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TICKETS FREE Radio 3 brings together leading thinkers to debate the ideas changing our world Friday 4 – Sunday 6 November 2011 at The Sage Gateshead .co.uk/freethinking Friday 4 – Sunday 6 November 2011 Introducing BBC Radio 3’s festival of ideas returns to The Sage Gateshead for the BBC a weekend of thought-provoking Anne McElvoy talks, debates and performance. Radio 3 This year’s festival theme is presenters CHANGE, exploring the mania for is hosted by presenters from change sweeping the globe. Rana Mitter Radio 3’s Night Waves Anne McElvoy, Rana Mitter, Matthew Sweet, Juliet Gardiner, and Philip Dodd, The Verb’s Ian McMillan and With Wikipedia founder Jimmy Music Matters presenter Tom Service. Wales, Germaine Greer, William Hague, Susie Orbach, Margaret Drabble, and live original drama Matthew Sweet by Skins writer Jack Thorne.

Tickets for all events are FREE. To book call The Sage Gateshead on 0191 443 4661 or visit www.thesagegateshead.org. Juliet Gardiner Standby tickets will be available on the day.

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Giles Fraser © Graham Lacdao Giles Fraser Ian McMillan Thinker-in-Residence Rev Dr Giles Fraser is Canon Chancellor Free of St Paul’s Cathedral, a popular broadcaster on Radio 4’s Thought for the Thinking Day, and this year’s Thinker-in-Residence, Festival of Ideas who will put his personal stamp on 2011 Tom Service several events during the weekend.

02 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 03 PRESENTED BY New Generation Thinkers PHILIP DODD Jimmy Wales Founder of Wikipedia Join the New Generation Thinkers at Free The Free Thinking Lecture: How the Thinking, the winners of the inaugural talent Internet will Keep Changing the World scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts Fri 4 | Hall Two and Humanities Research Council to find ● 6.30pm – 7.45pm the brightest academic minds in the arts American internet entrepreneur Jimmy and humanities with the potential to turn Wales has created the most referenced their ideas into fascinating broadcasts. They source of knowledge on the planet. His will be taking part in many events during ever-expanding invention Wikipedia has the weekend, including Speed Dating with over 19 million free articles and is one of the a Thinker, where you can meet them on a internet’s top five websites. Jimmy Wales one-to-one basis and hear about their ideas. has helped to revolutionise our access to information. This is a rare opportunity to hear the man Time magazine named one of the world’s most influential people give his vision of how the internet will continue to radically alter our world.

Jimmy Wales

PRESENTED BY IAN MCMILLAN Words and Music Fri 4 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall Friday ● 8.30pm – 10.00pm Poet Ian McMillan hosts BBC Radio 3’s award-winning Words and Music programme 4th as it returns for an atmospheric mix of music, poetry and prose on the theme of Change. November Members of Northern Sinfonia and soprano Lisa Milne perform a selection of music including Brahms, Chabrier, Debussy and 2011 Shostakovich, accompanied by readings from Shakespeare, Kafka, Shelley and others.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Darwin

