A hunger for more big ideas

Adelaide prides itself on the clarity of its vision and on the guests it attracts…

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a hunger for big ideas. Witness the appearance yesterday afternoon of Richard Dawkins, who attracted a crowd of about 2000 that writers week director Rose Wight said matched the record set in 2008 by Ian McEwan.

The author of The God Delusion, the great atheist tract of our time, said – with a twinkle in his eye – the occasion reminded him of the Sermon on the Mount or a meeting in ”a kind of revivalist tent”.