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1. RAY ABRAHAMS - anthropologist (Tanzania, Uganda, Finland, Estonia) - interview 2015 SMS
2. AKBAR AHMED - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2004 SMS
3. HAROON AHMED - electrical engineer - interview 2009 SMS
4. DAVID ELLISTON ALLEN - historian (naturalist, administrator) - interview 1983 SMS
5. MICHAEL ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2005 SMS
6. NICHOLAS ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2001 SMS
7. GEORGE APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 SMS
8. LAURA APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 2004 SMS
9. RAYMOND APTHORPE - anthropologist (Uganda) - interview 1989 SMS
10. NEAL ASCHERSON - journalist- interview 2016 SMS
11. GARETH AUSTIN - historian of Africa- interview 2023 SMS and SMS
12. PETER AVERY - orientalist (Persian) - interview 2008 SMS
13. RICHARD AYRES - horticulturist - interview 2023 SMS
14. JEAN BACON - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
15. ASEN BALIKCI - anthropologist (ethnographic film maker) - interview 2003 SMS
16. MICHAEL BANTON - sociologist (anthropologist, West Africa) - interview 2001 SMS
17. HORACE BARLOW - neuroscientist - interview 2012 SMS
18. JOHN BARNES - sociologist (anthropologist, East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
19. FREDRICK BARTH - anthropologist (Pakistan) - interview 2005 SMS
20. MICHAEL BATE - neuroscientist - interview 2008 SMS
21. NORA BATESON - filmmaker (educator) - interview 2012 SMS
22. PATRICK BATESON - ethologist (biologist) - interview 2007 SMS
23. SVEND BAYER - potter - interview 2022 SMS
24. CHRISTOPHER BAYLY - historian (Imperial India, global) - interview 2014 SMS
25. JOHN BEATTIE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
26. GILLIAN BEER - literary critic - interview 2009 SMS
27. JONATHAN BENTHALL - anthropologist (Islam) - interview 2005 SMS
28. RICHARD BERENGARTEN (BURNS) - poet - interview 2015 SMS
29. ANDRE BETEILLE - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1986, lecture 2008 SMS
30. TOM BINGHAM - lawyer - interview 2009, lecture 2009 SMS
31. SIMON BLACKBURN - philosopher - interview 2009 SMS
32. MATTHEW BLAKELY - potter - interview 2017 SMS
33. MAURICE BLOCH - anthropologist - interview 2008, lecture 2008 SMS
34. MARTIN BLOOM - businessman - interview 2014 SMS
35. RONALD BLYTHE - writer - interview 2015 SMS
36. MAGGIE BODEN - cognitive psychologist - interview 2015 SMS
37. JEREMY BOISSEVAIN - anthropologist (Malta) - interview 1983 SMS
38. ALAN BOOKBINDER - journalist (BBC) - interview 2023 SMS
39. URSULA GRAHAM BOWER - explorer (anthropologist, photographer, Nagaland) - interview 1985 SMS
40. SYDNEY BRENNER - microbiologist - interview 2007 SMS
41. ALLAN BRIGHAM - - interview 2013 SMS
42. DAVID BROKENSHA - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
43. DAN BROWN - chemist (molecular biologist) - interview 2008 SMS
44. PETER BURKE - historian - interview 2004 SMS
45. SARAH BUTTERFIELD - artist - interview 2017 SMS
46. VINCE CABLE - politician - interview 2022 SMS
47. JAMES CAMPBELL - historian - interview 2009 SMS
48. LIONEL CAPLAN - anthropologist (Nepal) - interview 2004 SMS
49. PAT CAPLAN - anthropologist (East Africa, Nepal) - interview 2004 SMS
50. DAVID CARDWELL - physics - interview 2024 SMS
51. LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA - demographer - interview 2006 SMS
52. OWEN CHADWICK - historian (theologian) - interview 2008 SMS
53. CHARLES CHADWYCK-HEALEY - publisher (photographer) - interview 2009 SMS
54. TIM CHALK - artist and sculptor - interview 2017 SMS
55. STEPHEN CLEOBURY - musician - interview 2008 SMS
56. JOHN COATES - mathematician - interview 2008 SMS
57. STEVEN COGHILL - horticulturist - interview 2017 SMS
58. ELIZABETH COLSON - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 SMS
59. JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF - anthropologists (South Africa) - interview 2008 SMS
60. SHERARD COWPER-COLES - law - interview 2024 SMS
61. JOHN CROSS - soldier (Nepal) - interview 1991 SMS
62. DON CUPITT - theologian - interview 2009 SMS
63. REGNA DARNELL - anthropologist - interview 2017 SMS
64. SMO DAS - businessman - interview 2001 SMS
65. PARTHA DASGUPTA - economist - interview 2010 SMS
66. MARTIN DAUNTON - historian - interview 2013 SMS
67. KENT DENG - historian (China) - interview 2019 SMS
68. PHILIPPE DESCOLA - anthropologist (Amazonia) - lecture 2004 SMS - interview 2015 SMS
69. HAL DIXON - biochemist - interview 2007 SMS
70. RONALD DORE - sociologist (Japan) - interview 2003 SMS
71. MARY DOUGLAS - anthropologist (Central Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
72. RICHARD DRAYTON - historian - interview 2017 SMS
73. JOHN DUNN - historian (political theorist) - interview 2008 SMS
74. KEN EDWARDS - geneticist (university administrator) - interview 2009 SMS
75. MARK ELVIN - historian (late imperial Chinese) - interview 2012 SMS
76. SCARLETT EPSTEIN - anthropologist (economist New Guinea, India) - interview 2004 SMS
77. THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN - anthropologist (Mauritius, Trinidad. Norway, Australia) - interview 2019 SMS
78. STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG - anthropologist (sociologist, Taiwan, China) - interview 2009 SMS
79. RUTH FINNEGAN - anthropologist (Sierra Leone, UK) - interview 2008 SMS
80. RAYMOND FIRTH - anthropologist (New Zealand, Melanesia, Malaya) - interview 1983 SMS
81. ROSEMARY FIRTH - anthropologist (Malaya) - interview 1983 SMS
82. PAUL FLATHER - journalist (academic administrator) - interview 2019 SMS
83. ROBERT FOLEY - biological anthropologist (North Africa) - interview 2010 SMS
84. MEYER FORTES - anthropologist (West Africa) - lecture 1982 SMS
85. RONALD FRANKENBERG - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1983 SMS
86. RICHARD FRIEND - physicist - interview 2008 SMS
87. CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF - anthropologist (Nagaland, India, Nepal) - interview 1983 SMS
88. JEAN CLAUDE GALEY - anthropologist (India) - lecture 1989 SMS
89. JOHN ELIOT GARDINER - musician (conductor) - interview 2015 SMS
90. PETER GATHERCOLE - anthropologist (museologist, archaeologist, Polynesia) - interview 2003 SMS
91. CLIFFORD GEERTZ - anthropologist (Southeast Asia, North Africa, Islam) - interview 2004 SMS
92. ERNEST GELLNER - anthropologist (philosopher, sociologist) - lecture 1989 SMS
93. OWEN GINGERICH - historian of science (astronomer) - interview 2008 SMS
94. WYNNE GODLEY - economist - interview 2008 SMS
95. MARK GOLDIE - historian - interview 2023 SMS
96. DAVID GOOD - psychologist - interview 2024 SMS
97. JACK GOODY - anthropologist (West Africa, Eurasia) - interview 1991 SMS
98. ANTONY GORMLEY - artist - interview 2009 SMS
99. STEPHEN GUDEMAN - anthropologist (Panama, Colombia) - interview 2010 SMS
100. PHILIP GULLIVER - anthropologist (East and Central Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
101. JOHN GURDON - biologist - interview 2008 SMS
102. STUART HALL - sociologist - interview 2006 SMS
103. HEATHER HANCOCK - civil servant - interview 2023 SMS
104. CHRIS HANN - anthropologist - interview 2010 SMS
105. ILDIKO BELLER-HANN - anthropologist - interview 2024 SMS
106. GEOFF HARCOURT - economist - interview 2007 SMS
107. BRIAN HARRISON - historian - interview 2012 SMS
108. KEITH HART - anthropologist (West Africa) - interview 2006 SMS
109. DAVID HARTLEY - computer scientist - interview 2017 SMS
110. HERMANN HAUSER - computer scientist (entrepreneur) - interview 2008 SMS
111. GEOFFREY HAWTHORN - sociologist (political theorist) - interview 2009 SMS
112. AKIRA HAYAMI - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2009 SMS
113. KARL HEIDER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2007 SMS
