Sunday, 1st March 2009
Main House
10.30am – Nigel Warburton and Michael Buerk
Free speech
12pm – Chris Wadsworth
Percy Kelly: letters to my step-daughter – an illustrated speech
2pm – Richard Dowden
The Derwentwater lecture: Africa – altered states, ordinary miracles
3.30pm – Steve Jones
Darwin’s island
5pm – Alison Hastie
and Kay Dunbar The late Roger Deakin’s journals
8pm – Robin Ince
Bad books, good ideas, theories and tangents: stand-up comedy
Studio
10.15am – Patricia Fara
Science: a four thousand year history
11.45am – Philip Ball
Nature’s Patterns
2.15pm – Ruth Richardson
The making of Mr Gray’s ‘anatomy’
3.45pm – Druin Burch
Taking the medicine
5.15pm – Cherry Chappel
Grandma’s remedies
6.30pm – Ruth Padel
Darwin: a life in poems