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# Leek ODD Group
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/leek-odd-group/
- Published: 2009-01-09T14:01:07.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:59:59.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:57

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/](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/?ref=opendemocracy.net)  
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](http://www.weacircle.blogspot.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) 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