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Actor Harriet Walter imagines what some of Shakespeares great women characters were secretly thinking BBC Gardeners World presenter Adam Frost reflects on the plants that have shaped him Alexander McCall Smith talks about his latest detective fiction Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize Samantha Harvey talks about her novel Orbital Booking is now open for the 2025 Oxford Literary Festival. Saturday 29 March to Sunday 6 April. Sheldonian Events Andy Cato Deborah Meaden and Philip Lymbery chaired by Kate Humble Why we Need More Compassion in our Food and Farming Ferran Adria talks to Suzi Feay elBulli Today Preserving the Legacy and Spirit of the Worlds Greatest Restaurant Cressida Cowell Dragon Tales Miriam Margolyes talks to Philip Lymbery Compassion for All Life The Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture Jonathan Coe talks to Val McDermid The Val McDermid Interview The Proof of my Innocence Alexander Armstrong talks to Ben ODonnell Evenfall The Golden Linnet Abdulrazak Gurnah talks to Mary Hockaday Theft and Honorary Fellowship Philippe Sands talks to Richard Ovenden 38 Londres Street On Impunity Pinochet in London and a Nazi in Patagonia James Rebanks talks to Dinah Rose President of Magdalen Lecture The Place of Tides Jasbinder Bilan Nush and the Stolen Emerald Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Jane Shaw Lower than the Angels A History of Sex and Christianity Timothy Garton Ash talks to Chris Patten Lord Patten Free Speech Conversation Freedom of Expression is our Lifeblood Chris Atkins Gen Glaister and Rob McKeon chaired by Stephen Law Oxford Debate. Banged Up Perspectives of an Exprisoner Exprison officer and Parole Board Member Matthew Teller talks to Atef Alshaer Daybreak in Gaza Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture Bettany Hughes talks to Nick Higham The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Keir Giles Stephanie Baker and Mark Galeotti chaired by Dominic Nicholls The Russian Threat Why it has Grown and How to Fight Back David Starkey introduced by Nick Higham A 21st Century Perspective Our Life and Times Today Helen Joyce talks to Julie Bindel Trans Gender Identity and the New Battle for Womens Rights SOLD OUT Wendy Cope talks to Peter Kemp Collected Poems A Celebration of a Lifetimes Work Elif Shafak talks to David Isaac Provost of Worcester Lecture There are Rivers in the Sky Simon Heffer Marina Purkiss Zoe Strimpel and Adele Walton chaired by Yasmin AlibhaiBrown Oxford Debate You Ask the Questions Ben Macintyre The Siege Andi Oliver talks to Paterson Joseph Oxford Brookes Chancellors Conversation.