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of Ideas brochure, 2008 here
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Our fourth May festival addresses many issues including schisms in the Christian Church, the impact of globalisation, science today (a new partnership with Science City Bristol), fair trade and transition to a greener society, changing America, the media and truth, and what the world would be like without human beings. We also look back at the Sixties and the legacy of idealism, assess the impact of the Iraqi surge and look at matters of the mind and alternative medicine.
There's two film seasons with Watershed Media Centre: May ‘68: When Culture was Radicalised (on cinema and the 1960's) and Social Issues: Documentaries and Debates, which touches on the big issues affecting public life, from globalisation to climate change.
There’s also Gerry Anderson’s life and work, Jon Ronson on the foibles of contemporary craziness, the philosophy of Monty Python and the politics of James Bond. So, whether it’s war and peace, climate change, politics and poetry, changing America, Thunderbirds or God, there’s something for you. *
* Please note this programme is subject to change - please check the website for updates
Please click on the speaker images below for more information
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Communities Leading Change
With Andrew Mawson and Paul Kingsnorth
16 May 08, 18.00-19.30
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol |
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The Politics of James Bond
With Ben Macintyre
18 May 08, 14.00-17.00
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
 The talk will be followed by a showing of Goldfinger
Directed by: Guy Hamilton, UK 1964, 1hr 45mins |
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Gerry Anderson
On Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and other work in his long and
distinguished career
20 May 08, 18.00-19.30
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
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Baroness Susan Greenfield
ID: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century
20 May 08, 18.00-19.00
Arnolfini, Bristol |
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Truth and the Media
With Nick Davies and Gordon Burn
20 May 08, 19.45-21.00
Arnolfini, Bristol |
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Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial
21 May 08, 18.00-19.00
Arnolfini, Bristol |
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Patrick Cockburn and Jonathan Steele
On Iraq
21 May 08, 19.30-20.30
Arnolfini, Bristol
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The Osborne Clarke Ideas Law Lecture
Philippe Sands on Torture and the Law
22 May 08, 18.00-19.00
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol |
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Matt Frei
On America
22 May 08, 19.30-20.30
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol |
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Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine
23 May 08, 18.00-19.00
Arnolfini, Bristol
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Manufactured Landscapes
Directed by: Jennifer Baichwal, Canada 2006
24-26 May, 14.50, 17.50 and 20,20
27 May, 17.50 and 20.00
28-29 May, 17.50
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
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Social Issues: Documentaries and Debates
Our Daily Bread
Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
26 May 08, 18.10-19.55
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
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Social Issues: Documentaries and Debates
The 11th Hour
Directed by: Nadia Conners / Leila Conners Petersen, USA 2007
Followed by a panel discussion with Peter Melchett, John Pontin, Helen Clarkson and James Vaccaro
27 May 08, 18.00-20.30
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
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Alan Weisman
The World Without Human Beings
28 May 08, 18.00-19.00
At-Bristol, Bristol |
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Blackwell Book Talk: Kate Mosse
On her new novel Sepulchre
28 May 08, 18.30-19.30
St George's, Bristol |
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Gary Marcus and Susan Blackmore
On the Human Mind
28 May 08, 19.30-20.30
At-Bristol, Bristol
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George Johnson
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
29 May 08, 18.00-19.00
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol |
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EVENT CANCELLATION
Please click on the speaker's image for further information
Ambassador John Bolton
On the United Nations
29 May 08, 19.30-20.30
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
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