Jason Smith debates at ‘Warning! Women at Work’

Listen to Jason Smith, freelance director and Director of the Birmingham Salon, debate at the Birmingham Salon event Warning! Women at Work on Wednesday 12th October 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:09:15 in duration.

Linda Bellos debates at ‘Warning! Women at Work

Listen to Linda Bellos, chair of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners. Here Linda debates at the Birmingham Salon event Warning! Women at Work on Wednesday 12th October 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:08:45 in duration.

Anne Fergusson debates at ‘Warning! Women at Work’

Listen to Anne Fergusson, Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Here Anne debates at the Birmingham Salon event Warning! Women at Work on Wednesday 12th October 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:12:09 in duration.

Nina Powell introduces ‘Warning! Women at work’

Listen to Nina Powell, PhD candidate and researcher in Psychology at the University of Birmingham. Here Nina introduces the Birmingham Salon debate Warning! Women at Work on Wednesday 12th October 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:05:22 in duration.

June 2011 Salon

The salon meeting on Wednesday 29 June was the Birmingham Film premiere of ‘Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is Possible’. There is no podcast of it.

The film is available to buy from the film makers: http://www.worldwrite.org.uk/sylviapankhurst/buy-the-dvd/

Karl Sharro debates ‘The struggle for democracy in the Middle East and Africa’

Listen to Karl Sharro, architect and commentator on the Middle East, who previously taught at the American University of Beirut. Here Karl speaks at the Birmingham Salon debate The struggle for democracy in the Middle East and Africa: Can the Arab movements survive Western intervention? on Wednesday 11th May 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:19:50 in duration.

Dr Shirley Lawes debates ‘Schools of the future’

Listen to Dr Shirley Lawes, subject leader for PGCE Languages at the Institute of Education, University of London and a member of the Institute of Ideas Education Forum and Battle of Ideas Organising Committee. In 2010 she was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French language and culture. Here Shirley speaks at the Birmingham Salon debate Schools of the future: What is education for? on Wednesday 6th April 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:17:27 in duration.

Jan Bowman debates ‘Reason and the eighteenth century’

Listen to Jan Bowman, author and illustrator of This is Birmingham, a history of the original Lunar Society and its effect on the city. Here Jan speaks at the Birmingham Salon debate Reason and the eighteenth century: Salons, the Lunar Society and the novel on Thursday 24th February 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:16:58 in duration.

Bill Hughes debates ‘Reason and the eighteenth century’

Listen to Bill Hughes, who recently completed his PhD on 18th-century dialogue, communicative reason and the English novel. Here Bill speaks at the Birmingham Salon debate Reason and the eighteenth century: Salons, the Lunar Society and the novel on Thursday 24th February 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:22:14 in duration.

Somnath Sen debates at “Is economic growth feasible or desirable?”

Listen to Somnath Sen, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Birmingham. Here Somnath speaks at the Birmingham Salon debate Is economic growth feasible or desirable? on Tuesday 11th January 2011 at The Studio, Birmingham.

This recording is 00:11:49 in duration.