Royal Institution Christmas Lectures#List of Christmas Lectures

| John Millington

| Experimental Philosophy

| John Wallis{{cite book|last=James|first=Frank A. J. L.|title=Christmas at the Royal Institution|publisher=World Scientific|year=2007|page=xvii}}

| Astronomy

| Michael Faraday

| Chemistry

| George John Wood{{Cite news |last=Fincher |first=John |date=15 December 1828 |title=Lectures for a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002408/18281215/002/0001 |access-date=2025-01-09 |work=Morning Herald (London) |pages=1}}

| The History, Architecture, Rites, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs &c. of the Ancient World

| Michael Faraday

| Electricity

| Thomas Webster

| Geology

| James Rennie

| Zoology

| Michael Faraday

| Chemistry

| John Lindley

| Botany

| William Thomas Brande

| Chemistry

| Michael Faraday

| Electricity

| William Thomas Brande

| Chemistry of the Gases

| Michael Faraday

| Chemistry

| John Wallis

| Astronomy

| William Thomas Brande

| The Chemistry of the Atmosphere and the Ocean

| John Frederic Daniell

| The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity

| Michael Faraday

| The Rudiments of Chemistry

| William Thomas Brande

| The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Elements

| Michael Faraday

| First Principles of Electricity

| William Thomas Brande

| The Chemistry of the Gases

| Michael Faraday

| The Rudiments of Chemistry

| John Wallis

| The Rudiments of Astronomy

| William Thomas Brande

| The Elements of Organic Chemistry

| Michael Faraday

| The Chemical History of a Candle

| Robert Walker

| The Properties of Matter and the Laws of Motion

| William Thomas Brande

| The Chemistry of Coal

| rowspan=10|Michael Faraday

| Attractive Forces

| Chemistry

| Voltaic Electricity

| The Chemistry of Combustion

| The Distinctive Properties of the Common Metals

| Attractive Forces

| Static Electricity

| The Metallic Properties

| The Various Forces of Matter and their Relations to Each Other

| The Chemical History of a Candle

| John Tyndall

| Light

| Edward Frankland

| Air and Water

| John Tyndall

| Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion

| Edward Frankland

| The Chemistry of a Coal

| John Tyndall

| Sound

| Edward Frankland

| The Chemistry of Gases

| John Tyndall

| Heat and Cold

| William Odling

| The Chemical Changes of Carbon

| John Tyndall

| Light

| William Odling

| Burning and Unburning

| John Tyndall

| Ice, Water, Vapour and Air

| William Odling

| Air and Gas

| John Tyndall

| The Motion and Sensation of Sound

| John Hall Gladstone

| The Voltaic Battery

| John Tyndall

| Experimental Electricity

| John Hall Gladstone

| The Chemistry of Fire

| John Tyndall

| Heat, Visible and Invisible

| James Dewar

| A Soap Bubble

| John Tyndall

| Water and Air

| James Dewar

| Atoms

| Robert Stawell Ball

| The Sun, the Moon and the Planets

| John Tyndall

| Light and the Eye

| James Dewar

| Alchemy in Relation to Modern Science

| John Tyndall

| The Sources of Electricity

| rowspan=2|James Dewar

| The Story of a Meteorite

| The Chemistry of Light and Photography

| Robert Stawell Ball

| Astronomy

| James Dewar

| Clouds and Cloudland

| Arthur Rücker

| Electricity

| James Dewar

| Frost and Fire

| John Gray McKendrick

| Life in Motion; or the Animal Machine

| Robert Stawell Ball

| Astronomy

| James Dewar

| Air: Gaseous and Liquid

| John Ambrose Fleming

| The Work of an Electric Current

| John Gray McKendrick

| Sound, Hearing and Speech

| Sylvanus Phillips Thompson

| Light, Visible and Invisible

| Oliver Lodge

| The Principles of the Electric Telegraph

| Robert Stawell Ball

| Astronomy

| Charles Vernon Boys

| Fluids in Motion and at Rest

| Robert Stawell Ball

| Great Chapters from the Book of Nature

| John Ambrose Fleming

| Waves and Ripples in Water, Air and Aether

