RSA Events: Audio

Professor David Grayson CBE, director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, visits the RSA to demonstrate how a new wave of corporate responsibility coalitions are collectively self-regulating, promoting good behaviour and responding to societal challenges.

Technologist Ben Hammersley asks: how do our traditional workplace models conflict with our new internet-driven expectations of how we might live and work to our full potential, and how might companies and organisations learn to adapt in the 21st century?

Architect and urban designer David West and Grainia Long, chief executive, Chartered Institute of Housing join a panel to discuss how we can build the homes and local environments that Britain needs.

Listen as pioneering palaeontologist Neil Shubin reveals the deep connections between the cosmos and the human body – from today right back to the Big Bang.

In the annual Runnymede Race Debate our speakers, including Sunder Katwala, Catherine Fieschi, Nigel Warburton, Kirsty Hughes and Rob Berkeley, debate the limits of free speech.

Michael Boyd, former artistic director of the RSC and Chris Meade, co-director of If:book join a conversation to explore the central principles which should drive English teaching in the 21st century.

Maria Konnikova reveals how Sherlock Holmes can teach us to optimise not only our own everyday existence, but our broader contributions to society and the lives of those around us.

Award-winning professor of social psychology at Oxford University, Miles Hewstone visits the RSA to show how ‘intergroup contact’ can play a fundamental role in creating peace and cohesion within our increasingly diverse societies.

Former Head of Ofsted Christine Gilbert presents the key recommendations of the RSA / Pearson Think Tank Academies Commission and considers, with an expert panel, how can we ensure the academies programme realises its transformative potential?

Leading environmentalist and sustainability adviser Tony Juniper argues that we must put a price on nature if we are to save it.

Radical philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a blueprint for how to live - and thrive - in a world we don't understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to predict.

Legendary producer and QI mastermind John Lloyd visits the RSA to share the culmination of a life’s reading – that it’s what we don’t know that really matters.

Acclaimed popular psychologist Richard Wiseman joins celebrated RSA Animate illustrator Andrew Park to unveil new evidence that shows that RSA Animate videos not only entertain, but educate in a surprisingly effective way. RSA correction. The audio editing of the RSA Animate under discussion featuring Roman Krznaric's work was edited by Becca Pyne.

Entrepreneur and CEO of Teach First Brett Wigdortz, education expert Lord Adonis and Dr Jane Keeley will discuss their shared vision for transformational change - to tackle injustice in the British education system by introducing a programme of reform in schools and raising the status of the teaching profession on a national scale.

Acclaimed author and one of the world’s most extraordinary minds, Daniel Tammet visits the RSA to give us a unique perspective on how mathematics can help us to make sense of the world and our place in it