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: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Pit Theatre
UK RIP?
Frobisher 4-6
Whatever happened to the Arab Spring?
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Pit Theatre
Euro and the economy: the final countdown?
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Pit Theatre
European Spring?
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
The Giants of Asia
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-2.45pm
Hammerson Room
Syria: the roots of the conflict and the road ahead

Has tolerance gone too far?

"I thought the Battle of Ideas was wonderful. Especially the extent and quality of audience participation. I can't imagine how I missed this exciting forum for exchange of ideas in the past. I will certainly not miss another one and look forward already to 2012 Battle of Ideas."
Professor Marilyn Monk, emeritus professor of molecular embryology, University College London

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