Введение
Ежегодная серия рождественских научных лекций в Великобритании, предназначенная для детей, началась в 1825 году. Рождественские лекции Королевского института – это серия лекций, посвященных каждой отдельной теме, которые ежегодно проводятся в Королевском институте в Лондоне с 1825 года. Лекции представляют научные темы широкой аудитории, включая молодежь, в познавательной и увлекательной форме. Майкл Фарадей задумал и инициировал серию рождественских лекций в 1825 году, в период, когда организованное образование для молодых людей было малодоступным. Многие рождественские лекции были опубликованы.
Annual UK Christmas scientific lecture series aimed at children, started 1825
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday conceived and initiated the Christmas Lecture series in 1825, at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Many of the Christmas Lectures were published.
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday conceived and initiated the Christmas Lecture series in 1825, at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Many of the Christmas Lectures were published.
История
Рождественские лекции Королевского института впервые состоялись в 1825 году и с тех пор проводились ежегодно, за исключением четырех лет во время Второй мировой войны. Они проходили каждый год в самом Королевском институте, за исключением 1929 года и в период с 2005 по 2006 год, каждый раз из-за реконструкции здания. Их основал Майкл Фарадей, который впоследствии сам читал курс лекций девятнадцать раз. Нобелевский лауреат сэр Уильям Брэгг читал рождественские лекции четыре раза, а его сын, также лауреат Нобелевской премии, сэр Лоуренс Брэгг – дважды. Среди других известных лекторов были Десмонд Моррис (1964), Эрик Лейтвейт (1966 и 1974), сэр Джордж Портер (1969 и 1976), сэр Дэвид Аттенборо (1973), Хайнц Вольф (1975), Карл Саган (1977), Ричард Докинз (1991), баронесса Сьюзан Гринфилд (1994), дэйм Нэнси Ротвелл (1998), Моника Грейди (2003), Сью Хартли (2009), Элисон Вуллард (2013), Даниэль Джордж (2014) и Сайфул Ислам (2016). Реквизит для лекций разрабатывается и изготавливается техником Королевского института по научным демонстрациям – должность, которую ранее занимал Фарадей. Популярным техником, работавшим с 1948 по 1986 год с появлением телевидения, был Билл Коутс. Технику сообщают об общей теме лекций весной, но детали уточняются только в сентябре, а запись лекций производится в середине декабря.
The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures were first held in 1825, and have continued on an annual basis since then except for four years during the Second World War. They have been hosted each year at the Royal Institution itself, except in 1929 and between 2005 and 2006, each time due to refurbishment of the building. They were created by Michael Faraday, who later hosted the lecture season on nineteen occasions. The Nobel laureate Sir William Bragg gave the Christmas lectures on four occasions, and his co laureate son Sir Lawrence Bragg gave them twice. Other notable lecturers have included Desmond Morris (1964), Eric Laithwaite (1966 & 1974), Sir George Porter (1969 & 1976), Sir David Attenborough (1973), Heinz Wolff (1975), Carl Sagan (1977), Richard Dawkins (1991), Baroness Susan Greenfield (1994), Dame Nancy Rothwell (1998), Monica Grady (2003), Sue Hartley (2009), Alison Woollard (2013), Danielle George (2014), and Saiful Islam (2016). The props for the lectures are designed and created by the RI's science demonstration technician, a post which Faraday previously held. A popular technician, with the advent of television, serving from 1948 to 1986, was Bill Coates. The technician is informed of the general subject of the lectures during spring, but the specifics are not settled until September, with the recordings made in mid December.
