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Recordings from our previous Festivals are available for you to watch and enjoy online.

The Alumni Festival features lively discussions and webinars with some of the world’s foremost thinkers. Find all the available recorded sessions our YouTube Channel. You can also find the 2023 recorded sessions below.

NHS

75 years of the NHS

23 September 2023

Join us as we look at the past, present and future of the NHS, and how today's challenges and debates will shape the future of universal healthcare. 
Women in Law audience

AI and the law: the road ahead

22 September 2023

A Cambridge Women in Law event, with a panel of experts exploring the implications that the rise of AI has on the law.
Rebecca Fitzgerald with cancer-testing device

Changing the story of cancer

23 September 2023

Join Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald and Professor Jean Abraham as they discuss the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital.
Gavel, Themis sculpture

In conversation with Dame Vivien Rose of the Supreme Court

22 September 2023

A Cambridge Women in Law event with Dame Vivien Rose (Newnham 1979), as she shares details of her long and fascinating legal career.
person in giant deck chair

Mindfulness for better sleep

23 September 2023

Can mindfulness help us sleep better?
LHCb

Rare beauty: seeking new physics at the Large Hadron Collider

23 September 2023

In this talk, LHCb physicist Harry Cliff will explain the science of LHCb and the Large Hadron Collider, and the tantalising anomalies that could be showing us the first outlines of a deeper picture of nature.
Student life in the 19C front cover

Student life in the 19th Century

23 September 2023

An entertaining examination of student life at the University of Cambridge, the teaching of mathematics in the nineteenth century, and the life of London’s literary underworld in the 1820s.
the myths behind AI

The age of AI: myths, risks and opportunities

23 September 2023

Stephen Cave will relate the rise of AI to the great technological transformations of the past.