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Cheltenham Saturday 10th October
5th September 2009
Last night I was looking through the brochure for this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival. Aside from it having a cracking range of speakers it is also my home town so I always look to go back for a day. This year Saturday 10th October looks a great shout.
If you were thinking of taking a minibus of students you could aim to get to the Main Hall for 10am to hear Robert Skidelsky:
In the current financial crisis the ideas of economist John Maynard Keynes are back in fashion — but why have we returned to a thinker and policy maker who died fifty years ago? Renowned economist and award-winning biographer Robert Skidelsky discusses Keynes: The Return of the Master, exploring Keynes’ ideas and their increasing relevance today.
After a break for coffee you could head back into the main hall at noon to listen to Will Hutton, Evan Davis and Gillian Tett:
The FT’s Gillian Tett’s bestselling Fool’s Gold is one of the most insightful and lucid analyses yet of the roots of the current global financial crisis, taking us deep inside the shadowy world of complex finance. She joins The Work Foundation’s Will Hutton, author of The Writing on the Wall, and former BBC Economics Editor and Dragon’s Den presenter Evan Davis to discuss the background and origins of the current crisis and its implications for the future.
Post lunch the afternoon could be spent spending your money in the fine array of shops that the town has to offer before returning to the main hall to listen to Vince Cable, Stephanie Flanders and John Micklethwait debate The Credit Crunch: Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here? Join Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman Vince Cable, one of the most incisive commentators on the financial crisis, John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, and BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders to analyse the current situation and discuss the implications for the future shape of capitalism.
These sessions look like they will be full of excellent material. I will look to take students who are likely to be facing university interviews before the end of the year, hopefully giving them a yet wider range of material to draw on.