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		<title>Margaret Atwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood talks about her latest novel, the concluding part to the Oryx and Crake Trilogy.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/margaret-atwood-2/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Wood and Martin McLaughlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Wood and Martin McLaughlin present a portrait of Italio Calvino's life and work based over a selection of his letters.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/michael-wood-and-martin-mclaughlin/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Viv Groskop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viv Groskop tells how she realised her ambition to become a stand-up comedian. <br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/viv-groskop/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Hillel Schwartz and David Hendy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion on the centrality of noise to our lives and its significance throughout human history.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/hillel-schwartz-and-david-hendy/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Roberts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Roberts comes to Bristol's BIG Green Week Festival to talk about the ice age.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/alice-roberts/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>BIG Green Week Discussion Evening</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/big-green-week-discussion-evening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussions on  the impact of operating outside the restrictions of political parties and what's next for the environmental movement.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/big-green-week-discussion-evening/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>George Clarke</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/george-clarke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Architect George Clarke comes to Bristol's BIG Green Week Festival.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/george-clarke/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Juniper</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/tony-juniper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Juniper explores how Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. <br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/tony-juniper/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Benn and Will and Testament</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/tony-benn-and-will-and-testament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Tony Benn that will include a screening of a new documentary about him. <br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/tony-benn-and-will-and-testament/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Pollan</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/michael-pollan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pollan explains how cooking can become a political act.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/michael-pollan-2/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/nassim-nicholas-taleb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/nassim-nicholas-taleb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 17:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nassim Nicholas Taleb stands uncer­tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/nassim-nicholas-taleb/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>George Saunders</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/george-saunders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders, comes a dazzling and disturbing new collection.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/george-saunders/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Solnit</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/rebecca-solnit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back on a significant year,  Rebecca Solnit draws together the threads of her life with the lives of others.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/rebecca-solnit/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel C Dennett</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/daniel-c-dennett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel C Dennett, one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a  highly entertaining philosophical journey.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/daniel-c-dennett/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bickers</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/robert-bickers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Robert Bickers explores the foreign impact on the nineteenth century Chinese empire.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/robert-bickers/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Lee Smolin</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/lee-smolin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our foremost theoretical physicists proposes a 'revolutionary' hypothesis about the true nature of time and a new view of the world. <br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/lee-smolin/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of ’45 (U) FULLY BOOKED</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/the-spirit-of-45-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A special screening of Ken Loach's <em>The Spirit of '45</em> followed by a panel discussion with the director and others.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/the-spirit-of-45-u/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Unwin</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/julia-unwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julia Unwin discusses the social, economic and political changes experienced  since the publication of The Beveridge Report.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/julia-unwin/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>James Salter</title>
		<link>http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/james-salter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rare and special chance to see and hear from one of the greatest writers of our time, as well as see, for the first time in the UK, a documentary based on part of his life. <br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/james-salter/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Colum McCann CANCELLED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann talks about his new novel.<br /><strong><a href="http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2013/events/colum-mccann/" class="more-link">Read more &#187;</a></strong>]]></description>
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