft. Stretch is the author of three novels, including his latest, The Adult.

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186 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 28 FRIDAY Nigel Jones John Cornwell talks to Anthony Kenny

Peace and War: Britain in 1914 e dark Box: 2014 MARCH A Secret history of Confession 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Broadcaster, writer and historian Nigel Jones paints a Author and journalist John Cornwell talks to well- picture of a momentous 1914 from its benign known philosopher of religion Sir Anthony Kenny about beginnings to the descent into war. He portrays a the history of confession in the Catholic Church and country at peace exactly a century ago, but one that exposes its role in the child abuse scandals of the 20th had its problems. Ireland was on the brink of civil war; century. He draws on his own memories of a Catholic the suffragette movement was taking on a more boyhood and weaves it into the story of confession violent hue; and there was paranoia about Germany’s from its origins in the early church to the present day. ambitions. Jones depicts all facets of 1914 life Cornwell argues that the seclusion of two individuals in including gun-running in Ulster, a suffragette attack on the dark box, where discussion is often of sexual a painting in the National Gallery, cricketer actions and thoughts, has eroticised the experience of J T Hearne’s 3,000th first-class wicket and the opening confession. And he says that the horrific cases of child of London’s first nightclub. abuse that have haunted the church became possible when Pius X, in 1905, made the confession a weekly Jones is a former editor of History Today and BBC rather than annual ritual. History magazines and has broadcast on radio and television. Cornwell is a fellow commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge. He has written for many national Nigel Jones publications and is author of Darwin’s Angel and Hitler’s Pope. Kenny is a celebrated philosopher whose interests include the philosophy of religion. He was originally ordained a Roman Catholic priest but questioned the validity of Catholic doctrine and now characterises himself as an agnostic. He has written extensively on St Thomas Aquinas and his other works include What is Faith? and A New History of Western Philosophy. Sponsored by Anthony Kenny

187 FridAy 28 MArCh 2014 Joanne harris and Kevin Crossley-holland. Chaired by Paul Blezard

Storytelling and music

8pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Enjoy two outstanding storytellers with a keen interest in the stories told by their distant forbears telling a few ancient tales and discussing them under the watchful eye of journalist and writer Paul Blezard. Poet and novelist Kevin Crossley-Holland and fellow novelist Joanne Harris will tell stories with Icelandic, Scandinavian, French and Celtic origins. Crossley-Holland is a poet and multi-award-winning author. His Arthur trilogy has been translated into 25 languages. He has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon Joanne Harris and has published retellings of traditional tales including The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales. He won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for Storm and was shortlisted for the 2008 Carnegie Medal for Gatty’s Tale. Harris is author of The Gospel of Loki, inspired by her lifelong passion for Norse myths, and of the Runemarks series of novels, which imagines a world in which our civilization was shaped by Viking invaders rather than the Romans. Harris is author of many bestselling novels including Chocolat, which was made into an Oscar- nominated film starring Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche. Her books have been published in more than 40 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. There will be musical accompaniment at this event. Kevin Crossley-Holland

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Lauren St John and Virginia Liz Pichon S O L D O U T McKenna talk to Nicolette Jones Born Free: e Animals at Tom Gates Inspire Us 10am / Sheldonian Theatre / £6-£15 10.00am / Corpus Christi College / £6 Ages 9+ Award-winning author of children’s books Lauren St John and actress and wildlife campaigner Virginia McKenna, both supporters of the Born Free Foundation, talk to the consultant director of the festival’s children’s and Lauren St John young people’s programme Nicolette Jones about how animals have inspired them. Animals have inspired St Liz Pichon John in her writing, Don’t miss your chance to catch up on the adventures particularly in her White of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon. Pichon will read from her Giraffe series and One new book, TOM GATES; A Tiny (bit) Lucky, and there will Dollar Horse trilogy. Her be loads of excellent tips on how to doodle in a Tom latest book in the One Gates style as well, so bring along a pen, paper or Dollar Horse trilogy is Fire notebook. Storm. Dead Man’s Lives, Virginia McKenna the first in a new trilogy The Tom Gates books have won numerous awards featuring 11-year-old detective Laura Marlin, won including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Blue the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. St John is an Peter Book Award. ambassador for the Born Free Foundation. Sponsored by McKenna is best known for playing the role of Joy Adamson in the true-life film, Born Free, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She played opposite her husband Bill Travers as George Adamson, and the experience inspired them to become active wildlife supporters and campaigners for the protection of wild habitats. They founded Zoo Check in 1984, which later became the Born Free Foundation. She still performs as an actress but is most active in the animal welfare movement. Her autobiography, The Life in My Years, was published in 2009. In association with FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES

192 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Ann Treneman Adam and charlotte Guillain with Lee Wildish Finding the Plot: Spaghetti with the yeti 100 Graves to Visit Before you die MARCH 2014 MARCH 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 10.00am / Christ Church: Times journalist Ann Festival Room 2/ £6 Ages 4 - 7 Treneman talks about Go on a fantastic Yeti hunt with children’s writers her book of the ‘dead Adam and Charlotte Guillain and illustrator Lee interesting’ and Wildish, creators of Spaghetti with the Yeti, the hilarious introduces some of the first picture book in their George’s Amazing Adventures best graves to visit in series. Meet weird and wonderful monsters, dress up in Britain. Treneman visits some silly costumes, sing songs, play games, do some the graves of the real drawing – and have yeti-loads of fun! War Horse, of Byron and his dog Boatswain, Adam and of prime ministers, Charlotte Guillain kings and queens, Florence Nightingale and her pet owl Athena, and of the real James Bond and M. Finding the Plot is made up of 100 stories that are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, but all of which tell something about the British way of death. Sponsored by Treneman is best known for her hilarious parliamentary sketches for The Times. She is one of the strongest female voices in the parliamentary lobby and is also author of Dave & Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon and Annus Horribilis: The Worst Year in British Politics.

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193 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Susan Jones and Fiona Macintosh. Edmund Fawcett chaired by Juliet McKenna dance: Ancient and Modern Liberalism: e Life of an Idea

10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 1 / £11 10am / Oxford Martin School: Dr Susan Jones, former soloist with the Scottish Ballet, Seminar Room / £11 and now a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and the Political observer and journalist Edmund Fawcett looks author of Literature, Modernism and Dance discusses at the ideals, successes and failures of liberalism over literary influences on modern dance, from Isadora the last 200 years of American and European history. Duncan to Fred Astaire and Martha Graham, with Fawcett takes a broad definition of liberalism and classicist Dr Fiona Macintosh, fellow of St Hilda’s, discusses thinkers from Constant and Mill to Hayek, director of the University of Oxford’s Archive of Berlin and Rawls, and 20th-century politicians Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, and editor including Franklin D Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Willy of The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World. Discussions Brandt, Hoover, Reagan, and Kohl. He suggests there are chaired by novelist and St Hilda’s classics graduate are many currents of liberalism but they all converge Juliet McKenna. around shared commitments: resistance to power, faith Jones spent 15 years as a soloist with The Scottish in social progress, respect for people’s chosen Ballet, Glasgow, before beginning a career in academia. enterprises and beliefs, and acceptance that interests She has published widely on Joseph Conrad, including and faiths will always conflict. Conrad and Women, and she is currently editing Chance Fawcett served as chief correspondent of the for the Cambridge Edition of Conrad. Macintosh’s Economist in Washington, Paris and Berlin and as the publications include Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek publication’s European and literary editor. and Modern Irish Tragic Drama, Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 and Sophocles’ Oedipus Edmund Fawcett Tyrranus.

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194 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Alastair Lack A c Grayling S O L D O U T

Inspector Morse with Alastair Lack Friendship 12 noon / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25 MARCH 2014 MARCH 11am / Meet outside Balliol College Lodge, Leading philosopher Professor A C Grayling examines Broad Street / £25 the nature of friendship and the significance it plays Mention Oxford and dreaming spires, and colleges and in our lives. Grayling examines the rich traditions of quadrangles come to mind – plus, of course, Inspector friendship in literature, culture, art and philosophy, Morse. The television series featuring John Thaw was lays out the major philosophical interpretations of based on the novels of Oxford writer Colin Dexter and friendship, and offers his own personal view of remain immensely popular worldwide. Morse and friendship based on his own experience. He looks at Sergeant Lewis encounter heads of houses, dons, internet-based friendship, modern mixed-gender murderers and criminals in the course of their friendship, how friendships may supersede family detective work – pausing only for a pint or two in a relationships and at the universal value of friendship. favourite pub. This walk visits the scenes of some of Grayling is founder and master of New College of the best known cases of Inspector Morse. This walk the Humanities, London. He has written and edited lasts two hours and ends at Christ Church. more than 30 books on philosophy and other subjects including The God Argument and Liberty in Alastair Lack the Age of Terror. He is a regular contributor to radio and television including on Today and Newsnight, and is a vice-president of the British Humanist Association and a patron of Dignity in Dying. Photo: Mykel Nicolaou / Rex/ FeaturesPhoto:Nicolaou Mykel

