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Bristol Ideas is a leading organisation for public debate and learning, bringing together arts and sciences to explore the key issues of our time.

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Festival of Ideas

Sun 26 Sep 2021, 19:00 — 20:15

Crowdcast | £5-£10

What Does Diana Wynne Jones Mean to Readers Today? Colin Burrow, Neil Gaiman and Katherine Rundell
Festival of Economics

Fri 8 Oct 2021, 19:00 — 20:00

Waterstones | £8 / £6

Can Anthropology Explain Business and Life? Gillian Tett
Festival of the Future City

Thu 14 Oct 2021, 18:30 — 19:30

We The Curious | £10 / £8

How Do We Fix Our World? Ed Miliband

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Watch

Festival of Ideas

Wed 22 Sep 2021

How Did the Free World Win the Cold War? Louis Menand
Film2021

Wed 28 Jul 2021

What Can Billy Wilder Teach Us About Vienna and Berlin? Noah Isenberg and Shelley Frisch
Festival of Economics

Wed 21 Jul 2021

How Can We Change Capitalism? Mariana Mazzucato

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Read

Bristol City Poet

Fri 24 Sep 2021

Flowers in the Mud
Homes for Heroes 100

Wed 22 Sep 2021

Council Estate Memories: West Belfast
Film2021

Wed 22 Sep 2021

Sunday for Seven Days
Film2021

Fri 17 Sep 2021

Watching Avatar at the London Waterloo IMAX
Film2021

Tue 7 Sep 2021

Friese-Greene: Protofeminist?: Part 1
Bristol City Poet

Tue 14 Jul 2020

Tommy 2020

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Listen

Festival of Ideas

Tue 12 Jun 2018

Ancient Wisdom for a Sceptical Age Edith Hall and Antonia Macaro
Festival of Ideas

Mon 24 Apr 2017

Stalin and the Scientists Simon Ings
Festival of Ideas

Wed 5 Apr 2017

The Blade Artist Irvine Welsh

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