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SUMMARY:Nicola Kelly ANYWHERE BUT HERE with Rachel Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Anywhere But Here is a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails us all. \n\n\n\n\nAnywhere But Here \nEach year tens of thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. Yet the very system designed to protect them has all but collapsed. \nWith unique and unparalleled access\, award-winning journalist and former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. \nWe follow the under-resourced coastguard overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel. The decision-makers hired from McDonald’s and Aldi to conduct ‘life and death’ asylum interviews. The immigration barristers securing last-minute reprieves for deportees who narrowly escaped death. And we step inside the Home Office corridors as ministers and advisors respond to emerging crises and scandals\, from Windrush to the Rwanda plan. \nAt its heart are the stories of war-torn arrivals\, lone teenagers and trafficked women attempting to settle in cities\, towns and villages across the UK. We travel to meet them\, exploring where they have fled from and why\, and the response of local communities to their new neighbours. \nSituated on the beaches and the ports\, in the hotels\, the courtrooms and the detention centres where the futures of those affected unfold\, this is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues and shocking injustices of our time. \nNicola Kelly \nNicola Kelly is an award-winning journalist and writer focused on UK immigration and asylum. \nHer reporting regularly appears in The Guardian\, The Observer\, The Independent\, New Statesman\, Byline Times and elsewhere. \nBefore moving into journalism\, she was a diplomat\, posted to Brussels and Istanbul\, with stints in Beirut and Rome and secondments to the No 10 Press Office and the Home Office. \nHer reporting has been referenced in several legal challenges against Conservative Home Secretaries\, as well as submissions and human rights reports. In October 2023\, she gave evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the government’s failed Afghan resettlement schemes\, which was drawn upon in the Afghanistan Withdrawal Inquiry and in questioning to Foreign Office Minister Lord Ahmad. \nIn 2024 Nicola won the News Media Award at the Scottish Media Awards and she received a special mention at the One World Media Awards for International Journalist of the Year. She also won Best News Story and Best Feature at the Freelance Journalism Awards the same year. In 2022\, she was highly commended for Campaigning Journalist of the Year and shortlisted for Freelance Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. \nNicola regularly features on the BBC\, LBC and elsewhere as a media commentator on UK asylum issues\, as well as panel discussions\, podcasts\, journalism conferences and guest lectures at universities across the UK. She is a mentor at the Refugee Journalism Project\, a Fellow of the International Women’s Media Foundation and the European Journalism Fund and a member of both the Frontline Freelance Register and the NUJ. \nRachel Clarke \nDr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor\, former television journalist and the award-winning author of four Sunday Times bestselling books including THE STORY OF A HEART (winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction & shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize)\, DEAR LIFE (shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award & longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize) and BREATHTAKING (adapted into a major television series broadcast by ITVX in 2024 & nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Best Limited Series 2025). \nRachel writes for the Guardian\, Sunday Times\, New Statesman and Lancet among others. Her television and radio appearances include BBC Question Time\, BBC Newsnight\, Channel 4 News and BBC Woman’s Hour.
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LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Luke Berryman RESISTING NAZISM
DESCRIPTION:Nazism has always faced resistance. This book paints a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations. \n\n\n\n\nResisting Nazism \nNazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s\, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s\, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories\, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations. \nBuilt on original interviews with the people involved\, their families\, and their colleagues\, as well as deep research\, this book is a response to far-right populist threats and antisemitism that increasingly resemble the Nazi past. Each of its twelve chapters tells a different story of resistance. Sometimes\, these stories involve incredible daring and enormous risk – but they also show that resistance can begin with something as simple as writing your ideas down or showing solidarity with the oppressed. \nLuke Berryman \nLuke Berryman is the Founder and CEO of The Ninth Candle\, a Chicago-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps schools to improve Holocaust education. They run educational programs for students and professional development programs for teachers\, all free of charge. Luke has written about the Holocaust\, and antisemitism for newspapers including The Chicago Tribune\, USA Today\, The New York Daily News\, and others\, and for pedagogy journals like Education Week and Chalkbeat.
