5–10 June 2018 Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com #cheltscifest THANK YOU to our Partners and Supporters WELCOME A very warm welcome to #cheltscifest 2018. The brilliance In Association with This year we’ve got even more questions to of the Cheltenham ask and big ideas to explore. In a world that Science Festival is more connected than ever before, our is the breadth of Connected:Divided theme looks at what brings what’s on offer, us together and what pushes us apart. but how do you We’ve invited four fabulous guest curators to choose from so help us pull together a packed programme of much? My tip is to book your Principal Partners events for all ages – turn to pages 7-8 to find out faves but try at least one thing what Maddie Moate, Olly Mann, Jessica Barker that’s completely new to you. and FC have in store for you. Who knows – you might be connecting to something that Our MakerShack is back by popular demand really speaks to you. Enjoy! and we have a brand new Cyber Zone exploring the digital world. With more free activities than Vivienne Parry ever before, there’s plenty to fill a day. Chair of Cheltenham Science Festival

Major Partners Current Affairs How Science Got Women And Men Wrong page 18 How Do We Solve The Plastic Problem? page 21 Should We All Become Vegan? page 22 Can Democracy Survive Social Media? page 30 The Science Of Donald Trump page 31 Details on pages How Do We Stop Social Media Trolls? page 40 36–37 and 42–43.

Best For First-Timers Cutting Edge Strategic Partner Hunted: How Not To Get Caught page 17 Deep Brain Surgery page 27 Garden Wildlife Question Time page 22 Mapping The Human Journey page 29 The Truth About Exercise page 30 How To Find Dark Matter page 33 What Is Attraction? page 35 Checkmate: How AI Conquered Games And Why It Jury Live: DNA In The Dock page 36 Matters page 33 What Does The Internet Know About You? Building A Virtual Human page 34 page 42 Beyond Light: The Future Of Astronomy page 40

Big Thinkers Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Secrets Of The Teenage Brain page 19 Festival Partners Frank Close: A Life Scientific page 29 Adam Rutherford: The Dark Side Of Genetics page 34 Demis Hassabis: The Future Of AI And Science page 35 Sheila Rowan: Gravitational Waves page 35

www.joincyberdiscovery.com Art & Music Evening Entertainment Cellular Dynamics page 19 The Science Of Marvel page 26 Frankenstein page 35 FameLab International Final page 27 Can Science Explain Art? page 36 An Impractical Guide To Leaving The Planet page 31 Computer Generated Music page 39 Science Festival Variety Night page 36 What Makes A Masterpiece? page 40 Robin Ince: Chaos Of Delight page 42

View the full programme and filter for your favourite topics and themes at cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/programme 2 3 FESTIVAL VILLAGE KEY Free interactive zones Free activities Ticketed event venues Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA Site opens 5 June free entry Free interactive zones All Ages Free activities EDF Energy Zone Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Discover Stargazing In Conversation Parabola Arts Centre GL50 3AA Zone Toilets 8–10 June, 10am–5pm The Gardens Corner Careers evening, 8 June, 5–7pm 5 minute walk Toilets 7 & 8 June, 9.45–11pm Have our speakers got your brain whirring? Late opening for adults, 8 June, 8–10pm Town Hall Meet at the Holst Statue Share ideas, be inspired and join other Regency Café audience members for an informal chat at See page 12 for details. Join members of the Cotswold Conversation Corner in the Festival Café. Pillar Room Astronomical Society for a Places limited, unreserved seating. Toilet supervised evening of stargazing using members’ telescopes. Imperial Science Trail GE Pavilion Garden Bar Daily All ages 5, 7 & 10 June, 10am–6pm Waterstones Conversation Collect your quiz sheet from the Science 6, 8 & 9 June, 10am–8pm Book Shop Corner Hartpury GE Pavilion Trail starting point and follow the Trail Festival Café Science Hub around Imperial Square. Careers evening, 8 June, 5–7pm Science EDF The Arena See page 13 for details. Trail Start Energy Supported by Zone ExperiTent Box Office The Cube The Sphere Holst Statue Cyber Trail Women in Woodland STEM Daily Ages 10+ Discover Zone Trust The Crucible Daily 10am–5pm Become a code-breaker as you follow the Helix Cyber Trail around Imperial Square. Begin Late opening for adults, 8 June, 8–10pm Theatre your quest in the Cyber Zone and gather See page 11 for details. clues to unlock this cryptic challenge. Supported by Cyber Zone MakerShack Women in STEM Toilets Photo Installation Daily All ages MakerShack Find out more about amazing women in Daily 10am–5pm science, technology, engineering and maths in our photo installation, new for Late opening for adults, 8 June, 8–10pm 2018. Visit our photo booth in the Cyber See page 10 for details. Zone to add your own photo to the display. Women in Cyber Zone Innovation Daily 10am–5pm Careers evening, 8 June, 5–7pm Photography Late opening for adults, Exhibition 8 June, 8–10pm RAF Falcons Town Hall See page 9 for details. NEW Display Representing UK’s most promising female Supported by Look to the sky and you may be surprised entrepreneurs, recognising their differences by an exciting sky diving display by the and the diverse ideas they bring forward. RAF Falcons on Tuesday and Wednesday. Portraits provided by Innovate UK. Large Animal Weather dependent. Dissection Hartpury Woodland Trust 10 June, 10am–4pm Daily All ages The Sphere Careers Science Hub Hartpury Science Hub Evening Learn more about how woods and trees Daily 10am–5pm 5–10 June, 10am–5pm Following the success of last year’s horse benefit the environment around us with 8 June, 5–7pm investigation, Hartpury Scientists will Create your own unique art inspired by Careers evening, 8 June, 5–7pm Food & Drink some hands-on activities and fun from the see page 30 be performing a detailed dissection of a people behind Nature Detectives! your heartbeat, get hands-on with Lego NEW Drop in to take part in exciting wallaby. Stop to refuel between Festival events at genome editing, make a microbe, get experiments, explore pioneering our Festival Café, Imperial Garden Bar or a glimpse of what living in a “Quantum research and find out more about sport Regency Café – vegetarian and gluten free City” might be like, create your own vegan and exercise, equine performance, options available! smoothie and more… animal welfare and agriculture. 4 5 2018 THEME GUEST CURATORS

Connected:Divided Olly Mann Maddie Moate Current Affairs Programme Curator Family Programme Curator One of the unique things about us humans is the way that we communicate and connect with each other. These connections can be strengthened through our similarities, tying us together and uniting us. But they can also reveal our differences: if our lines of communication break down, we can become divided, separated and isolated from each other. Thanks to technology, we live in a world that is more connected than ever before, yet division and conflict are rarely out of the headlines. At this year’s Festival, we dive into psychology, biology, technology, engineering, anthropology, health, current affairs and so much more to ask what it is that connects and divides us as a species, both locally and around the world.

Presenter, columnist and media Maddie Moate is a BAFTA-award commentator Olly Mann is host of winning television presenter and Radio 4’s Fourthought and The Male a prominent ‘Edu-tuber’, amassing Room. His podcasts, including The over 20 million views on her Modern Mann, The Media Podcast, YouTube videos across multiple The Week Unwrapped and the Sony science and technology channels. award-winning series Answer Me Her popular CBeebies series Do This! have achieved over 40 million You Know explores how everyday downloads. objects are made and work.

As well as exploring the latest I’ve been working with the Events to look out for: news and current affairs, I’ll be asking Cheltenham programming team The Evolution Of about the unintended consequences to help develop new and exciting Communication page 17 of our dependence on technology events for the Festival’s youngest The Value Of Human and trying to get to the truth behind fans. I’ll be sharing my passion for Contact page 17 the subject. It’s incredibly revealing beekeeping and space travel as well Connected Yet Divided when a broad range of experts who as exploring how our bodies work. page 18 are completely immersed in their And it’s always a fantastic time to The Rise Of Extremism individual topics can be challenged meet other science page 22 by the audience and each other. communicators and Boredom: The Upside of Cheltenham Science Festival provides watch and learn from Downtime page 23 the perfect opportunity for this. my peers in action. Is Cyber War The New Cold War? page 25 The Future of Human Communication page 30 Events to look out for: Come and see Maddie in these events: Connections: Belief And Is Your Tech Bad For You? page 22 Maddie’s Mission To Mars page 36 Community page 33 Podcast LIVE: The Week How Does Your Body Work? What Is Attraction? page 35 Unwrapped page 27 page 37 The Art And Science Of The Science Of Donald Trump Busy Bees page 43 Conversation page 39 page 31

6 7 GUEST CURATORS NEW Jessica Barker & FC FOR Tech & Cyber Programme Curators Cyber Zone 2018! FREE Supported by INTERACTIVE ZONE

Workshop Becoming A Chess Daily 10am–5pm Grandmaster Free Entry All Ages Friday 8 June, 4–5pm Late opening for adults Saturday 9 June, 3.30–4.30pm, Friday 8 June, 8–10pm 4.45–5.45pm Free no ticket required. Step into a fascinating Places limited, unreserved seating. digital world in the Cyber Whether you’re a complete beginner Zone, our new interactive or a chess Grandmaster, find out how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the space for 2018. game of chess. Try your hand as an ethical Jessica Barker is a leader in the FC is a well-known ethical hacker hacker, crack puzzles, pick human nature of cyber security. and social engineer. Having worked locks, and see what the future Cyber Talks She is frequently called on by closely alongside intelligence might look like as you come the broadcast media for her clear agencies, he has helped steer face-to-face with artificial Saturday 9 June, 1.30–2.30pm Sunday 10 June, 1.30–2.30pm and engaging communication of governments to take correct intelligence. Find out more technical subjects and is passionate courses of action against national about how to defend the Free no ticket required. about encouraging young people to threats and ‘broken into’ hundreds web, get hands-on with new Places limited, unreserved seating. become more engaged with cyber of banks, offices and government technology and hear from Come and hear leading experts give security. facilities to assist organisations to top experts in our packed an introduction to some of the hottest topics in cyber security in our free improve their security. programme of free activities Cyber Talks. and talks throughout the week. We’re looking forward to de- FC and Jessica are co-founders of Cyber Surgery: mystifying cyber security and Redacted Firm – one of Europe’s sharing this exciting and fast-paced only privately owned and vendor Ask The Expert world with the Science Festival agnostic security consultancy firms. Sunday 10 June, 3.15–4.15pm audience. Through live hacking Look out for our Free no ticket required. demonstrations, inspiring talks and Capture-The-Flag hacking Places limited, unreserved seating. Events to look out for: amazing hands-on activities in the challenges; suitable for How would you know if your emails Cyber Zone, we will be helping to How To Hack A Human page 39 teams and individuals of had been hacked and how can you keep Cyber Surgery: Ask the Experts your kids safe online? Join Festival Guest bring cyber security to life at this all ages and abilities. year’s Festival. page 40 Curators and leading cyber security How To Hack A Bank: LIVE page 41 Find out more on experts Jessica Barker and FC as they What Does The Internet Know pages 30 & 37 offer practical advice and answer your About You? page 42 questions.

