Battle news
2 December 2009
Battle of Ideas 2009 Speaker Quotes

Read a wide selection of speakers’ quotes from this year’s Battle of Ideas: saying how they felt about the Festival. Lots of very good arguments as to why you should have next year’s dates (October 30th and 31st 2010) in your diary already.

Read the quotes here [in PDF format].



Festival Buzz

View: 'Turn That Racket Off'

"The Battle of Ideas is adrenaline for the mind. A chance for intellectual fisticuffs with some of the best-known and most stimulating thinkers in the world."
Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience, Oxford University