New Generation Thinkers Lisa Milne © Clive Barda ArenaPAL Ian McMillan

04 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 05 PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY JULIET GARDINER Margaret Drabble TOM SERVICE Music Matters Books at Breakfast Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall In association with New Writing North ● 12.00pm – 1.00pm Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall Has Music Changed the World? BBC Radio ● 9.45am – 10.45am 3’s Music Matters programme is broadcast Dame Margaret Drabble is one of Britain’s live from The Sage Gateshead. Presenter finest contemporary writers, whose award- Tom Service will be debating classical winning novels have chronicled the political music’s impact on the world with a panel of and social conditions of their time, from guests including Pamela Rosenberg, former Margaret Drabble motherhood in the sixties with The Millstone Tom Service director of San Francisco Opera and the to her searing portrait of the English middle Berlin Philharmonic, composer Christopher classes The Witch of Exmoor. Younger sister Fox, and musicologist Christopher Page. of A.S Byatt, she grew up in Yorkshire and acted at the RSC before pursuing a life on the page. Join Margaret Drabble as she discusses PRESENTED BY PHILIP DODD Susie Orbach her writing and thoughts on literature. Sat 5 | Hall Two ● 1.00pm – 2.00pm Saturday Why do we persist in thinking we can be perfect? PRESENTED BY Susie Orbach is Britain’s most high-profile ANNE MCELVOY William Hague psychotherapist, whose book Fat is a Feminist 5th Sat 5 | Hall Two Issue revolutionised the way we understand ● 11.00am – 12.15pm our bodies. She co-founded The Women’s At the age of 50 the Rt Hon William Hague Therapy Centre, has been a consultant November must be our youngest elder statesman. for The World Bank and NHS, and is an The MP for Richmond (Yorks) has been Susie Orbach © Charlie Hopkinson advocate for body diversity and emotional Welsh Secretary, Leader of the Conservative literacy. At Free Thinking Susie challenges 2011 Party for five years, and since May 2010 the our obsession with personal change. British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary They must often of State. William Hague will discuss his political philosophy, the dramatic changes change, who would NO TICKETS NEEDED taking place throughout the globe, and be constant in New Generation Thinker: Britain’s role in this changing world order. happiness or wisdom. Rachel Hewitt Sat 5 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Confucius ● 1.15pm – 1.45pm Mapping the Border. The dividing line between Scotland and England has been a source of tension over the centuries, but it wasn’t until the 1750s that the border was mapped from scratch, with the most sophisticated instruments and methods the Enlightenment had to offer. Rachel Hewitt, author of an acclaimed history of the Ordnance Survey, tells the story of that mapping, the motives that fuelled it, and the role of maps as icons of national identity.

William Hague Rachel Hewitt © Naomi Christie

06 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 07 PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY JULIET GARDINER Sarah-Jayne Blakemore ANNE MCELVOY Revision Time! What are Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall schools really for today? ● 1.30pm – 2.30pm Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall What’s going on in the teenage brain? ● 3.00pm – 4.00pm Teenagers act on impulse, are lazy, emotional As our school system undergoes massive and get into trouble with the police and levels of reform, with the proliferation of parents. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor academies and free schools and proposals of Cognitive Neuroscience at University for a new curriculum, shouldn’t the real College and a leading expert on question be: what is school actually for? Sarah-Jayne Blakemore teenage brains. Using new research about David Almond © Sara Jane Palmer Are we so fixated on exam results that the radical changes taking place in the we ignore alternative ways to bring up adolescent brain, she argues it’s time our children? Debaters include the best- to rethink our attitudes towards youth selling children’s writer David Almond, and the place of teenagers in society. author of Skellig, and Paul Kelley, Head of Monkseaton High School in Whitley Bay.

PRESENTED BY RANA MITTER Linda Colley Sat 5 | Hall Two PRESENTED BY MATTHEW SWEET Francis Wells ● 2.30pm – 3.30pm Sat 5 | Hall Two In association with Newcastle University’s ● 4.00pm – 5.00pm Insights Public Lecture Series Francis Wells is one of the world’s top heart The Present and the Past of Change. Linda Linda Colley © Denise Applewhite surgeons, having successfully carried out Colley is an historian with influence. An over 5,000 operations including open heart expert on the history of Britain, empire and surgery live on . An expert on nationalism, she was invited by Tony Blair to the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Any change, even a change give the Downing Street Millennium Lecture Vinci, he’s a passionate advocate for closer and is Professor of History at Princeton for the better, is always links between art and . Come and University. Linda will explore how we have hear Francis Wells discuss the future of accompanied by drawbacks dealt with periods of dramatic change in the heart, his work at the cutting-edge of and discomforts. the past, and how history can help us to surgery, and his fascination with Leonardo. understand the sweeping changes of today. Arnold Bennett Francis Wells

NO TICKETS NEEDED NO TICKETS NEEDED New Generation Thinker: New Generation Thinker: David Petts Alexandra Harris Sat 5 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Sat 5 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space 4.15pm – 4.45pm ● 2.45pm – 3.15pm The North-East of England was once one of The Art of Fireworks. Roman candles, rockets, the industrial heartlands of Britain, yet today peonies of fire… each Bonfire Night the skies the physical traces of entire industries have are lit up with ever more ingenious effects, but been swept away. Archaeologist and Durham where did it all begin, and what have fireworks University Lecturer David Petts argues that meant across the centuries? Alexandra this is no way to treat the past, and that the Harris, author of Romantic Moderns, physical remains of our recent history should draws on music, painting and literature to be preserved now before they are lost forever. explore our love affair with pyrotechnics. © Mark Savage David Petts

