Podcast Episodes

The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives - Ian Mudway

Our digital world's convenience masks a heavy environmental cost. This lecture explores the destructive rare earth mineral mining powering our device…

15 hours ago

Peacebuilding through the visual Arts - Jolyon Mitchell

How can the visual arts be used to promote peace? Professor Mitchell investigates how the visual arts can not only incite violence, but also bear wit…

3 days, 15 hours ago

The Shape of Shells: She Sells Self-Similar Spiral Seashells on the Seashore - Professor Alain Goriely

This lecture was recorded by Alain Goriely on 13th February 2026 at Bernard’s Inn Hall, London

Alain Goriely is a mathematician with broad interests i…

1 week ago

Pictures from Afghanistan: Are we making the same mistakes? - Clive Stafford Smith

This lecture was recorded by Clive Stafford Smith on the 9th of February 2026 at Bernard’s Inn Hall, London

Clive Stafford Smith JD OBE is a dual UK-U…

1 week, 3 days ago

Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do? - Peter Thornton

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/9ozYDQFkfaY

When death occurs, the state has a duty to investigate. Every death must be registered locall…

2 weeks ago

Alien Earths: What Makes Us Special? - Professor Chris Lintott

Sometime in 2026, we will discover our 10000th exoplanet, a world around a distant star. This population of worlds has proved remarkably diverse, but…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Will You Be AI’s Pet? - Matt Jones

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/fuk6LYeOCDQ

I have two pet dogs; they are happy, wagging their tails and reacting well when I come home f…

3 weeks ago

An Ocean of Air - Helen Czerski

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/_HJt1zjecCo

The major environmental challenge of our time is framed in terms of what happens in our atmos…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Mithras: Master of Mystery - Ronald Hutton

The cult of Mithras was by far the most famous of the mystery religions of the Roman Empire: private societies of worshippers devoted to a particular…

4 weeks ago

Why Do We Grieve? - Robin May

Grieving is a uniquely human emotion – or is it? Is the apparent attachment of elephants or orcas to the bodies of dead relatives a sign of grief, or…

1 month ago