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The Challenge of the Solo: The Baroque Violin - Christopher Hogwood and Pavlo Beznosiuk
Pavlo Beznosiuk, one of the world's leading baroque violinists, explains and demonstrates the challenge of music for solo violin; works by Nicola Mat…
1 day, 21 hours ago
The Cockney Romantics: John Keats and his Friends
The word Romanticism makes us think of mountain tops and stormy seas, but the younger generation of English Romantics (above all, John Keats) were Lo…
1 day, 22 hours ago
Innovation in the Social Sciences - Professor Sir Roderick Floud
Innovation is seen as the key to economic growth. But is this true of innovation in services, which now employ 75% of us, as well as in manufacturing…
1 day, 23 hours ago
Percy Grainger: Australia's greatest composer? - Professor Malcolm Gilles
We can think of world-leading Australians in sport (Don Bradman), media ownership (Rupert Murdoch) and film (Nicole Kidman). In music, some great per…
1 day, 23 hours ago
The Cashless Society
Money may well make world go round but cash is surely an encumbrance we can do without. What does a cashless society look like? What is the technolog…
2 days ago
Is There Danger Ahead With AI: Superintelligence, Ethics, Work, Leisure and Automation
Professor Wilks will discuss the argument that 'superintelligent' AI may turn against us, as Hawking and Bostrom have warned. It will be argued that …
2 days, 1 hour ago
St. Paul's Cathedral at 300: The recent refurbishment project - Martin Stancliffe
2011 is the 300th anniversary of the completion of Christopher Wren's Cathedral. This coincides with the completion of an historic £40 million progra…
2 days, 2 hours ago
Britain in the 20th Century: A new consensus? 1990-2001 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
The fall of Margaret Thatcher left a legacy that was both contested and divisive. During the 1990s, the Conservative Party, under the impact of divis…
2 days, 3 hours ago
Is it possible? - Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370 - Professor Christopher Hogwood
A lecture and performance on Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F major, k.370
by Christopher Hogwood, with Mea Wade and players from the Royal Academy of Music…
2 days, 4 hours ago
What Medicine Can Learn from Savile Row
Clinical practice is often seen as the acquisition and application of scientific knowledge to diagnose and treat diseases. Yet every patient is diffe…
2 days, 4 hours ago