A planning application to turn the Oxford nightclub Cellar into a retail space has been withdrawn, meaning the beloved venue could remain open in future.
According to the City Council’s website, the application to change the underground club into a retail space was withdrawn today after it received a high volume of objections.
On Facebook, the club’s owners heralded a “fantastic outcome”, and thanked “the incredible number of all you amazing supporters for taking the time to register your objection, and also for sharing your thoughts on this too.”
The Facebook post, since deleted, added that Cellar was in consultation with its solicitors “to see what the next moves are likely to be”.
The original planning application, put forward in August by the nightclub’s landlords, St Michael’s and All Saints, intended to refurbish the space into retail premises. It meant Cellar would have had to close its doors by early 2018.
The move provoked a petition against the planned closure which was signed by over 13,000 people.
In response to today’s news, Femi Williams, a Worcester College student who runs Gun Fingers nights at the venue, told Cherwell he was “delighted” by the news.
“Cellar provides a wonderful and necessary platform to celebrate music that isn’t immediately commercial – something that nowhere else in Oxford does in quite the same way.
“I’m delighted it’s here to stay – Gun Fingers can continue to thrive, and it’s great to see all the new nights which are popping up across all different genres offering genuinely good music. The Oxford scene is looking up again!”
St Hugh’s third-year Max Reynolds, who organises Dr Feelgood, said he was “absolutely over the moon at the news”.
He added: “Nightlife culture is often disregarded as superficial and unimportant, and so it is heartening that it has been recognised as having a tangible value.
“Well done to all those that supported the effort to protest its closure, I look forward to getting sweaty with you all in that hallowed basement.”
The Cellar, previously called The Corn Dolly and The Dolly, has hosted early gigs for successful bands such as Foals and Glass Animals. The venue has been owned since the 1980’s by the Hopkins family.
Tributes have paid to Max Mian, a Classics student at Brasenose, after he was found dead at the construction site of the new Westgate shopping centre early on Monday morning.
A builder on the site said it appeared that he had fallen from the John Lewis building.
According to Thames Valley Police, he is yet to be formally identified but the next of kin has been informed.
Police spokesperson Jessica Rodgerson said: “the death is unexplained but not suspicious so a file will be prepared for the coroner in due course.”
Tributes have been paid to the Norwich-born student, who was entering his second year at Brasenose College.
John Bowers, principal of Brasenose, said: “Max was a brilliant and popular student and we all miss him greatly. Our thoughts are especially with his family and friends and everyone at the college is doing all we can to help and support them and each other at such a difficult time.”
Miles Overton, the JCR president, said “Max was a popular, much-loved member of the Brasenose Junior Common Room. His tragic death has deeply shocked us all, but the supportive community in which we live has come together at this difficult time. Our thoughts are especially with Max’s family and friends, and we in the JCR will always feel his loss.”
Steffan Griffiths, the headteacher of his school in Norwich, confirmed the death and told The Oxford Mail: “I am deeply saddened by the news of the tragic death of Max Mian, who was a much loved member of Norwich School.”
“Max was a very gifted all-rounder, with a particular love of Classics. Our sympathies are with his family and many friends.
“They are in the thoughts and prayers of the Norwich School community.
“We ask that the privacy of the family and the school is respected at this time.”
A spokesperson for the Westgate Alliance said: “We can confirm that the incident which occurred on the Westgate Oxford site on October 2 did not involve a construction worker.
“Work will continue on-site ahead of the public opening on October 24 and we are continuing to support the emergency services with their ongoing investigations.”
University administrative officials accidentally leaked a confidential list of nearly 500 students receiving a bursary fund earlier this month.
An email addressed to 483 Moritz-Heyman scholars did not follow regular email procedures, with all students being CC’d rather than BCC’d. It meant that the names of all bursary recipients were left visible.
Soon after the initial email was sent, the administrative office fol- lowed up with an apology. “This morning you will have received an email from MH-internships@ careers.ox.ac.uk … which did not follow normal email procedures,” they wrote.
“Consequently all the email addresses were left visible. I am so sorry that this occurred and can assure you that this will not happen again.”
The Moritz-Heyman Scholarship programme is offered to up to 175 incoming students each year. It is a purely financial scholarship, for which students are assessed on multiple factors, including whether they have a parental income of under £16,000 per year, their school’s Oxbridge rate, and socio-economic indicators in their postcode area.
Students receiving the Moritz-Heyman scholarship are given the maximum bursary from the University (partially funded by the Moritz-Heyman programme) as well a reduction in their tuition fees. They are also offered access to an exclusive internships.