114. MICHAEL HERZFELD - anthropologist (Greece) - lectures 2005 & 2013 SMS SMS - interview 2011 SMS
115. ANTONY HEWISH - radio astronomer - interview 2008 SMS
116. LES HIATT - anthropologist (Australia) - interview 2005 SMS
117. POLLY HILL - anthropologist (economist) - interview 1996 SMS
118. ROBERT HINDE - ethologist (zoologist) - interview 2007 SMS
119. ERIC HOBSBAWM - historian - interview 2009 SMS
120. PAUL HOCKINGS - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2005 SMS
121. ANDY HOPPER - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
122. GABRIEL HORN - zoologist (medic, biologist) - interview 2007 SMS
123. STEPHEN HUGH-JONES - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2007 SMS
124. CAROLINE HUMPHREY - anthropologist - interview 2010 SMS
125. JULIAN HUNT - climate modelling - interview 2009 SMS
126. TIM HUNT - biochemist - interview 2015 SMS SMS
127. HERBERT HUPPERT - geophysicist - interview 2009 SMS
128. JULIAN HUPPERT - politician (biochemist) - interview 2024 SMS
129. ANDREW HUXLEY - physiologist - interview 2007 SMS
130. MARTIN JACQUES - journalist (politics, China) - interview 2011 SMS
131. WENDY JAMES - anthropologist (Sudan, Ethiopia) - interview 2009 SMS
132. LISA JARDINE - historian (English literature) - interview 2008 SMS
133. G.I. JONES - anthropologist (colonial officer, West Africa) - interview 1989 SMS
134. FRANK KERMODE - literary critic - interview 2008 SMS
135. BARRY KEVERNE - neuroscientist - interview 2009 SMS
136. RICHARD KEYNES - physiologist - interview 2007 SMS
137. GARY KILDEA - ethnographic film maker - interview 2006 SMS
138. DAVID KING - physical chemist - interview 2009 SMS
139. AARON KLUG - biophysicist (chemist) - interview 2007 SMS
140. KRISHAN KUMAR - sociologist - interview 2019 SMS
141. JEAN LA FONTAINE - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1982 SMS
142. BERND LAMBERT - anthropologist (Micronesia) - interview 2004 SMS
143. MICHAEL LANGFORD - philosopher - interview 2015 SMS
144. OWEN LATTIMORE - explorer (sinologist) - interview 1983 SMS
145. EDMUND LEACH - anthropologist (Burma, Sri Lanka) - interview 1982 SMS
146. JAMES Z, LEE - demographer (historian, sociologist, China) - interview 2002 SMS
147. F.K. LEHMAN - anthropologist (Burma) - interview 2003 SMS
148. LI BOZHONG - economic historian - interview 2011 SMS
149. LIANG BIBO - ethnographic film maker - interview 2008 SMS
150. WEI-YAO LIANG - physicist - interviews 2013 & 2015 SMS SMS
151. GODFREY LIENHARDT - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1992 SMS
152. GEOFFREY LLOYD - classicist - interview 2005 SMS
153. PETER LOIZOS - anthropologist (Cyprus, ethnographic film maker) - interview 2002 SMS
154. YUNG WAI (CHARLIE) LOKE - reproductive immunologist - interview 2007 SMS
155. ANNE LONSDALE - classicist (sinologist, administrator) - interview 2008 SMS
156. TANYA LUHRMANN - anthropologist - interview 2022 SMS
157. VITTORIO LUZZATI - crystallographer - interview 2009 SMS
158. DAVID MACDOUGALL - ethnographic film maker - interview 2007 SMS
159. RODERICK MACFARQUHAR - political scientist (China)- interview 2017 SMS
160. JOHN MACHIN - lawyer - interview 2013-14 SMS
161. LUCY MAIR - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
162. MICHAEL MANN - sociologist - interview 2005 SMS
163. McKIM MARRIOTT - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 SMS
164. HENRY MARSH - brain surgeon - interview 2024 SMS
165. RICHARD MARSHALL - philosopher & educationalist - interview 2021 SMS
166. EMANUEL MARX - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 1983 SMS
167. JEAN MICHEL MASSING - art historian - interview 2014 SMS
168. PETER MATHIAS - historian - interviews 2008 and 2009 SMS
169. ADRIAN MAYER - anthropologist (India, Fiji) - interview 2017 Youtube
170. IONA MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
