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Raymond Blanc
interviewed by Sue Wilkins
A Taste of My Life
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8pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
From his days as a young boy collecting frogs’ legs in
rural France, to his career as a prodigiously talented
chef cooking at the very highest levels of cuisine,
Raymond Blanc’s passion for food has remained
constant. His life has been determined by a steady
search for culinary perfection. Now, for the first
time, he tells the story of that search and shares
the secrets he has learnt along the way. He also
gives his thoughts about where food is going
today, and makes a passionate appeal for a more
sustainable cuisine.
TUESDAY MARCH 2009
Portrait of W H Auden
Virginia Nicholson and
Julie Summers
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Women in War’s Aftermath
I write as a serial attendee at literary festivals
around the globe… The Sunday Times Oxford
Literary Festival has established itself as
one of the most charismatic and hospitable
festivals in the world: in one stroke it places
Oxford at the centre of a living book culture,
it places the Sunday Times as a dynamic
force in the literary culture, and it provides
a world-class opportunity for sponsors and
writers to increase their visibility to very
select, intelligent and most often sell-out
audiences in the very best of circumstances.
Great literary festivals are apt to contribute
largely to the cultures they describe, and I
can tell you that the Sunday Times Oxford
Literary Festival has become an essential
date in the calendar and a wonderful place
on the map.
Andrew O'Hagan
8pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
Are women the main victims of war Two world wars
left millions of women bereft of husbands, sons,
sweethearts - and their future. In Singled Out,
Virginia Nicholson explores how two million women
survived without men after the First World War. Julie
Summers, in Stranger in the House, considers how
women coped when the men came home after the
Second World War. Together they will explore the
similarities and differences of the post-war worlds
inherited by women in 1918 and 1945.
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