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Back up to: 2013 Festival

1. Therapy Versus Prayer

   10/10 Christopher Harding explores religion and counselling in Japan and the UK.
2. Cutting Tradition

   9/10 Rebecca Steinfeld investigates the place of religious traditions involving genital cutting
3. Science and Sensibility

   8/10 Gregory Tate asks what controls humans: rational thought or unconscious emotion.
4. Autobiographical Memory and Contemporary Fiction

   7/10 Alice Hall explores the effect of blogs, YouTube and phone apps on telling life stories.
5. Wombs on Legs? Science Fiction and the Control of Reproduction

   6/10 Sarah Dillon explores roles for women in science fiction and asks if the genre is sexist.
6. In Search of Ecstasy

   5/10 Jules Evans explores rationalists' suspicions about states of high elation.
7. Breeding the Mongrel: Language Wars in Early Modern England

   4/10 John Gallagher on how 16th and 17th-century global travellers shaped English speech.
8. False Conception: Female Sexuality in Victorian England

   3/10 New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell discusses women's rights activist Annie Besant.
9. The Real Game of Thrones: Power in 15th-Century England

   2/10 Sarah Peverley explores shifts in royal power during the Wars of the Roses.
10. Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do for Us?

    1/10 Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the power battles between Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.