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1. RAY ABRAHAMS - anthropologist (Tanzania, Uganda, Finland, Estonia) - interview 2015 Youtube
2. AKBAR AHMED - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2004 Youtube
3. HAROON AHMED - electrical engineer - interview 2009 Youtube
4. MARTIN ALBROW - sociologist - interview 2025 Youtube
5. DAVID ELLISTON ALLEN - historian (naturalist, administrator) - interview 1983 Youtube
6. MICHAEL ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2005 Youtube
7. NICHOLAS ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2001 Youtube
8. GEORGE APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 Youtube
9. LAURA APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 Youtube
10. RAYMOND APTHORPE - anthropologist (Uganda) - interview 1989 Youtube
11. NEAL ASCHERSON - journalist- interview 2016 Youtube
12. GARETH AUSTIN - historian of Africa- interview 2023 Youtube
13. PETER AVERY - orientalist (Persian) - interview 2008 Youtube
14. RICHARD AYRES - horticulturist - interview 2023 Youtube
15. JEAN BACON - computer scientist - interview 2008 Youtube
16. ASEN BALIKCI - anthropologist (ethnographic film maker) - interview 2003 Youtube
17. MICHAEL BANTON - sociologist (anthropologist, West Africa) - interview 2001 Youtube
18. HORACE BARLOW - neuroscientist - interview 2012 Youtube
19. JOHN BARNES - sociologist (anthropologist, East Africa) - interview 1983 Youtube
20. FREDRICK BARTH - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2005 Youtube
21. MICHAEL BATE - neuroscientist - interview 2008 Youtube
22. NORA BATESON - filmmaker (educator) - interview 2012 Youtube
23. PATRICK BATESON - ethologist (biologist) - interview 2007 Youtube
24. SVEND BAYER - potter - interview 2022 Youtube
25. CHRISTOPHER BAYLY - historian (Imperial India, global) - interview 2014 Youtube
26. JOHN BEATTIE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 Youtube
27. GILLIAN BEER - literary critic - interview 2009 Youtube
28. JONATHAN BENTHALL - anthropologist (Islam) - interview 2005 Youtube
29. RICHARD BERENGARTEN (BURNS) - poet - interview 2015 Youtube
30. ANDRE BETEILLE - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1986 Youtube
31. TOM BINGHAM - lawyer - interview 2009, lecture 2009 Youtube
32. SIMON BLACKBURN - philosopher - interview 2009 Youtube
33. MATTHEW BLAKELY - potter - interview 2017 Youtube
34. MAURICE BLOCH - anthropologist - interview 2008, lecture 2008 Youtube
35. MARTIN BLOOM - businessman - interview 2014 Youtube
36. RONALD BLYTHE - writer - interview 2015 Youtube
37. MAGGIE BODEN - cognitive psychologist - interview 2015 Youtube
38. JEREMY BOISSEVAIN - anthropologist (Malta) - interview 1983 Youtube
39. PETE DE BOLLA - cultural historian - interview 2026 Youtube
40. ALAN BOOKBINDER - journalist (BBC) - interview 2023 Youtube
41. URSULA GRAHAM BOWER - explorer (anthropologist, photographer, Nagaland) - interview 1985 Youtube
42. SYDNEY BRENNER - microbiologist - interview 2007 Youtube
43. ALLAN BRIGHAM - - interview 2013 Youtube
44. DAVID BROKENSHA - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 2006 Youtube
45. DAN BROWN - chemist (molecular biologist) - interview 2008 Youtube
46. PETER BURKE - historian - interview 2004 Youtube
47. SARAH BUTTERFIELD - artist - interview 2017 SMS
48. VINCE CABLE - politician - interview 2022 Youtube
49. JAMES CAMPBELL - historian - interview 2009 Youtube
50. LIONEL CAPLAN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2004 Youtube
