Religion, the Rule of Law and Discrimination This address will explore the development of the law's approach...
Beanstalk or living instrument? How tall can the European Convention on Human Rights grow? The pervasive scope of the European Convention of Human Rights...
The Privatisation of Law: Has a World Court finally been created by modern international arbitration? This is the 2013 annual Gray's Inn Reading. Other Gray's...
Classical Music, Noisy Listening In this lecture, we will introduce the idea of musical works as tools for listening, from Mozart to Mahler, from medieval repertoires to minimalism.
An Introduction to Film Music Music has always been closely associated with film. From Saint-Saëns...
Music of the Last Century: Did Schoenberg get it right? The composers least noticed by writers on music history seem...
In Prison Camp: Messiaen 'Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps' A lecture with live musical illustrations on Olivier Messiaen's 'Quatuor...
The Building of England: Retrospect and Prospect 410 AD to 2000 In this the final lecture in his series on the...
Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Physics: Its Birth in Greek Ionia This lecture discusses the pioneering physical theories of Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras and Democritus.