Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1966)


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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented a total of nineteen series in all.

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Season 0

First Air Date: 1998-12-27
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Season 26

First Air Date: 1991-12-26
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First Air Date: 1993-12-26
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First Air Date: 1996-12-26
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First Air Date: 2003-12-26
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Season 39

First Air Date: 2004-12-16
3 Episodes

Season 40

First Air Date: 2005-12-25
5 Episodes

Season 41

First Air Date: 2006-12-25
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Season 42

First Air Date: 2007-12-23
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Season 43

First Air Date: 2008-12-28
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Season 44

First Air Date: 2009-12-21
5 Episodes

Season 45

First Air Date: 2010-12-28
3 Episodes

Season 46

First Air Date: 2011-12-27
3 Episodes

Season 47

First Air Date: 2012-12-26
3 Episodes

Season 48

First Air Date: 2013-12-28
3 Episodes

Season 49

First Air Date: 2014-12-29
3 Episodes

Season 50

First Air Date: 2015-12-28
3 Episodes

Season 51

First Air Date: 2016-12-26
3 Episodes

Season 52

First Air Date: 2017-12-26
3 Episodes

Season 53

First Air Date: 2018-12-26
3 Episodes

Season 54

First Air Date: 2019-12-26
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Season 55

First Air Date: 2020-12-28
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Season 56

First Air Date: 2021-12-28
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Season 57

First Air Date: 2022-12-26
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Season 58

