RI Christmas Lectures 2016

Episodes

Lecture 1 - Let There be Light!

Chemist Professor Saiful Islam explores a subject that the lectures’ founder – Michael Faraday – addressed in the very first Christmas Lectures – energy

Lecture 2 - People Power

In this lecture he investigates how humans actually use energy, asking whether it’s possible to ‘supercharge’ the human body and increase its performance.

Lecture 3 - Fully Charged

Saiful Islam investigates the chemistry of batteries and tell us what the future of energy has in store for us.

The Series

Supercharged: Fuelling the future

Celebrating 80 years since the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures were first televised, chemist Professor Saiful Islam explores one of humankind’s biggest challenges: how to generate and store energy, with guest appearances from Christmas Lecturers past.

Credits
Executive Producer
David Dugan
Series Producer
Tom Cook
Production Manager
Rhiannon Heysmond
Director
David Coleman
Assistant Producer
Roshan Samarasinghe
Coordinator
Gailene Pierre
Researchers
James Bowers
Izzie Clarke
3 x 60 for BBC4