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195 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Andrew Taylor talks to Jessica B harris Nicolette Jones St hilda’s Mystery and crime hercules and hemmings – Weekend Showcase e Presidents’ Slave chefs 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Winner of the Cartier Food writer Dr Jessica B Harris Diamond Dagger and of discusses Hercules and James the 2013 CWA Hemmings, 18th-century Historical Dagger enslaved African-American Award, acclaimed crime chefs who worked for two of writer and historical the American founding fathers novelist Andrew Taylor, in the early years of the a regular speaker at St country’s history. One oversaw Hilda’s College’s annual George Washington’s kitchen and created menus for Mystery and Crime the first president and the country’s original notables. Weekend, discusses his The other trained in Paris, cooked for Thomas Jefferson, latest crime thriller The America’s premier bec fin, and refused the position of Scent of Death, set in White House chef. One requested and was given his New York during the freedom, the other escaped. Their conjoined stories American War of give an illuminating picture of another aspect of Independence. Author of more than 30 crime novels, enslavement and of two African-American chefs who including The Anatomy of Ghosts and Bleeding Heart attained the highest levels of their profession in ways Square, Taylor is also a distinguished reviewer of crime that remain unduplicated to this day. fiction, and teacher of writing courses. He will be Jessica B. Harris, of City University New York, is one of interviewed by critic and chair of the St Hilda’s College the most admired food writers in the United States. Media Network Nicolette Jones. Her many books, including High on the Hog and Hot ‘Andrew Taylor is arguably the most consummate Stuff: A Cookbook in Praise of the Piquant, track the writer of historical crime fiction today’ food and food-ways of the African-American Diaspora. Marcel Berlins, The Times This event is part of the American strand at this year’s festival. Andrew Taylor Jessica B Harris

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196 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Natalie haynes talks to Barnaby rogerson Peter Stothard e Amber Fury: Myth, Tragedy rogerson’s Book of Numbers and Fiction MARCH 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Corpus Christi: Rainolds Room / £11 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Writer, broadcaster, Author, publisher and journalist Barnaby Rogerson goes classicist and former on a dazzling journey through the history of numbers stand-up comic Natalie and their significance. Stories range from the number Haynes talks to editor of of the beast 666 to the seven deadly sins, the 12 signs the Times Literary of the zodiac and the four suits in a deck of cards. Why Supplement and fellow did Genghis Khan build a city of 108 towers and how classics scholar Sir Peter did Dante forge his Divine Comedy on the number 11? Stothard about her debut Rogerson explores the significance of numbers in novel, The Amber Fury, mythic poetry and in the world’s many belief systems. how the plot is woven Rogerson runs Eland Publishing with his partner Rose around the Greek Baring. It specialises in keeping classics of travel tragedies, and about the literature in print. relevance of the classical world to today. Haynes ‘Dangerously addictive, wonderfully witty and crazily says she retired as a wide-ranging and erudite’ stand-up comic when she realised she preferred William Dalrymple tragedy. Her novel sees grieving Alex Morris take a job teaching troubled and difficult children at a pupil Barnaby Rogerson referral unit in Glasgow. She begins to develop a rapport with the children through the teaching of Greek tragedies but fears that the stories of cruel fate and bloody revenge are being taken to heart and that a whole new tragedy is being performed in front of her. Haynes writes a column for the Independent and a blog for the Guardian. She regularly speaks about the modern relevance of the classical world. Stothard is a former editor of The Times. Since becoming editor of the TLS, he has written mainly on Greek and Roman literature. His recent book, Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, was partly a personal memoir tracing his lifelong interest in Cleopatra and partly a travel book. Photo: Dan MershPhoto:Dan Natalie Haynes

197 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 William chislett and James Lovelock Jeremy Treglown dictatorship to democracy: Memories A rough ride to the Future and change in Spain 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room / £11 Lecture Theatre / £11 Two experts on Spain’s Independent scientist and futurist James Lovelock, turbulent recent history originator of Gaia Theory, explores our future on the discuss how a country planet through two new, key ideas. The first is that we wracked by civil war are now subject to ‘accelerated evolution’, a process ultimately made the transition which is bringing about change on our planet roughly a from dictatorship to million times faster than Darwinian evolution. The democracy. The Spanish Civil second is that as part of this process, humanity has the War was characterised by capacity to become the intelligent part of ‘Gaia’, the atrocities on both sides, so William Chislett self-regulating Earth system. By our domination and how was the country able to our invention, we are changing the atmosphere. restore the monarchy and a Instead of feeling guilty about it, we should recognise democratic system, and what what is happening, prepare for change, and ensure that does the future hold for a we survive as a species so we can contribute to – Spain weighed down by perhaps even guide – the next evolution of Gaia. We today’s economic problems? may, for example, have to make a transition from carbon-based wet chemistry to a future symbiosis with William Chislett is a Madrid- electronic life. The road will be rough, but if we are based journalist and writer. He smart enough life will continue on Earth in some form covered the transition to far into the future. democracy between 1975 and Jeremy Treglown 1978 for The Times. In his Lovelock is the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now latest book Spain: What Gaia Theory), which postulates that the biosphere is a Everyone Needs to Know, he self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our tells the full story of Spain planet healthy by controlling the chemical and physical and explains how attempts environment. His many books on the subject include were made to lay to rest the Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, The Revenge of Gaia, ghosts of the Spanish Civil and The Vanishing Face of Gaia. War. James Lovelock Photo:LovelockSandy Writer and critic Jeremy Treglown, a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement, writes regularly on the country. In Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, he takes a fresh look at recent Spanish history and examines how people remember what happened. He talks to descendants of those killed, attends a service dedicated to Franco’s memory, and examines the monuments, paintings, novels and films that vividly recorded the events of the time. Supported by Festival Ideas Partner Ian and Carol Sellars Festival Ideas Partner

198 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Jamie Woodward Malorie Blackman and Shami chakrabarti e Ice Age: Writing for young People and A Very Short Introduction human rights MARCH 2014 MARCH 1.15pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free 2pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £6-£15 Ages 12+ Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Children’s Laureate Malorie talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The Blackman discusses her talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell Marquee, books with Shami next to the Sheldonian Theatre. Chakrabarti, Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University Geography professor Jamie Woodward examines the and director of Liberty, in a environmental changes that took place during the wide-ranging and great Ice Age of the Quaternary Period. He presents stimulating session, some of the ingenious methods that have been used including a special look at to find out about our geological past and explores human rights in children’s changing ideas about the period. Woodward is books. professor of physical geography at the University of Manchester. He has published widely on Quaternary Blackman has written environmental change and human activity in ice age more than 50 books and is Malorie Blackman environments. widely regarded as one of the best and most Jamie Woodward imaginative writers of fiction for children and young people. She has won many awards including the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Fantastic Fiction Award. She is author of the highly acclaimed Noughts Sponsored by and Crosses series of young adult novels. Shami Chakrabarti Chakrabarti has been director of the civil liberties organisation Liberty for ten years. She qualified as a lawyer before working as a barrister for the Home Office. She is a regular christopher Lloyd panellist on BBC’s Question Time and was a panel member on the Leveson What on Earth? Inquiry into the Press. Science and Engineering Sponsored by 2pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free See Thursday at 11am for further details

199 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Gaynor Arnold, Elizabeth david constantine Edmondson, Anita Mason, talks to Jem Poster Juliet McKenna. conversations with Poets – Poetry: chaired by claire Armitstead e Literary Agenda e Genre Fiction debate 2pm / Corpus Christi College: Rainolds Room / £11 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 Poet David Constantine talks to fellow poet and festival director of academic programmes Professor Jem Poster about why poetry matters. In his new book as part of Oxford University Press’s Literary Agenda series, Constantine argues that poetry is not for the few but for the many, that it speaks to and for people, and that it can only thrive among them. He looks at what goes into the writing of a poem and considers what good there is in reading it. Constantine is a poet, novelist and short story writer Gaynor Arnold Elizabeth Edmondson who taught German language and literature at Durham University and at The Queen’s College, Oxford. His most recent poetry collection is Nine Fathoms Deep.

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Five St Hilda’s College alumnae debate the motion ‘Genre fiction is no different from literary fiction’. Orange Prize longlisted Gaynor Arnold (The Girl in the Blue Dress, After Such Kindness), Elizabeth Edmondson, who writes historical mysteries and romances under her own name and as Elizabeth Aston (Devil’s Sonata, the Darcy novels), Booker-shortlisted Anita Mason (The Illusionist, The Right Hand of the Sun), and writer of fantasy novels, Juliet McKenna (The Hadrumal Crisis, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution) consider the value or pointlessness of labelling and compartmentalising fiction. Discussions are chaired by Claire Armitstead, literary editor of the Guardian.

