Saturday 13 July – Barn – Where We Stand #109 10am Barn £9
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis Undercover
#110 11.30am Barn £9
Ian Robertson Winning Combination
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#111 1pm Barn £9
Robert Kennedy, the environmental activist unmasked as a policeman in 2010, raised huge questions about the ethics of undercover investigations. How far does it compromise the police force? Is a woman’s sexual consent removed when the partner has an alternative identity? Two Guardian reporters at the forefront of the case answer many questions.
Why do some succeed in life or business where others fail? What affects how power is distributed? Are men more likely to hunger after power than women? The ‘winner effect’ describes how an animal who has conquered opponents is more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. Neuroscientist Ian Robertson applies this to professional and emotional lives to fascinating effect.
Oliver Bullough The Last Man in Russia Acclaimed author Oliver Bullough lived in Russia for 7 years. He tracks the steps of an Orthodox Russian priest to reconstruct and examine the Russia he experienced first hand. Famine, occupation, war, the collapse of Communism and the giddy excesses that followed it – Oliver Bullough provides raw insight into life in a totalitarian state.
Day Ticket: £42
#112 2.30pm Barn £9
Joe Glenton I Won’t Go Back to War
#113 4pm Barn £9
David Goodhart Lines in the Sand
#114 5.30pm Barn £9
Michael Axworthy Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
When the “War on Terror” began, Joe Glenton felt compelled to serve his country. But in 2006 he found himself in Afghanistan, disillusioned, garnering symptoms of PTSD, and increasingly politicised. When he refused to return for a second tour, he was denied his right to object. Here, he charts his journey from a promising soldier to a rebel against unjustified military action.
There have been three periods of high immigration since 1945: in the 1950s, the 1970s and the years following 1997. Britain has a much more tolerant attitude than its European counterparts, but has the idea of diversity won out over the notion of solidarity? In a discussion, the director of Demos, David Goodhart, considers the successes and failures of immigration policy.
Exeter University’s Michael Axworthy, a world expert on Iran, explores the history of this extraordinary country: a state that in 1979 began a revolution based on the supremacy of Islam; that sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight year war; that ignores widespread condemnation and that remains committed to nuclear development.