Saturday 22Nd to Sunday 30Th March 2014 at the Sheldonian Theatre and Christ Church OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL2014 LITERARY OXFORD
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Saturday 22nd to Sunday 30th March 2014 at the Sheldonian Theatre and Christ Church OXFORD OXFORD LITERARY 2014FESTIVAL Featuring Margaret Atwood Philip Pullman John Banville Orhan Pamuk Melvyn Bragg Michael Morpurgo Anita Shreve Ian McEwan Antonio Carluccio Lucy Worsley Kevin Crossley-Holland Jan Morris James Naughtie Ben Okri Jeremy Paxman Robert Harris Simon Jenkins Hanif Kureishi Madhur Jaffrey Eleanor Catton Jancis Robinson Alfred Brendel Alexander McCall Smith Mark Tully Jonathan Aitken Jewell Parker Rhodes Margaret Drabble Claudia Roden A C Grayling Lionel Barber Ben Macintyre Alan Titchmarsh Malorie Blackman Kirsty Wark Edward Stourton Andrew Graham-Dixon Jim Al-Khalili Joanne Harris Virginia McKenna Ahmed Kathrada Peter Snow Joan Bakewell Atul Kochhar Brian Sewell Gavin Hewitt Jesmyn Ward Subscribe to FT Weekend today Michael Caines Taiye Selasi From great interviews to arts and property; travel advice to where to invest. It’s all in FT Weekend. • L ife & Arts – a comprehensive blend of style, travel, arts, books and television • FT Weekend Magazine – exclusive interviews, outstanding photo-stories and fabulous food & drink • F T Money – Personal Finance Consumer Title of the Year providing readers with investment strategies and personal finance advice • House & Home – a definitive weekly guide to property, architecture, interiors and gardens • Ho w To Spend It – an award-winning monthly magazine on life’s luxuries Subscribe now, visit ft.com/weekendsub Box Office 0870 343 1001 Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org Festival Cultural Partner Front cover: Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Library (photo: KT Bruce) This page: Statue of Sir Thomas Bodley, Old Schools Quad, Old Bodleian Library (photo: Oxford Picture Library) 2015 FESTIVAL DATES Saturday 21st March to Sunday 29th March WELCOME Director’s welcome 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 122 FT WEEKEND AND THE OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL FT Weekend is proud to be the title partner of this year’s Oxford Literary Festival. As a global news organisation, we celebrate the power of the written word to delight, inform and inspire our readers, sharing the best stories and ideas from across the world. 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. We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford for what promises to be the most exciting festival to date. Caroline Daniel Editor, FT Weekend 2 Life. Arts. Culture. Read beyond the expected HSBC & THE OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL 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. Antonio Simoes CEO UK, Head of RBWM Europe and Deputy CEO, HSBC Bank plc 4 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) Special Advisor Tony Byrne Consultant Director Children’s and Young People's Programme Nicolette Jones Director of Children’s and Young People’s Programme Andrea Reece Director of Academic Programmes Professor Jem Poster OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL Executive Consultant – Film, Television and Registered Office Theatre Greyfriars Court, Paradise Square, Oxford OX1 1BE Graham Benson Company Number: 04339438 Marketing Consultant Charity Registration Number: 1128820 David Mclaren Festival Office Christ Church, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1DP Telephone: 01865 286074 Email [email protected] 6 FESTIVALTEAM & CONTENTS Website and Content editor CONTENTS Derek Holmes Festival Sponsors & Partners 8 Debate and Panel Co-ordinator Children’s and Young 11 Michael Farley People’s Programme Christ Church 12 Publicity Tom Ville at Four Communications 0203 697 4308 (media enquiries only) EVENTS CALENDAR Festival Administrator Saturday 22 March 18 Louise Croft Sunday 23 March 40 Monday 24 March 68 82 Marketing Tuesday 25 March Rachel Byrne Wednesday 26 March 110 Thursday 27 March 142 Friday 28 March 170 Historic Food Advisor Saturday 29 March 192 Anne Menzies Sunday 30 March 214 Co-ordinator for Creative Writing Course Brenda Stevens EVENTS INFORMATION Green Room Managers Staying at Christ Church 230 Jill Dunsmore and Louise Croft Booking Information 231 232 Box Officer Managers Accessibility and Safety Tricia Simms and John Simms Map of Venues 234 Index of Events by Subject 236 Programme printed by Oxford University Press Graphic Design Stafford & Stafford Photography Courtesy of Oxford Picture Library www.cap.ox.com and KT Bruce www.ktbrucephotography.com Festival Photographers Eddie Gallacher, Graham Harrison and Geraint Lewis Festival Stewards We also thank all the voluntary festival stewards for their time and generous support throughout the