Speakers: Richard Ovenden, Erica Wagner

In our digital age, we are drowning in information, faced with new and complex challenges around data preservation and organisation; at the same time, media censorship is a global phenomenon, fake news is rife and, more than ever, libraries have to fight for their existence. In Burning the Books, Bodleian Library director Richard Ovenden looks at the destruction of knowledge over the last two and a half millennia He will be in conversation with author and former Times literary editor Erica Wagner.