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Thank you for visiting the website. The first events in our 2012 events programme are given below. Thank you for your support in 2011 and we look forward to working with you in 2012. New events are launched regularly. To be the first to hear, sign up to our mailing list and Twitter feed.
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The Laughter Returns
29 January 2012, 16.00-17.30
Throughout the sixties Pierre Etaix consistently produced some of the finest visual comedies onscreen yet due to a disastrous rights deal his films have not been seen for almost 40 years. ... Read more »
Richard Lloyd Parry and Tobias Jones
Crime, Evil, Wickedness and Justice
13 February 2012, 18.30-19.30
In the summer of 2000, Lucie Blackman stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. ... Read more »
Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
16 February 2012, 18.00-19.00
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial ... Read more »
New ideas...
“Ideas notebook – Brian Christian”
By Brian Christian
We asked Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer to comment on his current work and ideas that have influenced him. Brian spoke in the festival in May. ... Read more »