Телевидение
Первая Рождественская лекция, прочитанная Г. И. Тейлором, была впервые показана по телевидению в 1936 году на только что созданной Телевизионной службе BBC. Лекции транслировались на BBC Two с 1966 по 1999 год и на Channel 4 с 2000 по 2004 год. В 2000 году одна из лекций впервые вышла в прямой эфир. После истечения срока контракта Channel 4 на трансляцию лекций возникли опасения, что их могут просто исключить из сетки вещания, поскольку канал вел переговоры с Королевским институтом о возможных изменениях формата, а BBC объявила, что "BBC больше не будет показывать эти лекции, так как считает, что телевизионная среда изменилась за последние четыре года". Channel Five впоследствии согласилась транслировать лекции с 2005 по 2008 год, что вызвало насмешки в академической среде. В 2009 году лекции транслировались на More4. В 2010 году лекции вернулись на BBC после десятилетнего перерыва и с тех пор ежегодно демонстрируются на BBC Four. В 1994 году профессор Сьюзан Гринфилд стала первой женщиной-ученым, представившей Рождественские лекции. Первым лектором по науке, не являвшимся белым, был Кевин Фонг в 2015 году, а в августе 2020 года было объявлено, что профессор Кристофер Джексон совместно представит серию лекций 2020 года, став таким образом первым темнокожим ученым, удостоившимся такой чести. В январе 2022 года Королевский институт обратился с просьбой помочь в поиске копий телевизионных лекций, отсутствующих в архивах BBC, а именно полных серий из пяти лекций за 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970 и 1971 годы, а также одного эпизода лекций Дэвида Аттенборо 1973 года "Язык животных".
A single Christmas Lecture, by G. I. Taylor, was the first to be televised, in 1936, on the BBC's fledgling Television Service. They were broadcast on BBC Two from 1966 to 1999 and Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004. In 2000 one of the lectures was broadcast live for the first time. Following the end of Channel 4's contract to broadcast the lectures, there were concerns that they might simply be dropped from scheduling as the channel was negotiating with the Royal Institution over potential changes to the format, while the BBC announced that "The BBC will not show the lectures again, because it feels the broadcasting environment has moved on in the last four years." Channel Five subsequently agreed to show the lectures from 2005 to 2008, an announcement which was met with derision from academics. The lectures were broadcast on More4 in 2009. In 2010, the lectures returned to the BBC after a ten year absence from the broadcaster, and have been shown on BBC Four each year since then. In 1994, Professor Susan Greenfield became the first female scientist to present the Christmas Lectures. The first non white science lecturer was Kevin Fong in 2015, and in August 2020 it was announced that Professor Christopher Jackson would jointly present the 2020 lecture series, thus becoming the first black scientist to do so. In January 2022, the RI launched an appeal to trace copies of those televised lectures which are missing from the BBC's archives, these being the complete series of five lectures each from 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970 and 1971, plus one episode of David Attenborough's 1973 lectures, "The language of animals".
1825 - 1965 годы
Ниже приведен полный список рождественских лекций с 1825 по 1965 год:
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Год Лектор(ы) Название серии 1825 Джон Миллингтон Естественная философия 1826 Джон Уоллис Астрономия 1827 Майкл Фарадей Химия 1828 Дж. Вуд Архитектура 1829 Майкл Фарадей Электричество 1830 Томас Вебстер Геология 1831 Джеймс Ренни Зоология 1832 Майкл Фарадей Химия 1833 Джон Линдли Ботаника 1834 Уильям Томас Брэнд Химия 1835 Майкл Фарадей Электричество 1836 Уильям Томас Брэнд Химия газов 1837 Майкл Фарадей Химия 1838 Джон Уоллис 1. Белый Кролик 2. Осталась только улыбка 3. Бег по кругу 4. Все любопытнее и любопытнее 5. Если бы я был подходящего размера, чтобы это сделать 6. Это старейшее правило в книге
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
BBC Two 1967 Ричард Л. Грегори Интеллектуальный глаз 1. Древние глаза и простые мозги 2. Учиться видеть вещи 3. Игра с иллюзиями 4. Как иллюзии играют с нами 5. Человеческие глаза в космосе 6. Будущие машины, которые видят?
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1968 Филип Моррисон Законы Гулливера: физика больших и малых 1. Мир капитана Гулливера 2. Мяса и питья вдоволь 3. Прорыв? 4. Лилипут и Бробдингнак с момента промышленной революции 5. Числа карликов и гигантов 6. За пределами карты
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1969 Джордж Портер Машины времени 1. В начале 2. Часовая гармония 3. Тик атома 4. Большое и маленькое время 5. Быстрее, быстрее 6. До конца времен
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1970 Джон Нейпер Обезьяны без хвостов: взгляд жирафа на человека 1. У человека очень короткая шея и нет хвоста 2. Человек бывает разных размеров и форм 3. Только представьте, что нужно лазать по деревьям, чтобы поесть 4. Человек наконец-то выбирает разумное место для жизни 5. Зачем ходить на двух ногах, если на четырех гораздо безопаснее? 6. Зачем вы стреляете в нас?
