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Past events
- A C Grayling
- A Lifetime of Reading and Writing
- A S Byatt & Semir Zeki
- A Terrible Beauty: The Art of the First World War
- A Time Traveller’s Guide to Bristol
- A Voyage Round Charles Darwin
- Alaa Al Aswany
- Alaa Al Aswany
- Alain de Botton
- Alan Davies
- Alan Sokal
- Alan Weisman
- Albie Sachs
- Alex Ross and Greg Milner
- Amartya Sen
- Andrea Levy
- Anna Minton and Carolyn Steel
- Annie Leonard
- Anthony Julius
- Antonia Fraser and Ian Rickson
- Aravind Adiga
- Art and perception: Movement and stasis
- Art in Mind
- Art inspired by science
- Astrid Proll
- Atheism and Meaning
- Atheism, Agnosticism and God
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Ben Goldacre
- Ben Goldacre
- Ben Shephard
- Book Prize Awards Ceremony 2009
- Book Prize Awards Ceremony 2010
- Britain in a Future of Climate Change
- Brooke Magnanti
- Bruce Hood
- Burma: Everything is Broken
- C P Snow and The Two Cultures
- Catherine Fieschi
- Charles Freeman
- Charles Leadbeater
- Chris Anderson
- Chris Luebkeman
- Chris Patten
- Christopher Caldwell & Tariq Modood
- Christopher Frayling
- Christopher Hitchens
- Clay Shirky
- Clay Shirky
- Communities leading change
- Conspiracy Theories
- Daniel C Dennett
- David Attenborough
- David Eagleman
- David Ellwood
- David King
- David Puttnam
- Deyan Sudjic
- Do Statues Weep? The Importance of Scepticism
- Dorothy Rowe
- Dr Beddoes and Bristol
- Edward de Bono
- Einstein’s Universe
- Emilie Bickerton
- Farm Animal Minds
- Feminism Now
- FILM: A Beautiful Mind (12)
- FILM: A Matter of Life and Death (U)
- FILM: Abel Gance: Music of Light
- FILM: Bicycle Thieves (U)
- FILM: Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (12A)
- FILM: Chinatown (15)
- FILM: Coma (15)
- FILM: Food, Inc. (PG)
- FILM: Histoire(s) du Cinéma (18) - Parts 1a-2b
- FILM: Histoire(s) du Cinéma (18) - Parts 3a-4b
- FILM: Ikiru (PG)
- FILM: It Happened Here (PG)
- FILM: J’Accuse (PG)
- FILM: La Roue (PG)
- FILM: Last Night (15)
- FILM: Magnificent Obsession (U)
- FILM: Memento (15)
- FILM: Our Daily Bread (12A)
- FILM: Our Daily Bread (U)
- FILM: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (PG)
- FILM: Shoah (PG)
- FILM: The 39 Steps (U)
- FILM: The Bourne Trilogy (12A)
- FILM: The China Syndrome (18)
- FILM: The Day the Earth Caught Fire (PG)
- FILM: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (12A)
- FILM: The End of the Line (PG)
- FILM: The Filth and the Fury (15)
- FILM: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (PG)
- FILM: The Newcomers
- FILM: The Parallax View (15)
- FILM: War and Peace (PG)
- FILM: Winstanley (PG)
- Francis Wheen
- Free Speech Debate
- Gary Marcus
- Gary Younge
- Geoff Dyer
- George Dyson and Freeman Dyson
- George Johnson
- Germaine Greer
- Gerry Anderson
- Gianni Angelini and Gavin Murphy
- Gillian Beer
- Gillian Tett
- Graciela Chichilnisky
- Graham Farmelo
- Graham Spittle
- Hamish McRae
- Harriet Lamb
- Helen Bamber
- How Are We to Live?
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- In two minds: neuroscience of perception & creativity
- James Harkin
- James Lovelock
- Jasper Fforde
- Jean Moorcroft Wilson
- John Armstrong
- John Boorman
- John Geiger
- John Gray
- John Gray
- John Kampfner and Ben Wilson
- John Micklethwait
- John O’Farrell
- John Prescott
- Jon Ronson
- Jonathan Balcombe
- Jonathan Kestenbaum
- Jonathan Miller & Richard Gregory
- Jonathan Watts
- Julian Bell
- Karen Armstrong
- Kate Adie
- Kate Gilmore
- Kate Mosse
- Ken Robinson
- Ken Yeang
- Leonard Susskind
- Lewis Wolpert
- Linda Colley
- Living the good life
- Madeleine Bunting
- Marcus du Sautoy
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Macmillan
- Mary Beard
- Matt Frei
- Melvyn Bragg
- Michael Atiyah
- Michael Frayn
- Michael Lipton
- Michael Mansfield
- Michael Pollan
- Michael Shermer
- Michio Kaku
- Mike Hodges
- Misha Glenny
- Mona Siddiqui
- Monica Ali
- Muhammad Yunus
- Naomi Klein
- Neal Lawson and John Naish
- Niall Ferguson
- Niall Ferguson
- Nicholas Carr
- Nicholas Kenyon
- Nicholson Baker
- Nick Cohen
- Norman Stone
- Paddy Ashdown
- Patrick Cockburn & Jonathan Steele
- Patrick Hennessey
- Paul Collier
- Paul Davies
- Peter Hitchens
- Peter Singer
- Peter Singer
- Peter Steele
- Philippe Sands
- Phillip Blond and John Gray
- Philosophy Workshop
- Raj Patel
- Raymond Tallis
- Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Evans
- Richard Holloway
- Richard Holmes
- Richard Horton
- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
- Robert Fisk
- Ronald Oxburgh
- Rose George and Tristram Stuart
- Rose Shapiro
- Samantha Power
- Sarah Dunant
- Sebastian Peake
- Shappi Khorsandi
- Simon Schama
- Spencer Wells
- Steve Bell
- Steve Jones
- Steven Rose
- Stewart Brand and Brian Eno
- Susan Greenfield
- Susie Orbach
- Sylvia Harvey
- Tariq Ali
- Tariq Ramadan
- The Future of Globalisation
- The Peter Scott Debate
- The philosophy of Monty Python
- The saxophonist & the scientist
- The Seven Musical Ages: The Power of Music as Revealed by Contemporary Science
- The Sixties and the legacy of idealism
- Tim Dee
- Tim Harford
- Tony Benn
- Trick or Treatment?