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WOMEN IN SOCIETY SATURDAY Kate Williams Laurens de Groot

Josephine: hunting the hunters: desire, Ambition, Napoleon At War with the Whalers MARCH 2014 MARCH 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Historian Kate Williams tells the story of the incredible Former Dutch detective Laurens de Groot describes rise of Josephine – mistress, courtesan and how he gave up his job rooting out organised crime to revolutionary heroine. The story is one of sexual join an international marine wildlife organisation, Sea obsession, of politics, and of how a woman survived in Shepherd, fighting a war against the Japanese whaling a man’s world. Williams shows how a young woman fleet in the Antarctic. De Groot and the crew of the from Martinique, abandoned by her aristocratic Sea Shepherd hunt Japanese whalers as the whalers husband in Paris, was able to reinvent herself. Josephine hunt their quarry. They have to deal with extreme survived the revolutionary terror and became the conditions in the Antarctic and attacks by the Japanese leading light of a debauched party scene. She married crews. On one mission, their boat was rammed and a marginalised Corsican soldier, forming a remarkable sunk by a whaling ship. partnership that helped Napoleon rise to become the De Groot worked for Sea Shepherd for several years. most powerful man in Europe. He has featured in Animal Planet’s Whale Wars TV Williams is a lecturer, writer and television presenter. series and is using his law enforcement experience to Her previous works, England’s Mistress, a biography of fight Rhino poachers in South Africa.` Emma Hamilton, and Becoming Queen, about the youth of Queen Victoria, were both highly acclaimed. Laurens de Groot

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THE GIBRALTAR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL LITERARY FESTIVAL FRIDAY 14th TO SUNDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2014

Over the past 300 years Gibraltar has had many incarnations – as the most famous fortress in the world, and as a staging post of Empire trade and travel.

Today, Gibraltar is a great City State, with one of the most successful economies in Europe. The Rock now hosts a prestigious international literary festival, with writers and speakers from around the globe. Details of the 2014 festival programme will be announced later in the year.

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The Festival is organised by www.gibraltarliteraryfestival.com HM Government of Gibraltar Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 THE GIBRALTAR LECTURE 2014 SATURDAY Ben Okri talks to Paul Blezard Writing and the Adventures of the Mind MARCH 2014 MARCH 2pm /Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room / £11 For the inaugural Gibraltar Lecture, Booker Prize winner, and one of modern literature’s most gifted storytellers, Ben Okri, talks about his writing and the ‘adventures of the mind’. Okri is considered one of the foremost African writers of the post-modern period. At 21, he published his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, and in 1991, The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction. The Famished Road features a narrator, Azaro, a spirit child who, in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The novel plays on the tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits. Azaro features in other Okri novels. The mixture of the real and the spiritual worlds, in which he particularly draws on the myths and beliefs of his African heritage, has often led Okri to be categorised as a magical realist, although it is a categorisation he rejects. Ben Okri Okri has published eight novels, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays, and his work has been translated into 20 languages. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. The Gibraltar Lecture will be delivered every year at the festival, and will take the forms of an address, an ‘in conversation’ or a debate. The lecture will be devoted to matters of major cultural, historical or international importance, at the invitation The Hon. Neil Costa MP of Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. Minister for Tourism, Commercial Affairs, Public Transport and the Port, HM Government of Gibraltar. Minister Costa will introduce the event.

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rupert Sheldrake, James Le Fanu Tim Stanley-clarke and Martin robbins chaired by Stephen Law A Special Tasting of Graham’s Tawny and Vintage Ports God and e Limits of Science 3.30pm / Corpus Christi: Hall / £20 2pm / Oxford Martin School: Established in 1820, Graham’s consistently produces Lecture Theatre / £11 outstanding tawny and vintage ports. Today’s tasting is Is science our only route to knowledge? Are there a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the two questions science cannot answer? Might science greatest styles of port: aged tawny and classic vintage provide us with grounds for supposing there is a God, port. Port expert Tim Stanley-Clarke will guide you or that there is not? Join three leading, provocative through the subtleties of Graham’s 10, 20, and 30- and controversial thinkers as they discuss these and year-old old tawny ports to show how slow cast aging other fascinating questions concerning the limits of enhances these wines. You will then be able to taste our understanding. three of Graham’s classic vintage ports: Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos – a rich and spicy wine from Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more Graham’s top estate; Graham’s 1983 Vintage – than 80 scientific papers and 10 books, including The drinking superbly after 31 years and finally the recently Science Delusion. He was a fellow of Clare College, declared and much acclaimed 2011 vintage – widely Cambridge University, and a research fellow of the regarded as being one of the greatest vintages in the Royal Society. last 50 years. Dr James Le Fanu is a general practitioner in South London and writes a regular column on medicine and The late Auberon science for The Daily Telegraph and on natural history Waugh wrote of Tim for The Oldie. His books include The Rise and Fall of Stanley-Clarke: Modern Medicine, winner of The Los Angeles Times ‘I have learnt to value book prize in 2001, and Why Us: How Science his judgement, enjoy Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. his hospitality, rejoice in his company, and above Martin Robbins is a researcher and writer who all, open my eyes to the appears regularly in The Guardian, New Statesman spendour of the wines and VICE Magazine. His writing explores themes of he promotes.’ denial, conflict and mystery at the fringes of science and human understanding, where evidence and culture collide. Tim Stanley-Clarke

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204 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Gavin hewitt Jovan Nicholson

e Lost continent: Europe’s darkest Art and Life: hour Since World War Two Ben and Winifred Nicholson MARCH 2014 MARCH 4pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25 4pm / Corpus Christi College / £11 ‘All artists are unique and can only unite as complementaries not as similarities’ Winifred Nicholson of her time with Ben Nicholson. Independent art historian Jovan Nicholson brings new insight to the artistic partnership of Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson, his grandparents, and to their friendship and collaboration with Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, and the potter William Staite Murray. An extraordinary grouping, during an extraordinary decade for British art, and the Nicholsons were at the forefront. Constantly experimenting, breaking existing conventions – one as a colourist, and one more interested in the form. Nicholson’s talk illustrates their different renderings of often the same subject, and encompasses the wider dynamic exchange between this group of artists and friends. Nicholson is curator of the exhibition Art and Life, Gavin Hewitt Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, The BBC’s Europe editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story Alfred Wallis, William Staite Murray 1920-1931. Kettle’s of that pillar of the post-war European dream, a Yard Feb 15 to May 11, Dulwich Picture Gallery June 4 shared currency, that has led the continent into its to September 21. gravest crisis since World War Two. Hewitt shows how easy money led some states into a spending Jovan Nicholson binge, and when the financial crash came to the United States, Europe caught the cold in spectacular fashion, threatening the whole European project. Hewitt weaves together the stories of ordinary people with the drama and politics of Europe in crisis. He includes interviews with key officials and players and inside accounts of some of the critical meetings. Hewitt has been BBC Europe editor since 2009, Sponsored by giving him a unique insight into events in Europe over the last few years. He has also worked as a special correspondent for the BBC Ten O’Clock News and Panorama, covering stories all over the world. He is the author of two previous books, one on Terry Waite, and A Soul on Ice: A Life in News, and is the holder of an RTS, a BAFTA and a Broadcast award.

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205 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Elisabeth russell Taylor Malcolm Graham and Edith talks to Lucy Atkins Gollnast talk to debbie dance Belated and Other Stories Oxford heritage Walks

4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Novelist and writer Elisabeth Russell Taylor introduces Local historian Malcolm her new collection of short stories, Belated and Other Graham and former city Stories. The 16 short stories range from the planner and conservationist examination of unspoken deals in marriage to the Edith Gollnast talk to the secret lives of the unattached. The Contract re- director of Oxford imagines Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and Charlotte looks Preservation Trust, Debbie at the life of a Jewish immigrant in post-war London. Dance, about a new series of Each story looks into the dark corners of character and published heritage walks. the contradictions of everyday life. Oxford Heritage Walks is published by the trust, written Russell Taylor is author of six novels, three short-story Malcolm Graham by Graham, and illustrated by collections, four books for children and five works of Gollnast. The books highlight non-fiction, and her work has been translated into some of Oxford’s finest French, Dutch and Lithuanian. buildings, including those that Russell Taylor talks to Lucy Atkins, author of The are vulnerable, and record Missing One. Atkins appears with India Knight at 6pm some of those that have been to discuss ‘domestic chillers’. lost. Book 1 is On Foot from Oxford Castle to St Giles and Elisabeth Russell Taylor Photo:Dupouy Raphael book 2 is On Foot from Broad Street. The books revise and expand on the much-loved Oxford heritage guides from Edith Gollnast the 1970s. Graham was head of the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies before retiring and has published extensively on local history. Gollnast spent 35 years working with Oxford’s historic buildings and areas in the city planning department. Dance has been director of Oxford Preservation Trust, a charity that owns more christopher Lloyd than 900 acres and listed buildings in and around the city, since 1999. What on Earth? Shakespeare 4pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free See Thursday at 11am for further details