8 9 FREE INTERACTIVE Daily 10am–5pm ZONE Discover Zone Daily 10am–5pm FREE Free Entry All Ages Free Entry All Ages INTERACTIVE ZONE A huge, free interactive space to get hands-on Enter a carnival of creativity in the with the latest exciting research and technology. MakerShack. Explore marvellous materials Find out more about the world and how it works; with virtual reality, aeroplane engineering, and discover traditional and futuristic chemistry, cyber security, quantum computing technology with our host of makers, and so much more! engineers, craftspeople and researchers. Code a robot to read a bedtime story, enter the Slime Factory to make your Friday 8 June, 8–10pm very own slime, get your hands dirty making felt, discover forever re-moldable Late opening thermoplastics, carve a path for a river, Over 16s only. Free Entry squidge clay into curious creations and so much more.

Friday 8 June, 8–10pm Late Opening For Adults Free entry

Don’t miss our special late opening for adults, the perfect opportunity for the curiously minded to explore after hours. Grab a drink at the bar and drop in to try all the activities, without kids.

Safran Landing Systems is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of aircraft landing and braking systems. We are proud to support Cheltenham Science Festival and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers as lead partner for the Discover Zone.

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8–10 June, 10am–5pm 5, 7 & 10 June, 10am–6pm EDF Energy Zone 6, 8 & 9 June, 10am–8pm GE Pavilion Careers evening, Friday 8 June, 5–7pm Late opening for adults, Friday 8 June, 8–10pm Careers evening, Friday 8 June, 5–7pm Free entry Free entry

EDF Energy is delighted to be the Associate Transport yourself to GE’s Digital Pavilion and connect with a world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Title Partner of Cheltenham Science Festival Exploring various hands-on engineering activities, you’ll connect with GE engineers who are solving big technology challenges and working on things that really matter Come and find out about our programmes to inspire the next to each of us: to come home and spend time with family, to see loved ones who are generation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM): far away, to be healthy and become strong and to follow our dreams. visit us in the EDF Energy Zone in Imperial Square to find out how we are During the Festival there will be a number of talks and activities to introduce young encouraging the scientists, engineers and thinkers of tomorrow. people to possible career paths, demonstrating how personal aspirations, interests and passions can go hand in hand with world industry and business needs. As the UK’s largest producer of low carbon electricity, Visit the GE Digital Pavilion to find out about career opportunities and how GE is EDF Energy is committed to helping young people understand solving engineering challenges by connecting the world. the great career opportunities available in a STEM related industry. Currently only one in five people working in core GE is on a mission to build, move, power and cure the world. We achieve this through the communication of ideas between science, technology, engineering and maths fields is female. our 295,000 employees who work in over 170 different countries. Our diversity of ideas is one of our greatest strengths, and Our Pretty Curious campaign aims to change this. connectivity brings us together. GE transforms industry by introducing brilliant new solutions to the world’s challenges. All of the GE success and innovation that you see around you is a result of the enthusiastic and creative people that work at GE.

12 13 SUPPORTING EMERGING TALENT As a registered charity we are committed to offering inspirational opportunities for young people through our year-round science education programme which runs alongside the Festival. Each year FREE we engage over 6,000 pupils and hundreds of teachers and our world famous FameLab project is supporting the next generation of science communicators across the globe.

SCIENCE FOR SCHOOLS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES On-Site Events FameLab International Shows, workshops and interactive zones will engage and Who will win the science showdown? Find out encourage the scientists, technologists, engineers and at FameLab, the global science communication mathematicians of the future. competition. Watch 29 national finalists from across the globe battle it out to become the FameLab International Champion 2018. Free Semi-Finals Wednesday 6 June page 20

Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 June 2018

Look out for free activities and hands-on fun for all the family International Final in our Festival Village and across Cheltenham town centre! Thursday 7 June page 27 From experiments to pop-up performances, you will find incredible science and geeky entertainment out on the street, Look out for previous FameLab in local bars and pubs! FameLab Academy contestants in: An Introduction To Keep an eye on our website for the full ...around town programme Over 1700 pupils have participated in the flagship outreach Nanotechnology page 17 – to be announced in May! cheltenhamfestivals.com/around-town programme for Year 9 students this year. The project page 26 develops confidence, increases communication skills and Smart Materials encourages STEM enquiry. Born To Sum page 31 How To Find Dark Matter page 33 LabLive The Element In The Room page 34 Reaching out beyond Gloucestershire, our national tour Science Of Star Wars page 38 brings the best of Cheltenham Science Festival to teenagers Nature’s Secret Patterns page 43 across the UK. Join us on Saturday and Sunday for a To find out more visit bucketful of family fun! Go on an explosive cheltenhamfestivals.com/education and bizarre journey to discover the science of sweets with Stefan Gates and Andrea Sella, fly to Mars with Maddie Moate, join With thanks to our Education Programme Partners: marvellous mathematicians Katie Steckles and Zoe Griffiths, and much more! Introducing Spyder! This super special secret agent will be popping up throughout the brochure and at the Festival on a secret mission to help families find fun activities to enjoy. Her spy-kit is packed with binoculars, a top-secret laser pen and... a cup of tea. Where will you spot her on site? Programme details on pages 36–37 and 42–43. 14 15 TUESDAY 5 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com TUESDAY 5 JUNE Arts Centre CLC, Parabola ExperiTent The Pillar Room The Cube Helix Theatre The Crucible The Arena TUESDAY 4.45–5.45pm S005 Connected:Divided The Evolution Of Communication 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 5

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From singing and dancing to connecting through touch, human interaction has PLANNER developed over centuries. Why is it that 3.30–4.30pm S003 we’ve acquired the remarkable capacity for language, and how do social systems Connected:Divided and communicative behaviours found in the animal kingdom differ from our own? The Value Of Linguist David Adger and psychologist Human Contact and primatologist Zanna Clay trace the evolution of communication and explore Cheltenham Ladies’ College, how social interaction has enabled us to Parabola Arts Centre form diverse and complex societies. £7 *

2.15–3.15pm S001 Loneliness has been shown to have HISTORY OF S001 ROBOTS The History Of a major impact on our mental and THE physical health and lifelong wellbeing. Robots How does a lack of human interaction affect us? Psychologists Rory O’Connor The Crucible and Manuela Barreto join population S003

MASTERING MASTERING health researcher Aparna Shankar to OF HUMAN CONTACT MEMORY £7 * THE VALUE VALUE THE S002 explore why social relationships are

Joining us from the Science Museum, so important and how we can help curator Ben Russell reveals highlights ourselves and others stay connected. from their blockbuster Robots COMMUNICATION INTRODUCTION TO NANOTECH EVOLUTION OF exhibition exploring the incredible 500- S005 NOLOGY S004 year story of humanoid robots. From THE AN a 16th century mechanical monk to robots from science fiction he uncovers - how robots and society have been S006 shaped by religious belief, the Industrial SECRET LIVES OF INTRODUCTION S008 TO CRACKING TO CRACKING SCIENCE GOT HOW NOT TO TO NOT HOW GET CAUGHT THE HEART: INSIDE MEN WRONG WOMEN AND WOMEN AND OCTOPUSES 4.45–5.45pm S004 S009 S010 AND OUT Revolution, 20th century popular S011 CODES HUNTED: culture and our dreams of the future. THE HOW AN An Introduction To 5.45–7.15pm S006

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UNBELIEVABLE 3.30–4.30pm S002 Helix Theatre CONNECTED YET DIVIDED Hunted: How Not S013 BRAIN S012 £7 * The Heart: Inside YOUR YOUR Mastering Memory To Get Caught S007

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OF THE TEENAGE seems – the world of nanotechnology. S016 S017 S015 S014 TAX DILEMMA TAX * DYNAMICS Materials scientist Jamie Gallagher shrinks £12 Ages 16+ THE GREAT GREAT THE BRAIN CELLULAR CELLULAR OF CIDER SECRETS THE SCIENCE What happens in the brain when we learn down and gets hands on with the tiny Would you have what it takes to go on and create memories? And why shouldn’t tech that is changing our phones, food, Small but strong, the average heart the run? Channel 4’s Hunted experts, we believe everything we remember? sport and health. Delve into a world where weighs only 300g but beats a staggering cyber lead Paul Vlissidis, forensic Ginny Smith looks at how memories are pencils are stronger than steel, metal 100,000 times in a day to pump over psychologist Donna Youngs and stored, how this process can go wrong becomes transparent and robots become 6,000 litres of blood around the body. former military intelligence operative and how the brain changes as we age. doctors. Anatomists from the University of Steve Cottam join Dallas Campbell to With tips and tricks from psychology and Bristol take you on a guided tour of explore the cutting-edge techniques neuroscience to improve these processes this incredible organ: work in groups and covert tactics used by police and at any stage in our lives. to dissect a heart as you find out how surveillance officials to hunt wanted they develop and function, and discover criminals and consider their best tips the anatomy behind common heart for survival if they were forced to go conditions. off-grid.

