FULL LIST OF INTERVIEWS

 

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  1. RAY ABRAHAMS - anthropologist (Tanzania, Uganda, Finland, Estonia) - interview 2015 SMS
  2. AKBAR AHMED - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2004 SMS
  3. HAROON AHMED - electrical engineer - interview 2009 SMS
  4. DAVID ELLISTON ALLEN - historian (naturalist, administrator) - interview 1983 SMS
  5. MICHAEL ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2005 SMS
  6. NICHOLAS ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2001 SMS
  7. GEORGE APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 SMS
  8. LAURA APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 SMS
  9. RAYMOND APTHORPE - anthropologist (Uganda) - interview 1989 SMS
  10. NEAL ASCHERSON - journalist- interview 2016 SMS
  11. GARETH AUSTIN - historian of Africa- interview 2023 SMS and SMS
  12. PETER AVERY - orientalist (Persian) - interview 2008 SMS
  13. RICHARD AYRES - horticulturist - interview 2023 SMS
  14. JEAN BACON - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
  15. ASEN BALIKCI - anthropologist (ethnographic film maker) - interview 2003 SMS
  16. MICHAEL BANTON - sociologist (anthropologist, West Africa) - interview 2001 SMS
  17. HORACE BARLOW - neuroscientist - interview 2012 SMS
  18. JOHN BARNES - sociologist (anthropologist, East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
  19. FREDRICK BARTH - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2005 SMS
  20. MICHAEL BATE - neuroscientist - interview 2008 SMS
  21. NORA BATESON - filmmaker (educator) - interview 2012 SMS
  22. PATRICK BATESON - ethologist (biologist) - interview 2007 SMS
  23. SVEND BAYER - potter - interview 2022 SMS
  24. CHRISTOPHER BAYLY - historian (Imperial India, global) - interview 2014 SMS
  25. JOHN BEATTIE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
  26. GILLIAN BEER - literary critic - interview 2009 SMS
  27. JONATHAN BENTHALL - anthropologist (Islam) - interview 2005 SMS
  28. RICHARD BERENGARTEN (BURNS) - poet - interview 2015 SMS
  29. ANDRE BETEILLE - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1986, lecture 2008 SMS
  30. TOM BINGHAM - lawyer - interview 2009, lecture 2009 SMS
  31. SIMON BLACKBURN - philosopher - interview 2009 SMS
  32. MATTHEW BLAKELY - potter - interview 2017 SMS
  33. MAURICE BLOCH - anthropologist - interview 2008, lecture 2008 SMS
  34. MARTIN BLOOM - businessman - interview 2014 SMS
  35. RONALD BLYTHE - writer - interview 2015 SMS
  36. MAGGIE BODEN - cognitive psychologist - interview 2015 SMS
  37. JEREMY BOISSEVAIN - anthropologist (Malta) - interview 1983 SMS
  38. ALAN BOOKBINDER - journalist (BBC) - interview 2023 SMS
  39. URSULA GRAHAM BOWER - explorer (anthropologist, photographer, Nagaland) - interview 1985 SMS
  40. SYDNEY BRENNER - microbiologist - interview 2007 SMS
  41. ALLAN BRIGHAM - - interview 2013 SMS
  42. DAVID BROKENSHA - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
  43. DAN BROWN - chemist (molecular biologist) - interview 2008 SMS
  44. PETER BURKE - historian - interview 2004 SMS
  45. SARAH BUTTERFIELD - artist - interview 2017 SMS
  46. VINCE CABLE - politician - interview 2022 SMS
  47. JAMES CAMPBELL - historian - interview 2009 SMS
  48. LIONEL CAPLAN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2004 SMS
  49. PAT CAPLAN - anthropologist (East Africa, Nepal) - interview 2004 SMS
  50. LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA - demographer - interview 2006 SMS
  51. OWEN CHADWICK - historian (theologian) - interview 2008 SMS
  52. CHARLES CHADWYCK-HEALEY - publisher (photographer) - interview 2009 SMS
  53. TIM CHALK - artist and sculptor - interview 2017 SMS
  54. STEPHEN CLEOBURY - musician - interview 2008 SMS
  55. JOHN COATES - mathematician - interview 2008 SMS
  56. STEVEN COGHILL - horticulturist - interview 2017 SMS
