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A warm welcome to the 2017 In Association with Mark’s Picks #cheltscifest. This June we celebrate our 15th birthday and Brainwash LIVE page 31 Can We Predict The Day You’ll Die? page 19 in our three headline themes How Does A Hack Work? LIVE page 15 we’ll be gazing into the future of Fact, Fiction And The Rise Of Fake News page 24 our planet and human society, delving into the science of sound Entertainment and music, and uncovering Vampires page 33 the mystery of how our brains Dr Jiggs Bowson’s Charming Science Cabaret page 29 make us who we are. We’ll also Principal Partners Science Festival Variety Night page 34 be attempting to understand Chocolatology page 32 the universe, exploring the Gemma Arrowsmith: EARTHLING page 39 link between science and the criminal justice system, The Universe discussing the latest research in Roger Penrose And Marcus du Sautoy page 39 health and wellbeing, looking at The Universe: What Do We Know? page 30 tech, wildlife, making, politics, The Universe: What Don’t We Know? page 31 history, comedy... and so much Do We Exist In A Multiverse? page 28 more! Join us in questioning Proxima b: The Earth Next Door? page 25 everything. Major Partners Forensics & Law The Criminal Mind: Can You Blame Your Brain? page 19 A Guide To Forensics page 27 Jury Live page 29

Nature & Wildlife Strategic Partner Doug Allan: Adventures Of A Wildlife Cameraman page 21 The Brilliance Of Birds page 15 If We Could Talk To The Animals page 19 The Spider Appreciation Society page 23 Jurassic Britain page 38

Health & Lifestyle I believe that science can Living With Dementia page 15 change the world. It shouldn’t be a Food Allergies And Intolerances: Fact vs Fiction page 26 pipedream. In times of uncertainty Young Minds Under Pressure page 21 it is essential to bridge walls and How To Train For A Triathlon page 29 evoke and inspire a passion for Surviving Social Media page 32 truth and curiosity in all. To make Origins Of Life Festival Partners our world a better place, we must first try to understand it. Come and The Incredibly Unlikely History Of Everyone Who ask the right questions with us at Ever Lived page 29 In Conversation With Richard Dawkins #cheltscifest. page 37 Why Is Life The Way It Is? page 23 Mark Lythgoe Survival Of The Smartest page 34 Chair of Cheltenham Science and loads more, dive in... Festival 2 3 THEMES Our Future World From climate change to the future of work, food and travel, we ask the big questions about our planet and human society, considering the issues and developments that will affect our lives in the years to come.

FREE INTERACTIVE ZONE Events to look out for: The Future Of Travel page 31 Food: A Guilt-Free Future page 24 Living In A Machine World page 32 Brexit: Keeping Britain’s Science On Top page 22 Dallas Campbell is one of the best Populations And People page 28 known factual television presenters in Our Connected Future page 19 the UK. He has worked across a wide Our Changing Climate page 26 range of subjects on programmes EDF Energy is delighted to be the Associate The Future Of Work page 31 such as The Gadget Show, Bang Goes The Future Of Our Oceans page 19 The Theory and Stargazing Live, and Title Partner of Cheltenham Science Festival Rewriting Economics page 34 on documentary series including Supersized Earth, City In The Sky, and Join Dallas to discuss Our Future Britain Beneath Your Feet. Come and find out about our programmes to inspire the next World in our free Quick Chats on generation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM): visit Wednesday and Thursday afternoon us in the EDF Energy Zone in Imperial Square, or inside the Discover Zone in (see pages 19 & 23). Cheltenham Town Hall, to find out how we are encouraging the scientists, engineers and thinkers of tomorrow. Guest Director: Dallas Campbell As the UK’s largest producer of low carbon electricity, EDF Energy is committed to helping young people understand the great career I’m thrilled to be back at everyone’s opportunities available in a STEM related industry. Currently favourite Science Festival. Cheltenham only one in five people working in core science, technology, always brings together the best of the best - engineering and maths fields is female. Our Pretty Curious from familiar faces to rising stars. This year campaign aims to change this, as we look to increase our intake I’m particularly excited about peering into our of female STEM apprentices to 30% by 2018. crystal ball to see what the future might hold, as we meet people whose ideas and research To find out more visit www.edfenergy.com/prettycurious could define the way we live on planet earth.

4 5 THEMES THEMES Mysteries Of The Mind Music And Sound The human brain is made up of billions of neurons and trillions of Whether it’s the busy hum of the city or the melody of your favourite connections, unconsciously ticking away and resetting while we sleep. pop song, sound and music are a universal feature of our culture and a How does this blob of matter not only allow us to function and make permanent fixture of our daily lives. Join us as we trace the evolutionary sense of the world around us, but also define us and give us our identity? origins of music, explore how we can not only hear but also feel sound, question what it takes to become a musician, learn how an instrument’s design can change its sound and understand how music is being used as medicine. Dazzle the senses with unique performance, lively debate and installations; our 2017 programme offers up a symphony of sound that you won’t want to miss.

Events to look out for: Events to look out for: Sounds Of Science page 28 What Is Reality? page 17 Evelyn Glennie: Feeling Sound page 30 What Do Babies Think? page 33 Can Science Explain Music? page 16 What Is Consciousness For? page 31 Music On The Brain page 38 Can You Retrain Your Brain? page 28 The Singing Neanderthals page 27 Why Do We Laugh? page 40 Music On Prescription page 14 Is Pain All In The Brain? page 27 What Makes A Musician? page 17 Stress page 16 Instrumental Acoustics page 21 Introvert, Extrovert, Or Just You? page 39 Will Gregory: Writing Emotion Into Music page 37 Your Irrational Brain page 20 The Sound Of Symmetry page 39 Sex, Lies And Brain Scans page 18 Chladni Plates Installation (Activity Tents)nts) pagepage 9 The Machine Mind page 32

Guest Director: Ellen Stofan Events to look out for: I’m looking forward to Ellen Stofan is a planetary geologist and Fact, Fiction And The Rise of Fake sharing the excitement of space the former Chief Scientist of NASA. She has News page 24 exploration with everyone at been at the forefront of incredibly exciting Ellen Stofan: A Life Scientific Cheltenham Science Festival. discoveries, informing our understanding page 27 This generation of kids will one of our own planet and our solar system. Ellen Stofan: Life Beyond Earth day walk on the surface of Mars. Ellen is also an Honorary Professor at page 33 University College London and co-chair of Family: A Voyage Through Our I want to inspire those future Mars the World Economic Forum Space Council. Solar System (Ideal for 8+) page 41 astronauts.

6 7 FESTIVAL GUIDE Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA Site opens 6 June free entry Free interactive zones Free activities Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Discover EDF Energy Zone Parabola Arts Centre GL50 3AA Zone Toilets Science Trail 5 minute walk Open 10–12 June Toilets Open daily All ages Town Hall All ages Regency Café Design your ideal high-tech smart bedroom. Pillar Room Collect your quiz sheet from the Science Work with EDF engineers to build electronic Trail start point and follow the Trail around circuits and then test them live. Toilet Imperial Square. Imperial Garden Bar

Siemens Curiosity GE Pavilion Science Zone Trail Start EDF Energy Arena Activity Tents Open 11–12 June The Cube Open daily Siemens EDF 10am–6pm Curiosity Energy All ages Zone Zone All ages ExperiTent Holst A selection of hands-on activities exploring the natural world. Find out what it’s like to See page 10 for details. Statue Box Office be a heart scientist and try your hand at CPR with the British Heart Foundation, explore Activity The Crucible a range of topics with the University of Tents Helix Southampton, and join Hartpury University Theatre Centre to discover whether you’re fit to ride a Discover Zone racehorse, how drumming can change your Festival Café MakerShack brain, and much more. Open daily 10am–5pm Conversation All ages On Saturday and Sunday have a play with a Corner Toilets Chladni plate installation and experience the (late opening for adults Fri 9 June 8-10pm) Waterstones sound of symmetry. See event S139, page 39 for more information. See page 13 for details. Book Shop

GE Pavilion Open daily 10am–6pm Large Animal All ages (late opening Wed 7 & Fri 9 June, till 8pm) Dissection

See page 12 for details. 11 June 10am–4pm RPS International Activity Tents, Imperial Square Images For Science From head to hoof: Join a specialist team from Hartpury University Centre to Open daily explore equine anatomy through a detailed dissection. Conversation Town Hall MakerShack Corner All ages

Open daily Open Daily, Drop in Follow the trail around the Town Hall All ages 16-25 Members through this exhibition of amazing science 16-25? Have our speakers got your brain whirring? images from the Royal Photographic Society. See page 11 for details and opening times. receive 10% off at all cafés*: Share ideas, be inspired and join other Solve ten clues to identify the key pictures Festival Café, Imperial Garden Bar & Food & Drink audience members for an informal chat at and enter a prize draw for a Nikon camera! Conversation Corner in the Festival Café. Regency Café in the Town Hall. See page 42 for our fabulous food and drink Places limited, unreserved seating. *Includes all food and hot drinks. Visit offerings. Vegetarian and gluten-free options cheltenhamfestivals.com/16-25 to find out available at all cafes. how to register.

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6–9 June 3–5pm, 10–11 June 10am–5pm5ppm Free Entry, All Ages Enter a carnival of creativity in the MakerShack: explore wondrous materials and intriguing techniques with a host of makers, FREE engineers and craftspeople, and put your INTERACTIVE newfound knowledge to the test as you make ZONE your very own creations and inventions. From the mysterious world of invisibility to curious materials with strange properties, get hands on with a surprising selection of stuff. Discover traditional and futuristic making technologies – and find out how makers are fusing past and current techniques to create 11-12 June, 10am-6pm new methods of craftsmanship. Siemens Friday 9 June 8–10pm From Tuesday to Friday, help us code a Late opening Curiosity Zone robot to get it ready to journey into space, and join us at Mission Control on Saturday Over 16s only. Free Entry All ages 10th to launch and track its journey. Free entry

Working with our friends from The Curiosity Project is a three-year engagement Greenpower and The London Transport programme by Siemens, aimed at bringing science, Museum, there will be plenty of transport- technology, engineering and mathematics to life for themed interactive, hands-on activities for young people in the UK, addressing the UK’s chronic you to get involved with in the Siemens shortage of engineers and inspiring the next generation. Find out more at siemens.co.uk/curiosity-project Curiosity Zone. Whether you want to have a go at assembling an electric car, Siemens is a global engineering and technology building your own railway, or learning how company, focusing on the areas of electrification, to code your way through a digital rail- automation and digitalization, and is one of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving themed challenge using the BBC micro:bit, technologies. there are lots of activities to explore and experiments to tackle! 10 11 FREE INTERACTIVE ZONE

FREE INTERACTIVE ZONE Openpen dailydaiilyly 110am–5pm0am–5pm Discover Zone

Cheltenham Town Hall, Main Hall All ages Free entry

A huge, free interactive space to get hands-on with the latest exciting research and technology. Find out more about the world and how it works: with virtual reality, aeroplane engineering, steam, chemistry, Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–6pm cyber security, quantum computing, brains and memories, canal design, GE Pavilion microscopic bugs and so much more!

