Professor Sir Tony Atkinson

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How To Fail With Elizabeth DaySir Tony Robinson - ‘I learned comedy as a defence mechanism’Recorded with a live audience in Cambridge, this captivating conversation delves deep into the life and career of a cultural force of the last half-century. Known of course for his iconic role as Baldrick in Blackadder, Sir Tony's sharp intelligence and dry humour have had a formative influence on generations. In this candid discussion, he opens up about the unexpected turns and profound challenges that have shaped his extraordinary journey as an actor, presenter, documentary maker and writer. You'll hear his deeply personal reflections on fatherhood, insights into the creative process behind his recently announced n...2025-08-0649 min $Tony Robinson\'s Cunningcast$ Tony Robinson's CunningcastRICHARD CURTIS | Blackadder: The Lost PilotToday Tony is talking to his old friend and collaborator, the screenwriter Richard Curtis. They share memories of making Blackadder from the early years to how it all ended. Along the way, they discuss Richard’s comedy roots and how he became a top comedy screenwriter: meeting Rowan Atkinson at Oxford Uni; working on Not The Nine O’Clock News; the influence of Fawlty Towers and plans for a Blackadder series set in the 1960s that never happened. Plus, they read lines from the Blackadder pilot script and discover where Baldrick’s ‘cunning plan’ catch-phrase comes from.Last yea...2024-03-2158 min

EA TalksMarc Fleurbaey - Valuing (far) future generations | Global Priorities Institute 2019You can view this talk with the video on the GPI YouTube channel. The Atkinson Memorial Lecture is an annual distinguished lecture series established in 2018 in memory of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, jointly by the Global Priorities Institute and the Department of Economics. The aim is to encourage research among academic economists on topics related to global prioritisation - using evidence and reason to figure out the most effective ways to improve the world. This year, we were delighted to have Professor Marc Fleurbaey deliver the Atkinson Memorial Lecture. The Atkinson Memorial lecture is organised in conjunction with the...2023-04-161h 01

Two and a Mic - The Social PodcastSiblings: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?" Blackadder.In this second episode of reliving the joys of what entertained us, Greg, a rubber duck and I express our worldly views on the importance of comedy and how the timeless classic that is Blackadder, starring so many wonderful actors, in many ways shaped our humour. Ben Elton, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Steven Fry, Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, and Patsy Byrne were all brilliant. That must surely have been one of the main reasons why it was so successful. They just worked so well together.The story lines were super and the historical characters they parodied, such...2022-05-2753 min

Adapt or PerishA Christmas Carol, Part 2 (Ep. 107)Seasons greetings from Adapt or Perish! With Episode 107, our gift to you is a long-delayed follow-up to Episode 6, our original look at A Christmas Carol! In Part 1, we discussed: Charles Dickens' original 1843 novel A Christmas Carol (1951), starring Alistair Sim A Christmas Carol (1984), starring George C. Scott The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), starring Michael Caine and the Muppets A Christmas Carol (1999), starring Patrick Stewart Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009), starring Jim Carrey In this episode we discuss: Scrooge (the 1935 movie), directed by Henry Edwards, written by H. Fowler Mear, and starring Sir Seymour Hicks A Christmas Carol...2021-12-212h 07

Phillydogs RevuePhilly Doghs Revue 03/20/211 Cumbia Luna Negra (feat. Grupo Fantasma) Adrian Quesada 02:41 Look At My Soul The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul2 Sometimes I Ring Up Heaven Marion Williams 03:20 Packin' Up: The Very Best Of Marion Williams3 Walk A Mile In My Shoes Willie Hightower 03:21 The Fame Studios Story 1961-1973 (cd 3)4 Too experienced Bob Andy 03:11 Songbook5 Lonely Weekends Tony Borders 02:23 Barnyard Soul! Greasy Gritty Groovy Southern Fried Soul! (1966-1970)6 In Between Tears Irma Thomas 02:36 A Woman's Viewpoint7 Proud Mary SOLOMON BURKE 03:25 Proud Mary8 Seven-Days The Apollas 02:36 459 Ain't Nothin' But A Houseparty The Showstoppers 02:41 4510 I Can't...2021-03-201h 53

Shaping the Post-COVID WorldSHORTCAST | Beveridge 2.0 The Supportive StateContributor(s): Jonathan Reynolds | The COVID-19 emergency is testing the protective capacity of welfare states in the most dramatic way. In virtue of their scale and nature, only the state can respond to on-going challenges, but policy responses need to be understood in relation to the capacity of different systems to provide protection and support. Prior to the COVID crisis, recent years had seen a growing debate around different approaches to address human needs: these differed in a variety of ways – in terms of type and coverage of provision, level of generosity and conditionality arrangements – which in turn reflected different prio...2021-03-1222 min

