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1 WEDNESDAY
APRIL 2009
John Kay 440
The Long and the Short of It:
A Self-contained Guide to Finance
and Investment for Normally
Intelligent People Who Are Not in
the Industry
8pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
John Kay, world-leading economist and professor at the
London School of Economics, with 25 years of experience
of financial institutions, has put together a guide to the
complexities of the modern financial system.
The Long and the Short of It describes the sophisticated
innovations of the modern financial system. It
also explains how twice in the last decade – in the
new economy bubble and the credit crunch and
current financial crises – the follies of finance have
threatened the stability of the world economy. Since
most people’s portfolio will be in stocks and shares,
John Kay describes why some companies succeed
and others fail, and how to distinguish fact and
fiction in what companies tell you. You will learn a
practical investment strategy and how to implement
it - and how to put your portfolio in the only hands
you can confidently trust – your own.
Laurance Rees 405
Ronald Harwood in
conversation with
Maggie Fergusson
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8pm / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
As his 75th birthday approaches, playwright and
screenwriter Ronald Harwood is riding an extraordinary
wave of success. Born Ronald Horwitz, of Jewish
parents, he arrived here from South Africa at 17,
with 7s/d in his pocket. He joined Donald Wolfit’s
Royal Shakespeare Company, where he formed
a lifelong friendship with Harold Pinter, and his
experiences there are immortalized in The Dresser,
which established him as one of this country’s
leading playwrights. He is also one of our foremost
screenplay writers, and, since winning an Oscar for
The Pianist in 2003, has written the screenplays for
Oliver Twist, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (also nominated for
an Oscar, and awarded a BAFTA). In May, his plays
Collaboration and Taking Sides come on at the
Duchess Theatre in London. But while enjoying the
glamour of the theatre, and of Hollywood, Harwood
remains at heart questing and serious, preoccupied
by the Holocaust and by questions of belief.
In Association with Royal Society of
Literature
World War Two:
Behind Closed Doors
8pm / Hall, Christ Church / £7.50
Already renowned for his work on Auschwitz, acclaimed
documentary-film maker Laurence Rees here turns
his attention to some less familiar issues of the
second world war, throwing light upon its darker
nooks and crannies, and in particular the often ugly
relationship between Stalin and the West. Drawing
on material only available since the opening of
archives in the East, Rees re-examines the key
decisions made by Stalin and Churchill and explores
the dramatic effect those decisions had for those on
the ground.
Sponsored by Blackwell
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