Late opening Wed 7 & Fri 9 June, till 8pm Friday 9 June 8–10pm All ages Free entry Late opening for adults

Plant yourself in GE’s green pavilion Cheltenham Town Hall, Main Hall and unearth your passion for science, Bar open. Over 18s only. technology, engineering and maths. Free Entry Embark on a journey to discover the new GE technologies that will shape the world, Don’t miss our special late opening experience different branches of digital for adults. Drop in to avoid the industrial engineering and explore how GE crowds, enjoy a drink and try all the is digging down to the root issues that will activities for yourself – without kids affect the future of the planet. Enjoy hands- and with the bar open. on activities and meet the engineers that are shaping our future.

GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are Safran Landing Systems is the world leader in the design, development, connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the “GE Store,” where each manufacture and support of aircraft landing and braking systems. We business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation are proud to support Cheltenham Science Festival and inspire the next and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for generation of scientists and engineers as lead partner for the Discover Zone. customers by speaking the language of industry. 12 13 TUESDAY 6 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com TUESDAY 6 JUNE Zone Siemens Curiosity ExperiTent The Cube The Helix Arts Centre CLC, Parabola The Crucible EDF Energy Arena TUESDAY 1–2pm S001 5.15–6.45pm S007 Becoming British: 3.30–4.30pm S004 7–8.30pm S008 Immigration And The Seductive Workshop Integration Myth Of Time Skeleton Zoo 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am Travel 6 ExperiTent

JUNE JUNE Cheltenham Ladies’ College, £10 * Parabola Arts Centre Cheltenham Ladies’ College, £7 * Parabola Arts Centre Uncover the fascinating world of skeletons £7 * and bones with expert anatomists from the

PLANNER Belonging. Citizenship. Integration. These University of Bristol. With cow, crocodile words resonate so strongly in a country For most of us, time is composed of and other skeletons, take a fascinating that for many of us feels divided, shaped mornings, afternoons and evenings. hands-on tour of evolutionary history. by an uncertain future where borders hang We hurry, we wait, we endure. Physics Find out more about our very own bones, in the balance. Shining a spotlight on the tries to explain time as the ‘fourth and discover how anatomical differences experiences of immigrants and refugees, dimension’, where we can theoretically reflect the way species have adapted to their Nilufar Ahmed considers the psychological move forwards or backwards, with no particular lifestyles and environments. impact that fleeing political upheaval and consideration for our human experience S001 IMMIGRATION & INTEGRATION arriving in sometimes hostile environments at all. Philosopher Raymond Tallis BRITISH:

BECOMING can have on those who have been displaced. snatches time back from the jaws of physics, criticising this idea of time travel and restoring human consciousness to the heart of our attempts to understand it. S002 PRESCRIPTION

MUSIC ON 3.30–4.30pm S003 Living With 4.45–5.45pm S005 The Secret Lives

SEDUCTIVE MYTH Dementia WITH DEMENTIA OF TIME TRAVEL S003

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THE Accelerators £7 * The Cube Dementia affects thousands of people

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BRILLIANCE OF £7 SECRET LIVES OF PARTICLE in the UK every year with devastating S005 S006

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What good is a Higgs boson? Do particle THE THE and campaigner Fiona Phillips is joined accelerators have any impact on our day- S007

SKELETON ZOO by a patient, their caregiver and memory to-day lives? Are they worth the billions of

WORKSHOP: research scientist Chris Butler to explore pounds we spend on them? Physicist Suzie SCIENCE EXPLAIN

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MARIE Session (Free) 4.45–5.45pm S006 £9 * The Crucible 5:30–6:30pm The Tivoli, Cheltenham The Brilliance £7 * Launching a hack live on stage, Learn more about what it is like to

S013 cybersecurity experts FC and Jessica MAKE YOUR OWN Of Birds S016 ING WITH YOUR LIE DETECTOR S017 CONNECTED S018 MUSICIAN?

CHILDREN live with dementia and turn that

REALITY? Barker show us how some of the UK’s MAKES A

WORKSHOP: We’ve all heard the saying that music

CONNECT- WHAT IS understanding into action in this 60 biggest companies have been infiltrated. WHAT is good for the soul, but how much The Crucible evidence is there that it improves our minute session. For more information £7 * Highlighting cracks in the system and mental and physical health? Social and to register, please visit exposing cyber criminals’ weapons of entrepreneur Tim Joss is joined by www.dementiafriends.org.uk and Research has shown that many birds have choice, they are joined by Olly Mann to medicinal music expert Vera Brandes, select ‘Attend an Info Session’. sophisticated brains with abilities spanning reveal how they are striving to remain singer-songwriter Hannah Peel and empathy, imagination and problem one step ahead of the hackers to keep psychologist Lauren Stewart as they solving. Join cognitive biologist Nathan our personal data safe. delve deeper into our understanding of Emery for a fascinating exploration of how healing harmonies and explore how this birds learn, think and feel, as he gives a knowledge is being used both in clinical beautifully illustrated insight into some of the settings and our day-to-day lives. masterminds of the avian world.

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6–7pm S010 Music And Sound Can Science Explain Music? Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Parabola Arts Centre £8 *

Physicists study vibrations and the physical mechanisms of making music, and neuroscientists visualise our brain activity when listening to it. But is music ever going to be something that can be understood or explained using science? Arguing “yes” is physicist and musician Mark Lewney against an emphatic “no” from neuroscientist, doctor, and philosopher Raymond Tallis.

8.30–9.30pm S017 7.15–8.15pm S015 Mysteries Of The Mind Music And Sound What Is Reality? Strictly Come Sciencing EDF Energy Arena £9 * The Cube * How do our brains make sense of the £9 world? With exercises and illusions, neuroscientist Beau Lotto reveals Behind the glitz and glamour of the startling truths about our perception, ballroom lies a treasure trove of showing us that we don’t see reality, extraordinary science. Jamie Gallagher but something far more interesting… hosts a lively discussion between and indeed, far more useful. Join him to dance scientist Emma Redding and discover how ‘seeing differently’ requires anthropologist Bronwyn Tarr. With live knowing less, not more. 6–7pm S011 dancing on stage, find out about the 7–8pm S012 physiology and psychology of dance and Mysteries Of The Mind 7.15–8.15pm S014 8.30–9.30pm S016 8.30–9.30pm S013 investigate why you might want to trade Marie Curie: in your running shoes for a pair of heels. Stress Workshop Connecting With A Celebration Your Connected Helix Theatre Make Your Own 8.30–9.30pm S018 £8 * Lie Detector The Crucible Children Music And Sound £8 * Heart racing, blood thumping – do Helix Theatre What Makes A Siemens Curiosity Zone you thrive or crumble under pressure? * * Winning Nobel Prizes in both physics and £8 Musician? Whether it’s athletes stepping into the £12 chemistry, Marie Curie paved the way arena or that looming deadline, positive for nuclear physics and cancer therapy From toddlers with touch-screens to Want to be able to check whether someone Cheltenham Ladies’ College, stress can help us reach our full potential. and transformed the role of women smart-phone addicted teens, it can be is telling the truth? Join the team from But severe and chronic stress has been in science. To coincide with the 150th Strictly Come Sciencing: Taster difficult for parents to strike a balance Parabola Arts Centre MadLab to wire up your own lie detector. connected to serious health conditions anniversary of Curie’s birth, historian of Dance Class (Free) between nurturing digital skills and £8 * With specially designed circuits and a including anxiety and heart disease. science Patricia Fara talks to Vivienne 8.30–9.30pm Pillar Room, Town Hall protecting their family from online risks. soldering iron, the team guide you through Does practice really make perfect or do Neuroscientist Vin Walsh delves into what Parry and explores the life, work and After sifting through the science of Presenter and writer Olly Mann is joined the process. musicians need a special innate ability to happens when our brain is pushed to its extraordinary legacy of one of science’s dance, join Jamie Gallagher for by developmental psychologist Natalia succeed? Neuroscientist Vin Walsh joins limits with brain systems expert Shane No experience of electronics or soldering greatest pioneers. drop-in taster Salsa dance class. Kucirkova, NSPCC Associate Head of psychologist Lauren Stewart, music teacher O’Mara and psychologist Jennifer Wild. required, completed lie detector is yours to Come along for as little or as long Child Safety Online Amanda Azeez and and researcher Adam Ockelford, and take away. as you’d like whilst enjoying a drink tech journalist, comedian and Scummy composer and guitarist Milton Mermikides from the bar. Mummies podcaster Ellie Gibson as they to discuss musicality, whether you can teach The bar will be open during this event. share tips and advice on how to keep your family’s tech in check. musicianship, and why some of us are more drawn to making music than others. 16 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 17 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNEBox Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE Other Venues ExperiTent The Cube Pillar Room Town Hall, The Helix Arts Centre CLC, Parabola The Crucible EDF Energy Arena WEDNESDAY 10am–12noon S019 1–2pm S023 4.45–5.45pm S029 1.15–3.15pm S020 Our Future World 3.30–4.30pm S027 4.15–6.15pm S021 Cancer vs The Our Connected The Criminal Immune System FameLab Future Mind: Can You 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am International The Cube S019 Blame Your The Crucible £7 * FAMELAB INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL FAMELAB Semi-Finals * Brain? SEMI-FINALS £7 7

JUNE JUNE Helix Theatre EDF Energy Arena As our world becomes increasingly Harnessing the power of your immune no ticket required Free connected, how will our lives change? How £7 * system, immunotherapy has been heralded as a turning point in the fight against cancer, The pressure is on as the world’s greatest can we use this technology to improve accessibility and care for our environment? If an injury or illness causes you to act out producing long-lasting responses even in

S022 international science competition returns –

PLANNER of character and commit a crime, are you late-stage disease. But why is cancer such AND BRAIN Will we be more, or less connected to each

SCANS giving each contestant just three minutes to

SEX, LIES SEX, other? Guest Director Dallas Campbell goes to blame? Could we one day be able to a challenge for the immune system and enlighten and entertain! Join our 31 national prove somebody’s guilt by using a brain how do these new immunotherapies work? finalists from across the globe as they battle beyond the hype and headlines with digital Deborah Sherry scan? As our understanding of the brain Oncologist Sam Guglani is joined by medical it out for a coveted place in the FameLab transformation enthusiast , Richard Harper improves, the courtroom is increasingly oncologist Gary Middleton and molecular International Final. Hosted by Quentin connected homes expert and city innovation specialist Suzanne faced with difficult ethical questions. immunologist Ben Willcox, as they discuss CONNECTED

S023 Cooper. FUTURE Wilson to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of Neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian, some of the cutting-edge treatments that are S020

OUR See the final ten compete for the grand hyperconnectivity. Professor of Legal Theory Dennis currently in the pipeline.

