In date order, most recent first:
The great ideas of biology
Sir Paul Nurse FRS
Public event
08 February 2010, 60 minutes
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Seeing Further – The Story of Science and the Royal Society
Melvyn Bragg with Bill Bryson, Maggie Gee, Richard Holmes and Ian Stewart
Public event
28 January 2010, 60 minutes
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The eerie silence: are we alone in the universe?
Professor Paul Davies
Public event
26 January 2010, 64 minutes
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Geoengineering: a brave new world? Panel Discussion
Curated by Professor John Shepherd FRS with speakers Professor Brian Launder FREng FRS, Dr David Santillo, Professor Corinne Le Quéré, and Professor Steve Rayner
Public event
19 January 2010, 62 minutes
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Science not stamp collecting – the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059
Professor Stephen Hopper
Arranged in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to celebrate their 250th anniversary in 2009.
01 December 2009, 68 minutes
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Mathematical curiosities and treasures from Professor Stewart’s cabinet
Professor Ian Stewart FRS
05 November 2009, 63 minutes
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The last 2 million years of human evolution
Professor Christopher Stringer FRS
20 October 2009, 70 minutes
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Cognitive enhancing drugs: neuroethical issues
Professor Barbara Sahakian
13 October 2009, 67 minutes
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Fossils, fact and fiction
Tracy Chevalier FRSL in conversation with Dr Richard Fortey FRS, Chaired by Dr Alice Roberts
In association with the Royal Society of Literature
05 October 2009, 58 minutes
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Seeing the invisible: observing the dark side of the universe
Dr Sarah Bridle
Part of Astronomy: Capturing light and dark
01 October 2009, 60 minutes
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Particle physics and the mysteries of the early Universe
Dr Cristina Lazzeroni
Public event: Summer Science Exhibition
30 June 2009, 41 minutes
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"The Great British Refurb": Housing for a low carbon energy future
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn
Public event: Part of the Story of London Festival
09 June 2009, 68 minutes
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Making choices to conserve the world's species: what, where and when?
Professor Georgina Mace FRS, Dr Jonathan Baillie, Professor Hugh Possingham and Dr Mark Avery, chaired by Sir John Lawton CBE FRS
Public event
19 May 2009, 65 minutes
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The origins of flowers
Sir Peter Crane FRS
Public event
12 May 2009, 60 minutes
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Two Cultures: 50 years on
Professor Stefan Collini FBA, Rt. Hon John Denham MP, Sian Ede, Professor Marcus du Sautoy. Chaired by Melvyn Bragg, Lord Bragg of Wigton.
A public panel discussion as part of the Royal Society's President's Programme. Supported by Prospect Magazine.
05 May 2009, 70 minutes
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Climate change and extinction
Dr Richard Leakey FRS
27 April 2009, 67 minutes
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Talent and Autism
Uta Frith and Daniel Glaser with Francesca Happé, Mark Lythgoe, John Sloboda, Joan Freeman
An evening discussion convened jointly by the British Academy and the Royal Society
12 March 2009, 93 minutes
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What's going on Underground? Tunnelling into the Future
Professor Robert Mair FREng FRS
18 February 2009, 62 minutes
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Lost in history
Adriano Shaplin in conversation with Simon Schaffer
24 November 2008, 66 minutes
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Proof-reading: Telling stories with numbers, telling stories with words
Mark Haddon in conversation with Marcus du Sautoy
In association with the Royal Society of Literature
10 November 2008, 63 minutes
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In Conversation with Dr Hiba Mohamed
Dr Hiba Mohamed in conversation with Sir Magdi Yacoub FRS
Pfizer Award
03 November 2008, 63 minutes
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In conversation with Sir Martin Evans
Sir Martin Evans FRS
01 October 2008, 56 minutes
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Climate change: what can space teach us about our own planet?'
