Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

  • Premiered: Dec 1966
  • Episodes: 289
  • Followers: 5
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Daily at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 2025
2025x1
Destination Moon
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 28, 2025
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock begins her search for extraterrestrial life with an exploration of our nearest neighbour, and her favourite space rock, the moon.
2025x2
Searching the Solar System
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 29, 2025
Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock continues her search for alien life with a grand tour of our solar system. Could any other planets or moons out there be habitable?
2025x3 Season finale
To the Stars and Beyond
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 30, 2025
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

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