171. PHILIP MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa) - interview 1983 SMS
172. BRIDGET STREVENS MARZO - Illustrator, author and translator - interview 2019 SMS
173. SIMON MCDONALD - diplomat - interview 2023 SMS
174. DAN MCKENZIE - geophysicist - interview 2007 SMS
175. DAVID MCLELLAN - political scientist - interview 2012 SMS
176. FERNAND MEYER - anthropologist (Tibet, Nepal) - interview 2016 SMS
177. SIDNEY MINTZ - anthropologist (Caribbean) - interview 2007 SMS
178. JAMES MIRRLEES - economist - interview 2009 SMS
179. JULIET MITCHELL - psychoanalyst - interview 2008 SMS
180. KEITH MOFFATT - mathematical physics - interview 2019 SMS
181. KEN MOODY - computer scientist - interview 2008 SMS
182. SALLY FALK MOORE - anthropologist (Tanzania) - interview 2008 SMS
183. ANDREW MORGAN - historian - interview 2000 SMS
184. CHIE NAKANE - anthropologist (India, Tibet, Japan) - interview 2009 SMS
185. MICHAEL NEDO - philosopher - interview 2017 SMS
186. RODNEY NEEDHAM - anthropologist (Borneo) - interview 1979 SMS
187. LILIE NIE - anthropologist (Japan, China) - interview 2008 SMS
188. PATRICK O'BRIEN - historian - interview 2005 SMS
189. EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY - anthropologist - interview 2011 SMS
190. ALEX ORLOV - physical chemist - interview 2024 SMS
191. SHERRY ORTNER - anthropologist (Nepal, U.S.A.) - interview 2020 SMS
192. ROBIN OSBORNE - classicist (Ancient Historian) - interview 2022 SMS
193. ROBERT PAINE - anthropologist (Norway, Newfoundland, Israel) - interview 1986 SMS
194. DAVID PARKIN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2009 SMS
195. JONATHAN PARRY - anthropologist (India) - interview 2008 SMS
196. DAVID PASKETT - artist - interview 2017 SMS
197. NICHOLAS PHILLIPS - lawyer - interview 2014 SMS
198. LAURENCE PICKEN - ethnomusicologist (zoologist) - interview 1983 SMS
199. BRIAN PIPPARD - physicist - interview 2008 SMS
200. JOHN PILGRIM - anthropologist - interview 2024 SMS
201. ROSEMARY POLACK - lawyer - interview 2013 SMS
202. JOHN POLKINGHORNE - physicist (theologian) - interview 2008 SMS
203. CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST - French literature - interview 2024 SMS
204. MICHAEL PROCTOR - mathematician - interview 2018 SMS
205. PAUL RABINOW - anthropologist (Morocco) - interview 2008, lecture 2008 SMS
206. DAN RABINOWITZ - anthropologist (Israel) - interview 2006, lecture 2006 SMS
207. RICHARD RATHBONE - historian (Africa, anthropology) - interview 2013 SMS
208. FAITH RAVEN - horticulturist - interview 2016 SMS
209. MARTIN REES - cosmologist (astrophysicist) - interview 2007 SMS
210. COLIN RENFREW - archaeologist - interview 2008 SMS
211. ALISON RICHARD - biological anthropologist (administrator) - interview 2008 SMS
212. AUDREY RICHARDS - anthropologist (East Africa) - lecture 1982 SMS
213. CHRISTOPHER RICKS - literary critic - interview 2013 SMS
214. KEITH VAN RIJSBERGEN - computer scientist - interview 2009 SMS
215. PETER RIVIERE - anthropologist (Brazil) - interview 2001 SMS
216. BRUCE ROSS-SMITH - poet - interview 2016 SMS
217. ROBERT ROWTHORN - economist - interview 2008 SMS
218. MALCOLM RUEL - anthropologist (East and West Africa) - interview 2002 SMS
219. GARRY RUNCIMAN - sociologist - interview 2014 SMS
220. JOHN RUTTER - composer - interview 2009 SMS
221. MARSHALL SAHLINS - anthropologist (economic, cultural) - interview 2013 SMS
222. OSAMU SAITO - demographer (economic historian) - interview 2010 SMS
223. ANNE SALMOND - anthropologist (New Zealand) - interview 2004 SMS
224. EDWIN SALPETER - astrophysicist - interview 2008 SMS
225. JEREMY SANDERS - chemist - interview 22nd September 2009 SMS
226. FREDERICK SANGER - biochemist - interview 2007 SMS
227. SIMON SCHAFFER - historian of science - interview 2008 SMS
228. JAMES SCOTT - anthropologist (political scientist, Malaysia, Burma) - interview 2009 SMS
