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
Conservatory
Social media: good? Or bad?
Hammerson Room
Battle book launch and discussion: There Is No Such Thing As a Free Press
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Garden Room
Commons people: music in a digital age
Sunday 21 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Pit Theatre
Media-bashing live
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
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: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Pit Theatre
What is the truth?
Sunday 21 October: 5.00pm-6.15pm
Pit Theatre
Taming tabloid tittle-tattle
Sunday 21 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Pit Theatre
What makes a good journalist anyway?

Are we still a classless society Mr Cameron?

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Wes Streeting, chief executive, Helena Kennedy Foundation

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