  57. ELIZABETH COLSON - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 SMS
  58. JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF - anthropologists (South Africa) - interview 2008 SMS
  59. JOHN CROSS - soldier (Nepal) - interview 1991 SMS
  60. DON CUPITT - theologian - interview 2009 SMS
  61. REGNA DARNELL - anthropologist - interview 2017 SMS
  62. SMO DAS - businessman - interview 2001 SMS
  63. PARTHA DASGUPTA - economist - interview 2010 SMS
  64. MARTIN DAUNTON - historian - interview 2013 SMS
  65. KENT DENG - historian (China) - interview 2019 SMS
  66. PHILIPPE DESCOLA - anthropologist (Amazonia) - lecture 2004 SMS - interview 2015 SMS
  67. HAL DIXON - biochemist - interview 2007 SMS
  68. RONALD DORE - sociologist (Japan) - interview 2003 SMS
  69. MARY DOUGLAS - anthropologist (Central Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
  70. RICHARD DRAYTON - historian - interview 2017 SMS
  71. JOHN DUNN - historian (political theorist) - interview 2008 SMS
  72. KEN EDWARDS - geneticist (university administrator) - interview 2009 SMS
  73. MARK ELVIN - historian (late imperial Chinese) - interview 2012 SMS
  74. SCARLETT EPSTEIN - anthropologist (economist New Guinea, India) - interview 2004 SMS
  75. THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN - anthropologist (Mauritius, Trinidad. Norway, Australia) - interview 2019 SMS
  76. STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG - anthropologist (sociologist, Taiwan, China) - interview 2009 SMS
  77. RUTH FINNEGAN - anthropologist (Sierra Leone, UK) - interview 2008 SMS
  78. RAYMOND FIRTH - anthropologist (New Zealand, Melanesia, Malaya) - interview 1983 SMS
  79. ROSEMARY FIRTH - anthropologist (Malaya) - interview 1983 SMS
  80. PAUL FLATHER - journalist (academic administrator) - interview 2019 SMS
  81. ROBERT FOLEY - biological anthropologist (North Africa) - interview 2010 SMS
  82. MEYER FORTES - anthropologist (West Africa) - lecture 1982 SMS
  83. RONALD FRANKENBERG - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1983 SMS
  84. RICHARD FRIEND - physicist - interview 2008 SMS
  85. CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF - anthropologist (Nagaland, India, Nepal) - interview 1983 SMS
  86. JEAN CLAUDE GALEY - anthropologist (India) - lecture 1989 SMS
  87. JOHN ELIOT GARDINER - musician (conductor) - interview 2015 SMS
  88. PETER GATHERCOLE - anthropologist (museologist, archaeologist, Polynesia) - interview 2003 SMS
  89. CLIFFORD GEERTZ - anthropologist (Southeast Asia, North Africa, Islam) - interview 2004 SMS
  90. ERNEST GELLNER - anthropologist (philosopher, sociologist) - lecture 1989 SMS
  91. OWEN GINGERICH - historian of science (astronomer) - interview 2008 SMS
  92. WYNNE GODLEY - economist - interview 2008 SMS
  93. MARK GOLDIE - historian - interview 2023 SMS
  94. JACK GOODY - anthropologist (West Africa, Eurasia) - interview 1991 SMS
  95. ANTONY GORMLEY - artist - interview 2009 SMS
  96. STEPHEN GUDEMAN - anthropologist (Panama, Colombia) - interview 2010 SMS
  97. PHILIP GULLIVER - anthropologist (East and Central Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
  98. JOHN GURDON - biologist - interview 2008 SMS
  99. STUART HALL - sociologist - interview 2006 SMS
  100. HEATHER HANCOCK - civil servant - interview 2023 SMS
  101. CHRIS HANN - anthropologist - interview 2010 SMS
  102. GEOFF HARCOURT - economist - interview 2007 SMS
  103. BRIAN HARRISON - historian - interview 2012 SMS
  104. KEITH HART - anthropologist (West Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
  105. DAVID HARTLEY - computer scientist - interview 2017 SMS
  106. HERMANN HAUSER - computer scientist (entrepreneur) - interview 2008 SMS
  107. GEOFFREY HAWTHORN - sociologist (political theorist) - interview 2009 SMS
  108. AKIRA HAYAMI - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2009 SMS
  109. KARL HEIDER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2007 SMS
