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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Colin Thubron |Ken Hom |Paul Auster |Matthew Parris
Portuguese journalist, politician and writer Bruno Maçães offers a new way to understand global events by arguing that geopolitics has become a contest not to control territory but to create territory. Maçães says the age of advanced technology has brought change to world politics. Great powers now seek to build a world for other states to inhabit while keeping the power to change the rules when necessary. Maçães describes this new form of geopolitics as ‘world-building’.
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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Ken Hom |Colin Thubron |Peter Carey |Lucy Worsley
Vice-Chancellor’s Interview.
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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Colin Thubron |Lucy Worsley |Ken Hom |Kazuo Ishiguro
Journalist and broadcaster Rachel Shabi points to a hopeful way forward in an era when claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad and make it impossible to discuss issues constructively. Shabi analyses one of the most divisive issues of our time including the contingency of whiteness, Judeo-Christian mythmaking, pro-Israel antisemitism and the Palestinian struggle against colonialism.
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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Ken Hom |Matthew Parris |Colin Thubron |Tim Waterstone
Academic Professor Justin Schlosberg, educational consultant and life peer Lord Tony Sewell and journalist Zoe Strimpel debate the causes of the 2014 anti-immigration riots and ask who can be held responsible. Anti-immigration riots broke out across the UK in the summer of 2024. The riots were triggered by a stabbing in Southport. Three children were murdered. The false allegation took hold that the attacker was a Muslim asylum-seeker.
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4 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Lucy Worsley |Ken Hom |Colin Thubron |Peter Carey
Journalist and author Rod Dreher says the West has become closed to the idea that the universe contains the supernatural but argues that we might just find it under our noses. Dreher explains how to encounter and embrace wonder in the world. He uses history, cultural anthropology, neuroscience and the ancient Church to show how to reconnect with the natural world and the Christian tradition.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Ken Hom |Lucy Worsley |Matthew Parris |Tim Waterstone
Contemporary historian and Europe expert Professor Timothy Garton Ash discusses his desire for more and better freedom of expression in the first of a new series of annual festival conversation in which a leading figure is invited by Lord Chris Patten to discuss freedom of speech. Garton Ash has written widely about contemporary Europe including the activities of dictators and dissidents. He also leads the Free Speech Debate project.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Kazuo Ishiguro |Lucy Worsley |Ken Hom |Tim Waterstone
Join our panel of leading political and media figures, Professor Simon Heffer, Marina Purkiss, Zoe Strimpel and Adele Walton, for lively debate on topics of the day, chaired by Yasmin Alibhai Brown. Ticketholders are invited to email questions before the event, and Yasmin will pick a representative range for audience members to ask. Heffer is a journalist and historian. He is a professor of modern British history at the University of Buckingham.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bbcgoodfoodme.com | Ken Hom
Place all the honey syrup ingredients in a large pan with 1.2 litres water and bring to the boil. Turn the heat to low and simmer for about 20 mins. Meanwhile, rinse the duck well, blot it completely dry with kitchen paper, then put it on a rack in a roasting tin. Using a ladle, pour the syrup over the duck several times until the skin is completely coated on all sides. Leave the duck to dry out, uncovered, in the fridge overnight. When the duck has dried, the skin should feel like parchment paper.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Matthew Parris |Lucy Worsley |Peter Carey |Ken Hom
Three philosophers, Dr Stephen Law, Emma Swinn and Nigel Warburton, discuss their approach to encouraging public discussion of philosophical issues and helping to democratise a notoriously inaccessible subject. Philosophy addresses some of the most important matters of concern to us. Do we have any moral obligations and, if we do, what are they and to whom are they owed? Does God exist? How do we know things? What are the characteristics of a good argument?
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Peter Carey |Ken Hom |Kazuo Ishiguro |Anne Tyler
Prize-winning Harvard historian Professor Serhii Plokhy tells the story of the Russian occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 2022 and how the plant workers fought to prevent a nuclear disaster. Chernobyl was the site of a nuclear accident four decades earlier and Russia’s occupation during the early days of its invasion of Ukraine was widely seen as reckless.
