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The Shape of Hands: Symmetry, Chirality and Handedness

The reflection of my right hand in a mirror is...

The Evolution of Music

Musical instruments have been found in the archaeological record from...

Twentieth-Century Divas: Julie Andrews

Starring in My Fair Lady (1956), The Sound of Music...

Christopher Wren’s Medical Discoveries: the ‘Architect of Human Anatomy’

** Please note that this lecture will contain several mentions...

Rhythm Disturbances of the Heart

Our bodies depend on our hearts maintaining a steady beat...

Diminished and Augmented Chords

In this lecture, we will delve into the history of...

The Death of Richard III: CSI Meets History

The skeleton of Richard III was discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. Forensic techniques were used to analyse injuries to the skull, rib and pelvis.

Exporting Russia: Diaghilev’s Beginnings

In this lecture we follow his early years, when he published The World of Art, a provocative Russian journal, exhibited Russian visual art in Paris, and then brought Russian music there, culminating in his production of Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov.

Prokofiev's War and Peace

Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace (1953) was an adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel begun during WWII. He saw it as a personal interpretation of the novel.

Musorgsky's Boris Godunov

Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov (1872) is set in the ‘Time of Troubles’, using Pushkin’s incisive verse tragedy on the chaotic period preceding the establishment of the Romanovs.

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