Gresham College Lectures
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Trust Issues: When Financial "Experts" Have Other Plans - Raghavendra Rau
58 mins; April 01, 2025
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? - Myles Allen
51 mins; March 28, 2025
Is the First Amendment the greatest right of all? - Clive Stafford Smith
59 mins; March 21, 2025
The Biggest Cosmic Map - Chris Lintott
45 mins; March 18, 2025
Data: A Love Story for the Ages - Victoria Baines
50 mins; March 14, 2025
The Return of the Horned God - Ronald Hutton
45 mins; March 11, 2025
Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection? - Robin May
45 mins; March 11, 2025
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus - Melissa Lane
46 mins; March 04, 2025
The Value of Public Space - Liza Fior
36 mins; February 28, 2025
The UK’s Generational Wealth Gap - Mike Brewer
50 mins; February 28, 2025
Why Does Britain Have a Water and Sewage Crisis? - Martin Daunton
58 mins; February 27, 2025
The Hidden Risks of "I Know Something You Don't" - Raghavendra Rau
56 mins; February 21, 2025
Is Your Money Safe? Unveiling Hidden Conflicts in Finance - Raghavendra Rau
54 mins; February 14, 2025
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication - Alain Goriely
56 mins; February 11, 2025
Breaking the Fourth Wall of Sound: The Paradox of Screen Music - Milton Mermikides
54 mins; February 07, 2025
‘Is it in Pevsner?’: A Short History of the ‘Buildings of …' Series - Charles O'Brien
58 mins; February 04, 2025
Writing Laws: Hammurabi to Solon - Melissa Lane
42 mins; January 31, 2025
Touching the Sun - Chris Lintott
52 mins; January 24, 2025
Science-based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector - Myles Allen
56 mins; January 22, 2025
Writing a British Constitution - Clive Stafford Smith
42 mins; January 17, 2025
The Modern Goddess - Ronald Hutton
47 mins; January 15, 2025
Who’s Afraid of Robots? - Victoria Baines
48 mins; January 10, 2025
Women at the Piano: A History Through Images - Marina Frolova-Walker
52 mins; January 07, 2025
The US Constitution: A Catalogue of Complaints about Britain - Clive Stafford Smith
50 mins; January 03, 2025
How Does Our Immune System Protect Us? - Robin May
40 mins; December 31, 2024
Who's Minding the Store? Corporate Rules to Align Interests - Raghavendra Rau
61 hours 5 mins; December 27, 2024
Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
54 mins; December 24, 2024
Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles - Milton Mermikides
58 mins; December 20, 2024
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times - Rob Eastaway
42 mins; December 17, 2024
Messaging and Signals - Victoria Baines
50 mins; December 13, 2024
Houston, we have a problem: how the fossil fuel industry is risking our future - Myles Allen
50 mins; December 10, 2024
Black Holes and Bangs - Chris Lintott
45 mins; December 06, 2024
How Inequality Affects Mental Health - Lade Smith
50 mins; December 02, 2024
Saints & Liars: The Stories of Americans Who Saved Endangered People from the Nazis - Debórah Dwork
42 mins; November 29, 2024
Why believe in Conspiracy Theories? - Peter Knight
53 mins; November 27, 2024
The Ancient History of Computers and Code - Victoria Baines
46 mins; November 22, 2024
The Convoluted Brain: Wrinkles and Folds - Alain Goriely
49 mins; November 19, 2024
The Health Gap: Achieving Social Justice in Public Health - Michael Marmot
51 mins; November 15, 2024
Why Writing Women Back into History Matters - Janina Ramirez
50 mins; November 12, 2024
The Origins of Modern Paganism - Ronald Hutton
46 mins; November 08, 2024
Does the UK have a Water Crisis? - Carolyn Roberts
138 hours 19 mins; November 05, 2024
Is Trump the same Nixon in 1968? - Luke A. Nichter
46 mins; November 04, 2024
What is a Puzzle Canon? The Divine Trickery of J.S. Bach - Milton Mermikides
46 mins; November 03, 2024
Why Does Britain Have a Housing Crisis? - Martin Daunton
54 mins; October 30, 2024
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns - Dominic Broomfield McHugh
52 mins; October 25, 2024
Is the Public Lecture Dead? - Martin Elliott
51 mins; October 22, 2024
How do we secure Europe? - Catherine Ashton
43 mins; October 22, 2024
Do Microbes have Immune Systems? - Robin May
41 mins; October 11, 2024
How to raise the Net Zero conversation - Myles Allen
51 mins; October 08, 2024
Were Laws created by Greek Legends? - Melissa Lane
44 mins; October 04, 2024
Human Rights Law: Bringing Power to the Powerless - Clive Stafford Smith
36 mins; October 01, 2024
What is Modern Paganism? - Ronald Hutton
45 mins; September 23, 2024
Does having a big brain make your smarter? - Alain Goriely
55 mins; September 20, 2024
A Mirror in the Sky - Chris Lintott
44 mins; September 17, 2024
The Stories We Make Up & The Stories That Make Us - Bernardine Evaristo OBE
35 mins; September 06, 2024
Does the UK Constitution need reform? - Charles Falconer PC, KC
36 mins; August 21, 2024
Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change - Melissa Lane
39 mins; August 09, 2024
The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History - Nino Strachey
41 mins; August 02, 2024
Are Financial Markets Efficient? - Raghavendra Rau
53 mins; July 26, 2024
Witch-Hunting in European and World History - Ronald Hutton
48 mins; July 22, 2024
A Mathematician's View of Proof - Sarah Hart
51 mins; July 12, 2024
Experts in politics: Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle - Melissa Lane
57 mins; July 09, 2024
First light: Revealing the Early Universe - Chris Lintott
59 mins; July 02, 2024
Race, Disability & Education: Law's Uphill Battle - Leslie Thomas KC
70 hours 54 mins; June 24, 2024
Logarithms: Mobile Phones, Modelling & Statistics?
