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Dave Farrar

Cheating in Sport

Oxford Literary Festival
Date:26th March 2012
Time:12pm
Address:Christ Church,
St Aldate’s,
Oxford
OX1 1DP
Price:£10
Tel:0870 343 1001
Website:http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/
Is cheating in sport endemic, will the London Olympics be ‘clean’, what are the lasting effects on sport, why would an athlete risk going from national hero to a figure of contempt and, most importantly in the case of drugs, what are the lasting effects on the human body?

The whole issue of cheating in sport will be discussed by Richard Moore, award-winning sports journalist with several books to his name including the soon-to-be-published The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final; Dave Farrar, a commentator and writer on a variety of sports, who has personal knowledge of gambling and is author of The Perfect Punter: A Year of Losing Everything and Trying to Win it All Back; and Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, who looks at drugs in sport in Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport. The debate is chaired by cycling journalist Daniel Friebe.


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Tim Birkhead

Bird Sense: What it's like to be a Bird

Oxford Literary Festival
Date:28th March 2012
Time:2pm
Address:Christ Church,
St Aldate’s,
Oxford
OX1 1DP
Price:£10
Tel:0870 343 1001
Website:http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/
Tim Birkhead has written the first popular book about the senses of birds. If you ever wanted to know what it is like to be a swift and fly at more than 100kph, or what is going on inside the head of a nightingale when it sings, then those questions and many more are answered here. Birkhead has spent a lifetime observing and studying birds. His Wisdom of Birds was widely acclaimed for its grasp of the subject and for its entertaining and informative style.

Birkhead, a professor in the University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, says we have consistently underestimated what is going on in a bird’s head.




Nic Compton

Voices from the Titanic

Oxford Literary Festival
Date:29th March 2012
Time:10am
Address:Christ Church,
St Aldate’s,
Oxford
OX1 1DP
Price:£10
Tel:0870 343 1001
Website:http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/
The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago still resonates deeply. To mark the centenary this April, three writers, Nic Compton, Frances Wilson and John Welshman, give voice to some of those who died in the disaster and to some who lived to tell the tale. An actor will read some of the testimonies at this event.

In his Titanic on Trial, Compton tells the story of the final hours of the Titanic using the words of survivors taken from transcripts of the US and British inquiries. Wilson’s highly acclaimed How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay tells the story of Ismay, the ship’s owner, who survived after jumping into a lifeboat with the women and children, and then had to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. Welshman reconstructs the stories of 12 individuals who were on the ship the night it sank in Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town.  The event is chaired by Dr David Grylls, a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and director of studies for the literature and creative writing courses.



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