The 2022 Christmas Lectures with forensic anthropologist Sue Black start TONIGHT. We cannot contain our excitement! 🙌 In lecture one we'll look at what clues are hidden in our bodies, and how investigators can uncover a host of information about someone from the smallest fragment of their remains. Tune in to BBC Four and iPlayer at 8pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain

🥚 Christmas Lectures iconic object no. 2 - from 2022 with Sue Black We hard-boiled two ostrich eggs to shoot them with a BB gun, to demonstrate bullet wounds on skulls. It took two hours to hard boil them, and we ended up dyeing one green for contrast on-camera, which made it look rather like a cassowary egg. Again, it was an ostrich egg. We'd do anything for science – but not get anywhere near a cassowary. 📺 The 2024 Christmas Lectures will be on BBC Four and iPlayer 29, 30 and 31 December |

At this festive time of year, BBC Archive brings you the ghost of Christmas Lectures past. Go science! This year's lectures end today. | BBC Archive

Be in it to win it: the 2023 Christmas Lectures ticket ballot is now open to Ri Members! 🎟️ Not a member yet? Join us today for your chance to secure one of the hottest tickets in town at Christmas time: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/join-us-christmas-lectures-live-filming | Royal Institution of Great Britain