| Saturday 27 February |
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8.30pm  |
Sex, Lies and Regal Japes:
The story of Esther, the sex-crazed king and his evil counsellor  |
David Aaronovitch, Debbie Chazen, Anita Diamant, Irving Finkel, Assaf Gavron, Kathy Lette, Simon Schama
Host: David Schneider
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Sunday 28 February |
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11.00am |
Leading from the Front |
Gerald Ronson, Chair: Jeff Randall |
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| 11.00am |
A Theresienstadt Cronicle |
Ben Barkow, Klaus Leist, Chair: Victoria Glendinning |
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| 11.00am |
The Poetry Hour |
Bernard Kops, George Szirtes, Michelene Wandor |
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| 12.30pm |
Trials of the Diaspora |
Anthony Julius, Chair: Denis MacShane |
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| 12.30pm |
Psycho-Thrillers |
Philip Sington, Frank Tallis, Chair: Barry Forshaw |
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| 12.30pm |
Day after Night |
Anita Diamant
Chair: Anne Sebba |
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| 2.00pm |
Long Shadows |
Julia Franck, Norman Lebrecht, Simon Mawer |
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| 2.00pm |
A Beginner's Guide to Jews on the Edge |
Will Self, Adam Thirlwell |
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| 2.00pm |
A Senseless Squalid War |
Norman Rose, Chair: Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
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| 3.30pm |
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs |
David Lehmann, Chair: Naomi Gryn |
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| 3.30pm |
The House of Rajani |
Alon Hilu, Chair: Ian Black |
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| 3.30pm |
Unravelling the Truth about the Eitingons |
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Chair: Tariq Ali |
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| 5.00pm |
The Universal language of Mathematics |
 Marcus du Sautoy
Chair: George Szpiro |
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| 5.00pm |
Moses Montefiore |
Abigail Green
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| 5.00pm |
Hebrew Language Session |
Alon Hilu, Tomer Kerman, Amichai Shalev
Chair: Avi Pitchon |
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| 6.30pm |
Clarice Lispector |
Benjamin Moser, Chair: Ed Caesar |
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| 6.30pm |
Football across Borders |
Assaf Gavron, Jeremy Gavron, Jerrold Kessel, Simon Kuper, Uri Sheradsky
Chair: Jim Cockin |
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| 8.30pm |
The Ascent (and Descent) of Money |
Niall Ferguson
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Monday 01 March |
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| 10.00am |
Schools Morning |
Stig Dalager and Alexander D Great |
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| 1.00pm |
Extraordinary Stories |
Rosemary Bailey, Ruth Ive, Chair: Sophie Lewis |
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| 5.30pm |
Croc Attack! |
Assaf Gavron |
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| 7.00pm |
Extremely Bad and Incredibly Cruel |
Etgar Keret and Jonathan Safran Foer |
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| 8.30pm |
Defining a Moral Compass for the 21st Century |
Susan Neiman and The Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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Tuesday 02 March |
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| 10.00am |
Stories about Stories |
 Etgar Keret Masterclass with Francine Stock
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| 1.00pm |
Arthur Miller |
Christopher Bigsby
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| 5.30pm |
Mister Rosenblum's List |
Natasha Solomons |
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| 7.00pm |
Voodoo Histories |
David Aaronovitch, Francis Wheen |
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| 8.30pm |
Judeities |
 Hélène Cixous
Chair: Nicholas Royle
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| Wednesday 03 March |
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11.00 am |
Reading Group |
Gerald Jacobs |
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| 1.00pm |
Save the Children |
Ruth Barnett, Susan Soyinka
Chair: Karen Pollock |
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| 5.30pm |
Book of Clouds |
Chloe Aridjis |
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| 7.00pm |
Bad Ideas? How Our Finest Inventions May Finish Us Off. |
Robert Winston |
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| 8.30pm |
What have we learnt (if anything) from the economic crisis |
Oliver James, Adam LeBor, Gillian Tett
Chair: James Harding |
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| Thursday 04 March |
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10.00am |
Workshop |
Diane Samuels |
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| 1.00pm |
The Good Doctor |
Dr John Marks, Chair: Laurence Buckman |
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| 5.30pm |
The Dove Flyer |
 Eli Amir |
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| 7.00pm |
Democracy at Risk |
John Kampfner, Eric Kauffman, Dominique Moisi
Chair: Martin Bright |
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| 8.30pm |
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law |
Albie Sachs
Chair: Helena Kennedy |
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| Friday 05 March |
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10.00am |
Writing Workshop |
Miriam Halahmy |
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| 1pm | Chez Elles |
Agnès Desarthe in conversation with Claudia Roden |
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| Saturday 06 March |
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7.30 pm |
36 arguments for the existence of God |
Rebecca Goldstein, Steven Pinker |
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| 9.00pm |
True Tales?
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John Canter, Esther David, Rachel Holmes,
Ed Kritzler, Irma Kurtz
Host: Lana Citron |
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| Sunday 7 March |
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10.30 am |
Torah Queeries Workshop |
David Shneer |
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11.00am |
Writing to Change the World |
Michael Arditti, Amanda Craig, Moris Farhi
Chair: Nina Caplan |
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| 12.30pm |
Marriage, Motherhood and Murder |
Patricia Skinner
Chair: Henrietta Leyser |
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| 12.30pm |
The Human Condition |
Amy Bloom in conversation with Lionel Shriver |
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| 12.30pm |
The Ultimate Book Guides |
Daniel Hahn, Anne Fine, Susan Ruben and Meg Rosoff |
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| 1.45 pm |
Shmendrick and the Croc |
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg and Barbara Jackson |
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| 2pm |
History Revisioned |
Ed Kritzler, Chair: Joanna Newman |
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| 2pm |
Reflection on the Biblical Unconscious |
Avivah Zornberg |
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| 3.30pm |
Anne Fine |
Anne Fine |
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| 3.30pm |
Memory and Revival |
Jonathan Webber, Janusz Makuch
Chair: Kate Craddy |
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| 3.30pm |
Queer Jewish Culture |
Michele Aaron, David Shneer
Chair: Nathan Abrams |
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| 4.30pm |
The Stuff of Legends |
Inbali Iserles and Justin Somper
Chair: Julia Eccleshare |
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| 5pm |
Time Travelling in Polish Literature |
Henry Goodman, Beverley Klein, Lemez Lovas |
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| 5pm |
The Books of Esther |
Esther David
Chair: Shelley Silas |
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| 6.30pm |
Meet the Cult Author |
Pawel Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Chair: Maureen Freely |
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| 6.30pm |
Celebrating Irene Nemirovsky |
Denise Epstein, Olivier Philipponnat, Sandra Smith, Chair: Euan Cameron |
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| 8.30pm |
A Way Forward? |
Francesca Klug, Daniel Levy, David Newman
Chair: Jonathan Freedland |
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