Events Diaries September - November 2013 | Page 27

WHO ’ S IN CONTROL ?

25-27 OCTOBER 2013

Festival of ideas
WHO ’ S IN CONTROL ?
BBC Radio 3 brings together leading thinkers for a weekend of provocative debate , new ideas , music and performance
HIGHLIGHTS TO INCLUDE Professor Dame Sally Davies , the government ’ s Chief Medical Officer on controlling infection and combatting disease . Are we at a tipping point ?
Lionel Shriver – author of Big Brother and We Need to Talk About Kevin - debates controlling our appetites with psychoanalyst Darian Leader
Dr Charles Fernyhough on the nature of consciousness and coping with an unstable world
2013 TED prize winner Professor Sugata Mitra on the future of learning Sean O ’ Brien on surveillance culture and the North East Sci-Fi novel We Cellist Matthew Barley improvises with poet Ian McMillan on THE VERB Northumbrian piper and fiddle player Kathryn Tickell performs in WORDS AND MUSIC BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists join Sean Rafferty for IN TUNE Speed dating with the New Generation Thinkers
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