Cheltenham Festivals

The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 3-7 June 2009

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Cheltenham Town Hall — Science Festival 2009

Listen to our Science Festival highlights!

Find out what Dara Ó Briain, Alice Roberts and all thought, did and enjoyed about this year’s Science Festival.

Science Festival highlights

by Sounds of Science — www.soundsofscience.co.uk


Guest director Carol Vorderman

Carol Vorderman

Our guest director will be putting together a unique collection of events for you to savour. And the festival theme of heresy is sure to revolutionise the way you think.

2009 is Darwin Year!

Charles Darwin

We’ll be taking a look at how Charles Darwin’s work – still controversial to this day – has affected the way we live and think.

Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy

International Year of Astronomy

We’ll be celebrating the International Year of Astronomy, marking 400 years since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the night sky, by exploring how we can understand more about our universe, from Galileo’s telescope to the future of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.


Play Darwin’s intergalactic adventure

Darwin’s intergalactic adventure

As we’re celebrating Darwin year here at the Science Festival, University of Gloucestershire student Jake Hobbs has come up with a great little browser-based game.
play the game →