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The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 20-28 March 2010

Please note that there is a new website for the 2010 Festival

www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com
Podcasts from 2009:

Relive some of the highlights of last year’s Literary Festival by clicking on the links below. If you would like to save any files to your computer, please right click and select "save target as".

Day Time Title
Tues 31st March 2pm Robert Harris – The Ghost
Tues 31st March 4pm

1984 Civil Liberties Debate with Shami Chakrabarti (part 1)
1984 Civil Liberties Debate with Shami Chakrabarti (part 2)
Tues 31st March 6pm Richard Holmes – The Age of Wonder
Wednesday 1 April 4pm Afghanistan Debate
Wednesday 1 April 6pm Helmand – Robert Wilson and Brigadier Andrew MacKay
Wednesday 1 April 8pm The Greatest English Novel
Thursday 2 April 12pm Writing for a change – Responses to Climate Change – Panel Discussion
Thursday 2 April 2pm C J Sansom interviewed by Peter Kemp
Thursday 2 April 3.30pm Bernard Donoughue and Shirley Williams – Downing Street Diary
Thursday 2 April 8pm Chris Patten – What Next? Surviving the 21st Century
Friday 3 April 2:00 PM Eyewitness to History – Kate Adie, Robin Laurance, Harry Sidebottom, Stephen Venables chaired by Julie Summers
Friday 3 April 2pm William Fiennes interviewed by John Carey – The Music Room
Friday 3 April 4pm Richard Blair in conversation with D J Taylor
Friday 3 April 8pm Joan Bakewell, Nick Baker and Irma Kurtz chaired by Emma Soames – Ageing – The Future
Saturday 4th April 10am Aravind Adiga interviewed by Andrew Holgate – The White Tiger
Saturday 4 April 12pm Is Britain in Decline. Mark Easton, Andrew O’Hagan and Kieron O’Hara
Saturday 4th April 2pm Michael Murpurgo
Staurday 4th April 4pm Michael Holroyd. A Strange Eventful History
Saturday 4 April 6pm Ben Okri interviewed by Elleke Boehmer – Tales of Freedom
Saturday 4 April 8pm The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work – Alain de Botton
Sunday 5 April 12pm Less is More - Short Stories with Cathy Galvin, Ben Okri, Andrew O’Hagan, Lionel Shriver and Wells Tower chaired by Bryan Appleyard

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