2012 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.

Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.

Saturday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
What's wrong with equality?
Frobisher Auditorium 2
One year on: assessing the state of the nation
Frobisher 4-6
Forced marriage to faith schools: the politics of multiculturalism
Conservatory
Religious or Spiritual or Neither?
Saturday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Blaming troubled families: licence to parent?
Conservatory
Social media: good? Or bad?
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Lessons from America: the new culture wars
Frobisher 4-6
A crisis of compassion: who cares?
Fountain Room
All together now: the rise of the choir
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Telling off the grown-ups
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Cinema 1
Can the law make us equal?
Sunday 21 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Born this way?
Fountain Room
Everyone a runner?
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Organ donation: dead or alive?
Conservatory
Austerity: here to stay?
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Fountain Room
From the Colosseum to Wembley: crowd watching through the ages
Garden Room
Do we live in a top-shelf society?
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Risk, regulation and red tape
Garden Room
Character: skill or virtue?
Hammerson Room
London book launch and discussion: Snobs' Law: criminalising football fans in an age of intolerance
Sunday 21 October: 5.00pm-6.15pm
Garden Room
Drink, smoke, eat: prohibition today
Sunday 21 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Frobisher 4-6
Are the kids all right?
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Hammerson Room
Devils in our midst? The Savile scandal and our culture of mistrust
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Hammerson Room
Ink inc. Have tattoos become too mainstream?

The energy challenge: can we keep the lights on?

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