FAMELAB INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL FAMELAB prize in the FameLab International Final on Patterson and criminal law expert Lisa

SEMI-FINALS Thursday 9th June at 8.30pm. Claydon examine neuroscience’s impact upon crime and punishment. PREDICT THE DAY THE PREDICT S024 YOU’LL DIE? YOU’LL

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S026 Can We Predict If We Could Talk CAN YOU BLAME BLAME YOU CAN CRIMINAL MIND: YOUR BRAIN? YOUR TALK TO THE THE TO TALK S027 ANIMALS

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THE Cheltenham Ladies’ College, The Crucible S021 Parabola Arts Centre £7 *

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RECOVERING S035 RESISTANCE Biologists Katie Slocombe and Luke Rendell NEXT FORNEXT A TALE OF OF A TALE PARTICLE S034 serious and life-threatening illnesses. Jimmy PHYSICS

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THE 11.45am–12.45pm S022 4.45–5.45pm S030 imaging data from this revolutionary project animals have language in the same way we do, how we would ever know, and whether

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WORKSHOP: Neuroimaging presents us with exciting Siemens Curiosity Zone Our amazing oceans are home to millions possibilities, allowing the brain to be Miniature Free no ticket required of species, regulate the climate and the observed in real-time and giving us air we breathe, and are an integral part a greater insight into an individual’s Free (booking required via email) Pop in for an informal discussion with Guest of the global economy. But they are at S045 IN THE GARDENS THE IN thoughts, motivations and behaviour. But Director Dallas Campbell, speakers from the risk. What does the future hold for the

John Heathcott STARGAZING can brain scans really reveal what is going Join Cotswolds’ warden as day’s events and other audience members. beating heart of our planet? Physicist and on inside our heads? Neuroscientist he leads this guided nature walk at Crickley What questions have been raised by our oceanographer Helen Czerski, marine Barbara Sahakian examines what Hill. Explore the beautiful landscape and Festival theme, and what is your vision of conservationist Steve Rocliffe, microbial neuroimaging can tell us and considers its flora, and find out about local history, Our Future World? oceanographer Sonya Dyhrman and the ethical risks associated with ‘reading archaeology and geology along the way. marine strandings expert Rob Deaville minds’. To book please email cotswoldwalk@ dive headfirst into our changing ocean. cheltenhamfestivals.com 18 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 19 WEDNESDAY 7 JUNEBox Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE

5–7pm 7.15–8.15pm S039 8.30–10pm S041 Engineering Workshop The Story Of The Digital Futures Make Your Own Mosquito Telegraph Machine GE Pavilion Town Hall, Pillar Room Free no ticket required For all ages Siemens Curiosity Zone £8 * £12 * Join GE’s engineers to invent your very own Mosquitoes are a global menace, spreading solution to a global issue. Get hands on with Always wanted to try out morse code? Join deadly infections that kill millions of people a range of tech as you design, build, code the team from MadLab to wire up your each year. Join mosquito and malaria experts and test your new creation. own telegraph machine – inspired by the Ailie Robinson and Will Stone, and the earliest form of electrical communication archives team from the London School of device. With specially designed circuits and a Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as they explore 8.30–9.30pm S043 soldering iron, the team guide you through the ongoing battle of man versus mozzie and the process. where this has sometimes ended in victory Young Minds 6–7pm S035 7.15–8.15pm S037 for our tiny foes. Featuring a live mosquito No experience of electronics or soldering dissection (don’t worry, we’ll zoom in). Under Pressure required, completed telegraph machine is 5.30–6.30pm S031 What’s Next For Mysteries Of The Mind yours to take away. View the original archives after the event. The Crucible 6.45–7.45pm S032 Particle Physics Your Irrational £8 * 8–9pm S033 Brain Workshop EDF Energy Arena 7.45–9.15pm S040 The lives of teens and young adults are The Real CSI £8 * Helix Theatre Music And Sound increasingly complex, with social media, £9 * peer pressure and body image anxieties The discovery of the Higgs Boson marked Instrumental all contributing towards a rise in mental ExperiTent a turning point in our understanding of What shall we have for dinner? Should I take Acoustics illness. Join journalist and mental health £8 * the inner workings of the universe. But that new job? Every day we make hundreds campaigner Bryony Gordon, mental what remains to be discovered? It’s a health expert Ann John and emotional of decisions, from the trivial to the life- Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Explore the real science that goes into question posed daily by experimental changing. So how do we make decisions and disorders specialist Martina Di Simplicio Gavin Hesketh Parabola Arts Centre solving crimes as you try your hand at particle physicist and how sensible and rational are they? Ginny as they consider how we can transform true-to-life forensic analysis. What can we others like him who work at the Large Smith puts your brain to the test to see just £12 * the way we understand, treat and prevent learn about a victim from their bones? How Hadron Collider. Looking towards the how rational, or irrational, you are. mental illness in young people. does fingerprinting work? Which insects can next scientific revolution, he guides us The hammered tones of the piano, the sweet help solve crimes? With experts from the through our latest understanding and Please note, to get the most out of this event voice of the violin, the deep and comforting Mental Health Mates Meet-Up (Free) University of Wolverhampton to guide you. asks how close we are to a Theory of you will need an internet enabled device bass of the cello. How do each of these Join Bryony Gordon in Conversation Everything. such as a smartphone or tablet. individually exquisite instruments make the Corner at 6.30pm for a relaxed beautiful and heartwarming sounds that and friendly gathering. Chat about they do? Exploring their different vibrations, your experiences of mental illness 6–7pm S034 structures and resonances, acoustics expert 6–7pm S036 7.15–8.15pm S038 without fear of judgement. For Mark Lewney reveals all alongside live music more information please visit Mysteries Of The Mind from a piano trio. The Drugs Don’t Science, Business mentalhealthmates.co.uk/meet-ups The Recovering 8.30–9.30pm S042 Work: A Tale Of And Trust Brain Doug Allan: Resistance The Cube Adventures Town Hall, Pillar Room £7 * 8.45–9.45pm S044 Of A Wildlife £8 * The Crucible £8 * In a post-Brexit economy, Britain’s fortunes Workshop Cameraman In 2010, Kate Allatt suffered a severe are dependent upon the performance Tackling the global issue of antibiotic Make Your Own 9.45–11.00pm S045 stroke that left her ‘locked-in’: unable to of our industry, particularly those linked EDF Energy Arena resistance with light-hearted sketches, move or communicate, but fully aware to science. Yet whether it’s access to Burglar Alarm * microbiologist Anthony Hilton and his £9 Stargazing In The of her surroundings. Told she would health data, development of medicines team of experts deliver a stage play with a never walk or talk again, miraculously, or the introduction of new technologies, Siemens Curiosity Zone Across his extraordinary career, celebrated Gardens difference. What happens when we misuse Kate regained speech and mobility in less confidence in industry has declined sharply * cameraman Doug Allan has been up antibiotics? What happens when they stop £12 than a year. Join Kate and neurologist to its lowest level since 2008. Vivienne Parry close and personal with some of nature’s Meet at the Holst Statue working altogether? And what can we all do Parashkev Nachev as they discuss her is joined by GE’s Duncan Frame and other Need to catch the office biscuit thief? Join most magnificent creatures, capturing Free no ticket required to prevent the antibiotic apocalypse? remarkable recovery and explore how top experts as they explore what business the team from MadLab to wire up your own stunning footage for award-winning her experiences are helping us to think leaders need to do to earn the trust of the light-activated burglar alarm. With specially shows including Planet Earth, alongside Join members of the Cotswold differently about the brain after trauma. public and to restore our faith in industry. designed circuits and a soldering iron, the David Attenborough. With spectacular Astronomical Society for a supervised team guide you through the process. clips, Doug shares the incredible evening of stargazing using members’ telescopes. Observe the night sky for No experience of electronics or soldering behind-the-scenes stories of bringing the Supported by Engineering and Physical yourself, with the chance to see Saturn and required, completed burglar alarm is yours world’s wildlife into our living rooms with Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) & Jupiter. Full Moon is 9th June. This event is to take away. journalist Julia Wheeler. Biomaster dependent on clear skies. 20 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 21 THURSDAY 8 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com THURSDAY 8 JUNE Other Venues ExperiTent The Cube Pillar Room Town Hall, The Helix Arts Centre CLC, Parabola The Crucible EDF Energy Arena THURSDAY 3.15–4.15pm S048 3.30–4.30pm S050 4.45–5.45pm S053 Mysteries Of The Mind Language Why Did The What The Heart Unlocked Chicken Cross Knows The Globe? 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am Helix Theatre Cheltenham Ladies’ College £7 * The Cube 8

JUNE JUNE Parabola Arts Centre Imagine being able to go anywhere in the £7 * £7 * world without needing to worry about We Brits eat more than two million chickens people understanding what you’re trying a day, but until recently we knew practicallyractically You may believe your thoughts and feelings to say. Offering two-way translation in real- originate solely in your brain, but what about nothing about this humble bird. Howw was PLANNER time, new technology is helping to remove it domesticated, and why? Archaeologistslogists heartache or gut instinct? Neuroscientist barriers to conversation by converting 1–2pm S046 Naomi Sykes and Greger Larson discussiscuss Sarah Garfinkel and philosopher Barry speech into familiar language, with the fascinating new research from The Chicken Smith cast light on the role our bodies play potential to transform everything from Big Data And Project, revealing that the story of cchickenshickens in the mind. They reveal how signals from socialising to medical scenarios. Raytheon’s is the story of us, charting the rise andand fall Mental Health the heart to the brain can shape the way we Chief Scientist JF Mergen puts this cutting- of empires, cultures and ideologies and the think and feel, what we remember and how edge tech to the test with BBC Technology S046 AND MENTAL Cheltenham Ladies’ College, we recognise others’ emotions. impact of humans across the globe. HEALTH Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

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THE WAY IT IS? WAY IT THE joins , and RISE OF FAKE NEWS FAKE OF RISE Michael Faraday A GUILT-FREE A GUILT-FREE S056 MASTERING MASTERING 2.15–3.15pm S047 MEMORY FUTURE? WORKSHOP: FACT, FICTION & & FICTION FACT, WHY IS LIFE LIFE IS WHY Daley to debate how algorithms dominate

FOOD: FOOD: Lecture Brexit: Keeping 3.30–4.30pm S049 our society and whether companies and the government need to do more to explain how Why Is Life The Britain’s Science The Spider they work. MATHEMATICAL Way It Is? LIFE HACKS S062

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S061 On Top S059 HUMANKIND S058 CLIMATE CHAMPAGNE REDEFINING AND MUSIC ENGINEER- Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Society MASTERING MASTERING S063 MEMORY

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£7 * EDF Energy Arena £9 * * Theresa May wrote in July 2016 that she £7 4.45–5.45pm S052 S065 THE EARTH NEXT NEXT EARTH THE TECH LISTENING MATHEMATICAL We know surprisingly little about how S066 INTERNATIONAL FINAL

