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Dinner In Honour of
Baroness P.D. James
in the Presence of HRH
The Duke Of Kent
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7pm / Hall, Christ Church / £75.00 (includes reception,
three-course dinner, including wine) / Dress code:
Black Tie
The Great Hall of Christ Church will be the venue for
a Black Tie Dinner in honour of P.D. James, who will
be presented with the first Honorary Fellowship of
the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival in recognition
of her outstanding contribution to the crime novel.
Born in Oxford in 1920, Baroness James has published
18 novels, and been the recipient of over a dozen
major prizes and awards in Britain and overseas.
A former Governor of the BBC, Baroness James has
been awarded seven Honorary Degrees, and she
chaired the Booker Prize panel of judges in 1987.
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Ruth Padel 210
Darwin: A Life in Poems
8pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Ruth Padel uses her skill as a prize-winning poet
to give us a remarkable memoir of Darwin, her
great-great grandfather. In this new sequence of
poems Ruth Padel follows the development of the
great scientist’s professional thought, and the drama
of the discovery of evolution. She also imagines the
fluctuating emotions within Darwin, the private man
and tender father. The result is a powerful, moving
and original tribute to her famous forbear.
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Kate Atkinson interviewed
by Daniel Mallory
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MONDAY MARCH 2009
When Will There Be Good News
Nigel Warburton 205
Free Speech:
A Very Short Introduction
7.15pm (10 minutes) / Blackwell Festival Bookshop
Meadows Marquee, Christ Church / Free
How important is free speech Should it be defended
at any cost Or should we set limits on what can and
cannot be said Nigel Warburton offers a lively and
thought-provoking introduction to these questions,
exploring the traditional philosophical arguments as
well as the practical issues and controversies facing
society today.
8pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Kate Atkinson brings her acclaimed fictional
detective, Jackson Brodie, back to solve yet another
crime in this psychologically astute new thriller
from the author of Case Histories and One Good
Turn. When Will There Be Good News begins in
a remote corner of rural Devon when six-year-old
Joanna is a little girl lost, and the only survivor of
an unspeakable crime. Thirty years later, Andrew
Decker, the man convicted of that crime, is released
from prison and immediately vanishes from sight.
Has he gone in search of Joanna
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