| Henry Selby Hele-Shaw

| Locomotion : On the Earth, Through the Water, in the Air

| Edwin Ray Lankester

| Extinct Animals

| Henry Cunynghame

| Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time

| Herbert Hall Turner

| Astronomy

| William Duddell

| Signalling to a Distance

| David Gill

| Astronomy, Old and New

| William Stirling

| The Wheel of Life

| William Duddell

| Modern Electricity

| Silvanus Phillips Thompson

| Sound: Musical and Non-Musical

| Peter Chalmers Mitchell

| The Childhood of Animals

| James Dewar

| Christmas Lecture Epilogues

| Herbert Hall Turner

| A Voyage in Space

| Charles Vernon Boys

| Science in the Home

| Herbert Hall Turner

| Wireless Messages from the Stars

| Arthur Keith

| The Human Machine Which All Must Work

| John Ambrose Fleming

| Our Useful Servants : Magnetism and Electricity

| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

| The Fish of the Sea

| William Henry Bragg

| The World of Sound

| John Arthur Thomson

| The Haunts of Life

| John Ambrose Fleming

| Electric Waves and Wireless Telephony

| Herbert Hall Turner

| Six Steps Up the Ladder to the Stars

| William Henry Bragg

| Concerning the Nature of Things

| Francis Balfour-Browne

| Concerning the Habits of Insects

| William Henry Bragg

| Old Trades and New Knowledge

| Archibald Vivian Hill

| Nerves and Muscles: How We Feel and Move

| Edward Andrade

| Engines

| Alexander Wood

| Sound Waves and their Uses

| Stephen Glanville

| How Things Were Done in Ancient Egypt

| Arthur Mannering Tyndall

| The Electric Spark

| William Henry Bragg

| The Universe of Light

| Alexander Oliver Rankine

| The Round of the Waters

| James Hopwood Jeans

| Through Space and Time

| William Lawrence Bragg

| Electricity

| Charles Edward Kenneth Mees

| Photography

| Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

| Ships

| Julian Huxley

| Rare Animals and the Disappearance of Wild Life

| James Kendall

| Young Chemists and Great Discoveries

! colspan="2" | No lectures due to the Second World War

| Edward Andrade

| Vibrations and Waves

| Harold Spencer Jones

| Astronomy in our Daily Life

| Robert Watson-Watt

| Wireless

| Hamilton Hartridge

| Colours and How We See Them

| Eric Keightley Rideal

| Chemical Reactions: How They Work

| Frederic Bartlett

| The Mind at Work and Play

| Percy Dunsheath

| The Electric Current

| Edward Andrade

| Waves and Vibrations

| James Gray

| How Animals Move

| Frank Sherwood Taylor

| How Science Has Grown

| John Ashworth Ratcliffe

| The Uses of Radio Waves

| Frank Whittle

| The Story of Petroleum

| Harry W. Melville

| Big Molecules

| Harry Baines

| Photography

| Julian Huxley and James Fisher

| Birds

| John Ashworth Ratcliffe,
James M. Stagg,
Robert L. F. Boyd,
Graham Sutton,
George E. R. Deacon,
Gordon de Quetteville Robin

| International Geophysical Year

| Thomas Allibone

| The Release and Use of Atomic Energy

| Vernon Ellis Cosslett

| Seeing the Very Small

| William Lawrence Bragg

| Electricity

| R. E. D. (Richard Evelyn Donohue) Bishop

| Vibration

| Ronald King

| Energy

| Desmond Morris

| Animal Behaviour

| Bernard Lovell,
Francis Graham-Smith,
Martin Ryle,
Antony Hewish

| Exploration of the Universe

| Eric Laithwaite

| The Engineer in Wonderland{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1966-12-27#at-17.00|title=BBC Two England - 27 December 1966 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. The White Rabbit

2. Only the Grin was Left

3. The Caucus Race

4. Curiouser and Curiouser

5. If only I were the right size to do it

6. It's the Oldest Rule in the Book

| rowspan="34" | BBC Two

| Richard L. Gregory

| The Intelligent Eye{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1967-12-28#at-19.00|title=BBC Two England - 28 December 1967 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains

