2012 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 20 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
What's wrong with equality?
After the Riots Frobisher Auditorium 2
One year on: assessing the state of the nation
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 4-6
Forced marriage to faith schools: the politics of multiculturalism
Knowing me, knowing you Conservatory
Religious or Spiritual or Neither?
Saturday 20 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
After the Riots Frobisher Auditorium 2
Blaming troubled families: licence to parent?
Knowing me, knowing you Conservatory
Social media: good? Or bad?
Saturday 20 October: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Lessons from America: the new culture wars
Contemporary Controversies Frobisher 4-6
A crisis of compassion: who cares?
Battle for the Arts Fountain Room
All together now: the rise of the choir
Saturday 20 October: 3.30pm-5.00pm
After the Riots Frobisher Auditorium 2
Telling off the grown-ups
Saturday 20 October: 5.14pm-6.29pm
Thought for the day Cinema 1
Can the law make us equal?
Sunday 21 October: 9.30am-10.15am
Ethical Battles in Science and Medicine Frobisher Auditorium 2
Born this way?
Urban Living Fountain Room
Everyone a runner?
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Ethical Battles in Science and Medicine Frobisher Auditorium 2
Organ donation: dead or alive?
Battle for Social Justice Conservatory
Austerity: here to stay?
Sunday 21 October: 12.15pm-1.15pm
Urban Living Fountain Room
From the Colosseum to Wembley: crowd watching through the ages
Under the Spotlight Garden Room
Do we live in a top-shelf society?
Sunday 21 October: 3.15pm-4.45pm
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Risk, regulation and red tape
Under the Spotlight Garden Room
Character: skill or virtue?
Hot off the Press Hammerson Room
London book launch and discussion: Snobs' Law: criminalising football fans in an age of intolerance
Sunday 21 October: 5.00pm-6.15pm
Under the Spotlight Garden Room
Drink, smoke, eat: prohibition today
Sunday 21 October: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Battle for the Classroom Frobisher 4-6
Are the kids all right?
Saturday 20 October: 5.15pm-6.30pm
Hot off the Press Hammerson Room
Devils in our midst? The Savile scandal and our culture of mistrust
Sunday 21 October: 10.30am-12.00pm
Hot off the Press Hammerson Room
Ink inc. Have tattoos become too mainstream?

Middle East revolutions: hopes and fears?

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