  110. MICHAEL HERZFELD - anthropologist (Greece) - lectures 2005 & 2013 SMS SMS - interview 2011 SMS
  111. ANTONY HEWISH - radio astronomer - interview 2008 SMS
  112. LES HIATT - anthropologist (Australia) - interview 2005 SMS
  113. POLLY HILL - anthropologist (economist) - interview 1996 SMS
  114. ROBERT HINDE - ethologist (zoologist) - interview 2007 SMS
  115. ERIC HOBSBAWM - historian - interview 2009 SMS
  116. PAUL HOCKINGS - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2005 SMS
  117. ANDY HOPPER - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
  118. GABRIEL HORN - zoologist (medic, biologist) - interview 2007 SMS
  119. STEPHEN HUGH-JONES - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2007 SMS
  120. CAROLINE HUMPHREY - anthropologist - interview 2010 SMS
  121. JULIAN HUNT - climate modelling - interview 2009 SMS
  122. TIM HUNT - biochemist - interview 2015 SMS SMS
  123. HERBERT HUPPERT - geophysicist - interview 2009 SMS
  124. JULIAN HUPPERT - politician (biochemist) - interview 2024 SMS
  125. ANDREW HUXLEY - physiologist - interview 2007 SMS
  126. MARTIN JACQUES - journalist (politics, China) - interview 2011 SMS
  127. WENDY JAMES - anthropologist (Sudan, Ethiopia) - interview 2009 SMS
  128. LISA JARDINE - historian (English literature) - interview 2008 SMS
  129. G.I. JONES - anthropologist (colonial officer, West Africa) - interview 1989 SMS
  130. FRANK KERMODE - literary critic - interview 2008 SMS
  131. BARRY KEVERNE - neuroscientist - interview 2009 SMS
  132. RICHARD KEYNES - physiologist - interview 2007 SMS
  133. GARY KILDEA - ethnographic film maker - interview 2006 SMS
  134. DAVID KING - physical chemist - interview 2009 SMS
  135. AARON KLUG - biophysicist (chemist) - interview 2007 SMS
  136. KRISHAN KUMAR - sociologist - interview 2019 SMS
  137. JEAN LA FONTAINE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1982 SMS
  138. BERND LAMBERT - anthropologist (Micronesia) - interview 2004 SMS
  139. MICHAEL LANGFORD - philosopher - interview 2015 SMS
  140. OWEN LATTIMORE - explorer (sinologist) - interview 1983 SMS
  141. EDMUND LEACH - anthropologist (Burma, Sri Lanka) - interview 1982 SMS
  142. JAMES Z, LEE - demographer (historian, sociologist, China) - interview 2002 SMS
  143. F.K. LEHMAN - anthropologist (Burma) - interview 2003 SMS
  144. LI BOZHONG - economic historian - interview 2011 SMS
  145. LIANG BIBO - ethnographic film maker - interview 2008 SMS
  146. WEI-YAO LIANG - physicist - interviews 2013 & 2015 SMS SMS
  147. GODFREY LIENHARDT - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1992 SMS
  148. GEOFFREY LLOYD - classicist - interview 2005 SMS
  149. PETER LOIZOS - anthropologist (Cyprus, ethnographic film maker) - interview 2002 SMS
  150. YUNG WAI (CHARLIE) LOKE - reproductive immunologist - interview 2007 SMS
  151. ANNE LONSDALE - classicist (sinologist, administrator) - interview 2008 SMS
  152. TANYA LUHRMANN - anthropologist - interview 2022 SMS
  153. VITTORIO LUZZATI - crystallographer - interview 2009 SMS
  154. DAVID MACDOUGALL - ethnographic film maker - interview 2007 SMS
  155. RODERICK MACFARQUHAR - political scientist (China)- interview 2017 SMS
  156. JOHN MACHIN - lawyer - interview 2013-14 SMS
  157. LUCY MAIR - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
  158. MICHAEL MANN - sociologist - interview 2005 SMS
  159. McKIM MARRIOTT - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 SMS
  160. RICHARD MARSHALL - philosopher & educationalist - interview 2021 SMS
  161. EMANUEL MARX - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 1983 SMS
  162. JEAN MICHEL MASSING - art historian - interview 2014 SMS
  163. PETER MATHIAS - historian - interviews 2008 and 2009 SMS
  164. ADRIAN MAYER - anthropologist (India, Fiji) - interview 2017 SMS
  165. IONA MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
  166. PHILIP MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
