RSA Events: Audio

Leading international development consultant and researcher Ben Ramalingam and NESTA chief executive Geoff Mulgan discuss how insights from the cutting edge of science can help make foreign aid more appropriate, innovative, and catalytic.

Adam Phillips, one of Britain’s most renowned psychoanalysts and literary figures, joins RSA Chief Executive Matthew Taylor for a conversation about life, the universe, and everything (and maybe a little Freud as well).

Environmental journalist and author Duncan Clark argues that tackling global warming means persuading the world to leave fossil fuels in the ground. But does the political and economic will exist to make this a reality?

Malcolm Garrett RDI, graphic designer and incoming Master of the RSA’s Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry will give the 2013 address, highlighting the value of design in education and industry.

In the next in our new series of talks and debates opening up a new public conversation about spirituality in the 21st century, Professor Guy Claxton explores spirituality’s embodied nature.

Douglas Alexander MP is UK Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Dan Hancox is a journalist.

London Borough of Lewisham chief executive Barry Quirk will discuss how he has used design as a tool in making public services better, quicker and cheaper.

Professor David Runciman warns that the belief that democracies can muddle through anything is a “confidence trap” that may lead ultimately to a crisis that proves just too big to escape.

Influential political theorist and philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger asks: where have both the free market right and the social democratic left gone wrong? What are the fundamental economic, political and social institutions we need? And how do we go about making them?

Michael Rosen has been at the heart of debates about childhood, creativity and education for three decades. In this inspirational RSA address, the poet, performer and former Children’s Laureate shows how true wisdom is won from a life-long process of learning through investigation, imagination, and discovery.

In his 2013 Chief Executive’s Lecture, Matthew Taylor will focus on good employment, and how to move this from an idea with general support but very mixed take-up into something which is available to all employees and supported by wider society.

Sociologist Stein Ringen explores the art of governance, and the importance of the personal qualities of our leaders - and argues that success or failure depends not on how much power you have, but how well you use it.

Join Sir Peter Bazalgette, Alan Davey, John Knell, Vikki Heywood and partners as they explore ideas for a Grand Partnership for arts and culture in England.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Field Studies Council, we gather a distinguished panel of public thinkers to project 70 years into the future, predicting the emerging drivers which will most affect people’s physical connections with the outdoor environment. Children’s Commissioner Dr Maggie Atkinson and environmental commentator Jonathan Porritt CBE join a distinguished panel.