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Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver ...
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver annual lecture series, we have a stream of acclaimed visiting lecturers who talk on topics as varied as history, politics, art, astronomy, religion, mathematics and much more. Visit our website for further information: www.gresham.ac.uk
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Cary Grant: Hollywood's exquisite, charming enigma - Geoffrey Wansell
To millions of moviegoers around the world Cary Grant epitomises ...
To millions of moviegoers around the world Cary Grant epitomises the glamour and style of Hollywood in its golden years. With his luminous dark hair and mischievous smile he was one of its greatest stars. This lecture is an attempt to look behind the mask
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The Greatest Ever Economic Change - Professor Douglas McWilliams
Are we sleepwalking into the most serious economic challenge that ...
Are we sleepwalking into the most serious economic challenge that we have ever faced? An examination of the industrialisation of two thirds of the world in its historical context, some comparisons with previous major economic challenges and a survey of so
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International Criminal Tribunals - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
In the past twenty years several international courts have been ...
In the past twenty years several international courts have been established to try crimes committed in armed conflicts. Are these courts living up to expectations? What should we expect of them? Can they ever be free of political influence (or pollution)?
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Resetting the Human Compass: The Use and Value of the Arts - Sir Andrew Motion
Sir Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate, asks what the ...
Sir Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate, asks what the role the arts might play in difficult times? Is an instrumentalist approach to the arts and culture ever a good thing?
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Concert of Debussy Song - Sophie Bevan and Sebastian Wybrew
A recital of songs by Claude Debussy, performed by Sophie ...
A recital of songs by Claude Debussy, performed by Sophie Bevan (soprano) and Sebastian Wybrew (piano). Songs performed include those using texts by Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Paul Bourget and Charles Baudelaire.
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Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League - Dr Geoffrey Webber
A lecture on the great musicians connected to the Hanseatic ...
A lecture on the great musicians connected to the Hanseatic cities of Northern Germany. Not least amongst them was Dieterich Buxtehude of Lübeck, to whom the young J S Bach walked over 400 kilometres just listen to his organ improvisations.
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Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers - Dr Robin Probert
Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods depend so much ...
Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods depend so much on wild plant diversity. He outlines the current threats to wild plants across the globe and how Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Partnership works to conserve plants and make seeds available for ha
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The Lost World of 1962 - Dominic Sandbrook
In this lecture, Dominic Sandbrook, the acclaimed historian of Sixties ...
In this lecture, Dominic Sandbrook, the acclaimed historian of Sixties Britain, marks the 50th anniversary of the City of London Festival by looking back at Britain in 1962. Fifty years on, the Britain of Harold Macmillan, Acker Bilk, Jimmy Greaves and Ja
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Children's Self-Control and the Health and Wealth of their Nation - Professor Terrie Moffitt
What do a series of studies of children from birth ...
What do a series of studies of children from birth in 1972 to the present tell us about self-control. The startling results suggest that it could be central to all markers of success or failure in life, including income, longevity and happiness. Professor
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Arthur Conan Doyle and London: "A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool" - Richard Burnip
From the Sherlock Holmes stories to The Lost World this ...
From the Sherlock Holmes stories to The Lost World this lecture examines some of the locations which formed such in important backdrop to Conan Doyle's life and work. It will also touch on some of his lesser known works and include the place which perhaps