First Air Date: 2023-12-26
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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1968Episode 1The World of Captain Gulliver60 min
Season 1968Episode 2Meat and Drink Sufficient for 1728 Lilliputians60 min
Season 1968Episode 3A Prodigious Leap?60 min
Season 1968Episode 4Lilliput and Brobdingnag Since the Industrial Revolution60 min
Season 1968Episode 5Dwarf and Giant Numbers60 min
Season 1968Episode 6Beyond the Map60 min
Season 1972Episode 1Ripples in the Ether: How it All Began60 min
Season 1972Episode 2Ripples in the Ether: Getting Rid of the Wires60 min
Season 1972Episode 3The Sound of Broadcasting60 min
Season 1972Episode 4Pictures With and Without Wires60 min
Season 1972Episode 5But Electrons aren't Coloured!60 min
Season 1972Episode 6Vision of the Future60 min
Season 1976Episode 1First light60 min
Season 1976Episode 2Light and life60 min
Season 1976Episode 3A leaf from nature60 min
Season 1976Episode 4Candles from the Sun60 min
Season 1976Episode 5Making light work60 min
Season 1976Episode 6Survival under the Sun60 min
Season 1977Episode 1The Planets: The Earth As A Planet60 min
Season 1977Episode 2The Planets: The Outer Solar System And Life60 min
Season 1977Episode 3The Planets: The History Of Mars60 min
Season 1977Episode 4The Planets: Mars Before Viking60 min
Season 1977Episode 5The Planets: Mars After Viking60 min
Season 1977Episode 6The Planets: Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun60 min
Season 1981Episode 1From Magna Carta to Microchip: Principles, Standards and Methods60 min
Season 1981Episode 2From Magna Carta to Microchip: The Measurement of Time60 min
Season 1981Episode 3From Magna Carta to Microchip: More and More About Less and Less60 min
Season 1981Episode 4From Magna Carta to Microchip: Onwards to the Stars60 min
Season 1981Episode 5From Magna Carta to Microchip: Measurement and Navigation in War60 min
Season 1981Episode 6From Magna Carta to Microchip: Some Impacts of Measurement on Life - And Can We Take it too Far?60 min
Season 1983Episode 1Machines In Motion: Driving Forces60 min
Season 1983Episode 2Machines In Motion: Gathering Momentum60 min
Season 1983Episode 3Machines In Motion: Vibration60 min
Season 1983Episode 4Machines In Motion: Under Control60 min
Season 1983Episode 5Machines In Motion: Fluids and Flight60 min
Season 1983Episode 6Machines In Motion: Living Machines60 min
Season 1985Episode 1Communicating: No Man is an Island60 min
Season 1985Episode 2Communicating: Animal Talk60 min
Season 1985Episode 3Communicating: The Bionic Bat60 min
Season 1985Episode 4Communicating: The Pace of Technology60 min
Season 1985Episode 5Communicating: The Integrated Body60 min
Season 1985Episode 6Communicating: Computers60 min
Season 1987Episode 1Crystals and Lasers: The Micro-world60 min
Season 1987Episode 2Crystals and Lasers: The Architecture of Crystals60 min
Season 1987Episode 3Crystals and Lasers: Crystal Miracles60 min
Season 1987Episode 4Crystals and Lasers: Constructing a LASER60 min
Season 1987Episode 5Crystals and Lasers: The Light Fantastic60 min
Season 1987Episode 6Crystals and Lasers: Crystals, LASERs and the Human Body60 min
Season 1988Episode 1Appliance science60 min
Season 1988Episode 2Home, safe home60 min
Season 1988Episode 3Electronics for pleasure60 min
Season 1988Episode 4Home, smart home60 min
Season 1988Episode 5Mixers, meters and molecules60 min
Season 1989Episode 1Exploring music: What is music?60 min
Season 1989Episode 2Exploring music: The essence of an instrument60 min
Season 1989Episode 3Exploring music: Science, strings and symphonies60 min
Season 1989Episode 4Exploring music: Technology, trumpets and tunes60 min
Season 1989Episode 5Exploring music: Scales, synthesizers and samplers60 min
Season 1990Episode 1The Grand Design60 min
Season 1990Episode 2The Birth of the Stars60 min
Season 1990Episode 3The Origin of Quasars60 min
Season 1990Episode 4The Origin of Galaxies60 min
Season 1990Episode 5The Origin of the Universe60 min
Season 1991Episode 1Growing Up in the Universe: Waking Up in the Universe60 min
Season 1991Episode 2Growing Up in the Universe: Designed and Designoid Objects60 min
Season 1991Episode 3Growing Up in the Universe: Climbing Mount Improbable60 min
Season 1991Episode 4Growing Up in the Universe: The Ultraviolet Garden60 min
Season 1991Episode 5Growing Up in the Universe: The Genesis of Purpose60 min
Season 1992Episode 1Our World Through the Looking Glass: Man in the Mirror60 min
