Battle of Ideas 2006 in the news
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Watch Academy of Ideas director, Claire Fox hosting Claire Fox news on 18 Doughty Street
Broadcast
Resonance FM, Penned in the Margins - pre-record to be broadcast December 2006
Graveney
BBC Five Live, Weekend News - 29 October 2006
Duleep Allirajah - on footballers as role models
BBC Five Live, Weekend news - 28 October 2006
Daniel Ben-Ami, author of ‘Cowardly Capitalism’, and Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History,
BBC News 24 - 28 October 2006
Ceri Dingle, director, WORLDwriteand DerRoy Kwesi Andrew, co-producer, ‘Damned by Debt Relief’ - on debt relief
BBC Five Live, Victoria Derbyshire show - 27 October 2006
Dolan Cummings, editorial and research director, Academy of Ideas - on atheism
BBC London News - 27 October 2006
Pete Smith, lecturer in tourism,
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour - 27 October 2006
Michael Baum, professor emeritus of surgery, University College London, and Jim Pollard, editor, Malehealth.co.uk - on men’s health anxieties
Sky News - 27 October 2006
Suzy Dean, LSE student - on student drinking
Sky News - 26 October 2006
Daniel Ben-Ami, author of ‘Cowardly Capitalism’ on climate change
BBC Five Live, the Anita Anand show - 26 October 2006
James Panton, co-convenor, Battle of Ideas - on can films change the world?
18 Doughty Street, Claire Fox News - 26 October 2006
Claire Fox, director of the
BBC Five Live news - 25 October 2006
Austin Williams, director, Future Cities Project - on recycling
LBC News, Live
Geoff Kidder, Academy of Ideas, and Matt Delaney, Sport
Resonance FM, Cultural Eyes - 22 October 2006
Shirley Dent, communications director,
BBC Asian Network, Anita Rani show - 16 October 2006
Dolan Cummings, editorial and research director, Academy of Ideas - on the veils controversy
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour - 12 October 2006
Jeffery Taylor, dance critic, Sunday Express - on fear of touching and ballet training
Sky News - 11 October 2006
Dolan Cummings, editorial and research director,
sPs independent feature film documentary
Libertydebate and interviews with David Aaronovitch, Frank Furedi and Wendy Kaminer - on changes to civil liberties in the
Online
spiked (Battle of Ideas online partners) - extensive coverage including the Battle of Ideas interviews:
27 October 2006
Wendy Kaminer interviewed by Brendan O’Neill -
20 October 2006
Angela Patmore interviewed by Helene Guldberg - ‘There’s no such thing as stress’
13 October 2006
Michael Baum interviewed by Brendan O’Neill -
6 October 2006
Anna
29 September 2006
Josh Appignanesi interviewed by Nathalie Rothschild - ‘The Greeks were art house, the Romans were multiplex’
22 September 2006
Jeffery Taylor interviewed by Josie Appleton - ‘Where are the Margot Fonteyns?’
15 September 2006
DeRoy Kwesi Andrew interviewed by Brendan O’Neill - ‘Bob Geldof, you are not our messiah’
8 September 2006
David Soskin interviewed by Brendan O’Neill - ‘Cheap flights should be a cause for national rejoicing’
Other online articles and features:
EurActiv.com - 31 October 2006
‘Air-travel taxes to solve climate-change crisis’
Reuters blog - 30 October 2006
David Schlesinger - ‘Being there’
Internet Travel News - 30 October 2006
‘Cheapflights CEO slams green air tax’
Talent (training adult, literacy, ESOL and numeracy teachers) - 28 October 2006
‘Reforming the FE sector debate: Tyranny of skills?’
Londonist - 25 October 2006
Cogito Ergo Summary - Sci-tech listing event of the week
Flavorpill - 24 October 2006
Battle of Ideas discussion feature and competition
Guardian Unlimited - 23 October 2006
Hannah Couchman - ‘Give us our voice in class’
Times Online debates - 19 October 2006
Podcast debates on Battle of Ideas debates - ‘Carbon, carbon everywhere?’ and ‘Is TV good for children?’
FT Privilege club - 18 October 2006
Battle of Ideas competition and offer
New Media Age - 16 October 2006
‘Tiscali to sponsor the “Battle of Ideas” discussion’
CultivAsian - 14 October 2006
Special Battle of Ideas feature
Duleep Allirajah - ‘Kick Anti-Racism Out of Football’
David Perks - 'Tomorrow's innovators - What is science education for?'
Chris Meade - 'Can the book survive in the era of sound bites and txting?'
Arts & Letters Daily - weekend edition, 23/24 September 2006
citation of spiked
Red Pepper - 22 September 2006
Battle of Ideas online listing
Tiscali discussion forums
total:spec - forthcoming
Interview with Kevin Fong
The Guardian - 31 October 2006
Fiona Millar - ‘The parent trap’
The Times, The Knowledge - 28 October 2006
Nancy Durrant - number 1 choice of top five events
THES - 27 October 2006
Colin Lawson - ‘De-composition – the dumbing down of music’
TES - 27 October 2006
Melanie Brettingham - ‘Schools ask too much of home’
Press Gazette - 27 October 2006
George Brock - ‘Technology may change, but the meaning of journalism is the same’
Nursing Standard - 25 October
Brid Hehir - 'Is it all in the mind?'
City AM - 25 October 2006
‘Book ahead: the Battle of Ideas’
thelondonpaper - 25 October 2005
‘Brain food’
TimeOut - 25 October 2006
Around Town, Best by Day, Saturday and Sunday
Preview of Battle of Ideas film debates and screenings, including ‘Damned by Debt Relief’
The Guardian - 24 October 2006
Frank Furedi - ‘Don’t suppress radical Islamic ideas, challenge them’
The Times - 23 October 2006
Anjana Ahuja - Science notebook
The Times - 21 October 2006
Raymond Tallis - ‘We all go into the dark – but in the fragility of life there is light’
The Times, Body & Soul - 21 October 2006
Andrew G Marshall - ‘How to avoid the curse of happiness’
The Times - 19 October 2006
Guy Herbert - ‘We are the watchers. We help you’
The Week - 16 October 2006
Battle of Ideas listing
The Times, Body & Soul - 14 October 2006
Simon Crompton - ‘I need to see a doctor’
THES - 13 October 2006
Claire Fox - In the war of ideas, join the mavericks’ ranks
Cherwell 24 - 13 October 2006
Lee Jones - ‘Student politics: a post-mortem’
The Times - 12 October 2006
Claire Fox - ‘Why food advice from TV experts is poison’
THES - 22 September 2006
Bill Durodie - ‘We are the enemies within’
total:spec - September 2006
Interview with Christopher Frayling - ‘29 June: the Royal College of Art gives out the prizes’
total:spec - September 2006
Interview with Colin Tweedy - ‘Arts & Money’
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