2. Learning to See Things

3. Playing with Illusions

4. How Illusions Play Games with Us

5. Human Eyes in Space

6. The Future-Machines that See?

| Philip Morrison

| Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1968-12-28#at-18.00|title=BBC Two England - 28 December 1968 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. The World of Captain Gulliver

2. Meat and Drink Sufficient...

3. A Prodigious Leap?

4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag since the Industrial Revolution

5. Dwarf and Giant Numbers

6. Beyond the Map

| George Porter

| Time Machines{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1970-01-04#at-17.15|title=BBC Two England - 4 January 1970 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. In the Beginning...

2. Clockwork Harmony

3. The Tick of the Atom

4. Big Time, Little Time

5. Faster, Faster

6. To the Ends of Time

| John Napier

| Monkeys Without Tails: A Giraffe's Eye-view of Man{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1971-01-03#at-17.15|title=BBC Two England - 3 January 1971 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. Man has a very short neck and no tail

2. Man comes in several different sizes and shapes

3. Fancy having to climb trees in order to eat

4. Man chooses a sensible place to live at last

5. Why choose to walk on two legs when it is much safer on four?

6. What's the idea of shooting at us?

| Charles Taylor

| Sounds of Music: The Science of Tones and Tune{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1972-01-02#at-17.15|title=BBC Two England - 2 January 1972 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. Making and Measuring the Waves

2. From Small Beginnings

3. Growing and Changing

4. Craftsmanship and Technology

5. On the Way to the Ear

6. The End of the Journey

| Geoffrey G. Gouriet

| Ripples in the Ether: The Science of Radio Communication{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1972-12-31#at-17.15|title=BBC Two England - 31 December 1972 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. How It All Began

2. Getting Rid of the Wires

3. The Sound of Broadcasting

4. Pictures With and Without Wires

5. But Electrons aren't Coloured!

6. Vision of the Future

| David Attenborough

| The Language of Animals

| 1. Beware!

2. Be Mine

3. Parents and Children

4. Simple Signs and Complicated Communications (lost from archives )

5. Foreign Languages

6. Animal Language, Human Language

| Eric Laithwaite

| The Engineer Through the Looking Glass

|1. Looking Glass House

2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee

3. Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow

4. The Jabberwock

5. The Time has come the Walrus said

6. It's my own Invention

| Heinz Wolff

| Signals from the Interior

|1. You as an engine

2. Pumps pipes and flows

3. Spikes and waves

4. Probes, sondes and sounds

5. Looking through your skin

6. Signals from the mind

| George Porter

| The Natural History of a Sunbeam{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1977-01-02#at-17.15|title=BBC Two England - 2 January 1977 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. First Light

2. Light and Life

3. A Leaf from Nature

4. Candles from the Sun

5. Making Light Work

6. Survival Under the Sun

| Carl Sagan

| The Planets

|1. The Earth as a Planet

2. The Outer Solar System and Life

3. The History of Mars

4. Mars before Viking

5. Mars after Viking

6. Planetary Systems Beyond Our Sun

| Erik Christopher Zeeman

| Mathematics into Pictures

|1. Linking and Knotting

2. Numbers and Geometry

3. Infinity and Perspective

4. Games and Evolution

5. Waves and Music

6. Catastrophe and Psychology

| Eric M. Rogers

| Atoms for Engineering Minds: A Circus of Experiments{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1979-12-31#at-17.40|title=BBC Two England - 31 December 1979 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. Getting to Know Atoms

2. Molecules in Motion

3. Electrified Atoms

4. Atoms that Explode

5. Atoms and Energy

6. Seeing Atoms at Last

| David Chilton Phillips
with Max Perutz in Lecture 5

| The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules

|1. What are chickens made of?

