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Gresham College Lectures

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Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.

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  1. Santa, Elon, and the Interplanetary Internet - Victoria Baines

    37 Min.

    Unless it’s Christmas Eve, that chain of lights moving across the sky is probably not Santa’s sleigh but Starlink’s low earth orbit satellites (LEOs). To meet demand for ubiquitous, instantaneous, and …

  2. What searching for life tells us about Earth - Helen Czerski

    35 Min.

    Professors Czerski and Lintott investigate how ocean Earth compares and differs from the other planets we’ve found, and how water worlds in many forms may be more common than expected. Using Lovelock’s framing …

  3. How to Play a Planet Space and Music II - Milton Mermikides:

    38 Min.

    Following on from last year’s lecture at the Festival of Musical Ideas, Professors Lintott and Mermikides will present, demonstrate and critique the idea of ‘astro sonification’, using sound and music to …

  4. The Strange Story of Astroarcheology - Ronald Hutton

    42 Min.

    Of all the components of the environment around British prehistoric monuments, the sky is the one that has changed least across the millennia. This, and the fact that some of the most famous of these monuments …

  5. Lift Off - Chris Lintott

    12 Min.

    Professor Lintott explains how we connect the many different ways of observing the sky with attempts to understand the nature of what is seen.This lecture was recorded by Chris Lintott on September 25th 2026 at …

  6. Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History - Kate Hill

    44 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Professor Kate Hill on 14th of October 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London.Kate is Professor of History at the University of Lincoln, UK, where she teaches modern British history and …

  7. What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century - Volker Remmert

    50 Min.

    In the early modern period, it was common practice to praise the mathematical sciences, a typical example being Martinus Hortensius’ Inauguration Speech on the Dignity and the Usefulness of the Mathematical …

  8. What is the Purpose of Yoga: Transcendence or Transformation? - Jim Mallinson

    54 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Professor Sir Jim Mallinson on 5th of October 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London.Jim Mallinson is the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford and a Professorial …

  9. Rethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World - Martin Connell

    45 Min.

    The unipolar world of American military dominance, which characterised the relatively stable 35-year post-Cold War period, is now well and truly over. This lecture reveals how nation states face a series of …

  10. Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language - Mícheál Ó Mainnín

    46 Min.

    The Irish language has been associated with politicisation and conflict, particularly in the context of contemporary Northern Ireland identity politics. However, debates around the language extend much further …

  11. The Gods of Ancient Greece | Gresham College Podcast with Prof Melissa Lane and Prof Ronald Hutton

    48 Min.

    This episode of the Gresham College Podcast features a conversation between two Gresham Professors: Melissa Lane, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric and Ronald Hutton, Gresham Professor of Divinity. Together they …

  12. Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature - Marion Turner

    44 Min.

    In this lecture, Professor Marion Turner explores ‘ordinary women’ in English literature, arguing that Chaucer’s 14th-century Wife of Bath was the first such woman: a middle-aged, sexually active working woman …

  13. AI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding - Matt Jones

    50 Min.

    AI systems are increasingly positioned as supports for anxiety, loneliness, and distress. This lecture examines large language models trained to simulate therapeutic dialogue alongside biofeedback systems that …

  14. Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History? - Anna Hájková

    37 Min.

    Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex desire in the Shoah, that is, queerness among Jews persecuted by the Nazis for …

  15. Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World - Helen Czerski

    1 Std. 1 Min.

    Carbon used to be something that was only mentioned in school chemistry classes, but now it seems to be everywhere: on the news, in political debate, in discussions on health, and as a framework for thinking …

  16. Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe - Chris Lintott

    51 Min.

    Our expanding Universe only makes sense if, early on, it expanded rapidly in a period of cosmic inflation. In this lecture, we consider the evidence for this apparently arbitrary idea, and asks whether we are …

  17. The Future of Creativity - Daniel Susskind

    46 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Daniel Susskind on the 23nd of September 2026Dr Daniel Susskind is a writer and economist. He explores the impact of technology, and particularly AI, on work and society. He is the …

  18. The Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial - Clive Stafford Smith

    47 Min.

    The Lammy plan to eliminate half of U.K. criminal jury trials has provoked a rebellion among many lawmakers. Recent Palestine Action cases highlight the jury’s moral role, with several “perverse verdicts” …

  19. Is the HIV pandemic over? - Matt Higgins

    45 Min.

    A stark advert picturing a gravestone chiselled with ‘AIDS: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE’ captured the horror of this disease in the 1980s. Now, for HIV-infected people able to access anti-retroviral therapies, life …

  20. Cracking the Whip: Strings, Chains and Dinosaurs - Alain Goriely

    52 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Alain Goriely on the 15th of September 2026Alain Goriely is a mathematician with broad interests in mathematical methods, mechanics, sciences, and engineering. He is well known for …

  21. The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky - Chris Lintott

    49 Min.

    On a remote mountain top in Chile, scanning the sky with the largest astronomical camera ever built, the Vera Rubin Observatory is conducting the deepest and most sensitive survey of the sky yet. This lecture …

  22. Cello - In Search of a Voice - Kate Kennedy

    50 Min.

    How do we tell stories of past voices through a cello, the voice of its player? This lecture explores what it means to be separated from your voice, and to find it again.Dr Kate Kennedy traces a journey she …

  23. Why Do We Need Empathy? - Jane Shaw

    45 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Jane Shaw on Monday, 07 Sep 2026.Professor Jane Shaw is Provost of Gresham College and Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Oxford.Professor Shaw was formerly …

  24. On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics - Jim Al-Khalili

    46 Min.

    This is the Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture. What does modern physics have to say about the meaning of time? Is it a fundamental feature of reality or merely an emergent property from something deeper? Does …

  25. Music of Sleep and Dreams - Milton Mermikides

    49 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Professor Milton Mermikides on the 19th of June 2026Milton Mermikides is a composer, guitarist, technologist, academic and educator in a wide range of musical styles and has …

  26. The Morrigan: The Nightmare Queen - Ronald Hutton

    53 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on the 17th of June 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, LondonProfessor Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then …

  27. There Must be a Better Way: Thoughts on the Future of Family Law - Sir Andrew McFarlane

    53 Min.

    This is the Annual Gray's Inn Reading 2026.The lecture was delivered within three months of Sir Andrew McFarlane’s retirement after 21 years on the Family Bench. Whilst the phrase ‘un-plugged’ may not be …

  28. Education - And Its Limits - Daniel Susskind

    52 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Professor Daniel Susskind on the 26th of May 2026Dr Daniel Susskind is a writer and economist. He explores the impact of technology, and particularly AI, on work and society. He is …

  29. The White Knight: Ice - Helen Czerski

    58 Min.

    The polar regions are still some of the most inaccessible and least touched by humans, but they are deeply linked to the rest of Earth. We will cover the history of exploring them, the challenges of measuring …

  30. Cicero In and On Political Crises - Melissa Lane

    43 Min.

    This lecture was recorded by Melissa Lane on the 11th of June 2026Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University and is also Associated Faculty in the Department of Classics and …

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