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Lewis Wolpert 418
How We Live and Why We Die
4pm / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
Developmental biologist and former chairman of
the Committee on the Public Understanding of
Science, Lewis Wolpert provides a fascinating insight
into the very essence of human life – and death.
Drawing on his lifelong study of cells, he provides
a clear explanation of the science that underpins our
lives – how our bodies function, how and why we age
– and also examines the science behind such muchdiscussed
but rarely understood topics as stem-cell
research and cloning.
Rosamund Bartlett 450
How Chekhov Became a Writer
4pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Biographer and translator Rosamund Bartlett
discusses the stories brought together in her new
Chekhov anthology The Exclamation Mark (Hesperus
Press), which all date from the six critical months
in the writer’s life when he first began to sign his
fiction with his real name. She will also talk about
the campaign she has launched to help renovate the
house and garden that Chekhov built at the end of
his life in Yalta, and introduce a reading of A Little
Joke, Chekhov’s only story with two endings.
Sponsored by Felicity Bryan
Literary Agency
David Loyn, James Fergusson
and Clare Lockhart
Chaired by Jean Seaton
Afghanistan Debate
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4pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
What has foreign intervention achieved in Afghanistan
Operation Enduring Freedom was the first front
in the ‘War on Terror’ to be opened following the
attacks of 11 September 2001, and sought to
remove the Taliban, the repressive regime which had
allowed Osama bin Laden to operate in Afghanistan.
Seven years later, the fighting continues – has
intensified even – and foreign troops still lack an exit
strategy. What does Afghanistan’s future look like
Join David Loyn (BBC Developing World Correspondent,
author of Butcher & Bolt: Two Hundred Years of
Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan), James
Fergusson (journalist, and author of Kandahar
Cockney and A Million Bullets) and Clare Lockhart
(former adviser to UN and Afghan government,
and co-author of Fixing Failed States). Chaired by
Professor Jean Seaton (Director of the Orwell Prize,
author of Carnage and the Media).
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