229. DAVID SEDDON - anthropologist (development theorist, Morocco, Nepal) - interview 2009 SMS
230. RICHARD SENNETT - sociologist (musician) - interview 2009, lecture 2009 SMS
231. DAVID SHAFFER - educationalist - interview 2024 SMS
232. ELEANOR SHARPSTON - lawyer - interview 2016 SMS
233. BEN SHNEIDERMAN - computer scientist - interview 2009 SMS
234. DAVID SIMPSON - romantic literature - interview 2024 SMS
235. JOHN SIMPSON - mathematician - interview 2004 SMS
236. ANDRE SINGER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist) - interview 2015 SMS
237. QUENTIN SKINNER - historian - interview 2009 SMS
238. RICHARD SMETHURST - economist - interview 2010 SMS
239. ALVY RAY SMITH - computer scientist (digital film maker)- interview 2017 SMS
240. MARK SMITH - College Butler - interview 2018 SMS
241. RICHARD SMITH - demographer (geographer)- interview 2011 SMS
242. DAVID SNELLGROVE - explorer (Tibetologist) - interview 2004 SMS
243. AIDAN SOUTHALL - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 SMS
244. M.N. SRINIVAS - sociologist (anthropologist, India) - interview 1982 SMS
245. PHILIP STEADMAN - architect - interview 2020 SMS
246. GARETH STEDMAN JONES - historian - interview 2012 SMS
247. GEORGE STEINER - literary critic - interview 2007 SMS
248. MARILYN STRATHERN - anthropologist (New Guinea) - interview 2009 SMS
249. MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN - diplomat (China) - interview 2019 SMS
250. BARRY SUPPLE - economic historian - interview 2010 SMS
251. AZIM SURANI - biologist (physiologist) - interview 2009 SMS
252. PETER SWINNERTON-DYER - mathematician - interview 2008 SMS
253. JOHN SULSTON - molecular biologist - interview 2008 SMS
254. TOSHI TAKAMIYA - bibliophile - interview 2009 SMS
255. STANLEY TAMBIAH - anthropologist (Thailand, Sri Lanka) - interview 1983 SMS
256. ANNE-CHRISTINE TAYLOR - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2015 SMS
257. GILLIAN TETT - journalist (anthropologist) - series of three interviews 2023-2024 SMS
258. JOHN MEURIG THOMAS - chemist - interview 2007 SMS
259. KEITH THOMAS - historian - interview 2009 SMS
260. TIEN JU-KANG - anthropologist (Sarawak, China) - interview 2005 SMS
261. STEPHEN TOOPE - lawyer - interview 2022 SMS
262. PETER TRUDGILL - linguist (England, New Zealand) - interview 2012 SMS
263. TERRY TURNER - anthropologist (Amazonia) - interview 2004 SMS
264. NEIL TUROK - cosmologist - interviews 2008 and 2017 SMS SMS
265. HANS VAN DE VEN - historian (China) - interview 2019 SMS
266. ANDREW VAYDA - anthropology (ecologist) - interview 2008 SMS
267. PIERS VITEBSKY - anthropologist (India, Sri Lanka, Siberia) - lecture 2009 SMS
268. SHAILENDRA VYAKARNAM - entrepreneur - interview 2023 SMS
269. ROY WAGNER - anthropologist (New Guinea, New Ireland) - interview 2008 SMS
270. WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE - politician - interview 2011 SMS 2013 SMS
271. JOHN WALKER - biochemist - interview 2008 SMS
272. WANG MINGMING - anthropologist (China) - interview 2008 SMS
273. HARVEY WHITEHOUSE - anthropologist (Papua New Guinea) - interview 2023 SMS
274. MAURICE WILKES - computer scientist - after dinner talk 1997 SMS
275. DAVID WILCOCKS - musician - interview 2008 SMS SMS
276. ROWAN WILLIAMS - theologian - interview 2015 SMS
277. RICHARD WILSON - civil servant - interview 2009 SMS
278. SOPHIE WILSON - computer scientist - interview 2017 SMS
279. STANLEY WONG - civil servant (Hong Kong) - interview 2023 SMS
280. FRANCES WOOD - sinologist (librarian, historian) - interview 2016 SMS
281. JAMES WOODBURN - anthropologist (East Africa) - interview 2005 SMS
282. PETER WORSLEY - sociologist (anthropologist) - interview 1989 SMS
283. TONY WRIGLEY - demographer (geographer) - interview 2007 SMS
284. XU BING - artist - interview 2015 SMS
285. NUR YALMAN - anthropologist (Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Turkey) - interview 2004 SMS