Events on Friday 30 March
Alvin Hall
The Stock Market Explained
Marcus Berkmann
A Shed of One’s Own: Midlife Without the Crisis
Martin Kemp
Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Val Bourne
Colour in the Garden
Sophia Hillan
May, Lou & Cass: Jane Austen’s Nieces in Ireland
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Happened?
Simon Stokes, Christine Plews and Caroline van Zyl
Getting the Most out of the Law (and Lawyers)
Andrew Lambert
The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Students of Oxford Academy and of Oxford Brookes MA Creative Writing Course Chaired by James Hawes
Chocolate is the Word
Helena Matheopoulos
Fashion Designers at The Opera
Susan Cain
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Diana Athill and Joan Bakewell
A Life Fully Lived
George Garnett
Norman Conquests: A Very Short Introduction
Helen Graham, Paul Preston and Francisco J Romero Salvado Chaired by Jean Seaton
Homage to Catalonia: The Spanish Civil War
Jeremy Paxman
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Rachel Cusk and Jane Shilling Chaired by Rebecca Abrams
Aftermath and The Stranger in the Mirror: Women in Middle Age
Sasha Dugdale Interviewed by Jem Poster
Conversations with Poets
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams
The Goldilocks Planet: The Four-Billion-Year Story of Earth’s Climate
Richard Bradford
Martin Amis: The Biography
Christopher Lloyd
What on Earth Evolved?
Bill Cash
John Bright: Statesman, Orator and Agitator
Clare Morgan and Susan Sellers
Fictional Freedoms: Rewriting Virginia Woolf
Hanif Kureishi, Joe Dunthorne and Andrew Holgate Chaired by Cathy Galvin
Short Fiction: Choosing the Best
Rosie Thomas
A Love of Travel and Adventure
Joan Bakewell
She’s Leaving Home
Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Dorothy Crawford
Viruses: A very Short Introduction
Andy Hamilton
Booze For Free: Tasting and Talk
Ben Okri
Wild: Official Launch of a New Collection of Poetry Including Drinks Reception
Lev Grossman
Storytelling: The Past and Future of the American Novel
Simon Jenkins
A Short History of England
Rupert Sheldrake
The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
Philip Hensher and Zaved Mahmood Chaired by James Hawes
Scenes from Early Life
Michael Arditti
I’ve Always Meant To Read . . . A La Recherche du Temps Perdu
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