One second-year scholar said they were “astounded” to find out about the leak, despite the programme giving them “unparalleled support throughout (their) degree”.
They said: “This was private information that had been entrusted to them and although I personally don’t feel any repercussions, I’m angered as a point of principle.
“It was hopefully momentary, but still significant, lapse of competency among the team running the scholarship and a mistake that shouldn’t be taken too lightly”.
In response to the leak, a spokesperson from the University told Cherwell: “We take data security very seriously and the incident has been reported to the University’s data security team.
“The students involved received an apology as soon as we became aware of the error, and we have also updated our processes as a result of this incident.”
A third year Moritz-Heyman scholar said: “Personally, I was not too fazed by the whole thing because I am relatively public about my back- ground and the tremendous help MH has been. However, I can assume that some people the leak was embarrassing and deemed as careless.”
“Some students like me didn’t even notice the initial leak until the apology email was sent. So it probably more harm than good in some ways; however, in another light, the apology email did show that MH does seek to ensure the privacy of its scholars.”
Another second year scholar said they “don’t feel affected by the breach”.
Oxford SU have responded to the breach, telling Cherwell that “confidentiality in this situation is important”.
They said: “It is for a student to choose whether they identify themselves as being from lower so- cioeconomic backgrounds and such information should never be shared without their consent.”
This comes after Hertford accidentally shared the details of their unsuccessful applicants in January this year. The rejection email sent to 200 unsuccessful applicants contained personal information about the candidates.
The parent of one of the candidates told The Telegraph: “It is disappointing enough to be rejected after three days of intensive interviews without having your rejection letter splashed all over the world to all and sundry.”
This week, Oxford’s new students will decide which clubs they want to be part of for their first term at the university. And for anyone interested in joining the Bullingdon Club, Oxford’s most notorious and exclusive society, Cherwell has obtained a copy of their secret letter of instruction sent out to one of a select few.
The letter, printed in full below, was found under the former bed of a now third-year senior Bullingdon member. It details the processes the applicant must undergo to be accepted into the infamous all-male club that counts David Cameron, Boris Johnson, and several monarchs among its alumni.
The letter, from two years ago, instructs the recipient to meet at the Lamb and Flag pub at 1.30pm in an all-yellow outfit, carrying a “plush squirrel toy” a “diamond”, and a “smutty or left-wing publication”.
They are then told to order five specific drinks in a row – two whiskeys, two Boilermakers and a pint of champagne, while their progress is “monitored” by unnamed members. The only other instructions given are that the invitee must learn the names of ten previous members of the club, and does not speak to any past or present members until the Lamb and Flag meeting. The missive is mysteriously signed: “The General”.
The Bullingdon Club hit the headlines in June after Cherwellobtained a video of the club’s members being kicked out of Christ Church by college porters after attempting to take their annual group photograph on the steps. They were met with jeers and protests by other students as they were marched out.
Reports last year suggested the club, with only two members left, was facing extinction, as “no one wanted to join”.
Boris Johnson, another famous ex-member, was also recently heck- led by students when returning to his old college Balliol for lunch. He was greeted by shouts of: “Do you want to smash a restaurant? Do you want to burn £50 in front of a home- less person,” which alluded to the alleged debauched acts performed by the Bullingdon Club during Johnson’s time at Oxford.
The club, that has existed for over 200 years, have been known for their lavish spending, with club uniforms reportedly costing £3,500, and their raucous behaviour, with numerous stories of them vandalising buildings reported since their inception.
The letter in full:
On the 29th of October, at exactly 1:30pm, you will be sat in the Lamb and Flag. You will be wearing a yellow shirt, a yellow suit, a yellow bow tie, yellow socks, and yellow shoes, holding a yellow rose in your lapel’s buttonhole. You will have on your possession a smutty or left wing publication, a fake/real diamond, and a plush squirrel toy.
Besides these you will carry nothing but your keys and passport. Upon arrival, you will order refreshments in the following sequence: a double whisky neat, a Boilermaker, a pint of champagne, a Boilermaker, and a double whiskey neat.
Your progress will be monitored and having finished we will send instructions. You must commit to memory 10 alumni of the Bullingdon Club. Do not be late. Do not overlook any instruction.
Valid we meet on the night, you are not speak to any member past or present, of the Bullingdon Club.