08 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 09 PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY PHILIP DODD Can we Stop the Mania IAN MCMILLAN The Verb for Change? Sat 5 | Hall Two Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall ● 7.30pm – 8.30pm Poet Ian McMillan hosts BBC Radio 3’s The ● 4.30pm – 5.30pm Why are we so obsessed with change? Politics, Verb, his unique cabaret of the spoken word work, fashion, technology, our personal lives – and new writing. Ian’s guests include the all now seem subject to never-ending change. double platinum-selling Mercury nominated We’re told this is a positive sign of a flexible and Newcastle-based band Maxïmo Park who dynamic society, but is it causing us instability perform live. Poets Jackie Kay, Sean O’Brien Molly Dineen and insecurity? Debaters include Thinker-in- and W.N. Herbert read their new joint Residence Giles Fraser of St Paul’s Cathedral, Maximo Park poem about change, commissioned by the the BAFTA award-winning film-maker Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. And Molly Dineen, and Professor of Innovation celebrated children’s author David Almond and Forecasting James Woudhuysen. discusses being labelled a “northern writer”.

PRESENTED BY NO TICKETS NEEDED New Generation Thinker: 5 LIVE’S 5 live’s Saturday Edition CHRIS WARBURTON Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall Laurence Scott ● 7.30pm – 10.00pm Sat 5 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Chris Warburton presents his 5 live Saturday ● 5.15pm – 5.45pm show live from Free Thinking, with the Laurence Scott Women on the Run in the English Novel. Jackie Kay day’s news, plus the quirkiest stories on Swooning maidens crowd early horror the web and the latest technology news. stories, but these hunted heroines are also If you want to truly understand stalked through the pages of 20th Century something, try to change it. novels such as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, PRESENTED BY and hidden behind Blitz fiction’s blackout 5 LIVE’S What is News Now? Kurt Lewin CHRIS WARBURTON Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall curtains. Laurence Scott explores the AND RADIO 3’S fascinating figure of the gothic heroine. MATTHEW SWEET ● 9.00pm – 10.00pm Radio 3 joins forces with 5 live’s Saturday Edition for a debate broadcast live

PRESENTED BY simultaneously on both stations about RANA MITTER Kevin Fong what stories make the news today. As Sat 5 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall internet bloggers and social media such ● 6.00pm – 7.00pm as Twitter transform the consumption Why we should not retreat from the final frontier. and distribution of news, and as celebrity Kevin Fong presents BBC2’s Horizon, works gossip and audience generated stories push with NASA, and is a leading expert on space foreign affairs and politics further down medicine. In the wake of the retirement of the agenda, what is the future of traditional the space shuttle, he argues that now is no news? Come and hear Chris Warburton and time to pull back from , Matthew Sweet thrash it out with figures calling for a Second Space Age. Co-director from television news and the press. of the Centre for Aviation Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, he believes Britain For updated details about this event should be at the forefront of space science. go to www.thesagegateshead.org

Kevin Fong Debate

10 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 11 Free Thinking DATE TIME BROADCAST Fri 4 Nov 10.00pm Jimmy Wales

Broadcast Sat 5 Nov 12.15pm Music Matters Schedule 9.00pm What is News Now? Sun 6 Nov 6.30pm Words and Music 8.00pm Francis Wells on BBC Radio 3 9.00pm Live Drama: A Summer Night Mon 7 Nov 10.00pm Can We Stop the Mania for Change? 90 – 93FM New Gen Thinker Lucy Powell bbc.co.uk/freethinking Tues 8 Nov 10.00pm William Hague Listen again online New Gen Thinker Rachel Hewitt Weds 9 Nov 10.00pm Kevin Fong All broadcasts of talks and debates will be New Gen Thinker Corin Throsby available as free downloads for you to keep. Thurs 10 Nov 10.00pm Germaine Greer New Gen Thinker Laurence Scott

Fri 11 Nov 10.00pm The Verb New Gen Thinker David Petts

Mon 14 Nov 10.00pm Linda Colley

Tues 15 Nov 10.00pm Julian Savulescu

Weds 16 Nov 10.00pm Giles Fraser

Thurs 17 Nov 10.00pm What is the Future of Civilisation as the Oil runs out?