Season 1992Episode 2Our World Through the Looking Glass: Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station60 min
Season 1992Episode 3Our World Through the Looking Glass: The Handed Molecule60 min
Season 1992Episode 4Our World Through the Looking Glass: Symmetry, Sensation and Sex60 min
Season 1992Episode 5Our World Through the Looking Glass: In the Hands of the Giants60 min
Season 1993Episode 1The Cosmic Onion: A is for Atoms60 min
Season 1993Episode 2The Cosmic Onion: To the Centre of the Sun60 min
Season 1993Episode 3The Cosmic Onion: Invaders from Outer Space60 min
Season 1993Episode 4The Cosmic Onion: Antimatter Matters60 min
Season 1993Episode 5The Cosmic Onion: An Hour to Make the Universe60 min
Season 1994Episode 1The Electric Ape60 min
Season 1994Episode 2Through a Glass Darkly60 min
Season 1994Episode 3Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble60 min
Season 1994Episode 4The Seven Ages of the Brain60 min
Season 1994Episode 5The Mind's I60 min
Season 1995Episode 1Planet Earth, On the Edge of the World60 min
Season 1995Episode 2Planet Earth, Secrets of the Deep60 min
Season 1995Episode 3Planet Earth, Volcanoes-Melting the Earth60 min
Season 1995Episode 4Planet Earth, The Puzzle of the Continents60 min
Season 1995Episode 5Planet Earth, Waterworld60 min
Season 1996Episode 1The History in our Bones - Staring Into The Abyss60 min
Season 1996Episode 2The History in our Bones - The Fossils Come Alive60 min
Season 1996Episode 3The History in our Bones - The Great Dyings - Life After Death60 min
Season 1996Episode 4The History in our Bones - Innovations And Novelty60 min
Season 1996Episode 5The History in our Bones - Feet On The Ground, Head In The Stars - The History Of Man60 min
Season 1997Episode 1The Magical Maze: Sunflowers and Snowflakes60 min
Season 1997Episode 2The Magical Maze: The Pattern of Tiny Feet60 min
Season 1997Episode 3The Magical Maze: Outrageous Fortune60 min
Season 1997Episode 4The Magical Maze: Chaos and Cauliflowers60 min
Season 1997Episode 5The Magical Maze: Fearful Symmetry60 min
Season 1998Episode 1Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Sense and Sensitivity60 min
Season 1998Episode 2Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Fats and Figures60 min
Season 1998Episode 3Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Chilling Out60 min
Season 1998Episode 4Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Times of our lives60 min
Season 1998Episode 5Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Pushing the Limits60 min
Season 1999Episode 1Arrow of Time: Back to the Future60 min
Season 1999Episode 2Arrow of Time: Catching the Waves60 min
Season 1999Episode 3Arrow of Time: Quantum Leap60 min
Season 1999Episode 4Arrow of Time: The Edge of Chaos60 min
Season 1999Episode 5Arrow of Time: Shaping the Future60 min
Season 2000Episode 1Rise of the Robots: Anatomy of an Android60 min
Season 2000Episode 2Rise of the Robots: Things that Think60 min
Season 2000Episode 3Rise of the Robots: Remote Robots60 min
Season 2000Episode 4Rise of the Robots: Bionic Bodies60 min
Season 2000Episode 5Rise of the Robots: I, Robot60 min
Season 2001Episode 1The Secrets of Life: What Is Life?60 min
Season 2001Episode 2The Secrets of Life: How Do I Grow?60 min
Season 2001Episode 3The Secrets of Life: Who Am I?60 min
Season 2001Episode 4The Secrets of Life: Can We Fix It?60 min
Season 2001Episode 5The Secrets of Life: The Future of Life?60 min
Season 2002Episode 1Smart Stuff: The Spider That Spun a Suspension Bridge60 min
Season 2002Episode 2Smart Stuff: The Trainer That Ran Over the World60 min
Season 2002Episode 3Smart Stuff: The Phone That Shrank the Planet60 min
Season 2002Episode 4Smart Stuff: The Plaster That Streches Life60 min
Season 2002Episode 5Smart Stuff: The Ice Cream That Will Freeze Granny60 min
Season 2003Episode 1Voyage in Space and Time: Blast Off60 min
Season 2003Episode 2Voyage in Space and Time: Mission to Mars60 min
Season 2003Episode 3Voyage in Space and Time: Planet Patrol60 min
Season 2003Episode 4Voyage in Space and Time: Collision Course60 min
Season 2003Episode 5Voyage in Space and Time: Anybody Out There?60 min
Season 2004Episode 1Antarctica: Ice People60 min
Season 2004Episode 2Antarctica: Ice Life60 min
Season 2004Episode 3Antarctica: Ice World60 min
Season 2005Episode 1The Truth About Food: The Ape That Cooks60 min
Season 2005Episode 2The Truth About Food: Yuck or Yummy?60 min
Season 2005Episode 3The Truth About Food: You Are What You Eat60 min
