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