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This presentation reviews the basic history of the bicycle starting with the Hobby Horse. We discuss significant changes to the bicycle in terms of efficiency, safety and comfort. These advances in bicycle technology include lighter construction, the....

Harry Kroto describes his wide artistic interests over many years.

'If you knew Time as well as I do,’ the Mad Hatter says to Alice, ‘you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.’ In this event, three writers well-acquainted with time discuss how it (or he) both controls and captivates us.  Dame Gillian ....

The concept of creativity from the point of view of how original ideas develop is explored with the aid of recent advances in computer modelling programming strategies. Featuring some beautiful examples, Margaret addresses the question, can computers....

Take one step away from the shore with the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Set yourself apart from the crowd on an expedition into unfamiliar scientific territory with the shortlisted authors and judges of the Royal Society Winton Prize....

Professor Andy Abbott looked at the changes in the artist's pallet from natural pigments through the work of the alchemist and the chemist

Siƒn Ede looks at the work of a number of leading artists who have engaged with contemporary science, whether robustly or subtly, in order to reflect a different and sometimes bizarre take on new ideas.

Ian McKellen speaks at FSU about his acting career and some of the fascinating things that he has learned through theater and personal experience.

subtitled - Early Modern Humour

An introduction to the history of American Christianity

Updike's exploration of American Christianity and Hollywood movies in the 20th Century

No 1 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode sets the scene in the years up to 1763.

No 2 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode traces developments from 1763 to 1770.

No 3 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode traces developments from 1770 to April 1775.

No 4 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode traces developments from April 1775 to 1781.

No 5 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode looks at the population explosion in the 18th and 19th centuries and its effect on emigration to the USA.

looks at some of the reasons for the Industrial Revolution occurring in England rather than anywhere else.

No 7 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode traces the historical and practical reasons for the Irish famine in the 1840s.

No 8 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode looks at the parallels between 9/11 in 2001 and another attack from a disaffected minority in 1605