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Marking the 50th anniversary of Isaiah Berlin's lectures, Six Enemies of Human Liberty, we look at the concept of freedom and what currently acts as a barrier to its fulfilment. Does real freedom consist in autonomy and the ability to reach a self-defined potential? Must freedom have its limits? Is happiness more important than freedom? Does coercion have a place in a democratic society? What, today, are the main barriers to freedom, people, policies or beliefs? Speakers include: Ziauddin Sardar, writer and critic whose books include Why we Hate America; Ann Widdecombe, MP and former shadow home secretary; Phil Collins, head of the Social Market Foundation and AC Grayling, reader in philosophy at Birkbeck College. In the chair is journalist and broadcaster, Jonathan Freedland.