2012 Festival dates: 12 - 17 June

This summer, over 300 of the world's greatest thinkers, comedians, writers and scientists will come together to celebrate and explore all things scientific. Tickets go on sale to the public from 2 April.

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Directors' Picks

View our Directors' Picks for first details of the 2012 Festival line-up. There's also an exclusive interview with anatomist, author and presenter of BBC series' Coast & the Incredible Human Journey, Alice Roberts; plus experimental psychologist Bruce Hood tells us what it was like to in the footsteps of Michael Faraday and David Attenborough in presenting the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

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Watch our exclusive Festival preview Video

Preview The Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2012, with topics ranging from medicine to technology, economic recovery to energy and the role of science in our ever regenerating society. The programme will feature a mix of cutting edge discoveries, cabaret, comedy, family fun, hands on experiments and workshops. It will also welcome the Famelab International final, which is on a quest to find the world's next big scientific stars.

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Tell us your ideas

Planning for The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2012 is well under way and now we want to hear from you. If you have a suggestion for a topic, speaker or activity for the festival then please get in touch and let us know.

Find out more and submit your idea here

FameLab - Talking Science

FameLab is an exciting competition to find the new voices of science and engineering across the world. To date, over 700 scientists and engineers have taken part in the UK competition. Globally more than 3,600 competitors have taken part in the FameLab International programme. Open to anyone working in or studying science, technology, engineering, medicine or maths in the UK, contestants have just 3 minutes to prove themselves to a panel of expert judges, with only the best going forward to the next round.

Find out more about FameLab

Education: Science for Schools

Take a sneak peak at our Science for Schools 2012 programme with a wide range of events, workshops and day packages suitable for Key Stages 1-4. With topics including magic, electricity, code-cracking, why cheesy feet smell bad and how to stop a zombie outbreak, should one ever occur, your class definitely won't want to miss it...

Check out our Science for Schools programme

Brochure Archives

2011 marked the tenth anniversary of The Times Cheltenham Science Festival and you can relive the highlights and line ups of recent Festivals in our brochure archive. Here you'll also find brochures from our other Festivals, Music, Science and Literature.

Browse our brochure archive