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Festival Service
6pm / Cathedral, Christ Church
A highlight of the Festival is Choral Evensong,
a service of the Anglican Church which is
widely regarded as one of the finest art-forms
in the western world. There will be readings
from the Authorised Version of the Bible, and
the music, sung by the Cathedral Singers,
will include a setting of a prayer by Dietrich
Bonhoeffer. The service lasts about 50 minutes.
Horatio Clare 413
A Single Swallow
6pm / Festival Room 2, Christ Church / £7.50
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the
Year award, Horatio Clare’s Running for the Hills was
one of the most moving memoirs of recent years. His
new book is just as engaging - the story of his 6,000-mile
journey from Cape Town to South Wales last year
in pursuit of Barn Swallows on their northbound
migration. Travelling by every conceivable mode of
transport, crossing all types of terrain and cultures,
the result is a thrilling book about the intersection
of the natural and the human worlds, and a journey
through the modern world to the tune of an ancient rhythm.
Sponsored by Cox & Kings
WEDNESDAY APRIL 2009
Andrei Ostalski 447
Ceiling vault - Christ Church Cathedral
Between the British Rock
and the Russian Hard Place:
the Tale of Two Cultures
6pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
Andrei Ostalski has lived in Britain for 16 years,
working for the BBC and before that for the Financial
Times and Izvestia. Andrei helped to establish major
Russian business titles, including Financial Izvestia,
and then the FT and the WSJ joint venture Vedomosti.
In a previous incarnation he was an Arabist and
travelled widely in the Middle East. The main theme
of both his fiction, such as novels The English Rules
and The Gods of Baghdad and non-fiction (The Brief
History of Money and Oil: Monster and Treasure) is
the interaction of cultures, civilizations and mentalities.
In association with Pushkin House,
London’s Russian Cultural Centre
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