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:

  Child poverty: why social franchising is a giant step in the right direction | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

June O'Sullivan, CEO of the London Early Years Foundation, looks at how social franchising could offer a new way forward in tackling the challenges of child poverty.

  The Brain is Wider than the Sky | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Bryan Appleyard and Rod Liddle discuss how fast-moving technological forces are shaping our future and consider the shift from simple solutions to the “new complexity”.

  The Darwin Economy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Professor Robert Frank argues that in the next century Charles Darwin will unseat Adam Smith as the intellectual founder of economics.

  The Third Industrial Revolution | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 75:00

Acclaimed ‘social and ethical prophet’ Jeremy Rifkin explores how internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful ‘Third Industrial Revolution’.

  Architecture, Art and Wellbeing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 75:00

Our expert panel chaired by Charles Jencks will explore design in healing environments and the wide reaching effects of creativity and culture in enhancing wellbeing and shaping healthcare policy.

  I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping social behaviour | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Author Mark Earls explores how ideas, behaviour and culture spread through the simple means of doing what others do.

  Is there a better kind of efficiency? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

As public services come under ever greater spending pressures, John Seddon, Halima Khan and David Boyle explore new ways of approaching efficiency.

  Designing Connections: Medicine, life and art | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Dr Ken Arnold he talks about contemporary interactions between the arts and sciences and how humanity's core concern with health, medicine and wellbeing can be explored within a cultural context.

  Professional Policing and Liberal Democracy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Professor Lawrence Sherman presents the case for a new civil society that can unify the police profession across all ranks, such as a College of Policing.

  The Better Angels of our Nature | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Steven Pinker, one of the world's most exciting public thinkers, presents a radical re-assessment of human progress.

  E-Migration: Migrants in the digital age | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

With the old assumptions about immigration dissolving fast David Blunkett, Robert Winder, Sarfraz Manzoor and Dr Titi Banjoko debate how modern mobility is changing our attitudes to integration, identity and belonging.

  The Politics of Climate Change | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Anthony Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.

  British Pakistanis and Pakistan: 21st century citizenship and diasporas | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Acclaimed journalist and author Anatol Lieven joins a distinguished panel to discuss the relationship between Britain, Pakistan, and the British Pakistani diaspora.

  What is Madness? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues that we need a new account of what madness is, and new ways of treating it.

  The Power of the Sacred | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Sociologists Jeffrey Alexander and Gordon Lynch explore the idea that modern society, from politics to the media, remains deeply influenced by a sense of “the sacred”.

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