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.
Prohibition: A Battle in America's Last Culture War
39 mins; January 28, 2020
Powell and Pressburger's Island Stories
55 mins; January 27, 2020
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): The Unsung Heroine of Romanticism
57 mins; January 23, 2020
Public Speaking Without Fear
51 mins; January 22, 2020
The Rite of Spring: A Failure and A Triumph
60 hours 56 mins; January 21, 2020
Can Machines Be Conscious, and Would It Matter If They Were?
45 mins; January 21, 2020
George IV: Radical or Reactionary?
48 mins; January 20, 2020
A History of the Breast
42 mins; January 16, 2020
Prostate and Testicular Cancer
52 mins; January 15, 2020
Ending Our Consumer Addiction
50 mins; January 14, 2020
The City of London - Culture, Creativity and the Culture Mile
62 hours 29 mins; January 09, 2020
Improvising Medicine
58 mins; January 08, 2020
Can Maths Save The Whales and Cure Cancer?
58 mins; January 07, 2020
1928 - Annus Mirabilis of the Christmas Carol
51 mins; December 12, 2019
The Business of Santa Claus in Lapland
49 mins; December 11, 2019
The Man Who Invented Christmas: Film Adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
53 mins; December 10, 2019
Finding Purpose in Your Career
51 mins; December 04, 2019
Gardens of Empire: The Role of Kew and Colonial Botanic Gardens
50 mins; December 02, 2019
100 Years of Women in Law
58 mins; November 28, 2019
Physics: Its Birth in Greek Ionia
48 mins; November 28, 2019
Breast, Uterine and Ovarian Cancers
47 mins; November 27, 2019
Taming the Trolls of Social Media
54 mins; November 26, 2019
George Eliot and Relationships
47 mins; November 25, 2019
A History of the Eye
38 mins; November 21, 2019
How the English Learned to Hate Catholics
49 mins; November 20, 2019
The End of Matter?
55 mins; November 20, 2019
Sir Thomas Gresham and the Tudor Court
51 mins; November 14, 2019
Keyhole Surgery Pioneers
49 mins; November 13, 2019
Unlocking the Health Benefits of Nature
52 mins; November 12, 2019
Maths and Voting
58 mins; November 12, 2019
Powell and Pressburger: The Matter of Britain
52 mins; November 11, 2019
The Origins of the Elements
48 mins; November 07, 2019
Charles I: The Court at War
54 mins; November 06, 2019
Dams, Radiators and The Shard: The Legacy of English Gardening
46 mins; November 05, 2019
AI Weapons, War and Ethics
46 mins; November 05, 2019
Weighing the Universe
40 mins; November 04, 2019
A History of Hair
43 mins; October 31, 2019
Infection, Immunity and Cancer
53 mins; October 30, 2019
The Ballets Russes: Courting the Exotic
61 hours 18 mins; October 29, 2019
Slavery and the City of London
42 mins; October 28, 2019
Freedom Song: The Fisk Jubilee Singers' Story
51 mins; October 24, 2019
A Global History of the Eclipse of 29 May 1919
59 mins; October 23, 2019
Mathematical Practice and the 18th-Century British Voyages of Scientific Exploration
45 mins; October 23, 2019
Privateer and Mathematician: The Voyages of Edward Wright
42 mins; October 23, 2019
Frozen in Time?
54 mins; October 23, 2019
Biometrics: How Unique are You?
57 mins; October 22, 2019
The Mathematical World of C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
50 mins; October 21, 2019
Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories
65 hours 3 mins; October 17, 2019
Building Sustainable Communities: A New Era for Twinning
42 mins; October 15, 2019
Slavery, Memory and Reparations
39 mins; October 14, 2019
Organ Transplants and Human Rights Abuses in China
53 mins; October 10, 2019
Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) And the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
50 mins; October 09, 2019
1667 and The Royal Society: A Manifesto for the Future
51 mins; October 08, 2019
The Maths of Future Computing
60 hours 25 mins; October 08, 2019
Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today
46 mins; October 07, 2019
Have Women Achieved Professional Equality? 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act
55 mins; October 03, 2019
Time Management in the Digital Age
54 mins; October 02, 2019
Faster than Light?
51 mins; October 02, 2019
Human Traffic: Race and Post-War Migration Policy
48 mins; October 01, 2019
How to Avert a Climate Catastrophe
62 hours 3 mins; September 30, 2019
Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain's 'Black Legend'
55 mins; September 25, 2019
Exporting Russia: Diaghilev's Beginnings
56 mins; September 24, 2019
Archers Assemble: Creating The Powell-Pressburger Partnership
54 mins; September 23, 2019
Musical Openings
50 mins; September 19, 2019
James I: The Court at Play
43 mins; September 18, 2019
Striking the Balance Between Common Sense and Legal Reasoning
42 mins; June 20, 2019
The Weimar Republic: Germany's First Democracy
55 mins; June 18, 2019
Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019
56 mins; June 13, 2019
Byron and the Age of Sensation
50 mins; June 11, 2019
Wellbeing at the Bar? Is a Legal Aid Lawyer's Work all Stress and Distress?
49 mins; June 06, 2019
Mergers and Acquisitions: Do They Create or Destroy Value?
50 mins; June 05, 2019
The Treaty of Versailles: A Hundred Years Later
43 mins; June 04, 2019
Aristotle's Lyceum
49 mins; May 30, 2019
Toothpaste, Custard and Chocolate: Mathematics Gets Messy
33 mins; May 29, 2019
Creativity: Can Computers Cut It?
52 mins; May 28, 2019
The Changing Impact of Infections as We Go Through Life and Age
55 mins; May 22, 2019
The Limits of Our Knowledge
52 mins; May 22, 2019
Exploring Earth from Space
39 mins; May 21, 2019
Prokofiev's War and Peace
60 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2019
Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life
47 mins; May 20, 2019
Staying in Touch with Patients
52 mins; May 15, 2019
The Cockney Romantics: John Keats and his Friends
50 mins; May 14, 2019
Is There Danger Ahead With AI: Superintelligence, Ethics, Work, Leisure and Automation
53 mins; May 14, 2019
Digital Listening: The Future of Music in the Age of Digital Fragmentation
51 mins; May 13, 2019
Jesus, Hitler and the Abolition of God
51 mins; May 09, 2019
Gresham's Exchange
36 mins; May 08, 2019
The Unacclaimed Accompanist
63 hours 40 mins; May 07, 2019
The Child and Medical Treatment: The Chance to Live, or to Die with Dignity?
55 mins; May 02, 2019
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: Scholarship, Science and Skulduggery
45 mins; May 01, 2019
The Intertwined Impacts of Pollution and Inequality on Health
58 mins; April 30, 2019
500 Years of Mathematics: Are We Living in a New Golden Age?
59 mins; April 30, 2019
The Meaning, Value and Sanctity of Human Life
54 mins; April 25, 2019
Does Finance Benefit Society?
53 mins; April 24, 2019
Mining Volcanoes: Diamonds, Copper and Hot Water
54 mins; April 17, 2019
Text Mining: How Do Computers Understand Language?
51 mins; April 16, 2019
The Natural Environment of Tudor London
59 mins; April 10, 2019
AI and Education: The Reality and the Potential
50 mins; April 09, 2019
Dying in Today's World
56 mins; April 09, 2019
London Belongs to Us: Street-Life and New Wave British Cinema of the 1960s
