Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and co-ordinator of the UN Intellectual History Project draws on the 17-volume official history of the UNListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jumping about in applied probabilityProfessor Andreas Kyprianou from the Department of Mathematical Sciences gives a gentle introduction to probability theory and its pivotal role in current mathematics research.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Our future: understanding the big pictureDr James Martin, founder of the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford, explain why decision-makers need to look at the global big picture to avoid world catastrophe.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Science of interaction between humans and computersProfessor Stephen Payne from the University of Bath, will discuss how his research combines an understanding of the human mind with the design of interactive systems.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Poetry in motion picturesPoet and author Kevan Manwarring looks at poets who have graced the silver screen from Shakespeare to the Beats and the Romantics to Slam.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The history and development of BuddhismDr Robert Heath, lecturer at the school of management at the University of Bath and study lecturer on Buddhism, talks about the history and development of the religion from its inception in India to the present day.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Climate change: challenge or swindle?Reverend Professor Ian James questions whether climate change is a challenge or as swindle and presents some of the certainties, complexities and controversies from the science of climate change.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Devices and DesiresProfessor Alison Walker, from the University's Department of Physics, looks at how these devices work, how they mimic nature and explain the many novel applications that will change the future of our work and home life.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What world do you see?James Alexander, the co-founder of Zopa gives an insight from his business experience, having developed a profitable internet-based business and also a new way of borrowing and lending money.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
How crows make tools and other clever tricksDr Alex Kacelnik from the department of zoology at the UniversityofOxford talks about how crows make tools to find food and explains how animals thinkListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Sunflower and the roseFreelance garden historian Russell Bowes looks at the hidden meanings in flowers. He asks whether there¿s a deeper significance, spiritually culturally or aesthetically.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The future of brand managementProfessor Michael Beverland, head of the marketing group at the University of Bath School of Management examines how the marketers behind some of the world¿s most enduring brands are responding to a new environment.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
An illustrated guide to Armageddon: Britain's Cold WarSpeaker Bob Clarke looks at the changes in Soviet system over the last 20 years.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Smoking still kills: what next for tobacco control?Professor Linda Bauld, Head of the University's Department of Social & Policy Sciences and member of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, outlines the extent of the tobacco epidemic and what can be done to reduce smoking rates further.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nuclear explosives: the technology of destructionLecturer, writer and editor, Rick Marshall talks about how explosives are made and what to do if they're detonated.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Painted GardenGardeners and art lovers are invited to look at the history of gardening through a virtual tour of some of the greatest art galleries in the world in a public lecture at the University of Bath on Wednesday 28 October.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
War, Peace and Justice: the dilemmas of International securityProf Adrian Hyde-Price from the University's Department of European Studies & Modern Languages examines the nature and causes of contemporary war and conflict, and considers the prospect of peace in the 21st Century.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Avebury - megaliths and mythsFreelance and professional writer Roger Vlitos examines the theories and myths about Avebury.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Have Economists gone mad?Paul Ormerod, the author of three best-selling books on economics talks about what mainstream economists have to say about the turmoil of world economy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lady Miller of BatheastonMartin Sturge talks about Lady Anna Miller of Batheaston. Mr Sturge is deeply involved with the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and sponsored the rebinding of a rare volume of Lady Miller's Poetical Assemblies held in the institution's historic library.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