LIFE HACKS wants “a positive outcome for science TO YOU? CHAMPAGNE DOOR? PROXIMA B: B: PROXIMA Join arachnophiles Vivienne Parry, AND MUSIC complex life began. How are we here at S067 S060 Quick Chats: Our IS YOUR as we exit the EU”. How can we build S064 Adam Hart, Michelle Reeve and Sara all and why has life evolved the way it FAMELAB FAMELAB co-operation and retain Britain’s leading Future World

Goodacre as they delve into the world of position in the world of science and has? Evolutionary biochemist Nick Lane eight-legged creepy crawlies. Discover reveals fascinating new ideas about the innovation as Brexit looms? Join us to the sheer diversity of spiders, how our Siemens Curiosity Zone discuss the future with Wellcome Trust’s singular event that sparked complex S068 IN THE GARDENS THE IN knowledge of their locomotion could Free no ticket required Ed Whiting, British Council’s Claire life into existence, and asks whether

STARGAZING lead to better robotics, how they travel McNulty, top scientist Ottoline Leyser evolution would follow a similar path on incredible distances, the amazing Pop in for an informal discussion with Guest other planets. and an industry representative. properties of spider silk and so much Director Dallas Campbell, speakers from the more. day’s events and other audience members. What questions have been raised by our festival theme, and what is your vision of Our Future World? 22 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 23 THURSDAY 8 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com THURSDAY 8 JUNE

7.15–8.15pm S061 6–7pm S057 7.30–8.30pm S058 Our Future World Workshop Engineering Our Mastering Future Climate Memory The Cube £8 * ExperiTent £8 * With global temperatures set to keep rising, what are our options? Will reducing our Forgotten what you went upstairs for – carbon emissions ever be enough, or are 7.30–8.15pm S063 again? Mislaid your keys and can’t put a more radical solutions, such as capturing 8.45–9.30pm S064 name to a face? Join Ginny Smith for a carbon or blocking sunlight, required? host of quizzes and games to explore your Engineer Hugh Hunt joins climate scientists Music And Sound memory. With tricks and top-tips on how Tamsin Edwards, Naomi Vaughan and Champagne And to improve it, find out what happens in the Mike Hulme, as they discuss and debate the 8.30–9.30pm S066 8.30–10pm S067 6–7.15pm S055 brain when you learn and store memories, ethics, feasibility and political ramifications Music and discover why we shouldn’t always of different climate engineering options. Is Your Tech Fact, Fiction And Town Hall, Pillar Room believe everything we remember. Listening To You? The Rise Of Fake £10 * Over 18s only News Ticket includes champagne tasting Helix Theatre FameLab * You’ve heard of pairing wine with food, £8 International EDF Energy Arena but have you considered matching it to £12 * music? We know music can reduce us Whether it’s Alexa, Siri or Cortana, intelligent Final to tears and powerfully evoke memories virtual assistants are designed to make Last year saw a vote for Brexit, the but can it also affect our taste? Prepare our lives easier. But do devices scanning Cheltenham Ladies’ College, election of Trump as US President and an for a multisensory experience with our every word leave us vulnerable to Parabola Arts Centre over-sharing private information? Machine unprecedented rise of fake news. Mulling philosopher and sensory expert Barry £10 * over actual vs alternative facts, comedian Smith as he guides you through this learning and signal processing expert Mark Plumbley and cybersecurity specialist Jason Dara Ó Briain, experimental psychologist champagne pairing with a difference. If Watch as the world’s best and brightest Stephan Lewandowsky, NASA’s former you don’t like the wine, you may need to R C Nurse explore how the technology works and consider the implications for our take centre stage for the FameLab Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, BuzzFeed’s change the music. International Final. As the competition James Ball and writer and producer privacy and security with BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. celebrates its tenth international year, Eliane Glaser attempt to make sense of our finalists will need to concentrate the dawn of a post-truth age. Is this real all of their charm and charisma into life, or just fantasy? three minutes to be crowned the 2017 8.30–9.30pm S065 Champion! Hosted by Quentin Cooper Proxima b: The with an interval act from comedian Earth Next Door? Lieven Scheire. with Dara Ó Briain 6–7pm S056 7–8pm S059 7.15–8.15pm S062 Our Future World 8.30–9.30pm S060 Redefining EDF Energy Arena £10 * Food: A Guilt-Free Mathematical Life Humankind Future? Hacks Just over four light-years away, recently 9.45–11pm S068 The Crucible identified exoplanet Proxima-b orbits Stargazing In Helix Theatre Siemens Curiosity Zone £9 * one of three stars in Alpha Centauri, our nearest star-system. But what do £8 * £8 * The Gardens Anthropologist Louis Leakey declared in we know about our intriguing new neighbour? Does it hold ingredients The enormous variety of food available to We like to think maths, science and tech 1963 “We must redefine ‘tool’, redefine Meet at the Holst Statue ‘man’, or accept chimpanzees as that make it suitable for life, and could us can leave us overwhelmed and anxious skills make us excellent problem-solvers. Free no ticket required But just how useful are those skills in the humans”. Since then, our closest relations we one day take a trip there? Proxima-b about the effects on the environment. How discoverer and astronomer Guillem can we look after our own health and the real world? Mathematician Katie Steckles have been observed making weapons Join members of the Cotswold guides you through some mathematical, and engaging in both play and warfare. Anglada-Escudé, astrobiologist Louisa health of our planet? Registered public Preston and planetary scientist Andrew Astronomical Society for a supervised health nutritionist Alan Dangour helps logical and geometrical tricks to solve some Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod takes evening of stargazing using members’ of everyday life’s minor challenges. You’ll a lighthearted look at whether we need Coates discuss this game-changing find untangle the web of choices, drawing on with Dara Ó Briain. telescopes. Observe the night sky for research into healthy eating and the impact never fold a t-shirt or tie your shoes in the to redefine what it means to be Homo yourself, with the chance to see Saturn of food production on carbon emissions, same way again! sapiens and questions whether or not and Jupiter. Full Moon is 9th June. This water consumption and land use, suggesting humans are unique. event is dependent on clear skies. simple ways we can make a difference. 24 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 25 FRIDAY 9 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com FRIDAY 9 JUNE Bacon Theatre ExperiTent The Cube Pillar Room Town Hall, The Helix Arts Centre CLC, Parabola The Crucible EDF Energy Arena FRIDAY 2.15–3.15pm S071 2.15–3.15pm S072 4.45–5.45pm S076 Our Future World Music And Sound Incredible Edible The Healthcare The Singing Insects

9 Revolution Neanderthals 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am JUNE JUNE Helix Theatre Helix Theatre Cheltenham Ladies’ College, £9 * £7 * Parabola Arts Centre Embark on an extraordinary journey into £8 * insect-eating with the BBC’s Gastronaut PLANNER From wearable sensors to Smartphone plug-ins, new technology is empowering Stefan Gates, as he reveals his Scary Food Renowned linguist Steven Pinker has Box, explains why you should eat bugs and patients to take control of their own well- dismissed music as being a useless by- being before setting foot inside the doctor’s reveals why you’re already an entomophagist ALLERGIES AND INTOLERANCES product of evolution, but surely there is without realising it. Expect live crickets, cool S069 surgery. Innovate UK’s Ian Campbell is more to this universal and much-enjoyed video footage, purple bug blood food, a

FOOD FOOD 11.45am–12.45pm S069 joined by self-proclaimed Disruptor-in-Chief, part of the human experience? Cognitive few explosions, spectacular demonstrations NHS Clinical Lead for Innovation Tony Young archaeologist Steven Mithen joins Alice Food Allergies and GP and former chair of the Royal College and tasters of some delicious pests. Don’t Roberts to examine the origins of music and worry, we won’t be eating live bugs, nobody And Intolerances: of GPs Clare Gerada for an exclusive insight language, drawing from a diverse range of into the trailblazing tech at the forefront of really does.

CHANGING expertise and sources to explain how music S070 CLIMATE Fact vs Fiction the healthcare revolution. is a vital part of human evolution.

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THE THE THE For diagnosed sufferers, food allergies Alone? and intolerances can make life miserable. 3.30–4.30pm S073 But there is a growing trend for people Our Future World The Cube voluntarily cutting ingredients like wheat *

S074 £7 URBAN JUNGLE STOFAN: A LIFE A LIFE STOFAN: S073 IN THE BRAIN? S075 SCIENTIFIC and dairy from their diet. Broadcaster The Real Urban IS PAIN ALL

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Michael Mosley is joined by dietician ELLEN Jungle In 1961 astronomer Frank Drake wanted Isabel Skypala and allergist Adam Fox, to calculate the probability of other as they dispel the myths, discuss how Town Hall, Pillar Room technologically advanced civilisations allergies and intolerances are detected existing in our galaxy. Ignoring UFO- S076 S078

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INCREDIBLE A GUIDE TO TO A GUIDE THE DRAKE is friend or foe. proposed an equation to do just that. Nature is under attack. The rainforests are 3.30–4.30pm S075 Drawing on astronomy, biology, space travel, shrinking, the ice caps melting, the seas Ellen Stofan: A philosophy and some pretty hard maths, poisoned. But there is one habitat that is

S079 physicist and comedian Lieven Scheire takes FABRIC DYEING 1–2pm S070 expanding and thriving: the urban jungle. Life Scientific

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Our Changing £8 * Simon Watt as he introduces us to our new 4.45–5.45pm S078

S080 Climate neighbours. FABRIC DYEING Planetary geologist and former Chief

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BORN TO HOW TO 3.30–4.30pm S074 Forensics £7 * discoveries, helping to inform our Mysteries Of The Mind understanding of Mars, Venus, Saturn’s What have you always wanted to know about moon Titan and our own planet Earth. In Cheltenham Ladies’ College, the climate, but were afraid to ask? Guest Is Pain All In The an open and honest interview, she talks Parabola Arts Centre S090 EVERYONE WHO CHARMING SCIENCE CABARET EVER LIVED Director Dallas Campbell leads a lively to Jim Al-Khalili about her remarkable * S091 £8

S089 Brain? HISTORY OF discussion between climate scientists Tamsin career. She considers what’s next for JURY LIVE DR JIGGS BOWSON’S BOWSON’S JIGGS DR Edwards and Richard Seager as they explore EDF Energy Arena space exploration and reveals her CSI, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders why climate change is happening, the * thoughts about the political situation – there is no doubt that crime scene evidence behind global warming, and the £8 unfolding in America. investigation has captured the modern link between climate change and weather imagination. But how does science really Pain exists to protect us from harm, but Please note that this event will be phenomena such as floods and droughts. help to solve murder and other crimes? From our individual experiences can depend on recorded for Radio 4’s The Life Scientific. DNA fingerprinting to post mortems, forensic mood, attitude and even cultural upbringing. Latecomers may not be admitted. scientist Angela Gallop, forensic pathologist And when pain becomes chronic, as it does Stuart Hamilton and historian of science for about 20% of adults, it causes serious and medicine Ian Burney explore the history suffering. Here to discuss the mysteries of and development of forensics and its role in pain and how brain imaging is helping us catching suspects. understand it is neuroscientist Irene Tracey. 26 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 27 FRIDAY 9 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com FRIDAY 9 JUNE