This is an integral aspect of the sci-fi genre, as the best art is reflective of the world we live in. The underlying narrative is more concealed than most, owing to the inscrutability of its intended meaning. In an alternate reality threatening to cave in, typified by a creepy giant rabbit. Donnie Darko struggles with notions of predetermination and ethics, plus a healthy dose of teen angst.
Alien invasion: Signs
M Night Shyamalan’s first alien film, Signs, is a feat of mystery and tension. Unlike the similarly alien-based blockbuster Alien, where an alien emerges from the thorax of John Hurt, this film thrills not through gory scenes, but through the clandestine treatment of the aliens. They are seldom seen but their mysterious presence in the shadows is repeatedly felt. The effect is other-worldly and utterly chilling.
Doomsday: The Terminator
An imminent threat to all life on Earth is a central feature of many sci-fi films. In The Terminator, progress in the realm of artificial intelligence is the hazard as computers become capable of independent thought. Although the humans inevitably secure their survival (at least until the next threat of the sequel) in this instance the film serves as a dramatic warning against the hubris of man in relation to machine.
Fifteen years after its original release, My Big Fat Greek Wedding remains a classic tale of love and laughter. It’s the definition of a sleeper hit: the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time, despite never reaching number one at the American box office, a historic feat.
Nia Vardolos’s screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award and inspired the creation of both a spin-off TV show and a sequel, which is just as side-splittingly funny as the original. The reason for all its success: its human depiction of relationships both familial and romantic are genuine and relatable, meaning that My Big Fat Greek Wedding transcends the usual constraints of the rom-com genre.
Indeed, the natural performance of Vardolos, who is both writer and star performer, can be as a result of her basing much of the story on the trials and tribulations of her own relationship with American actor Ian Gomez. In fact, Gomez’s conversion to the Greek Orthodox Church is in fact the source of inspiration for the iconic swimming pool baptism. Any girl from a multicultural background can empathise with Toula’s struggle to integrate her non-Greek boyfriend into her fiercely proud Greek family.
The obstacles blocking the road to the happy ending could easily apply to any Italian, Spanish, Chinese or Indian family, all of which are cultures embedded with an incredibly tight-knit family dynamic: even your second cousin three times removed is like a brother to you.
Moreover, it is My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s originality which keeps the film fresh. It doesn’t slavishly follow the formulaic plot line of other ‘meeting the parents’ romcoms like Father of the Bride and Meet the Parents (or even Shrek 2), in which paternal disapproval of an unsuitable partner is followed by all kinds of chaos before the final happy denouement. While some may say My Big Fat Greek Wedding is just another emotionally vapid rom-com, its success and enduring relevance suggests otherwise.
Its eclectic ensemble cast make it truly a family affair, and the cultural differences of boyfriend and family are actually legitimate obstacles to marital bliss, unlike the convoluted devices used elsewhere. While scenes such as the cord chaos in the travel agent may seem dated in a world of Skyscanner and Kayak, My Big Fat Greek Wedding continues to show audiences that love overcomes seemingly irreconcilable cultural differences.
I mean, even vegetarianism can be appeased by cooking lamb right, Aunt Voula?
Picture the scene: it’s two minutes into the first bop of the year. The theme, something tenuous like ‘Churches of Northern England’ or ‘Examples of Longshore Drift on the South Coast,’ is being represented by a series of poor quality print-outs from the library computers. The drinks, mostly weak vodka mixers, are flowing at a rate of one free token to one drink, and the allure of Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story,’ remixed with a combination of violins and reggae beats, is already beginning to fade. This horrifying, if universal experience, is one that unites all Oxford students – an experience that makes getting through Fifth Week look easy and the Bridge queue a breeze. The bop is a survival experience, and, just like Bear Grylls, you need to find a way to get through it (at least until 10:30pm, when it’s socially acceptable to leave).
First: you need to know how to prepare. Wear waterproof facepaint or make-up, so that the tears which will (doubtless) be running down your face by 9pm won’t ruin the effect of your geographically detailed depiction of Swanage.
When you’re there, it is best to remember that bop is actually an acronym, standing for:
B: ‘(Mr) Brightside’ – a song to be requested repeatedly throughout the night. When it comes on, be sure to embrace it with the commitment it deserves: whether this means starting a bar-wide mosh pit or reenacting the 2004 music video with perfect accuracy.
O: “Oh my God! I’m having a great time!” – a phrase to be said every 20 minutes in order to convince others you’re enjoying yourself, even if your soul looks as if it is leaving this mortal plane.
