Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

  • Premiered: Dec 1968
  • Episodes: 199
  • Followers: 4
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Daily at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 1994
1994x1
The Electric Ape
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 28, 1994
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.
1994x2
Through a Glass Darkly
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 29, 1994
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.
1994x3
Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 30, 1994
Dr Susan Greenfield looks at how the brain handles all the signals streaming in from the body's sensors.
1994x4
The Seven Ages of the Brain
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 31, 1994
Dr Susan Greenfield shows how the brain is shaped and changed, from before birth to old age.
1994x5 Season finale
The Mind's I
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 01, 1995
In the last of the series, Dr Susan Greenfield investigates how children master language.

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