Battles on Video presents videos from previous Battle of Ideas festivals, interviews and opinion pieces by speakers and participants, as well as specially produced in-depth discussions.
2013: Private education: public harm?
2013: Free riders: cycle helmets and health and safety
2013: What is addiction?
2013: Water, water, everywhere: not allowed to use it
2012: Looking back today
2012: Are the kids all right?
2012: Atheism: what's the point?
2012: Research for the sake of it?
2012: Taming tabloid tittle-tattle
"I was impressed by the intensity of the debate and the high level of intellectual engagement, not least by the audience. It was an invigorating, even exhilarating experience to be part of a festival based on the conviction that disagreement is good. The Battle of Ideas is a fantastic concept, may it spread epidemically to the rest of the world. I am already looking forward to next year's event."
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist
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