Science and Society Lecture 19th November 2019

Please note. The first two minutes of the lecture are audio only ! Pre-sessional Lecture 2015.

Diploma Lecture 2012 - 2013

Pre-Sessional Lecture 01.05.2018

Diploma Lecture 2014

A journey through some of the finest moments of acoustic guitar performances from the BBC archives, from Jimmy Page\'s television debut in 1958 to Oasis and Biffy Clyro.

Syria\\\\\\\'s war - well into its fourth year and with no end in sight - is having a devastating impact on the lives of the country\\\\\\\'s children. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded. Many are learning to hate. Many more are deeply traumatised. With unique access across the conflict\\\\\\\'s frontlines, Lyse Doucet follows the lives of six children over six months.

Katya continues her journey through Spain, training with a team of firefighters, and heads to France, witnessing a rocket launch in French Guiana and learning about France's welfare state in Paris.

By the mid 1990s, the Premier League is growing in stature and a new generation of players are learning to navigate their newfound celebrity status.

Stephen Fry explores language, coming to understand how we learn it, write it and sometimes lose it, and why it defines us.

A five-part series in which Stephen Fry explores language, coming to understand how we learn it, write it and sometimes lose it, and why it defines us.

What is it that defines us? Stephen argues that above all, it is the way we speak. Be it a national language, a regional dialect or even class variation - we interpret and define ourselves through our language.

This programme looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of \'bad\' language, Stephen learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication the world over.

Whether it’s English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet few children who are taught a language in school have anything to show for it when they grow up. Why is learning a second or third language so difficult?

Jimmy Doherty and the team find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of a T Rex, and what scientists are learning from a human skull over a hundred thousand years old.

Series exploring how the human body charts our evolution. How living until old age and learning from one another has shaped human brains, and why our species has survived.

BBC Learning Zone explores the vibrant culture of the French speaking world meeting a whole host of artist bound by one common language.