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		<title>Suzanne Moore</title>
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The annual Benn Lecture on the state of the media, named after Tony Benn, was founded in 2005 by Bristol National Union of Journalists and Arnolfini. Previous lecturers have been Tony Benn, Andrew Gilligan of the Evening Standard (Journalist of the Year 2008), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown of the Independent, and Nick Davies of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gavin Pretor-Pinney</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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In his stunning bestseller, The Cloudspotter&#8217;s Guide, Gavin Pretor-Pinney showed how important it is to look up.  One day, on a beach in Cornwall, he took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. He soon realised that waves don&#8217;t just appear on the ocean, they are everywhere, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Bellos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Mathematician and philosopher Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering adding to algebra, set theory to statistics, logarithms to logical paradoxes, the surprising geometry of the 50p piece and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino, the mathematical patterns in nature, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Hamilton-Paterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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In 1945 Britain was the world&#8217;s leading designer and builder of aircraft: the sleek Comet, the first jet airliner; the awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter; the Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Creed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed comes to Bristol to talk about his work, now brought together in Martin Creed: Works. Renowned for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy, Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music and text, each of which has found its inspiration in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Gibson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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William Gibson is the bestselling author of 10 novels. His first, Neuromancer, sold more than six million copies worldwide and his books and short stories continue to reach massive audiences and win just about every award going. He coined the term cyberspace and is credited with predicting the rise of reality television and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathryn Schulz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet people go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that they are right about nearly everything – from political beliefs to private memories, grasp of scientific fact to the merits of favourite teams. In Being Wrong Kathryn Schulz draws on philosophy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Winchester</title>
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For thousands of years the Atlantic Ocean was viewed by mariners with a mixture of awe, terror and amazement – an impassable barrier to the unknown. Now this vast sea is seen as a mere passageway between continents – &#8216;the pond&#8217;. It is easy to forget that the Atlantic has been the setting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILM: &#8216;South&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Only slightly less miraculous than the eventual rescue of Ernest Shackleton&#8217;s entire crew was the survival of incredible footage shot by Frank Hurley and later assembled into South, a gripping travelogue recently restored from surviving prints and original glass slides. The film is a fascinating record of Sir Ernest Shackleton&#8217;s 1914-16 Polar expedition. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEDxChange: The Future We Make</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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A live transmission from New York of TEDxChange, an event co-hosted by the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. TEDxChange marks the anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals: Ten years in, where do we stand in the work to save and improve lives around the world? And what will the future hold? Speakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Utopia: Visioning the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Film and fiction have played a significant role in framing visions of the future. Metropolis, shown later today in its new restored version, is one of the most important and frightening of all future visions in world cinema. As the world tries to tackle global issues of climate change and population growth, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILM: &#8216;The Reader&#8217; (15)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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This haunting love story from the director of The Hours, stars Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes as former lovers torn apart by a dark secret. In postwar Germany, teenager Michael (David Kross) begins a passionate and clandestine affair with the elusive Hanna (Winslet), a woman twice his age who loves being read aloud to. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernhard Schlink</title>
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Should we feel guilty and responsible for past crimes? Should we apologise for the past? Leading international jurist and writer, Bernhard Schlink, author of the international bestseller, The Reader, explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches itself to a whole society. His new book, Guilt About the Past, offers &#8220;a dignified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Self</title>
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The inimitable Will Self reads from and discusses his latest book. Walking to Hollywood burrows through time, place and psyche to explore humanity&#8217;s deepest fears and anxieties with his characteristic fearlessness and edgy humour. Involving various illnesses and ailments, a week-long 120-mile circumambulation of Los Angeles which led to his abduction by members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicholas Carr</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Nicholas Carr&#8217;s Atlantic Monthly article, &#8216;Is Google making us stupid?&#8217; created worldwide debate. His new book, The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember, takes his argument further. Human thought has been shaped through the centuries by &#8216;tools of the mind&#8217; - from the alphabet, to maps, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Watts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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With filthy water, choking emissions and an unsustainable appetite for resources, China&#8217;s development has taken our planet to the environmental edge. Now it faces a stark choice that will affect us all: accept catastrophe or make radical change. To explore the response, award-winning correspondent Jonathan Watts travelled from mountain paradise to blasted desert, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILM: Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (12A)</title>
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With little more than hand-held video cameras, a courageous group of journalists documented a revolution from the inside out, capturing the heart-rending struggle for democracy, including the dramatic mobilisation of the country&#8217;s 400,000 Buddhist monks. Narrated by &#8216;Joshua&#8217;, a member of the DVB (The Democratic Voice of Burma), Burma VJ takes you into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burma: Everything is Broken</title>
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On 2nd May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little relief themselves. Emma Larkin, who has been travelling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niall Ferguson</title>
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Was the global financial crisis of 2007-10 moral in its origin -  of ethical values as much as market valuations? Drawing on his new biography of Siegmund Warburg, one of the key architects of London&#8217;s revival as a financial centre after 1945, Niall Ferguson asks what the current generation of bankers need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Schama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Simon Schama has taken history to a huge audience with his successful TV series and books such as A History of Britain. His most recent books include The American Future (2008) and a new collection of essays called Scribble, Scribble, Scribble that explores, amongst other subjects, Shakespeare, Victorian sages, Leonard Cohen, Hurricane Katrina [...]]]></description>
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