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A landmark charity for London's independent intellectual, political and cultural life. Over 200 years of apostasy, radicalism and rebellion, all under one roof.
Nathalie Olah discusses how this bright generation came to be, and what effective means are still at their disposal to challenge the establi...
Why flawed logic puts us all at Risk, and How Critical Thinking can save the World. David Robert Grimes shows how we can be lured into makin...
One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web o...
The New Science of how we Walk and why it’s Good for us. Walking enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Austral...
Mudlark (/’mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of th...
What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male suicide rates to incel...
Will Brexit boost jobs? Or wreck the NHS? Or cause food shortages? From strawberries to passports, the broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esle...
Pixie Turner will unpack why diet and nutrition misinformation is so problematic, on social media, in mass media, and on a public health lev...
What if you aren’t who you think you are? What if you don’t really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs...
Jonathan H. Marks argues that public-private partnerships create “webs of influence” that undermine the integrity of public health agencies...
Kerry Hudson discusses her book Lowborn with James Bloodworth. Lowborn is a powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on pover...
What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person’s mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the...
How we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back. For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how they got their hands on...
The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. This is not feminist science – it’s just science. - Prof Gina Rippon.
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Traditional songs are full of folklore about ghosts. They tell you why people become ghosts, what ghosts look like, what the living must do...
Camille Ralphs will recite the entirety of acclaimed poetry pamphlet Malkin, ‘an ellegy in 14 spels’ in the voices of those accused in the 1...
The four confessions given by Isobel Gowdie to a Scottish court, in May 1662, are seminal witchcraft texts; bringing folk belief in the faer...
Whether one believes in ghosts or not, it is an easy assumption that sightings of ghosts must have been common on the First World War battle...
The dead don’t always stay peacefully in their graves. British folklore and chronicle relates from very early times instances of vampire-lik...
The idea that the dead can return to haunt the living is deeply rooted in the British imagination, and ghosts are central to countless plays...
Emily Cleaver recounts a recent ‘scouring’ of the Uffington White Horse, the traditional cleaning event that has kept the chalk figure from...
A discussion as to an alternative vision for education systems, institutions and people in the United Kingdom. Speakers: David Scott, Univer...
Michael Rosen has a new memoir, So They Call You Pisher! In this conversation with Daniel Hahn, Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years o...
Will Ashon, author of Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London’s Great Forest, discusses his journey out...
Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track becam...
In this talk, Professor Joseph Uscinski will show that conspiracy theories follow a strategic logic: they are tools used by the powerless to...
London Fortean Society, in partnership with Conway Hall, present a night marking the centenary of the Cottingley Fairies case. Michael Terwe...
John Grindrod tells of the vision behind green-belts, their creation, and discusses the fiery emotions they stir up and tells a story of gro...
WARNING: Contains some strong language. Will Storr comes to Conway Hall to take us on a journey of self-obsession; from the shores of Ancien...
Paul Robeson was a modern renaissance man: lawyer, linguist, actor, professional athlete, civil rights activist and one of the greatest sing...
Jacqueline Wilson talks about her new book, Wave Me Goodbye, which is set at the beginning of WWII. Jacqueline will also talk about her life...
A. C. Grayling explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances.
Radicals is an exploration of the individuals, groups and movements rejecting the way we live now, and are attempting to find alternatives....
The Conway Memorial Lecture 2016. Lawrence Krauss. Chaired by A. C. Grayling. Recorded on 16th December 2016.
Francis Sealey chairs a panel of Matt Scott, Charlie Blowers, Professor Evan Parker discussing the importance of how we can all be involved...