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4 SATURDAY
APRIL 2009
Aravind Adiga interviewed
by Andrew Holgate
The White Tiger
701
10am / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Award, Aravind
Adiga’s page-turning debut novel tells the story of
the rise and rise of Balram Halwai, teashop worker
turned chauffeur, entrepreneur and murderer. Over
the course of seven nights, Balram describes with
bumptious charm his journey from the darkness of
village life to the light of entrepreneurial success,
and recounts the ultimately shocking lengths to
which he has had to go to in order to achieve his
goals. Full of dark and irreverent humour, the result
is a bald, angry, unadorned portrait of India as seen
from the bottom of the heap. Here he talks to Sunday
Times Literary Editor Andrew Holgate.
Julian Bell 736
Mirror of the World
10am / Festival Room 2, Christ Church / £7.50
What is art and where did it begin Why do we make
it and why does it change These are some of the
many questions that Julian Bell considers in this
new story of art for the 21st century. Celebrated
painter and author Julian Bell uses a wide range
of objects – both familiar and less well known – to
reveal how art is a product of our shared experience,
how, like a mirror, it can reflect the human and our
most basic cultural preoccupations.
Sponsored by Thames & Hudson
Lucy Moore and
D J Taylor
Chaired by Karen Robinson
750
Anything Goes: A Biography
of the Roaring Twenties and
Bright Young People: The Rise
and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
10am / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
The generation of ruling-class young people who lived
in England between 1918 and 1940 created one of the
most extraordinary youth cults in British history. As
pleasure seeking bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded
socialites, they romped through the newspaper gossip
columns of the 1920s.
Some called them the ‘bright young people’, Gertrude
Stein named them ‘the lost generation’. Evelyn Waugh
wrote about them and Cecil Beaton photographed them.
But their quest for pleasure came at a price. Beneath
the veneer of hedonism, parties and practical jokes was
a tormented generation brought up in the shadow of war.
Lucy Moore and DJ Taylor come together to give an insight
into the period after the trauma of the First World
War and those years that led to the Second. Chaired
by Karen Robinson, author, reviewer and Supplements
Editor of The Sunday Times.
James Brabazon, Andrew
Muller & Christina Lamb
Chaired by Alastair Lack
Reporting From the Front Line
704
10am / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
Do journalists reporting from the front line of major
world events influence Government agendas What role
do journalists play in the formulation of Government
policies, if any, and do they help create a public mood
or reactions
Alastair Lack, who worked for the BBC World Service
for almost 30 years as a presenter, producer and
editor for a wide range of current affairs and arts
programmes, chairs a panel of three distinguished and
intrepid foreign correspondents who have reported
from the front line.
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