Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - Seasons
Specials
1998
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1 episodes
1966
0 episodes
1967
0 episodes
1968
0 episodes
1969
0 episodes
1970
0 episodes
1971
0 episodes
1972
0 episodes
1973: The Languages of Animals
6 episodes
Sir David Attenborough on animal communication. Episode 4 is lost.
1974
0 episodes
1975
0 episodes
1976
0 episodes
1977
6 episodes
1978: Mathematics into Pictures
6 episodes
1979
0 episodes
1980
0 episodes
1981
0 episodes
1982
0 episodes
1983
0 episodes
1984
0 episodes
1985: Communicating
0 episodes
1986
0 episodes
1987: Crystals and Lasers
0 episodes
1988
0 episodes
1989
0 episodes
1990
0 episodes
1991: Growing Up in the Universe
1991
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5 episodes
1992
0 episodes
1993: The Cosmic Onion
1993
•
5 episodes
1994
0 episodes
1995: Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide
5 episodes
1996: The History in our Bones
1996
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5 episodes
1997: The Magical Maze
0 episodes
1998: Staying Alive: The Body in Balance
5 episodes
1999: Arrow of Time
0 episodes
2000: Rise of the Robots
0 episodes
2001: The Secrets of Life
0 episodes
2002: Smart Stuff
0 episodes
2003: Voyage in Space and Time
2003
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6 episodes
2004: To the Ends of the Earth: Surviving Antarctic Extremes
2004
•
3 episodes
2005: The Truth About Food
2005
•
5 episodes
2006
2006
•
5 episodes
2007: Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival
2007
•
5 episodes
2008: Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer
2008
•
5 episodes
2009: The 300-Million-Year War
2009
•
5 episodes
2010: Size Matters
2010
•
3 episodes
2011: Meet Your Brain
2011
•
3 episodes
2012: The Modern Alchemist
2012
•
3 episodes
2013: Life Fantastic
2013
•
3 episodes
2014: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack your Home
2014
•
3 episodes
2015: How to Survive in Space
2015
•
3 episodes
2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future
2016
•
3 episodes
2017: The Language of Life
2017
•
3 episodes
2018: Who Am I?
2018
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3 episodes
Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Aoife McLysaght take viewers on an immersive voyage through our evolutionary past and ask challenging questions about what our future holds.
2019: Secret & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths
2019
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3 episodes
Dr Hannah Fry reveals the hidden rules and patterns that govern every aspect of our world.
2020: Planet Earth: A user’s guide
2020
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3 episodes
2021: Going viral: How Covid changed science forever
2021
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3 episodes
England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Jonathan Van-Tam will be joined by a host of top UK scientists to take a deep dive into the science of viruses.
2022: Secrets of Forensic Science
2022
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3 episodes
Professor Dame Sue Black reveals the secrets of the real-life scientific detective process she uses to identify both the dead and the living.
2023: The Truth about AI
2023
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3 episodes
2024: The Truth About Food
2024
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3 episodes
In this year’s Christmas Lectures, Dr Chris van Tulleken delves deep into our guts – to reveal the revolutionary latest science around what happens inside our bodies when we eat. He investigates how food has fundamentally shaped human evolution, uncovers the importance of our microbiome – as the extra ‘organ’ we didn’t know we had – and asks how we can all eat better in future, for the sake of our own health and the health of the planet. Chris will reveal how what we eat can have a massive effect on both our bodies and our brains. He’ll bring the science to life through a series of fact fuelled demos, special guest appearances, festive food hacks, and a healthy dose of self-experimentation. From tastebuds to toilet, we’ll find out what happens in the body when we eat. How we eat with our eyes (green eggs and ham anyone?) and how smell and even sound can affect the taste of our food.