51. PAT CAPLAN - anthropologist (East Africa, Nepal) - interview 2004 Youtube
52. DAVID CARDWELL - physics - interview 2024 Youtube
53. LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA - demographer - interview 2006 Youtube
54. OWEN CHADWICK - historian (theologian) - interview 2008 Youtube
55. CHARLES CHADWYCK-HEALEY - publisher (photographer) - interview 2009 Youtube
56. TIM CHALK - artist and sculptor - interview 2017 Youtube
57. STEPHEN CLEOBURY - musician - interview 2008 Youtube
58. JOHN COATES - mathematician - interview 2008 Youtube
59. STEVEN COGHILL - horticulturist - interview 2017 Youtube
60. ELIZABETH COLSON - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2006 Youtube
61. JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF - anthropologists (South Africa) - interview 2008 Youtube
62. SHERARD COWPER-COLES - law - interview 2024 SMS
63. JOHN CROSS - soldier (Nepal) - interview 1991 Youtube
64. DON CUPITT - theologian - interview 2009 Youtube
65. REGNA DARNELL - anthropologist - interview 2017 Youtube
66. SMO DAS - businessman - interview 2001 Youtube
67. PARTHA DASGUPTA - economist - interview 2010 Youtube
68. MARTIN DAUNTON - historian - interview 2013 Youtube
69. KENT DENG - historian (China) - interview 2019 Youtube
70. PHILIPPE DESCOLA - anthropologist (Amazonia) - lecture 2004 Youtube - interview 2015 Youtube
71. ADRIAN DIXON - natural scientist - interview 2025 Youtube
72. HAL DIXON - biochemist - interview 2007 Youtube
73. RONALD DORE - sociologist (Japan) - interview 2003 Youtube
74. MARY DOUGLAS - anthropologist (Central Africa) - interview 2006 Youtube
75. RICHARD DRAYTON - historian - interview 2017 Youtube
76. JOHN DUNN - historian (political theorist) - interview 2008 Youtube
77. A.W.F. EDWARDS - natural scientist - interview 2025 Youtube
78. KEN EDWARDS - geneticist (university administrator) - interview 2009 Youtube
79. MARK ELVIN - historian (late imperial Chinese) - interview 2012 Youtube
80. SCARLETT EPSTEIN - anthropologist (economist New Guinea, India) - interview 2004 Youtube
81. THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN - anthropologist (Mauritius, Trinidad. Norway, Australia) - interview 2019 Youtube
82. STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG - anthropologist (sociologist, Taiwan, China) - interview 2009 Youtube
83. RUTH FINNEGAN - anthropologist (Sierra Leone, UK) - interview 2008 Youtube
84. RAYMOND FIRTH - anthropologist (New Zealand, Melanesia, Malaya) - interview 1983 Youtube
85. ROSEMARY FIRTH - anthropologist (Malaya) - interview 1983 Youtube
86. PAUL FLATHER - journalist (academic administrator) - interview 2019 Youtube
87. ROBERT FOLEY - biological anthropologist (North Africa) - interview 2010 Youtube
88. MEYER FORTES - anthropologist (West Africa) - lecture 1982 Youtube
89. RONALD FRANKENBERG - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1983 Youtube
90. RICHARD FRIEND - physicist - interview 2008 Youtube
91. CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF - anthropologist (Nagaland, India, Nepal) - interview 1983 Youtube
92. JEAN CLAUDE GALEY - anthropologist (India) - lecture 1989 Youtube
93. JOHN ELIOT GARDINER - musician (conductor) - interview 2015 Youtube
94. PETER GATHERCOLE - anthropologist (museologist, archaeologist, Polynesia) - interview 2003 Youtube
95. CLIFFORD GEERTZ - anthropologist (Southeast Asia, North Africa, Islam) - interview 2004 Youtube
96. ERNEST GELLNER - anthropologist (philosopher, sociologist) - lecture 1989 Youtube
