BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: returns to @sage_gateshead : 31 Oct- 2 Nov
not as good as previous years (so I won't be there)
SCHEDULE NOW OUT
Booking opens on Monday 6th October.
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: The Free Thinking Lecture
Friday 31st October, 2014. 7.15pm - 8.30pm
Karen Armstrong, one of the world’s leading thinkers about religion, gives the Free Thinking Lecture, arguing that, in the current global situation, a recognition of how little we know is the only way to peace.
A former Roman Catholic nun
* Beards : New Generation Thinker: Alun Withey
Saturday 1st November, 2014. 7.10pm - 7.30pm
* Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other
Sunday 2nd November, 2014. 2.15pm - 3.15pm
* Tom Charlton : The History Of Press Censorship
Sunday 2nd November, 2014. 4.50pm - 5.10pm
MY PICK OF CLIMATE EVENTS
1. Antarctica @Hall Two
Saturday 1st 10.30am - 11.30am
"A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton set out on his Trans-Antarctic Expedition which ended when his ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice. The lure of this polar region remains strong both in our imaginations and for explorers, whether they see it as an untapped source of resources or a pristine landscape which we need to preserve. Rana Mitter is joined by:
- Writer Meredith Hooper, who has visited Antarctica under the auspices of three governments, Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America.
ALARMIST : see book The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica (there are 2 US customer reviews from friends, ridiculed by Andrew Bolt)
- Polar explorer Ben Saunders, who led the longest human powered polar exploration in history from Antarctica to South Pole and back, retracing Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition.
(ALARMIST : actually on a 2008 mission to prove ice melting faster than ever , he had to be rescued cos of too much ice !
- Architect Hugh Broughton has designed research stations for Spain, Korea and the UK in Antarctica.
Alarmist ? maybe not
- Professor Jonathan Bamber teaches at the Bristol Glaciology Centre.
Alarmist ? probably not much. The Alarmists didn't report him when he de-hyped about ice melting “We found that the threshold is about double what was previously published,”
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