Leek ODD Group

Supported by WEA and U3A tutors and students.  Everybody welcome.  Come when you can.  Notes are provided (one side of A4) in
advance for each session.  Some sessions
are based on Melvyn Bragg's
Radio 4 In our Time (IoT).  We
also use as a resource  www.opendemocracy.net  and www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/
plus occasionally a specific book, poem
or art work.  Participants help with
notes and chairing sessions.  No fee
(buying drink/s at the bar keeps us going...).  
The Group is non-party and un-sectarian. 
For detailed background on the project, see  www.weacircle.blogspot.com  We are networking and keen to extend
contacts.   Some themes may lead to WEA
day and/or residential courses, supported by the Raymond Williams Foundation
(RWF).

2009 Programme 

13 Jan:        The Convention
on Modern Liberty
- A review of the issues  (odn)*

20 Jan:        The Law  - necessary to protect us from ourselves?

27 Jan:        The Future of
the British Pub (based on BBC ‘The
Money Programme')

3  Feb:        The USA -  an up-date 
 (odn)

10 Feb:       The ‘Precautionary Principle' >  the death of science?

17 Feb:       John Milton -
poet or politician (IoT);

24 Feb:       The ‘under-class'  -  what's
happening?   (TA)

3 March:      A painting, ‘Guernica';  a photo, ‘napalmed Vietnamese girl'; a sculpture, ‘Angel                            of the North‘      Art and Impact.

10 March:    The Recession -  an up-date  
(odn)

17 March:     Does the brain
rule the mind?   (IoT)   Consciousness -  3rd session.  

24 March:     Pets as
Kin  (TA); 

31 March:     Kierkegaard  Why? (IoT); 

7  April:        Citizenship - 3rd
session.   The Sustainable Communities
Act.  

14 April:       Holiday break... (for
2 weeks, next session on 28th April)  

*   We may seek to organise a WEA
half-day on this theme, subsidized by RWF, 
following through from the London
Convention...    One of our group, also a
WEA Leek Branch Committee member, has suggested a short series of  WEA/ODD/RWF Saturday mornings on themes
selected from our programme.   More on
this after further consultation and discussion.                                     

We have no shortage of themes for the future, but suggestions always
welcome