97. OWEN GINGERICH - historian of science (astronomer) - interview 2008 Youtube
98. WYNNE GODLEY - economist - interview 2008 Youtube
99. MARK GOLDIE - historian - interview 2023 Youtube
100. DAVID GOOD - psychologist - interview 2024 Youtube
101. JACK GOODY - anthropologist (West Africa, Eurasia) - interview 1991 Youtube
102. ANTONY GORMLEY - artist - interview 2009 Youtube
103. BRIAN GREENWOOD - physician (biomedical research scientist) - interview 2026 Youtube
104. STEPHEN GUDEMAN - anthropologist (Panama, Colombia) - interview 2010 Youtube
105. PHILIP GULLIVER - anthropologist (East and Central Africa) - interview 1983 Youtube
106. JOHN GURDON - biologist - interview 2008 Youtube
107. STUART HALL - sociologist - interview 2006 Youtube
108. HEATHER HANCOCK - civil servant - interview 2023 SMS
109. CHRIS HANN - anthropologist - interview 2010 Youtube
110. ILDI BELLA HANN - anthropologist - interview 2024 Youtube
111. GEOFF HARCOURT - economist - interview 2007 Youtube
112. BRIAN HARRISON - historian - interview 2012 two parts Youtube Youtube
113. KEITH HART - anthropologist (West Africa) - interview 2006 Youtube
114. DAVID HARTLEY - computer scientist - interview 2017 Youtube
115. HERMANN HAUSER - computer scientist (entrepreneur) - interview 2008 Youtube
116. GEOFFREY HAWTHORN - sociologist (political theorist) - interview 2009 Youtube
117. AKIRA HAYAMI - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2009 Youtube
118. KARL HEIDER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2007 Youtube
119. MICHAEL HERZFELD - anthropologist (Greece) - lectures 2005 & 2013 Youtube Youtube - interview 2011 Youtube
120. ANTONY HEWISH - radio astronomer - interview 2008 Youtube
121. LES HIATT - anthropologist (Australia) - interview 2005 Youtube
122. POLLY HILL - anthropologist (economist) - interview 1996 Youtube
123. ROBERT HINDE - ethologist (zoologist) - interview 2007 Youtube
124. ERIC HOBSBAWM - historian - interview 2009 Youtube
125. PAUL HOCKINGS - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2005 Youtube
126. ANDY HOPPER - computer scientist - interview 2008 Youtube
127. GABRIEL HORN - zoologist (medic, biologist) - interview 2007 Youtube
128. STEPHEN HUGH-JONES - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2007 Youtube
129. CAROLINE HUMPHREY - anthropologist - interview 2010 Youtube
130. JULIAN HUNT - climate modelling - interview 2009 Youtube
131. TIM HUNT - biochemist - interview 2015 Youtube Youtube
132. HERBERT HUPPERT - geophysicist - interview 2009 Youtube
133. JULIAN HUPPERT - politician (biochemist) - interview 2024 Youtube
134. ANDREW HUXLEY - physiologist - interview 2007 Youtube
135. MARTIN JACQUES - journalist (politics, China) - interview 2011 Youtube
136. WENDY JAMES - anthropologist (Sudan, Ethiopia) - interview 2009 Youtube
137. LISA JARDINE - historian (English literature) - interview 2008 Youtube
138. G.I. JONES - anthropologist (colonial officer, West Africa) - interview 1989 Youtube
139. BRIDGET KENDALL - journalist - interview 2025 Youtube
140. FRANK KERMODE - literary critic - interview 2008 Youtube
141. BARRY KEVERNE - neuroscientist - interview 2009 Youtube
142. RICHARD KEYNES - physiologist - interview 2007 Youtube
143. GARY KILDEA - ethnographic film maker - interview 2006 Youtube
144. DAVID KING - physical chemist - interview 2009 Youtube
145. AARON KLUG - biophysicist (chemist) - interview 2007 Youtube
146. KRISHAN KUMAR - sociologist - interview 2019 Youtube
147. JEAN LA FONTAINE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1982 Youtube