2. Machine tools of life

3. Muscle power

4. Eggs, genes and proteins

5. Haemoglobin: the breathing molecule

6. Molecules at work

| Reginald Victor Jones

| From Magna Carta to Microchip{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1981-12-28#at-19.05|title=BBC Two England - 28 December 1981 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-21}}

|1. Principles, Standards and Methods

2. The Measurement of Time

3. More and More About Less and Less

4. Onwards to the Stars

5. Measurement and Navigation in War

6. Some Impacts of Measurement on Life: And Can We Take it too Far?

| Colin Blakemore

| Common Sense{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1982-12-29#at-14.55|title=BBC Two England - 29 December 1982 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-21}}

|1. Making Sense

2. The Sound of Silence

3. The Sixth Sense - and the Rest

4. Show Me the Way to Go Home

5. Vive la différence

6. Enchanted Loom

| Leonard Maunder

| Machines in Motion{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1983-12-27#at-15.25|title=BBC Two England - 27 December 1983 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-21}}

|1. Driving Forces

2. Gathering Momentum

3. Vibration

4. Under Control

5. Fluids and Flight

6. Living Machines

| Walter Bodmer

| The Message of the Genes{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1985-01-01#at-17.10|title=BBC Two England - 1 January 1985 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-21}}

|1. We're All Different

2. The Spice of Life

3. Genetic Engineering

4. Bodies and Antibodies

5. Normal Cells and Cancer Cells

6. When Will Pigs Have Wings?

| John David Pye

| Communicating{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1986-01-06#at-17.00|title=BBC Two England - 6 January 1986 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-21}}

|1. No Man is an Island

2. Animal Talk

3. The Bionic Bat

4. The Pace of Technology

5. The Integrated Body

6. Computers

| Lewis Wolpert

| Frankenstein's Quest: Development of Life{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1987-01-05#at-16.30|title=BBC Two England - 5 January 1987 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-21}}

|1. First Take an Egg...

2. The Medium and the Message

3. The Right Stuff

4. Genes and Flies

5. Chain of Command

6. Growing Up and Growing Old

| John Meurig Thomas and David Phillips

| Crystals and Lasers

|1. The Micro-world

2. The architecture of crystals

3. Crystal Miracles

4. Constructing a LASER

5. The Light Fantastic

6. Crystals, lasers and the human body

| Gareth Roberts

| The Home of the Future{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1988-12-28|title=BBC Two England - 28 December 1988 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. Appliance Science

2. Home, Safe Home

3. Electronics for Pleasure

4. Home, Smart Home

5. Mixers, Meters and Molecules

| Charles Taylor

| Exploring Music{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1989-12-27|title=BBC Two England - 27 December 1989 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-20}}

|1. What Is Music?

2. The Essence of an Instrument

3. Science, Strings and Symphonies

4. Technology, Trumpets and Tunes

5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers

| Malcolm Longair

| Origins{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1990-12-27|title=BBC Two England - 27 December 1990 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2017-03-19}}

|1. The Grand Design

2. The Birth of the Stars

3. The Origin of Quasars

4. The Origin of the Galaxies

5. The Origin of the Universe

| Richard Dawkins

| Growing Up in the Universe

|1. Waking Up in the Universe

2. Designed and Designoid Objects

3. Climbing Mount Improbable

4. The Ultraviolet Garden

5. The Genesis of Purpose

| Charles J. M. Stirling

| Our World Through the Looking Glass

|1. Man in the Mirror

2. Narwhals, Palindromes and Chesterfield Station

3. The Handed Molecule

4. Symmetry, Sensation and Sex

5. In the Hands of Giants

| Frank Close

| The Cosmic Onion

|1. A is for Atoms

2. To the Centre of the Sun

3. Invaders from Outer Space

4. Anti-Matter Matters

5. An Hour to Make the Universe

| Susan Greenfield

| Journey to the Centre of the Brain{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/21966066eccf4cd88c58f4cc64b3999e|title=Issue 3701 - 15 December 1994 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=12 October 1994 |access-date=2017-03-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2a98163af23f4516a222adfef11e0d12|title=Issue 3702 - 29 December 1994 - BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=19 October 1994 |access-date=2017-03-19}}