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8.30–9.30pm S016 6–7pm S009 Connected:Divided Current Affairs The Great Tax How Science Got Dilemma Women And Men Wrong The Cube £8 * Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Tax revenue from both businesses and Parabola Arts Centre individuals is essential to pay for the public £8 * services we all want and need. But who’s paying tax and are they paying too much? For centuries, we’ve been told men and Who should be paying more or less? Tax women are fundamentally different, economist Helen Miller explores how our caused by an unholy alliance of genes, tax system underpins feelings of fairness in hormones and neurons. But maybe our society and asks whether we can ever biological sex isn’t the diverging force make progress if we don’t all agree on what we’ve been led to believe. Psychologist makes a ‘fair’ system. Cordelia Fine and science journalist Angela Saini join TV presenter Javid Abdelmoneim to explore the ferocious 7.15–8.15pm S013 gender wars in biology, psychology 8.30–9.30pm S017 and anthropology to separate fact from 6–7pm S010 Your Unbelievable fiction. The Secret Lives Brain: Wine, Cellular Of Octopuses Sleep And Dynamics Exercise Cheltenham Ladies’ College, The Cube Parabola Arts Centre * Helix Theatre £8 £10 * £8 * Octopuses are the smartest and Blending live musical performance strangest spineless creatures on earth. Is it possible to cleanse your brain with and spectacular scientific images, With big brains, eight arms that think for alcohol, detoxify the mind with sleep bioscientist Dan Lloyd and pianist themselves, three hearts, blue blood or even run the blues away? Faced Matthew King embark on a journey of and stealth camouflage, they’re the with the discovery of a revolutionary discovery. The music of Philip Glass, closest we have to intelligent aliens new brain pathway, the glymphatic Tarik O’Regan, Claude Debussy and living right here on earth. Marine Mark Lythgoe system, neuroscientists , others accompany spectacular image biologist Helen Scales explores their Jack Wells Ian Harrison and look at and video projection in a performance remarkable lives and what they can tell 7.15–8.15pm S012 the impact this has on how we look exploring the fundamental processes us about other intelligent life forms we Connected:Divided after our minds and whether this is a within living cells. might be sharing our universe with. game-changer for the discovery of new 8.30–9.30pm S015 Connected Yet medicines. Secrets Of The Divided 6–7pm S011 Teenage Brain The Crucible 8.30–9.45pm S014 The Arena An Introduction £8 * To Cracking Codes The Science Of £9 * Free movement has led to the Cider Our adolescent years may be a time emergence of diverse societies, and The Pillar Room of vulnerability, risk taking and erratic the internet has given us a window into £8 * The Pillar Room outbursts, but they also represent a the lives of others around the world. period of enormous development and Despite this increased connectedness, it £12 * Over 18s only From Bletchley Park’s Enigma to Easter creativity. Neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne seems that hatred and intolerance is on Island’s bewildering Rongorongo, codes Whether you like it dry or sweet, still or Blakemore explores the brain changes the rise, with tribal politics taking centre can help to win wars, conceal state secrets sparkling, enjoy a delicious selection of responsible for the hallmarks of teenage stage. Barrister Hashi Mohamed joins and protect privacy. Join writer Mark Frary ciders as the technical team from local behaviour and shows why this period the Runnymede Trust’s Zubaida Haque, as he dives into the mysterious world of Herefordshire cider maker Westons Cider of our lives should be acknowledged, intergroup relations expert Dominic cryptography, revealing the secrets behind take you on a fascinating tour of the cider- nurtured and celebrated as the time Abrams and political psychologist cracking different codes and ciphers and making process. From fruit pressing to when we truly invented ourselves. Emma O’Dwyer to explore what is sharing the incredible stories of some of fermentation, discover the science behind driving this crisis of division and to the most famous codebreakers in history. the perfect pint in this sure to be scrumpy- consider how we might bring local and tious event. global communities together. 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PLANNER The world’s greatest international science Face Director Rachael Savage reflect upon communication competition returns! how far our understanding of this disorder With only three minutes to enlighten has advanced, and consider how we can and entertain judges and audience, the continue to better support those affected. pressure is on for our contestants. Join our For details about A Brave Face visit 29 national finalists from across the globe

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YEARS ON 7 June, 8.45pm. Elephants PTSD: 100 100 PTSD: Digital Futures Cheltenham Ladies’ College, GE Pavilion Parabola Arts Centre Free no ticket required £7 * DO WE SOLVE THE PLASTIC THE PLASTIC S024 S024 ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS PROBLEM? S023 Pop into the GE Digital Pavilion and sign WITH

LIVING Join wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly HOW up for our programming workshop! You to explore the realities of elephant will have the chance to work with GE conservation from her time in Laikipia, engineers to design and build your own

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OUR OUR and people and find out how her experiences on the ground have shaped 1–2pm S021 her research. S028 WILDLIFE QUESTION OF EXTREMISM S027 OF CHANGE?

S029 3.30–4.30pm S023 A CLIMATE A CLIMATE THE RISE RISE THE The Future Of TIME GARDEN Flight How Do We Solve The Plastic 4.45–5.45pm S025 Cheltenham Ladies’ College, WE ALL BECOME BECOME ALL WE TECH BAD FOR FOR BAD TECH S030 S031 Parabola Arts Centre Problem? How Special VEGAN? YOU? IS YOUR SHOULD * £7 The Arena Is Our Solar Throughout history, aircraft have £7 * System? helped us protect our lands and UNDERSTANDING

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S033 S033 the foundation of the RAF, Nicholas THE RISE RISE THE US? £7 * CAN Lawson from the National Flying only 15% being recycled. With our oil reserves rapidly depleting and the Laboratory Centre, RAF Squadron Over 3,700 planets have been plastic waste pile growing larger every Leader and engineer Tim Lenaerts discovered orbiting around other stars, minute, something needs to change. and GE Aviation’s Peter Silverthorne and there could be as many as 100 Materials engineer Mark Miodownik explore what the future holds for billion in our galaxy. But what do we looks for solutions with designer Sophie aviation, from hypersonic military jets know about our own Solar System and Thomas and Recycling Technologies’ to electric passenger aircraft. what are the chances of finding another Adrian Griffiths. Earth-like planet? Looking at planets near and far, astronomer Dhara Patel asks – how special is our corner of the Universe?

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5–6pm S026 6–7pm S027 Connected:Divided Connected:Divided 7.15–8.15pm S030 Our Wired World The Rise Of Should We All Become Vegan? The Cube Extremism The Crucible £7 * The Pillar Room £9 * How is our increasingly connected world £8 * changing the way we live? Discover the Many argue that cutting meat from our The UK has seen a sharp rise in both digital technologies that are wiring our plates will not only improve our health, far-right and Islamist violence, from world from smart office buildings to power but will help save the planet from hate-crime to devastating attacks that have plants, as digital transformation enthusiast harmful emissions caused by animal claimed innocent lives. How much do we Deborah Sherry talks to Dallas Campbell farming. Chatham House’s Rob Bailey, know about the psychology of extremism, about her mission to deliver the next food climate research expert Tara and what are the triggers that put people industrial revolution. Garnett, livestock sustainability adviser at risk? Barrister Hashi Mohamed joins Jude Capper and chef and The Angry far-right extremism specialist Vidhya Chef author Anthony Warner deliberate Ramalingam and terrorism expert Andrew over whether the surging number of Silke, as they examine the common vegans really do have the answer to our characteristics of extremist behaviour and search for a sustainable, ethical and consider how we might better respond to nutritious diet. 8.30–9.30pm S032 8.30–9.30pm S033 and prevent radicalisation. 6–7pm S028 The Rise Of The Understanding A Climate Of Dinosaurs Poverty Change? The Pillar Room Helix Theatre £8 * £8 * Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Parabola Arts Centre We’ve heard the end of the dinosaur Headlines reveal millions of people are £8 * story – but what about its beginning? living in poverty in the UK. But what does How did these prehistoric giants being poor mean in the 21st century and Why is so little being done to secure the rise to dominate the planet for 150 how are individuals affected by their future of our planet? Around the world, million years? Join paleontologist inability to afford to participate in society? a newly-engaged millennial generation Steve Brusatte to discover how a new Barrister Hashi Mohamed joins researchers is taking to the streets and to social generation of dinosaur hunters armed Joanna Mack and Suzanne Fitzpatrick media to demand change and a better with cutting edge technology are and economist Stewart Lansley to go future. The renowned environmental piecing together the whole story. beyond the hype and headlines to reveal 8.30–9.30pm S035 campaigner Jonathon Porritt explains the truth about poverty, homelessness and Royal Society why a sustainable world still seems inequality. such a difficult concept for our political Michael Faraday leaders, and investigates the possibility Lecture that the next generation will succeed where we have failed. 8.30–9.30pm S034 Can Materials 6–7.15pm S029 7.15–8.15pm S031 Connected:Divided Science Save Us? Garden Wildlife Is Your Tech Bad Boredom: Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Question Time For You? The Upside Of Parabola Arts Centre £9 * The Arena The Cube Downtime £9 * £8 * Imagine a world in which buildings The Arena harvest their own energy, bridges Our gardens form a vital part of a vast Could you imagine a world without screen £9 * repair themselves and the clothes you living landscape, linking green spaces time? From mobile phones to social media, wear can make you live longer. In his in towns and cities with nature reserves technology has transformed our lives When was the last time you daydreamed landmark Michael Faraday Prize lecture and the countryside. Join wildlife beyond recognition. Yet our reliance upon or had a truly empty weekend? In our Mark Miodownik argues that only a gardener Kate Bradbury, amphibian digital devices is rarely out of the headlines, hyper-connected society with a world proper understanding of materials enthusiast Jules Howard and bug- and concerns are frequently raised about of entertainment at our fingertips, we’ve science will allow us to navigate the botherer Adam Hart to find out how the negative impacts of the tech we hold been taught to fear boredom when it future successfully, bringing huge you can create a haven for wildlife in dear. Guest Curator Olly Mann is joined is in fact a vital catalyst for reflection, benefits to society as a whole. your own garden – with lots of time for by online behaviour specialist Adam creativity and inspiration. Psychologist questions. Joinson and other leading experts as they Sandi Mann shows us how to learn to Send your questions in advance to deliberate over the true implications of embrace boredom and appreciate the [email protected] our dependence on all things digital for upside of our downtime. society’s values, privacy and behaviour. 22 *Plus booking fee: charged at £2 per order. 23 THURSDAY 7 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com THURSDAY 7 JUNE Arts Centre CLC, Parabola ExperiTent The Pillar Room The Cube Helix Theatre The Crucible The Arena THURSDAY 1–2pm S036 4.45–5.45pm S042 The World’s 3.30–4.30pm S038 3.30–4.30pm S040 The Truth About Connected:Divided Strangest Brains The Trouble With Fasting Mobile Phones The Human- 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 Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Animal Bond Helix Theatre Parabola Arts Centre The Pillar Room £8 *

7 £7 * £7 * The Crucible JUNE JUNE £7 * Can banishing breakfast boost your From the man who thinks he’s a tiger to Whether we like it or not, mobile metabolism? Could cutting calories the doctor who feels the pain of others, phones are an integral part of modern Whether loved as family pets or increase concentration? Intermittent science writer Helen Thomson has spent life. There are concerns about their providing therapeutic support, the role fasting is never far from the headlines, with

PLANNER years travelling the world tracking down effect on our health and worries that of animals in our lives can be traced many suggesting that going hungry for incredibly rare brain disorders. Delving the mainstream technology all looks right back to our ancient ancestors. short periods can have a positive impact on into the rich histories of these conditions and acts the same. Could developments Anthrozoologist John Bradshaw, Pets your health. Join nutrition specialist James and exploring the latest research, she from the slums and townships of India, As Therapy Chair and former mental Betts and brain expert Jeff Davies as they considers how the brain can shape our lives Kenya and South Africa inspire new health nurse Anne Clilverd and her discuss the latest research into metabolism Matt in unexpected and, in some cases, brilliant technology? Computer scientist therapy dog Cesc explore the very and attempt to sort fasting-facts from Jones and alarming ways. In discussion with explores ideas and prototypes special relationship that we share with fasting-fiction with Ginny Smith.