  167. BRIDGET STREVENS MARZO - Illustrator, author and translator - interview 2019 SMS
  168. SIMON MCDONALD - diplomat - interview 2023 SMS
  169. DAN MCKENZIE - geophysicist - interview 2007 SMS
  170. DAVID MCLELLAN - political scientist - interview 2012 SMS
  171. FERNAND MEYER - anthropologist (Tibet, Nepal) - interview 2016 SMS
  172. SIDNEY MINTZ - anthropologist (Caribbean) - interview 2007 SMS
  173. JAMES MIRRLEES - economist - interview 2009 SMS
  174. JULIET MITCHELL - psychoanalyst - interview 2008 SMS
  175. KEITH MOFFATT - mathematical physics - interview 2019 SMS
  176. KEN MOODY - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
  177. SALLY FALK MOORE - anthropologist (Tanzania) - interview 2008 SMS
  178. ANDREW MORGAN - historian - interview 2000 SMS
  179. CHIE NAKANE - anthropologist (India, Tibet, Japan) - interview 2009 SMS
  180. MICHAEL NEDO - philosopher - interview 2017 SMS
  181. RODNEY NEEDHAM - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 1979 SMS
  182. LILIE NIE - anthropologist (Japan, China) - interview 2008 SMS
  183. PATRICK O'BRIEN - historian - interview 2005 SMS
  184. EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY - anthropologist - interview 2011 SMS
  185. SHERRY ORTNER - anthropologist (Nepal, U.S.A.) - interview 2020 SMS
  186. ROBIN OSBORNE - classicist (Ancient Historian) - interview 2022 SMS
  187. ROBERT PAINE - anthropologist (Norway, Newfoundland, Israel) - interview 1986 SMS
  188. DAVID PARKIN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2009 SMS
  189. JONATHAN PARRY - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 SMS
  190. DAVID PASKETT - artist - interview 2017 SMS
  191. NICHOLAS PHILLIPS - lawyer - interview 2014 SMS
  192. LAURENCE PICKEN - ethnomusicologist (zoologist) - interview 1983 SMS
  193. BRIAN PIPPARD - physicist - interview 2008 SMS
  194. JOHN PILGRIM - anthropologist - interview 2024 SMS
  195. ROSEMARY POLACK - lawyer - interview 2013 SMS
  196. JOHN POLKINGHORNE - physicist (theologian) - interview 2008 SMS
  197. CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST - French literature - interview 2024 SMS
  198. MICHAEL PROCTOR - mathematician - interview 2018 SMS
  199. PAUL RABINOW - anthropologist (Morocco) - interview 2008, lecture 2008 SMS
  200. DAN RABINOWITZ - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 SMS
  201. RICHARD RATHBONE - historian (Africa, anthropology) - interview 2013 SMS
  202. FAITH RAVEN - horticulturist - interview 2016 SMS
  203. MARTIN REES - cosmologist (astrophysicist) - interview 2007 SMS
  204. COLIN RENFREW - archaeologist - interview 2008 SMS
  205. ALISON RICHARD - biological anthropologist (administrator) - interview 2008 SMS
  206. AUDREY RICHARDS - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1982 SMS
  207. CHRISTOPHER RICKS - literary critic - interview 2013 SMS
  208. KEITH VAN RIJSBERGEN - computer scientist - interview 2009 SMS
  209. PETER RIVIERE - anthropologist (Brazil) - interview 2001 SMS
  210. BRUCE ROSS-SMITH - poet - interview 2016 SMS
  211. ROBERT ROWTHORN - economist - interview 2008 SMS
  212. MALCOLM RUEL - anthropologist (East and West Africa) - interview 2002 SMS
  213. GARRY RUNCIMAN - sociologist - interview 2014 SMS
  214. JOHN RUTTER - composer - interview 2009 SMS
  215. MARSHALL SAHLINS - anthropologist (economic, cultural) - interview 2013 SMS
  216. OSAMU SAITO - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2010 SMS
  217. ANNE SALMOND - anthropologist (New Zealand) - interview 2004 SMS
  218. EDWIN SALPETER - astrophysicist - interview 2008 SMS
  219. JEREMY SANDERS - chemist - interview 22nd September 2009 SMS
  220. FREDERICK SANGER - biochemist - interview 2007 SMS
  221. SIMON SCHAFFER - historian of science - interview 2008 SMS
  222. JAMES SCOTT - anthropologist (political scientist, Malaysia, Burma) - interview 2009 SMS