P: “Post-drinks?” – a great way to remove others from the bop, and relocate to a safer and less painful location. Good luck – I hope these tips can help you all survive and, even, dare I say it, thrive at a bop in future.
I’ll admit it: I love sci-fi. Worse, I’m not ashamed of it – even proud of it. Admitting this fact can occasionally be akin to stating your love for Hannah Montana, eliciting responses varying from condescension to sneering contempt. Isn’t sci-fi for children and sad old men, just cheap trash to whittle away the hours? Especially as a literature student, I’m expected to spend my hours reading Virginia Woolf or Thomas Hardy, rather than Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert.
This attitude is highly irritating, especially as it often stems from ignorance. I’m not expecting everybody to suddenly love science fiction – far from it – but I would like to end this common-place view that any tale set in the future, or based around technology, should be seen as lesser fiction than ‘real’ literature.
Anybody with the faintest under- standing of the English language should be able to grasp the point that dismissing sci-fi as ‘not real’ compared to other fiction is ridiculous. Are ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’ not antonyms? The stories of Charles Dickens and James Joyce are not ‘real’: they are made up.
After making this argument, the usual modification of detractors is that sci-fi is not ‘realistic’. Though the ‘realistic’ quality of much of ‘realist’ fiction is questionable: how many mundane conversations, telephone calls and toilet breaks that you have in real life appear in the pages of fiction.
Regardless, sci-fi should be regarded as not just on par with other genres, but in some ways as surpassing it, thanks to several unusual characteristics. Firstly, science fiction often indirectly concerns itself with the hopes and fears of its author’s era. And second to that, science fiction engages with the problems of the future.
This first element is not unique to sci-fi, but is worth bearing in mind. Science fiction often describes the future as the author hopes – or fears – that their society is progressing towards: Brave New World could be seen as the terrifying future of a society gripped by the banality of mass-produced consumerism; The Time Machine as the extreme end of a Victorian society ever-more divided along class lines; Ender’s Game is without a doubt a child of the late Cold War. Sci-fi is an excellent way of looking at our own society through an unfamiliar lens, revealing its vices and virtues in a different light, from a ‘Martian perspective’.
The second element is crucial to the enduring importance of sci-fi – its unique ability to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of technology, so important in our hyper-fast digital world. For this, the Culture novels of the late, much missed Iain M. Banks are exemplary.
In essence, the Culture novels take place in a society that is post-scarcity, post-singularity, post-commercial: almost post-human. Nobody wants for anything or needs to work, society is benevolently run by unimaginably powerful super-computers, and regular AI – tellingly, called ‘drones’ – are sentient beings with full rights as citizens.
Humans can alter themselves considerably, change sex at will, and practically do whatever they want – semi-anarchistic hedonism rules the day. A key theme of the novels is the contact between the Culture and less-advanced societies, and how a powerful civilisation deals with its ‘inferiors’.
This might sound like nonsense, but think about how it relates to modern Western society. Every week we hear stories about how the robots are going to take people’s jobs, the dangers of the singularity, the potential of ‘designer babies’, the ubiquity of drones – often from highly respected individuals. Think about how interventionist our societies have been in recent history – parallels with the Culture abound.
Reading sci-fi is perhaps the best way of thinking through the possibilities and problems of tomorrow, so we can maximise the former and minimize the latter – it’s not just all aliens and laser guns. But those are really cool too.
In the runup to 0th Week of Michaelmas term, Oxford is surprisingly quiet while most students try to suck up the last days of a quickly fading summer, either savouring the last few enjoyable moments of the longest vacation in the Oxford calendar or frantically revising in a concerted effort to score highly in preterm collections.
But between these two groups there is always a mutual feeling of anticipation of return to the college way of life that Oxbridge is famous for. Each college has its own particular way of doing things, but for Christ Church, this Michaelmas brings an unwelcome and unexpected change to the way its students eat their meals.
The catered meals at Christ Church are one of the college’s most defining features. Yet, as leaked in an Oxfeud post late on the 26th, the college kitchen administration plans to move the morning’s canteen breakfast from the 16th-century hall to the much less famous and much more beige Freind Room, as well as the axe the aforementioned catered dinner service, changing a system that has been characterised as ‘bourgeois’ and ‘archaic’ towards a more modern, self-catered hall service.
Unsurprisingly, the Christ Church Junior student body are not happy. There is no doubt that such a change would always be viewed with a certain amount of animosity. It is impossible to please everybody, especially with a change that greatly affects the lives of the four-hundred-something undergraduates who study there.