148. BERND LAMBERT - anthropologist (Micronesia) - interview 2004 Youtube
149. MICHAEL LANGFORD - philosopher - interview 2015 Youtube
150. OWEN LATTIMORE - explorer (sinologist) - interview 1983 Youtube
151. EDMUND LEACH - anthropologist (Burma, Sri Lanka) - interview 1982 Youtube
152. JAMES LEE - demographer (historian, sociologist, China) - interview 2002 Youtube
153. F.K. LEHMAN - anthropologist (Burma) - interview 2003 Youtube
154. LI BOZHONG - economic historian - interview 2011 Youtube
155. LIANG BIBO - ethnographic film maker - interview 2008 Youtube
156. YAO LIANG - physicist - interviews 2013 & 2015 Youtube Youtube
157. GODFREY LIENHARDT - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1992 Youtube
158. GEOFFREY LLOYD - classicist - interview 2005 Youtube
159. PETER LOIZOS - anthropologist (Cyprus, ethnographic film maker) - interview 2002 Youtube
160. YUNG WAI (CHARLIE) LOKE - reproductive immunologist - interview 2007 Youtube
161. ANNE LONSDALE - classicist (sinologist, administrator) - interview 2008 Youtube
162. TANYA LUHRMANN - anthropologist - interview 2022 Youtube
163. VITTORIO LUZZATI - crystallographer - interview 2009 Youtube
164. DAVID MACDOUGALL - ethnographic film maker - interview 2007 Youtube
165. RODERICK MACFARQUHAR - political scientist (China)- interview 2017 Youtube
166. JOHN MACHIN - lawyer - interview 2013-14 Youtube
167. LUCY MAIR - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 Youtube
168. MICHAEL MANN - sociologist - interview 2005 Youtube
169. McKIM MARRIOTT - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 Youtube
170. HENRY MARSH - brain surgeon - interview 2024 Youtube
171. RICHARD MARSHALL - philosopher & educationalist - interview 2021 Youtube
172. EMANUEL MARX - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 1983 Youtube
173. JEAN MICHEL MASSING - art historian - interview 2014 Youtube
174. PETER MATHIAS - historian - interviews 2008 and 2009 Youtube
175. ADRIAN MAYER - anthropologist (India, Fiji) - interview 2017 Youtube
176. IONA MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 Youtube
177. PHILIP MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 Youtube
178. BRIDGET STREVENS MARZO - Illustrator, author and translator - interview 2019 Youtube
179. SIMON MCDONALD - diplomat - interview 2023 Youtube
180. DAN MCKENZIE - geophysicist - interview 2007 Youtube
181. DAVID MCLELLAN - political scientist - interview 2012 Youtube
182. FERNAND MEYER - anthropologist (Tibet, Nepal) - interview 2016 Youtube
183. SIDNEY MINTZ - anthropologist (Caribbean) - interview 2007 Youtube
184. JAMES MIRRLEES - economist - interview 2009 Youtube
185. JULIET MITCHELL - psychoanalyst - interview 2008 SMS
186. RANA MITTER - historian of China - interview 2025 Youtube
187. KEITH MOFFATT - mathematical physics - interview 2019 Youtube
188. KEN MOODY - computer scientist - interview 2008 Youtube
189. SALLY FALK MOORE - anthropologist (Tanzania) - interview 2008 Youtube
190. ANDREW MORGAN - historian - interview 2000 Youtube
191. CHIE NAKANE - anthropologist (India, Tibet, Japan) - interview 2009 Youtube
192. MICHAEL NEDO - philosopher - interview 2017 Youtube
193. RODNEY NEEDHAM - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 1979 Youtube
194. LILIE NIE - anthropologist (Japan, China) - interview 2008 Youtube
195. PATRICK O'BRIEN - historian - interview 2005 Youtube
196. EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY - anthropologist - interview 2011 Youtube
197. ALEX ORLOV - physical chemist - interview 2024 SMS
