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Saturday 5 March
8.30pm Jack the Lad Maureen Lipman with family and friends

Sunday 6 March

11am Reading Group Tamara Levine
12pm Jewish Mothers Sally Berkovic, Kate Figes, Michele Hanson
Chair: Allison Pearson
2pm Outwitting History Aaron Lansky
Chair: Helen Beer
2pm Marvellous Myths, Fabulous Fables Mekella Broomberg
(Age 5 to 7)
3.15pm Primary Schools Poetry Prize  
3.30pm Legacies David Baddiel, Jonathan Freedland, Anne Karpf
Chair: Jonny Geller
3.45pm Quick, Let's Get Out of Here Michael Rosen
(Age 7 to 12)
5pm Address Unknown Henry Goodman, Andrew Sachs
5.15pm Wicked Writing Sherry Ashworth, Graham Marks
(Age 12 +)
6.30pm The Lie that Wouldn't Die David Aaronovitch, Hadassa Ben-Itto
John Klier
Chair: Lord Woolf
8.30pm Oliver Sacks In conversation with Ned Temko

Monday 7 March

12.30pm Hatches, Matches and Dispatches Doreen Berger
4.15pm American Tales Woody Allen 'The Kugelmass Episode'
Read by: Kerry Shale
5.15pm Meet the Author Simon Garfield, 'Our Hidden Lives'
6.15pm Gillian Slovo In conversation with Boyd Tonkin
7.30pm Passions Simon Goldhill on The Temple
8.30pm Genes and Genesis Steven Pinker
Jonathan Sacks
Chair: Rebecca Goldstein

Tuesday 8 March

12.30pm Hitchhiking to Heaven Lionel Blue
Chair: Clive Lawton
4.15pm American Tales Grace Paley, 'Goodbye and Good Luck'
Read by: Debbie Chazen
5.15pm Meet the Author Tamar Yellin, 'The Genizah at the House
of Shepher'
6.15pm Inside the Orthodox World Eliette Abecassis
Naomi Ragen
Chair: Jeremy Rosen
7.30pm Passions Simon Louvish on the
Marx Brothers
8.30pm Gaza Blues and Beyond Samir El-youssef
Etgar Keret
Chair: Linda Grant

Wednesday 9 March
12.30pm A Rose for Reuben Robert Rietti
4.15pm American Tales Philip Roth, 'The Conversion of the Jews'
Read by: Nitzan Sharron
5.15pm Meet the Author Sebastian Hope, 'Hotel Tiberias'
6.15pm Jew Made in England Anthony Blond
Chair: Ned Sherrin
7.30pm Passions Mark Ford on Bob Dylan
8.30pm Cynthia Ozick In conversation with Mark Lawson

Thursday 10 March
12.30pm Dan Jacobson In conversation with Stanley Price
4.15pm American Tales Bernard Malamud, 'Angel Levine'
Read by: Daniel Hart
5.15pm Meet the Author Daniel Peltz, 'Out of the Blue'
6.15pm Apprehending Eichmann David Cesarani, Hanna
Yablonka
Chair: Lisa Appignanesi
7.30pm Passions Howard Jacobson on Jews
8.30pm The Ethics of Biography Tom Bower, Michael Freedland, Anne Sebba
Chair: Tom Sutcliffe

Saturday 12 March
8.30pm The Jewish Question Alain Finkielkraut, Anthony Julius
Chair: Jonathan Freedland

Sunday 13 March - at the Bloomsbury Theatre
2.00pm Nice Jewish Gurus Carole Caplin, Lynne Franks, Irma Kurtz
Chair: Naomi Gryn
3.30pm From Riga to Toronto David Bezmozgis
Chair: Paul Blezard
5pm The Question of Zion Jacqueline Rose
Chair: DD Guttenplan
6.30pm Great Writers of the 20th Century Adam Thirlwell on Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chair: David Schneider

Sunday 13 March - at the Royal National Hotel
11am Reading Group Tamara Levine
3pm A Telling Time Susannah York
(Age 8+)
5pm Inside Anne Frank's House Peter Mayer, Rian Verhoeven
(Age 12+)
6.30pm Hebrew Language Session Etgar Keret
Chair: Risa Domb
8.30pm Antony Sher In conversation with Nick Hern

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