2011 Programme: Festival weekend overview

The Festival weekend includes more than 70 debates which are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday or Sunday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme.

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Saturday 29 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Café
Is big business ruining food?
Henry Moore Gallery
Drinking by numbers: should we count our alcohol units?
Saturday 29 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Café
Are we turning our children into food faddists?
Henry Moore Gallery
Radical surgery for the NHS: what is a GP's role today?
Saturday 29 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Henry Moore Gallery
Hand-out Britain? Has a dependency culture made us sick?
Sunday 30 October: 10.45am-12.15pm
Students' Union
Abortion: how late is 'too late'?
Sunday 30 October: 3.45pm-5.15pm
Lecture Theatre 1
Smart drugs: magic bullet or cheating ourselves?

Scared of the Kids - Stuart Waiton - Lowered bar for security

"In few places does the free exchange of views take place on so wide a range of issues as at the Battle of Ideas. Whatever the headlines of 2011 prove to be, the Battle of Ideas is where they will be most robustly debated."
Andrew Copson, chief executive, British Humanist Association

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