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LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Jill Dawson PIXIE with Beverley Wass
DESCRIPTION:Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson tells the true story of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith. \n\n\n\n\nPixie \nIt’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve\, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training\, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her. \nAfter the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father\, Pixie finds herself in the complex\, political world of fin-de-siècle art\, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica\, Devon\, London and Brooklyn\, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions\, a tale of the twists and turns\, séances and secrets\, successes and devastation\, of one young woman’s talent\, grit and determination. \nIn Pixie\, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith\, artist\, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck\, in arrestingly vivid detail\, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable\, but has\, until now\, eluded popular imagination. \nJill Dawson \nJill is the author of eleven novels\, one poetry collection and the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a Costa Judge\, and taught creative writing in many different settings. \n£6 – £16.99
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/jill-dawson-pixie-with-beverley-wass/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Share this event  Sarah Wynn-Williams CARELESS PEOPLE with Stephanie Merritt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Sarah Wynn-Williams at Blackwell’s Oxford in conversation with Stephanie Merritt. \n\n\n\n\nCareless People\nSarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People was one of the non-fiction sensations of 2025. A hugely praised – and award winning – bestselling account of Sarah’s time as Global Policy Director at Facebook\, Meta secured a ruling against Sarah on publication day preventing her from promoting the book\, or indeed saying anything critical or ‘otherwise detrimental’ about Meta. \nDue to these ongoing legal restrictions\, Sarah is barred from speaking about her book or from saying anything negative about her former employer. Instead\, Sarah will join us to share her thoughts and invite engagement on a wider\, more urgent conversation: how did we lose control of the Internet\, and is it possible to reclaim it? From the decay of the online world to the new geopolitics of AI\, as power shifts from governments to platforms\, this is a rare chance to hear from a woman who has stood at the nexus of global diplomacy and big-tech power—and lived to share the tale at great personal cost. \nSarah Wynn-Williams \nSarah Wynn-Williams is a former New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer. She joined Facebook after pitching a job and worked there for many years\, ultimately becoming director of global public policy. After leaving the company\, she has continued to work on tech policy\, including artificial intelligence. \nStephanie Merritt \nStephanie Merritt began reviewing books for national newspapers while she was reading English literature at Queens’ College\, Cambridge and after graduating went on to become Deputy Literary Editor of the Observer in 1998. Her first novel\, Gaveston\, was published by Faber & Faber in 2002 and won a Betty Trask award. \nShe continues to work as a feature writer and critic for the Guardian and the Observer and from 2007-2008 she curated and produced the Talks and Debates programme on issues in contemporary arts and politics at London’s Soho Theatre. She has appeared as a panellist on various Radio 4 shows and on BBC2’s Newsnight Review\, and is a regular chair and presenter at the Hay Festival and the National Theatre.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/share-this-event-sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-with-stephanie-merritt/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:PUTTING PHILOSOPHY ON THE TELLY with Andy West
DESCRIPTION:PUTTING PHILOSOPHY ON THE TELLY with Andy West\nWhen: Sat\, Feb 21 from 11am to 12pm \nWhere: Blackwells Bookshop \nGo online to reserve a spot today! \n  \nAndy West\, author of ‘The Life Inside‘ takes part – Philosophy in the Bookshop – series to discuss the TV adaptation of his memoir \nSOON TO BE A BBC DRAMA\, ‘WAITING FOR THE OUT’ SCREENS IN JANUARY \nAndy West teaches philosophy in prisons. Every time he steps behind bars\, he also confronts his inherited shame: his father\, uncle and brother all spent time inside. While Andy has built a different life for himself\, he still fears that their fate will also be his. \nNow a six-part BBC Drama\,’Waiting for the out’\, The Life Inside is an elegantly written and unforgettable memoir. Through exquisite storytelling and gentle philosophical questioning\, it offers a new insight into our stretched justice system\, our failing prisons and the complex lives being lived inside.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/putting-philosophy-on-the-telly-with-andy-west/