206 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Alev Scott dominic Frisby

Turkish Awakening Life After the State MARCH 2014 MARCH 4pm / Oxford Martin School: 4pm / Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room / £11 Lecture Theatre / £11 Anglo-Turkish journalist Alev Scott explores the Writer, actor and stand-up comedian Dominic Frisby changes in Turkish society and the roots of the argues that we would all be richer and happier in a patriotism that characterises every Turk. Recent world without the state. He says a world without the protests have uncovered the simmering tensions in state would not be as terrifying as many predict and Turkey, where the last decade’s economic success has that the Government should take less action to tackle been accompanied by autocratic rule by the religious the economic crisis, not more. Frisby looks at the Justice and Development Party. Middle Class Turks have banks, the NHS, schools, the tax system, and the way begun to voice their protests, while the religious we do business and discusses alternative ways of doing working class says things have never been better. Scott things. looks ahead to the future for a country that is very Frisby, an expert on gold and silver who writes a much in the public eye. weekly column for MoneyWeek, says people should Scott was born in London to a Turkish mother and keep the money they earn and be empowered to British father. She studied classics at Oxford before spend it on the services they want. That, he argues, will moving to Turkey in 2011. She taught Latin at the lead to an improvement in standards, while people’s Bosphorous University before working as a freelance intrinsic compassion would ensure those in need journalist for the British press. received help.

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207 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Nigel Newton, richard Ovenden, Anthony cheetham and Tim Waterstone. chaired by Angus Phillips e Future of Publishing

4pm / Corpus Christi College: Rainold’s Room / £11 The familiar world of the book is facing some key challenges. These include the decline of bookselling on the high street, the growth in the sales of ebooks, and competition from other media. There is continued experimentation around the book in digital form, exploring non-linear narratives and the use of multimedia. Meanwhile, for authors there are many new routes available for finding a readership, including self-publishing or using crowdfunding to finance publication. Will traditional publishing survive in this environment? Why do authors still need publishers? Should readers have a greater say in what is published? Our expert panel considers these and other Nigel Newton questions. Nigel Newton is the founder and chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing, which publishes 2000 books a year and employs 500 people. Its authors include J K Rowling, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd and Ben Macintyre. Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian. He has worked at the Bodleian Library for ten years as keeper of special collections and, prior to his recent appointment, as deputy librarian. Anthony Cheetham has enjoyed a long career at senior levels in publishing including founding or running, Orion, Abacus, Futura, Century, Quercus, Corvus and Head of Zeus. Tim Waterstone is the founder of Waterstones, the third largest bookseller in the world. The Anthony Cheetham event is chaired by Angus Phillips, director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. His most recent book is Turning the Page: The evolution of the book, which examines the effects of digital and other developments on the book itself.

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208 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY Andrew King Wasﬁ Kani

Stars: A Very Short Introduction Opera: Glamour and Grubbiness: the Inside Story MARCH 2014 MARCH 5.15pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free 6pm / Corpus Christi College / £15 Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Wasfi Kani is joined by a singer from her celebrated talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The Grange Park Opera as she tells the inside story of the talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell Marquee, opera world. Grange Park Opera was founded in 1997 next to the Sheldonian Theatre. by Kani and Michael Moody and quickly established itself as a major European music festival. It is based at Astrophysicist Professor Andrew King explains how the Grange Park in Hampshire and stages four productions stars live and die. He takes a look at our own star, the over a seven-week season. There will be songs from the sun, and shows how the stars produce all the chemical Grange Park repertoire and afterwards you can enjoy a elements beyond helium. Understanding the stars, he glass of sparkling wine. says, is key to understanding our universe and our planet. King is head of theoretical astrophysics, Kani is founder of Pimlico Opera, a former chief Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of executive of Garsington Opera and a graduate of St Leicester. Hilda’s College, Oxford. This event is part of the festival’s St Hilda’s College Media Day. Andrew King Wasfi Kani

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Fellows’ Garden at Corpus Christi College 209 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Orhan Pamuk

chancellor’s Lecture: Orhan Pamuk – Nobel Prize Winner

6pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £15-£50 Photo:Platt Spencer At the invitation of the Chancellor of The University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, the great Nobel- prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk talks about his life and writing. Pamuk is flying in from Turkey to be with us, and this is a rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s greatest living writers speak in the UK. Pamuk was the second youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature when he won the award in 2006. His books have been translated into 46 languages and he is also the holder of The Peace Prize, the most prestigious award in Germany in the field of culture, along with many other international literary awards. Pamuk’s many celebrated works include The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. His most recent, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller described as an ‘enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling’ by the Guardian. His work often focuses on the tensions between Western and Eastern values and is also characterised by a Orhan Pamuk fascination with literature and the Photo: KT BrucePhoto:KT arts. Each year, The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, invites a figure of international eminence to give the Chancellor’s Lecture at the Oxford Literary Festival, in Sir Christopher Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre. In 2009 the lecture was given by the great Peruvian writer Dr Mario Vargas Llosa (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010). In 2010 the lecture was given by Jung Chang, author of The Wild Swans and Mao – the Untold Story . Lord Patten In 2011 the lecture was to be given by HM King Abdullah II of Jordan, but was postponed until a later date. In 2012 the lecture was given by Indian novelist Vikram Seth – author of A Suitable Boy. In 2013 the lecture was delivered by Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney.

210 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 29 SATURDAY India Knight and Lucy Atkins david Almond talks to chaired by david Freeman Erica Wagner domestic chillers: Skellig Why Gone Girl has us hooked MARCH 2014 MARCH 6pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 6.00pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £6

The Sunday Times columnist Photo:FrancescoGuidicini Ages 11+ and bestselling author of the Skellig, the story of two children who meet a strange comic novel Mutton, India being, part owl, part angel, was David Almond’s debut Knight, and Sunday Times novel. Published in 1998 it won the Carnegie Medal book critic and author of the and the Costa Children’s Book Award (then the psychological suspense debut Whitbread Prize). Almond is now firmly established as The Missing One, Lucy Atkins, one of the finest writers for young people and was discuss the new genre that awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, known as has publishers in a frenzy. the Nobel Prize for children’s literature, in 2010. Hear There has been an explosion of India Knight him talk about his work with Erica Wagner, former psychological suspense novels literary editor of The Times. in which home life – families, David Almond marriages, husbands, wives – implode dangerously. This year, Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, one of the most talked about novels of 2013, becomes a Hollywood movie. A movie of SJ Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep is also in production. And publishers are Lucy Atkins clamouring for more. Sponsored by Knight and Atkins discuss why this so-called ‘domestic chiller’ genre (also known as ‘chick noir’) has become so popular. Why can we not get enough of books in which spouses turn out to be psychopaths, families become lethal, and nothing at home is as it seems? Is the name ‘chick noir’ belittling or accurate? Is this all a displaced fear of terrorism or a response to social media? Is this genre really new? The discussion will range from Jane Eyre and Rebecca to women’s and detective fiction, social media, and what it is like to be a writer faced with current literary trends.

211 SATUrdAy 29 MArch 2014 Margaret Atwood hosted by Antonio Simoes, hSBc closing Festival dinner

7.30pm / Christ Church: Hall / £120 7.30pm Reception, 8.30pm dinner in Christ Church Hall. £120 (includes reception, dinner, wines and a signed copy of Margaret Atwood’s latest novel, MaddAddam). Dress Code – Black Tie. Join our guest speaker, multi-award-winning Canadian novelist, poet and critic Margaret Atwood at this year’s prestigious closing dinner in the historic surroundings of Christ Church. Dinner will be in the Great Hall of Christ Church, a college that has inspired many writers including Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll, or Charles Dodgson as he was known in college. The college continues to inspire today, the Great Hall being the model for Hogwart’s Hall in the Harry Potter movies. The evening’s food will be prepared by Christ Church executive chef Chris Simms and his team. Following dinner, Atwood, a winner of the Booker award, will talk about her novels. MaddAddam is the thrilling conclusion to the internationally celebrated trilogy that started with Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood. A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives alongside the green-eyed Crakers, a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Atwood has written more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays, including the classic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker prize, and four other novels have made the shortlist. Her last two novels sold more than a million copies in the English language.

