Archives : Challenging
Prisonomics
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- Vicky Pryce
“What we should be doing is closing most of our prisons and letting those people out”. Vicky makes an impassioned plea to rethink our penal system. She evaluates the massive…
Story of the Angry Man
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- Nir Paldi
“I wanted to create a provocative piece of political theatre, but I hadn’t wanted to get my nose broken”. Nir tells of an experience with The Angry man, a rather…
An End to Ageing
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- Aubrey De Grey
Aubrey offers an accessible guide to his research, outlining a future in which age related illnesses are removed from the picture and bodies are repaired and restored with the consistency…
Documenting the Imagination
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- Christine Cynn
Christine outlines her mission to ‘document the imagination’. In her view, filmmakers (factual or otherwise) are here to explore and capture the fictions we live by just as much as…
A Musical Odyssey
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- Alabama 3
Merging poetry, politics, music and performance, A3 take us on a dark journey through contemporary England. At times angry, at times, starkly beautiful their performance is a true tour de…
Transforming the Media
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- Paris Lees
Paris is joined on stage by friend Dr Kate Stone, a Cambridge professor who recently waged war against transphobic prejudices in the media. The two candidly discuss their experience of…
The Drugs Don’t Work
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- Prof. Dame Sally Davies
Dame Sally’s talk (and recent book ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’) outlines a frightening vision of the world once antibiotics stop being effective . Resistance to our current range of antibiotics…
Joseph Cox: The Deep Web Isn’t All Dark
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- Joseph Cox
Joseph offers a brief survey of the Deep Web’s varied offering: crowd-sourced hit men, jihadists and esoteric drugs. Yet he invites us to look beyond the pixels, and sensationalist newspaper…
Zero Degrees of Empathy
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- Simon Baron-Cohen
In this harrowing talk, Simon looks at notorious incidents of 20th Century evil. He argues for a more scientific understanding of the problem, seeing so-called evil in terms of a…
Sane New World
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- Ruby Wax
“It doesn’t matter if your famous or live in a mud hut or what culture you’re from: depression loves everyone”. Characteristically candid, Ruby discusses her own experiences of mental illness…