The RSA hosts one of the world’s leading public events programmes, delivering over 100 lectures, talks, screenings and debates a year.
These events provide a platform for our most exciting public thinkers, and encourage intelligent exploration of today’s most urgent social challenges.
Our public programme welcomes speakers from across the world and across disciplines – all united by a belief in the power of ideas to inspire and motivate social change.
All of the audio files are recordings of talks in our public events programme.
Title: ‘Don’t Forget the Magic’
November 1st, 2019
We are amidst another technological revolution and Carl Benedict Frey explores what lessons from the past, can help us to better face the present and… Go to Episode
October 30th, 2019
After winning the Cold War, did the West lose the peace? Political scientist Ivan Krastev sheds light on the East/West divide, thirty years on. This event… Go to Episode
October 25th, 2019
How can a decarbonised, socially just global system be achieved? Economist Ann Pettifor discusses the radical plans laid out in the Green New Deal. This… Go to Episode
October 17th, 2019
We’re living through a crisis of distraction. Behavioural designer Nir Eyal teaches us how to regain focus on what really matters. This event was recorded… Go to Episode