198. SHERRY ORTNER - anthropologist (Nepal, U.S.A.) - interview 2020 Youtube
199. ROBIN OSBORNE - classicist (Ancient Historian) - interview 2022 Youtube
200. SUE OWEN - economist - interview 2025 Youtube
201. ROBERT PAINE - anthropologist (Norway, Newfoundland, Israel) - interview 1986 Youtube
202. DAVID PARKIN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2009 Youtube
203. JONATHAN PARRY - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 Youtube
204. DAVID PASKETT - artist - interview 2017 Youtube
205. NICHOLAS PHILLIPS - lawyer - interview 2014 Youtube
206. LAURENCE PICKEN - ethnomusicologist (zoologist) - interview 1983 Youtube
207. BRIAN PIPPARD - physicist - interview 2008 Youtube
208. JOHN PILGRIM - anthropologist - interview 2024 Youtube
209. ROSEMARY POLACK - lawyer - interview 2013 Youtube
210. JOHN POLKINGHORNE - physicist (theologian) - interview 2008 Youtube
211. CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST - French literature - interview 2024 Youtube
212. MICHAEL PROCTOR - mathematician - interview 2018 Youtube
213. PAUL RABINOW - anthropologist (Morocco) - interview 2008, lecture 2008 Youtube
214. DAN RABINOWITZ - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 Youtube
215. RICHARD RATHBONE - historian (Africa, anthropology) - interview 2013 Youtube
216. FAITH RAVEN - horticulturist - interview 2016 Youtube
217. MARTIN REES - cosmologist (astrophysicist) - interview 2007 Youtube
218. COLIN RENFREW - archaeologist - interview 2008 Youtube
219. ALISON RICHARD - biological anthropologist (administrator) - interview 2008 Youtube
220. AUDREY RICHARDS - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1982 Youtube
221. CHRISTOPHER RICKS - literary critic - interview 2013 Youtube
222. KEITH VAN RIJSBERGEN - computer scientist - interview 2009 Youtube
223. PETER RIVIERE - anthropologist (Brazil) - interview 2001 Youtube
224. BRUCE ROSS-SMITH - poet - interview 2016 Youtube
225. ROBERT ROWTHORN - economist - interview 2008 Youtube
226. MALCOLM RUEL - anthropologist (East and West Africa) - interview 2002 Youtube
227. GARRY RUNCIMAN - sociologist - interview 2014 Youtube
228. JOHN RUTTER - composer - interview 2009 Youtube
229. MARSHALL SAHLINS - anthropologist (economic, cultural) - interview 2013 Youtube
230. OSAMU SAITO - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2010 Youtube
231. ANNE SALMOND - anthropologist (New Zealand) - interview 2004 Youtube
232. EDWIN SALPETER - astrophysicist - interview 2008 Youtube
233. JEREMY SANDERS - chemist - interview 22nd September 2009 Youtube
234. FREDERICK SANGER - biochemist - interview 2007 Youtube
235. SIMON SCHAFFER - historian of science - interview 2008 Youtube
236. JAMES SCOTT - anthropologist (political scientist, Malaysia, Burma) - interview 2009 Youtube
237. DAVID SEDDON - anthropologist (development theorist, Morocco, Nepal) - interview 2009 Youtube
238. RICHARD SENNETT - sociologist (musician) - interview 2009, lecture 2009 Youtube
239. DAVID SHAFFER - educationalist - interview 2024 Youtube
240. ELEANOR SHARPSTON - lawyer - interview 2016 Youtube
241. BEN SHNEIDERMAN - computer scientist - interview 2009 Youtube
242. DAVID SIMPSON - romantic literature - interview 2024 Youtube
243. JOHN SIMPSON - mathematician - interview 2004 Youtube
244. ANDRE SINGER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2015 Youtube
245. QUENTIN SKINNER - historian - interview 2009 Youtube
246. RICHARD SMETHURST - economist - interview 2010 Youtube
