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Professor Orchard was Director of Christian Education Movement for fourteen years before becoming Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge from 2000. He retired in 2007 and was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church, of which he
Baroness O'Neill is a philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, a former President of the British Academy (1988-1989) and chaired the Nuffield Foundation between
James Nye is a writer and composer based on the Isle of Wight. He studied music at the University of Surrey, completing dissertations on the music of Thelonious Monk (1987), and Vic Hoyland (1989), and becoming a Master of Music in
Richard has a long history of personal commitment to researching and presenting/ performing the traditional musical instruments of the Maori, and to organising this body of knowledge into a form which is immediately understandable to people in general, particularly Maori
Notus Winds comprises five London-based musicians each holding full scholarships to the Royal Academy of Music. Finalists of the Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Competition 2013, they were the winners of the Elias Fawcett Award for Outstanding Chamber Music as
Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Gill Newton's specialisms include historical demography and historical computing.
Dr James Nicholls is Research Manager at Alcohol Research UK and and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Nicholls is author of The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England, and
Today's event
Today's event, The Gresham Festival of Musical Ideas, will not be livestreamed. Recordings of all lectures will be published soon!