2013 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.
Or view and print out the Timetable as a two-page PDF.
Saturday 19 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Saturday 19 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
School Fights Frobisher 1-3
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Pop Ups Library
Saturday 19 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Saturday 19 October: 5.30pm-6.45pm
Thought for the day Cinema 1
Literature Wars Hammerson Room
Balloon Debate Camera Café
Sunday 20 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Sunday 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Sunday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 1-3
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Sunday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Sunday 20 October: 3.30pm-4.45pm
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Sunday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.15pm
Artistic Battles Garden Room
Hot off the Press 2013 Hammerson Room
Sunday 20 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Plenary Barbican Theatre
Archaeology: a load of old rubbish?
"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast