Festival of Ideas 2010

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The Bristol Festival of Ideas aims to stimulate the minds and passions of the people of Bristol with an inspiring programme of discussion and debate. In addition to an annual May Festival, we run special events throughout the year, featuring a diverse range of lectures and panel debates with scientists, artists, politicians, journalists, historians, musicians, novelists and commentators on all subjects.

November/December

Wings - Watershed, 6 November 2010, 13.00-15.35

To mark Armistice Day FOI presents this WW1 classic screen drama introduced by film historian and restorer Kevin Brownlow and with a specially commissioned epic synchronised orchestral score by Carl Davis.

Peter Nowak Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as we Know it - Watershed, 8 November 2010, 18.00-19.00

Science and technology journalist Peter Nowak argues that most of the major technological advances of the last 60 years have stemmed from the trio of billion-dollar industries that cater to our basest impulses: war, porn and fast food.

Rachel Hewitt - Mapping the Nation - Watershed, 8 November 2010, 19.30-20.30

Rachel Hewitt's first book, Map of a Nation, already an award-winner, tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map – one of political revolutions, rebellions, and regional unions that altered the shape and identity of the United Kingdom over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Suzanne Moore - In the Belly of the Beast: From Margin to Mainstream - Arnolfini, 26 November 2010, 19.30-21.00

The 2010 Benn Lecture by the journalist and commentator Suzanne Moore.

Harry Ricketts - Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War - Watershed, 2 December 2010, 18.00-19.00

In association with Bristol Institute of Public Affairs

The cultural impact of the Great War continues to be felt, especially in poetry. Harry Ricketts, author of Strange Meetings, looks at the actual encounters, or near-encounters between the war poets and the influence they had on each other, including Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg (born in Bristol), Robert Nicols and Edmund Blunden.

Robin Ince - Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One Man's Quest to Uncover the Books That Taste Forgot - Watershed, 2 December 2010, 19.30-20.30

Award winning comedian and writer, Robin Ince, hailed by the Observer as 'the outstanding literary event of the Edinburgh Festival', has spent most of the 21st century trying to answer the question 'is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature?' His Book Club is a manual – almost a life guide – training you up for membership of the Grand Order of Curators of Books That Should Never Have Been. Join the club in what promises to be a fantastically fun evening.