6–7pm S082 5–7pm 8.30–9.30pm S090 Our Future World Engineering Populations And The Incredibly Digital Futures People Unlikely History GE Pavilion Of Everyone Who Town Hall, Pillar Room Free no ticket required Ever Lived £8 * For all ages EDF Energy Arena The world is changing dramatically. How do * Join GE’s engineers to invent your very variations in health, wealth, environment, £10 own solution to a global issue. Get hands politics and stability affect populations, both Our newfound ability to extract genomes on with a range of tech as you design, locally and globally? Guest Director Dallas from the long dead has forced us to build, code and test your new creation. Campbell joins forced migration expert radically rethink the whole of human Alex Betts, gerontologist Sarah Harper and www.sounds-of-science.com history. We’ve discovered new human geographer Ben Rogaly to discuss refugees species in Africa and Siberia, and even and baby boomers, and compare today’s phantom species that we only know about situation with historical fluctuations. 7–9pm S084 because their genes lurk in our own DNA. Anatomist Alice Roberts and geneticist Music And Sound Adam Rutherford go back to the drawing 5.45–6.45pm S079 Sounds Of board of our evolutionary past. 7–8pm S080 Science 7.15–8.15pm S087 8.30–10.30pm S089 Workshop 6–7pm S083 Let’s Get Colourful: Our Future World Dean Close, The Bacon Theatre How To Train For Dr Jiggs Bowson’s Fabric Dyeing Augmented Reality £8 * Suitable for families A Triathlon Charming and adults Science Cabaret Workshop The Crucible Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Blending musical performance, science £8 * Parabola Arts Centre Town Hall, Pillar Room ExperiTent and history, celebrated percussionist £9 * Evelyn Glennie, historian and writer £15 * (Only suitable for 18+) £8 * Augmented Reality smash-hit Pokémon Go Christopher Lloyd and composer Jill Combining running, cycling and swimming, saw millions of gamers hunting a virtual Jarman reveal the awe-inspiring story Dr Jiggs Bowson is the most glamorous Get colourful and try your hand at fabric cast of creatures in the real world. But triathlon training is claimed to be the scientist in Britain [citation needed], residing dyeing with the Society of Dyers and of how humans have changed the world ultimate body workout. Broadcaster Michael from healthcare to heritage, the digital over the last 10,000 years. A unique somewhere between the worlds of Colourists. Art and science collide while environments made possible by AR are Mosley gets the inside track from Olympic scientific research, vintage glamour you explore the history of the colour of collaboration unlike anything seen at the trainer and sports performance scientist being used in diverse and exciting new festival before. and end-of-the-pier naughtiness, a.k.a. cloth, discover what ‘a load of twaddle’ really ways. Digital Jam’s Tanya Laird, Virtual and Steve Ingham and sports psychologist Brighton. Join her for an extravagant means, and find out even more ideas to try Augmented Reality veteran Bob Stone and Jennifer Cumming. Whether you’re a evening of science talent, bringing at home. Amplified Robot’s Steve Dann join Rory seasoned competitor or just starting out, together a unique cabaret of comedy, they offer inspiring advice on how to get Cellan-Jones to showcase this technology 7.15–8.15pm S086 drag, rap and rudeness. Expect giggles, and explore how AR is shaping the future of triathlon ready and train for success. Mysteries Of The Mind flirting, facts and amazing hair. 6–7pm S081 work and play. The bar will be open during this event Do We Exist In A Can You Retrain 8pm–10pm 7.15–8.15pm S085 Your Brain? Late Night In The Multiverse? Music And Sound Helix Theatre Discover Zone & 8.30–9.45pm S091 EDF Energy Arena Born To Sum £8 * £10 * The MakerShack Jury LIVE The Cube Neuroplasticity suggests our brains have the Discover Zone & Maker Shack Quantum mechanics may imply that £8 * ability to adapt and change, but is it possible The Crucible our vast universe is just one of an to improve the way they work? By-passing Free no ticket required £10 * infinite number. Physicist Jim Al-Khalili Did you know that musicians from Dylan to a billion-dollar brain training industry which Don’t miss our special late openings for disagrees, pointing to far more down- Drake dropped maths references into their doesn’t seem to work, science journalist A defendant stands accused in the adults. Drop in to avoid the crowds, enjoy a to-Earth interpretations of quantum lyrics? Or that Joy Division’s Ian Curtis and Caroline Williams joins neuroscientists Heidi courtroom. Are they guilty or not guilty? drink and try all the activities for yourself – phenomena, but cosmologist Andrew French mathematician Evariste Galois had Johansen-Berg, Martijn van den Heuvel Presented with the evidence and the law, without kids and with the bar open. Pontzen argues an incomprehensibly loads in common? Join mathematician, and Ben Martynoga to explore the possibility you, the Festival jury, decide their fate. To vast multiverse could be the least weird singer and 2016 FameLab UK winner Kyle of changing our brains for the better, with guide you through the forensic reports, explanation. Marieke Navin referees Evans and his trusty guitar as he takes you tips and tricks to try for yourself. expert witness statements and the law are a lively debate and audience vote. on a comedic musical tour, showcasing courtroom and forensic scientist Angela Whose account of reality will be more the unexpected parallels between maths Gallop, jury expert Cheryl Thomas and convincing? and pop. forensic pathologist Stuart Hamilton.

28 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 29 SATURDAY 10 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SATURDAY 10 JUNE Clarence Social Dance Studio CLC, Parabola ExperiTent The Cube Pillar Room Town Hall, The Helix Arts Centre CLC, Parabola The Crucible EDF Energy Arena SATURDAY 11.15am–12.15pm S094 1–2.30pm S097 Our Future World 3–4.30pm S098 The Future Of Workshop Travel GLENNIE: FEELING FEELING GLENNIE: 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am A Puzzling Tea FIND OUT WITH SF02 S092 SF01 HEROES MADDIE SOUND

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MORBID the changing nature of work is rarely out of THE BRAIN CHOCOLATOLOGY

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WORKSHOP: DRUGS AND the news. Join economist and co-author to her music and the desire to teach Cash for kids to learn their times tables 95% of our universe is invisible to

S109 of The Future of the Professions, Daniel the world how to really listen. Evelyn or bribing footballers to miss in a penalty us. We assume the rest must be dark Susskind as he explores the history of work joins neuroscientist Colin Blakemore shoot-out ought to be effective, but why matter and dark energy, but despite and investigates what the future will bring to discuss how hearing involves much do financial incentives so often backfire? the incredible progress of recent years,

S111 for society, companies, governments and us Radio 4’s All in the Mind presenter Claudia this massive mystery of the universe SOCIAL MEDIA THE MACHINE more than just sound waves hitting your as individuals. Hammond explores the psychology behind continues to defeat us. Cosmologists SURVIVING MIND S110 eardrums. what works when trying to get someone to Andrew Pontzen, Erminia Calabrese and S112

S105 do what we want. Sarah Bridle discuss the latest research, DECODING DNA

VAMPIRES 12.30–1.30pm S096 and ponder how a much-needed

WORKSHOP: breakthrough might unfold. COMMITTEE LIVE COMMITTEE

BEYOND EARTH Mysteries Of The Mind S115 STOFAN: LIFE SURVIVE THE WORKPLACE S114 S113 1.45–2.45pm S100

HOW TO

ETHICS

ELLEN What Is 11.15am–12.15pm S093 Consciousness Geek Chic’s The Universe: 3–4.15pm S102 For? Weird Science Mysteries Of The Mind BABIES THINK? S116 S117 What Do We SMARTEST S106

OF THE The Cube DECODING DNA

Brainwash LIVE WHAT DO SURVIVAL Know? Helix Theatre

S118 S119 WORKSHOP: £8 *

ECONOMICS £8 *

The Crucible CHEESE REWRITING Cheltenham Ladies’ College,

S120 Do you get a kick out of the zanier The role of the subconscious has been £8 *

VARIETY NIGHT Parabola Arts Centre elements of science? Join Radio X DJ

SCIENCE FESTIVAL gaining attention, with recent research Lliana Bird and neuroscientist Jack £7 * suggesting you make better decisions Ever needed to clear your mind? Researchers Lewis for a live recording of Geek Chic’s when you don’t think about them. But have recently discovered a hidden brain Weird Science (iTunes Best New Podcast Our Universe is at the very least 100 billion the conscious mind must play some part. pathway, which detoxifies the brain while we 2014) as they rummage through the most light years across – and that’s just the Nick Shea and Ophelia Deroy ask what sleep. Using powerful MRI scanners and live bizarre and wacky science with some ‘observable’ bit. But how do we know, and consciousness is doing for us and reveal experiments, Mark Lythgoe, Ian Harrison, special guests from the Festival. will we ever truly grasp the magnitude of results from data they collected at last year’s Oz Ismail, Jack Wells, Isabel Christie the cosmos? Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen Festival that help us to answer this question. This event is being recorded for the and the CABI team on live-link will see if a takes us on a voyage into the farthest podcast. Latecomers may not be brainwash can open up our minds and give reaches of space and time to explore what admitted. them a new sparkle. we’ve been able to measure so far. 30 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 31 SATURDAY 10 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SATURDAY 10 JUNE

4.15–5.15pm S108 6.45–7.45pm S115 4–5pm S103 Mysteries Of The Mind 5.30–6.30pm S110 How To Survive Our Future World Mysteries Of The Mind Drugs And The The Workplace Living In A Brain The Machine Mind Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Machine World The Crucible Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Parabola Arts Centre £8 * Town Hall, Pillar Room Parabola Arts Centre £9 * £8 * £8 * Do androids dream of electric From troublesome colleagues to sheep? From incognito twitter-bots If you believe the headlines, it seems incompetent bosses, it can be devilishly Whether it’s impacting visual perception to grandmaster-beating machines, machines are destined to do everything difficult to navigate the world of work to your or altering states of consciousness, drug artificial intelligence capable of highly that a human can. But what are robots advantage. Offering up his best strategies use can drastically affect brain states and sophisticated interactions is no longer really capable of and what will always be for survival, psychologist and management behaviour. Psychologist and Say Why to restricted to science fiction. Adam beyond their abilities? Robotics expert expert Adrian Furnham tackles team work, Drugs podcaster Suzi Gage is joined by Rutherford joins robotics and artificial Sabine Hauert, and creator of artistic AI personality, leadership and everything psychedelics researcher Robin Carhart- intelligence expert Murray Shanahan and The Painting Fool, Simon Colton, join in between with Radio 4’s All in the Mind Harris, health psychologist Sally Adams digital anthropologist Beth Singler to political economist Daniel Susskind presenter Claudia Hammond. and journalist and novelist Lionel Shriver to investigate the machine mind – exploring to examine the true limits of modern discuss how different drugs affect the brain how we engineer intelligence, what we machines, and ponder the role of robots 6.45–7.45pm and to explore the positive and negative know about robot thought processes, and S113 in our current and future society. impacts of both legal and illegal substances. how similar they might be to our own. Ellen Stofan: Life Beyond Earth 4–5.30pm S104 6–7.30pm S105 EDF Energy Arena 8–9.30pm S106 £8 *

