14th July 2009 - To be confirmed

9th June 2009 - Dr Jean Knox - Psychotherapy

12th May 2009 - Dr Helen Packer and Dr Marcus Gould - Biofilms

14th April 2009 - Professor Steve Roberts - Fusion - materials for building fusion reactors

10th March 2009 - Steve Moxon - Do men dominate women? Why are there sexes?

10th February 2009 - CANCELLED due to the high chance of difficult travelling conditions for speaker/audience/Blackwells staff.

13th January 2009 - Professor Russell Foster - Rhythms of life - the 24-hour body clocks that rule our lives

9th December 2008 - Dr David Robinson - Earthquakes, hazards and prediction: Can we ever predict an earthquake?

11th November 2009
Professor Peter Rothwell - Avoiding strokes: why medical research has been failing patients

FRIDAY 17th October 2009
Dr Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
This talk has a special change of location and date - to a Friday, and to the Martin Wood Theatre on Parks Road, so that more than usual can attend. See link for details.

September 2008
Dr Stephen Samuel - Fuel economy and emission levels

The eighth year:

June 2008
Dr Carolyn Willis - Cancer detection in dogs: from anecdote to evidence

May 2008
Professor Peter Atkins - Thermodynamics made easy

April 2008
CANCELLED - our apologies to all audience members

March 2008
Rita Carter - Multiple personalities

February 2008
Brian Clegg - Infinity

January 2008
Roger Ashby - Autism - a parent's viewpoint

December 2007
Dr Chris Blanford - The hydrogen economy and fuel cells

November 2007
Gavin Killip - Turning my house energy-efficient - a personal experience of going low-carbon.

October 2007
Chris Carpenter - Fusion within our grasp.

(Archive available here for details of previous years' speakers)