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213 sunday 30MarcH 2014 Martin Brown sophia Waugh

Horrible Histories cooking People: e Writers Who Taught the English How to Eat 10am / Corpus Christi College / £6 Ages 8–12 10am / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Novelist and biographer Sophia Waugh looks back at the cookery writers of the past and shows how they have changed the way we eat. She also gives her own interesting perspective on domestic cookery today. Waugh goes back to Hannah Woolley, the 17th-century author who was the first to make a living out of Martin Brown cookery writing, and traces the genre to the Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown brings art to much-loved writing of Isabella Beeton and Elizabeth life in an action-packed show full of jokes, stories and David. Cooking People gives an insight into the live drawing. Find out fabulous facts from history and domestic cookery at the heart of our culture and see drawings leap from his pen with suggestions from includes recipes that still work today. the audience adding to the fun. Waugh is author of four novels and a biography of The first Horrible History book, written by Terry Deary Marina, Duchess of Kent. and illustrated by Brown, was published in 1993. The series went on to become a BAFTA award-winning CBBC show and stage show and there are now almost 100 books ranging from histories of the Romans and Greeks to the Stuarts, and the First World War. Sophia Waugh Sponsored by

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214 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY robin Waterﬁeld christine riding

Taken at the Flood: e roman Turner and the sea

conquest of Greece 2014 MARCH 10am / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 10am / Ashmolean Museum: Writer and translator Robin Waterfield tells how the Headley Lecture Theatre / £11 Romans brutally and swiftly conquered the Greek Art curator Christine Riding gives an illustrated talk on empire in the third century BC. It took only 60 years J M W Turner’s lifelong fascination with the sea. The for Rome to subdue the vast empire it admired and to talk and book, co-authored with history of art lecturer which it owed so much. The conquest of Greece is Richard Johns, coincide with a major new Turner central to the story of Rome and its empire, says exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Waterfield. He explains how the Romans developed a London. highly sophisticated means of dominance by remote control, using authority and diplomacy to keep order Riding, senior curator of paintings and head of arts at rather than armies. And he shows the impact the the museum, looks at important but rarely seen works conquest of Greece had on Rome’s own culture and and throws new light on well-known seascapes such as identity. The Fighting ‘Temeraire’, The Wreck of a Transport Ship and The Battle of Trafalgar. She examines Turner’s Waterfield has translated numerous Greek classics and response to the work of his British contemporaries, is also author of Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the John Constable, Augustus Wall Callcott and Richard Myths; Athens: A History; and Dividing the Spoils: the Parkes Bonington; looks at what was at stake for War for Alexander the Great’s Empire. maritime painting during the Napoleonic wars; and assesses Turner’s impact on later artists. Robin Waterfield Christine Riding

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215 sunday 30MarcH 2014 Jonny duddle alastair Lack S O L D O U T S O L D O U T

e Pirates next door Literary Oxford with alastair Lack

10am / Christ Church: 11am / Meet outside St John’s College Lodge, Blue Boar Exhibition Room / £6 Ages 5-9 St Giles / £25 Ahoy there Explore Oxford colleges and landmark buildings in the shipmates! Jonny company of the poets A E Housman, A C Swinburne, Duddle the author Edward Thomas and Robert Bridges, as well as writers behind the award- such as Dorothy Sayers, Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis winning series, The and Barbara Pym – not forgetting J R R Tolkein and Pirates Next Door, is Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson). Starting from St making a special visit John’s College, where Housman and Philip Larkin were to Oxford. Come undergraduates, the walk lasts two hours and ends at along for stories and Christ Church. swashbuckling fun, and learn how to Alastair Lack draw pirates too. Duddle is the author and illustrator of the hugely successful Templar picture books, The Pirate Cruncher, The Pirates Next Door, and King of Space. Pirates Next Door won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize. Duddle was also a character designer for Aardman Animation’s Oscar-nominated The Pirates. John Gordon-reid

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216 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY Kristina stephenson John Harris

sir charlie stinky socks and the Gin Tasting

Tale of the Wizard’s Whisper 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Corpus Christi College / £6 12 noon / Christ Church: Hall / £20 Ages 4-8 Gin, the sophisticated cocktail ingredient with a long Sir Charlie Stinky Socks is back! Join Oxford Literary and colourful history, has made a great journey to Festival favourite Kristina Stephenson on Sir Charlie’s become our favourite spirit aperitif. Today, this most fearsome quest yet, along a treacherous track, versatile, restorative beverage offers an astonishing through a spooky-wooky wood and into a deep, dark range of flavours, fragrances and varieties. Britain is still cave to . . . well, come along to find out. Storytelling at home to the world’s best dry gins, a reputation its best with songs, music and sound effects. enhanced by a recent proliferation of innovative boutique products. This is now challenged by Kristina Stephenson continental newcomers, but enhanced by a sparkling new range of tonics. Take a short break from the festival’s literary treats and join John Harris, who leads a tasting of contrasting gins, flavoured by mysterious botanicals and exotic fruits. Discover your favourite G&T combination – and remember to leave the car at home.

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217 sunday 30MarcH 2014 Michael Morpurgo

e Mozart Question concert

12 noon / Sheldonian / £6-£15 Ages 9+ Michael Morpurgo, former Children’s Laureate and the award-winning author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, presents a special performance of his book, The Mozart Question. Together with actress Alison Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and a young string quartet he interweaves words and music, bringing to life this haunting tale of survival against the odds, set against the background of the Holocaust. When Lesley is sent to Venice to interview world- renowned violinist Paulo Levi on his 50th birthday, she cannot believe her luck. She is told that she can ask him anything at all – except the Mozart question. But it is Paulo himself who decides that it is time for the truth to be told. And so follows the story of his parents who, as Jewish prisoners of war, were forced to play Mozart violin concerti for the enemy; how they watched fellow Jews being led off to their deaths and knew that they were playing for their lives. Michael Morpurgo The Mozart Question explores how something so sublime as Mozart’s music can be used for evil purposes, but with such a light touch that it shirks nothing and yet is supremely suitable for family audiences. Adapted and directed by Simon Reade. In association with The Manor Prep School, Abingdon, and Walker Books

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218 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY Paul Bailey clive Finlayson talks to Paul Blezard e Prince’s Boy e Improbable Primate: How Water

shaped Human Evolution 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Corpus Christi College: 12 noon / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Rainold’s Room / £11 Award-winning novelist Paul Bailey introduces his latest work, The Prince’s Boy. Set in 1927, it sees 19-year-old Dinu Grigorescu arrive in Paris from his home of Bucharest with literary ambitions, sent by his father to enjoy the pleasures of Parisian life. He meets a fellow Romanian, a Prince’s Clive Finlayson boy, who becomes his teacher in the ways of Expert on Neanderthal man Professor Clive Finlayson the world. takes an ecological approach to the evolution of man. Bailey is a regular visitor to Romania and has used his Finlayson, who trained in Oxford as an evolutionary experiences to inform the novel. He has written 11 ecologist, is director of the Gibraltar Museum and has novels including At the Jerusalem, winner of a been researching the final stand of Neanderthals on Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writer’s Gibraltar. In his new work, Finlayson argues that the Award; Peter Smart’s Confessions and Gabriel’s Lament, availability of water in particular played a critical role both short-listed for the Booker; and most recently in human evolution and in the success of the species. Chapman’s Odyssey. He has received the E M Forster The challenge of seeking water in a drying landscape Award and the George Orwell Memorial Award. moulded the minds and bodies of early humans and directed their migrations and settlements. Photo:Ring Jonathan Paul Bailey Finlayson has published widely on Neanderthal man and his other books include Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective and The Humans Who Went Extinct.

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219 sunday 30MarcH 2014 caroline sandon Patrick Bishop talks to Gwenan Edwards talks to Lucian Hudson Burnt norton e reckoning: How the Killing of One Man changed the Fate of the Promised Land 12 noon / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 Debut novelist Caroline Sandon talks about her 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: historical novel inspired by the home she lives in and Seminar Room / £11 the tragic events of Bestselling writer Patrick 1741 when its then Bishop talks to the chairman owner Sir William of Liberal Judaism, Lucian Keyt set fire to Hudson, about his new book himself and the house on the wartime killing of in a fit of madness. Avraham Stern, leader of the His troubles had militant Zionist group, the started with an affair Stern Gang. Bishop tells the with his wife’s maid story of Stern and the and then the middle-class Londoner, attempted murder of assistant superintendent the butler. Sandon’s Geoffrey Morton, sent to novel opens in 1731 track him down. The with the death of spectacular and murderous crimes of the Stern Gang Keyt’s youngest son in had caused outrage among both British and Jewish an accident and groups. Morton cornered Stern in Tel Aviv and shot him follows his destructive dead. The events of that day had a major impact on passion as he ruins both his family and his once-grand British rule in Palestine and on the events that shaped home. the birth of Israel. Sandon dreamt of being a writer from the moment she Bishop is bestselling author of Fighter Boys, Bomber won her first national poetry competition at ten. Boys, 3 Para and Target Tirpitz. He was for many years However, life took a different course including a law Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. degree, a spell as a model, and later founding an Hudson is director of communications at the Open interior design company working on many of England’s University and a former director of communications grand houses. What remained of Norton House was and press secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth acquired by Sandon’s husband’s ancestors 250 years Office. He is a member of the Jewish Leadership ago and has remained in the family ever since. Council and, since 2009, has been chairman of the Gwenan Edwards is a journalist and a presenter for progressive Judaism organisation Liberal Judaism. BBC Television. Patrick Bishop Caroline Sandon