Season 2005Episode 4The Truth About Food: When Food Goes Wrong60 min
Season 2005Episode 5The Truth About Food: Food for the Future60 min
Season 2006Episode 1The Num8er My5teries: The Curious Incident of the Never-Ending Numbers60 min
Season 2006Episode 2The Num8er My5teries: The story of the Elusive Shapes60 min
Season 2006Episode 3The Num8er My5teries: The Secret of the Winning Streak60 min
Season 2006Episode 4The Num8er My5teries: The Case of the Uncrackable Code60 min
Season 2006Episode 5The Num8er My5teries: The Quest to Predict the Future60 min
Season 2007Episode 1Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival: Peak Performance60 min
Season 2007Episode 2Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival: Completely Stuffed60 min
Season 2007Episode 3Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival: Grilled and Chilled60 min
Season 2007Episode 4Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival: Fight, Flight and Fright60 min
Season 2007Episode 5Back from the Brink, the Science of Survival: Luck, Genes and Stupidity60 min
Season 2008Episode 1Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer: Breaking The Speed Limit60 min
Season 2008Episode 2Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer: Chips With Everything60 min
Season 2008Episode 3Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer: Ghost In The Machine60 min
Season 2008Episode 4Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer: Untangling The Web60 min
Season 2008Episode 5Hi-tech Trek - The Quest for the Ultimate Computer: Digital Intelligence60 min
Season 2009Episode 1The 300-Million-Year War: Plant Wars60 min
Season 2009Episode 2The 300-Million-Year War: The Animals Strike Back60 min
Season 2009Episode 3The 300-Million-Year War: Talking Trees60 min
Season 2009Episode 4The 300-Million-Year War: Dangerous to Delicious60 min
Season 2009Episode 5The 300-Million-Year War: Weapons of the Future60 min
Season 2010Episode 1Size Matters: Why Elephants Can't Dance60 min
Season 2010Episode 2Size Matters: Why Chocolate Melts And Jet Engines Don't60 min
Season 2010Episode 3Size Matters: Why Mountains Are So Small60 min
Season 2011Episode 1Meet Your Brain: What's in Your Head?60 min
Season 2011Episode 2Meet Your Brain: Who's in Charge Here?60 min
Season 2011Episode 3Meet Your Brain: Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?60 min
Season 2012Episode 1The Modern Alchemist: Air: The Elixir of Life60 min
Season 2012Episode 2The Modern Alchemist: Water: The Fountain of Youth60 min
Season 2012Episode 3The Modern Alchemist: The Philosopher's Stone60 min
Season 2013Episode 1Life Fantastic: Where Do I Come From?60 min
Season 2013Episode 2Life Fantastic: Am I a Mutant?60 min
Season 2013Episode 3Life Fantastic: Could I Live Forever?60 min
Season 2014Episode 1Sparks Will Fly: The Light Bulb Moment60 min
Season 2014Episode 2Sparks Will Fly: Making Contact60 min
Season 2014Episode 3Sparks Will Fly: A New Revolution60 min
Season 2015Episode 1How to Survive in Space: Lift Off!60 min
Season 2015Episode 2How to Survive in Space: Life in Orbit60 min
Season 2015Episode 3How to Survive in Space: The Next Frontier60 min
Season 2016Episode 1Supercharged - Fuelling the Future: Let There Be Light!60 min
Season 2016Episode 2Supercharged - Fuelling the Future: People Power60 min
Season 2016Episode 3Supercharged - Fuelling the Future: Fully Charged60 min
Season 2017Episode 1The Language of Life: Say It With Sound60 min
Season 2017Episode 2The Language of Life: Silent Messages60 min
Season 2017Episode 3The Language of Life: The Word60 min
Season 2018Episode 1Who Am I?: Where Do I Come From?60 min
Season 2018Episode 2Who Am I?: What Makes Me Human?60 min
Season 2018Episode 3Who Am I?: What Makes Me, Me?60 min
Season 2019Episode 1How to Get Lucky60 min
Season 2019Episode 2How to Bend the Rules60 min
Season 2019Episode 3How Can We All Win?60 min
Season 2020Episode 1Engine Earth60 min
Season 2020Episode 2Water World60 min
Season 2020Episode 3Up in the Air60 min
Season 2021Episode 1The Invisible Enemy60 min
Season 2021Episode 2The Perfect Storm60 min
Season 2021Episode 3Winning the War60 min
Season 2022Episode 1Dead Body60 min
Season 2022Episode 2Missing Body60 min
Season 2022Episode 3Living Body60 min
Season 2023Episode 1How to Build an Intelligent Machine60 min
Season 2023Episode 2My AI Life60 min
Season 2023Episode 3The Future of AI: Dream or a Nightmare?60 min

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