Theme: Science & Environment

 Saturday

5.15pm to 6.00pm Lecture Theatre 1 Provocation Lecture
Recycling is a waste of time

 Sunday

8.00am to 8.45am Lecture Theatre 1 Breakfast Banter
Debating Darwin

11.00am to 12.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
The science and politics of climate change

2.00pm to 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
My brain made me do it

4.00pm to 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Battle for Science
What are the barriers to science in the 21st century?

5.45pm to 6.30pm Lecture Theatre 1 Provocation Lecture
Particle physics is sexy

 Festival Buzz

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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times