STRANGEST STRANGEST with the potential to change the way we S036 WORLD’S Dallas Campbell. BRAINS the animals living among us. think about our mobiles. THE WOODLANDS S037 ANCIENT OUR MOBILE PHONES HUMAN-ANIMAL TROUBLE WITH GOT GMOS SO SO GMOS GOT S039 WAR THE NEW NEW THE WAR S041 COLD WAR? COLD 3.30–4.30pm S039 S040 S038 WRONG BOND IS CYBER WHY WE THE THE Connected:Divided Is Cyber War The

S043 New Cold War? TRUTH ABOUT S042 FASTING OF IVF THE BIRTH

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S048 2.15–3.15pm AND SUFFRAGE: AND SUFFRAGE: S037 S050 CELEBRATION A CENTENARY A CENTENARY S047 HOW NOT TO TO NOT HOW ADDICTION? SCIENCE OF From claims of Russian interference in the S049 MARVEL GIVE UP WILLPOWER: SCIENCE WHAT IS Our Ancient US election to the string of recent attacks THE THE launched by North Korea, there can be DIAMOND THIEF? YOU CATCH THE THE CATCH YOU Woodlands S045 no doubt that the threat of cyberwarfare

CSI: CAN Helix Theatre is growing. International security expert 4.45–5.45pm S043 S052 LIVE: THE WEEK WEEK THE LIVE: Beyza Unal and Professor of Cybersecurity UNWRAPPED S051 3.30–4.30pm S041 MATERIALS £7 * Sadie Creese consider the catastrophic PODCAST PODCAST The Birth Of IVF SMART SMART effects that would result from an attack Why We Got If trees could talk, they would say

DIAMOND THIEF? on a nation’s critical infrastructure, and YOU CATCH THE THE CATCH YOU The Cube S046 history was built on their branches. GMOs So Wrong explore how experts are working to defend £7 * CSI: CAN Full of character and sometimes against hostile actors in the virtual world. S054 S055 centuries old, they are a legacy of how The Arena SCIENCE OF SWEARING TASTING MENU S053 SURGERY In the year that the world’s first test tube DEEP BRAIN BRAIN DEEP A VERY VEGAN VEGAN A VERY INTERNATIONAL FINAL we’ve used the land and have been an £8 *

THE THE baby turns 40, we celebrate the pioneering

S056 economic necessity for generations. technique that led to this moment. But why and how should we nurture Many across the globe still see FAMELAB FAMELAB Andrologist Allan Pacey is joined by the next generation of ancient trees? genetically modified food as bad Chair of the British Fertility Society Jane Join ancient tree enthusiast Saul for their health or the environment. Stewart, scientist Kay Elder and bioethicist Herbert, and landscape historian Tom Journalist and environmental activist John Harris, as they discuss how fertility Williamson for a lively discussion. Mark Lynas was one of the original GM treatments have advanced and developed field wreckers – descending on trial and consider what the future holds for IVF. sites of genetically modified crops at night to hack them to pieces. Join him With thanks to Progress Educational Trust to find out why he has made a complete U-turn and now champions their use.

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5.30–6.30pm S044 6.45–7.45pm S045 7.15–8.15pm S052 8–9pm S046 Current Affairs Workshop Podcast LIVE: CSI: Can You The Week Catch The Unwrapped Diamond Thief? Helix Theatre ExperiTent £8 * This event is being recorded for £10 * the podcast. Latecomers may not be admitted. The Bear-Eye Diamond has been stolen from a safe in the Duchess of Goldthorn’s Join Guest Curator Olly Mann, Arion 8.45–10.15pm S056 bedroom and someone is missing! Can you McNicoll and Rebecca Gillie for a help forensic scientists from the University live podcast recording with special Entertainment of Wolverhampton crack the case? Try your guest, geneticist and broadcaster hand at infrared analysis, blood pattern Adam Rutherford. Delving into three FameLab 6–7pm analysis and other forensic techniques in S050 important news stories that haven’t 8.30–9.30pm S054 International the race to identify the thief and kidnapper. had the attention they deserve, the Science And team behind The Week Unwrapped Deep Brain Final Suffrage: digs below the headlines to discuss the Surgery issues that could affect our lives in years The Arena 6–7pm S047 A Centenary to come. The Crucible £10 * Celebration * What Is £8 They are charismatic masters of Addiction? Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Brain surgery is complex and at times rhetoric and really know their stuff: Parabola Arts Centre dangerous. Combining neuroscience watch the world’s best and brightest science communicators fight for the The Pillar Room £8 * with hi-tech nanomagnets, Mark Lythgoe £8 * and his UCL team have devised a way of title of FameLab International Champion 2018 live at the Festival. Get your mind The dark years of World War One led replacing surgeons with remote control Coffee, chocolate, exercise, gambling, nano-scalpels, automatically removing blown, roll on the floor with laughter many extraordinary women to enter and learn some new science facts work, smart phones… they can all be conventionally male domains, including cancers, or altering the fine circuits that described as addictive. But when do create our mind. Speaking about the as our finalists deliver their three- science and medicine. To celebrate 100 minute performances in front of a bad habits, cravings and excess become years since some women first received technology for the first time, they test the true ‘addiction’? Is there such a thing boundaries of what is practical, possible, distinguished panel of judges. Hosted the vote, historians Patricia Fara and by Quentin Cooper. as having an addictive personality? Sarah Richardson join broadcaster ethical or even desirable. Psychologist Mark Griffiths uncovers Vivienne Parry to explore the legacy the myths and mysteries surrounding of the suffrage movement, and to addictive behaviour. celebrate those whose achievements 8.30–9.45pm S055 and discoveries bravely paved the way 6–7pm S049 for today’s female scientists. A Very Vegan 8.30–9.30pm S053 6–7pm S048 Entertainment Tasting Menu Willpower: How The Science Of Entertainment The Science Of The Pillar Room Not To Give Up Marvel * Swearing £15 The Arena The Crucible 7.15–8.15pm S051 From dairy-free cheese and ice cream £8 * £10 * Cheltenham Ladies’ College, to seaweed caviar – whether you’ve Smart Materials Parabola Arts Centre gone meat free or are just curious We often complain about having no As the scientific advisor for movies £9 * about the alternatives, vegan foods can willpower when it comes to eating including Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: The Cube make a tasty addition to your diet. Try a healthily, doing more exercise or sticking Infinity War, Clifford V. Johnsonuses £8 * Not only has some form of swearing range of innovative and delicious foods to a budget. Sometimes it may seem all his knowledge of space travel, black existed since the earliest humans began to yourself with vegan chef Day Radley too easy to give up, but is there a better holes and theoretical physics to help You’ve heard of smart phones, smart communicate, it has been shown to reduce and gastronaut Stefan Gates as your way to ingrain new behaviours so that bring the Marvel Universe to life on the watches and even smart fridges. Now it’s physical pain and help stroke victims guides, in an event that is sure to leave we’re more likely to make them habit? big screen. Join him as he explores what the turn of smart materials: solid objects recover their language, benefiting us both your taste buds tingling. With psychologists Chris Armitage and happens when the worlds of science that can react, sense, change and move in physically and emotionally. Timandra With Thanks to Ian Taylor. and comic books collide in what is sure response to their environments. Embark on Harkness joins sweary scientist Emma to be a blockbuster event. a smart materials safari with engineer Anna Byrne to dig deeper into the fascinating Ploszajski as your guide, find out what facts behind F@*!, B*&!*CKS and S*%£ exists today and discover the futuristic in this hilarious defence of our most material world of tomorrow. cherished naughty words. 26 *Plus booking fee: charged at £2 per order. 27 FRIDAY 8 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com FRIDAY 8 JUNE Arts Centre CLC, Parabola Cyber Zone ExperiTent The Pillar Room The Cube Helix Theatre The Crucible The Arena FRIDAY 11.45am–12.45pm S057 1–2pm S059 3.30–4.30pm S062 3.30–4.30pm S064 A Driverless Future Resilience High Blood Pressure Frank Close: Helix Theatre The Crucible And The Body A Life Scientific

8 £7 * £7 * 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 The Pillar Room JUNE JUNE The Crucible Self-driving cars promise to transform Whether it’s coping in a crisis or overcoming £7 * £8 * This event will be recorded for Radio our experience of day-to-day travel: less serious illness, we can gain valuable 4’s The Life Scientific. Latecomers may not Affecting approximately 15 million people pollution, fewer accidents, more sharing. insights into resilience from those who are be admitted. in the UK, high blood pressure can lead

PLANNER But with a machine doing the driving, what trained to perform in the face of adversity, to a range of serious health conditions new questions arise around the safety of stress and pressure in the most extreme In his 1983 best-seller The Cosmic Onion, including heart disease and stroke if left passengers and the public? As driverless conditions. Polar adventurer Antony physicist Frank Close introduced an entire untreated. Mark Lythgoe is joined by blood generation to the idea of quarks, one of

UNDERSTANDING cars start to become a reality, BBC Jinman, performance scientist and Olympic

THE ANXIOUS pressure monitoring specialist Richard DRIVERLESS Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan- coach Steve Ingham and psychologist the elementary particles that make up FUTURE S057 MIND S058 McManus and other leading experts to Jones joins legal technologist Emma and neuroscientist Elaine Fox discuss the matter. From neutrinos and antimatter discuss the latest research and advice, A Wright, human factors specialist Natasha science behind succeeding when your mind to hadrons and ‘glueballs’, his work and and to consider what individuals can do Merat and autonomous robotics expert and body are pushed to the limit. writing has led to a better understanding of to help prevent or manage a diagnosis of Paul Newman as they attempt to navigate the foundations of the physical world. He hypertension. S059 the questions and concerns raised on the talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his remarkable career as a particle physicist, science RESILIENCE road towards a driverless future. communicator and author. 2.15–3.15pm S060 How Predictable 4–5pm S065 DEPRESSANTS: ARE THEY THE PREDICTABLE PREDICTABLE Are You? S061 S060 ARE YOU? ANSWER? Workshop ANTI- HOW Helix Theatre * Becoming A Chessess £7 Grandmaster

BLOOD PRESSURE BLOOD PRESSURE What aspects of human behaviour can AND THE BODY S063 CLOSE: A LIFE A LIFE CLOSE: S064 THE HUMAN SCIENTIFIC S062 JOURNEY we predict? And how accurate can these Cyber Zone MAPPING FRANK FRANK HIGH predictions be? Psychologist Bradley S065 GRANDMASTER Free Places limited, unreserved seatingeating Love, mathematicians Hannah Fry A CHESS A CHESS BECOMING and Aoife Hunt and research scientist Whether you’re a complete beginnerr Jonathan Beber discuss what data

COMMUNICATION or a champion player, join this sessionon S068 THE FUTURE S066 S067 THE HOSPITAL IS OUR FOOD FOOD OUR IS can and can’t tell us about ourselves – OF HUMAN to discover how artificial intelligencee is SUPPLY? LIFE INSIDE HOW SAFE SAFE HOW exploring the worlds of online dating, transforming the game of chess. Learnrn crime, crowd behaviour, shopping about the brand new chess strategiess habits, terrorism and more. created by AlphaZero with just four hourshours of play. And then put its most creative mmovesoves AND WORMHOLES ABOUT EXERCISE ENTANGLEMENT, S073 TELEPORTATION SURVIVE SOCIAL to the test, guided by chess Grandmasteraster DEMOCRACY

S070 11.45am–12.45pm S058 MEDIA? THE TRUTH Matthew Sadler and Women’s Internationalnational S071 3.30–4.30pm S063 CAN 2.15–3.15pm S061 Master Natasha Regan. S072 Why Worry? Connected:Divided

CAPTURE-THE-FLAG: HACKING CHALLENGE Antidepressants: Understanding Mapping The S074 S075

EINSTEIN: THE Are They The S076 The Anxious FUTURE OF

PHYSICS Human Journey PANDEMIC LIVE BORN TO S077 SUM BEYOND Mind Answer?

