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1. AKBAR AHMED - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2004 SMS
2. HAROON AHMED - electrical engineer - interview 2009 SMS
3. DAVID ELLISTON ALLEN - historian (naturalist, administrator) - interview 1983 SMS
4. MICHAEL ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2005 SMS
5. NICHOLAS ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2001 SMS
6. GEORGE APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 SMS
7. LAURA APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 SMS
8. RAYMOND APTHORPE - anthropologist (Uganda) - interview 1989 SMS
9. PETER AVERY - orientalist (Persian) - interview 2008 SMS
10. JEAN BACON - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
11. ASEN BALIKCI - anthropologist (ethnographic film maker) - interview 2003 SMS
12. MICHAEL BANTON - sociologist (anthropologist, West Africa) - interview 2001 SMS
13. HORACE BARLOW - neuroscientist - interview 2012 SMS
14. JOHN BARNES - sociologist (anthropologist, East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
15. FREDRICK BARTH - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2005 SMS
16. MICHAEL BATE - neuroscientist - interview 2008 SMS
17. PATRICK BATESON - ethologist (biologist) - interview 2007 SMS
18. JOHN BEATTIE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
19. GILLIAN BEER - literary critic - interview 2009 SMS
20. JONATHAN BENTHALL - anthropologist (Islam) - interview 2005 SMS
21. ANDRE BETEILLE - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1986, lecture 2008 SMS
22. TOM BINGHAM - lawyer - interview 2009, lecture 2009 SMS
23. SIMON BLACKBURN - philosopher - interview 2009 SMS
24. MAURICE BLOCH - anthropologist - interview 2008, lecture 2008 SMS
25. JEREMY BOISSEVAIN - anthropologist (Malta) - interview 1983 SMS
26. URSULA GRAHAM BOWER - explorer (anthropologist, photographer, Nagaland) - interview 1985 SMS
27. SYDNEY BRENNER - microbiologist - interview 2007 SMS
28. DAVID BROKENSHA - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
29. DAN BROWN - chemist (molecular biologist) - interview 2008 SMS
30. PETER BURKE - historian - interview 2004 SMS
31. JAMES CAMPBELL - historian - interview 2009 SMS
32. LIONEL CAPLAN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2004 SMS
33. PAT CAPLAN - anthropologist (East Africa, Nepal) - interview 2004 SMS
34. LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA - demographer - interview 2006 SMS
35. OWEN CHADWICK - historian (theologian) - interview 2008 SMS
36. CHARLES CHADWYCK-HEALEY - publisher (photographer) - interview 2009 SMS
37. STEPHEN CLEOBURY - musician - interview 2008 SMS
38. JOHN COATES - mathematician - interview 2008 SMS
39. ELIZABETH COLSON - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 SMS
40. JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF - anthropologists (South Africa) - interview 2008 SMS
41. JOHN CROSS - soldier (Nepal) - interview 1991 SMS
42. DON CUPITT - theologian - interview 2009 SMS
43. PARTHA DASGUPTA - economist - interview 2010 SMS
44. PHILIPPE DESCOLA - anthropologist (Amazonia) - lecture 2004 SMS
45. HAL DIXON - biochemist - interview 2007 SMS
46. RONALD DORE - sociologist (Japan) - interview 2003 SMS
47. MARY DOUGLAS - anthropologist (Central Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
48. JOHN DUNN - historian (political theorist) - interview 2008 SMS
49. KEN EDWARDS - geneticist (university administrator) - interview 2009 SMS
50. MARK ELVIN - historian (late imperial Chinese) - interview 2012 SMS
51. SCARLETT EPSTEIN - anthropologist (economist New Guinea, India) - interview 2004 SMS
52. STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG - anthropologist (sociologist, Taiwan, China) - interview 2009 SMS
53. RUTH FINNEGAN - anthropologist (Sierra Leone, UK) - interview 2008 SMS
54. RAYMOND FIRTH - anthropologist (New Zealand, Melanesia, Malaya) - interview 1983 SMS
55. ROSEMARY FIRTH - anthropologist (Malaya) - interview 1983 SMS
56. ROBERT FOLEY - biological anthropologist (North Africa) - interview 2010 SMS
57. MEYER FORTES - anthropologist (West Africa) - lecture 1982 SMS
58. RONALD FRANKENBERG - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1983 SMS
59. RICHARD FRIEND - physicist - interview 2008 SMS
60. CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF - anthropologist (Nagaland, India, Nepal) - interview 1983 SMS
61. JEAN CLAUDE GALEY - anthropologist (India) - lecture 1989 SMS
62. PETER GATHERCOLE - anthropologist (museologist, archaeologist, Polynesia) - interview 2003 SMS
63. CLIFFORD GEERTZ - anthropologist (Southeast Asia, North Africa, Islam) - interview 2004 SMS