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SUMMARY:Alexander Larman LAZARUS with Philip Clark
DESCRIPTION:To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the death of Davis Bowie\, Alexander Larman discusses his biography\, Lazarus with Philip Clark \n\n\n\n\nLazarus : The Second Coming of David Bowie \nWhen David Bowie died on 10 January 2016\, aged 69\, his death was greeted with the greatest display of public mourning since Princess Diana three decades before. \nTwenty-five years before\, Bowie appeared to be washed up. His Eighties career had been a slow descent into self-parody\, his attempts to diversify into hard rock with the had been disastrous\, and the art-rock music with which he had made his name was badly out of fashion. The Thin White Duke needed a miracle if he was not only going to be able to assume his rightful place at the top of the rock music firmament\, but even to continue his career. And a miracle – a resurrection from the dead – is precisely what happened. \nLazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie is the first biography of Bowie that tells the full and candid story of what happened in between those two apparently unbridgeable points. With new and exclusive interviews with the musicians\, filmmakers and cultural figures who worked with and befriended Bowie throughout this period\, Lazarus is the definitive account of the previously overlooked and fascinating latter half of a great and distinguished career. A career that climaxed with his final masterpiece\, Blackstar\, and the unprecedented theatrical flourish of his departure from the stage as he passed into legend. \nAlexander Larman \nAlexander Larman is the author of several historical and biographical titles. His most recent book\, Power and Glory\, the third and final instalment in his Windsors trilogy\, following The Crown in Crisis and The Windsors at War\, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2024. His first book\, Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot\, 2nd Earl of Rochester\, was published by Head of Zeus in 2014\, and his second\, Restoration\, a social history of the year 1666\, was published in April 2016. His third\, Byron’s Women\, came out in September 2016 and was shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize. \nHe is books editor of The Spectator’sworld edition and is a contributing editor to The Criticmagazine. He has a monthly book review column in The Observer and writes regularly about literature and the arts for publications including Prospect\, The Times\, Engelsberg Ideas and the Daily Telegraph. \nPhilip Clark \nPhilip Clark is a music journalist who has written about classical music\, modern composition\, jazz\, free improvisation and rock music for many leading publications including The Wire\, Gramophone\, Classic FM Magazine\, MOJO\, Jazzwise\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, London Review of Books\, Prospect and New York Review of Books. \n\n£6 – £25
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/alexander-larman-lazarus-with-philip-clark/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Danny Bate WHY Q NEEDS U with Susie Dent
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nTV personality and ‘Countdown Queen’\, Susie Dent discusses ‘Why Q Needs U’ with fellow linguist\, writer and broadcaster\, Danny Bate \n\n\n\n\nWhy Q Needs U \nEvery letter you’re reading right now has a fascinating story to tell\, having been on a long linguistic\, historical\, political and social journey. \nIn Why Q Needs U\, linguistic expert Danny Bate takes readers on a fascinating odyssey through the English alphabet\, diving into history\, archaeology\, politics and linguistics to discover where we get our writing from. Sharing fun facts and revealing the alphabet’s hidden mechanisms\, he explains where we get our letters from and why the English language uses them so strangely. \nExplaining – and defending – the peculiar way English today uses our ancient letters\, Bate’s witty and entertaining book will help readers spot connections in languages across the world and inspire a newfound sense of wonder for the letters we use every day. \nDanny Bate \nDanny Bate is a linguist\, writer\, broadcaster and podcaster who is fascinated by the study of historical languages and etymology. He took his BA and MPhil degrees from the University of York and the University of Cambridge respectively\, and his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. \nSusie Dent \nSusie Dent is an English lexicographer\, etymologist and media personality. She has appeared in “Dictionary Corner” on the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown\, a post-watershed comedy version of the show.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/danny-bate-why-q-needs-u-with-susie-dent/
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