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Caroline Moorehead
Dancing to the Precipice:
Lucie de la Tour du Pin and
the French Revolution
Oxford Poets
& Refugee Writers
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6pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Repeatedly in the right place at the right time, Lucie
de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation.
Her diaries provide a vivid picture of Versailles, the
French Revolution and Napoleon.
She was an outstanding diarist and a remarkable
woman, who witnessed one of the most dramatic
and brutal periods of European history. She played
the part of observer, commentator and, often
participant.
Mixing politics and court intrigue, social observations
and everyday details about food, work, illness, children,
manners and clothes, Caroline Moorehead paints a
vivid and memorable portrait of du Pin and her era.
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Andrew Miller 433
One Morning Like a Bird
7pm / Blackwell, 48-51 Broad Street / £7.50
Winner of the International Impac Award, shortlisted
for both the Booker and Whitbread prizes, translated
into 36 languages, Andrew Miller offers us in his
new novel a tale of growing up and growing free of
the self-delusions that make doing the right thing
so difficult – especially in a world where everyone is
struggling to save themselves. It is also the story of
Tokyo: a vast and almost impossible place, its history
plagued by fires and earthquakes, and in 1941, a city
that teeters on the brink of its greatest catastrophe.
Frank Furedi, Peter Hitchens, 406
Julian Walker and Alex Wheatle
Chaired by Claire Fox
Teenage Gang Violence:
Frighteningly Real or
Dangerously Exaggerated
WEDNESDAY APRIL 2009
6pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £6.00
A presentation of work arising from a joint initiative
of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and Asylum
Welcome, bringing together 14 published authors
and refugees to work collaboratively on the writing
of poetry through one-to-one mentoring, launched
as a series of three workshops. Introduced by
Carole Angier, participants presenting their work
include John Fuller, Bernard O’Donoghue, Maria
Jastrzebska and Yousif Qasmiyeh. The work is to
be published as an anthology by Heaventree Press
in September 2009. The workshops were hosted by
Oxford Brookes University and the project has been
funded by Arts Council England, Asylum Welcome
and Refugee Resource.
8pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
The conviction last December of Sean Mercer, who
in 2007, at the age of just 16, shot dead 11-year-old
Rhys Evans in Liverpool, has reopened the debate
about teenage gang violence in Britain. Do concerns
about violent youth crime reflect a breakdown of
respect and discipline, or are we in the grip of a
moral panic Are liberal critics blind to the harsh
realities of crime and disorder, or does demonising
young people make things worse Have we lost
the confidence to tell young people what’s right
and wrong Join Frank Furedi, author of Politics
of Fear, Peter Hitchens, journalist and author of
The Abolition of Britain and A Brief History of Crime,
Julian Walker, Head of Policy at Barnardo’s, and
Alex Wheatle, author of the novel The Dirty South,
to discuss the issues. Chaired by Claire Fox,
Director of the Institute of Ideas.
In association with The Institute of Ideas.
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