Battle of Ideas 2011 | programme 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?

Going nowhere? Staying local in a global village

"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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