2012 Programme: Festival Sunday overview

Sunday sessions are listed below ordered by time slot and room. To see Saturday sessions only, select the day you want from the menu on the left or select sessions by Theme or see the whole Festival weekend of more than 70 debates.

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Sunday 21 October: 8.00am-9.00am
Barbican, Silk Street entrance
Battle of Ideas Urban Jog
Sunday 21 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Pit Theatre
Media-bashing live
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Born this way?
Frobisher 4-6
Baby culture vultures
Fountain Room
Everyone a runner?
Conservatory
The poppy: to wear or not to wear?
Garden Room
Illuminating the Middle Ages
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
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Organ donation: dead or alive?
Frobisher 4-6
Are exams a cheat?
Fountain Room
Urban hubris and the great inequality debate
Conservatory
Austerity: here to stay?
Garden Room
US elections: the end of great expectations?
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Lunchtime Debates Cinema 1
The Giants of Asia
Pit Theatre
Public inquiries in the dock
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Epigenetics: are you what your parents ate?
Frobisher 4-6
Free schools: myth and reality
Fountain Room
From the Colosseum to Wembley: crowd watching through the ages
Conservatory
Why isn't poverty history yet?
Garden Room
Do we live in a top-shelf society?
Sunday 21 October: 1.30pm-2.45pm
Keynote Controversies Barbican Theatre
The 21st-century case for freedom
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Risk, regulation and red tape
Pit Theatre
What is the truth?
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Abortion: a medical or a moral choice?
Frobisher 4-6
Students: consumers at the heart of a university?
Fountain Room
To build or not to build?
Conservatory
Taxing our way to a fairer society?
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
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Building an intellectual legacy – the Battle for which ideas?
Pit Theatre
Taming tabloid tittle-tattle
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Trust me: I'm a scientist
Frobisher 4-6
Research for the sake of it?
Fountain Room
Preservation or modernisation?
Conservatory
Occupy: illusory radicalism?
Garden Room
Drink, smoke, eat: prohibition today
Sunday 21 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Cinema 1
Atheism: what's the point?
Pit Theatre
What makes a good journalist anyway?
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Banning the Brave New World? The ethics of science
Frobisher 4-6
Are the kids all right?
Fountain Room
Looking back today
Conservatory
Monarchy in the UK
Garden Room
No future: has pop lost its radical edge?

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