Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat is Modern Paganism? - Ronald Hutton
What is modern Paganism, and how does it relate to witchcraft, Druidry and other phenomena? This lecture is designed to answer that question, and in …
1 year, 5 months ago
Does having a big brain make your smarter? - Alain Goriely
Watch the Q&A session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCDvsq6N5g
For centuries scientists have tried to identify what is special about the huma…
1 year, 5 months ago
A Mirror in the Sky - Chris Lintott
The first lecture in the series considers the most famous telescope of all, the Hubble space telescope. A project more than forty years in the making…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Stories We Make Up & The Stories That Make Us - Bernardine Evaristo OBE
Many decades ago, as a young graduate from drama school, I was presented with a stark choice – either to shape my story myself, through writing, or t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Does the UK Constitution need reform? - Charles Falconer PC, KC
The Gray's Inn Reading 2024
Does the UK’s constitution provide too much freedom for those that wish to abuse it?
Specific examples of this might inclu…
1 year, 6 months ago
Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change - Melissa Lane
In The Republic, Plato explores the predicament of the Cave: a passive citizen body, a conniving and self-interested set of sophistic opinion-formers…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History - Nino Strachey
This lecture will explore the world of the second Bloomsbury generation, delving into the intricacies of being young and queer in the 1920s, and how …
1 year, 7 months ago
Are Financial Markets Efficient? - Raghavendra Rau
One of the crucial ideas in finance is that markets are efficient – that they fully reflect all available information. If so, what about market bubbl…
1 year, 7 months ago
Witch-Hunting in European and World History - Ronald Hutton
This lecture confronts the worldwide phenomenon of the persecution of suspected witches, now a serious, contemporary problem condemned by the UN in 2…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Mathematician's View of Proof - Sarah Hart
The idea of proof is fundamental to mathematics. We could argue that science consists of testable theories, and therefore that it is about what can b…
1 year, 7 months ago