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220 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY Jon Miller, Lucy Parker and Michael Kelly Grovier Woodford. chaired by Bidisha Big Business: a Force for Good or Ill? 100 Works of art at Will deﬁne

Our age 2014 MARCH 12 noon / Oxford Martin School: 12 noon / Ashmolean Museum: Lecture Theatre / £11 Headley Lecture Theatre / £11 Big business is never far from the news, whether it be Poet, historian and literary critic Kelly Grovier predicts the bankers and their huge bonuses or corporate giants which artists and which works of art will come to perceived to be riding roughshod over local define the last two decades. Grovier compiles a list of communities. But is the story as simple as that? Is big artworks from 1989 to the present day that have business solely about the pursuit of profit? Can big made the greatest impact and that reflect some of the business pursue profit but also meet some of the social major cultural upheavals of recent times, from the fall and technological challenges we face today? Our panel of the Berlin Wall to the arrival of the Arab Spring. aims to throw some light on the subject. Among the artists featured are Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, Banksy, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Jon Miller and Lucy Parker are co-authors of Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Marlene Dumas, Everybody’s Business: The Unlikely Story of How Big Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Andreas Gursky, Damien Business Can Fix the World. They show how some of Hirst, David Hockney, Cristina Iglesias, On Kawara, Jeff today’s leading companies are realising that lasting Koons, Ernesto Neto, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, success comes from having a broader purpose than Santiago Sierra, Do-Ho Suh, and Artur Zmijewski. simple profit, and that many are driving their business forward by tackling some of the challenges we face. Grovier writes regularly on art for the Times Literary Miller and Parker are both partners in leading corporate Supplement and the Observer. He is co-founder of the communications business, Brunswick. scholarly journal, European Romantic Review. Michael Woodford was president and chief executive of Kelly Grovier the iconic Nikkei listed Japanese corporate giant, Olympus. He blew the whistle on his own company and exposed a $1.7bn accounting fraud. Exposure is his gripping account of how he chose the truth over his multimillion dollar salary. Chaired by critic, journalist and broadcaster Bidisha.

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The Ashmolean 221 sunday 30MarcH 2014 Keith Grint Eleanor catton talks to natalie Haynes Leadership: a Very short Introduction e Luminaries

1.15pm / Blackwell's Marquee / Free 2pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £11-£25

Welcome to a Very Short Introduction soapbox. A short Winner of the 2013 Photo:Catto Robert talk lasting 15 minutes from an expert in the field. The Man Booker Prize talk is free and takes place in the Blackwell's Marquee. Eleanor Catton talks to former stand-up comic, Professor of public leadership at Warwick Business writer and 2013 Booker School Keith Grint calls for a rethink of understanding judge Natalie Haynes on leadership. He looks at the way leadership has about her award- evolved from its appearance in ancient societies, winning novel, The through the early writings on the subject of Plato, Sun Luminaries. Catton is the Tzu and Machiavelli, to the way social, economic and youngest winner of the political contexts undermine particular types of Man Booker at 28 and leadership. her novel was chosen ahead of works by the Keith Grint likes of Jim Crace and Colm Eleanor Catton Toibin. It is also the longest novel at 832 pages to win the prize. The Luminaries is set in the goldfields of Catton’s native New Zealand in the second half of the 19th century and follows Walter Moody as he comes across a series of unsolved crimes. The novel is a rich evocation of the period, a gripping Sponsored by mystery and a ghost story. Chair of the Booker judges Robert Macfarlane said: ‘Maturity is evident in every sentence, in the rhythms and balances. It is a novel of astonishing control.’ Catton was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing and the Betty Trask Award. Haynes is a writer, broadcaster, reviewer and classicist and former stand-up comic. She appears at another festival event to talk about her first novel, The Amber Fury.

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222 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY Kevin crossley-Holland steven Butler talks to nicolette Jones e History of the Wizard e diary of dennis the Menace MARCH 2014 MARCH

2pm / Christ Church: Hall / £6 Ages 9+ 2pm / Corpus Christi College / £6 9Ages 6– Award-winning children’s writer Kevin Crossley- Steven Butler, author of The Wrong Pong series, gives Holland, dressed as Merlin, talks to the consultant the inside story on every cheeky trick and prank played director of the festival’s children’s and young people’s by the star of The Beano. Meet Dennis, Gnasher and programme, Nicolette Jones, about the history of the friends (and enemies) and explore Beanotown with wizard. Dennis as your guide. Merlin was a magician, shape-changer, and prophet Butler is an actor, dancer and trained circus performer. who could foretell the future. He steered the birth and The Wrong Pong, a story for over-fives, was shortlisted destiny of King Arthur, and has lived for centuries for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. The Diary of Dennis the through British and European stories, from medieval Menace celebrates the 75th anniversary of the popular myths to modern classics such as those by Crossley- children’s comic. Holland. His literary descendants include Tolkien’s Gandalf, Terry Pratchett’s Rincewind and J K Rowling’s Steven Butler Dumbledore, not to mention Harry Potter, the boy wizard. Crossley-Holland was transformed into Merlin for The Story Museum’s forthcoming 26 Characters exhibition about favourite fictional folk. He becomes Merlin once again to talk about the arch-enchanter and his famous deeds. Crossley-Holland is author of the Arthur trilogy, The Seeing Stone, King of the Middle March, and At the Sponsored by Crossing Places. The trilogy, set in medieval times, blends the story of young Arthur de Caldicot with the tales and exploits of his legendary namesake King Arthur. Crossley-Holland is a poet and multi-award-winning author. The Arthur trilogy has been translated into 25 languages. The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. He has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon and has published retellings of traditional tales including The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales. He won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for Storm and was shortlisted for the 2008 Carnegie Medal for Gatty’s Tale.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

This event is held in association with the Story Museum Oxford. 223 sunday 30MarcH 2014 Pip Jones Mary Hoﬀman, Penny dolan, celia rees and Leslie Wilson squishy McFluﬀ: e Invisible cat daughters of Time: stories of Great Women from British History 2pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £6 Ages 4+ 2pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £6 Join Pip Jones to find Ages 10+ out all about Ava and A panel of top authors, all her mischievous contributors to a new anthology invisible cat, Squishy Daughters of Time, discuss the Mcfluff. You have to cause of women’s rights through imagine hard to see the ages and the great women Squishy properly, but who played a leading role in it. The that should be easy for anthology includes stories of children. During this famous women told through fresh interactive event you’ll eyes. They include the stories of Mary Hoffman help create the Queen Boudicca, Aethelfled, ultimate imaginary pet Eleanor of Aquitaine, Julian of and hear some of Ava Norwich, Lady Jane Grey, Elizabeth and Squishy’s Stuart, Aphra Behn, Mary adventures for yourself. Wollestonecraft, Mary Anning, Jones won the inaugural Greenhouse Funny Prize with Mary Seacole, Emily Davison, Amy the Squishy McFluff series. Johnson and the Greenham Common women. Pip Jones Mary Hoffman is editor of the Penny Dolan anthology and author of more than 90 books for children including the picture book, Amazing Grace, and the Stravaganza series of fantasy novels and historical novels. Penny Dolan is a children’s writer and storyteller who has written many Sponsored by books for younger readers. Her Celia Rees recent A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E. was her first book for older children. Celia Rees is a writer for teenagers with an international reputation. Her novel, Witch Child, is widely John Gordon-reid read in secondary schools and was included in the Booktrust’s Ultimate List: The 100 Best What on Earth? Children’s Books published in the Leslie Wilson science and Engineering last 100 years. Leslie Wilson writes novels and short stories for adults and children. Her 2pm / Blackwell’s Marquee / Free novel about the Holocaust, Saving Rafael, was See Thursday at 11am for further details nominated for the Carnegie Medal.

