1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway?

1972-10-31

1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict

1973-11-06

Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?

1974-10-22

1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television

1976-02-26

1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship

1976-10-14

Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour

1977-12-06

1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk

1978-11-23

Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad

1979-11-22

1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power

1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities

1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections

1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain

1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself

1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter?

1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now?

1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power

1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land

1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties

1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties

1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?

1994-06-12

1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

1996-11-12

1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence

1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace

1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun

2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art

2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century

2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals

2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world

James Dyson: Engineering the Difference

Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?

General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century

2006-12-06

Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World

2007-12-04

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future

2009-07-08

Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death

2010-02-01

Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free

2011-02-15

Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science

2012-02-28

Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist

2013-01-29

Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century

2014-02-04

Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You

2015-03-30

Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?

2016-03-16

John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World

2017-04-04

Jeanette Winterson

2018-06-06

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction

2019-11-17

Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One

2021-12-06

David Harewood: 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in this country

2023-06-20

Sir Gareth Southgate: The Beautiful Game: Building Belief and Resilience in a Younger Generation

2025-03-19