Revision of Wallace talks from Mon, 2013-12-16 09:43

A. GENERAL TALKS & INTERVIEWS

*George Beccaloni, Ted Benton and Steve Jones talk about Wallace with Melvyn Bragg on his highly regarded programme, In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. The programme was first broadcast on 21 March 2013.*

Interview with George on RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland on 6th September 2013: CLICK HERE

Interview with Wallace biographer Peter Raby

Interview with Wallace scholar Andrew Berry

Talk about Wallace and the birds of paradise by David Attenborough at the AMNH in November 2013

Audio slideshow narrated by David Attenborough

Bill Bailey unveils a portrait of Wallace at London's Natural History Museum

Bill Bailey shares his huge admiration for Wallace at London's Natural History Museum

A short video about Wallace produced by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors

Wallace's legendary house on Ternate island

A talk about Wallace and a behind-the-scenes look at the NHM's Wallace Archive by George Beccaloni and Caroline Catchpole

Talks from Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta

Jonny Berliner's song about Wallace

John van Wyhe (University of Singapore) on Did Dawin steal the theory of evolution from Wallace? [CLICK HERE]

For more Wallace-related videos CLICK HERE

B. ACADEMIC TALKS 

*George Beccaloni, Ted Benton and Steve Jones talk about Wallace with Melvyn Bragg on his highly regarded programme, In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. The programme was first broadcast on 21 March 2013.*

Interview with George on RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland on 6th September 2013: CLICK HERE

Talks from the Royal Society's conference on Wallace in October 2013

Interview with Wallace biographer Peter Raby

Interview with Wallace scholar Andrew Berry

Talk about Wallace and the birds of paradise by David Attenborough at the AMNH in November 2013

Audio slideshow narrated by David Attenborough

1) AUDIO FILES OF TALKS GIVEN AT A CONFERENCE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF WALLACE AT THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON ON 22 NOVEMBER 2008 (see http://wallacefund.info/smn-conference-alfred-russel-wallace-podcasts-and-photos): These talks were recorded for the Scientific and Medical Network by Martin Redfern (senior producer in the BBC Radio Science Unit) and Martin and the SMN have kindly allowed the Wallace Fund to put copies of the sound files on this website. The talks are mp3 files of around 20MB each and you can download them by right clicking a link below and saving the file to your hard drive. They can then be played using any audio player (e.g. RealPlayer - http://uk.real.com/player/win/). 

i) Introduction by Aubrey Manning, followed by Alfred Russel Wallace: The Evolution of an Unforgotten Naturalist by Peter Raby [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

ii) Wallace, Darwin and the Discovery of Natural Selection by George Beccaloni [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

iii) Wallace, Darwin and the Discovery of Natural Selection - a New Interpretation of the Events by Roy Davies [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

iv) Wallace and Final Causes: Spiritualism, Evolution, and Beyond by Charles Smith [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

v) Alfred Russel Wallace as a Social Reformer by David Collard [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

vi) DISCUSSION [RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]

2) VIDEOS OF TALKS FROM A LECTURE SERIES "MORE THAN NATURAL SELECTION" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, USA IN 2013:

i) The time travelers: Alfred Russel Wallace and Peter Kropotkin by Kathleen Lowrey (Associate Professor Anthropology University of Alberta)

ii) Alfred Russel Wallace, Mars, Extra-Terrestrials and the Nature of the Universe by Robert Smith (Professor, History and Classics University of Alberta)

iii) Alfred Russel Wallace, Collector by Andrew Berry (Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University)

iv) Wallace on Science and the Problems of Progress by Martin Fichman (Professor, Department of Humanities York University)

v) Other Worlds: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Cross-Cultures of Spiritualism by Christine Ferguson (Senior Lecturer, English Literature University of Glasgow)

OTHER RECOMMENDED TALKS ABOUT WALLACE

David Quammen: The man who wasn't Darwin (Montana State University's Wallace Stegner Lecture given on November 5, 2008). [CLICK HERE]

David Quammen: The man who wasn't Darwin (Interview by Kathleen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio, December 15, 2008). [CLICK HERE]

George Beccaloni & Jo Cooper: Darwin, Wallace and the discovery of natural selection (A presentation given for "Nature Live" at The Natural History Museum, London, on July 1st 2008 - the 150th anniversary of announcement of Darwin and Wallace's discovery). [CLICK HERE]

Andrew Berry (Harvard University): Happy Birthday Darwin and Hello Alfred Wallace (New Hampshire Public Radio, August 29, 2009) [CLICK HERE]

James Moore (Open University, UK) talks about Wallace's life and work [CLICK HERE]

Redmond O'Hanlon & Sandy Knapp [CLICK HERE]

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith