Ri Christmas Lecture Livestream
Watch-along party of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES
Hosted by WMG
Image (above) credit: Paul Wilkinson Photography
Dates, Times, and Info
When:
WMG will be hosting livestreams of two of the three CHRISTMAS LECTURES on:
Tuesday 8th December 2026
Thursday 10th December 2026
Arrive: 17:30
Live stream starts: 18:00
Latest finish: 20:30
Where:
The International Manufacturing Building (IMC) on the University of Warwick Campus (CV4 7AL). The video feed will be broadcast to us to watch live in our auditorium.
Note that we cannot provide the link to anyone else to stream elsewhere. This is an in-person event.
You can watch the lectures with us as they are recorded, with live hosting and entertainment.
As the world-famous CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution are filmed for the BBC, you can watch-along with us before (almost) anyone else. With live entertainment, extra challenges, experiments, and demonstrations - all in a University auditorium - this is the perfect way for your whole family to watch the CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
Think of it as a science movie premiere - and join us in the exclusive audience!
What are the CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution?
More information on the Ri CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
Initiated by Michael Faraday 200 years ago when organised education for children was scarce, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES established an exciting new way of presenting science to young people. However, only around 100 people can attend the theatre in person - so we have been given an exclusive opportunity to broadcast the lectures live as they happen into the auditorium at WMG at the University of Warwick. There will be a live host with additional entertainment so this will be more than just another online event. This is an exciting opportunity to see the lectures as they are filmed for the BBC and before anyone else (except those in the theatre themselves!).
Michael Faraday presenting at the Royal Institution
What are this year's CHRISTMAS LECTURES about?
We’re delighted to announce we are one of the livestream venues for this year’s CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution.
Across three lectures, physicist, broadcaster and author, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, will tackle the awe-inspiring science of time, investigating a series of mind-melting questions: Does time have a direction? Have humans already time travelled? Is the future all mapped out? Did time exist before the Big Bang? Does time even exist at all? And why are our heads ageing faster than our feet?!
Jim will bring this amazing science to life through a series of dynamic and explosive demos – and with some surprising expert guests. We’ll turn a member of the audience into a time traveller during an ingenious experiment with a light and a chair on rails. Jim will blow up a Christmas pudding – and then ask an audience member to rebuild it – to help explain why time can’t travel backwards. And we’ll meet the scientists using the latest telescopes to look back in time to the very birth of the universe.
Only time (and Jim) will tell…
You can read more about Jim and the LECTURES on the Ri website.