Workshop With growing excitement around Decoding DNA habitable distant planets, could extra- terrestrial life be closer than you think? ExperiTent Beneath their icy surfaces, the moons * of our solar system’s giant planets hide £12 Ticket includes a cocktail, oceans with the potential for life. With Over 18s only incredible images of Saturn’s Enceladus and Titan, and Jupiter’s Europa, planetary Sip on a strawberry DNA daiquiri and take geologist and former NASA Chief Scientist the Lego™ inheritance challenge in this Ellen Stofan considers the key conditions ingeniously genetically-themed workshop. for life and where we should prioritise our Join researchers to explore what DNA looks search in the coming decades. like, how the human body contains several 6–7pm S112 billion miles of the stuff, and whether we can 8–9pm S116 blame our parents for who we are. Vampires Mysteries Of The Mind Town Hall, Pillar Room What Do Babies 4–5pm S107 £9 * Think? Morbid Anatomy: 6.45–7.45pm S114 4.30–5.30pm S109 5.30–6.30pm S111 120 years since vampires were Life And Death immortalised in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ethics Committee The Crucible Chocolatology Surviving Social we explore the gruesome real-life £9 * Inside The Mortuary medical reports and suspected sightings LIVE EDF Energy Arena Media of the undead that are thought to How do babies begin to understand the The Cube £10 * have inspired the author’s work. The Cube world and their place in it? From birth, we * Helix Theatre start to develop a sense of self as we play, £8 Join broadcaster Lliana Bird as she £8 * With crazy concoctions, sights and £8 * steps into the night with professor of learn new skills and begin to interact with Join Curator of the world-famous Barts smells to delight your senses, and a bit of English Literature Nick Groom, cultural The 100,000 Genomes Project is now in full others. Developmental psychologists Guilty of over-sharing on Twitter? Judging Pathology Museum and queen of the chemistry thrown in, the BBC’s resident medical historian Catherine Oakley swing, sequencing around 70,000 patients’ and professional baby watchers Caspar Carla Valentine your life experiences against others on specimen jar , as she talks gastronaut Stefan Gates and chemist and Barts Pathology Museum Curator DNA codes. As genomics picks up speed, it Addyman and Nathalia Gjersoe delve Facebook? Must... check… phone... now! all things autopsy and anatomy. Drawing Andrea Sella present the most meltingly Carla Valentine for what is sure to be a raises a whole new set of ethical questions into the minds of babies and young Social media has had some bad press, so upon her experience as a mortician, Carla edible science show on Earth. Find out bloodcurdlingly brilliant event. for Radio 4’s Inside the Ethics Committee children and explore how this can help us how can we work it to our advantage? sheds light on what the living can learn what makes chocolate SO delicious. regulars Deborah Bowman, Anneke better understand our adult psychology. Consumer behaviour specialist Ben Marder, The bar will be open during this event. from investigations into death, considers Did we mention the mouthwatering Lucassen and Bobbie Farsides to consider. online behaviour expert Adam Joinson and how our cultural attitudes to mortality have chocolate tasters? Join them and chair Vivienne Parry to media psychologist Ellen Helsper discuss changed throughout history, and provides a decide what you’d do as a typically complex the pitfalls and the positives and consider fascinating insight into what happens when and tricky case is discussed. the mortuary doors swing shut. how not to let social media rule your life. 32 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 33 SATURDAY 10 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SATURDAY 10 JUNE

8–9pm S117 10.30–11.15am SF06 Survival Of The 10.30–11.30am SF03 12–12.45pm SF07 1.45–2.45pm SF10 12–1pm SF04 Smartest 1.30–2.30pm SF05 Joys Of Toys How To Be An Awfully Good Helix Theatre Mechanical Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Scientist £9 * Colour Wheels Parabola Arts Centre (Dance Studio) * Humans are weaker than many other £6 per baby (suitable for babies ages Cheltenham Ladies’ College, ExperiTent animals and have no natural weapons, 6 months to 2 years, and their parents) Parabola Arts Centre yet we became the world’s apex predator. £8 * Ideal for ages 5+ £6 * Ideal for ages 7+ Fundamental to our success is our Psychologists Caspar Addyman and Combine art and science as you delve Nathalia Gjersoe reveal the science inside intelligence – not only individually, but more Being a scientist really isn’t just about into the worlds of colour, illusion, the toy box in this interactive play session importantly, collectively. Mark Maslin brings wearing a white coat and messing animation and mechanical movement with your baby. Let your little one enjoy the together the latest insights from hominin around with test tubes. Join TV presenter with Stephen Guy from Fire the colours, textures, sounds and movements fossils and evidence of the changing Steve Mould to find out how you can Inventor. Create your own spinning and discover how toys are helping their little landscape of the East African Rift Valley, and think like a scientist, walk like a scientist machine, and see what surprising things brain develop. shows how astronomy, geology, climate and and even prank your friends and family can happen to colours, patterns and gossip caused evolution to favour our very like a scientist. Filled with exciting 10–11am SF01 drawings as they whizz into motion at large ultrasocial brains. demonstrations and mind bending the turn of a handle. Let’s Find Out 12.30–1.30pm SF09 illusions which will leave you distrustful With Maddie The Utterly of your senses and seeing the world in a 8.15–9.30pm S118 different light. 11.15am–12.15pm SF08 Revolting Cheese The Crucible Science Show £6 * Ideal for ages 4+ Rocketeers 2–3pm SF11 Town Hall, Pillar Room EDF Energy Arena 3.30–4.30pm SF12 £15 * Event includes tasters and a In her own brand new show, children’s Town Hall, Pillar Room presenter Maddie Moate brings you glass of wine. Over 18s only £6 * Ideal for ages 5+ £6 * Ideal for ages 7+ Workshop on an adventure to answer your most Memory Games Ever wondered what makes some cheese asked questions! Using her marvellous Journey into space with Simon Watt as he Embark on a hilarious, high tech and machines and an awesome box of utterly disgusting journey through the so smelly, others mouldy, or why it explores the science of space exploration Cheltenham Ladies’ College, comes in so many different textures and props, she takes you on a journey through exciting experiments and body with festival favourites Stefan flavours? Whether you’re a fan of the through different lands to discover demonstrations. Learn how to recreate Gates and Andrea Sella. Expect robots, Parabola Arts Centre (Dance Studio) strong stuff or prefer things a little more more about the world around us. In a your own rocket launch at home, discover remote-controlled humans, mind- £8 * Ideal for ages 10+ mellow, join Neal’s Yard Dairy’s Bronwen celebration of curiosity, wonder and what you can see if you’d only look up, blowing video footage of our guts, Percival and chemist Andrea Sella to imagination she invites you to come and find out which planet would float in a digestive chemistry and a very noisy fart Uncover the mysteries of your memory with taste the answers for yourself, as they dig along and join the fun! swimming pool. machine. You’ll never look at your own Ginny Smith, as she guides you through a into what makes cheese so downright body in the same way again! range of quizzes and games to explore your delicious with presenter Quentin Cooper 8.45–10.30pm S120 memory and ways to improve it. Discover in this sure to be Brie-lliant event. what happens in the brain when we learn and remember things, and find out whether With thanks to Neal’s Yard Dairy Science Festival Variety Night you can really trust what you remember. EDF Energy Arena 10–11am SF02 3–4pm SF13 8.30–9.30pm S119 £15 * Over 18s only Historic Heroes Once Upon A Lab: Our Future World The Scientist’s Funny, entertaining and enlightening – Helix Theatre Rewriting climb aboard our Science Variety Night for * Storybook Economics late-night laughs, songs and silliness, with £6 Ideal for ages 10+ some fascinating facts thrown in for good Helix Theatre measure. TV science guy and YouTuber It takes someone brave and clever to Cheltenham Ladies’ College, realise everybody else is wrong and £6 * Ideal for ages 7+ Parabola Arts Centre Greg Foot and marvellous mathematician Katie Steckles are your hosts for the to challenge how the world is seen. In a lab far, far away, materials scientist Suze £9 * evening. Expect the unexpected with Returning for the 10th year with their Kundu and engineer Jamie Gallagher have engineer and Bake Off finalistAndrew infamous live experiments, our 2007 been wondering whether science can help Economic theory is centuries out of date and Smyth, comedian Gemma Arrowsmith, FameLabbers uncover the turning-points them explain some of their favourite stories. that’s a disaster for tackling the 21st century materials engineer Mark Miodownik in scientific history and the heroes who Bringing their experiments and best theories challenges of climate change, poverty, and and geek songstress Helen Arney. More inspired them. From Galileo, who proved with them, they ask whether princes can extreme inequality. Renegade economist guests to be announced. heavy objects do not fall faster than lighter Kate Raworth flips our antique thinking ones, to biologists who showed electricity climb princesses’ hair, beanstalks can reach on its head as she strives for new models makes the body work. Could the next the clouds, rats can be charmed by pipers.. that are fit for a prosperous and sustainable scientific breakthrough come from you? and much much more. future world. 34 * Plus transaction fee: charged per order, not per ticket. £2.50 for online and telephone sales, and £1.50 for in person bookings with credit/debit cards. No fee for cash bookings. 35 SUNDAY 11 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SUNDAY 11 JUNE ExperiTent The Cube Pillar Room Town Hall, The Helix Arts Centre CLC, Parabola The Crucible EDF Energy Arena SUNDAY 10–11am S121 2–3pm S127 Magical Elements 11.45am–12.45pm S123 The Story Of Maths Coffee: Just The Crucible Brew It Town Hall, Pillar Room £7 * £8 * SF15 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 0m1a 2on1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m1p 11pm 10pm 9pm 8pm 7pm 6pm 5pm 4pm 3pm 2pm 1pm 12noon 11am 10am 11 BUSY BEES WITH MADDIE MOATE THROUGH OUR FLY’S GUIDE TO TO GUIDE FLY’S SF18 SOLAR SYSTEM SOLAR STAYING ALIVE S121 SF14 ELEMENTS

Town Hall, Pillar Room WORKSHOP:

MAGICAL A VOYAGE A VOYAGE JUNE JUNE

SWAT! A Today’s advanced technology is often * The roots of mathematics can be traced back indistinguishable from magic. It relies £10 to the early Islamic world, with thinkers from on a special set of elements, each with across the region working on the earliest Uncover the alchemy behind the perfect astonishing properties. In a magic show forms of algebra and equations. Mona brew, as we dive into the art and science like no other, materials engineer Mark Siddiqui is joined by mathematician Marcus TARDIGRADES S122 PLANNER of coffee. Ashley Kent joins award- SF16

BUSY BEES WITH Miodownik demonstrates the amazing du Sautoy, historian Amira Bennison and MADDIE MOATE FROM LESSONS winning coffee tasterAnna Nordström,

and sometimes bizarre properties of the Mohamed El-Gomati WORKSHOP: electronics professor CONVERSATION CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD JUST BREW IT S123 Löfbergs UK’s Alex Morris and coffee

DAWKINS ingredients that make the miraculous happen to discuss the role of the Islamic Golden Age S124 roaster Phil Parr as they turn up the COFFEE: COULD HAVE HAVE COULD

SF19 inside our 21st century tech. Looking to the in shaping maths as we know it today, and to IN heat and discuss beans, brewing, coffee BEEN

WHAT future, what can we do to ensure these rare, explore its enduring legacy in both eastern farming and the daily grind. Expect to SF20

THE HIGGS magical elements do not run out? and western civilization. learn a latte.