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1971 Чарльз Тейлор Звуки музыки: наука о тонах и мелодии 1. Создание и измерение волн 2. С малого начала 3. Рост и изменения 4. Мастерство и технологии 5. На пути к уху 6. Конец путешествия
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1972 Джеффри Г. Гуриет Колебания в эфире: наука о радиосвязи 1. Как все началось 2. Избавление от проводов 3. Звук радиовещания 4. Изображения с проводами и без них 5. Но электроны не цветные! 6. Видение будущего
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1973 Дэвид Аттенборо Язык животных 1. Осторожно! 2. Будь моей 3. Родители и дети 4. Простые знаки и сложные коммуникации (потеряно из архивов) 5. Иностранные языки 6. Язык животных, язык человека
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1974 Эрик Лейтвейт Инженер сквозь зеркало 1. Зеркальный дом 2. Твидлдум и Твидлди 3. "Джем вчера, джем завтра" 4. Джаббервок 5. Время пришло, сказал Морж 6. Это мое собственное изобретение
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1975 Хайнц Вольф Сигналы изнутри 1. Ты как двигатель 2. Насосы, трубы и потоки 3. Импульсы и волны 4. Зонды и звуки 5. Смотреть сквозь кожу 6. Сигналы из разума
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1976 Джордж Портер Естественная история солнечного луча 1. Первый свет 2. Свет и жизнь 3. Лист из природы 4. Свечи от Солнца 5. Как свет работает 6. Выживание под солнцем
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1977 Карл Саган Планеты 1. Земля как планета 2. Внешняя Солнечная система и жизнь 3. История Марса 4. Марс до "Викинга" 5. Марс после "Викинга" 6. Планетарные системы за пределами нашего Солнца
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1978 Эрик Кристофер Зиман Математика в картинках 1. Связывание и завязывание 2. Числа и геометрия 3. Бесконечность и перспектива 4. Игры и эволюция 5. Волны и музыка 6. Катастрофа и психология
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1979 Эрик М. Роджерс Атомы для инженерных умов: цирк экспериментов 1. Знакомство с атомами 2. Молекулы в движении 3. Электрифицированные атомы 4. Взрывающиеся атомы 5. Атомы и энергия 6. Наконец-то увидеть атомы
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1980 Дэвид Чилтон Филлипс с Максом Перуцем в лекции 5 Курица, яйцо и молекулы 1. Из чего сделаны куры? 2. Живые станки 3. Мышечная сила 4. Яйца, гены и белки 5. Гемоглобин: молекула дыхания 6. Молекулы в работе
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1981 Реджинальд Виктор Джонс От Magna Carta к микрочипу 1. Принципы, стандарты и методы 2. Измерение времени 3. Все больше и больше о меньшем и меньшем 4. Вперед к звездам 5. Измерения и навигация на войне 6. Некоторые последствия измерения жизни: и можем ли мы зайти слишком далеко?
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1982 Колин Блейкмор Здравый смысл 1. Рассудок 2. Звук тишины 3. Шестое чувство и остальные 4. Покажи мне дорогу домой 5. Vive la différence 6. Зачарованный ткацкий станок
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1983 Леонард Маундер Машины в движении 1. Движущие силы 2. Набираем обороты 3. Вибрация 4. Под контролем 5. Жидкости и полет 6. Живые машины
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1984 Уолтер Бодмер Послание генов 1. Мы все разные 2. Приправа жизни 3. Генетическая инженерия 4. Организмы и антитела 5. Нормальные клетки и раковые клетки 6. Когда у свиней вырастут крылья?
