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Kathy Sykes
Festival co-director

The theme this year is ‘Heresy’ — why was this theme chosen?
A: We chose the theme ‘Heresy’ because when we talked to the Science Festival Advisory Group, it was the theme that got people excited and talking the most. Last year, we had ‘Taboos’ and I think the festival always likes to be a bit challenging — to go to places that other festivals don’t go. It allows us to look at how important it is in innovation and science to be prepared to see that there are different world views possible, as well as to explore people in the past who have been heretical — either right or wrong. And also how the heretic of today might become the Nobel Prize winner of tomorrow!

We’ve tagged this post with Kathy Sykes, science on Thursday 4 June 2009.