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Dinner with
Desmond Guinness
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7pm / Drinks Reception / 7.30pm / Dinner /
Friend Room, Christ Church / £99.00 (includes
drinks reception, 3-course dinner, wine and coffee)
The Hon. Desmond Guinness has spent a
lifetime visiting decayed and remote historic
houses all over Ireland - as well as meeting
their remarkable and eccentric owners. After
a splendid Christ Church dinner in the 18thcentury
Lee Building, Mr Guinness will share
his memories of great irish eccentrics and their
homes. Includes drinks reception, 3-course
dinner, wine and coffee.
Ben Crystal 520
Shakespeare on Toast:
Getting a Taste for the Bard
7pm / Blackwell, 48-51 Broad Street / £7.50
Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal brings the
language and colourful characters of the world’s
greatest writer to life. In his lighthearted but
highly accessible book, he opens the door to a
fresh understanding of Shakespeare’s plays, helps
us negotiate our way through his more challenging
writing, and makes him newly accessible and
relevant. As The Independent said of the book,
‘Having Crystal as a companion through the
stickier parts of Hamlet and Macbeth is like going
to the theatre with an intelligent friend.’
THURSDAY APRIL 2009
Only 40 places are available, so please
book as early as possible.
Sponsored by Purcell Miller Tritton
Yaba Badoe, Rounke Coker
and Uchenna Izundu
African Family and
Cultural Traditions
Chaired by Becky Ayebia Clarke
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6pm / Mckenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
African family values will be examined from within
by writers writing away from the continent and a
publisher devoted to championing the good as
well as the ‘not so good’ images of Africa to an
international readership. The panel will focus on
the African family in all its ramifications and
complexities in a way that will provide a significant
set of insights into these relationships.
Chaired by Becky Ayebia Clarke of publisher Ayebia.
www.ayebia.co.uk
Bill Heine 509
Heinstein of the Airwaves
8pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
Oxford BBC Radio broadcaster Bill Heine upset the
police so much when he first took to the air that
they refused to speak to him for two years and
stopped giving the Oxford station travel information.
Heinstein of the Airwaves is a late-in-life comingof-age
story about pushing the boundaries. It’s a
portrait of a place – Oxford – and the nightmares that
lurk among the dreaming spires. It’s also a picture of
a very private person who, very publicly, has a shark
sticking out of his roof.
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