Full programme

No. Date Event
1 Thursday 23 April, 1pm Somewhere Towards The End, Diana Athill
2 Thursday 23 April, 7.30pm Feed Me Now, Bill Granger
3 Friday 24 April, 1pm The Life In My Years, Virginia McKenna
4 Friday 24 April, 7.30pm How To Get A Publisher To Notice Your Work, Alison Baverstock
5 Saturday 25th April, 11.30am Can Literature Save The World? Sara Upstone
6 Saturday 25th April, 1.30pm The Gothic Herione Revived, Professor Avril Horner and Professor Sue Zlosnik
7 Monday 27 April, 1pm Live Working Or Die Fighting, Paul Mason
8 Monday 27 April, 7.30pm The Queen's Knight, Martyn Downer
9 Wednesday 29 April, 7.30pm The Man Who Ate The World, Jay Rayner
10 Thursday 30 April, 1pm Sex, Lies and Shakespeare, Christopher Rush
11 Thursday 30 April, 7:30pm Wesker's Love Plays, Sir Arnold Wesker
12 Saturday 2 May, 11.30am Shakespeare Imagining History, Dr Erica Longfellow
13 Saturday 2 May, 1.30pm The Rise and Rise of Brand Austen, Professor Norma Clarke
14 Monday 4 May, 1pm Real Lives as a Basis for Fiction, Alison Baverstock, Jenny Brown, Susan Sellers
15 Monday 4 May, 7.30pm The Kaleidoscope of Time, India Russell, Simon Brewin
16 Tuesday 5 May, 7.30pm Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
17 Wednesday 6 May, 7.30pm Far Horizons, Frank Gardner
18 Thursday 7 May, 7.30pm Samuel Johnson: A Biography, Peter Martin CANCELLED
19 Friday 8 May, 1pm Is Journalism the Route to Writing Fiction? Alison Baverstock, Linda Kelsey, Emma Burstall
20 Friday 8 May, 7.30pm Sartre's Sink, Mark Crick
21 Saturday 9 May, 11.30am Telling Tales, Dr Andrew Teverson
22 Saturday 9 May, 1pm Dead! And Never Called Me Mother! Dr Jane Jordan
23 Monday 11 May, 1pm Dear Mr Shakespeare, Simon Reade
24 Monday 11 May, 7.30pm Fire and Sword, Simon Scarrow
25 Tuesday 12 May, 7.30pm A Guinea-Pig's History of Biology, Dr Jim Endersby
26 Wednesday 13 May, 7.30pm Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Chris Cleave, Melissa Benn, Alison Baverstock
27 Thursday 14 May, 7.30pm Leiths School of Food and Wine, Viv Pigeon, Jenny Stringer
28 Friday 15 May, 1pm Cells, Harriet Grace
29 Saturday 16 May, 11.30am Behind The Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, Dr Meg Jensen
30 Saturday 16 May, 1.30pm Three Centuries of (Imaginary) Interplanetary Exploration, Dr Brycchan Carey
31 Monday 18 May, 7.30pm 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, Suzannah Lipscomb
32 Tuesday 19 May, 1pm Seaway: New and Selected Poems, Todd Swift
33 Tuesday 19 May, 7.30pm The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir
34 Wednesday 20 May, 7.30pm Women and The Mind Doctors, Lisa Appignanesi
35 Wednesday 20 May, 7.30pm Professional Help for Writers, Kathy Gale, Harriet Smith, Alison Baverstock
36 Friday 22 May, 1pm Italian Mysteries, Marina Fiorato
37 Friday 22 May, 7.30pm How to Drink, Victoria Moore