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.

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Saturday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Frobisher 4-6
Forced marriage to faith schools: the politics of multiculturalism
Saturday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Hammerson Room
Battle book launch and discussion: There Is No Such Thing As a Free Press
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Hammerson Room
Campaigning for freedom
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Cinema 1
Can the law make us equal?
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Free will: just an illusion?
Pit Theatre
Stop the press: the media after Leveson
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Pit Theatre
Public inquiries in the dock
Sunday 21 October: 1.30pm-2.45pm
Keynote Controversies Barbican Theatre
The 21st-century case for freedom
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
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

Worth three tenors? The value of opera

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