52 mins; June 20, 2024
A Just and Inclusive Net Zero: Who should get there first? - Myles Allen
59 mins; June 17, 2024
Asymmetric Information in Finance Explained - Raghavendra Rau
61 hours 22 mins; June 14, 2024
Is Music Infinite? - Milton Mermikides
67 hours 28 mins; June 12, 2024
Twentieth-Century Divas: Julie Andrews - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
58 mins; June 06, 2024
Health after Extreme Cold, Heat, Storms and Floods - Professor Sir Chris Whitty
54 mins; June 03, 2024
How to Prove 1=0, And Other Maths Illusions - Sarah Hart
63 hours 37 mins; May 30, 2024
Evolution Tomorrow and Beyond - Robin May
60 hours 7 mins; May 29, 2024
The Next Fifty Years of Tech - Dr Victoria Baines
63 hours 34 mins; May 28, 2024
Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly - Milton Mermikides
57 mins; May 24, 2024
Is it Aliens? The Most Unusual Star In The Galaxy - Chris Lintott
65 hours 22 mins; May 22, 2024
The Western Magical Tradition - Ronald Hutton
65 hours 58 mins; May 20, 2024
Locating Queer History - Matt Cook
56 mins; May 17, 2024
Refugees: English Law's Protection or Persecution? - Leslie Thomas KC
69 hours 39 mins; May 15, 2024
The Geopolitical Risks of Climate Change - Myles Allen
63 hours 54 mins; May 13, 2024
Sustainable Energy in Refugee Camps - Dr Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
56 mins; May 09, 2024
What went wrong in Latin America? - Martin Daunton
70 hours 10 mins; May 07, 2024
Lead: A Toxic Legacy - Dr Ian Mudway
65 hours 33 mins; April 29, 2024
Twentieth-Century Divas: Shirley Bassey - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
65 hours 10 mins; April 26, 2024
Artificial Selection: How Humans have Shaped Evolution - Robin May
59 mins; April 24, 2024
Data Protection for Thrillseekers - Dr Victoria Baines
57 mins; April 17, 2024
The Human Cost of Immigration Detention - Dr Greg Constantine
61 hours 39 mins; April 16, 2024
Democracy: Ancient Models, Modern Challenges - Melissa Lane
58 mins; April 12, 2024
New Hope in Cancer: A Panel Discussion - Dr Richard Sidebottom, Sanjay Popat and James Larkin
55 mins; April 10, 2024
Modern Concepts of ADHD - Peter Hill
75 hours 57 mins; April 08, 2024
Ancient Greek Ideas of Equality under the Law - Melissa Lane
61 hours 37 mins; April 04, 2024
Ritual Nudity in History and Religion - Ronald Hutton
58 mins; April 03, 2024
Climate Tipping Points in Oceans, Ice, Forests - Myles Allen
59 mins; March 27, 2024
The Mathematics of Coincidence - Sarah Hart
58 mins; March 25, 2024
Wealth Inequality: English Law's Unintended Legacy? - Leslie Thomas KC
62 hours 23 mins; March 22, 2024
Changes in the Concept of Autism - Francesca Happé CBE
66 hours 42 mins; March 21, 2024
Option Pricing Theory Explained - Raghavendra Rau
66 hours 42 mins; March 18, 2024
The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes - Milton Mermikides
66 hours 11 mins; March 13, 2024
Health after Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis - Sir Chris Whitty
59 mins; March 11, 2024
Immunotherapy: Cure for Metastatic Cancers? - James Larkin
63 hours 7 mins; March 08, 2024
Dragons: A History - Ronald Hutton
58 mins; March 06, 2024