Event List · General Information
Saturday, 27 February
8.30pm - Sex, Lies & Regal Japes / A Purim Spiel
Featuring David Aaronovitch / Anita Diamant / Irving Finkel / Assaf Gavron / Shappi Khorsandi / Kathy Lette / Simon Schama / David Schneider (Host)
Sunday, 28 February
11.00am - The Poetry Hour
Featuring Bernard Kops / George Szirtes / Michelene Wandor
11.00am - Leading From The Front
Featuring Gerald Ronson / Jeff Randall
11.00am - Philipp Manes
Featuring Ben Barkow / Klaus Leist / Victoria Glendinning
12.30pm - Day After Night
Featuring Anita Diamant / Anne Sebba (Chair)
12.30pm - Trials Of The Diaspora
Featuring Anthony Julius / Denis MacShane
12.30pm - Psycho-Thrillers
Featuring Philip Sington / Frank Tallis / Barry Forshaw
2.00pm - A Beginner's Guide To Jews On The Edge
Featuring Adam Thirlwell / Will Self
2.00pm - Long Shadows
Featuring Julia Franck / Norman Lebrecht / Simon Mawer
2.00pm - A Senseless Squalid War
Featuring Norman Rose / Geoffrey Wheatcroft
3.30pm - Unravelling The Truth About The Eitingons
Featuring Mary-Kay Wilmers / Tariq Ali
3.30pm - A Fine Romance
Featuring David Lehman / Naomi Gryn
3.30pm - The House Of Rajani
Featuring Alon Hilu / Ian Black
5.00pm - Hebrew Language Session
Featuring Nir Baram / Alon Hilu / Tomer Kerman / Avi Pitchon (Chair)
5.00pm - The Universal Language Of Mathematics
Featuring Marcus Du Sautoy / George Szpiro
5.00pm - Moses Montefiore
Featuring Abigail Green
6.30pm - Football Across Borders
Featuring Assaf Gavron / Jeremy Gavron / Jerrold Kessel / Simon Kuper / Uri Sheradsky
6.30pm - Clarice Lispector
Featuring Benjamin Moser / Ed Caesar
8.30pm - The Ascent (and Descent) Of Money
Featuring Niall Ferguson
Monday, 1 March
1.00pm - Extraordinary Stories
Featuring Rosemary Bailey / Marc Stevens
5.30pm - Crock Attack
Featuring Assaf Gavron
7.00pm - Extremely Bad & Incredibly Cruel
Featuring Etgar Keret / Jonathan Safran Foer
8.30pm - Defining a Moral Compass For The 21st Century
Featuring Susan Neiman / Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Tuesday, 2 March
10.00am - Stories About Stories
Featuring Etgar Keret / Francine Stock
1.00pm - Arthur Miller
Featuring Christopher Bigsby
3.00pm - Imagine Arthur Miller
Documentary Film
5.30pm - Mister Rosenblum's List
Featuring Natasha Solomons
7.00pm - Voodoo Histories
Featuring David Aaronovitch / Francis Wheen
8.30pm - Hélène Cixous
In conversation with Nick Royle
Wednesday, 3 March
11.00am - Reading Group on Stefan Zweig
Featuring Gerald Jacobs
1.00pm - Save The Children
Featuring Ruth Barnett / Susan Soyinka / Karen Pollock
3.00pm - Into the Arms Of Strangers
Documentary Film
5.00pm - Book Of Clouds
Featuring Chloe Aridjis
7.00pm - Bad Ideas
Featuring Robert Winston
8.30pm - What We Have Learnt (if Anything)
From The Economic Crisis / Oliver James / Adam LeBor / Gillian Tett and James Harding (chair)
Thursday, 4 March
10.00am - Free Up Your Writing (Workshop)
Featuring Diane Samuels
1.00pm - The Good Doctor
Featuring Dr John Marks
3.00pm - A Different World: Poland's Jews
Documentary Film
5.30pm - The Dove Flyer
Featuring Eli Amir
7.00pm - Democracy At Risk
Featuring John Kampfner / Eric Kaufmann / Dominique Moïsi / Martin Bright (Chair)
8.30pm - The Strange Alchemy Of Life & Law
Featuring Albie Sachs / Helena Kennedy
Friday, 5 March
10.00am - From Memoir To Fiction: Workshop
Featuring Miriam Halahmy
11.00am - Feeding Our Children Well
Featuring Annabel Karmel
1.00pm - Chez Elles
Featuring Agnes Desarthe / Claudia Roden
Saturday, 6 March
7.30pm - 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God
Featuring Rebecca Goldstein / Steven Pinker
9.00pm - True Tales?
Featuring Jon Canter / Esther David / Rachel Holmes / Ed Kritzler / Irma Kurtz / Lana Citron (Host)
Sunday, 7 March
10.30am - Torah Queeries Workshop
Featuring David Shneer
11.00am - Lookit Cookit
Featuring Judy Jackson
11.00am - Writing To Change The World
Featuring Michael Arditti / Amanda Craig / Morris Farhi / Nina Caplan (Chair)
12.30pm - The Ultimate Book Guides
Featuring Daniel Hahn / Anne Fine / Meg Rosoff / Susan Ruben
12.30pm - The Human Condition
Featuring Amy Bloom / Lionel Shriver
12.30pm - Marriage, Motherhood & Murder
Featuring Patricia Skinner / Henrietta Leyser
1.45pm - Shmendrick & The Croc
Featuring Jonathan Wittenberg / Barbara Jackson
2.00pm - History Revisioned
Featuring Ed Kritzler
2.00pm - Reflections On The Biblical Unconscious
Featuring Avivah Zornberg
3.30pm - Memory & Revival
Featuring Jonathan Webber / Janusz Makuch / Kate Craddy (Chair)
3.30pm - Queer Jewish Culture
Featuring David Shneer / Michele Aaron / Nathan Abrams
4.30pm - The Stuff Of Legend
Featuring Inbali Iserles / Justin Somper
5.00pm - Time Travelling In Polish Lit
Featuring Henry Goodman / Beverley Klein
5.00pm - The Books Of Esther
Featuring Esther David / Shelley Silas
6.30pm - Celebrating Irene Nemirovsky
Featuring Denise Epstein / Olivier Philipponnat / Sandra Smith / Euan Cameron
6.30pm - Meet The Cult Author
Featuring Pawel Huelle / Antonia Lloyd-Jones / Maureen Freely
8.30pm - A Way Forward?
Featuring Shlomo Ben Ami / Daniel Levy / Jonathan Freedland (Chair)