|1. The Electric Ape

2. Through a Glass Darkly

3. Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

4. The Seven Ages of the Brain

5. The Mind's I

| James Jackson

| Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide

|1. On the Edge of the World

2. Secrets of the Deep

3. Volcanoes: Melting the Earth

4. The Puzzle of the Continents

5. Waterworld

| Simon Conway Morris

| The History in our Bones{{Cite web|url=http://www.ri.ac.uk/Christmas/1996/ |title=RIGB Christmas Lectures |date=2001-05-04 |access-date=2017-03-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010504220047/http://www.ri.ac.uk/Christmas/1996/ |archive-date= 4 May 2001 }}

|1. Staring into the Abyss

2. The Fossils Come Alive

3. The Great Dyings: Life after Death

4. Innovations And Novelty

5. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars: The History of Man

| Ian Stewart

| The Magical Maze

|1. Sunflowers and Snowflakes

2. The Pattern of Tiny Feet

3. Outrageous Fortune

4. Chaos and Cauliflowers

5. Fearful Symmetry

| Nancy Rothwell

| Staying Alive

|1. Sense and Sensitivity

2. Fats and figures

3. Chilling out

4. Times of our lives

5. Pushing the limits

| Neil F. Johnson

| Arrows of Time{{Cite web |date=1999-12-01 |title=Arrows of time – Back to the future (1999) {{!}} Royal Institution |url=https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/arrows-time-back-future-1999 |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=www.rigb.org |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/rilectures/ |title=BBC Online - Science - Royal Institution Christmas Lectures |date=2001-09-13 |access-date=2017-03-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010913002724/http://www.bbc.co.uk/rilectures/ |archive-date=13 September 2001 }}

|1. Back to the Future

2. Catching the Waves

3. The Quantum Leap

4. Edge of Chaos

5. Shaping the Future

| Kevin Warwick

| Rise of the Robots{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/robots/ri.html |title=Robots - Royal Institution |date=2002-02-06 |access-date=2017-03-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020206070624/http://www.channel4.com/robots/ri.html |archive-date= 6 February 2002 }}

|1. Anatomy of an Android

2. Things That Think

3. Remote Robots

4. Bionic Bodies

5. I, Robot

| rowspan="5"|Channel 4

| John Sulston

| The Secrets of Life{{Cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/dvdfind/index.php/title/av35012|title=Secrets of Life, The (Ri Christmas Lectures 2001) · British Universities Film & Video Council|website=bufvc.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-03-19}}

|1. What is life?

2. How do I grow?

3. What am I?

4. Can we fix it?

5. Future of life?

| Tony Ryan

| Smart Stuff{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/S/smartstuff/lectures.html |title=smart stuff* - lectures |date=2003-04-05 |access-date=2017-03-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030405082500/http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/S/smartstuff/lectures.html |archive-date= 5 April 2003 }}

|1. The Spider that Spun a Suspension Bridge

2. The Trainer That Ran Over The World

3. The Phone that Shrank the Planet

4. The Plaster that Stretches Life

5. The Ice Cream that Will Freeze Granny

| Monica Grady

| Voyage in Space and Time{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-royal-institution-christmas-lectures/episode-guide|title=The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - Episode Guide - All 4|website=www.channel4.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-19}}

|1. Blast Off

2. Mission to Mars

3. Planet Patrol

4. Collision Course

5. Anybody Out There?

| Lloyd Peck

| Antarctica

|1. Ice People

2. Ice Life

3. Ice World

| John Krebs

| The Truth About Food

|1. The ape that cooks

2. Yuck or yummy?

3. You are what you eat

4. When food goes wrong

5. Food for the future

| rowspan="4"|Channel Five

| Marcus du Sautoy

| The Num8er My5teries{{Cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001980 |title=The Royal Institution of Great Britain {{!}} The number mysteries - The 2006 RI Christmas Lectures Microsite |date=2010-05-07 |access-date=2017-03-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507080223/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001980 |archive-date= 7 May 2010 }}

