Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Pulsars, Microwave Ovens and the Radio Sky - Chris Lintott
63 hours 0 mins; March 04, 2024
Sex and the Internet - Dr Victoria Baines
62 hours 38 mins; February 29, 2024
Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference? - Maggie Snowling CBE
60 hours 58 mins; February 27, 2024
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution - Robin May
60 hours 21 mins; February 26, 2024
Export-Led Growth in the Asian Tiger Economies - Martin Daunton
65 hours 35 mins; February 21, 2024
The Visual Politics of Refugeehood - Nishat Awan
52 mins; February 19, 2024
LGBT Rights: Overcoming a Colonial Legacy - Leslie Thomas KC
72 hours 4 mins; February 16, 2024
Mathematical Puzzles and Paradoxes - Sarah Hart
57 mins; February 12, 2024
Satirical Cartoons: A History
77 hours 23 mins; February 12, 2024
Capital Structure Theory Explained - Raghavendra Rau
62 hours 34 mins; February 06, 2024
'Oumuamua: Our first interstellar visitor
58 mins; February 05, 2024
How Cancer Genomics is Transforming Cancer Care - Sanjay Popat
71 hours 49 mins; February 01, 2024
The Art and Science of Tuning
60 hours 31 mins; January 29, 2024
Ancient Greek Ideas of Justice
66 hours 18 mins; January 26, 2024
How is Climate Change Affecting The Weather Now?
59 mins; January 23, 2024
Why Is There Only One Species of Human?
59 mins; January 15, 2024
The AI Revolution in Cancer Imaging
60 hours 24 mins; January 11, 2024
The Massive Internet of Things
64 hours 8 mins; December 23, 2023
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic
57 mins; December 14, 2023
Living With the Forever Chemicals
68 hours 31 mins; December 12, 2023
Reducing harms after Nuclear, Radiological and Chemical Incidents
56 mins; December 08, 2023
Abortion: Law's Ethical Dilemma
59 mins; December 06, 2023
Can AI Protect Children online?
58 mins; December 04, 2023
Iran’s ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement
44 mins; December 01, 2023
Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories: Past, Present and Future?
58 mins; November 30, 2023
Why 1.5°C Matters
59 mins; November 30, 2023
Human-led AI
59 mins; November 29, 2023
The Maths of Sudoku and Latin Squares
61 hours 44 mins; November 24, 2023
Connect To Prosper – The Power Of Networks
77 hours 22 mins; November 22, 2023
Random Chance in Evolution
59 mins; November 20, 2023
Reading and Misreading the Iranian Revolution
65 hours 42 mins; November 15, 2023
Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model
64 hours 45 mins; November 15, 2023
The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove
61 hours 36 mins; November 13, 2023
19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions
62 hours 50 mins; November 10, 2023
Shaping Mathematical Practices Of The Science of the Stars
32 mins; November 10, 2023
Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land And In the Skies
31 mins; November 10, 2023
Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past
54 mins; November 09, 2023
Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe?
56 mins; November 09, 2023
Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past
59 mins; November 08, 2023
Twentieth-Century Divas: Barbra Streisand
55 mins; November 06, 2023
The Marvels of the Solar System
58 mins; October 31, 2023
Brain Computer Interfaces
58 mins; October 30, 2023
Plato and the Idea of Political Office
63 hours 0 mins; October 27, 2023
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906
63 hours 11 mins; October 25, 2023
A Small History of Big Evolutionary Ideas
60 hours 18 mins; October 20, 2023
Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa
58 mins; October 18, 2023
How AI Disrupts The Law
59 mins; October 18, 2023
The Maths of Board Games
60 hours 22 mins; October 16, 2023
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
59 mins; October 12, 2023
Writing After Windrush
56 mins; October 11, 2023
Understanding Net Present Value
63 hours 19 mins; October 04, 2023
The Death Penalty: A Colonial Relic?
55 mins; October 02, 2023
When Net Zero? The Climate Braking Distance
65 hours 2 mins; September 28, 2023
Microplastics, Public Health Myth or Menace
64 hours 40 mins; September 27, 2023
Ancient Goddesses of Sex and War
59 mins; September 22, 2023
Meet the Cybercriminals
59 mins; September 21, 2023
Why Music Moves Us
57 mins; September 19, 2023
Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way
57 mins; September 14, 2023
Where are we with freedom of expression?
59 mins; June 28, 2023
Sir Christopher Wren: Architect & Courtier
58 mins; June 26, 2023
Connecting the Dots: Milestones in Graph Theory
60 hours 40 mins; June 26, 2023
How Pagan Was Medieval Britain?
63 hours 14 mins; June 20, 2023
Alan Turing: Pioneer of Mathematical Biology
60 hours 27 mins; June 16, 2023
The Risks of Technology in Business
63 hours 9 mins; June 14, 2023
Sickle Cell Disease: A Cultural History
63 hours 48 mins; June 13, 2023
The End of the Universe
66 hours 28 mins; June 12, 2023
Populism, Aristotle and Hope
73 hours 45 mins; June 09, 2023
AIDS: A Cultural History
60 hours 33 mins; June 08, 2023
Do We Need the Police?
67 hours 1 min; June 07, 2023
The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani
71 hours 0 mins; June 06, 2023
How the World Agreed on Net Zero
61 hours 12 mins; June 01, 2023
AI in Business
61 hours 30 mins; June 01, 2023
Life Without Chords? – Atonal Music
84 hours 5 mins; May 31, 2023
Christopher Wren’s Medical Discoveries: the ‘Architect of Human Anatomy’
49 mins; May 30, 2023
The Mathematical Life of Florence Nightingale
59 mins; May 25, 2023
A Microbial Future
59 mins; May 23, 2023
Diseases of the Heart Structure, Muscle and Valves
51 mins; May 22, 2023
Cybersecurity for Humans
55 mins; May 18, 2023
Dementia: A Cultural History
60 hours 48 mins; May 15, 2023
Women, Islam and Prophecy
61 hours 5 mins; May 12, 2023
A History of Barts, Britain's Oldest Hospital
52 mins; May 10, 2023
The Future of Tall Buildings
61 hours 10 mins; May 09, 2023
Finding Lost Gods in Wales
60 hours 29 mins; May 05, 2023
Architects and Engineers: Making Infrastructure Beautiful
61 hours 18 mins; May 04, 2023
British Coronations: A History
59 mins; May 03, 2023
Reclaiming Women in the Hebrew Bible
59 mins; April 28, 2023
Do We Need Criminal law?
65 hours 13 mins; April 26, 2023
The Trillionth Tonne of Carbon and Why It Matters For Climate Change
60 hours 26 mins; April 25, 2023
What Is the Role of Nuclear Power in a Net Zero System?
59 mins; April 25, 2023
Gene Editing: A New Legal Frontier
57 mins; April 24, 2023
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk
68 hours 38 mins; April 20, 2023
Women Leaders in Early Christianity
59 mins; April 18, 2023
Famous Chords
77 hours 52 mins; April 17, 2023
Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges
59 mins; April 14, 2023
Who Benefited from the British Empire?
60 hours 24 mins; April 13, 2023
The End of Life on Earth
59 mins; April 11, 2023
Portraits of Native Americans from Pocahontas to Sitting Bull
57 mins; April 11, 2023
Lungs, Gut, and Skin: Biological Interfaces with the Outside World
62 hours 43 mins; April 05, 2023
How Microbes Manipulate Life
57 mins; April 03, 2023
Defeating Digital Viruses: Lessons From the Pandemic