Clock Tower Stage
Great Hall
10:00-11:00
Bosch and beyond
Michael Connelly, master of the modern detective novel, talks to Simon Sebag Montefiore about his new book, The Hollow
10:00-11:00
Marshal law
Andrew Roberts talks to Louis Sarkozy about Napoleon’s marshals, the men who carried the eagle across Europe
11:30-12:30
Sex and the City: the Cliveden episode
Candace Bushnell talks to Imogen Edwards-Jones about columns, cosmopolitans and three decades of the Carrie Bradshaw industrial complex
11:30-12:30
Novel approaches
Katie Kitamura in conversation with Alice Winn about the rules of fiction and how to break them
13:00-14:00
The Saturday Salon (students only)
Camilla Cavendish (ch), Alice Lassman, Alice Winn, James Cahill, Ed Chisholm and Lauren Collins on how to focus in an age of digital distraction
13:00-13:45
One Day at a time
David Nicholls in conversation with Hannah MacInnes on his new book, You Are Here, and a career spent charting the British heart
14:00-15:00
Leading questions
Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Opposition, talks to Simon Sebag Montefiore
14:00-15:00
American beauty
Alexandra Suich Bass (ch), Patrick Radden Keefe, Michael Connelly, Lauren Collins and Candace Bushnell celebrate 250 years of culture and creativity across the pond
15:30-16:30
Renoir’s World
Catherine Ostler and Christopher Riopelle in conversation with Yana Peel on the painter of light, his subjects and the shadows behind the canvas
15:30-16:30
Memoirs of a Stranger
Michael Moritz talks to Albert Read about Ausländer, and a life lived between worlds
17:00-18:00
Roman rivalry
Robert Harris and Tom Holland on Agrippa: bloodshed, betrayal and the man who built an empire for his friend
17:00-18:00
The state of the nation
Emily Maitlis (ch), Alex Burghart, Joanne Cash, Maurice Glasman, Wes Streeting and Matt Goodwin debate the burning political issues of the day
Clock Tower Stage
Great Hall
10:00-11:00
250 years in the pursuit of happiness?
Peter Frankopan (ch), Lauren Collins, John McWhorter and Michael Moritz on the history, politics and precarious present of the United States
10:00-11:00
Marber’s Choice
Patrick Marber talks to Andrew Roberts about his career, from stage to screen and Stoppard to Scorsese
11:30-12:30
The Cauldron of the Middle East
David McCloskey (ch), Simon Sebag Montefiore and Eugene Rogan on the past and future of the world’s most contested region
11:30-12:30
Nothing but the truth
Hermione Eyre (ch), James Cahill, Ed Chisholm and Edward Shawcross on the art of creative non-fiction – truth, invention and the territory in between
13:00-13:45
Paradise regained
Georgia Beaufort (ch), Jonathan Bate, Tom Stuart-Smith and Sue Stuart-Smith on our eternal quest for Eden
14:00–15:00
The Investigators
Patrick Radden Keefe talks to Misha Glenny about London Falling, the hit book of the summer
14:00–15:00
Romantic Famine: is technology stealing youth?
Camilla Cavendish (ch), John Burn-Murdoch, Alice Lassman and Merryn Somerset Webb on screens, solitude and the distortion of young love
15:30-16:30
The Masters
Jay McInerney and Julian Barnes on fiction, friendship and four decades at the top of their game
15:30-16:30
From Weimar to Nuremberg
Michael Gove (ch), Victor Sebestyen, Natalie Livingstone, James McAuley and Deborah Lipstadt on the collapse of a civilisation and the reckoning that followed
Please note, on occasion, the programme and speaker list may be subject to change.