There’s something for everyone at the British Science Festival. Here’s just a taster of what you can expect:

Festival comedy night: what makes us laugh?
Find out what makes us laugh with comedian and author Mark Stevenson ('an unashamedly intelligent comedic talent' - Irish Independent) and then sit back and enjoy two of the country's finest stand-up talents Robin Ince, regular on Mock The Week, News Quiz and Never Mind the Buzzcocks ('snortingly funny' - The Telegraph) and Andrew O'Neill ('an emerging barometer of hilarity' - Time Out).
Friday 4th September, 19.30 – 22.00

Electric Theatre Film Festival
Film Screenings:
Monday:In the Shadow of the Moon
Tuesday: Microcosmos
Wednesday: Age of Stupid
Thursday: End of the Line (documentary)
Fri: Let the Right One In
Sat: Young Frankenstein
Various dates and times

Nick Arnold: my horrible life
Join us for a lecture based on Nick Arnolds' life in which he explains his fascination for horrible things and science in particular. The lecture includes some demonstrations and readings and is aimed at family audiences of children aged 6-13 and their parents.
Saturday 5th September, 18.00 -19.00

Crime and the credit crunch: Does the current financial crisis threaten more than our pockets?
What does the current credit crunch mean for crime levels? Can we predict likely effects? Might they differ across types of crime? These questions will be posed and discussed, with views from the audience. Are there any right answers? Come and see what you think.
Saturday 5th September, 10.00 – 12.00

Science about town
Families can enjoy a feast of science based hands-on fun as the whole of the High Street becomes an extravaganza of science spectacles. Children of all ages will get to sit in a giant egg that can check their vital signs, see how fast real snailmail is, meet ‘Neurobot’, use a Wii to find out how we perceive depth, build a brain and much much more.
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September, 10.00 – 16.00

Warning! Garden grabbing costs lives
Join us to discuss how we are becoming an increasingly urbanised society, and how we use and value our urban green spaces such as parks and gardens. How important is access to green space and what are the implications for our well-being when we are cut off from the natural world? The natural landscape shaped our evolution, but does today’s urban human still have any requirement for it?
Tuesday 8th September, 18.00 – 21.00

Robert Winston: the man behind the moustache
One of the UK’s most recognisable scientists, fertility expert and broadcaster Professor Robert Winston will join us for a chat about his work, both in the lab and on the TV screen, his passions and his hopes and fears for the future. Jim Al-Khalili fields the questions.
Tuesday 8th September, 19.00 – 20.00

An evening with Bill Bryson
Don’t let us catch you dropping litter… Bill Bryson, author, humorist, and rural campaigner visits the Festival to share his thoughts on protecting the countryside, travelling the world and anything else that takes his fancy. Join Quentin Cooper, presenter of Radio 4's Material World as he asks Bill all the questions you always wanted to ask.
Wednesday 9th September, 19.00 – 20.00

The science of human attraction
Darwin realised that many behavioural and physical characteristics exist purely to impress the opposite sex. From faces to voices, from dance moves to body odour, scientists are beginning to understand how and why we like what we do. Join us to hear four speakers present their latest work on the science of attraction.
Thursday 10th September, 16.00 -18.00

Antimatter: fact or fiction?
CERN has made antimatter; that much in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons is true. In his book Frank Close ponders whether antimatter could solve the world's energy problems or be the most deadly weapon? Could antimatter power space craft? And why didn't the new born universe self-destruct with matter and antimatter annihilating one another as soon as they had emerged from the Big Bang?
Thursday 10th September, 19.00 – 20.00