Lectures

Episodes

• Lee Miller: Why Her Photography Still Matters Today - Antony Penrose 2026-03-13
• How Women Made the Global Economy - Dr Victoria Bateman 2026-03-06
• Climate Risk and Insurance - Raghavendra Rau 2026-03-03
• The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives - Ian Mudway 2026-02-27
• Peacebuilding through the visual Arts - Jolyon Mitchell 2026-02-24
• The Shape of Shells: She Sells Self-Similar Spiral Seashells on the Seashore - Professor Alain Goriely 2026-02-20
• Pictures from Afghanistan: Are we making the same mistakes? - Clive Stafford Smith 2026-02-17
• Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do? - Peter Thornton 2026-02-13
• Will You Be AI’s Pet? - Matt Jones 2026-02-06
• An Ocean of Air - Helen Czerski 2026-02-03
• Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting - Professor Malcolm Andrews 2026-01-23
• Economics and Artificial Intelligence - Daniel Susskind 2026-01-16
• Donald Trump and the Death Penalty - Clive Stafford Smith 2026-01-06
• Life, Death and Judgement in the Art and Times of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) - Sophie Oosterwijk 2025-12-30
• Where Is China Heading under Xi Jinping? - Steve Tsang 2025-12-23
• The Later Years: Organisation, Independence and Peace of Mind - Sir Peter Thornton KC 2025-12-19
• The Shape of Plants: Why Plants Love Mathematics and Mathematicians Love Plants - Alain Goriely 2025-12-15
• Becoming AI – Your Journey to Assimilation? - Matt Jones 2025-12-09
• Limitarianism and Capitalism - Ingrid Robeyns 2025-12-05
• Do Not Resuscitate Forms - Who’d Have One? - Mark Taubert 2025-12-02
• Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother - Lord Daniel Finkelstein 2025-11-25
• China’s Economic Prospects on the Cusp - George Magnus 2025-11-21
• Ocean: The Liquid Engine That Dominates Our Planet 2025-11-18
• The Economics of Work and Technology - Daniel Susskind 2025-11-11
• Whither War; Whither the Law of War - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice KC 2025-11-07
• From Tyranny to Athenian Democracy - Melissa Lane 2025-11-04
• China and Chineseness: Lessons from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan - Steve Tsang 2025-10-31
• War's Toxic Legacy - Ian Mudway 2025-10-28
• How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-making in Mathematics - Caroline Ehrhardt 2025-10-24
• Evoking Empathy through Animal Portraiture 2025-10-21
• Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War - Alec Ryrie 2025-10-14
• AI Will Be Your Overlord: Faster, Brighter, Better Than You? 2025-10-07
• Shakespeare’s Musical Fairies - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh 2025-10-03
• Lessons from Guantánamo Bay - Clive Stafford Smith 2025-09-30
• The Shape of Hands: Symmetry, Chirality and Handedness - Alain Goriely 2025-09-26
• Earth – Our Planetary Life Support System - Professor Helen Czerski 2025-09-23
• Automation Anxiety - Daniel Susskind 2025-09-19
• Galileo’s Journey to the Underworld: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking - Sarah Hart 2025-08-22
• A World Remade by Decolonization? - Martin Thomas 2025-08-19
• Oil, Decolonisation, and the Future of the Climate Emergency - Adam Hanieh 2025-08-15
• Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World - Julia Laite 2025-08-12
• Outsmart the System: How Psychology Hacks Your Money Decisions - Raghavendra Rau 2025-08-08
• Democracy and International Criminal Justice in the Fragile World of the Rule of Law - Howard Morrison 2025-08-05
• The Future of Health - Chris Whitty 2025-08-01
• Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins - Robin Wilson 2025-07-29
• The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion - Alain Goriely 2025-07-25
• Architecture of Enslavement, Colonialism and Independence: The Story of James Fort in Accra - Elsie Owusu 2025-07-15
• The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh 2025-07-11
• Carbon Takeback: How We Will Stop Fossil Fuels from Causing Global Warming - Myles Allen 2025-07-08
• Lawgivers in Modern Revolutions - Melissa Lane 2025-06-27
• Taking the Constitution into the Classroom - Clive Stafford Smith 2025-06-24
• Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps - Raghavendra Rau 2025-06-17
• The Moral Case for Stealing Data - Victoria Baines 2025-06-13
• From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers - Melissa Lane 2025-06-03
• The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia - Alain Goriely 2025-05-30
• Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek - Melissa Lane 2025-05-28
• Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? - Myles Allen 2025-05-23
• What Rights and Duties are Missing from the U.S. Constitution? - Clive Stafford Smith 2025-05-22
• The 2025 Annual Lord Mayor's Event - Alastair King 2025-05-22
• How Does Surveillance Work? - Victoria Baines 2025-05-14
• Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? - Martin Daunton 2025-05-09
• The LGBT+ Showstopper: ‘I Am What I Am’ - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh 2025-04-25
• Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa - Tamar Garb 2025-04-22
• The Case for Basic Income - Guy Standing 2025-04-15
• The Turbulent Brain: Rhythms and Waves - Alain Goriely 2025-04-11
• Banned Books and Freedom of Expression - Rachel Potter 2025-04-04
• Trust Issues: When Financial "Experts" Have Other Plans - Raghavendra Rau 2025-04-01
• Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? - Myles Allen 2025-03-28
• Is the First Amendment the greatest right of all? - Clive Stafford Smith 2025-03-21
• Data: A Love Story for the Ages - Victoria Baines 2025-03-14
• Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus - Melissa Lane 2025-03-04
• The Value of Public Space - Liza Fior 2025-02-28
• The UK’s Generational Wealth Gap - Mike Brewer 2025-02-28
• Why Does Britain Have a Water and Sewage Crisis? - Martin Daunton 2025-02-27
• The Hidden Risks of "I Know Something You Don't" - Raghavendra Rau 2025-02-21
• Is Your Money Safe? Unveiling Hidden Conflicts in Finance - Raghavendra Rau 2025-02-14
• The Connected Brain: Network and Communication - Alain Goriely 2025-02-11
• ‘Is it in Pevsner?’: A Short History of the ‘Buildings of …' Series - Charles O'Brien 2025-02-04
• Writing Laws: Hammurabi to Solon - Melissa Lane 2025-01-31
• Science-based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector - Myles Allen 2025-01-22