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1985 Джон Дэвид Пай Коммуникация 1. Никто не остров 2. Разговор с животными 3. Бионическая летучая мышь 4. Темпы развития технологий 5. Цельное тело 6. Компьютеры
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1986 Льюис Волперт Стремление Франкенштейна: развитие жизни 1. Сначала возьмите яйцо 2. Среда и сообщение 3. То, что нужно 4. Гены и мухи 5. Цепочка командования 6. Взросление и старение
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1987 Джон Меюриг Томас и Дэвид Филлипс Кристаллы и лазеры 1. Микромир 2. Архитектура кристаллов 3. Кристальные чудеса 4. Создание ЛАЗЕРА 5. Светящаяся фантазия 6. Кристаллы, лазеры и человеческое тело
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1988 Гарет Робертс Дом будущего 1. Наука бытовой техники 2. Дом, безопасный дом 3. Электроника для удовольствия 4. Дом, умный дом 5. Смесители, счетчики и молекулы
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1989 Чарльз Тейлор Исследование музыки 1. Что такое музыка? 2. Сущность инструмента 3. Наука, струны и симфонии 4. Технологии, трубы и мелодии 5. Гаммы, синтезаторы и сэмплеры
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1990 Малькольм Лонгэр Начала 1. Великий замысел 2. Рождение звезд 3. Происхождение квазаров 4. Происхождение галактик 5. Происхождение Вселенной
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1991 Ричард Докинз Взросление во Вселенной 1. Пробуждение во Вселенной 2. Разработанные и дизайн-подобные объекты 3. Восхождение на Невероятную гору 4. Ультрафиолетовый сад 5. Генезис цели
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1992 Чарльз Дж. М. Стирлинг Наш мир сквозь зеркало 1. Человек в зеркале 2. Нарвалы, палиндромы и станция Честерфилд 3. Левая молекула 4. Симметрия, ощущение и секс 5. В руках гигантов
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1993 Фрэнк Клоуз Космический лук 1. А - это атомы 2. К центру Солнца 3. Захватчики из космоса 4. Антиматерия имеет значение 5. Час, чтобы создать Вселенную
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1994 Сьюзен Гринфилд Путешествие в центр мозга 1. Электрическая обезьяна 2. Сквозь темное стекло 3. Пузырь, пузырь, труд и хлопоты 4. Семь возрастов мозга 5. Я разума
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1995 Джеймс Джексон Планета Земля, путеводитель исследователя 1. На краю света 2. Тайны глубин 3. Вулканы: плавление Земли 4. Головоломка континентов 5. Водный мир
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1996 Саймон Конвей Моррис История в наших костях 1. Смотрим в бездну 2. Окаменелости оживают 3. Великие вымирания: жизнь после смерти 4. Инновации и новизна 5. Ноги на земле, голова в звездах: история человека
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1997 Иан Стюарт Волшебный лабиринт 1. Подсолнухи и снежинки 2. Узор крошечных ног 3. Невероятная удача 4. Хаос и цветная капуста 5. Страшная симметрия
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1998 Нэнси Ротвелл Оставаться в живых 1. Чувство и чувствительность 2. Жиры и цифры 3. Охлаждение 4. Времена нашей жизни 5. Преодоление пределов
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
1999 Нил Ф. Джонсон Стрелы времени 1. Вернуться в будущее 2. Ловля волн 3. Квантовый скачок 4. На краю хаоса 5. Формирование будущего
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
2000 Кевин Уорвик Восстание роботов 1. Анатомия андроида 2. Вещи, которые думают 3. Дистанционные роботы 4. Бионические тела 5. Я, робот
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Channel 4 2001 Джон Салстон Секреты жизни 1. Что такое жизнь? 2. Как я расту? 3. Кто я? 4. Можем ли мы это исправить? 5. Будущее жизни?
The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
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The following is a complete list of the Christmas Lectures from 1825 to 1965:
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?