Fri 18 Nov 10.00pm Aditya Chakrabortty

Mon 21 Nov 10.00pm Susie Orbach

Tues 22 Nov 10.00pm Were the Luddites Right?

Weds 23 Nov 10.00pm Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Thurs 24 Nov 10.00pm Charles Jencks

Sat 26 Nov 9.00pm Between the Ears: Horse

12 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 13 PRESENTED BY NO TICKETS NEEDED RANA MITTER Elif Shafak New Generation Thinker: Books at Breakfast Lucy Powell In association with New Writing North Sun 6 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Sun 6 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space ● 12.30pm – 1.00pm ● 10.45am – 11.45am Plus ca Change - A History of Novelty. Today we Elif Shafak is Turkey’s best-selling writer. think of originality as exciting, perhaps the Her award-winning novels such as The most admired feature of new art. But in the past Forty Rules of Love have been translated novelty was regarded as deeply suspect, even into over thirty languages and deal with the Shakespeare disliked new plots, preferring Elif Shafak © Muammer Yanmaz complexities of her country’s transformation. Lucy Powell to borrow from others. So why the reversal? Turkey is undergoing huge change, seeking Lucy Powell, lecturer at University College to be part of the E.U. but also exerting London, charts the rise and rise of novelty. growing influence in the Middle East. Join Elif Shafak as she discusses her writing and Change in all the challenges facing modern Turkey. things is sweet. PRESENTED BY RANA MITTER Were the Luddites Right? Aristotle Sun 6 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall

PRESENTED BY ● 1.00pm – 2.00pm IAN MCMILLAN Young Ranters Two hundred years ago this November, AND ALFIE JOEY Sun 6 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall artisans in the North of England started ● 11.30am – 12.30pm protesting against new machines that were Passionate public speaking from the young Young Ranters destroying their way of life. Inspired by the people of the North East on the subject Sunday mythic King Ludd, the Luddites have been of Change. Come and listen to personal condemned by history as standing on the and surprising views of the world from wrong side of progress – but their legacy the Young Ranters, as each are given two 6th persists. So what did they want and what minutes to tell the nation their views. does it mean to be a Luddite in today’s BBC Radio 3’s Ian McMillan and BBC digital age? Historians Kathryn Hughes Newcastle’s Alfie Joey will be keeping time. November and Katrina Navickas, technology analyst Bill Thompson and writer Andrew Simms debate the rights and wrongs of Luddism. PRESENTED BY 2011 PHILIP DODD Germaine Greer Sun 6 | Hall Two ● 12.00pm – 1.15pm NO TICKETS NEEDED New Generation Thinker: The Problem with Freedom. One of the most influential feminist voices of our times, Corin Throsby Germaine Greer has caused controversy Sun 6 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space ever since her book ‘The Female Eunuch’ ● 1.30pm – 2.00pm became an international best-seller in I love you, Lord Byron. We think of fan 1970. Inspired by the Janis Joplin lyric mail as a recent phenomenon, but in the “Freedom’s just another word for nothing early 19th Century the poet Byron received left to lose”, Germaine comes to Free hundreds of letters from love-sick admirers. Thinking to question the idea of freedom. Cambridge lecturer Corin Throsby takes us Arguing that the pursuit of freedom has on a journey into Byron’s intimate fan mail caused havoc throughout the world, she and shows what those letters reveal about calls for a new version of liberation. the creation of a celebrity culture that has continued into the globalised present. Germaine Greer Corin Throsby

14 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 15 PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY ANNE MCELVOY Julian Savulescu RANA MITTER Charles Jencks Sun 6 | Hall Two Sun 6 | Hall Two ● 1.45pm – 3.00pm ● 3.45pm – 4.45pm The Moral Obligation to Improve. Is it time to Reclaiming the Universe. Charles Jencks is the enhance humans by changing their genes? visionary designer, theorist and landscape Why shouldn’t we allow drugs in sport if architect whose work includes gardens at the they make us reach even greater heights of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, founded by achievement? Julian Savulescu, Professor of his late wife. He is creating the world’s largest Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and sculpture of a human form, Northumberlandia, Editor of the ‘Journal of Medical Ethics’, has near Cramlington. He thinks understanding some controversial opinions that challenge our the universe is too important to be left assumptions. He thinks we should harness the to scientists and theologians, and wants incredible genetic revolution currently taking us to connect to pre-historic ideas about place and use technologies such as genetic the cosmos, present in monuments such manipulation and selection to improve our lives. as Stonehenge and the Pyramids. Julian Savulescu Northumberlandia

PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY PHILIP DODD Aditya Chakrabortty IAN MCMILLAN Speed Dating with a Thinker Sun 6 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall NO TICKETS NEEDED Sun 6 | The Squires Lounge ● 2.30pm – 3.30pm ● 3.45pm – 4.45pm The Lost Economy. Over the past 30 years Join poet Ian McMillan to date the New governments of every political hue have Generation Thinkers. Your chance for promised that great prizes will follow a series of one-to-one encounters with economic change, whilst parts of society experts waiting to seduce you with the most have been effectively written off. So exciting idea for the future. Everyone gets a argues Aditya Chakrabortty, economics chance to vote for the most attractive idea. leader writer at . He believes Charles Jencks A Free Thinking annual blockbuster that Aditya Chakrabortty even the newly-fashionable zeal for a proves the brain is still the sexiest organ. manufacturing revival will do little to help and calls for a radical solution. PRESENTED BY ANNE MCELVOY What is the Future of PRESENTED BY Civilisation as the Oil runs out? JULIET GARDINER Café Culture: Chris Brink Sun 6 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall In association with Café Culture North East ● 4.00pm – 5.00pm Sun 6 | The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space How will our world change as traditional energy ● 3.00pm – 4.00pm supplies shrink and climate change forces us Chris Brink is a philosopher and to use less fossil fuels? Should we return to a mathematician who transformed Stellenbosch Chris Brink locally-focussed pre-modern lifestyle where University in South Africa from the intellectual travel is a luxury for the few, will conflict over heart of apartheid into the mixed race declining resources destabilise the globe, or Everyone thinks of institution it is today. Vice-Chancellor of will science save the day? Debaters include Paul changing the world, Newcastle University since 2007, he chairs Younger, Director of the Newcastle Institute for the Newcastle Fairness Commission, which but no one thinks of Research on Sustainability, and the philosopher seeks to create a fairer city. He argues that in Melissa Lane from Princeton University. changing himself. times of austerity it is vital that the principle of fairness should underpin decision-making. Leo Tolstoy

16 Free Tickets: 0191 443 4661 bbc.co.uk/freethinking 17 PRESENTED BY FREE BUT TICKETED MATTHEW SWEET Giles Fraser Spitfires and Bounty Cakes Sun 6 | Hall Two By Bridget Deane ● 5.30pm – 6.30pm Drama on the Concourse The Magnificent Seven and the Crisis of Duration: 15 minutes Commitment. Giles Fraser is this year’s ● Sat 5 Nov: 12.30pm | 3.45pm Thinker-in-Residence. As Canon Chancellor ● Sun 6 Nov: 2.15pm | 3.15pm of St Paul’s Cathedral Giles is responsible Put on a pair of headphones and enter a for contemporary ethics and engagement Free child’s world; help Alfie to search for his with the financiers in the City of London. dad around the busy Concourse of The Sage A popular contributor to Radio 4’s Thinking Gateshead and through the sonic landscape Thought for the Day, he also lectures the of his vivid imagination. Take part in this British Army on moral leadership. Giles immersive audio drama, in which you have argues that society is gripped by a crisis Drama a central role to play. It’s a darkly gripping of commitment. We’ve become addicted story that plays out all around you. to the detached, uncommitted lifestyle Giles Fraser © Graham Lacdao embodied in those wandering gunslingers Not suitable for children under 12 from western movies, who never want to be tied down. Is individualism pushing out all other values and leaving us rootless? FREE BUT TICKETED A Summer Night By Jack Thorne Between the Ears: Horse Live drama at Baltic Sun 6 Nov | Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art By Katrina Porteous and Level One Peter Zinovieff ● 8.45pm – 10.00pm Sun 6 | Hall Two Radio 3 broadcasts a drama live from the ● 7.30pm – 8.00pm Baltic written especially for Free Thinking Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3’s series of by Jack Thorne, whose credits include innovative and imaginative radio features, BBC Three’s The Fades, Skins, and This is is performed for the first time in front of a England 86. Set during the recent riots, A Uffinngton Horse © NASA live audience. Northumbrian poet Katrina Summer Night tells three personal stories Porteous and composer and synthesizer from the night when the capital changed pioneer Peter Zinovieff have created a shape. A policeman on duty, a carer trying new work inspired by the three thousand to get to her patient, a teenager on a night year old Uffington chalk figure that leaps out – their paths cross and collide in across the Oxfordshire landscape. Scored ways you won’t expect. A Summer Night for two voices and two computers, Horse makes you rethink your thinking. Change will not come if we wait mixes the sound of a Cornish ferry with for some other person or some human voices to conjure echoes from the Not suitable for children under 14. Cretaceous sea, the dragon beneath it, other time. and recollections from our deepest past. Free but ticketed. To book call The Barack Obama Sage Gateshead on 0191 443 4661 or visit www.thesagegateshead.org

