Photo: KT Bruce www.ktbrucephotography.com
Festival team
Festival Chief Executive: Sally Dunsmore
Festival Board Directors: Bruce Thew (Chairman), John Harris (President), Graham Benson, Brian Hardy
Special Advisor: Tony Byrne
Children’s and Young People’s Programme Director: Nicolette Jones
Science Programme Director: Georgina Ferry
Director of Academic Programmes: Professor Jem Poster
Cathedral Programme Director: Canon Edmund Newell, Sub-Dean, Christ Church
Film and Television Consultant: Graham Benson
American Cinema and Theatre Consultant: Stefanie Powers
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, Mark Lawson, The Rt Hon Baron Patten of Barnes CH, Philip Pullman, Dr David Starkey, Sir Peter Stothard
Website and content editor: Derek Holmes
Debate and Panel Co-ordinator: Michael Farley
Publicity: Four Communications
Festival Administrator: Louise Croft
Marketing: Rachel Byrne
Historic Food Advisor: Anne Menzies
Co-ordinator for Creative Writing Course; the Friends of the Festival and public liaison: Susan Walker
Site Manager: J P Judson
Green Room Managers: Rachel Byrne and Jill Dunsmore
Box Officer Manager: Nick Jordan and Tricia Simms
With special thanks to volunteer co-ordinator: Caitlin McNamara
Programme printers: by Oxford University Press
Programme Designer: Simon Stafford
Photography: Courtesy of K T Bruce www.ktbrucephotography.com and Oxford Picture Library www.cap.ox.com
Festival Stewards: We also thank all the voluntary festival stewards for their time and generous support throughout the festival.







