WEDNESDAY 13th MARCH
Main House
Gina Rippon
Philip Walling
Gina Rippon
Oggy Boytchev
Mind the Gender Gap
47
11.00am
| Main House
Oggy Boytchev
Treason and Espionage £11.00
49
2.30pm
| Main House
£11.00
Reading maps or reading emotions? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Drawing on her life’s work as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and explores how centuries of sexism has led to science asking the wrong questions.
Journalist and independent producer, Oggy Boytchev was born in Bulgaria. He has travelled extensively and worked for many years as a producer for the BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson. Boytchev’s novel draws on life behind the Iron Curtain and explores Cold War paranoia and intrigue in 1963.
The Gendered Brain (Bodley Head)
The Unbeliever (Quartet Books)
Philip Walling Bovine Tales
48
12.45pm
| Main House
£11.00
Till The Cows Come Home: The Story of Our Eternal Dependence (Atlantic Books)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including event 51) page 18
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Philip Walling started out farming in Cumbria before turning to writing. Based on his roots in the land he draws on personal experience, interviews with farmers, butchers and breeders to explore how, for centuries, cattle have tilled our soils, borne our burdens, fed and clothed us and been uncomplaining servants in the work of wresting a living from the land.