Microsoft to headline Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures

To be broadcast on Channel Five

19 December 2008 15:55 GMT / By Ben Crompton

The Christmas Lectures have come a long way since Michael Faraday first started performing live experiments to young audiences at the Royal Institution in the 19th century.

This year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are presented by Chris Bishop, chief research scientist at Microsoft Research, who will be treating us to live experiments later to be broadcast on Channel Five.

The events promise to be a "hi-tech trek to explore the science behind the digital revolution in search of the ultimate computer".

The lectures will be shown as follows:

Monday 29 December at 7.15pm - Breaking the speed limit
Tuesday 30 December at 7.15pm - Chips with everything
Wednesday 31 December at 7.15pm - The ghost in the machine
Thursday 1 January at 7.15pm - Untangling the web
Friday 2 January at 7.15pm - Digital intelligence

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Comments

  • The schedule looks like a Scottish History Lesson Posted by Fergus Pirie, Scotland
  • I've been looking forward to these. Watch them each year although last years were not quite as good as previous ones. Posted by D Searle, England
  • Why are they on so late.....are they not for children, what was wrong with the lunchtime broardcast when you could site down and munch and listen Posted by Mr Bland, england
  • This was part of out Christmas starting on boxing day on the beeb, now it seems to be slowly getting pushed out of our TV.

    Please don't let this happen
    Posted by Sheila Kilvington, England
  • Sirs, I have been unable to receive the RI Christmas Lectures at all since they were dropped by the BBC and Channel 4 ; I live in an area ( a particular part of rural Northern Ireland ) that that has never been able to receive any Channel 5 broadcasts. I have been effectively disenfrancised ( or at least cut off from these worthwile programmes ) for some years. I've not been happy for some time about this and I'm not happy now - it does seem that the RICL is/are being by stages pushed out to the margins or worse, eventually dropped. Posted by Vic White, Down
  • someone stick them on youtube for Vic's sake. What a shambles. Posted by sam, london

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