- Tristram Hunt
- Truth & the Media
- Vic Reeves
- Vince Cable
- Virginia Ironside
- Wallace and Gromit
- Wayne Hemingway
- What Technologies Will Save Us?
- Will Hutton
- Will Hutton
- William Waldegrave
- Zac Goldsmith
Past ideas
- “Ideas notebook - Jonathan Watts” by Jonathan Watts
- “Ideas notebook - Clay Shirky” by Clay Shirky
- “Ideas notebook - Christine Nicol” by Christine Nicol
- “Ideas notebook - Mike Jay” by Mike Jay
- “Ideas notebook - Wendy Grossman” by Wendy Grossman
- “Ideas notebook - Michèle Roberts” by Michèle Roberts
- “Ideas notebook - Christine Mohr” by Christine Mohr
- “Ideas notebook - David Boyd Haycock” by David Boyd Haycock
- “Ideas notebook - Jon Turney” by Jon Turney
- “Ideas notebook - Brooke Magnanti” by Brooke Magnanti
- “Ideas notebook - Marek Kohn” by Marek Kohn
- “Ideas notebook - Gary Younge” by Gary Younge
- “Ideas notebook - John Geiger” by John Geiger
- “Ideas notebook - Dorothy Rowe” by Dorothy Rowe
- “Ideas notebook - Peter Hitchens” by Peter Hitchens
- “Ideas notebook - Peter Fosl” by Peter Fosl
- “Ideas notebook - Michael Foley” by Michael Foley
- “Ideas notebook - Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett” by Kate Pickett
- “Ideas notebook - John Cottingham” by John Cottingham
- “Ideas notebook - Sarah Bakewell” by Sarah Bakewell
- “Ideas notebook - Peter Singer” by Peter Singer
- “Ideas notebook - Phillip Blond” by Phillip Blond
- “Ideas notebook - Julian Baggini” by Julian Baggini
- “Ideas notebook - Jonathan Balcombe” by Jonathan Balcombe
- “Ideas notebook - Tim Dee” by Tim Dee
- “Ideas notebook - Albie Sachs” by Albie Sachs
- Break the Eerie Silence - send a message into space! by Penguin Books and National Science and Engineering Week
- “Ideas notebook - Suzanne Rolt” by Suzanne Rolt
- “My three books of the decade…” by Andrew Kelly
- “Should You Judge This Book By its Cover?” by Julian Baggini
- “Winning the commission” by Simon Gurr
- “Ideas notebook - Raymond Tallis” by Raymond Tallis
- “Ideas notebook - Alain de Botton” by Alain de Botton
- “Ideas notebook - Gillian Beer” by Gillian Beer
- “Ideas notebook - Jeremy Leggett” by Jeremy Leggett
- “Ideas notebook - Chris Goodall” by Chris Goodall
- “Ideas notebook - David Aaronovitch” by David Aaronovitch
- “Ideas notebook - Bruce Hood” by Bruce Hood
- “Ideas notebook - Christopher Brookmyre” by Christopher Brookmyre
- “Ideas notebook - James Harkin” by James Harkin
- “Ideas notebook - Nick Cohen” by Nick Cohen
- “Nick Davies on his shortlisted book: ‘Flat Earth News’” by Nick Davies
- “Sara Maitland on her shortlisted book: ‘A Book of Silence’” by Sara Maitland
- “Mark Leonard on his shortlisted book: ‘What Does China Think?’” by Mark Leonard
- “Richard Holmes on his shortlisted book: ‘The Age of Wonder’” by Richard Holmes
- “Misha Glenny on his shortlisted book: ‘McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime’” by Misha Glenny
- “Susan Faludi on her shortlisted book: ‘The Terror Dream’” by Susan Faludi
- “Ideas notebook - John Gray” by John Gray
- “Ideas notebook - Susan Blackmore” by Susan Blackmore
- “The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius” by Graham Farmelo
- “Why Darwin matters today” by Andrew Kelly
- “Why books are important” by Andrew Kelly
- “Darwin: A Graphic Biography” by Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr
- “Learning to love science” by Andrew Kelly
- “Universities and ideas” by Barry Taylor
Darwin poems
- Poem: “I Made His Coffin Just the Way He Wanted it, All Rough” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “Open Window” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “I Never Saw a More Striking Coincidence” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “A Crunch on the Gravel” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “All Nature is At War” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “Apple Blossom” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “The Sacred Sea” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “The Murder” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “She Thinks the Hairs under his Arm Grow Like a Crescent Moon” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “Bleak” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “On the Propagation of Mistletoe” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “He Finds His Own Definition of Grandeur” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “On Variation in a Tortoise Shell” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “The Awfulness of Plymouth” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “A Desperate Way to Avoid Paying Your Tailor” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “He Cracks a Horse-whip in His Room” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “Bliss Castle” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “The Problem of Pain” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “He Discovers a New Source of Joy” by Ruth Padel
- Poem: “Finding the Name in the Flower” by Ruth Padel
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