Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
(1966)
1973: The Languages of Animals
Sir David Attenborough on animal communication. Episode 4 is lost.
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View Episodes1993: The Cosmic Onion
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View Episodes1995: Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide
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View Episodes1996: The History in our Bones
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View Episodes1998: Staying Alive: The Body in Balance
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View Episodes2003: Voyage in Space and Time
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View Episodes2004: To the Ends of the Earth: Surviving Antarctic Extremes
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View Episodes2005: The Truth About Food
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View Episodes2006: The Num8er My5teries
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View Episodes2007: Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival
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View Episodes2008: Hi-tech Trek
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View Episodes2009: The 300-Million-Year War
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View Episodes2010: Size Matters
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View Episodes2011: Meet Your Brain
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View Episodes2012: The Modern Alchemist
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View Episodes2013: Life Fantastic
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View Episodes2014: Sparks Will Fly - How to Hack your Home
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View Episodes2015: How to Survive in Space
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View Episodes2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future
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View Episodes2017: The Language of Life
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View Episodes2018: Who Am I?
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.
View Episodes2019: Secrets & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths
Dr. Hannah Fry reveals the hidden rules and patterns that govern every aspect of our world.
View Episodes2020: Planet Earth: A User’s Guide
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View Episodes2021: Going Viral: How Covid Changed Science Forever
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.
View Episodes2022: Secrets of Forensic Science
Professor Dame Sue Black reveals the secrets of the real-life scientific detective process she uses to identify both the dead and the living.
View Episodes2023: The Truth about AI
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View Episodes2024: The Truth About Food
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.
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2025: Is There Life Beyond Earth?
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes us on a voyage deep into space, on an astronomical search for extraterrestrial life, celebrating 200 years of the Christmas Lectures.
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