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.
Averting the Insect Apocalypse
58 mins; May 11, 2022
Oxfordâs Savilian Professors of Geometry: 400 Years On
49 mins; May 06, 2022
What Can We Learn From Fakes?
55 mins; May 06, 2022
Supply Chains in the Wellbeing Economy
63 hours 31 mins; May 04, 2022
People and Purpose: Putting Positive Impact at The Heart of Economic Growth
60 hours 43 mins; May 04, 2022
Soviet Music in World War II
73 hours 39 mins; April 27, 2022
The Surprising Uses of Conic Sections
54 mins; April 27, 2022
The Global Financial Crisis and COVID... What Next?
58 mins; April 25, 2022
Integral Transforms
58 mins; April 21, 2022
Social Media, COVID & Ukraine: Fighting Disinformation
57 mins; April 20, 2022
Humour and Music
57 mins; April 19, 2022
Freezing Eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society
60 hours 33 mins; April 14, 2022
Taking on a Corporate Giant: David v Goliath Legal Cases
60 hours 54 mins; April 13, 2022
Villains in the Novel: from Dickens, Hardy and Wilkie Collins to Hilary Mantel
65 hours 10 mins; April 11, 2022
Is Dementia Inevitable?
52 mins; April 06, 2022
Planetary Universe
61 hours 59 mins; April 05, 2022
Going Viral: An Environmental Activist's Story
59 mins; April 01, 2022
Aliens in Science Fiction
61 hours 36 mins; April 01, 2022
Segregation and the Rule of Law
67 hours 6 mins; March 30, 2022
Monogamy
52 mins; March 25, 2022
Infections That Use Touch to Transmit
54 mins; March 25, 2022
The Neuroscience of Sleep and its Disorders
58 mins; March 24, 2022
Does Philanthropy do the Public Good?
58 mins; March 23, 2022
Psychosis: Our Default Mental State?
62 hours 21 mins; March 22, 2022
The Beauty of Geometrical Curves
57 mins; March 16, 2022
Human Rights in the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean
59 mins; March 16, 2022
How Protestant Missionaries Encountered Slavery
61 hours 21 mins; March 15, 2022
Cellular Phones
67 hours 9 mins; March 14, 2022
Coincidences in the Novel: Charlotte BrontĂŤ and George Eliot to Evelyn Waugh and David Nicholls
62 hours 16 mins; March 08, 2022
Innovators and Entrepreneurs in a Wellbeing Economy
62 hours 11 mins; March 08, 2022
Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
60 hours 33 mins; March 07, 2022
Coral Reefs in a Warming World
58 mins; March 03, 2022
How to Measure and Manage Risk
58 mins; March 02, 2022
Magnetic Universe
62 hours 43 mins; March 01, 2022
Robots in Science Fiction
61 hours 5 mins; February 28, 2022
Sex Work
61 hours 19 mins; February 25, 2022
The Evolution of Cancer Therapy
49 mins; February 24, 2022
Exploring the Deep Sea
59 mins; February 23, 2022
Prokofiev The Soviet Artist
74 hours 50 mins; February 21, 2022
The Oil Shock and Neoliberalism
56 mins; February 18, 2022
Love and Music
60 hours 1 min; February 17, 2022
The Maths of Proportion in Art, Design and Nature
60 hours 38 mins; February 15, 2022
The Brixton Riots: Policing the Community in the last 40 years
69 hours 56 mins; February 11, 2022
Infections which use the Respiratory Route
60 hours 47 mins; February 10, 2022
Early Protestant Missions to the Americas
59 mins; February 09, 2022
Error Control Coding
57 mins; February 07, 2022
The Broken Cosmic Distance Ladder
58 mins; February 04, 2022
Brexit: What Have We Learned So Far?
59 mins; February 03, 2022
Terror and the Rule of Law
65 hours 54 mins; February 02, 2022
What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa
57 mins; February 01, 2022
Structures in the Universe
60 hours 19 mins; January 28, 2022
How To Make Financial Decisions
58 mins; January 25, 2022
Shostakovich on Trial: from Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony
69 hours 34 mins; January 21, 2022
Your Body Parts and the Law
59 mins; January 20, 2022
The Universal Value of Nature
58 mins; January 17, 2022
Sexually Transmitted and Intravenous Infections
64 hours 40 mins; January 14, 2022
Pornography
54 mins; January 07, 2022
Seeing God in Art: The Christian Faith in 30 Images
44 mins; December 20, 2021
Fiction and the Supernatural
64 hours 54 mins; December 20, 2021
Christmas Carols and Nostalgia
53 mins; December 09, 2021
Judicial Racism and the Lammy Review
60 hours 26 mins; December 02, 2021
Attacks on Knowledge from Ashurbanipal to Trump
59 mins; December 02, 2021
Early Protestant Missions to Jews, Muslims and Pagans: A Dangerous Model
60 hours 46 mins; December 01, 2021
Women in Science Fiction
60 hours 19 mins; November 29, 2021
Food- and Drink-Borne Diseases
53 mins; November 24, 2021
Compression
63 hours 5 mins; November 23, 2021
Free Thinking and the Rule of Law
69 hours 35 mins; November 22, 2021
The Maths of Beauty and Symmetry
59 mins; November 22, 2021
How can music be âSocialist Realistâ?
67 hours 13 mins; November 18, 2021
Holocaust History Under Siege
55 mins; November 17, 2021
Nature's Numbers: Natural Capital Accounting
64 hours 10 mins; November 16, 2021
Einsteinâs Blunder
50 mins; November 15, 2021
Perversion
58 mins; November 11, 2021
Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries
57 mins; November 10, 2021
What is a Religion? : Rethinking Religion and Secularism
58 mins; November 09, 2021
The Great Depression and âEmbedded Liberalismâ
64 hours 24 mins; November 09, 2021
Atomic Universe
62 hours 59 mins; November 03, 2021
Portraits, Biographies and Public History
57 mins; November 02, 2021
Europe's Search for Sustainable Security
62 hours 21 mins; November 01, 2021
The Manuscripts and Intellectual Legacy of Timbuktu
61 hours 34 mins; October 28, 2021
Plot
62 hours 6 mins; October 27, 2021
How the Financial System Works
59 mins; October 26, 2021
Children and Consent to Medical Treatment
58 mins; October 25, 2021
The Death of Richard III: CSI Meets History
54 mins; October 21, 2021
Histories of Numbers
59 mins; October 20, 2021
Histories of Numbers
59 mins; October 20, 2021
Knot Just Numbers: Andean Khipu Strings
46 mins; October 20, 2021
Sanskrit Mathematics in the Language of Poetry
27 mins; October 20, 2021
Shakespeare, Race and Performance
52 mins; October 19, 2021
The Maths of Perspective in Art
60 hours 58 mins; October 18, 2021
What does it mean for Israel to be a Jewish state?
61 hours 15 mins; October 14, 2021
Insect Vector-Borne Diseases
58 mins; October 13, 2021
GPS
64 hours 3 mins; October 12, 2021
Pleasure
51 mins; October 07, 2021
Blacks Britannica: Diversity in Medieval and Early Modern England
54 mins; October 06, 2021
Redesigning the World in Which We Live to Put the Planet First