This year’s Bristol Festival of Ideas programme includes:

• Ben Goldacre on bad science
• Marcus du Sautoy on mathematics
• Crime writer Christopher Brookmyre, Julian Baggini and Susan Blackmore on atheism
• Human rights with Helen Bamber
• ideas for the 21st century with A C Grayling
• Monica Ali and Geoff Dyer discuss their new novels
• Susie Orbach on Bodies, John Gray on politics
• Margaret MacMillan and Richard Holmes on history and its lessons for today.

The festival also looks back at C P Snow’s The Two Cultures lecture of 50 years ago, with a new lecture by philosopher Raymond Tallis.

Vince Cable looks at the economy and Alain de Botton at the world of work.

Two film seasons round off the festival: Movies and the Mind, and The Music of Light, a celebration of the work and ideas of French pioneer filmmaker Abel Gance.

Full programme details can be found at Bristol festival of Ideas