Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

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^09:00										09:00 Master class: Radio Newsday in Association with Dubai Eye 103.8 Max Easterman & Suzanne Radford
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^09:30						09:30 Imagining Worlds in Sci-Fi Masterclass with Alan Dean Foster
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^10:00	10:00 Rebooting Sherlock & 007 Jeffery Deaver & Anthony Horowitz	10:00 The Foodie Panel Rachel Allen, Bobby Chinn, Willie Harcourt-Cooze & Ken Hom	10:00 Which Afghanistan? Sandy Gall, Abdel Bari Atwan & William Dalrymple	10:00 An Imaginary Menagerie: A Family Show Roger McGough	10:00 Tales of Happiness Giles Andreae		10:00 Dahl, Spike, JK Rowling & Me Barry Cunningham	10:00 Tales from a Bookbinder: The Alchemy of the Book Mark Cockram	10:00 Intoxicating Prose from East & West Tan Twan Eng, Jeet Thayil & Sjon		10:00 A Mirror Of Poems Workshop with Geeta Chhabra	10:00 Shakespeare on Your Feet A Workshop for Teachers with Fiona Lindsay	10:00 Masterclass with Korky Paul Putting You in the Picture
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^11:30	11:30 Talking Heroes and Villains Mark Billingham & John Connolly	11:30 Rather Outspoken Dan Rather in conversation with Nik Gowing	11:30 Success, Cycling & Managing Your Chimp Steve Peters	11:30 Mrs Moneypenny on Careers, Ambition and the Myth of Having it All Heather McGregor	11:30 Heroes and Villains of Horrible Science Nick Arnold	11:30 Making it Into Print! Kate Lord Brown & Kathy Shalhoub	11:30 Plot Development for Stories With An Arab World Setting Workshop with Greg Mosse	11:30 How to PR Your Book & Work With Your Publicist A Masterclass with Nigel Stoneman	11:30 How To Make Your Own Pop-Ups Workshop with Robert Crowther
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^12:30														12:30 The Friday Literary Lunch Antonio Carluccio with Ariana Bundy
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^13:30	13:30 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - From Page to Screen Deborah Moggach in conversation with Chris Cleave		13:30 Walking Home - A Wet and Windy Odyssey Simon Armitage	13:30 Goodies and Baddies featuring The Grunts Philip Ardagh	13:30 The Arabs - A History Eugene Rogan	13:30 Animals Galore featuring 'Rocky Saves the Day' Suzanne Jankowski	13:30 Past & Present: The Scene of the Crime Boris Akunin & Maxime Chattam	13:30 Sci-Fi Crossing Continents Noura Al Noman & Alan Dean Foster	13:30 It's Not Rocket Science Ben Miller			13:30 Cracking the Cryptic Crossword Workshop with Peter Dale	13:30 The Viva Mayr Diet - Does it work? Helena Frith Powell
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^14:00		14:00 Demo: Classic Chinese Cookery Ken Hom
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^15:00	15:00 The Good, the Bad & the Devilish Detail Lynda La Plante		15:00 The India Panel Anil Dharker, Shobhaa Dé & William Dalrymple	15:00 Miracles of Paper Engineering Demonstration Family Show by Robert Crowther	15:00 Maps, Minds & Unlocking Creativity Tony Buzan	15:00 A Tale of Two Cities Kamal Abdel-Malek & Alexander McNabb	15:00 UAE - Inspired Geeta Chhabra, Alex Jeffries & Sarah Al Hamad	15:00 Calligraphy Workshop for Beginners - Arabic Majid Al Yousef	15:00 Writing Home Waciny Laredj & Abdel Bari Atwan			15:00 Bolt Down Bullying Workshop with Samineh Shaheem
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^17:00	17:00 Crime Pays – A Career in Crime Writing Ian Rankin	17:00 The Happiness Panel with Steve Peters, Giles Andreae, Ben Miller & Debi Gliori	17:00 WW2 – Still Impacting the Middle East? Abdel Bari Atwan, Antony Beevor, Eugene Rogan, Hani Soubra & Simon Sebag Montefiore	17:00 Who Are You Calling a Villain? Geraldine McCaughrean	17:00 'Wild' and 'A Time for New Dreams' Ben Okri	17:00 Confession of an Arabic Interpreter Leslie McLoughlin in conversation with Francis Matthew		17:00 The Quick Pitch 1 - Into the Literary Agent's Den Luigi Bonomi	17:00 Genre - Hero or Villain? Geoff Dyer
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^18:30			18:30 Poetry Mix Simon Armitage, Jeet Thayil, Frank Dullaghan & Hind Shoufani		18:30 Stranger Than Fiction Jeffrey Archer in converstion with Anthony Horowitz	18:30 Love & The Hero –The Nature of Love in Fiction Rachel Billington	18:30 Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory Willie Harcourt-Cooze	18:30 The Quick Pitch 2 - Into the Literary Agent’s Den Luigi Bonomi	18:30 Regional Food Panel Anissa Helou, Sarah Al-Hamad & Suzanne Husseini	18:30 Breakthrough! Jamil Nahra, Manal Al Ghdani & Khulood Al Hajiri
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^20:00		20:00 The Lighter Side: Tales from a Writer's Life Bobby Chinn, Philip Ardagh, Mark Billingham & Ben Miller
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