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S078 Life Inside The DONALD TRUMP TICAL GUIDE TO TO GUIDE TICAL

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DROP IN LIVE gone from the nursery of Africa to Hospital CODING THE THE ALGORAVE: From niggling negative thoughts to the Antidepressant drugs receive a lot of the people we are today – a journey inability to focus on everyday activities, bad press, with suggestions that they that’s seen us spread around the globe Helix Theatre anxiety and worry can make life very are ineffective, over-prescribed and that and morph from hunter-gatherers to £8 * hard for those affected. Where do these their use is based on biased research. Yet farmers to city dwellers. Join anatomist thoughts come from and is it possible every day they help millions of people and Alice Roberts, geneticists Adam In the corridors and consulting rooms, FESTIVAL PARTY NIGHT can even save lives. Neuroscientist Dean by the bedside and through the eyes of

S080 to prevent them? Clinical psychologist Rutherford and Pontus Skoglund, Colette Hirsch explores the thinking Burnett, mental health expert Ann John and archaeologist Brenna Hassett porters, junior doctors and consultants: in ALGORAVE: ALGORAVE: habits that cause and exacerbate worry and GP Clare Gerada explore whether we to explore how we are mapping our his new novel Histories, doctor and writer and anxiety disorders, and discusses can lift the stigma attached to the use of journey via cutting edge genetic Sam Guglani tells the powerful story of how a better understanding could lead this medication. research and studies of human remains life in one hospital. He lifts the lid on the to new therapies. from around the world. emotional and physical world of medicine and explores what it means to be a doctor. 28 *Plus booking fee: charged at £2 per order. 29 FRIDAY 8 JUNE 6–10pm S072 cheltenhamfestivals.com FRIDAY 8 JUNE Capture-The-Flag: 5–7pm S069 Hacking Challenge 4.45–5.45pm S067 Careers Evening 7.15–8.15pm S075 8–10pm How Safe Is Our Cyber Zone Born To Sum Discover Zone, Food Supply? Various Venues £6 * Ages 18+ Cyber Zone & Free Suitable for ages 14+ The Cube Are you good at solving problems and The Cube £8 * MakerShack Late Tomorrow’s science could be in your cracking puzzles? Then come and test your £7 * skills in our Capture-The-Flag hacking Opening hands! Explore some of the amazing From Bob Dylan and Beyonce’s 8.30–9.30pm S078 careers on offer in STEM with recent evening. Work in teams to unravel cyber algebraic song titles to Kate Bush’s One of the biggest threats to our food Free no ticket required apprentices and graduates from EDF, challenges ranging from easy to brain- (near) perfect recital of pi to fifty security is disease of our livestock and An Impractical GE, Hartpury College, the University of busting, and win points as you attempt to decimal places, pop stars have crops. Disease affects our economy and Don’t miss our special late opening Gloucestershire and others. Whether top the leaderboard. Who will successfully been dropping maths references for Guide To Leaving the availability of food in our shops. for adults, the perfect opportunity for you are considering GCSEs, A Levels, solve the most challenges and leave decades. It just takes a certain kind of Don King, Head of the World Reference The Planet the curiously-minded to explore after apprenticeships or degrees, discuss your victorious? Join us to see if you’ve got maths pedant to notice them – enter Lab for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, hours. Grab a drink at the bar and drop aspirations and the different pathways what it takes to become a Science Festival folk mathematician and 2016 FameLab chemical ecologist John Pickett and The Crucible in to try all the activities, without kids. available to fulfill them. Pick up an event hacking champion. UK Champion Kyle D Evans and his food systems researcher John Ingram £9 * map from our Box Office and discover four trusty guitar to lead you on a comedic join climate scientist Tamsin Edwards to of our interactive zones. musical tour. explore the risks to the UK’s food supply For almost all human history we have and how preventing and controlling been firmly rooted to the Earth. But these diseases keeps our store 6–7pm S070 what if you want to get off? From the history of early rocket science to Elon cupboards well-stocked. 6–7pm S073 7.15–8.15pm S076 Current Affairs Musk’s wild plan to inhabit Mars, Adam Can Democracy The Truth About Beyond Einstein: Rutherford joins Dallas Campbell for some expert advice and eclectic space Survive Social Exercise The Future Of travel stories. For anyone who has Media? Physics looked up in wonder at the stars... and The Crucible then wondered how to get there. The Pillar Room £8 * Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 4.45–5.45pm S068 Parabola Arts Centre £8 * 10,000 steps every day, high intensity Connected:Divided interval training – whatever your fitness £9 * The Future Facebook and Twitter have been labelled goals, advice about exercise can be as minefields of misinformation, amplifying overwhelming. So what are the most Albert Einstein’s theories about gravity, Of Human political divisions and disrupting effective ways to stay fit, healthy and space and time have formed the backbone Algorave S080 democratic processes. Yet online activism motivated? Physiologist and Olympic of physics for over a century. Experimental Communication can be an unstoppable force, holding those trainer Steve Ingham, performance and results seem to keep confirming his ideas The Pillar Room in power to account. Quentin Cooper joins clinical dietitian Renee McGregor and – but theoretical physicists are raising Free no ticket required Cheltenham Ladies’ College, political communications specialist Natalie questions and pushing for a rethink. Could exercise psychologist Ian Taylor cut the The bar will be open during this event. Parabola Arts Centre Fenton, social media analyst Carl Miller, fads from the facts and share their top tips Einstein have got it wrong? What could £8 * security expert and Bellingcat contributor for workout success. a new theory explain? Andrew Pontzen An Algorave is a party where electronic Dan Kaszeta and freelance writer and Head ponders this with theoretical physicist music is generated live from algorithms. How will we socialise in the future? Thanks of Product at Factmata Martin Robbins Clifford Johnson and cosmologists 8.30–9.30pm S079 The word was coined around 2012, to advances in technology, it is as easy to consider whether democracy can be Erminia Calabrese and Clare Burrage. initially as a joke, but has since taken to talk to someone on the other side of protected in the age of the internet, or if Current Affairs hold with Algoraves taking place in over the world as it is to speak to a neighbour. social media really spells its end. 40 cities around the world. Yet despite its many benefits, concerns 7.30–9.30pm S077 The Science Of 7.15–8.30pm S074 have been raised about the decrease of 6–7pm S071 Workshop Donald Trump 8.45–9.45pm face-to-face interaction in our increasingly Pandemic Livee Drop in Live Coding wired world. Professor of Social Interaction Entanglement, The Maths Behind The Arena Computer programming is often Elizabeth Stokoe, neuroscientist Sophie Helix Theatre £10 * portrayed as a solitary activity, but it Scott and internet sociologist Bernie Teleportation And Board Gamesmes £8 * can also be used to express yourself Hogan explore what the future of Wormholes From hot-headed Twitter outbursts to and build social connections through a communication might hold with Timandra ExperiTent A deadly new virus has hit British farmsf his withdrawal from the Paris climate shared experience of music. Drop in and Harkness. £12 * The Arena and scientists are worried it may soon deal, Donald Trump’s Presidency have a go yourself. £10 * has changed the face of politics. spread to humans. As this fast-changing Want to brush up on your board game Neuroscientist Dean Burnett, freelance 10–11.30pm situation develops, our panel need skills? Join marvellous mathematician What does the quantum entanglement writer and Head of Product at Factmata Festival Party Night your help to decide what to do next. Katie Steckles for a games night with of particles have in common with the Martin Robbins, security specialist Dan Alex McLean, Joanne Armitage (from Virologist Pip Beard, entomologist a difference. Game theory, calculation, structure of space and time inside a black Kaszeta and climate scientist Tamsin Algobabez) and Joe Wilk write the Simon Carpenter and biodefence strategy and probability will all come into hole? Answer: wormholes. Maybe. Jim Edwards attempt to unravel the impact code to make you dance, with Antonio expert Richard Hatchett join play (pun intended) as you shake, roll and Al-Khalili explores this new idea, known as of Trump’s personality and policies on Roberts on visuals. mathematician Hannah Fry to navigate move your way to victory. Try your hand at ER=EPR. It may well be wrong, but if right our people, our planet and our global this worrying outbreak. a selection of board games kindly provided could turn out to be the fundamental idea democracy with Festival Guest Curator by Proud Lion. in 21st century physics. So maybe it’s just Olly Mann. too delicious an idea not to consider!? 30 *Plus booking fee: charged at £2 per order. 31 SATURDAY 9 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SATURDAY 9 JUNE Dance Studio CLC, Parabola Arts Centre CLC, Parabola Cyber Zone ExperiTent The Pillar Room The Cube Helix Theatre The Crucible The Arena SATURDAY

Family Events Family 1.30–2.30pm S085 1.45–2.45pm S088 Cyber Talks Unmasking Art’s Cyber Zone Secrets Free no ticket required SF11 COLOURFUL COLOURFUL 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 The Cube CHEMISTRY OWN UNIVERSE SF02 SF03 MISSION TO SCIENCE OF

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CAPTURE-THE-FLAG: CAPTURE-THE-FLAG: JUNE JUNE Grab a seat and hear from our leading From unmasking fakes to uncovering layers experts about some of the hottest topics in hidden for generations, cutting-edge the world of cyber. science is helping to expose some of the COLOURFUL COLOURFUL S081 CHEMISTRY ANIMAL ESCAPE S082 PROBABILITY PROBABILITY art world’s most exciting secrets. Join the SF06 HUMANS COST OF OF COST SF12 GAMES THE GREAT GREAT THE OWN UNIVERSE PLANNER THE TRUE TRUE THE SF15 1.30–3pm S086 Courtauld Institute’s Head of Conservation

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HAPPY BRAIN One of the biggest unknowns in the S087 UNMASKING UNMASKING HISTORY IN OUR Escape Universe is dark matter. We believe it Alex Bellos and GCHQ’s Mike. All ages

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S095 some tenacious animals who aren’t Jim Al-Khalili. GENETICS S097 SIDE OF ELEMENT IN THE IN THE ELEMENT CONSERVATION S098 THE DARK DARK THE ATTRACTION?

