Podcasts
A full archive of the Museum’s lecture podcasts. These are continuously updated, so please check back, sign up to our rss feed or join our e-mailing list for notification of new podcasts.
Dr Efstathios Arapostathis
Owning and Disowning Wireless: Inventions, Experts and the Law Courts, 1890-1930
Dr Efstathios Arapostathis, University of Athens, gives the Douglas Byrne Marconi Lecture 2012. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 1 hour and 8 minutes.
Dr Matthew Shaw
Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution
Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about The extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 56 minutes.
David Rooney
Selling Time: Science, Commerce and Dirty Tricks in the Distribution of Greenwich Mean Time
David Rooney, Curator of Transport at the Science Museum, London, talks about how Greenwich Mean Time was distributed and tells the curious story of Ruth Belville, the Greenwich Time Lady. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 59 minutes.
Professor Ian Walmsley
Ultrafast Physics: Past, Present, Future
Ian Walmsley is Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. In a public lecture at the Museum, he presented the shifting research frontier of extremely short-duration physics, where time is measured in femtoseconds and attoseconds. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 43 minutes.
Dr Inga Elmqvist
A Portrait of Hevelius
Inga Elmqvist talks about the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius and his use of art in his publications. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 42 minutes.
Michael Wright
The Eccentric Turner
The fourth in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum’s ‘Eccentricity’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 1 hour and 3 minutes.
Dr Lauren Kassell
Simon Forman: astrology, Medicine and Quackery in Elizabethan England
The third in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum’s ‘Eccentricity’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. View a pdf of the lecture slides here. This lecture lasts for 54 minutes.
Dr Vicky Carroll From Alligator Wrestling to Fossil Skeletons: Scientific Eccentricity in the Early 19th Century
The second in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum’s ‘Eccentricity’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 48 minutes.
Dr Brian Regal: Crackpots and Eggheads: Eccentricity in Natural History
The first in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum’s ‘Eccentricity’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 50 minutes and 18 seconds.
Dr Silke Ackermann: Astrolabes in Cultural Context
The third in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum’s ‘Al-Mizan’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 52 minutes and 11 seconds.
Professor Emilie Savage Smith: Mapping the Earth in Medieval Islam
The first of a public lecture series linked to the Museum’s ‘Al-Mizan’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 55 minutes and 28 seconds.
Dr Venetia Porter: The Power of the Word – Amulets in Islam
The second in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum’s ‘Al-Mizan’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 43 minutes.
Professor Monica Grady: Meteorites in Science and Culture
A public lecture linked to the Museum’s ‘Anvilled Stars’ exhibition. Download the lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 53 minutes and 7 seconds.
Dr Anna Marie Roos: The Oxford Philosophical Society and the Royal Society: a meeting of minds?
Part of the Museum’s celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Royal Society. Download this lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 41 minutes.
Pleasures and Sorrows: The Photographer
Photographer Richard Baker talks about his experience documenting the travels of philosopher Alain de Botton. Download this short excerpt here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This excerpt lasts for 3 minutes and 40 seconds.
Professor Michael Hunter, FBA: The Great Experiment: the Early Evolution of the Royal Society
Part of the Museum’s celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Royal Society. Download this short excerpt here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This excerpt lasts for 3 minutes and 40 seconds.
Dr William Poole: Oxford and the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century.
Part of the Museum’s celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Royal Society. Download this lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 41 minutes.
Professor Alan Watson: the Pierre Auger Observatory
From a series of lectures about some of the major developments in telescopes in the modern era. Download this lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 1 hour and 9 minutes.
Professor Roger Davies: the Gemini Telescopes
From a series of lectures about some of the major developments in telescopes in the modern era. Download this lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 1 hour and 2 minutes.
Professor Phil Diamond: Jodrell Bank, the Lovell Telescope and e-MERLIN
From a series of lectures about some of the major developments in telescopes in the modern era. Download this lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 1 hour and 11 minutes.
Professor Alexander Boksenberg: the William Herschel and the Hubble Telescopes
From a series of lectures about some of the major developments in telescopes in the modern era. Download this lecture here (right-click and press ‘save link as’) or listen online below. This lecture lasts for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
