Battle of Ideas 2015
Festival weekend: Health & Well-being

Fuller details of sessions are available where the title is in bold.

Saturday 17 October: 10.00-11.30
Therapeutic Times Cinema 3
Mindfulness: empty minds for an empty society?
Saturday 17 October: 12.00-13.00
Therapeutic Times Cinema 3
Is today the Age of Emotion?
Saturday 17 October: 14.00-15.30
Therapeutic Times Cinema 3
A trivial pursuit: is happiness good for you?
Saturday 17 October: 16.00-17.15
Battle over Life and Death Frobisher Auditorium 1
The NHS: still worth defending?
Therapeutic Times Cinema 3
Stigmatising mental illness: are you mad?
Saturday 17 October: 17.30-18.45
Everyday Liberties Frobisher Auditorium 2
The end of Boozy Britain?
Sunday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Battle over Technology Cinema 2
Can technology solve the ageing timebomb?

Hunger in the UK: the food banks phenomenon

"Some of the freest speech I have enjoyed in years."
Baroness Ruth Deech QC, crossbench peer; chairman, Bar Standards Board

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