Series 9 (2016)
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Episodes 20
Episode 1
Nicky Cambell returns for the ninth series of The Big Questions. Live from University of Kent, Canterbury, the audience and guests debate whether doctors should have the right to strike, freedom of speech on university campuses and the future of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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Nicky Campbell presents live moral, ethical and religious debate with an audience and invited guests from Leith Academy, Edinburgh. Should sugar be treated like a dangerous drug? Is it right to alter embryos' genes? And, do religions get in the way of beliefs?
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At Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow, Nicky Campbell asks:
Will the 'Snoopers' Charter' make people safer?
Should there be a legal supply of cannabis?
Do religions need a carrot and a stick?
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Nicky Campbell presents live moral, ethical and religious debate from Patcham High School in Brighton.
Should a society be judged by how it treats its less fortunate members?
Has the time come to take climate change seriously?
Should more religions have a voice in Parliament?
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Live from Manor Church of England Academy in York
Nicky Campbell asks:
Is a minimum wage a mixed blessing?
Is the PREVENT strategy stifling freedom of speech in schools?
And, do we misunderstand witchcraft?
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Nicky Campbell presents a specially recorded programme from Manor CE Academy, York. In honour of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, he asks: Is there more truth in Shakespeare than the Bible?
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Nicky Campbell presents topical debate live from Bath Spa University, Bath.
Do public figures have a right to privacy?
Does the Vatican need to give more power to women?
Does God care what you wear?
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Nicky Campbell presents the moral, ethical and religious discussion series live from Oasis Academy, Salford.
Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitic? And does religion need more humour?
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Nicky Campbell presents the moral, ethical and religious discussion series live from Oasis Academy, Salford. In this episode Nicky asks: Should we be proud of the British Empire?
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Nicky Campbell presents live discussion from Wychwood School in Oxford. Is countering extremism compatible with freedom of religion? Should the law on abortion be changed?
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Nicky Campbell presents moral, ethical and religious debate from Wychwood School, Oxford. The one question this week: did man create God?
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Nicky Campbell presents moral, ethical and religious debates from Brunel University, Uxbridge.
Are white working-class boys discriminated against? And, should the UK's commitment to foreign aid be scrapped?
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Nicky Campbell presents moral, ethical and religious debates from Brunel University London, Uxbridge. Nicky asks the question: Are we facing the end of the world?
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