224 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY andrew Hussey Ed Webb-Ingall, stephen Farthing and James Mackay talk to Will Gompertz e French Intifada: e Long War derek Jarman’s sketchbooks and a Between France and its arabs showing of Glitterbug 2014 MARCH 2pm / Oxford Martin School: 2pm / Ashmolean Museum: Lecture Theatre / Headley Lecture Theatre / £12 £11 It is 20 years since the death of artist, filmmaker, Britain’s leading writer, painter, poet and gay icon Derek Jarman, and commentator on 2014 is being marked by a year-long celebration of his France Andrew Hussey work. Ed Webb-Ingall and Stephen Farthing, editors of examines the tortured Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks, talk to BBC arts relationship between correspondent Will Gompertz about the man and his France and its ex- influence. Film producer James Mackay, who colonies, from the early collaborated with Jarman on his films from 1981, will days of empire to then introduce a showing of Jarman’s film Glitterbug. contemporary Webb-Ingall, a film producer, and Farthing, the eruptions of violence in professor of drawing at the University of the Arts, the Paris suburbs. London, and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, Hussey says there is a have collated the best of Jarman’s sketchbooks. They war going on in the contain poetry, drawings, autobiographical notes and deprived banlieues of France’s cities between the scripts that reveal Jarman’s filmmaking process in French state and the former subjects of its empire. greater depth than ever before. Hussey mixes history, politics and literature and his own extensive personal experience to paint a new Glitterbug was made for the BBC Arena arts picture of France and its war. He looks at Napoleon’s programme and broadcast shortly after Jarman’s death obsession with all things Oriental and the armed in 1994. It consists of film strips shot by Jarman in colonization of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia that led to Super-8 between 1971 and 1986, offering glimpses decades of bloody conflict. And he reveals the role into his lifestyle, and set to a score by Brian Eno. played by the Magreb countries in shaping French This event lasts two hours history and the challenge being mounted today on France by the dispossessed heirs of empire. Hussey is Dean of the University of London Institute in Paris, writer/presenter of several BBC documentaries on French food and art, and author of The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord, and Paris: The Secret History.

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Festival Ideas Partner 225 sunday 30MarcH 2014 Tony Bradman, Jamila Gavin, andrew Kidd and Mark Haddon Marcia Williams and Bernard ashley stories of World War One e Folio Prize: e art of storytelling 4pm / Corpus Christi College / £6 Ages 10+ 4pm / Corpus Christi College: As commemorations for the start of World War One Rainolds Room / £11 get underway, three top children’s authors discuss the The Folio Prize is the new kid on the block of literary ways of imagining and describing the emotions of prizes – the first award to be open to English language those people who were caught up in the war and its fiction from all over the world, nominated and judged aftermath. by respected critics and authors from The Folio Prize Tony Bradman has written books for all ages and is Academy. Join founder of the prize, literary agent particularly known for the Dilly the Dinosaur series. His Andrew Kidd, and a panel of academicians (to be recent works include Viking Boy and Young Merlin. announced; see website for details) including Costa Jamila Gavin is an award-winning writer who has award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the published a series of teenage novels. Her most recent, Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon, for a stimulating The Blood Stone, is set in 17th-century Venice and event on the art of storytelling. Hindustan. Marcia Williams is a writer and illustrator whose recent works include Lizzy Bennet’s Diary, a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, and The Elephant’s Friend and Other Tales from Ancient India. Bernard Ashley is a former head teacher now full-time writer of young people’s books. He has written more than 20 Andrew Kidd novels and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal three times.

Jamila Gavin

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226 Box Office 0870 343 1001 • www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org 30 SUNDAY andrew Lycett sarah Pleydell and rose solari chaired by Bill Heine Wilkie collins: a Life of sensation Writing Family, Writing country:

Questions of Identity in Two 2014 MARCH new novels 4pm / Christ Church: Blue Boar / £11 Biographer Andrew Lycett uncovers a brilliant, witty, 4pm / Christ Church: Festival Room 2 / £11 friendly, contrary and sensual Wilkie Collins deeply Two first-time novelists explore the ways in which committed to his writing. Collins’s detective novel, The families and countries of origin function as concentric Moonstone, was described by T S Eliot as the greatest circles of identity for characters who face unresolved English detective novel. It was written in 1868 at a conflicts both personal and public. time when Collins was struggling with illness, the death of his mother and the announcement by his In Cologne, Sarah Pleydell live-in mistress that she was tired of his relationship depicts the London landscape of with another woman and was going to marry someone the early 1960s as German au- else. In response, Collins increased his huge intake of pair Renate arrives to meet her opium and set about completing the book. All of this new children. It is their parents, was unknown to the outside world, and Lycett’s however, she is unprepared for, investigative study draws out the real Wilkie Collins, as the mother, Helen, knows placing him at the heart of the literary, artistic and more about Nazi Germany than historical movement of his age. she does, and the father, Jack, disarms her with his charm. In A Lycett is a former foreign correspondent turned Secret Woman, Rose Solari biographer. His books include acclaimed lives of Ian explores how an estranged American mother and Fleming, Dylan Thomas, Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur daughter can be reconciled, after the mother’s death, Conan Doyle. in the realm of England’s myth and history. This other country becomes an agent of forgiveness and Andrew Lycett reinvention for the daughter as well as for her mother. Pleydell is an award-winning writer, performer and playwright, who teaches English and writing at the University of Maryland. Rose Solari is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Difficult Weather, Orpheus in the Park, and The Last Girl (due Autumn 2014); and a one-act play, Looking for Guenevere. She is a research member of Kellogg College, Oxford, attached to the Centre for Creative Writing, and serves on the centre’s advisory panel.

Rose Solari

This event is part of the American strand at this year’s festival.

227 sunday 30MarcH 2014 archie Brown Lauren child talks to nicolette Jones e Myth of the strong Leader ruby redfort catch your death

4pm / Oxford Martin School: 4.30pm / Sheldonian Theatre / £6-£15

Lecture Theatre / £11 Lauren Child, the award- Photo:Borland Polly Politics expert Archie Brown, who first alerted Prime winning, bestselling Minister Margaret Thatcher to the existence and creator of Charlie and potential significance of a reform-minded future Soviet Lola and Clarice Bean, leader called Mikhail Gorbachev, challenges the talks to the consultant widespread belief that strong leaders – those who director of the festival’s dominate their colleagues and the policy-making children’s and young process – are the most successful and admirable. people’s programme Within democracies, although ‘strong leaders’ are Nicolette Jones about seldom as strong or independent as they purport to be, her books, including her the idea that one and the same person is entitled to new adventure series, take all the big decisions is, he argues, dangerous Ruby Redfort, which Lauren Child nonsense. A more collegial leadership is too often stars a code-cracking, dismissed as weakness and its advantages overlooked. death-defying, Within authoritarian regimes, a more collective gadget-loving genius. leadership is a lesser evil compared with personal The third book in the dictatorship, where cultivation of the myth of the series is called Catch strong leader is often a prelude to oppression and Your Death. carnage. Child’s books have In reality, Brown contends, only a minority of political sold millions and leaders make a big difference, by challenging been translated into assumptions about the politically possible or setting in dozens of languages. motion systemic change. Franklin D. Roosevelt and She has won many Lyndon B. Johnson, Willy Brandt and Mikhail prizes including the Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping and Nelson Mandela, Smarties Prize four Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair are among the times, the Kate leaders Brown has examined in his wide-ranging book. Greenaway Medal and the Red House Children’s Book Award. Brown is emeritus professor of politics at Oxford University. His previous books include The Gorbachev Sponsored by Factor and The Rise and Fall of Communism. Photo:RebeccaPhillipson Archie Brown

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Note: purchase goers their tickets well the before events as Our the office box can festival get very busy. new office box system means you will not require a physical ticket unless you book at the last details will be on recorded the Your door minute. of the as event long as you book online or through office the box up festival to two hours before. should allow at least an 15 extra You minutes if you are purchasing tickets for at events Christ and Christi College the Corpus Church, Ashmolean. Immediately before events: Immediately before This year’s FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival is Festival Literary Oxford Weekend FT This year’s No physical tickets will event. be ‘ticketless’ a The booking posted to those who booked. have you with receive reference your email confirmation – or printed-out confirmation if you no have access to email – is On your the ticket. we will ask for door, the name and postcode of the person who booked the ticket. ARRIVAL, ACCESSIBILITY AND SAFETY

