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Coming up we’ve got Mary Beard on Victorian Pompeii, Medea Benjamin on drone warfare, Philip Glass in conversation, the Bristol Ideas Forum, Robin Ince on The Importance of Being Interested, What the Frock!’s first birthday celebration and much more.
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Danny Dorling
Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times
5 March 2013, 18.15-19.15
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the USA and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century.
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Jon Ronson
Lost at Sea: the Jon Ronson Mysteries
11 March 2013, 19.00-20.00
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, strange behaviour and the human mind, and shares some of his fascinating stories.
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Mary Beard
Victorian Pompeii: Triumph or Disappointment?
14 March 2013, 18.00-19.30
Professor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge, will look at the experience of visiting Pompeii in the nineteenth century.
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Festival of Ideas wins PPC Events Manager of the Year 2012 award
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Festival of Ideas Calls for Nominations for the Mayor’s Bristol Genius Award for the Best Bristol Idea