HUNTING SF17

BUSY BEES WITH 1.45–2.45pm S125 MADDIE MOATE With tasters thanks to Lofbergs UK

WORKSHOP: Genetic

SUPERHEROES Superheroes S125 OCEAN LAB SF21 WRITING EMOTION S127 GENETIC INTO MUSIC

OF MATHS GREGORY: S126 DEEP DEEP S128

THE STORY STORY THE The Cube DEMO CHALLENGE WILL OVER-AMBITIOUS OVER-AMBITIOUS £8 * 2017 Everyone loves a superhero – righting MAGIC OF PAPER OF MAGIC MATHEMATICAL wrongs and saving planets. But recent

SF22 research has revealed that a handful of real-

QUANTUM COMPUTER life genetic superheroes are dwelling among BUILD YOUR OWN OWN YOUR BUILD S129 S132 BUILD A STAR BUILD QUESTIONS

S131 us, whose DNA provides them with resilience WORKSHOP: COSMIC COSMIC

HOW TO TO HOW against serious illnesses. In fact, we may all CRAZY CRAZY be genetic superheroes in our own way. Join science writer and broadcaster Kat Arney to explore how scientists are working to unveil PENROSE/MARCUS PENROSE/MARCUS VICTORIANS RUIN the identities of these everyday heroes and S135 S133 THE WORLD? S136 DU SAUTOY THE BRAIN S134

BRITAIN heroines, in the hope that they will help us to MUSIC ON ON MUSIC JURASSIC JURASSIC ROGER ROGER

DID understand and fight disease. QUANTUM COMPUTER BUILD YOUR OWN OWN YOUR BUILD S130 2.15–3.30pm S128 WORKSHOP: 11.15am–12.15pm S122 2–3pm S126 S137 S138 EXTROVERT OR THE PERIODIC Over-Ambitious JUST YOU? Music And Sound INTROVERT, A TOUR OF OF A TOUR TABLE How To Be Invincible: 11.45am–12.45pm S124 Will Gregory: Demo Challenge S139 ARROWSMITH: OF SYMMETRY BIG BANG FOR FOR BANG BIG S141

S140 2017 YOUR BUCK? In Conversation EARTHLING Writing Emotion

THE SOUND SOUND THE Lessons From SCIENCE: GEMMA Tardigrades With Richard Into Music The Crucible CHALLENGED PUB S142 Dawkins £8 *

UNIVERSILLY Cheltenham Ladies’ College,

QUIZ The Cube

S143 £8 * EDF Energy Arena Parabola Arts’ Centre Steve Mould and Andrea Sella host LAUGH? WHY DO WE WE DO WHY £10 * £9 * our infamous annual contest to find From the top of the icy Himalayas to the most spectacular, impressive the bottom of boiling hot springs, the Richard Dawkins casts his eye back over TV and film composers like Goldfrapp’s and show-stopping science demos. humble, bizarre, microscopic tardigrade a phenomenal career and muses upon Will Gregory use the psychology of music Defending champions Suze Kundu is nothing short of a superhero. some of his published and previously to manipulate emotions and tug at the and Brian Mackenwells, are joined by Neuroscientist Matthew Young takes unpublished letters, lectures and essays. heart-strings. So how does music evoke new contenders Ashley Kent and Karl you on a whistle-stop tour of (almost) Ranging from Darwinian evolution to such powerful reactions and in what sense Byrne as the challenge takes on a whole invincibility. Find out how these tiny the search for alien life, the renowned can it be said to behave like a language? new level of competitiveness. Expect Earth-bound creatures can survive scientist and passionate rationalist is With clips and live music, Will is joined by madness, mayhem and magic. extreme conditions that would easily joined by Guest Director Dallas Campbell psychologist Catherine Loveday to uncover prove lethal to humans and how they are to celebrate the wonder of scientific music’s extraordinary power to play with our helping us develop new ways to survive discovery with characteristic wit and emotions and to explore how this can be the perils of space travel and beyond. clarity. used to great effect on screen.

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6.15–7.15pm S138 A Tour Of The Periodic Table The Cube £8 *

The periodic table has been an emblem of science for over 100 years. Behind this iconic classroom poster live tales of romance, murder, greed and wonder. Which element will make you reek of garlic? Why do we love gold? And what is the disgusting secret of antimony? Join chemical physicist and material scientist Jamie Gallagher on a guided tour around this elemental housing block. 3.45–4.45pm S132 5–6pm S134 5–6pm S136 3.30–5pm S129 5.30–7pm S130 How To Build A Engineering Roger Penrose 7–8pm 7–8pm Workshop Star The Past: Did And Marcus du S139 S140 Build Your Victorians Ruin Sautoy Music And Sound Gemma EDF Energy Arena The Sound Of Own Quantum £9 * The World? Arrowsmith: Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Symmetry EARTHLING Computer There are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy Town Hall, Pillar Room Parabola Arts Centre alone. Each one starts its life in a dense cloud £8 * £9 * Cheltenham Ladies’ College, The Crucible ExperiTent of gas and dust, but what really happens What can fashion, faith, or fantasy Parabola Arts Centre £9 * £12 * when a star is born? And why do they form Flushing toilets and combustion engines * when and where they do? Impressionist possibly have to do with the scientific £8 are some of the most celebrated legacies 40 years ago, NASA’s twin Voyagers were Delve into the incredible world of and astronomy enthusiast Jon Culshaw quest to understand the universe? One of of the Victorian age. But what would From Bach’s Goldberg variations to launched into space carrying golden quantum computers and even build and astrophysicists Chris Lintott and Lucie the world’s leading theoretical physicists, life be like now if their big thinkers had Schoenberg’s 12 tone rows, composers phonograph records with sounds and one for yourself with the Qubit Ninja Green take you on a journey of stellar Roger Penrose, and one of Britain’s considered the environmental, economic have always exploited symmetry. images from the people of Earth. This Team. Untangle mysterious quantum proportions as they explore how stars and foremost mathematicians, Marcus du and social impact of their innovations Discover the importance of symmetry hilarious sketch show from comedian phenomena such as qubits, superposition galaxies are born. Sautoy, explore the limits of human and done things differently? Combining for both composers and creators of Gemma Arrowsmith (Tracey Ullman’s and entanglement, then try it all out knowledge and discuss whether some of sharp wits, true facts and tiny top hats, musical instruments with mathematician Show, Dave Gorman’s Modern Life is for yourself on their specially designed today’s researchers are being led astray. comedian Helen Arney, writer and Marcus du Sautoy. Featuring a stunning Goodish, Charlie Brooker’s How TV quantum circuitry. broadcaster Kat Arney and engineers demonstration of the symmetry of Ruined Your Life) imagines the lifeforms Hugh Hunt and Sarah Bell ask: did the sound as Marcus recreates the visually who find those records. As they mull over Victorians ruin the world? 6.15–7.15pm S137 captivating experiment Ernst Chladni what humanity has to offer, will they The bar will be open during this event. Mysteries Of The Mind famously toured around the 19th century decide to reply? courts of Europe. Introvert, 5–6pm S135 Extrovert, 3.45–4.45pm S131 5–6pm S133 Music And Sound Or Just You? Crazy Cosmic Music On The Questions Jurassic Britain EDF Energy Arena Brain £9 * The Crucible The Cube £7 * Helix Theatre What makes you, you? Is your personality * £8 £8 * fixed in stone, or can life experiences change With Jurassic World 2 currently being your very nature? Pioneering psychologist What happens if you jump into a black filmed in the UK, palaeontologist and Why is it so easy to recall lyrics and melodies, Brian Little goes beyond traditional hole? How big are the biggest objects in the fossil detective Dean Lomax takes us even when we don’t want to? Why does personality traits, exploring when and why universe? And, if the universe is expanding, back to the amazing British finds that music have such power over our emotions, we transcend these misleading categories. why can you never find a parking space? sparked the original dinomania in the compelling us to dance, moving us to tears, Find out more about how your personality Astrophysicist Alfredo Carpineti provides 1800s. From the Isle of Skye to the Isle lulling us to sleep and luring us into love? shapes your life, what you can – and can’t surprising answers to your curious cosmic of Wight, he reveals British dinosaur and Join neuroscientist and musician Catherine – change about it, and how to thrive in the conundrums. There may be no such thing as ichthyosaur discoveries, including recent Loveday as she uncovers what happens in best way for you. a stupid question, but luckily there are plenty identification of new species and some the brain as we listen to, create and perform of weird ones! incredibly rare finds. music.