Year Lecturer(s) Title of series 1825 John Millington Natural Philosophy 1826 John Wallis Astronomy 1827 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1828 J. Wood Architecture 1829 Michael Faraday Electricity 1830 Thomas Webster Geology 1831 James Rennie Zoology 1832 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1833 John Lindley Botany 1834 William Thomas Brande Chemistry 1835 Michael Faraday Electricity 1836 William Thomas Brande Chemistry of the Gases 1837 Michael Faraday Chemistry 1838 John Wallis1. The White Rabbit
2. Only the Grin was Left
3. The Caucus Race
4. Curiouser and Curiouser
5. If only I were the right size to do it
6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book BBC Two 1967 Richard L. Gregory The Intelligent Eye1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
2. Learning to See Things
3. Playing with Illusions
4. How Illusions Play Games with Us
5. Human Eyes in Space
6. The Future Machines that See? 1968 Philip Morrison Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small1. The World of Captain Gulliver
2. Meat and Drink Sufficient
3. A Prodigious Leap? 4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution
5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers
6. Beyond the Map 1969 George Porter Time Machines1. In the Beginning
2. Clockwork Harmony
3. The Tick of the Atom
4. Big Time, Little Time
5. Faster, Faster
6. To the Ends of Time 1970 John Napier Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye view of Man1. Man has a very short neck and no tail
2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes
3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat
4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last
5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four? 6. What's the idea of shooting at us? 1971 Charles Taylor Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune1. Making and Measuring the Waves
2. From Small Beginnings
3. Growing and Changing
4. Craftsmanship and Technology
5. On the Way to the Ear
6. The End of the Journey 1972 Geoffrey G. Gouriet Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication1. How It All Began
2. Getting Rid of the Wires
3. The Sound of Broadcasting
4. Pictures With and Without Wires
5. But Electrons aren't Coloured! 6. Vision of the Future 1973 David Attenborough The Language of Animals 1. Beware! 2. Be Mine
3. Parents and Children
4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications ( lost from archives )
5. Foreign Languages
6. Animal Language, Human Language 1974 Eric Laithwaite The Engineer Through the Looking Glass1. Looking Glass House
2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow
4. The Jabberwock
5. The Time has come the Walrus said
6. It's my own Invention 1975 Heinz Wolff Signals from the Interior1. You as an engine
2. Pumps pipes and flows
3. Spikes and waves
4. Probes, sondes and sounds
5. Looking through your skin
6. Signals from the mind 1976 George Porter The Natural History of a Sunbeam1. First Light
2. Light and Life
3. A Leaf from Nature
4. Candles from the Sun
5. Making Light Work
6. Survival Under the Sun 1977 Carl Sagan The Planets1. The Earth as a Planet
2. The Outer Solar System and Life
3. The History of Mars
4. Mars before Viking
5. Mars after Viking
6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun 1978 Erik Christopher Zeeman Mathematics into Pictures1. Linking and Knotting
2. Numbers and Geometry
3. Infinity and Perspective
4. Games and Evolution
5. Waves and Music
6. Catastrophe and Psychology 1979 Eric M. Rogers Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments1. Getting to Know Atoms
2. Molecules in Motion
3. Electrified Atoms
4. Atoms that Explode
5. Atoms and Energy
6. Seeing Atoms at Last 1980 David Chilton Phillips with Max Perutz in Lecture 5 The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules1. What are chickens made of? 2. Machine tools of life
3. Muscle power
4. Eggs, genes and proteins
5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule
6. Molecules at work 1981 Reginald Victor Jones From Magna Carta to Microchip1. Principles, Standards and Methods
2. The Measurement of Time
3. More and More About Less and Less
4. Onwards to the Stars
5. Measurement and Navigation in War
6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far? 1982 Colin Blakemore Common Sense1. Making Sense
2. The Sound of Silence
3. The Sixth Sense and the Rest
4. Show Me the Way to Go Home
5. Vive la différence
6. Enchanted Loom 1983 Leonard Maunder Machines in Motion1. Driving Forces
2. Gathering Momentum
3. Vibration
4. Under Control
5. Fluids and Flight
6. Living Machines 1984 Walter Bodmer The Message of the Genes1. We're All Different
2. The Spice of Life
3. Genetic Engineering
4. Bodies and Antibodies
5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells
6. When Will Pigs Have Wings? 1985 John David Pye Communicating1. No Man is an Island
2. Animal Talk
3. The Bionic Bat
4. The Pace of Technology
5. The Integrated Body
6. Computers 1986 Lewis Wolpert Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life1. First Take an Egg
2. The Medium and the Message
3. The Right Stuff
4. Genes and Flies
5. Chain of Command
6. Growing Up and Growing Old 1987 John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips Crystals and Lasers1. The Micro world
2. The architecture of crystals
3. Crystal Miracles
4. Constructing a LASER
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Crystals, lasers and the human body 1988 Gareth Roberts The Home of the Future1. Appliance Science