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S104 Helix Theatre 1.45–2.45pm S087 S103 £8 * AUTISM AUTISM Of Humans The Arena The Happy Brain Cheltenham Ladies College, What are the connections between £9 *

S105 structures of faith and the structures Parabola Arts Centre Cheltenham Ladies College, AlphaGo changed the game of Go with SCIENCE EXPLAIN

THE SCIENCE of society? Organised religion can tell OF GIN £8 * Parabola Arts Centre its creative strategies. Then an AI taught S106 us much about the evolution of social ART? £9 * itself to play chess in just four hours, CAN CAN In 2018, few places on Earth remain complexity: throughout history, patterns S107 of belief have helped to hold communities before beating the best chess-playing untouched by us humans. What impact Most of us will spend our lives in the computer program with a completely JURY LIVE: DNA IN IN DNA LIVE: JURY

THE DOCK together, shaping the way that people S108 have we had on our planet and the living think of themselves as part of a collective pursuit of happiness. Neuroscientist new style of play. What do these feats VARIETY NIGHT things we share it with? What lies in store SCIENCE FESTIVAL Dean Burnett explores what it actually tell us about how artificial intelligence for future generations? Alice Roberts leads identity. Anthropologist Pieter Francois, author and science teacher Alom Shaha means to be happy, and whether lasting could one day help humanity solve a discussion between biologist Adam Hart, happiness is possible. Unravelling our our most challenging and complex geographer and geologist Mark Maslin and the Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Revd Rachel Treweek dig deeper into these complex internal lives, he reveals what problems? Demis Hassabis, CEO of and ecologist and conservation scientist love, sex, friendship, wealth, laughter world-leading AI lab DeepMind, joins Georgina Mace. patterns and explore how, with secularism now prevalent in modern society, we can and success actually do to our brains a panel to explore the role of games in maintain a sense of community both locally – and the often surprising truth behind developing creative AI. and globally. what makes us tick.

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2–3pm S090 6.30–7.30pm S102 The History In 4–5pm S095 4.15–5.15pm S099 Gravitational Connected:Divided Our Genes The Dark Side Of Waves Genetics What Is The Crucible Attraction? The Crucible £9 * The Arena £9 * £9 * The Crucible Every single one of us carries the history of £9 * The recent detection of gravitational waves our species in our genes – a tale of births Genetics has a dark history firmly and the confirmation of Einstein’s century- and deaths, war and famine. Anatomist entangled with eugenics colonialism, What attracts us to someone else? What old prediction, has marked the beginning Alice Roberts and geneticist Adam race and identity politics. Now cheap is the difference between the spark of an exciting new era in Astronomy. From Rutherford discuss how these hidden tales genetic tests, that can seem quite trivial, you feel on a first date and long-term the black holes and neutron stars that and the accompanying chapters in the are fueling both neo-Nazis and the relationship potential? Mathematician produce them to the incredible experiments Adam genomes of the dogs, horses, crops and exploitation of Native Americans. Hannah Fry, research scientist designed to detect them, Sheila Rowan, Rutherford 6–7pm S101 other species which have shaped us, are offers a new and brighter Jonathan Beber and psychologist Director of the Institute of Gravitational side to genetics – as the only science rewriting and uncovering our history. 4.15–5.15pm S097 Viren Swami discuss whether science Demis Hassabis: Research, explores the nature of these that has triumphantly demonstrated that can help all those lonely hearts to find a waves and how they are being used to 2–3.30pm the concept of race has no scientific Human Remains: perfect match. The Future Of AI explore the universe like never before. S091 validity. 4–5.30pm S092 The Science And Science Workshop Of Specimen The Arena Puzzling Pizza Conservation £10 *

Party The Cube Artificial intelligence has the potential Bottle of Sauce £8 * to change the world of science – by making new discoveries, solving £20 * Join pathology technician, anatomy complex problems and pushing the Includes full-sized pizza from a set menu. museum curator and Queen of the boundaries of existing knowledge. specimen jar Carla Valentine as she From drug discovery and disease Fancy some puzzles and problem-solving uncovers the fascinating process of pandemics to climate change, with your pizza? Give your brain a workout preserving human remains. From the wax astronomy and material design, Jim with puzzle-mad mathematicians Katie models used in anatomy lessons’ past to Al-Khalili talks to co-founder and Steckles and Ben Sparks. Their selection the chemical conservation of modern- CEO of the world leading AI research of pizza-themed puzzles will put your mind day specimens, she explores the science company DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, to the test: figure out the best way to slice and cultural significance behind the about AI’s huge potential for scientific your pizza, and make sure you get the last preservation of organs. breakthrough. piece. Suitable for beginners as well as puzzle-aficionados. 4.15–5.15pm S098 6.45–7.45pm S103 3.30–4.30pm S093 4.45–5.45pm S094 Building A Virtual Frankenstein Workshop Human Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 4.15–5.15pm S096 Becoming a Chess Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 5.30–6.30pm S100 Parabola Arts Centre The Element In £9 * Grandmaster Parabola Arts Centre Connected:Divided * The Room £9 Our Place In The A blood-curdling warning about Cyber Zone the dangers of uninhibited scientific The Pillar Room One day your doctor could have a digital Free no ticket required Animal Kingdom progress, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein * version of you in a computer. It could Places limited, unreserved seating £8 Suitable for ages 14+ remains the most celebrated horror be dissected, probed and explored in Helix Theatre story ever written. 200 years on from Do you like having your brain tickled unprecedented detail to work out what £8 * its publication, ‘Prof of Goth’ and Whether you’re a complete beginner is wrong and to help choose the best or a champion player, join this session with science? Want to know why it’s Professor of English Literature Nick impossible to rotate your right foot treatments for you as an individual. As humans, we hold the power to drive Groom, science writer Jon Turney and to discover how artificial intelligence is Roger Highfield Peter Coveney clockwise while you draw the number talks to , animal populations to collapse. But we pathology technician and curator Carla transforming the game of chess. Learn Ana Mincholé Andrea Townsend- six with your right hand? If you just tried and can also protect and conserve them, Valentine explore the spine-tingling about the brand new chess strategies Nicholson to do exactly that, join nerdy comedians who are bridging the fields and possibly one day even bring them tale that continues to shock and inspire created by AlphaZero with just four hours of of human biology, chemistry and play. And then put its most creative moves Helen Arney and Steve Mould for an back from extinction. Anthropologist to this day. entertaining and science-y look at the computational science to pioneer this Alice Roberts, science journalist Gaia to the test, guided by chess Grandmaster technology. Matthew Sadler and Women’s International stuff that’s right in front of you. Vince, zoologist John Ewen and author Master Natasha Regan. Helen Pilcher explore the complicated relationship we have with the animal kingdom.

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6.45–7.45pm S104 Autism And The 10–11am SF03 10–11am SF08 FrankenAnatomy 11.30am–12.30pm SF09 Senses 1.30–2.30pm SF10 Helix Theatre Workshop The Cube £6 * Ideal for ages 8+ £8 * 8.30–10pm S107 Coder Academy In celebration of Frankenstein’s 200th Our senses put us in touch with the world Jury Live: DNA birthday, join mad anatomists from the University of Gloucestershire around us, and through internal bodily In The Dock University of Bristol and help them Computer Studio, Park Campus sensations, such as those that guide build a body from scratch. Embark on a £8 * Ideal for ages 7+ hunger or fear, we are aware of ourselves. The Crucible hair-raising adventure and discover how In autism, the outer senses like vision and Enrol in Coder Academy and get to grips £10 * our vital organs, bones, muscles and more touch can show enhanced sensitivity, work together to form a functioning human with the wonderful world of programming! but is this at a cost to inner awareness? Prepare for a challenge as you learn A defendant stands accused in the being. Expect brains, guts and more! Neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel considers snippets of the Scratch programming 12–1pm SF16 courtroom. Are they guilty or not guilty? the new research that could change the language and experiment with digital art Presented with the evidence collected way we think about the senses and autism. with writer and coder Sean McManus. No How Does Your from the crime scenes of two murders, 10am–12pm SF04 previous experience of coding is required. you, the Festival Jury, decide their Body Work? 7.30–9pm S105 fate. Back by popular demand and with Capture-The- If you’d like to save your work, please sign brand new cases, judge for the evening up for a free account before the session at The Crucible The Science Of Gin Quentin Cooper is joined by DNA Flag: Hacking scratch.mit.edu £6 * Ideal for ages 4+ 10–11am evidence expert Georgina Meakin and SF01 The Pillar Room Challenge Discover how your body works with criminologist and forensics expert Lisa 10–11am SF11 * The Science children’s TV favourites Maddie £18 Age 18+ Smith to guide you through the forensic Cyber Zone 11.30am–12.30pm SF12 reports and offer their expert analysis. Of Sweets Moate and Dr Ranj. Get ready for a Sip on a range of delicious gins as you £6 * Ideal for ages 11+ 1–2pm SF13 brand new live show packed with delight your senses with the sights, sounds, The Arena 2.30–3.30pm SF14 music, laughter and some rather Do you love unraveling puzzles and smells and tastes of the gin-making £6 * Ideal for ages 7+ Workshop messy science demos. Armed with process. From infusion to distillation, solving problems? Then get ready for our special cameras and stethoscopes, 8.45–10.30pm S108 hands-on Capture-the-Flag challenge. chemist Andrea Sella and materials Get ready for an explosive and bizarre Build Your Own they’ll take you on tour of the body Have fun with computers and learn from scientist Mark Miodownik guide you journey into the science of sweets. exploring questions such as why our Entertainment experts in the cyber world as they guide Universe through the fascinating art and science of BBC Gastronaut Stefan Gates and blood is red, what happens to our you through challenges in small groups. gin, as they attempt to uncover the secret Science Festival chemist Andrea Sella tear apart food and how our skeletons move. Put your new skills in cyber security to ExperiTent behind the perfect G&T. sweet chemistry, spin sugar and make Variety Night the test as you work together to crack * amazing colours as they conjure £8 Ideal for ages 8+ fun computer-based challenges using up lollies, jellies and various chewy The Arena problem-solving and logic. Get ready to build your own Universe things for you to taste. £15 * Age 18+ with physicist Ben Still. Find out how our 3–4pm SF17 Universe evolved from a split second after Funny, entertaining and enlightening the Big Bang to the formation of stars and Insects vs. – climb aboard our Science Variety the elements of the periodic table. Put your Humans Night for late night laughs, songs and newfound knowledge of nature’s building silliness, with some fascinating facts blocks and construction rules to the test as Helix Theatre ® thrown in for good measure. Expect the 10–10.45am SF05 you create your own Lego Universe. £6 * Ideal for ages 8+ unexpected with a fabulous lineup of 11.15am–12pm SF06 8–9pm S106 guests to be announced. Hosted by the 10–11am SF02 12.30–1.15pm SF07 The insect world has had enough! man who puts the angle in newfangled, 11.15am–12.15pm SF15 Workshop The six-legged rulers of planet Can Science stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. Maddie’s Probability Games Earth have laid down the ultimate Explain Art? Mission To Mars Colourful challenge to humankind – can we Chemistry The Pillar Room jump further than a grasshopper, beat Helix Theatre The Crucible £6 * Ideal for ages 11+ a beetle in a tug-of-war or outwit a colony of ants? Join BBC Gastronaut £9 * £6 * Ideal for ages 4+ Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Roll up, roll up for some probability games! Stefan Gates and bug-bothering Parabola Arts Centre, Dance Studio broadcaster Adam Hart to find out Whilst some argue that mathematics Calling all budding space explorers! Join mathematicians Katie Steckles and * how we measure up. reveals why we’re drawn to certain TV presenter Maddie Moate is £6 Ideal for ages 4+ Zoe Griffiths to learn how you can use images, others protest that our reaction looking for new recruits for her maths to understand your chances of Every child is an artist and a scientist. to art is driven by emotion and personal Astronaut Academy. Take a journey winning and maybe even increase them. Join chemistry teacher Rosie Coates taste. So can science really solve the through our solar system, equipped There’ll be prizes to be won as we flip for a colourful, playful and hands-on art mystery of the perfect picture? Art with Maddie’s special cameras and coins, roll dice and even play the lottery. workshop. Explore how different pigments historian and Da Vinci expert Martin spacey science demos. Find out how You have to be in it to win it! dissolve in different liquids, and how you Kemp and psychologist Chris McManus rockets work, how space suits are can use these properties to create works ponder this million dollar question with made and what space smells like! anatomist and keen artist Alice Roberts. of art.