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7–8pm S141 Science: Big Bang 12–1pm SF19 For Your Buck? What Could Have Been Helix Theatre The Crucible £8 * 10–11am SF14 £6 * Ideal for ages 7+ Cancer kills a third of us, yet we spend SWAT! A Fly’s under £3 per person per year looking for What if a pesky asteroid hadn’t wiped a cure. That’s six times less than we spend Guide To out the dinosaurs? 66 million years later, on toilet paper! Andrew Steele takes a Staying Alive what would life look like today? Fossil- comical – yet unnervingly accurate – look hunter and zoologist Jules Howard uses at how astonishingly underfunded science Helix Theatre Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural is compared to the scale of the problems selection to see how blood-drinking * it’s trying to solve. What could our future £6 Ideal for ages 4+ tadpoles and tiger-like reptiles could have existed if Earth’s history had taken a world look like if the finances were available Imagine you’re a young fly, trying to very different path. to tackle the biggest challenges facing survive in a world which wants to swat humanity? you, squash you, and sometimes even 10–11am SF18 eat you. Author and cartoonist Mike Barfield takes you on a comedic and A Voyage interactive adventure featuring flies, fly Through Our 7.45–8.45pm S142 traps, maggots, and poo. You’ll leave The UniverSilly buzzing for more! Solar System Challenged Pub EDF Energy Arena Quiz 10–11am SF15 £6 * Ideal for ages 8+ 11.30am–12.30pm SF16 Town Hall, Pillar Room With incredible images from some of 1–2pm SF17 NASA’s great missions, Ellen Stofan £8 * Over 18s only Workshop takes us on an exciting tour of our beautiful solar system. From volcanoes Are you ready to get quizzical and a little Busy Bees With on Venus to giant hurricanes on Jupiter, pedantic? Join science troubadour Jonny Maddie Moate she reveals how the planets, comets Berliner and Ugly Animal wrangler Simon and asteroids orbiting our Sun can each Watt for this madcap twist on the pub ExperiTent help us understand the past, present and quiz where points mean the tapered end future of Earth. of objects, and prizes promise to enhance 8.15–9.15pm S143 £6 * Ideal for ages 4+ your nerd credentials. Be warned, each and every round will be a little bit weird. Mysteries Of The Mind Have you ever wondered how bees The bar will be open during this event Why Do We make honey? If you buzz loudly enough, CBeebies presenter, Maddie Moate, might and there is no need to bring a whole 1.45–2.45pm SF21 3–4pm SF22 team. Laugh? just let you in on one of bees’ best kept secrets. Find out more about foraging, 12.30–1.30pm SF20 Deep Ocean Lab Mathematical EDF Energy Arena honey production and just how important £10 * pollinators are. Try some honey tasters, Hunting The EDF Energy Arena Magic Of Paper play some silly games and be prepared for £6 * Ideal for ages 8+ Why do we find jokes funnier when an epic waggle dance finale! Higgs Helix Theatre we like the person who’s telling them? £6 * Ideal for ages 10+ Helix Theatre What happens as you dive deeper into And why are we 30 times more likely to the dark ocean? Join YouTuber & Science laugh if we’re with someone else? Dead £6 * Ideal for ages 10+ Guy on Blue Peter Greg Foot as he The humble sheet of paper has almost Ringers impressionist Jon Culshaw joins relives his scientific adventure to the infinite mathematical potential. Join The discovery of the Higgs Boson was one cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott for deep. With exciting experiments and mathematician Katie Steckles as she of the greatest and most exciting discoveries a side-splitting dash through the science stunning videos, Greg shows off the demonstrates some of her favourite of science – could you have made it too? of cracking up. They explore what makes high-tech submersibles which took him mathematical concepts and shares some Join physicist Sam Gregson and science us giggle and why laughter is such a 1000ft below the surface and uncovers fun puzzles using both real and imaginary troubadour Jonny Berliner on the hunt for crucial part of the human experience. the kit used to measure the health of the pieces of paper. With plenty of opportunities the Higgs in this highly interactive comedy deep ocean, our planet’s beating heart. to participate from your seat, Katie reveals show where you the public are in charge the magical mathematical secrets hiding of the Large Hadron Collider. Use your within household stationery. smartphone or tablet to gain direct access to LHC data and solve problems and analyse data through interactive games.

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Who will win the science showdown? Find out at FameLab, the global science communication competition. Watch 31 national finalists from across the globe battle it out to become the FameLab International Champion 2017. Semi-Finals: page 18 International Final: page 25

Look out for previous FameLab contestants in: Can Science Explain Music? page 16 Born To Sum page 28 Historic Heroes page 34 Science: Big Bang For Your Buck? page 40 Do We Exist In A Multiverse? page 28 The Real Urban Jungle page 27

Science for Schools 2017 Four action-packed days of shows, workshops and interactive zones to inspire FOOD & DRINK the scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians of the future. FameLab Academy Festival Café The outreach programme for Year 9 students Breakfast served from 9am. Soups, which develops confidence, increases salads, sandwiches, wraps & sharing communication skills and encourages platters served from noon till dusk. STEM enquiry. Imperial Garden Bar LabLive Enjoy our alfresco platters, The national tour which brings the best of Longhorn meaty feasts and grab & Cheltenham Science Festival to teenagers go options served midday till 3pm. across the UK. Pizzeria open every evening from 5.30pm till dusk. To find out more visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/education Regency Café Perfect for brunch from 9am. Lunch With thanks to our Education Partners: served noon till 3pm. Evening platters served till 9pm.

Vegetarian and gluten-free options available at all cafés.

42 43 PATRONS Box Office 01242 850270 We would like to thank all our Simon Skinner and Jean Gouldsmith Gold Patrons cheltenhamfestivals.com Patrons for their generous Skinner David and Hayley Ashley support, including those who have Andrew Smith Geraldine and Jim Beaty chosen to remain anonymous: Phil and Jennifer Stapleton Christopher Bence Liz and Neil Stewart Stephen and Victoria Bond Life Patrons Sharon Studer and Graham Beckett Charlie Chan Mark and Sue Blanchfield Chris and Bridgette Sunman Colin and Michele Cole Peter and Anne Bond Fiona and David Symondson Stuart and Gillian Corbyn Dominic and Jannene Collier Ludmila and Hodson Thornber Wallace and Morag Dobbin Be first with Membership Michael and Felicia Crystal The Walker Family Peter and Sue Elliott Colin and Suzanne Doak Michael and Jacqueline Woof Maurice Gran and Carol James Be amongst the first to book, save on tickets and help The Eaton Family Lord and Lady Hoffmann support Cheltenham Festivals. Being a Member is one of Charles Fisher Directors’ Circle Anthony Hoffman and Dr Christine David and John Hall Dr Lynda Albertyn and Pat Gallasch Facer Hoffman the best ways to enjoy all that the Festivals have to offer. Margaret Headen Mike and Kerry Alcock Elizabeth Jacobs Diane and Mark Hill Heather Barrett Jocelyn and Dave McNulty Jeremy and Germaine Hitchins Family Jack and Dora Black Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins Andrew Chard Janet and Charles Middleton Family Richard Claridge Paul and Kathy Mottershead Stephen and Tania Hitchins Family Michael and Angela Cronk Martin and Susan Pickard Jeff and Keren Iliffe Nigel and Sally Dimmer Shelley and Paul Roberts AgedAged Elizabeth and Michael Jones and Paul and Caroline Feinson Sharon and Toby Roberts 16–25? Family Jeremy and Alison Halliday Khal and Zoe Rudin 16-25? Rick and Lisa Jones Stephen Hodge Brenda Salters and Harold Longmate Sign up for free Steven and Linda Jones Andrew and Caroline Hope Elizabeth Saunders Signtoday + up 20% for off Hugh and Sue Koch Simon and Emma Keswick Esther and Peter Smedvig sciencefree today events The Kwintner Family Andrew and Susanne Malim Andy and Ali Stalsberg Robert and Moira Leechman Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch Giles and Michelle Thorley Hazel and Jeremy Lewis Hayden and Tracy McKinnes Ian and Liz Topping Our Three Levels of Membership: Graham and Eileen Lockwood Chris Morgan Michael and Rosie Warner The McKelvie Family The Oldham Foundation Sarah and John Watkins Buy up to two full Fiona McLeod Michele Rodriguez-Wise and Anne Wood CBE price tickets per The McWilliam family in loving Dustin Wise Stephen Wood  Priority booking BRONZE £25 per year event during priority memory of Ruth McWilliam Dr Gill Samuels CBE William Wyman booking. Keith Norton and Piers Norton Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Mark and Elizabeth Philip-Sørensen Trust We would also like to thank all our Silver Patrons who are listed at John and Susan Singer Buy up to four tickets cheltenhamfestivals.com/  Priority booking per event during patron-acknowledgements SILVER £50 per year  Discounted tickets priority booking (one  Third party offers discounted, three at Get closer to the Festivals full price).

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44 45 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THANK YOU to our Partners and Supporters

Cheltenham Science Festival Head of Programming Festival Advisory Group Associate Partners is presented by Cheltenham Dr Gina Collins Prof Jim Al-Khalili OBE, Festivals, a company limited by Andrew Cohen, Quentin Cooper, guarantee. Programme Manager Dr Hannah Devlin, Dr Kevin Fong, Hana Ayoob Prof Russell Foster CBE, Timandra Cheltenham Festivals Harkness, Dr Roger Highfield, Board of Trustees Programme Coordinator Prof Mark Maslin, Prof Mark Dominic Collier (Chair) Emma Whittle Miodownik, Vivienne Parry OBE, Diane Savory OBE (Vice Chair) Dr Adam Rutherford, Dr Gill Festival Coordinator Prof Mark Lythgoe (Chair of Samuels OBE, Prof Andrea Sella, Nikolaus Muldal Cheltenham Science Festival) Elaine Snell, Prof Kathy Sykes OBE Susan Blanchfield FameLab Manager Trajectory, Ideas and Lewis Carnie Helen Kirkman Prof Averil Macdonald OBE Ambassadors Board MakerShack Events Manager Marissa Chazan, Dr Helen Czerski, Chief Executive Olivia Clemence Dr Suzi Gage, Dr Marieke Navin, Louise Emerson Dr Andrew Pontzen, CF Productions and Box Office Dr Sophie Robinson, Company Secretary Andrew Bate, Samantha Bonnes, Florence Schechter, Alom Shaha, Theresa Grech Cathie Harris-Hawkins, Dr Andrew Steele, Simon Watt Elaine Holt, Silvia Loi, Jo Marsh Registered Office With many thanks to the staff 28 Imperial Square, Cheltenham, Development and volunteers who provide GL50 1RH Kathleen Barnhill, Susan Carslake, invaluable support and help make John Creedon, Sue Dudley, the Festival a success. Malcolm Dunn, Arlene McGlynn, Jenna Marks, Martin Perks, Contact Laura Popperwell, Helen Roe If you have any specific comments about any aspect of the Festival, Company No. 456573 Marketing and Press please email boxoffice@ Charity No. 251765 Alex Booth, James Davis, cheltenhamfestivals.com VAT Registration No. 100114013 Hanna Goldschmidt, Main Switchboard No. Bairbre Lloyd, Pete Riley Artwork Credits 01242 511211 Main programme illustration Education © 2017 Michelle Thompson Philippa Claridge, Ali Mawle, Sharron Pearson, Rose Wood Printed by Orchard Press Cheltenham Ltd. Administration, Executive In-Kind Partner Marketing Partner and Finance Photography Credits Helena Bibby, Adrian Farnell, Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ Angie Hawkins, Lucie Howkins, photos for a full photo credit list. Aline Imray

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Booking Dates Getting to Cheltenham Members’ Priority Booking: Science Festival from 1pm, Wednesday 12 April 2017 Most events take place in Public Booking: central Cheltenham, which from 1pm, Wednesday 19 April 2017 is easily accessible from all over the UK, by road and rail. cheltenhamfestivals.com For more information 12 April – 11 June 2017 on public transport Booking open 24/7 and car parks go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/ e-tickets can be printed or shown on a mobile device your-visit

+44 (0)1242 850270 Venue Postcodes 12–21 April 2017 Imperial Square (including Tuesday–Friday 10am–5pm EDF Energy Arena, The Crucible, Helix Theatre, Before the Festival: CF Ticketing, 15 Suffolk The Cube, ExperiTent and Parade, Cheltenham, GL50 2AE MakerShack) GL50 1QA 12–21 April 2017 Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Tuesday–Friday 10am–5pm Parabola Arts Centre GL50 3AA During the Festival: Festival Site Box Office, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA Cheltenham Town Hall (including the Discover Zone) GL50 1QA

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