64. ERNEST GELLNER - anthropologist (philosopher, sociologist) - lecture 1989 SMS
65. OWEN GINGERICH - historian of science (astronomer) - interview 2008 SMS
66. WYNNE GODLEY - economist - interview 2008 SMS
67. JACK GOODY - anthropologist (West Africa, Eurasia) - interview 1991 SMS
68. ANTONY GORMLEY - artist - interview 2009 SMS
69. STEPHEN GUDEMAN - anthropologist (Panama, Colombia) - interview 2010 SMS
70. PHILIP GULLIVER - anthropologist (East and Central Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
71. JOHN GURDON - biologist - interview 2008 SMS
72. STUART HALL - sociologist - interview 2006 SMS
73. CHRIS HANN - anthropologist - interview 2010 SMS
74. GEOFF HARCOURT - economist - interview 2007 SMS
75. BRIAN HARRISON - historian - interview 2012 SMS
76. KEITH HART - anthropologist (West Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
77. HERMANN HAUSER - computer scientist (entrepreneur) - interview 2008 SMS
78. GEOFFREY HAWTHORN - sociologist (political theorist) - interview 2009 SMS
79. AKIRA HAYAMI - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2009 SMS
80. KARL HEIDER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2007 SMS
81. MICHAEL HERZFELD - anthropologist (Greece) - lecture 2005 SMS - interview 2011 SMS
82. ANTONY HEWISH - radio astronomer - interview 2008 SMS
83. LES HIATT - anthropologist (Australia) - interview 2005 SMS
84. POLLY HILL - anthropologist (economist) - interview 1996 SMS
85. ROBERT HINDE - ethologist (zoologist) - interview 2007 SMS
86. ERIC HOBSBAWM - historian - interview 2009 SMS
87. PAUL HOCKINGS - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2005 SMS
88. ANDY HOPPER - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
89. GABRIEL HORN - zoologist (medic, biologist) - interview 2007 SMS
90. STEPHEN HUGH-JONES - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2007 SMS
91. CAROLINE HUMPHREY - anthropologist - interview 2010 SMS
92. JULIAN HUNT - climate modelling - interview 2009 SMS
93. HERBERT HUPPERT - geophysicist - interview 2009 SMS
94. ANDREW HUXLEY - physiologist - interview 2007 SMS
95. MARTIN JACQUES - journalist (politics, China) - interview 2011 SMS
96. WENDY JAMES - anthropologist (Sudan, Ethiopia) - interview 2009 SMS
97. LISA JARDINE - historian (English literature) - interview 2008 SMS
98. G.I. JONES - anthropologist (colonial officer, West Africa) - interview 1989 SMS
99. FRANK KERMODE - literary critic - interview 2008 SMS
100. BARRY KEVERNE - neuroscientist - interview 2009 SMS
101. RICHARD KEYNES - physiologist - interview 2007 SMS
102. GARY KILDEA - ethnographic film maker - interview 2006 SMS
103. DAVID KING - physical chemist - interview 2009 SMS
104. AARON KLUG - biophysicist (chemist) - interview 2007 SMS
105. JEAN LA FONTAINE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1982 SMS
106. BERND LAMBERT - anthropologist (Micronesia) - interview 2004 SMS
107. OWEN LATTIMORE - explorer (sinologist) - interview 1983 SMS
108. EDMUND LEACH - anthropologist (Burma, Sri Lanka) - interview 1982 SMS
109. JAMES Z, LEE - demographer (historian, sociologist, China) - interview 2002 SMS
110. F.K. LEHMAN - anthropologist (Burma) - interview 2003 SMS
111. LI BOZHONG - economic historian - interview 2011 SMS
112. LIANG BIBO - ethnographic film maker - interview 2008 SMS
113. GODFREY LIENHARDT - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1992 SMS
114. GEOFFREY LLOYD - classicist - interview 2005 SMS
115. PETER LOIZOS - anthropologist (Cyprus, ethnographic film maker) - interview 2002 SMS
116. YUNG WAI (CHARLIE) LOKE - reproductive immunologist - interview 2007 SMS
117. ANNE LONSDALE - classicist (sinologist, administrator) - interview 2008 SMS
118. VITTORIO LUZZATI - crystallographer - interview 2008 SMS
119. DAVID MACDOUGALL - ethnographic film maker - interview 2007 SMS
120. LUCY MAIR - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
121. MICHAEL MANN - sociologist - interview 2005 SMS
122. McKIM MARRIOTT - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 SMS
123. EMANUEL MARX - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 1983 SMS
124. PETER MATHIAS - historian - interviews 2008 and 2009 SMS
125. ADRIAN MAYER - anthropologist (India, Fiji) - interview 1983 SMS
126. IONA MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
127. PHILIP MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
128. DAN MCKENZIE - geophysicist - interview 2007 SMS
129. DAVID MCLELLAN - political scientist - interview 2012 SMS
130. SIDNEY MINTZ - anthropologist (Caribbean) - interview 2007 SMS
131. JAMES MIRRLEES - economist - interview 2009 SMS
132. KEN MOODY - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
133. SALLY FALK MOORE - anthropologist (Tanzania) - interview 2008 SMS
