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Events on Tuesday 27 March

David Blockley

David Blockley

Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

1:15pm | Tuesday 27 March Very Short Introductions
Tim Palmer

Tim Palmer, Roger Scruton , Tom Burke and James Delingpole Chaired by Tony White

Humanity’s Impact on the Climate

4:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Current Affairs
Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson

Lucky Bunny

10:00am | Tuesday 27 March Fiction

Gerard Baker and Joanna Blythman Chaired by Donald Sloan

The British Food Revolution: Rhetoric or reality?

10:00am | Tuesday 27 March Food and Drink
Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris and Others

Reader, I married him

10:00am | Tuesday 27 March Language & Literature

Judith Curthoys

The Cardinal’s College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse

10:00am | Tuesday 27 March History
Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth Happened?

11:10am | Tuesday 27 March Children and Young People

Tim Harford

Adapt and Iraq: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

12:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Contemporary Society
Lucille Turner

Lucille Turner Interviewed by Martin Kemp

Gioconda: A Novel of Leonardo da Vinci

12:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Art, Architecture and Design

Franny Moyle

Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde

12:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Biography & Memoir
Alex James

Alex James and Henrietta Green

British Cheese – The Young Pretenders

12:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Food and Drink
Donna Leon

Donna Leon Interviewed by Janet Beer

Beastly Things and a Life of Crime Writing

12:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Crime Fiction
Janet Beer

Janet Beer and Avril Horner Chaired by Alex Goody

Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman

2:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Language & Literature
Merlin Waterson

Merlin Waterson

A Noble Thing: The National Trust and its Benefactors

2:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Art, Architecture and Design
Sam Moorhead

Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard

The Romans Who Shaped Britain

2:00pm | Tuesday 27 March History
Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth Evolved?

3:10pm | Tuesday 27 March Children and Young People
Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham and Christopher Priest Chaired by Christian House

But is it Literature?

4:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Language & Literature
William Bynum

William Bynum and Helen Bynum

Great Discoveries in Medicine

4:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Science
Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall Interviewed by Jem Poster

The Beautiful Indifference

4:00pm | Tuesday 27 March Fiction

Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum:  Tour of the New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia

4:30pm | Tuesday 27 March Walking Tours

Ben Pink Dandelion

Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

5:15pm | Tuesday 27 March Very Short Introductions
Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth

The Chancellor’s Lecture: The Rivered Earth

5:30pm | Tuesday 27 March Language & Literature
Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

The Impossible Dead

6:30pm | Tuesday 27 March Crime Fiction
Lisa Hilton

Lisa Hilton

The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

6:30pm | Tuesday 27 March Biography & Memoir
Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis, Jenny Lewis and Jane Draycott

Tokens for the Foundlings

6:30pm | Tuesday 27 March Poetry
Edmund Newell

Edmund Newell

The Choice

6:30pm | Tuesday 27 March Faith and Religion