National Museums Liverpool holds regular free talks and lectures at our venues. Since April 2006, we are recording many of these talks and making them available for download through this website.
This directory holds mp3 files for talks, lectures and gallery tours at our venues. For information on using these files see 4 ways to listen.
Archived podcasts:
Head of Decorative Arts Robin Emmerson gives a gallery talk on Ettore Sotsass' 'Casablanca Cabinet' at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
7.6MB, 16.20 mins
Robin Emmerson
Head of Decorative Arts Robin Emmerson gives a gallery talk on the 'Moor Park mantelpiece' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
8.8MB, 19.49 mins
Robin Emmerson
Curator of British paintings Alex Kidson gives a gallery talk on the 'The Death of Oedipus' at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
12.6MB, 27.0 mins
Alex Kidson
Dr Paul O'Keeffe gives a gallery talk on the 'The Annunciation' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery A transcript of the talk is available.
15.5MB, 33.10 mins
Fine Art Curator Ann Bukantas gives a gallery talk on Helen Chadwick's 'Viral Landscapes' at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
21.3MB, 47.42 mins
Ann Bukantas
Fine Art Curator and John Moores 24 juror gives a gallery talk on judging and organising the John Moores 24 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
22.6MB, 48.16 mins
Ann Bukantas
Martin Greenland gives a gallery talk on his John Moores 24 first prizewinning painting 'Before Vermeer's Clouds' at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
19.9MB, 43.35 mins
Dr Paul O'Keeffe gives a gallery talk on John Gibson's sculpture 'Pandora' from the Lady Lever Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
16.9MB, 35.16 mins
Dr Paul O'Keeffe gives a gallery talk on the first prizewinner in the Walker Art Gallery's John Moores 24, Martin Greenland's 'Before Vermeer's Clouds'. A transcript of the talk is available.
14MB, 30.56 mins
Artist Nicholas Middleton gives a gallery talk on his painting 'Scene from a contemporary novel' at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
11.2MB, 24.48 mins
Curator Xanthe Brooke gives a gallery talk on Rembrandt van Rijn's painting 'Self-portrait as a young man' at the Walker Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
17.4MB, 40.59 mins
Xanthe Brooke
Frank Milner gives a gallery talk on George Morland's painting 'The Piggery' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.
9.2MB, 20.54 mins
Ann Bukantas, Curator of Fine Art at National Museums Liverpool, gives a gallery talk on the refurbishment and rehang of the modern and contemporary art collections at the Walker Art Gallery A transcript of the talk is available.
19.9MB, 44.40 mins
Anne Bukantas
Julian Treuherz, Keeper of Art Galleries at National Museums Liverpool, gives a gallery talk on Sir John Everett Millais's 'Bubbles', a painting on long term loan to the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
13.4MB, 29.43 mins
Julian Treuherz
Robin Emmerson, Head of Decorative Arts at the Walker Art Gallery, gives a gallery talk on Fritz Spiegl's 'Loophonium', providing a potted history of the euphonium, the lavatory and the career of Fritz Spiegl.
9.4MB, 20.4 mins
Robin Emmerson
Peter Betts, Education Officer at the Walker Art Gallery, gives a gallery talk on David Roberts's painting 'Baalbec - Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus', comparing it with Louis Daguerre's 'Ruins of Holyrood Chapel'. Peter discusses lithographs, the Baalbek world heritage site, David Roberts's remarkable life story and the emergence of daguerreotypes.
21.8MB, 23.15 mins
Lady Lever Art Gallery Artwork of the Month talk
25.8MB, 27.25 mins
Talk by Xanthe Brooke at the Walker Art Gallery
26.7MB, 29.9 mins
Xanthe Brooke
Dr Paul O'Keeffe recreates John Ruskin's controversial public lecture
63.3MB, 69.11 mins
Talk by Paul O'Keeffe
28.8MB, 32.32 mins
Talk by Paul O'Keeffe
42.1MB, 46.10 mins
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