Maggie Aderin
Summer Science Exhibition
02 July 2008, 47 minutes
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Stumbling on happiness
Daniel Gilbert
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
12 June 2008, 79 minutes
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We are what we remember: memory and the biological basis of individuality
Eric R. Kandel
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
22 April 2008, 83 minutes
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Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's journey through symmetry
Professor Marcus du Sautoy
21 February 2008, 62 minutes
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Touchdown on Titan
Professor John Zarnecki
03 December 2007, 81 minutes
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Nature and nurture in brain function: clues from synesthesia and phantom limbs
Professor VS Ramachandran,
28 November 2007, 80 minutes
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Washing dirty lab coats on the page and the stage
Carl Djerassi
14 November 2007, 76 minutes
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Climate change on the living Earth
Professor James Lovelock CH CBE FRS
29 October 2007, 65 minutes
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Behaving badly
Professor Uta Frith FRS, John Banville, James Blair, Terrie Moffitt, Fay Weldon
15 October 2007, 90 minutes
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Mind-reading machines: technologies with People Sense
Dr Rana el Kaliouby
27 September 2007, 69 minutes
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Deep sea discoveries: Arctic Coral Reefs?
Dr Jason Hall-Spencer
Summer Science Exhibition
02 July 2007, 33 minutes
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The LHC: or how the world's largest experiment can investigate matter's smallest constituents
Dr Tara Shears
21 June 2007, 70 minutes
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From sled dogs to rockets: What is everyone doing in the Antarctic and the Arctic?
Paul Rose
Held in support of International Polar Year
24 April 2007, 80 minutes
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Islam and science: beyond the troubled relationship
Ziauddin Sardar
12 December 2006, 75 minutes
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Continuing the voyages of the Endeavour
Dr Mike Griffin
01 December 2006, 56 minutes
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Mind - the gap?
Chaired by Maggie Gee with Nicky Clayton, Doris Lessing, Will Self, Andrew Whiten
In association with the Royal Society of Literature
28 November 2006, 86 minutes
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In conversation with Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn with Professor Lisa Jardine
24 November 2006, 75 minutes
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Exchanges in science and religion
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS
07 November 2006, 64 minutes
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Why life speeds up as you get older
Douwe Draaisma
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
16 October 2006, 61 minutes
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Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right
Professor Steve Jones
11 April 2006, 72 minutes
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Cosmic Africa
Dr Thebe Medupe
30 January 2006, 57 minutes
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Einstein vs. Newton debate
Chaired by Marcus Du Sautoy, with Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Dr Mark Lythgoe, Sir John Enderby FRS, and Dr Patricia Fara.
23 November 2005, 77 minutes
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The roots of the 'Royal' and the Scottish connection
John Gribbin
04 October 2005, 57 minutes
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The right climate for business
Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool FRS
29 June 2005, 75 minutes
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New views on human origins
Professor Chris Stringer FRS
02 June 2005, 75 minutes
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Why we cooperate
Professor Martin Nowak
03 May 2005, 66 minutes
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Global warming in a chaotic climate - can we be sure?
Tim Palmer FRS and Tim Wheeler
26 April 2005, 67 minutes
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A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
10 March 2005, 67 minutes
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Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive
Professor Jared Diamond
20 January 2005, 72 minutes
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Science, complexity and the nature of existence
George Ellis
09 December 2004, 63 minutes
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A new Eden
Tim Smit
27 October 2004, 70 minutes
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Not just about numbers
John D Barrow
19 October 2004, 51 minutes
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Wild Reckonings - poems inspired by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring".
Chaired by Sian Ede, with readers including Richard Dawkins FRS, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, John Burnside and Maurice Riordan
05 October 2004, 65 minutes
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Exploring nanotechnologies public debate
Nick Ross, with Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge), Deidre Hutton (National Consumers Council), Doug Parr (Greenpeace),and Ian Pearson (BT Futurologist)
29 September 2004, 83 minutes
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Beauty in science and literature
Chaired by Dan Glaser with Ben Okri FRSL and Nancy Rothwell FRS
In association with the Royal Society of Literature
14 September 2004, 75 minutes
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Trends in global fisheries: implication for food security
Professor Daniel Pauly
21 July 2004, 66 minutes
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Challenges facing the human exploration of Mars
Dr David Scott
05 May 2004, 72 minutes
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Beagle 2 - the next generation - in conversation with Colin Pillinger
Colin Pillinger FRS
08 March 2004, 78 minutes
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The future of the world wide web
Tim Berners-Lee FRS
22 September 2003, 85 minutes
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Nobel lives
Sir John Sulston FRS and Dr Sydney Brenner FRS
01 April 2003, 70 minutes
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To boldly go - the future of space exploration
Dr David Scott, Professor Colin Pillinger FRS and Professor David Southwood
01 October 2002, 82 minutes
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