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Saturday 25 February
8.30pm To Know the Other from Within David Grossman in conversation with Maya Jaggi

Sunday 26 February

11am Reading Group Naomi Lightman
11am Wandering Jews Jeremy Leigh
Chair: Michael Wegier
12.30pm The challenge of Shas David Lehmann, Batia Siebzehner
12.30pm The People on the Street Linda Grant in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
2pm City of Oranges Adam Le Bor
2pm Angelina Ballerina Katherine Hollabird
(Age 3+)
3.30pm Meg Rosoff (Age 12 - adult )
3.30pm Family Matters Emma Richler, Martha Richler
Chair: Carlo Gebler
5pm Living Photographs Leah Thorn
5pm Children of the Ghetto Henry Goodman, Beverley Klein, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Kerry Shale
7pm Escaping the past Lisa Apignanesi, Ellen Feldman
Chair: Joanna Newman
7pm Bar Mitzvah Disco Roger Bennett, Jamie Glassman, Nick Kroll
Chair: Jason Solomons
8.30pm Mike Leigh In conversation with Mark Lawson

Monday 27 February

1pm The Art of the Authorised Biography Angela Levin
4.15pm English Tales Zvi Jagendorf's 'Strudelbakers 1951'
Read by: Oliver Meek
5.15pm Meet the Author Andrew Kaufman , 'All My Friends are Superheroes'
6.15pm William Frankel In conversation with Jenni Frazer
7.30pm Passions Fran Beauman on the Pineapple
8.30pm Composing a Nation Shlomo Avineri, Ruth Gavison, Anita Shapira
Chair: Joshua Rozenberg

Tuesday 28 February

School Day Morris Gleitzman, Marian Baraitser, Joe Craig Lionel Blue
Chair: Clive Lawton
4.15pm English Tales Jonathan Wilson , 'Dead Ringer'
Read by: Josh Cohen
5.15pm Meet the Author Ben Markovits, 'Either Side of Winter'
6.15pm Dangerous Writing? Naomi Alderman, Shalom Auslander
Chair: Elena Lappin
7.30pm Passions Antony Beevor on
Vasily Grossman
8.30pm Occidentalism Ian Buruma, Jon Ronson, Ziauddin Sardar
Chair: Lawrence Freedman

Wednesday 1 March
1pm Tales from Two Ends of the Sephardi World Yasmin Levy, Bea Lewkowicz, Hilary Pomeroy
Chair: Dennis Marks
4.15pm English Tales Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , 'A Birthday in London'
Read by: juliet Prague
5.15pm Meet the Author Francesca Weisman , 'Nowhere Child'
6.15pm The Christian and the Pharisee Lord Carey and David Rosen
7.30pm Passions Nasser David Khalili on Islamic Art
8.30pm Great Writers of the 20th Century: Ernst Gombrich

Carl & Leonie Gombrich, Monica Bohm-Duchen
Chair: Andrew Graham-Dixon


Thursday 2 March
1pm Delicious Travels Claudia Roden
4.15pm English Tales Clive Sinclair, 'Wingate Football Club'
Read by: Daniel Hart
5.15pm Meet the Author Richard Aronowitz-Mercer , 'Five Amber Beads'
6.15pm Matches Ryan Craig, Alan Kaufman, Kirsty Lang
7.30pm Passions Mark Leonard on Europe
8.30pm Marx for the 21st Century Jacques Attali, Eric Hobsbawm
Chair: John Kampfner

Friday 3 March
11.15am Poetry Translation Workshop Elaine Feinstein, Amir Or, Daniel Weissbort
1pm

Elaine Feinstein and Amir Or

Chair: Fiona Sampson

Saturday 4 March
8pm Saturday Night Double Bill Jonathan Freedland, Sam Bourne, Jay Rayner, Hirsh Goodman, Jonathan Kaplan, Jeff Barak

Sunday 5 March
11am Reading Group Naomi Lightman
11am The Orientalist Tom Reiss in conversation with David Winner
12.30pm The Barrier Isabel Kershner
12.30pm The Art of the Graphic Novel Marion Baraitser, Steve Marchant, Corrinne Pearlman
Chair: Paul Gravett
2pm Hitler's Canary Sandi Toksvig
(Age 8- adult)
2.15pm Horrid Henry (Age 5+)
3.15pm Morris Gleitzman (Age 8+)
3.30pm The Truth, Nothing But the Truth Laurel Leff, Arthur Neslen
Chair: Jon Silverman
5pm Imre Kertesz In conversation with Evi Blaikie
5pm My Mother Was a Bag Lady Josiane Behmoiras, Matthew Reisz
6.30pm Finding My Own Voice Judith Rotem
Chair: Risa Domb
7pm Sara Paretsky In conversation with Maxim Jakubowski
8.30pm Taking (On) the Tablets Simon Baron-Cohen, Giles Coren, Anne Karph, Piers Paul Read
Chair: Helena Kennedy

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