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:

  Are public workshops more important than public libraries? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

In the annual Angus Millar Lecture at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, material scientist Mark Miodownik argues that where libraries solved a need of 19th century, the requirements of the 21st century have pushed ‘makespaces’ and ‘hackspaces’ above them in necessity.

  The Curve: the future of business | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Author and consultant Nicholas Lovell offers a new approach to engaging with followers, fans and customers, and a new way of understanding pricing and value in the 21st century internet economy.

  The Era of Behaviour | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

LRN CEO and author of 'How', Dov Seidman visits the RSA to outline the implications for living and working in what he calls the ‘Era of Behaviour’, where the source of competitive advantage has dramatically shifted from what we do, to how we do it.

  The Metropolitan Revolution | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Bruce Katz, vice president of the Brookings Institution, describes how innovation in cities and metropolitan areas is driving social, economic and political change on a national scale.

  Defra and Civil Society | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson MP visits the RSA to make an important speech on the role of civil society in achieving the Government's objectives for Defra. He is joined by Dame Helen Ghosh, Director General, National Trust and Steve Wyler OBE, Chief Executive, Locality

  Do Rich People Just Care Less? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Daniel Goleman is an influential sociologist and author of the landmark work Emotional Intelligence

  City Growth Commission | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Speakers included Commission Chairman Jim O'Neill, Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive, Centre for Cities; Councillor Jon Collins, Nottingham City Council & Ben Lucas, Chair of Public Services, RSA

  No Power Without Accountability | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Acclaimed songwriter, activist and campaigner Billy Bragg will discuss the nature of democracy, citizenship, power and responsibility in this exclusive RSA event.

  Does the British Establishment still exist? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

One of the UK’s leading contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy visits the RSA to investigate whether or not there is still such a thing as a British Establishment. If there is, what effect does it have on society today?

  Tackling Homelessness – The Road to Emmaus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Selwyn Image CBE JP describes his leadership of homeless charity Emmaus UK as part of a major international movement carving a meaningful path towards changed lives and renewed purpose.

  What Should We Tell Our Daughters? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Writer Melissa Benn and Labour MP Stella Creasy visit the RSA to discuss what needs to be done to ensure that young women have the greatest possible chance of realising their potential and finding balanced, contented lives.

  Beyond Belief: Taking Spirituality Seriously | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Many have argued that the world’s problems may be ultimately ‘spiritual’ in nature, and much of the population, atheists and believers alike, claim to have a spiritual dimension to their lives. But what do we really mean by the spiritual? The RSA launches a major new series rethinking the cultural and social value of spirituality, with speakers to include Madeleine Bunting, Robert Rowland Smith, Elizabeth Oldfield and Jonathan Rowson.

  Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Leading development economist Angus Deaton explores the patterns behind the health and wealth of nations in our hugely unequal world, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind.

  RSA Commencement - Cheryl Strayed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed delivers the first in an exciting new series of events - RSA Commencement. Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Dear Sugar’ columns have touched millions of readers around the world with their candour and wise counsel, and her RSA address is guaranteed to move and inspire.

  Mass Flourishing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 60:00

Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps looks at how grassroots innovation creates jobs, challenge and change.

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