The festival principally takes place in Christ Church, Access to Christ Church guide may be downloaded. at the Bodleian Library and the Sheldonian Theatre, You are also welcome to contact the Porters’ Lodge at the Oxford Martin School and at Corpus Christi on (01865) 276150 for further assistance. College. Accessible toilets at Christ Church: wheelchair user The festival’s address is unisex accessible toilets are provided in Tom Quad Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DP. (beneath the Hall) and at the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre. Please ask a festival volunteer or college Arriving custodian for directions. By train: Oxford is well served from all areas of the Induction loops for the hard of hearing: induction country, and the station is a 20-minute walk or five- loops for hearing aid users are provided in Christ minute bus or taxi ride from the festival. There is a Church's Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, the Cathedral and taxi rank at the station. Festival Room 2, Corpus Christi College's MBI Al Jaber By coach: there are two fast and frequent coach Building, and the main auditorium of the Sheldonian services to Oxford from London (the X90 and the Theatre. There is an induction loop in the Oxford Oxford Tube), with departures up to every 15 minutes. Martin School Lecture Theatre and an infrared hearing In Oxford, festival-goers can alight at High Street support system in the seminar room. stops which are within a few minutes’ walk of festival Assistance dogs: assistance dogs are welcome. Other venues. The coach station at Gloucester Green is a dogs are not permitted. 15-minute walk from the festival. Detailed information about both services may be found at Paths and lighting: although many of the buildings www.oxfordbus.co.uk and www.oxfordtube.com and amenities that host the festival are maintained to high standards, they are set in a historic built By car: street parking is extremely limited. The closest environment that has grown over several centuries public car park is the Westgate car park, a five-to-10- and not always in line with contemporary building minute walk from festival venues. Oxford is well norms. Level walking surfaces may not be served with a park-and-ride bus service at several encountered everywhere and lighting levels are points at the city perimeter. Details may be found at maintained as appropriate for the environment. www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/park-and- Festival-goers are asked to take special care at all ride. times. Blue badge parking: for events at Christ Church, Comments and suggestions: in accordance with disabled badge holder designated parking is available recommended good practice Christ Church and other in Oriel Square (close to Corpus Christi College, and to festival venues operate a disability equality scheme. Christ Church's Canterbury Gate), and in St Aldate's This is kept under review, taking into account the (immediately to the south of Christ Church's Tom views of visitors and others. Comments and Gate). For events at the Bodleian Library, Sheldonian suggestions are therefore welcome and may be Theatre and Oxford Martin School, disabled badge directed to the Steward of Christ Church by letter, holder designated parking is available in Broad Street. telephone (01865 286580) or e-mail Safety and general accessibility ([email protected]) or to the disability librarian at the Bodleian Library (for the Divinity Schools and Entrances, quads and gardens: access to festival Convocation House) and the custodian at the events in Christ Church is via Tom Gate, the college’s Sheldonian Theatre. For other college venues please principal entrance on St Aldate’s. There is level-going contact the domestic bursar. access at this point and good, permanent ramped and stepped access immediately inside Tom Gate. Fire safety evacuation: to ensure the safe evacuation of wheelchair users in case of emergency, it may Christ Church has introduced many measures to occasionally be necessary to limit the number of support visitors with disabilities and further wheelchair users at a given event. Evac-chairs are improvements are actively planned and programmed. provided and duty volunteers trained to assist. A Further detailed information is available on the Christ safety briefing for all festival-goers is provided at the Church website at www.chch.ox.ac.uk where an start of each event.

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ART, ARCHITECTURE AND Steven Butler 223 DINNERS DESIGN Kevin Crossley-Holland 223 Lionel Barber, Lucy Kellaway 23 Martin Kemp 57 Mary Hoffman, Penny Dolan, Opening Festival Dinner 34 Andrew Graham-Dixon 70 Celia Rees, Leslie Wilson 224 Jesmyn Ward, Jessica Harris 65 Martin Gayford 71 Pip Jones 224 Michael Caines 102 Jim Eyre 151 Tony Bradman, Jamila Gavin, Madhur Jaffrey, James Campbell 170 Marcia Williams, Atul Kochhar, Bernard Ashley 226 Emma Bridgewater 181 Hardeep Singh Kohli 133 Lauren Child 228 Jovan Nicholson 205 Margaret Atwood 212 Malcolm Graham, CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY FICTION Edith Gollnast 206 Jonathan Fenby 41 James Naughtie 20 Christine Riding 215 Gabrielle Rifkind 48 John Banville 25 Kelly Grovier 221 Luke Johnson 58 Saira Shah, Gill Hornby, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Madhur Jaffrey, Mark Tully 77 Simon Wroe, Rachel Hore 26 Korky Paul 18 Polly Coles 83 Rachel Johnson, Paul Blezard 30 Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre 21 Tim Robson 86 Robert Harris 32 Robert Muchamore, Sarah Marder, Fred Plotkin, Taiye Selasi 41 Sophie McKenzie 24 Ivan Scalfarotto 96 Rachel Hore, Jane Thynne 47 Neill Cameron 29 Mike Carson 114 Anita Shreve 48 Meg Rosoff 31 Oliver James 118 Ron Carlson 60 Chris Jarvis 40 David Rose, Tobias Hill, Tim Pears 101 Robert Wainwright, Winnie the Pooh 42 Sebastian Barry 113 Stewart Purvis 142 Kate Edwards, 46 Kirsty Wark 117 Ben Ramalingam, Alison Gwynn John Holmes 148 Jacqueline Yallop 118 Peter Worley 54 Horatio Clare 156 Hanif Kureishi 129 Miffy 57 Philip Lymbery 161 Alan Titchmarsh 145 Chris Riddell 58 Ian Goldin 165 Anjali Joseph, Prajwal Parajuly 149 Lucy Mangan, Philip Ardagh 62 Ian Goldin, Robyn Norton, Jill Dawson 157 Christopher Lloyd 144 Sarah Harper, Toby Ord 176 Ian McEwan 158 John Gordon-Reid 144 Linda Blair 178 Arne Dahl 159 Liz Pichon 192 Mrs Moneypenny Alexander McCall Smith 174 Lauren St John, with Heather McGregor 179 Kamila Shamsie 175 Virginia McKenna 192 Ahmed Kathrada, Melvyn Bragg 178 Adam and Charlotte Guillain 193 Alec Russell 184 Essie Fox Wendy Wallace 183 Malorie Blackman, 199 James Lovelock 198 Joanne Harris 185 Shami Chakrabarti Laurens de Groot 201 Andrew Taylor 196 David Almond 211 Gavin Hewitt 205 Natalie Haynes 197 Martin Brown 214 Dominic Frisby 207 Elisabeth Russell Taylor 206 Jonny Duddle 216 Alev Scott 207 Orhan Pamuk 210 Kristina Stephenson 217 Jon Miller, Lucy Parker, India Knight, Lucy Atkins 211 Michael Morpurgo 218 Michael Woodford 221 Paul Bailey 219 Caroline Sandon 220 Eleanor Catton 222 Sarah Pleydell, Rose Solari 227 236 INDEX OF EVENTS BY SUBJECT 18 42 43 43 44 45 49 89 22 69 82 237 101 112 117 130 160 163 176 180 181 182 227 111 130 143 188 200 203 226 Continued overleaf Continued MEMOIR AND AND BIOGRAPHY MEMOIR John Carey Jonathan Meades Jane Potter Hermione Lee Aitken Jonathan Ward Jesmyn John Campbell Geordie Greig Tomasi Gioacchino Lanza Lucy Newlyn John Julius Norwich Nick Hunt Richard Davenport-Hines Damon Galgut Alex Monroe Culme-Seymour Tilly Brian Sewell Drabble Margaret Andrew Lycett LTERATURE Mead Rebecca John Crace Philip Davis David Constantine, Stuart Aldiss, Evers Brian Agbabi, Patience Watson Mark Kathryn Sutherland Joanne Harris, Crossley-Holland Kevin Juliet McKenna Ben Okri Elizabeth Arnold, Gaynor Anita Mason, Edmondson, Mark Andrew Kidd, Haddon 88 89 90 96 97 177 163 173 110 110 111 115 116 128 142 143 147 150 156 160 164 171 172 173 180 186 187 194 194 196 198 201 215 220 225 228 LANGUAGE Crystal Hilary David Crystal, Academy Students of Oxford and of Brookes Oxford Course Writing MA Creative HUMOUR Arthur Strong Count Peter Peter Heather Marc Morris Robert Bartlett Harry Freedman Richard Parkinson Allawi Ali Carolyne Larrington, Diane Purkiss Michael Scott Clayton Ewan Catriona Kelly Phillip Ball Graham Farmelo, Stourton Edward Nicholas Shakespeare Matthews Roderick Paxman Jeremy Wainwright Robert Alexander Lee David Stuttard Twigger, Robert Wilkinson Toby Nick Barlay Richard Overy Cameron Averil Broodbank Cyprian Nigel Jones Fawcett Edmund Susan Jones, Fiona Macintosh Jessica Harris William Chislett, Treglown Jeremy Williams Kate Waterfield Robin Patrick Bishop Andrew Hussey Archie Brown 19 25 29 31 32 33 33 40 45 46 49 55 68 68 70 71 83 84 86 59 74 21 59 74 82 91 104 129 146 170 225 147 159 204 214 217 Ben Ben Macintyre Rhodes Parker Jewell Tinniswood Adrian Peter Snow Graham Robb Lawrence Freedman Amanda Jane-Doran, Andrew McCarthy MacMillan Margaret Standage Tom Ben Outhwaite Michael Broers Irving Finkel Ring Jim Webb Mike Anderson Scott Borman Tracy Christopher Duggan John Curtis HISTORY Melanie King FOOD AND AND DRINK FOOD Nhean Haynes de Domecq Lucy Worsley Lucy Wall Anthony Muller Frederick Ben Crystal Sally Potter Webb-Ingall, Ed Stephen Farthing, James Mackay Beltran Domecq Jancis Robinson Claudia Roden Julian Baggini, Antonio Carluccio, Michael Caines Jans Ondaatje Rolls Harry Eyres Stanley-Clarke Tim Waugh Sophia John Harris FILM AND THEATRE AND FILM Janet Beer Taylor, Helen Girls 4-18

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