Gordon Burn, Bristol Festival of Ideas.

Nick Davis & Gordon Burn

Bristol Festival of Ideas

On Truth & the Media

Bristol Festival of Ideas returns in May 2008 with a full programme of debates, lectures and discussions. Events at Arnolfini include Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, discussing identity; a panel discussion on the 60s and the legacy of idealism; and Naomi Klein whose new book The Shock Doctrine (Allen Lane) critically examines the success of America’s ‘free market’ policies.

For details of events at Arnolfini please go to our website. For information about the full programme see www.ideasfestival.co.uk or pick up a copy of the festival brochure at Arnolfini.

Events

Tue 20 May, 7.30pm

£6.00 / £4.00 concs.

Award-winning journalist Nick Davies investigated his own profession and found an industry in crisis. In his book Flat Earth News he argues that journalism is undermined by commercialism: most reporters are no longer able to go out and find stories, make contacts or even check the facts which they recycle.

Gordon Burn’s Born Yesterday was written as the news unfolded. It looks at Summer 2007: floods, foot and mouth, the disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann, the arrival of Gordon Brown, and terror attacks in Glasgow and turns them into a unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us.

www.ideasfestival.co.uk

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