Profiling a Killer - Professor Glenn D. Wilson

The psychology behind homicide investigation.

The End of Space and Time? - Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf

Where does string theory and particle physics leave our ideas of space and time?

The Opening Salvo: Beethoven String Quartet in F major - Professor Christopher Hogwood

A lecture and performance illustrating what makes Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major a masterpiece.

The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Colin S Gale

An overview of the 681-year history of this legendary mental health institution and London icon.

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport - Professor John D Barrow

"What can maths tell us about sports?" - John Barrow offers some of the many interesting possible answers to this question.

The Universities: Over Regulation - Baroness Deech

The story of increasing government intervention in universities, and how it is hindering their work.

Britain in the 20th Century: The Collapse of the Postwar Settlement, 1964-1979 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

The history of British politics as the post-war socialist dream soured into the winter of discontent.

London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital - Dame Gillian Pugh

The history of the UK’s first children’s charity, and the orphanage it was connected to, created in central London in 1739.

English Architecture: On Top of the World, 1830 to 1914 - Dr Simon Thurley

A lecture on the history of Victorian and Edwardian architecture in England.

Clusters of Galaxies - Professor Carolin Crawford

The fascinating science behind galaxies, the largest organised structures in the Universe that appear gravitationally bound.

The Lost Leprosy Hospitals of London - Professor Carole Rawcliffe

The surprising history of leprosy hospitals between 1100 and 1500, when the disease was seen as either a punishment for sin or a mark of divine favour.

Values and Value in the Marketplace - Lord Green

Can business and finance forget about values and just concentrate on (economic) value? The Minister of State for Trade and Investment discusses the role of values in the economic and business marketplace.

Procyclicality of Financial Regulation: And how to deal with it - Professor Charles Goodhart

Boom and Bust cycles are damaging to long-term financial stability. How can we hope to lessen their effects in the future in order to achieve a form of finance that is truly sustainable.

Investing as if the Future Mattered - Dr Matthew Kiernan

The meeting point of finance and sustainability: Does current financial investment truly reflect the long-term? What would finance look like if it was truly concerned with the long-term? What needs to change to achieve this?

Olympism: Fair Play - Dr Jim Parry

Fair Play is at the heart of sports ethics, and of Olympic ethics. But what does it mean, and how does it work?

Empire: Exploitation and Resistance - Professor Richard J Evans

A lecture on the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized, looking in particular at the comparison between the British Empire and the Belgian Congo.