Orwell Lecture 2010: Ferdinand Mount – Orwell and the Oligarchs
Speaker Ferdinand Mount (author, novelist, former head of the policy unit at 10 Downing Street and former judge of the Orwell Prize) Details Orwell and Read more
Friday 26 November, 2010
5:00pm
Beveridge Hall, Senate House
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX
Orwell and Russia
Speakers Masha Karp (journalist, translator of Orwell’s Animal Farm into Russian) John Lloyd (contributing editor and former Moscow bureau chief, Financial Times) Introduced by Gavin Read more
Thursday 18 November, 2010
7:00pm
Travel Bookshop
13-15 Blenheim Crescent, Notting Hill, London
W11 2EE
Launch Debate 2011: Poverty and the Spending Review
Image from Paolo Margari on flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolomargari/451545773/ Speakers Chris Giles, economics editor of the Financial Times Lisa Harker, former director of ippr Dr Patrick Nolan, Read more
Thursday 21 October, 2010
6:30pm
Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place, London
W2 1QJ
Buxton 2010: Andrea Gillies in Conversation
Andrea Gillies (Orwell Prize-winning author of Keeper) Chaired by Rebecca Nicolson (founder and publisher, Short Books) With a brief introduction from Dame Janet Smith (chair, Read more
Monday 12 July, 2010
3:00pm
Lee Wood Hotel
Buxton
SK17 6TQ
Buxton 2010: The greatest political writer – Orwell vs Dickens
Speakers Orwell: D. J. Taylor (biographer, critic, novelist, author of George Orwell: The Life) Dickens: Michael Slater (academic, author of Charles Dickens: A Life Defined Read more
10:30am
Palace Hotel
Buxton
SK17 6AG
Awards Ceremony 2010
Andrea Gillies wins Book Prize for Keeper (Short Books) Peter Hitchens wins Journalism Prize for foreign correspondence in the Mail on Sunday Winston Smith wins Read more
Wednesday 19 May, 2010
7:00pm
Church House
Dean's Yard, Westminster
SW1P 3NZ
Autopsy of a Story
John Arlidge (shortlisted for journalism in the Sunday Times) Amelia Gentleman (shortlisted for journalism in The Guardian) Peter Hitchens (shortlisted for journalism in the Mail Read more
Wednesday 12 May, 2010
7:00pm
Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place, London
W2 1QJ
Shortlist Debate 2010: Has the political class been fatally weakened?
David Halpern (research director of the Institute for Government, former chief analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit) Helena Kennedy QC (lawyer, broadcaster and writer, Read more
Thursday 15 April, 2010
7:00pm
Thomson Reuters Building
30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London
E14 5EP
Oxford 2010: What is the BBC for?
David Mitchell (comedian, actor, Observer columnist) Ed Vaizey MP (Conservative, Shadow Arts Minister) Chaired by Jean Seaton (director of the Orwell Prize, official historian of Read more
Sunday 28 March, 2010
12:00pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Christ Church Marquee, Oxford
OX1 1DP
Oxford 2010: Orwell and Waugh
Paula Byrne (author, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead) D. J. Taylor (author, George Orwell: The Life) The eleventh of the Orwell Read more
Saturday 27 March, 2010
8:00pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Christ Church Marquee, Oxford
OX1 1DP
Oxford 2010: Dispatches – Orphans of Burma’s Cyclone
Jeremy Williams (director and producer) Evan Williams (director and producer) Chaired by Gavin Freeguard (Administrator of the Orwell Prize) The tenth of the Orwell Prize’s Read more
Friday 26 March, 2010
7:30pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Christ Church JCR, Oxford
OX1 1DP
Oxford 2010: How intelligent are our intelligence services?
Miranda Carter (winner of the Orwell Prize 2002 for Anthony Blunt: His Lives, author of The Three Emperors) Sir David Omand (former UK Security and Read more
6:00pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Corpus Christi Lecture Theatre, Oxford
OX1 4JF
Oxford 2010: Screening of Burma VJ
The ninth of the Orwell Prize’s events at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010. As part of a series of events marking the 75th Read more
5:30pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Christ Church JCR, Oxford
OX1 1DP
Oxford 2010: The future of Burma
Tin Htar Swe (Burma editor, BBC World Service) Justin Wintle (journalist, author of Perfect Hostage: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals) Maung Zarni Read more
4:00pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Christ Church JCR, Oxford
OX1 1DP
Oxford 2010: George Orwell – A Life in Pictures
Chris Durlacher (writer and director, George Orwell: A Life in Pictures) Chaired by Gavin Freeguard (Administrator of the Orwell Prize) The sixth of the Orwell Read more
Thursday 25 March, 2010
8:00pm
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Christ Church Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Oxford
OX1 1DP