The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ This lecture considers ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ from Carousel (1945)...
Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" This festive lecture explores the unusual roots of the song...
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns’ 'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...
Artificial Selection: How Humans Have Shaped Evolution We often think of evolution as ‘something that happened’ in...
Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference? Difficulties with reading and writing have wide-ranging effects beyond academic...
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution The species we recognise as our own - anatomically modern...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Sanskrit Mathematics in the Language of Poetry This event will focus upon mathematics as expressed in different languages and cultures.