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Drama on the Concourse Francis Bacon Human Library Spitfires and Bounty Cakes by Bridget Enter the ‘Human Library’ – where books Deane (Dur: 15 mins). An immersive are people and reading is conversation. The audio drama, in which you have a central ‘Books’ in the Human Library come from role to play. See Page 19 for details. all walks of life and by choosing one you are invited to engage in a conversation that will challenge your preconceptions and stereotypes. Come and loan a real-life book.

Presented by Wunderbar Festival 2011 in partnership with New Writing North (on Saturday only). Community Radio Hub © Derrick Evans Newcastle Student Radio, Radio Tyneside, Spice FM, NE1 FM and Culture Lab Radio will all be broadcasting from the festival at the Community Radio Hub on the concourse. The ‘Changing’ Room The Sage Gateshead’s multi-media room in the Squires Seminar Room features specially commissioned films and art works by MA Media students from Newcastle University, as well as a showcase of BBC Radio 3’s innovative radio programme Between the Ears introduced by the producers.

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9.45am Margaret Drabble Northern Rock Foundation Hall 11.00am William Hague Hall Two 12.00pm Music Matters Northern Rock Foundation Hall Sunday 6 November 12.30pm Spitfires and Bounty Cakes Concourse 10.45am Elif Shafak 1.00pm Susie Orbach The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Hall Two 11.30am Young Ranters 1.15pm New Generation Thinker: Northern Rock Foundation Hall Rachel Hewitt 12.00pm Germaine Greer The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Hall Two 1.30pm Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 12.30pm New Generation Thinker: Lucy Powell Northern Rock Foundation Hall The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space 2.30pm Linda Colley 1.00pm Were the Luddites Right? Hall Two Northern Rock Foundation Hall 2.45pm New Generation Thinker: 1.30pm New Generation Thinker: Corin Throsby Alexandra Harris The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space 1.45pm Julian Savulescu 3.00pm Revision Time! What are Schools Hall Two Really for Today? 2.15pm Spitfires and Bounty Cakes Northern Rock Foundation Hall Concourse 3.45pm Spitfires and Bounty Cakes 2.30pm Aditya Chakrabortty Concourse Northern Rock Foundation Hall 4.00pm Francis Wells 3.00pm Café Culture: Chris Brink Hall Two The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space 4.15pm New Generation Thinker: David Petts 3.15pm Spitfires and Bounty Cakes The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space Concourse 4.30pm Can We Stop the Mania for Change? 3.45pm Charles Jencks Northern Rock Foundation Hall Hall Two 5.15pm New Generation Thinker: 3.45pm Speed Dating with a Thinker Laurence Scott The Squires Lounge The Joan and Margaret Halbert Space 4.00pm What is the Future of Civilisation 6.00pm Kevin Fong as the Oil Runs Out? Northern Rock Foundation Hall Northern Rock Foundation Hall 7.30pm The Verb 5.30pm Giles Fraser Hall Two Hall Two 7.30pm Saturday Edition 7.30pm Between the Ears: Horse Northern Rock Foundation Hall Hall Two 9.00pm What is News Now? 8.45pm Live Drama: A Summer Night Northern Rock Foundation Hall Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Level One