Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been held in London annually since 1825. They serve as a forum for presenting complex scientific issues to a general audience in an informative and entertaining manner. In the mid 1820s Michael Faraday, a former Director of the Royal Institution, initiated the first Christmas Lecture series at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. He presented a total of 19 series, establishing an exciting new venture of teaching science to young people that was eventually copied by other institutions internationally.

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Specials December 1998 December 2015 3
Season 1966 - Eric Laithwaite: The Engineer in Wonderland December 1966 January 1967 6
Season 1967 - Richard L. Gregory: The Intelligent Eye December 1967 January 1968 6
Season 1968 - Philip Morrison: Gulliver's laws: The Physics of Large and Small December 1968 January 1969 6
Season 1969 - George Porter: Time Machines January 1970 January 1970 6
Season 1970 - John Napier: Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man January 1971 January 1971 6
Season 1971 - Charles Taylor: Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune January 1972 January 1972 6
Season 1972 - Geoffrey G. Gouriet: Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication December 1972 January 1973 6
Season 1973 - David Attenborough: The Language of Animals January 1973 January 1974 6
Season 1974 - Eric Laithwaite: The Engineer Through the Looking Glass December 1974 January 1975 6
Season 1975 - Heinz Wolff: Signals From the Interior January 1975 December 1975 6
Season 1976 - George Porter: The Natural History of a Sunbeam December 1976 December 1976 6
Season 1977 - Carl Sagan: The Planets December 1977 December 1977 6
Season 1978 - Erik Christopher Zeeman: Mathematics into Pictures January 1979 January 1979 6
Season 1979 - Eric M. Rogers: Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments December 1979 January 1980 6
Season 1980 - David Chilton Phillips: The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules December 1980 January 1981 6
Season 1981 - Reginald Victor Jones: From Magna Carta to Microchip December 1981 January 1982 6
Season 1982 - Colin Blakemore: Common Sense December 1982 January 1983 6
Season 1983 - Leonard Maunder: Machines in Motion December 1983 January 1984 6
Season 1984 - Walter Bodmer: The Message of the Genes January 1985 January 1985 6
Season 1985 - John David Pye: Communicating January 1986 January 1986 6
Season 1986 - Lewis Wolpert: Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life January 1987 January 1987 6
Season 1987 - John Meurig Thomas, David Phillips: Crystals and Lasers January 1988 January 1988 6
Season 1988 - Gareth Roberts: The Home of the Future December 1988 January 1989 5
Season 1989 - Charles Taylor: Exploring Music December 1989 January 1990 5
Season 1990 - Malcom Longair: Origins December 1990 January 1991 5
Season 1991 - Richard Dawkins: Growing Up in the Universe December 1991 December 1991 5
Season 1992 - Charles J. M. Stirling: Our World Through the Looking Glass December 1992 January 1993 5
Season 1993 - Frank Close: The Cosmic Onion December 1993 December 1993 5
Season 1994 - Susan Greenfield: Journey to the Centre of the Brain December 1994 January 1995 5
Season 1995 - James Jackson: Planet Earth: An Explorer's Guide December 1995 December 1995 5
Season 1996 - Simon Conway Morris: The History in our Bones December 1996 January 1997 5
Season 1997 - Ian Stewart: The Magical Maze December 1997 January 1998 5
Season 1998 - Nancy Rothwell: Staying Alive: The Body in Balance December 1998 January 1999 5
Season 1999 - Neil F. Johnson: Arrows of Time - Living on the Edge of Chaos December 1999 December 1999 5
Season 2000 - Kevin Warwick: Rise of the Robots December 2000 December 2000 5
Season 2001 - John Sulston: The Secrets of Life December 2001 December 2001 5
Season 2002 - Tony Ryan: Smart Stuff December 2002 December 2002 5
Season 2003 - Monica Grady: Voyage in Space and Time December 2003 December 2003 6
Season 2004 - Lloyd Peck: Antarctica December 2004 December 2004 3
Season 2005 - John Krebs: The Truth About Food December 2005 December 2005 5
Season 2006 - Marcus du Sautoy: The Num8er My5teries December 2006 December 2006 5
Season 2007 - Hugh Montgomery: Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival December 2007 December 2007 5
Season 2008 - Christopher Bishop: Hi-tech Trek December 2008 January 2009 5
Season 2009 - Sue Hartley: The 300 Million Year War December 2009 December 2009 5
Season 2010 - Mark Miodownik: Size Matters December 2010 December 2010 3
Season 2011 - Bruce Hood: Meet Your Brain December 2011 December 2011 3
Season 2012 - Peter Wothers: The Modern Alchemist December 2012 December 2012 3
Season 2013 - Alison Woollard: Life Fantastic December 2013 December 2013 3
Season 2014 - Danielle George: Sparks will Fly: How to Hack your Home December 2014 December 2014 3
Season 2015 - Kevin Fong: How to Survive in Space December 2015 December 2015 3
Season 2016 - Saiful Islam: Supercharged: Fuelling the Future December 2016 December 2016 3
Season 2017 - Sophie Scott: The Language of Life December 2017 December 2017 3
Season 2018 - Alice Roberts, Aoife McLysaght: Who am I? December 2018 December 2018 3
Season 2019 - Hannah Fry: Secrets and Lies December 2019 December 2019 3
Season 2020 - Chris Jackson, Helen Czerski, Tara Shine: Planet Earth: A User's Guide December 2020 December 2020 3
Season 2021 - Jonathan Van-Tam: Going Viral: How Covid Changed Science Forever December 2021 December 2021 3
Season 2022 - Sue Black: Secrets of Forensic Science December 2022 December 2022 3
Season 2023 - Mike Wooldridge: The Truth About AI December 2023 December 2023 3
Season 2024 - Chris van Tulleken: The Truth About Food December 2024 December 2024 3
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