  223. DAVID SEDDON - anthropologist (development theorist, Morocco, Nepal) - interview 2009 SMS
  224. RICHARD SENNETT - sociologist (musician) - interview 2009, lecture 2009 SMS
  225. DAVID SHAFFER - educationalist - interview 2024 SMS
  226. ELEANOR SHARPSTON - lawyer - interview 2016 SMS
  227. BEN SHNEIDERMAN - computer scientist - interview 2009 SMS
  228. DAVID SIMPSON - English Literature - interview 2024 SMS
  229. JOHN SIMPSON - mathematician - interview 2004 SMS
  230. ANDRE SINGER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2015 SMS
  231. QUENTIN SKINNER - historian - interview 2009 SMS
  232. RICHARD SMETHURST - economist - interview 2010 SMS
  233. ALVY RAY SMITH - computer scientist (digital film maker)- interview 2017 SMS
  234. MARK SMITH - College Butler - interview 2018 SMS
  235. RICHARD SMITH - demographer (geographer)- interview 2011 SMS
  236. DAVID SNELLGROVE - explorer (Tibetologist) - interview 2004 SMS
  237. AIDAN SOUTHALL - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 SMS
  238. M.N. SRINIVAS - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1982 SMS
  239. PHILIP STEADMAN - architect - interview 2020 SMS
  240. GARETH STEDMAN JONES - historian - interview 2012 SMS
  241. GEORGE STEINER - literary critic - interview 2007 SMS
  242. MARILYN STRATHERN - anthropologist (New Guinea) - interview 2009 SMS
  243. MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN - diplomat (China) - interview 2019 SMS
  244. BARRY SUPPLE - economic historian - interview 2010 SMS
  245. AZIM SURANI - biologist (physiologist) - interview 2009 SMS
  246. PETER SWINNERTON-DYER - mathematician - interview 2008 SMS
  247. JOHN SULSTON - molecular biologist - interview 2008 SMS
  248. TOSHI TAKAMIYA - bibliophile - interview 2009 SMS
  249. STANLEY TAMBIAH - anthropologist (Thailand, Sri Lanka) - interview 1983 SMS
  250. ANNE-CHRISTINE TAYLOR - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2015 SMS
  251. JOHN MEURIG THOMAS - chemist - interview 2007 SMS
  252. KEITH THOMAS - historian - interview 2009 SMS
  253. TIEN JU-KANG - anthropologist (Sarawak, China) - interview 2005 SMS
  254. STEPHEN TOOPE - lawyer - interview 2022 SMS
  255. PETER TRUDGILL - linguist (England, New Zealand) - interview 2012 SMS
  256. TERRY TURNER - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2004 SMS
  257. NEIL TUROK - cosmologist - interviews 2008 and 2017 SMS SMS
  258. HANS VAN DE VEN - historian (China) - interview 2019 SMS
  259. ANDREW VAYDA - anthropology (ecologist) - interview 2008 SMS
  260. PIERS VITEBSKY - anthropologist (India, Sri Lanka, Siberia) - lecture 2009 SMS
  261. SHAILENDRA VYAKARNAM - entrepreneur - interview 2023 SMS
  262. ROY WAGNER - anthropologist (New Guinea, New Ireland) - interview 2008 SMS
  263. WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE - politician - interview 2011 SMS 2013 SMS
  264. JOHN WALKER - biochemist - interview 2008 SMS
  265. WANG MINGMING - anthropologist (China) - interview 2008 SMS
  266. HARVEY WHITEHOUSE - anthropologist (Papua New Guinea) - interview 2023 SMS
  267. MAURICE WILKES - computer scientist - after dinner talk 1997 SMS
  268. DAVID WILCOCKS - musician - interview 2008 SMS SMS
  269. ROWAN WILLIAMS - theologian - interview 2015 SMS
  270. RICHARD WILSON - civil servant - interview 2009 SMS
  271. SOPHIE WILSON - computer scientist - interview 2017 SMS
  272. STANLEY WONG - civil servant (Hong Kong) - interview 2023 SMS
  273. FRANCES WOOD - sinologist (librarian, historian) - interview 2016 SMS
  274. JAMES WOODBURN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 SMS
  275. PETER WORSLEY - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1989 SMS
  276. TONY WRIGLEY - demographer (geographer) - interview 2007 SMS
  277. XU BING - artist - interview 2015 SMS
  278. NUR YALMAN - anthropologist (Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Turkey) - interview 2004 SMS