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Family Events Family 10–11am S109 11.15am–12.15pm S111 The 100,000 Computer 12.30–1.30pm S116 Connected:Divided Genomes Project Generated Music The Art And S109 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 10 CRYPTOGRAPHY Cheltenham Ladies’ College, The Pillar Room ABOUT BEETLES SF21 SF25 HACKING AND Science Of SF20 AND OTHER TEENY TINY TINY TEENY LAUGHTER GENOMES SPEECH & PROJECT THE 100,000 100,000 THE THINGS Parabola Arts Centre £8 * BACTERIA SF18 BONKERS JUNE JUNE VOICE, £8 * Conversation From the computers using artificial 4–5pm S123 The Human Genome Project and the even intelligence to write folk music to the The Arena SF22 more ambitious 100,000 Genomes Project algorithms that are transforming live £9 * Workshop BEES S110 S111 SF29 PEE & POO: & POO: PEE SF29 OF STAR WARS BUSY PLANNER GENERATED are revolutionising medical research, performance of electronic music, musical A STINKY A STINKY HISTORY THE SCIENCE CRYPTOGRAPHY How To ABOUT BEETLES MUSIC COMPUTER COMPUTER SF26 HACKING AND leading to new diagnoses of rare diseases composition is truly changing in the Umm… ahh… ever been lost for words?

BONKERS Conversation analyst Elizabeth SF19 and in time better and more effective technological era. Philosopher Barry Smith Have Better treatments for cancer and many other joins musicians Oded Ben-Tal and Palle Stokoe knows precisely what makes Conversations diseases. Tim Hubbard and Richard Scott Dahlstedt as they explore this unique and conversations flow freely, and what leads to conflict and misunderstanding. AND SCIENCE OF

CONVERSATION exciting field of computer generated music. READY TO TAKE TAKE TO READY SF23 SF30 talk to Vivienne Parry about the learnings S112 S116 ExperiTent PATTERNS BEES From the verbs and grammar we use to SECRET from these projects and the ways they are NATURE’S OFF? DRONES: BUSY THE ART * already transforming NHS practice. the sound of our voice, she shows you £20 Price includes ticket to

how to steer a conversation in the right Elizabeth Stokoe’s talk S116. direction, how different ways of talking ABOUT BEETLES SF27 For a more in-depth look at effective

S113 change the outcome of an encounter, COMMITTEE: LIVE COMMITTEE: HACK A HUMAN HACK TALKS SUPERHEROES S115 BONKERS communication, join Elizabeth

S114 and ultimately how to communicate CYBER CYBER SF31 SECURITY

SF24 SF24 Stokoe for this workshop. Use HOW TO TO HOW more effectively. CYBER ETHICS BEES real-life conversations and scenarios BUSY to identify the moments that can change the course of an interaction, test out her top tips and get chatting! S119 WE STOP SOCIAL ABOUT BEETLES MEDIA TROLLS? SF28 S118 S117 ASTRONOMY FUTURE OF LIGHT: THE MACHINE PAIN IN THE SURGERY: ASK BONKERS THE EXPERTS HOW DO BEYOND S120 CYBER CONVERSATIONS MASTERPIECE? S123 HAVE BETTER

S121 1.30–2.30pm S113 MAKES A S122 INTELLIGENCE OF ARTIFICIAL HOW TO SCIENCE OF FATBERGS WHAT S126 THE ETHICS Cyber Talks THE THE 11.15am–12.15pm S110 Cyber Zone Entertainment Free no ticket required S127 MAKES US FEEL US MAKES S125 HACK A BANK: A BANK: HACK S124

SKYSCRAPER Places limited, unreserved seating FOR A HOW FILM A RECIPE A RECIPE HOW TO TO HOW LIVE The Science Of 12.30–1.30pm S112 Grab a seat and hear from our leading Star Wars experts about some of the the hottest Drones: Ready topics in the world of cyber. The Crucible

S129 To Take Off? BEAM THERAPY DEMO CHALLENGE S128 £8 * OVER AMBITIOUS AMBITIOUS OVER

PROTON PROTON Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Can you build a lightsaber? What is the Parabola Arts Centre 1.45–2.45pm S114 1.45–2.45pm S115 Force? How powerful was the Death Star and is the Millennium Falcon the £8 * Ethics Committee: How To Hack coolest spaceship ever? Star Wars fans Cheaper, faster and more mobile than Live A Human S130

INCE: CHAOS OF OF CHAOS INCE: are invited to join Jedi Master (or is that THE INTERNET KNOW ABOUT

S131 piloted planes, drones have so many

DELIGHT Sith Lord?) Karl Byrne as he answers WHAT DOES YOU? potential uses. They can deliver life- The Cube The Pillar Room ROBIN ROBIN these and more questions about the science from a long time ago, in a saving equipment, survey crops and £8 * £8 * galaxy far, far away. habitats, provide internet to remote areas, allow repairs for buildings and Recent high profile legal cases involving Do you have a habit of using the same bridges and even act as taxis. Engineer parents and doctors who don’t agree password online? Despite increasingly and drone pilot Stephen Prior talks have highlighted the complexity of the sophisticated defensive technology, to Mark Miodownik about new and heartbreaking decisions that have to be hackers are targeting our human creative ways of using and designing made in paediatric medicine. Vivienne nature to gain access to sensitive data. drones, and the huge potential for these Parry joins Medical Mediation Foundation Join Jessica Barker as she shares her unmanned aerial vehicles. Founder Sarah Barclay and Katharine best advice for staying secure online Wright from the Nuffield Council on and considers why we are so often Bioethics, as they go through a case and described as the weakest link when it ask – when should we stop treating sick comes to cyber security. children? 38 *Plus booking fee: charged at £2 per order. 39 SUNDAY 10 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SUNDAY 10 JUNE

4.15–5.15pm S122 3–4pm S117 The Ethics Beyond Light: Of Artificial The Future Of Intelligence Astronomy The Crucible The Arena £9 * £9 * New technologies have the potential to Traditional telescopes have been radically transform the world for the better, shedding light on the secrets of the but may have uneven impacts that are hard Universe for centuries, but in the next to predict. How can we ensure that artificial decade they’ll be joined by gravitational intelligence is developed and deployed in 5.30–6.30pm S127 wave observatories, neutrino detectors ways that benefit all parts of society and and kilometre-sized radio receivers serve the public interest? What are the How Film Makes – with unprecedented capabilities. potential risks and rewards of applying AI in Us Feel Experts Sheila Rowan, Linda the real world? A leading speaker discusses Cremonesi and Emma Chapman talk the challenges and opportunities that AI Cheltenham Ladies’ College, to Andrew Pontzen about why these presents for people and society as a whole. Parabola Arts Centre approaches open extraordinary new * windows on the cosmos – revealing £9 answers, but posing even bigger 3–4pm S119 Why do we become so immersed when questions for the coming decades. 5.30–6.30pm S125 Pain In The watching a film? What is going on inside Machine A Recipe For A our brains and bodies to create this 4.15–5.15pm S126 Skyscraper empathetic connection with the screen? Helix Theatre How does the film industry use this to The Science Of their advantage? Philosopher Barry * Helix Theatre £8 Fatbergs Smith talks to neuroscientists Vittorio £8 * Gallese and Sarah Garfinkel, and What is pain, and could robots ever be film editor Joe Walker, whose credits able to truly ‘feel’ it? Could they ever The Cube How have our buildings evolved from £8 * include Blade Runner 2049 and 12 Years experience other kinds of suffering, the mud huts of our ancestors to a Slave. either physical or emotional, and might towers of steel reaching into our skies? this prevent machines from hurting Fascinating, shocking and downright Structural engineer Roma Agrawal themselves and others? Showing her disgusting, fatbergs are huge lumps of fat, takes you on a journey through the AHRC Best Research Film of the Year, oil, grease and rubbish that are clogging history of construction. Discover Pain in the Machine, Beth Singler is up the sewage system beneath our feet. historic building projects, find out how joined by philosopher Barry Smith and Chemist Andrea Sella and pathology our buildings are designed to stand technician and curator Carla Valentine get 3–4pm S118 cognitive roboticist Murray Shanahan strong in the face of nature’s forces and 6.45–7.45pm S128 to explore whether robots ever could, up close and personal with a chunk of this meet some colourful characters along Connected:Divided and should, feel distress and pain. monstrous mass, as they dissect a piece of the way. Proton Beam 4–5pm S121 fatberg live on stage and explore what this Therapy How Do We Stop gruesome phenomenon can tell us about Social Media What Makes A how we live today. Masterpiece? The Pillar Room Trolls? 5.30–6.30pm S124 £8 * The Pillar Room Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 3.15–4.15pm S120 How To Hack A Could particle accelerators like the Large Parabola Arts Centre £8 * Bank: LIVE Hadron Collider really help to cure cancer? * Cyber Surgery: An advanced form of radiotherapy, proton £8 It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beam therapy enables specialists to Ask The Experts beholder. So why is it that Da Vinci’s The Arena target tumours with incredible precision, The internet can be a nasty place. What work sells for millions when an equally £9 * causing significantly less damage to drives abusive behaviour online and should Cyber Zone beautiful painting is only worth a surrounding healthy tissue. With two NHS social media platforms be doing more Free no ticket required fraction? Comedian Robin Ince ponders As an ethical hacker, cybersecurity proton beam centres set to open this year, to prevent it? MP Jess Phillips, who has Places limited, unreserved seating the psychological and cultural factors at expert FC regularly ‘breaks into’ physicist Simon Jolly sheds light on how received thousands of abusive threats, play in the art world with psychologist hundreds of banks, offices and this cutting-edge technique is helping to social media analyst Jeremy Reffin and Ever wondered how you’d know if your Chris McManus, journalist and author government facilities in the UK and revolutionise treatment. psychologist Catriona Morrison discuss emails had been hacked, how to keep your Georgina Adam and former art forger Europe. Join him for a rollercoaster ride the impact this behaviour can have and kids safe online, or your online banking Shaun Greenhalgh, whose fakes of lock-picking, kidnap, police chases how best to deal with social media trolls. details secure? Join our Guest Curators famously fooled the establishment and multi-million pound bank heists, and leading cyber security experts Jessica before his imprisonment in 2007. as he demonstrates how his work is Barker and FC as they offer practical advice helping organisations to improve their and answer your questions in our Science security and protect against threats. Festival Cyber Surgery. 40 *Plus booking fee: charged at £2 per order. 41 SUNDAY 10 JUNE Box Office 01242 850270 cheltenhamfestivals.com SUNDAY 10 JUNE

