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  • 1994-12-28T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
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  • English
  • Documentary
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been held in London annually since 1825. They serve as a forum for presenting complex scientific issues to a general audience in an informative and entertaining manner. In the mid 1820s Michael Faraday, a former Director of the Royal Institution, initiated the first Christmas Lecture series at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. He presented a total of 19 series, establishing an exciting new venture of teaching science to young people that was eventually copied by other institutions internationally.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

1994-12-28T20:00:00Z

1994x01 The Electric Ape

Season Premiere

1994x01 The Electric Ape

  • 1994-12-28T20:00:00Z1h

Dr Susan Greenfield is the first woman to present the lectures since they were introduced by Faraday in 1826. She asks how what we do, think, feel and experience is related to electrical signals travelling to and from the brain.

1994-12-29T20:00:00Z

1994x02 Through a Glass Darkly

1994x02 Through a Glass Darkly

  • 1994-12-29T20:00:00Z1h

Dr Susan Greenfield looks at how people have studied the brain, from the Victorian craze of interpreting the bumps on the skull to the latest images of the brain at work.

Dr Susan Greenfield looks at how the brain handles all the signals streaming in from the body's sensors.

Dr Susan Greenfield shows how the brain is shaped and changed, from before birth to old age.

1995-01-01T20:00:00Z

1994x05 The Mind's I

1994x05 The Mind's I

  • 1995-01-01T20:00:00Z1h

In the last of the series, Dr Susan Greenfield investigates how children master language.

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