An initiative to bring together different strands of social, political, scientific, academic and cultural discussion into an annual festival.

Tickets are held at 2006 prices and are available to buy online here. Information about alternate payment methods is available here.

Specially commissioned essays, Battles in Print, on each of the topics discussed at the 2006 festival can be found on the festival website. A printed and bound selection of 19 Battles in Print is now available to buy.

Speakers include: Patrick Basham (co-author, Diet Nation); John Luik (senior fellow, Democracy Institute, Washington DC; co-author, Diet Nation); Professor Edzard Ernst (Laing chair in complementary medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth); Toby Murcott (science writer and broadcaster; Body & Soul contributor; author, The Whole Story – Alternative Medicine on Trial?); Professor Chris Lane (Herman and Beulah Miller research professor of literature, Northwestern University, Chicago; author, Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness); Professor Simon Wessely (chair, department of psychological medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London); Dr David Wainwright (senior lecturer in health services research, University of Bath; author, Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic) and many more.

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

No