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Midnight Mass (1960 – present) – Every year Christmas morning starts on BBC with Midnight Mass for Catholics. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1966 – present). Note: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been going since 1825 but started being broadcast in 1966. The Royal Christmas Message (1957–1968, 1970 – present).
A single Christmas Lecture, by G. I. Taylor, was the first to be televised, in 1936, on the BBC's fledgling Television Service. [9] They were broadcast on BBC Two from 1966 to 1999 and Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004. In 2000 one of the lectures was broadcast live for the first time.
15 December – The Ghost of Christmas Past – a night of comedy, music and little lectures on the last 4000 years of civilisation. With Tony Law, Natalie Haynes, Joanna Neary, Josie Long, Mary Beard, Steve Pretty's Origin of the Pieces orchestra, George Egg, Grace Petrie and Baba Brinkman. 16 & 17 December – The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
The service is broadcast live in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4, and abroad on the BBC's overseas programmes as well; it is estimated that each year there are millions of listeners worldwide who listen to it live on the BBC World Service. In the UK, a recorded broadcast is also made on Christmas Day on BBC Radio 3. [1]
Growing Up in the Universe was a series of televised public lectures given by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which he discussed the evolution of life in the universe. [1] The lectures were first broadcast on the BBC in 1991, in the form of five one-hour episodes.
Hannah M. Fry, [11] [1] was born in Harlow, Essex, England on 21 February 1984. [12] She is of English and Irish heritage; her father is an English factory worker, and her mother, a stay-at-home mother, is from Ireland.
Noel's Christmas Presents is a British television show hosted by Noel Edmonds that was originally broadcast on Christmas Day on BBC1 in 1989. It was a reformatted live television event which Noel Edmonds had previously presented on BBC1 between 1984-1985, known as The Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show, and "Christmas Morning with Noel" between 1986-1988.
Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture Series by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Emory University; Gardner Murphy Memorial Lecture Series by the American Society for Psychical Research; HHMI's Neuroscience Lecture Series at Howard Hughes Medical Institute [16] IHF Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory at Irvine Health ...