The Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture: Entangled Life

Join Marcus du Sautoy and Merlin Sheldrake for this year’s Charles Simonyi Lecture

Thinking about fungi makes the world look different. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and help remediate environmental disaster. In this lecture, Merlin Sheldrake will discuss the ways these extraordinary organisms – and our relationships with them – change our understanding of the planet on which we live, and the ways that we think, feel, and behave.

Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden’s Wassail

Before there was carolling, there was wassailing, where seasonal songs were exchanged for money, food and ale. In the countryside trees were blessed, while in the towns wassailers went from house to house with their songs and calls for Christmas treats. Coming from the Anglo Saxon waes hael, ‘wassail’ is a toast wishing good health with a ‘be well’.

Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden combine their considerable talents and reputations within the UK folk scene, for the first time ever touring as a duo for a nationwide wassail.

Presenting seasonal, traditional material on a stage decorated for the occasion, they will perform some of the oldest songs in the English canon, tell Christmas tales and light up the darkest days of the year, ahead of Christmas Day itself.

5.30pm

Tickets £8

Age guideline 12+

7.30pm

Tickets from £10

U14s to be accompanied

Uncanny: I Know What I Saw

Do you believe in ghosts? Are UFOs real? Is the impossible possible?

Join Danny Robins, creator of the smash hit BBC Radio 4 paranormal podcasts Uncanny, The Battersea Poltergeist and The Witch Farm and award-winning West End play 2:22 –A Ghost Story, for the biggest investigation into the paranormal – ever.

In Uncanny: I Know What I Saw, you’ll be immersed in the sights, sounds and scares of brand new, real-life stories of the supernatural, from ghosts and poltergeists to UFO sightings and other strange encounters. Watch as these creepy, thrilling tales are brought to life on stage by Danny Robins and his ever-present team of experts.

An Audience with Sir Bradley Wiggins

Join The Tour De France and Olympic Medallist Sir Bradley Wiggins as he discusses his inspirational and extraordinary career, what brought him to cycling and everything in-between!

A British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016, he is the only rider to have won both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road, as well as winning the Tour De France.

Sir Bradley has worn the leader's jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions. As well as winning gold at four successive Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, he also held the record as Britain’s most decorated Olympian, with 8 medals.

7.30pm

Tickets from £10 Age guideline 10+ (parental discretion advised)

8pm

Tickets from £33 VIP & Super VIP Packages available Age guideline 16+