|1. The curious incident of the never-ending numbers

2. The quest to predict the future

3. The story of the elusive shapes

4. The case of the uncrackable code

5. The secret of the winning streak

| Hugh Montgomery

| Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival

|1. Peak Performance

2. Completely Stuffed

3. Grilled and Chilled

4. Fight, Flight and Fright

5. Luck, Genes and Stupidity

| Christopher Bishop

|Hi-tech Trek

|1. Breaking the Speed Limit

2. Chips with Everything

3. The Ghost in the Machine

4. Untangling the Web

5. Digital Intelligence

| Sue Hartley

|The 300-Million-Year War

|1. Plant Wars

2. The Animals Strike Back

3. Talking Trees

4. Dangerous to Delicious

5. Weapons of the Future

| More4

| Mark Miodownik

|Size Matters

|1. Why Elephants Can't Dance but Hamsters Can Skydive

2. Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Planes Don't

3. Why Mountains Are So Small

| rowspan="15" |BBC Four

| Bruce Hood

| Meet Your Brain{{Cite journal

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|1. What's in your head?

2. Who's in charge here anyway?

3. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

| Peter Wothers

| The Modern Alchemist

|1. Air: the elixir of life

2. Water: the fountain of youth

3. Earth: the philosopher's stone

| Alison Woollard

| Life Fantastic

|1. Where do I come from?

2. Am I a Mutant?

3. Could I live forever?

| Danielle George

| Sparks will fly: How to Hack your Home

|1. The light bulb moment

2. Making contact

3. A new revolution

| Kevin Fong

| How to survive in space

|1. Lift off!

2. Life in Orbit

3. The next frontier

| Saiful Islam

| Supercharged: Fuelling the future

|1. Let there be light!

2. People Power

3. Fully charged

| Sophie Scott

| The Language of Life

|1. Say it with Sound

2. Silent Messages

3. The Word

| Alice Roberts

Aoife McLysaght

| Who am I?{{Cite web|url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2018-who-am-i|title=Christmas Lectures 2018: Who am I?|website=Royal Institution|language=en|access-date=2019-12-27|archive-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023210336/https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2018-who-am-i|url-status=dead}}

|1. Where Do I Come From?

2. What Makes Me Human?

3. What Makes Me, Me?

| Hannah Fry

| Secrets and Lies: The Hidden Power of Maths{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000crby|title=BBC Four – Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, 2019|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-12-27}}

|1. How to Get Lucky

2. How to Bend the Rules

3. How Can We All Win?

|Christopher Jackson

Helen Czerski

Tara Shine

|Planet Earth: A user's guide{{Cite web|title=CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2020: Planet Earth: A user's guide|url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2020-planet-earth-a-users-guide|access-date=2020-08-30|website=rigb.org|language=en|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423083900/https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2020-planet-earth-a-users-guide|url-status=dead}}

|1. Earth Engine

2. Water World

3. Up in the Air

|Jonathan Van-Tam

|Going viral: How Covid changed science forever{{Cite web|title=CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2021|url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2021-going-viral-how-covid-changed-science-forever|website=rigb.org|language=en}}

|1. The Invisible Enemy

2. The Perfect Storm

3. Fighting Back

|Sue Black

|Secrets of Forensic Science{{Cite web|title=2022 Christmas Lectures|url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/secrets-forensic-science|website=rigb.org|language=en|access-date=16 December 2022}}

|1. Dead Body

2. Missing Body

3. Living Body

|Michael Wooldridge

|The Truth about AI{{Cite web |title=The Truth about AI |website=www.rigb.org |access-date=2023-09-13 |url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/truth-about-ai}}

• https://www.cgi.com/uk/en-gb/partnering-the-royal-institution-christmas-lectures
• CGI Inc.
• https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/cgi-are-title-partner-christmas-lectures

|1. How to Build an Intelligent Machine

2. My AI Life

3. The Future of AI: Dream or Nightmare?

|Chris van Tulleken{{Cite web|title=Christmas Lectures|url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures|website=rigb.org|language=en|access-date=30 October 2024}}

|The Truth About Food

|1. From Tastebuds to Toilet

2. How Food Makes Us

3. The Big Food Hack