Debate it with Stephen Fry

Kathy Lette, 'writer-in-residence' at that literary establishment the Savoy, debates with Stephen Fry, Beauty Versus Brains - Wrinkles, Why Won't Men Read Between Her Lines?

Personal Wonderlands

Speakers share their memories of the book which most inspired them when young in an evening celebrating childhood imagination. They include Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Alexi Sayle, Jung Chang, Antonia Fraser, Bonnie Greer, Doris Lessing, Louisa Young and Sue MacGregor. Readings take place before a buffet and an auction of items donated by Paula Rego, Stephen Fry, Maureen Lipman, Cherie and Tony Blair and others. Money goes to the English PEN's Readers And Writers initiative.

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican Carlos Fuentes talks about his most recent novel, Inez, which tells the story of an elderly maestro who is conducting a final performance of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust. Many years earlier, he had an affair with the Inez of the title, a soprano diva.

Roy Foster on W.B. Yeats

Roy Foster has devoted much of the past 17 years working on his monumental two-volume life of W.B. Yeats, having taken up the mantle from a number of other historians who had abandoned the project. Vol One, The Apprentice Mage, appeared in 1997, which covered Yeats's life up to 1915. Now comes the conclusion. Roy Foster talks to Tom Paulin.