247. ALVY RAY SMITH - computer scientist (digital film maker)- interview 2017 Youtube
248. CHRIS SMITH - politician - interview 2025 Youtube
249. MARK SMITH - College Butler - interview 2018 Youtube
250. RICHARD SMITH - demographer (geographer)- interview 2011 Youtube
251. DAVID SNELLGROVE - explorer (Tibetologist) - interview 2004 Youtube
252. AIDAN SOUTHALL - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 Youtube
253. M.N. SRINIVAS - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1982 Youtube
254. PHILIP STEADMAN - architect - interview 2020 Youtube
255. GARETH STEDMAN JONES - historian - interview 2012 Youtube
256. GEORGE STEINER - literary critic - interview 2007 Youtube
257. MARILYN STRATHERN - anthropologist (New Guinea) - interview 2009 Youtube
258. MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN - diplomat (China) - interview 2019 Youtube
259. BARRY SUPPLE - economic historian - interview 2010 Youtube
260. AZIM SURANI - biologist (physiologist) - interview 2009 Youtube
261. PETER SWINNERTON-DYER - mathematician - interview 2008 Youtube
262. JOHN SULSTON - molecular biologist - interview 2008 Youtube
263. TOSHI TAKAMIYA - bibliophile - interview 2009 Youtube
264. STANLEY TAMBIAH - anthropologist (Thailand, Sri Lanka) - interview 1983 Youtube
265. ANNE-CHRISTINE TAYLOR - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2015 Youtube
266. GILLIAN TETT - journalist (anthropologist) - series of three interviews 2023-2024 Youtube
267. JOHN MEURIG THOMAS - chemist - interview 2007 Youtube
268. KEITH THOMAS - historian - interview 2009 Youtube
269. TIEN JU-KANG - anthropologist (Sarawak, China) - interview 2005 Youtube
270. STEPHEN TOOPE - lawyer - interview 2022 Youtube
271. PETER TRUDGILL - linguist (England, New Zealand) - interview 2012 Youtube
272. TERRY TURNER - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2004 Youtube
273. NEIL TUROK - cosmologist - interviews 2008 and 2017 Youtube Youtube
274. HANS VAN DE VEN - historian (China) - interview 2019 Youtube
275. ANDREW VAYDA - anthropology (ecologist) - interview 2008 Youtube
276. PIERS VITEBSKY - anthropologist (India, Sri Lanka, Siberia) - lecture 2009 Youtube
277. SHAILENDRA VYAKARNAM - entrepreneur - interview 2023 Youtube
278. ROY WAGNER - anthropologist (New Guinea, New Ireland) - interview 2008 Youtube
279. WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE - politician - interview 2011 Youtube 2013 Youtube
280. JOHN WALKER - biochemist - interview 2008 Youtube
281. WANG MINGMING - anthropologist (China) - interview 2008 Youtube
282. HARVEY WHITEHOUSE - anthropologist (Papua New Guinea) - interview 2023 Youtube
283. MAURICE WILKES - computer scientist - after dinner talk 1997 Youtube
284. DAVID WILCOCKS - musician - interview 2008 Youtube Youtube
285. ROWAN WILLIAMS - theologian - interview 2015 Youtube
286. RICHARD WILSON - civil servant - interview 2009 Youtube
287. SOPHIE WILSON - computer scientist - interview 2017 Youtube
288. STANLEY WONG - civil servant (Hong Kong) - interview 2023 Youtube
289. FRANCES WOOD - sinologist (librarian, historian) - interview 2016 Youtube
290. JAMES WOODBURN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 Youtube
291. PETER WORSLEY - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1989 Youtube
292. TONY WRIGLEY - demographer (geographer) - interview 2007 Youtube
293. XU BING - artist - interview 2015 Youtube
294. NUR YALMAN - anthropologist (Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Turkey) - interview 2004 Youtube