But how could the college have expected a positive response when the change was completely out of the hands of those four hundred students? This is not something as trivial as changing a tourist route or what paper towels are used in college bathrooms.
This directly affects nearly half a thousand students, and the college didn’t even have the gall to tell the students themselves, before the information came out on an anonymous Facebook submission page.
Initially, one might think that there is little wrong with this change. Surely using a catered system is just a relic of a more upper-middle class lifestyle, alienating anyone who couldn’t afford to study at Eton, and a shift to a self-catered system would finally teach these Christ Church prats some discipline and to look after themselves instead of relying on a silver spoon.
But this argument fails to hold up once you realise that the college isn’t dropping its other ‘Formal’ meal sitting, which simply requires the attendees to wear their gowns to hall. As already discussed, people hate change. So a large majority of students are simply going to hold off their hunger pangs for an extra hour and commit to the oh-so-difficult task of slipping a gown on over whatever they’re wearing, resulting in an even greater Formal hall turnout which will leave the kitchen underprepared, understaffed and under the gun to feed several hundred hungry mouths.
And as big as Christ Church’s Harry Potter hall might be, the college frequently suffers from oversubscription to its guest dinner services already, and no amount of magic is going to make that space bigger.
As for the informal hall: a self-catered service will no doubt reduce the quality of food, with more of it being prepared hours beforehand and kept under heat lamps. This in turn will put further strain on the formal hall staff, who will have to prepare more fresh food under a set menu.
Certainly, the one good thing that comes out of a self-catered service is the increase in choice, as is bound to happen — else why change the service at all? – which might improve turnout at times when students might normally be put off by a set menu that demands a love of controversial food items. It remains to be seen how this will affect those with dietary requirements, such as those with vegetarian or gluten free diets, but it seems unlikely that the college will defer from its policy of throwing a dart at a board and serving just one alternative a night. At the very least, meat loving students might see an end to the controversial Meat Free Mondays introduced last year.
A point must also be made about the uniqueness of Christ Church’s catered service. It is something which draws students to Christ Church and is completely disingenuous towards the newly arriving freshers who may have to change their meal plans. Meals in hall were previously subsidised, which, in the context of living in one of the more expensive university cities, was a godsend for students who are unable to spend £7 every lunchtime on meals at whichever Pret à Manger took their fancy on Cornmarket.
But regardless of whether or not this change ends up being for the better or worse in terms of Christ Church’s culinary exploits, this change has much greater ramifications in terms of the students’ relationship with the college itself, through the body of the JCR committee.
While college politics differs from college to college, and JCR committees can seem as fickle as each student body, generally the JCR system works. Christ Church has, over the past year, seen positive changes in the college as a result of the JCR’s work, in lengthening library opening hours, improving LGBTQ+ welfare, and refurbishing the JCR’s student spaces, and Trinity ’17 ended with talks of developing a first-of-its-kind student café. Yet to have such a controversial change to student life be sprung on Christ Church students is absolutely unprecedented, taking one step forward and three steps back.
Regardless of negative attitudes towards having a catered service which provided a not-insubstantial number of part time jobs, the idea of removing a ‘bourgeois tradition’ is completely moot when it seems doubtful this was the college’s intention in the first place. The only notable thing this change has done is destabilise the relationship between student and college at Christ Church, setting a particularly terrifying precedent which allows the college to change student life at Christ Church without consulting the very people these changes affect.
Jimmy Page, Tom Daley and Amanda Holden are among the speakers of an Oxford Union Michaelmas term card which features a host of heads of states, sportspeople and celebrities.
Today, Cherwell is exclusively releasing in full the details of the Union’s speaker events for the upcoming term. It follows a release of debates speakers – including Sir Vince Cable and Ken Livingstone – published earlier this week.
Perhaps the most significant announcement will be the Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page who will speak on Monday 23 October at 8pm. It will be the first time the rock star has appeared at the famous debating society.
Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg and 30-time Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish will join fashion designer Marc Jacobs and Trump’s former director of communications Anthony Scaramucci in the list of confirmed speakers.
McFly drummer Harry Judd, who will speak in 5th week.
Actor Toby Jones, rock band Foals and McFly drummer Harry Judd are also set to speak at the debating society.
Other highlights include:
Five-time Olympic gold medalist Sir Ben Ainslie
American economist Jeffrey Sachs
Comedian and Have I Got News For You panelist Paul Merton
Philosopher Sir Roger Scruton
ITV journalist Robert Peston
Attendance to events is members-only, but students can attend events for free during the Union’s open period which runs up to 19 October.
