What channel are the CHRISTMAS LECTURES on this year?
The 2021 CHRISTMAS LECTURES The 2021 Lectures with Jonathan Van-Tam will be recorded at the Ri, and broadcast on BBC Four and iPlayer between Christmas and New Year.
How can I watch CHRISTMAS LECTURES in 2020?
The 2020 CHRISTMAS LECTURES will be broadcast on BBC4 on 28, 29 and 30 December at 8.00pm.
Where are the CHRISTMAS LECTURES held?
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825, missing 1939–1942 because of the Second World War.
What channel is the Royal Institution on?
BBC Four – Royal Institution Christmas Lectures – Next on.
Are the Reith Lectures televised?
The Reith Lectures is a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.
How long are the Christmas lectures?
The lecture is scheduled to last for approximately one hour, but due to filming retakes it could last up to two hours. To avoid disruption no one will be permitted to enter or leave the theatre for the entire duration of filming, so please make sure you organise your travel arrangements with this in mind.
How long are the CHRISTMAS LECTURES?
Who was Reith as in the Reith Lectures?
Reith
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation’s first Director-General.
What is the meaning of Reith?
German: habitational name from any of several places named with riute ‘forest clearing’.
Which scientist initiated the first Royal Institution Christmas lecture in 1825?
Started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and now broadcast on national television every year, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES are the UK’s flagship science series.
Who introduces the Reith Lectures?
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation’s first Director-General.
What nationality is Reith?
British
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith/Nationality
When is the RI Christmas Lecture in 2020?
The 2020 Lectures with Helen Czerski, Tara Shine and Chris Jackson will be recorded on 15, 17 and 19 December at the Ri and broadcast on BBC Four between Christmas and New Year.
When was the first Christmas lecture on TV?
The CHRISTMAS LECTURES were first broadcast on television by the BBC in 1936 which makes them the world’s oldest science TV series. They have been broadcast on television every year since 1966 on the BBC and in later years on Channel Five, Channel Four and more4.
Who are the speakers in the Christmas Lectures?
Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght bring our evolutionary story to life in the 2018 CHRISTMAS LECTURES. Sophie Scott takes us on a journey through one of the fundamentals of human and animal life – the unstoppable urge to communicate, in the 2017 CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
When did Chris Bishop give his Christmas lecture?
Watch Chris Bishop in our 2008 CHRISTMAS LECTURES. In his series of CHRISTMAS LECTURES from 2007, geneticist Hugh Montgomery leads an exploration of human endurance, and the very thin line between life and death. Marcus Du Sautoy’s 2006 CHRISTMAS LECTURES take us on a grand tour of the fascinating world of mathematics.