100 Years of the BBC: The Jewish Contribution is a series of Zoom lectures marking the centenary of the BBC, focusing in particular on Jewish contributions to its prolific output. This series is run in partnership with the Lyons Learning Project and Insiders/Outsiders.

From music to fine art to architecture, for a century the BBC has been at the forefront of promoting arts and culture in the UK. Monica Bohm-Duchen, founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, explores the remarkable lives and careers of three creative Jewish émigrés, who played key roles in the early years of the BBC: musician Hans Keller, art and architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner and artist Milein Cosman. She’ll be joined in discussion by Dr Stephen Games, founder of Booklaunch and EnvelopeBooks and author of four books on Sir Nikolaus Pevsner; Alison Garnham, cultural historian in the social history of music in Britain in the mid-20th century and founder of the Hans Keller Archive at Cambridge University Library; and art historian Ines Schlenker, who specialises in National Socialist, degenerate and émigré art, and recently published books on Cosman and Chagall.

All the talks in our BBC series are free to attend, but please book your place here.