2. Home, Safe Home
3. Electronics for Pleasure
4. Home, Smart Home
5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules 1989 Charles Taylor Exploring Music1. What Is Music? 2. The Essence of an Instrument
3. Science, Strings and Symphonies
4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes
5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 Malcolm Longair Origins1. The Grand Design
2. The Birth of the Stars
3. The Origin of Quasars
4. The Origin of the Galaxies
5. The Origin of the Universe 1991 Richard Dawkins Growing Up in the Universe1. Waking Up in the Universe
2. Designed and Designoid Objects
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
4. The Ultraviolet Garden
5. The Genesis of Purpose 1992 Charles J. M. Stirling Our World Through the Looking Glass1. Man in the Mirror
2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station
3. The Handed Molecule
4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex
5. In the Hands of Giants 1993 Frank Close The Cosmic Onion1. A is for Atoms
2. To the Centre of the Sun
3. Invaders from Outer Space
4. Anti Matter Matters
5. An Hour to Make the Universe 1994 Susan Greenfield Journey to the Centre of the Brain1. The Electric Ape
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
4. The Seven Ages of the Brain
5. The Mind's I 1995 James Jackson Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide1. On the Edge of the World
2. Secrets of the Deep
3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth
4. The Puzzle of the Continents
5. Waterworld 1996 Simon Conway Morris The History in our Bones1. Staring into the Abyss
2. The Fossils Come Alive
3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death
4. Innovations And Novelty
5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man 1997 Ian Stewart The Magical Maze1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes
2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet
3. Outrageous Fortune
4. Chaos and Cauliflowers
5. Fearful Symmetry 1998 Nancy Rothwell Staying Alive1. Sense and Sensitivity
2. Fats and figures
3. Chilling out
4. Times of our lives
5. Pushing the limits 1999 Neil F. Johnson Arrows of Time1. Back to the Future
2. Catching the Waves
3. The Quantum Leap
4. Edge of Chaos
5. Shaping the Future 2000 Kevin Warwick Rise of the Robots1. Anatomy of an Android
2. Things That Think
3. Remote Robots
4. Bionic Bodies
5. I, RobotChannel 4 2001 John Sulston The Secrets of Life1. What is life? 2. How do I grow? 3. What am I? 4. Can we fix it? 5. Future of life? 2002 Tony Ryan Smart Stuff1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge
2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World
3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet
4. The Plaster that Stretches Life
5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny 2003 Monica Grady Voyage in Space and Time1. Blast Off
2. Mission to Mars
3. Planet Patrol
4. Collision Course
5. Anybody Out There? 2004 Lloyd Peck Antarctica1. The curious incident of the never ending numbers
2. The quest to predict the future
3. The story of the elusive shapes
4. The case of the uncrackable code
5. The secret of the winning streak 2007 Hugh Montgomery Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival1. Peak Performance
2. Completely Stuffed
3. Grilled and Chilled
4. Fight, Flight and Fright
5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity 2008 Christopher BishopHi tech Trek1. Breaking the Speed Limit
2. Chips with Everything
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Untangling the Web
5. Digital Intelligence 2009 Sue HartleyThe 300 Million Year War1. Plant Wars
2. The Animals Strike Back
3. Talking Trees
4. Dangerous to Delicious
5. Weapons of the Future More4 2010 Mark MiodownikSize Matters1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive
2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't
3. Why Mountains Are So SmallBBC Four 2011 Bruce Hood Meet Your Brain1. What's in your head? 2. Who's in charge here anyway? 3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 2012 Peter Wothers The Modern Alchemist1. Air: the elixir of life
2. Water: the fountain of youth
3. Earth: the philosopher's stone 2013 Alison Woollard Life Fantastic1. Where do I come from? 2. Am I a Mutant? 3. Could I live forever? 2014 Danielle George Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home1. The light bulb moment
2. Making contact
3. A new revolution 2015 Kevin Fong How to survive in space1. Lift off! 2. Life in Orbit
3. The next frontier 2016 Saiful Islam Supercharged: Fuelling the future1. Let there be light! 2. People Power
3. Fully charged 2017 Sophie Scott The Language of Life1. Say it with Sound
2. Silent Messages
3. The Word 2018 Alice Roberts
Aoife McLysaght Who am I?1. Where Do I Come From? 2. What Makes Me Human? 3. What Makes Me, Me? 2019 Hannah Fry Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths1. How to Get Lucky
2. How to Bend the Rules
3. How Can We All Win?2020Christopher Jackson
Helen Czerski
Tara ShinePlanet Earth: A user's guide1. Earth Engine
2. Water World
3. Up in the Air2021Jonathan Van TamGoing viral: How Covid changed science forever1. The Invisible Enemy
2. The Perfect Storm
3. Fighting Back2022Sue BlackSecrets of Forensic Science1. Dead Body
2. Missing Body
3. Living Body2023Michael WooldridgeThe Truth about AI1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine
2. My AI Life
3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?