The History and Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation in the City of London

Maurice Bitton and Chazan Eliot Alderman present the 350-year-old story of Britain’s oldest synagogue, with musical illustrations by the synagogue choir.

Sheep Across London Bridge - The Freedom of the City of London - Murray D Craig

The 774-year-old history of what it is to be granted the Freedom of the City of London.

The Joy of Six - Professor Christopher Hogwood CBE

A lecture and performance of string sextets by Brahms and Strauss, investigating what makes them masterpieces. Professor Christopher Hogwood with players from the Royal Academy.

Does Bursting One Bubble Lead to Another? - John Redwood MP

John Redwood delivers the keynote speech for the Long Finance 2011 Autumn conference, which focussed on market bubbles and their effects on efforts to ensure sustainability.

The memoirs and legacy of Évariste Galois - Dr Peter Neumann

The story of Évariste Galois, killed in a duel at the age of twenty, but who left behind papers that would change the face of mathematics.

English Architecture, 1650 to 1760: The Rise of Consensus - Professor Simon Thurley

Opened up to the world once more in 1650, England drank in influences and ideas from abroad which were to infuse English building with widely held ideas and values.

A voyage round Saturn, its rings and moons - Professor Carolin Crawford

Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our Solar System. Famous for its bright yet ethereal rings, the gas giant has over sixty natural satellites in orbit around it – and one artificial satellite: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which provides many of the results and images that will be showcased in this talk. We shall explore the weather observed in the atmosphere of Saturn, the curious structures that develop within the rings, and its wide variety of moons – from smog-shrouded Titan, two-sided Iapetus, to busy Prometheus, and the icy plumes erupting from frozen Enceladus.