A full list of speakers and dates can be found below.
0th Week Zach Quinto, Star Trek actor, Thursday 5 October, 7pm Jeffrey Sachs, American economist, Friday 6 October, 2pm Marc Jacobs and Edward Enninful, fashion designer and editor of Vogue, Friday 6 October, 8pm
Nico Rosberg.
1st Week John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, Monday 9 October, 5pm Paul Manafort, Trump adviser and lobbyist, Tuesday 10 October, 5pm Senator Mike Lee, libertarian US politician, Tuesday 10 October, 8pm Nico Rosberg, Formula One World Champion, Wednesday 11 October, 5pm Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, Wednesday 11 October, 8pm Howard Shore, Lord of the Rings film score composer, Thursday 12 October, 5pm Fatou Bensouda, international criminal law prosecutor, Friday 13 October, 5pm President Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland, Friday 13 October, 8pm
Anthony Scaramucci.
2nd Week Anthony Scaramucci, former White House director of communications, Monday 16 October, 8pm Murray Gold, Doctor Who composer, Tuesday 17 October, 8pm JJ Abrams, Star Trek director, Wednesday 18 October, 8pm John Nixon, ex-CIA agent, Thursday 19 October, 5pm Foals, indie rock band, Friday 20 October, 8pm
3rd Week Alex Pettyfer, actor and model, Monday 23 October, 5pm Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin guitarist, Monday 24 October, 8pm President Heinz Fischer, former Austrian state president, Thursday 26 October, 1pm Cath Kidston, fashion designer and entrepreneur, Thursday 26 October, 5pm Michael Mansfield and Yvette Greenway, barrister and activist, Thursday 26 October, 8pm
Mark Cavendish.
4th Week President of the Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Dr Gjorge Ivanov, Monday 30 October, 5pm Mark Cavendish, 20-time Tour de France stage winner, Monday 30 October, 8pm Marc Kasowitz, American trial lawyer, Tuesday 31 October, 5pm Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University and former Conservative Party Chairman, Wednesday 1 November, 5pm
5th Week Jon Ossoff, documentary maker and ex-Democratic nominee, Monday 6 November, 5pm Harry Judd, McFly drummer and Strictly Come Dancing winner, Monday 6 November, 8pm Paul Merton, comedian and Have I Got News For You panelist, Tuesday 7 November, 5pm Kathryn Ruemmler, White House Counsel to Barack Obama, Tuesday 7 November, 8pm Jeff Zucker, current President of CNN, Wednesday 8 November, 5pm Sir Ian McKellen, British actor and campaigner, Wednesday 8 November, 8pm Governor Terry McAuliffe, American politician,Thursday 9 November, 5pm
Calvin Klein
6th Week Emeli Sandé, Scottish singer, Monday 13 November, 8pm Baz Luhrmann, Romeo and Juliet director, Tuesday 14 November, 5pm Anna Faris,Scary Movie actor, Tuesday 14 November, 8pm David Einhorn, hedge fund manager, Wednesday 15 November, 5pm Calvin Klein, fashion designer, Wednesday 15 November, 8pm Monica Lewinsky, American TV personality and former White House intern, Thursday 16 November, 3pm Robert Peston, ITV journalist, Thursday 16 November, 5pm Senator Orrin Hatch, US Republican politician, Friday 17 November, 5pm David Rubenstein, American financier, Friday 17 November, 8pm
Sir Roger Scruton.
7th Week Ben Ainslie, Olympic gold-medalist sailor, Monday 20 November, 5pm Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer, Tuesday 21 November, 5pm Tom Daley, Olympic bronze-medalist diver, Tuesday 21 November, 8pm Sir Roger Scruton, British philosopher and author, Wednesday 22 November, 5pm President of Iceland, Wednesday 22 November, 8pm Terrence Howard, Thursday 23 November, 5pm Toby Jones,Dad’s Army actor, Friday 24 November, 5pm
Amanda Holden.
8th Week Eric Holder, former US attorney general under Barack Obama, Monday 27 November, 8pm Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of World Health Organisation, Tuesday 28 November, 8pm Liv Tyler,Lord of the Rings actor, Wednesday 29 November, 5pm Princess Mabel, Dutch human rights activist, Wednesday 29 November, 8pm Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long distance runner, Thursday 30 November, 5pm Thorbjørn Jagland, secretary general of Council of Europe, Friday 1 December, 5pm Amanda Holden, TV personality and Britain’s Got Talent judge, Friday 1 December, 8pm
