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Free Thinking: 2013 Festival

Free Thinking: 2013 Festival: Power to the People: What Choices Do We Have?

Power to the People: What Choices Do We Have?

30/10/2013

2013 Festival

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David Skelton, David Aaronovitch and Julie Moore discuss power and consultation.

Are our leaders becoming followers? Anne McElvoy chairs a panel including Renewal director David Skelton, NHS executive Julie Moore and columnist David Aaronovitch.

Social media allows us to make our views known quickly but where does this public pressure and the increasing emphasis on "choice" and "consultation" leave professional expertise and political instinct? Anne McElvoy chairs a panel at the Free Thinking Festival of Ideas, at Sage Gateshead, including the founder of the Renewal campaign David Skelton, the columnist David Aaronovitch and Dame Julie Moore, Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham who sits on the governments NHS Future Forum.

BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October. The theme of this year's events is "Who's In Control?"

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Series of events from the 2013 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'who's in control?'

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