6.45–8pm S129 11.15am–12.15pm SF29 Entertainment 10–11am SF21 Pee & Poo: A Over Ambitious Bacteria And Stinky History Demo Challenge Other Teeny Tiny 10–11am SF18 Things The Cube The Crucible 11.30am–12.30pm SF19 £6 * Ideal for ages 7+ £9 * Workshop Helix Theatre * Pinch your noses shut and get ready £6 Ideal for ages 6+ to explore the stinky history of our Steve Mould and Andrea Sella host Hacking And sewers (and the smelly stuff inside them) our infamous annual contest to find What do squids that glow, fungi that Cryptography with Roma Agrawal. Find out how the the most spectacular, show-stopping grow and tiny creatures in the soil Romans built giant toilets, why Japan science demos. Expect mind-bending under your toes all have in common? Cyber Zone had a ‘Turd Trade’, what London’s year of tricks from Ginny Smith, mathematical They’re all part of the awesomely weird Free ticket required. Ideal for ages 11+ the ‘Great Stink’ was all about and how mayhem from Kyle D Evans and world of microscopic life. Steve Mould massive new engineering projects are colourful chaos from Nate Adams as introduces you to the bacteria, viruses, Get ready to untangle riddles and keeping our water safe and clean. they compete to become the 2018 crack codes with the University of microbes and other teeny things that champion – who gets your vote? Gloucestershire. Watch as ‘white are all around us – but are too small hat’ hackers take control of a for us to see. With live demos and 10–11am SF25 computer before your eyes, learn how experiments, find out how they keep us 11.30am–12.30pm SF26 messages are hidden from spies using and our world running. 1.30–2.30pm SF27 cryptography and put your new skills to 8.15–9.15pm S130 3–4pm SF28 12.30–1.30pm SF30 the test as you create your own secret What Does The messages and have a go at hacking Workshop Nature’s Secret Internet Know yourself. Bonkers About Patterns Beetles About You? Helix Theatre The Arena Cheltenham Ladies’ College, £6 * Ideal for ages 10+ £9 * Parabola Arts Centre, Dance Studio Nature’s palette of patterns can be intricate, beautiful and mysterious, How much does Google really know £8 * Ideal for ages 6+ 10–11am SF20 from spiralling sunflower seeds to about you? From reward cards to social planetary harmonies. Our 2007 media posts, data is used to profile our Did you know creepy crawlies make Voice, Speech FameLabbers return with their infamous every habit and behaviour, sometimes up 25% of all animals on our planet? Or live experiments and demonstrations without our knowledge. Quentin And Laughter that there are 400,000 different species to explore the origins of these patterns, Cooper challenges ethical hacker of beetles? Join author, illustrator why they share common themes and the FC and cybersecurity expert Jessica The Arena and bug-lover Owen Davey for an artistry of nature. Barker to find out what information he £6 * Ideal for ages 11+ introduction to the wonderful world of has unwittingly shared on the web, as beetles. Grab a pencil and find out how they explore the positives and negatives Humans have a relentless need to to use simple shapes to draw a mighty 1.45–2.45pm SF31 of our data-driven world with data communicate with each other. How Goliath Beetle and other bugs. 8.15–9.15pm S131 do we use our words, voices, body ethicist Brent Mittelstadt. 11–11.45am SF22 Cyber Security Entertainment language and even laughter to tell 12.30–1.15pm each other what we’re thinking and SF23 Superheroes Robin Ince: feeling? Neuroscientist, comedian 2–2.45pm SF24 Chaos Of Delight and 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Workshop The Crucible Lecturer Sophie Scott explores the £6 * Ideal for ages 12+ importance and variety of human Busy Bees Cheltenham Ladies’ College, The internet can be a battleground Parabola Arts Centre communication, and how it has evolved. ExperiTent between the cyber criminals trying to * £10 £6 * Ideal for ages 4+ exploit our information, and the people trying to keep us safe. Hear from one Robin Ince, Festival favourite and Back by popular demand, CBeebies of these cyber security heroes, James co-host of the Rose d’Or and Sony presenter Maddie Moate’s stories about Lyne, as he demonstrates the latest Gold-winning The Infinite Monkey these buzzing little insects are the technology the bad guys are using Cage, returns with a brand new show bees’ knees! Find out how bees make through a live hack on stage. Do you about art and science: Chaos of Delight. their honey and learn how important have what it takes to join the fight? Expect a frenetic hour of ideas and foraging and pollinators are to honey some stupid voices. production. Try some honey tasters, play silly games and be prepared for an ‘Displays the art of brilliant babble’ epic waggle dance finale! The Scotsman

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Discounts and offers are for the sole use of the Member, and applies to 01242 537263, email [email protected] Gold and Silver Members only. Ticket discounts are 10%. Ticket discounts are not available on events that include food, or visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/patrons drink, books or other benefits in the ticket price. Terms and conditions apply – see cheltenhamfestivals.com for details. * Walk-up only, valid on the day of the event and subject to availability. 44 45 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THANK YOU to our Partners and Supporters Cheltenham Science Festival Head of Programming Operations and Finance Festival Partners is presented by Cheltenham Dr Gina Collins Adrian Farnell, Angie Hawkins, Festivals, a charity and a company Adrian Hensley, Aline Imray, limited by guarantee. Programme Managers Anna Jukes, Amanda Keane, Hana Ayoob, Emma Whittle Laura Popperwell, Cheltenham Festivals Christina Poulton, Pete Riley, Festival Coordinator Board of Trustees Suzanne Stephens, Megan Watt, Ellie Petrie Dominic Collier (Chair) Kate Merriman, Joe Trigg, Diane Savory OBE (Vice Chair) MakerShack Events Manager Tarren Productions Lewis Carnie Olivia Clemence Susan Blanchfield Festival Advisory Group Prof Jim Al-Khalili OBE, Andrew Vivienne Parry OBE (Chair of the Senior Management Board Cohen, Quentin Cooper, Science Festival) Ian George (Director of Festivals) Dr Hannah Devlin, Dr Kevin Fong, Edward Gillespie OBE Ali Mawle (Director of Education) Prof Russell Foster CBE, Dr Roger Prof Averil Macdonald OBE Helena Bibby (General Manager) Highfield, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Peter Howarth Adrian Farnell (Director of Prof Mark Maslin, Prof Mark Caroline Hutton Finance) Miodownik MBE, Dr Marieke Navin, Sue Dudley (Director of Marketing Prof Andrea Sella Company Secretary and Partnerships) Matthew Clayton Trajectory, Ideas and CF Productions and Box Office Ambassadors Board Registered Office Andrew Bate, Elaine Holt, Dr Helen Czerski, Dr Suzi Gage, 28 Imperial Square, Cheltenham, Jo Marsh, Helene Rose, Dr Andrew Pontzen, GL50 1RH Martin Perks Florence Schechter, Alom Shaha, Marketing and Partnerships Dr Andrew Steele, Simon Watt Kathleen Barnhill, Amy Bates, With many thanks to the staff Samantha Bonnes, John Creedon, We would also like to thank: and volunteers who provide James Davis, Sue Dudley, Aeristech • Canal & River Trust • Dean Close School • Oxford PharmaGenesis • University of Bristol invaluable support and help make Company No. 456573 Lisa Garrett, Hanna Goldschmidt, The Florey Institute, The University of Sheffield • University of Southampton the Festival a success. Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre, University of Warwick • Versarien PLC Charity No. 251765 Bairbre Lloyd, Jessica Lowes, VAT Registration No. 100114013 Jenna Marks, Arlene McGlynn, Contact Main Switchboard No. Sarah Sharma, Sam Skillings, If you have any specific comments Marketing Partner Media Partners 01242 511211 Ellie Topham, Matthew Walsh, about any aspect of the Festival, Stacey Yeates, Theo Wright please email boxoffice@ cheltenhamfestivals.com Education Philippa Claridge, Sarah Forbes, Artwork Credits Ali Mawle, Sharron Pearson, Main programme illustration Rose Wood, Farha Bakawala © 2018 Sarah Gullen In-Kind Partners Family programme illustrations © 2018 Matt Carr

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Before the Festival: Pop-up Box Office at The Wilson (Clarence Street, GL50 3JT); Wednesday 11 – Friday 13 April & Tuesday 17 – Thursday 19 April, 10am–2pm. Please note that on Wednesday 11 April 10am–1pm Patrons only booking; 1pm–2pm Members booking. Members and Public on sale dates and times below. Box Office opening times are subject to change, for details please visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/booking During the Festival: Festival Site Box Office, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA

For queries email [email protected] For full details about Box Office opening hours, in person and telephone ticket sales, booking fees, terms & conditions and Membership, visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/booking Special Access Requirements Please book using our online form which will be available from 11 April at cheltenhamfestivals.com/access-requirements Booking Dates Members’ Priority Booking From 1pm, Wednesday 11 April 2018 Public Booking From 1pm, Wednesday 18 April 2018 Gift Vouchers Cheltenham Festivals Gift Vouchers may be purchased at our Box Office or online at cheltenhamfestivals.com/gift-vouchers and may be redeemed against ticket or Membership purchases online, in person or by phone. Getting to Cheltenham Science Festival Cheltenham is easily accessible from all over the UK, by road and rail. Most events take place on the main Festival site, located in central Cheltenham on Imperial Square (GL50 1QA). For more information on public transport and car parks go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/your-visit Festival Venues Imperial Square (including Festival Box Office, The Arena, The Crucible, Helix Theatre, The Cube, ExperiTent, MakerShack and Cyber Zone) GL50 1QA Cheltenham Town Hall (including the Discover Zone and Pillar Room) GL50 1QA Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Parabola Arts Centre GL50 3AA University of Gloucestershire, Computer Studio, Park Campus (Room WW001) GL50 2RH The Bottle Of Sauce, Ambrose St, Cheltenham GL50 3LH

Aged 16-25? Sign up today for our free 16-25 Membership and receive priority booking and an exclusive 50% discount* on walk up tickets one hour before the event. See cheltenhamfestivals.com/16-25 for details. *excludes events with food & drink, family events and workshops

Charity No. 251765 Illustration by Sarah Gullen