布达佩斯之夏，少年本该全力预备毕业考试，岂料在重重压力下难以专心，原来爱上了仅视他为好友的同学，对方却心仪已婚历史老师，加上视民主自由如洪水猛兽的父亲，官官相卫的校园文化，终如骨牌倒下。当年匈牙利力抗苏联入侵，今天大家似乎欢迎威权再现。亲历十月事件的老人记忆也变得模糊难辨，谁还可信，何可依赖？少年奋起响应，媒体介入，招来一发不可收拾的考试丑闻，俨如自杀。能解释所有崩坏之由者，唯崩坏自身而已？威尼斯地平线单元最佳电影。

布达佩斯之夏，少年本该全力预备毕业考试，岂料在重重压力下难以专心，原来爱上了仅视他为好友的同学，对方却心仪已婚历史老师，加上视民主自由如洪水猛兽的父亲，官官相卫的校园文化，终如骨牌倒下。当年匈牙利力抗苏联入侵，今天大家似乎欢迎威权再现。亲历十月事件的老人记忆也变得模糊难辨，谁还可信，何可依赖？少年奋起响应，媒体介入，招来一发不可收拾的考试丑闻，俨如自杀。能解释所有崩坏之由者，唯崩坏自身而已？威尼斯地平线单元最佳电影。

Professor Sophie Scott will take us on a fascinating journey through one of the fundamentals of human and animal life: the unstoppable urge to communicate, in the 2017 CHRISTMAS LECTURES on communication. 　　Lecture One looks at how we gained the remarkable instrument that is the human voice. Sophie will explore how laughter provides a link to our animal past, how our voice box has changed the shape of our faces and why we sound the way we do. 　　In Lecture Two Sophie will explore the hidden code of communication, the more secret and sometimes more sinister side of human interaction – everything we say without opening our mouths – from contagious behaviours to the emotional clues in smell, and whether information wired directly into our brains is really a future we want. 　　And in Lecture Three, Sophie will examine one of the biggest puzzles in science – how and when humans first evolved language – revealing the huge amount of raw brain power and sensory skill needed to understand even a simple sentence and how we convey as much meaning through our tone, pace and pitch of voice as we say with our words. 　　Along the way we’ll feature a modern-day return to classic television moments from past Lectures such as Sir David Attenborough’s ‘The Language of Animals’ from 1973, and may even attempt a world record.

Professor Sophie Scott will take us on a fascinating journey through one of the fundamentals of human and animal life: the unstoppable urge to communicate, in the 2017 CHRISTMAS LECTURES on communication. 　　Lecture One looks at how we gained the remarkable instrument that is the human voice. Sophie will explore how laughter provides a link to our animal past, how our voice box has changed the shape of our faces and why we sound the way we do. 　　In Lecture Two Sophie will explore the hidden code of communication, the more secret and sometimes more sinister side of human interaction – everything we say without opening our mouths – from contagious behaviours to the emotional clues in smell, and whether information wired directly into our brains is really a future we want. 　　And in Lecture Three, Sophie will examine one of the biggest puzzles in science – how and when humans first evolved language – revealing the huge amount of raw brain power and sensory skill needed to understand even a simple sentence and how we convey as much meaning through our tone, pace and pitch of voice as we say with our words. 　　Along the way we’ll feature a modern-day return to classic television moments from past Lectures such as Sir David Attenborough’s ‘The Language of Animals’ from 1973, and may even attempt a world record.

Saiful Islam investigates how to generate energy, without destroying the planet in the process.

Saiful Islam investigates how to generate energy, without destroying the planet in the process.

Renowned experimental psychologist Professor Bruce Hood delivers three demonstration-packed lectures entitled Meet Your Brain

In the first of this year's Christmas lectures, Dr Mark Miodownik investigates why size matters in animal behaviour. He reveals how the science of materials - the stuff from which everything is made - can explain some of the most extraordinary and surprising feats in the animal kingdom. 　　Dr Mark Miodownik zooms into the microscopic world beneath our fingertips. In this unfamiliar landscape, strange forces dominate the world and common sense goes out of the window. He reveals how this tiny hidden world can make objects behave like magic, and discovers the secrets of the extraordinary metals that make jet engines possible. 　　In the last of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Mark Miodownik investigates the world of the very big and very tall. He reveals that, at this scale, everything is governed by a battle with one of the strangest forces in the universe - gravity.