Previous lectures
View video highlights from some of our previous guest speakers.
Title:
Retreat from Multiculturalism
Date:
18 April 2013
Lecturer:
Professor Lord Bikhu Parekh FBA
Title:
The Future of Medical Research
Date:
19 March 2013
Lecturer:
Professor Sir John Savill FMedSci FRSE
Title:
Reporting the World
Date:
28 February 2013
Lecturer:
John Simpson CBE
Title:
Byron: Art and Nature
Date:
22 November 2012
Lecturer:
Professor Sir Drummond Bone
Title:
War in the Nazi Imagination
Date:
15 November 2012
Lecturer:
Professor Sir Richard Evans
Title:
Managing Risk in Government
Date:
30 October 2012
Lecturer:
Professor Sir John Beddington CMG FRS
Title:
Will Today’s ‘Third Industrial Revolution’ Deliver a Sustainable World?
Date:
24 April 2012
Lecturer:
Jonathon Porritt
Title:
What’s Next in Television – Global, Local or Both?
Date:
7 December 2011
Title:
Life in the Cosmos: from ‘Big Bang’ to Biosphere
Date:
23 November 2011
Lecturer:
Professor Martin Rees
Title:
Raising Money, Changing Lives… (and Having Fun Along the Way)
Date:
2 November 2011
Lecturer:
Kevin Cahill CBE
Title:
The Conduct of a Public Inquiry
Date:
23/03/2011
Lecturer:
Lord Saville of Newdigate
Title:
Common Values: The State of Rights and Freedoms in Modern Britain
Date:
9 February 2011
Lecturer:
Shami Chakrabarti
Title:
Stitching Natural History Back Into Sustainable Order
Date:
26 January 2011
Lecturer:
David Bellamy
Title:
Putting People First
Date:
24 November 2010
Lecturer:
Richard Thomas CBE
Title:
RSA Shipley Lecture: Apprenticeship or University? The Well-being Choice for the Next Generation
Date:
27 October 2010
Lecturer:
Dr Ian Johnston CB FRSA
Title:
The Matter of Life and Death: Ethics and the Human Body
Date:
21 April 2010
Lecturer:
Professor Sir James Underwood
Title:
New ways of learning in a Digital Age
Date:
27 January 2010
Lecturer:
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
Title:
The Emergence of a Contemporary Garden
Date:
9 December 2009
Lecturer:
Diarmuid Gavin
Title:
The Future of the Brain
Date:
4 November 2009
Lecturer:
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
Title:
Public Policy - How can science help?
Date:
24/03/2009
Lecturer:
Lord Krebs FRS
Title:
Museums in the 21st Century
Date:
04/03/2009
Lecturer:
Mark Jones
Title:
Trust and integrity in the modern media – has the media lost the message?
Date:
17/11/2008
Lecturer:
Chris Cramer
Title:
Vocational education should be a rounded education
Date:
22/10/2008
Lecturer:
Sir Mike Tomlinson
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Title:
Judicial independence and accountability: Pressures and opportunities
Date:
16/04/2008
Lecturer:
The Hon. Mr Justice Beatson FBA
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Title:
Long-term monitoring of the natural environment: Perceptive science or mindless monitoring?
Date:
23/01/2008
Lecturer:
Professor Tim Burt
Title:
Building in the back yard – opportunities for architecture in the 21st Century
Date:
28/11/2007
Lecturer:
Sir Michael Hopkins
Title:
Genetic fingerprinting and beyond
Date:
14/11/2007
Lecturer:
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys
Title:
Amidst great changes... what might higher education look like at the end of the decade?
Date:
01/11/2007
Lecturer:
Baroness Estelle Morris
