RSA Events: Audio show

RSA Events: Audio

Summary: Enjoy audio and video from RSA's free public events programme, which addresses relevant issues from the fields of science and technology, design and the arts, economics, politics and international affairs. Our speakers include internationally renowned writers, academics, business leaders, social innovators, politicians and policymakers exploring the biggest challenges facing society today.

Podcasts:

  RSA Screens: Unreported World | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Join us for this preview screening of Channel 4’s Unreported World: Syria’s Invisible Refugees, followed by a discussion with reporter Giles Duley and Aleema Shivji, director of Handicap International UK.

  RSA Chairman’s Lecture: Creative Influences | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

In the 2014 RSA Chairman’s Lecture, Sir Martin Davidson, CEO of the British Council, asks whether creativity offers the UK a way ahead in an increasingly dangerous international environment.

  Mind Change | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Leading neuroscientist Susan Greenfield considers the vast range of technologies that are creating a new environment around us, and asks: how can we ensure these powerful forces bring out the best in us, and allow us to lead more meaningful, more creative lives?

  Inequality and the 1% | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Leading social geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the latest research into how the lives and ideas of the 1 percent impact the remaining 99%.

  Political Order and Political Decay | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Influential political scientist Francis Fukuyama tells the story of mankind’s emergence as a political animal, the development of state, law and democracy, and explores the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies – arguing that in the US, and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged.

  Inside Alcatel Lucent with Douglas Coupland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Era-defining author Douglas Coupland takes an inside look at the global telecoms company that powers our connected lives, and offers a unique reflection on the Internet, its future and our possible future within it.

  Knocking the Corners off the Square Mile | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Professor of places and city planning Peter Wynne Rees describes the vision and strategy which transformed the City of London and considers how we reconcile the demands of the property industry with a range of issues in the public interest.

  Small Changes to Make a Big Difference | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

In the field of influence and persuasion, Robert Cialdini is the world’s most cited living social psychologist, and the author of the seminal work 'Influence'. He returns to the RSA to reveal the small changes that make the biggest impact when persuading others.

  Design and Democracy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

This special event celebrates the launch of the 2014/15 RSA Student Design Award briefs – with designer Alastair Parvin speaking on the future of open design, community development and WikiHouse.

  How We Are: Negotiating Change in Daily Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Health psychologist Vincent Deary shows how much of our lives are lived automatically, according to beaten paths. How can we avoid becoming ‘habit machines’, and overcome our resistance to change, making our acts truly ours?

  A Brief History of Humankind | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Historian Yuval Noah Harari was awarded the Polonsky Prize for Creativity in the Humanistic Disciplines. His magnum opus Sapiens challenges everything we know about being human – our thoughts, our actions, our power, and our future.

  What Kind of Love Do We Need? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

In the penultimate event in our spirituality series, Jonathan Rowson, Devorah Baum and Mark Vernon join us to examine an experience and ideal that many believe has to be at the heart of any reappraisal of the spiritual: love.

  Who Should Have the Power to Create the School Curriculum? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Tristram Hunt MP visits the RSA to explore the future of the curriculum in the context of emerging technological and pedagogical innovations. Tristram Hunt speaks about teaching quality and where UK schools can do more to tailor the curriculum using freedoms accrued by changes in policy.

  The Frugal Innovator | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Leading authority on creativity and innovation Charles Leadbeater shows what we can learn from entrepreneurs in developing countries, who are responding to constraints of capital and resources by devising low-cost solutions to pressing social challenges which are lean, simple, clean and social.

  The Great Disruption: Unleashing the Power to Create | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Directors of the RSA’s Action and Research Centre Adam Lent, Rowan Conway, Sophie Thomas and Anthony Painter explore what the Power to Create means for public services, communities and businesses.

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