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Kate Adie
Into Danger: Risking
Your Life for Work
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10am / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £8.00
What motivates people to choose jobs that could see
them put directly into danger, or could kill them
This question has always fascinated television
presenter Kate Adie, who has found herself in many
tight spots during her years as a war correspondent.
Drawing on conversations with everyone from
stuntpeople to prostitutes and landmine clearers,
Into Danger is both revealing and fascinating. All Adie’s
subjects have chosen their professions. All are
strikingly forceful people who know precisely why
they do their jobs and have an inner conviction that
motivates them, despite the possibility of death.
Manju Kapur 608
The Immigrant
12pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.00
From the prize-winning author of Difficult Daughters,
a poignant, intimate and compelling new novel about
starting afresh and leaving the familiar behind. An
arranged marriage is being planned between Nina,
an English lecturer in New Delhi, and Ananda, who
has recently immigrated to Canada, but Nina remains
uncertain. Can she really give up her home and her
country to build a new life with a husband she barely
knows When Nina accepts, she discovers that the
consequences of change are far greater than she could
have imagined and her whole world is thrown into
question as she discovers truths about her husband.
Alex Blumer, Nigel Smith
and Adam Mars-Jones
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FRIDAY APRIL 2009
Leslie Mitchell
Maurice Bowra: A Life
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10am / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
Maurice Bowra was, according to one’s point of view,
either the most distinguished or the most notorious
Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist,
poet, wit, raconteur extraordinaire and Warden of
Wadham College for more than 30 years, he met
nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of
literature and politics and had stories to tell about
them all. By force of personality and intellectual
range, he influenced the thinking of almost everyone
with whom he came into contact.
This, the first ever biography of Bowra, covers every
aspect of his life.
Disability in the Novel
The Good, the Bad and
the Grotesque!
12pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church
(fully accessible) / £7.50
Why are contemporary disabled characters and the
plots they are involved with so often driven by ‘issues
around their disability’ rather than anything else. It
wasn’t so for Dickens, Stevenson or Zola, so what has
changed As the UK prepares for the 2012 Paralympic
and Cultural Olympiad, join a line up of novelists
and other literary figures for a lively, stimulating and
informed debate. Join Alex Blumer, writer of BBCs
Radio 4’s acclaimed Hunchback of Notre Dame,
playwright and TV comedy producer Nigel Smith, who
in 2001 suffered a serious brain illness and wrote a
book about it, and novelist Adam Mars-Jones.
Chaired by writer and Director of Diversity at Arts
Council England Tony Panayiotou.
Presented by New Writing South in
association with Disability Arts On Line
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