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
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
What's wrong with equality?
Pit Theatre
Is Europe... boring?
Garden Room
Manufacturing: the great comeback?
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Pit Theatre
Euro and the economy: the final countdown?
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Youth today: unemployed or unemployable?
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Capitalism: kill or cure?
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Fountain Room
Urban hubris and the great inequality debate
Conservatory
Austerity: here to stay?
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
The Giants of Asia
Conservatory
Why isn't poverty history yet?
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Risk, regulation and red tape
Conservatory
Taxing our way to a fairer society?

Instrumental music: should music be a tool of social policy?

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