An Evening With James Naughtie

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Tue Jul 07 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm

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Oxford Festival of the Arts | Oxford, EN

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James Naughtie, one of the country’s best-known broadcasters in conversation with BBC Correspondent, Rob Watson
About this Event

James Naughtie is one of the country’s best-known broadcasters. A special correspondent for BBC News, he presented Today on Radio 4 for 21 years and has written and presented a host of documentaries for radio and television. He has hosted Bookclub on Radio 4 since it began in 1998, and written and broadcast on literature and music for many years. As an author he has written books on politics and music, and an account of half a century of travels and encounters in the United States (‘On the Road -= American Adventures from Nixon to Trump). He is also the author of three espionage novels - The Madness of July, Paris Spring and the Spy Across the Water - featuring Will Flemyng of MI6. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Rob Watson is distinguished journalist and and political correspondent, who has been working for BBC since 1983.

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