134. ANDREW MORGAN - historian - interview 2000 SMS
135. CHIE NAKANE - anthropologist (India, Tibet, Japan) - interview 2009 SMS
136. RODNEY NEEDHAM - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 1979 SMS
137. LILIE NIE - anthropologist (Japan, China) - interview 2008 SMS
138. PATRICK O'BRIEN - historian - interview 2005 SMS
139. EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY - anthropologist - interview 2011 SMS
140. ROBERT PAINE - anthropologist (Norway, Newfoundland, Israel) - interview 1986 SMS
141. DAVID PARKIN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2009 SMS
142. JONATHAN PARRY - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 SMS
143. LAURENCE PICKEN - ethnomusicologist (zoologist) - interview 1983 SMS
144. BRIAN PIPPARD - physicist - interview 2008 SMS
145. JOHN POLKINGHORNE - physicist (theologian) - interview 2008 SMS
146. PAUL RABINOW - anthropologist (Morocco) - interview 2008, lecture 2008 SMS
147. DAN RABINOWITZ - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 SMS
148. RICHARD RATHBONE - historian (Africa, anthropology) - interview 2013 SMS NEW
149. MARTIN REES - cosmologist (astrophysicist) - interview 2007 SMS
150. COLIN RENFREW - archaeologist - interview 2008 SMS
151. ALISON RICHARD - biological anthropologist (administrator) - interview 2008 SMS
152. AUDREY RICHARDS - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1982 SMS
153. KEITH VAN RIJSBERGEN - computer scientist - interview 2009 SMS
154. PETER RIVIERE - anthropologist (Brazil) - interview 2001 SMS
155. ROBERT ROWTHORN - economist - interview 2008 SMS
156. MALCOLM RUEL - anthropologist (East and West Africa) - interview 2002 SMS
157. JOHN RUTTER - composer - interview 2009 SMS
158. OSAMU SAITO - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2010 SMS
159. ANNE SALMOND - anthropologist (New Zealand) - interview 2004 SMS
160. EDWIN SALPETER - astrophysicist - interview 2008 SMS
161. JEREMY SANDERS - chemist - interview 22nd September 2009 SMS
162. FREDERICK SANGER - biochemist - interview 2007 SMS
163. SIMON SCHAFFER - historian of science - interview 2008 SMS
164. JAMES SCOTT - anthropologist (political scientist, Malaysia, Burma) - interview 2009 SMS
165. DAVID SEDDON - anthropologist (development theorist, Morocco, Nepal) - interview 2009 SMS
166. RICHARD SENNETT - sociologist (musician) - interview 2009, lecture 2009 SMS
167. BEN SHNEIDERMAN - computer scientist - interview 2009 SMS
168. JOHN SIMPSON - mathematician - interview 2004 SMS
169. QUENTIN SKINNER - historian - interview 2009 SMS
170. RICHARD SMETHURST - economist - interview 2010 SMS
171. RICHARD SMITH - demographer (geographer)- interview 2011 SMS
172. DAVID SNELLGROVE - explorer (Tibetologist) - interview 2004 SMS
173. AIDAN SOUTHALL - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 SMS
174. M.N. SRINIVAS - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1982 SMS
175. GARETH STEDMAN JONES - historian - interview 2012 SMS
176. GEORGE STEINER - literary critic - interview 2007 SMS
177. MARILYN STRATHERN - anthropologist (New Guinea) - interview 2009 SMS
178. BARRY SUPPLE - economic historian - interview 2010 SMS
179. AZIM SURANI - biologist (physiologist) - interview 2009 SMS
180. PETER SWINNERTON-DYER - mathematician - interview 2008 SMS
181. JOHN SULSTON - molecular biologist - interview 2008 SMS
182. TOSHI TAKAMIYA - bibliophile - interview 2009 SMS
183. STANLEY TAMBIAH - anthropologist (Thailand, Sri Lanka) - interview 1983 SMS
184. JOHN MEURIG THOMAS - chemist - interview 2007 SMS
185. KEITH THOMAS - historian - interview 2009 SMS
186. TIEN JU-KANG - anthropologist (Sarawak, China) - interview 2005 SMS
187. PETER TRUDGILL - linguist (England, New Zealand) - interview 2012 SMS
188. TERRY TURNER - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2004 SMS
189. NEIL TUROK - cosmologist - interview 2008 SMS
190. ANDREW VAYDA - anthropology (ecologist) - interview 2008 SMS
191. PIERS VITEBSKY - anthropologist (India, Sri Lanka, Siberia) - lecture 2009 SMS
192. ROY WAGNER - anthropologist (New Guinea, New Ireland) - interview 2008 SMS
193. JOHN WALKER - biochemist - interview 2008 SMS
194. WANG MINGMING - anthropologist (China) - interview 2008 SMS
195. MAURICE WILKES - computer scientist - after dinner talk 1997 SMS
196. RICHARD WILSON - civil servant - interview 2009 SMS
197. JAMES WOODBURN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 SMS
198. PETER WORSLEY - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1989 SMS
199. TONY WRIGLEY - demographer (geographer) - interview 2007 SMS
200. NUR YALMAN - anthropologist (Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Turkey) - interview 2004 SMS