Beveridge 2.0 – LSE HistoryMonitoring Global Poverty – Tony Atkinson and the World BankAt the Beveridge 2.0 LSE Festival event Five LSE Giants’ Perspectives on Poverty, Professor Stephen Jenkins explained how the World Bank is changing its methodological approach as a result of the Monitoring Global Poverty report written by an “LSE Giant”, Professor Sir Anthony (Tony) B Atkinson (1944-2017), formerly Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics, … Continued 2018-03-1600 min

The Blackadder PodcastDish and Dishonesty – Episode 7Dish and Dishonesty was the first episode of Blackadder the Third and features political shenanigans of the highest order. In this podcast Gerry and Iain consider a rotten borough and the ennoblement of a most unlikely Lord. For the first episode of Blackadder the Third, series regulars Rowan Atkinson (Mr E Blackadder) and Tony Robinson (Baldrick) returned in familiar, if slightly different, roles while a new regular character was introduced in the shape of Hugh Lawrie‘s Prince Regent. Helen Atkinson Wood appeared for the first time as Mrs Miggins...2017-08-0938 min

RHLSTP with Richard HerringRHLSTP 122 - Tony RobinsonRHLSTP #122: Tony Robinson - Pissing in the Queen's Flowerbed. There are some fine beards on display in the front row as always, but it's all about the puny moustache that we can see on stage tonight. It's on the face of the first knight to ever appear on RHLSTP, Sir Anthony Robinson. Find out what happened to Fat Tulip's garden, what inspired Maid Marian, why Brian Blessed attempted to make a citizen's arrest on Tony, what happened when Time Team came to Cheddar Gorge and if a knight of the realm has ever tried to suck his own pork...2016-11-171h 10 $Richard Herring\'s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast$ Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre PodcastRichard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - Episode 122 - Sir Tony RobinsonRHLSTP #122: Tony Robinson - Pissing in the Queen's Flowerbed. There are some fine beards on display in the front row as always, but it's all about the puny moustache that we can see on stage tonight. It's on the face of the first knight to ever appear on RHLSTP, Sir Anthony Robinson. Find out what happened to Fat Tulip's garden, what inspired Maid Marian, why Brian Blessed attempted to make a citizen's arrest on Tony, what happened when Time Team came to Cheddar Gorge and if a knight of the realm has ever tried to suck his own pork sword...2016-11-171h 10

Richard Herring’s Video Leicester Square Theatre Podcasts10e06 Tony RobinsonThere are some fine beards on display in the front row as always, but it’s all about the puny moustache that we can see on stage tonight. It’s on the face of the first knight to every appear on RHLSTP, Sir Anthony Robinson. Find out what happened to Fat Tulip’s garden,what inspired Maid Marian, why Brian Blessed attempted to make a citizen’s arrest on Tony, what happened when Time Team came to Cheddar Gorge and if a knight of the realm has every tried to suck his own pork sword. Some great stuff about Blackadder and Rowa...2016-11-1601 min

Humanities and Social Sciences – Pod AcademyInequality: What can be done?There is growing concern about the widening gap between rich and poor. The 99% and the 1% are much written and talked about, not just by campaigners, but even by the Managing Director of the IMF. However, people rarely talk about solutions – it is as if there are at work natural forces that are beyond human control. Not so, says Sir Tony Atkinson Fellow of Nuffield College and Centenial Prof at LSE, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, ‘The world faces great problems but collectively we are not at t...2015-06-2027 min

Pod AcademyInequality: What can be done?There is growing concern about the widening gap between rich and poor. The 99% and the 1% are much written and talked about, not just by campaigners, but even by the Managing Director of the IMF. However, people rarely talk about solutions – it is as if there are at work natural forces that are beyond human control. Not so, says Sir Tony Atkinson Fellow of Nuffield College and Centenial Prof at LSE, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, ‘The world faces great problems but collectively we are not at t...2015-06-2027 min

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 15.30 - Session 4Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty's book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 22

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 15.30 - Session 4Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty's book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 22

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 14.00 - Session 3Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty's book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 14

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 14.00 - Session 3Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty's book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 14

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 11.45 - Session 2Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty's book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 15

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 11.45 - Session 2Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty's book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 15

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 10.15 - Session 1Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty’s book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 14

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoInequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty - 10.15 - Session 1Contributor(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty | A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE's new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty’s book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in...2015-05-111h 14

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfInequality: what can be done?Contributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Tom Clark, Professor Baroness Lister | Introducing his new book, Inequality: what can be done?, Professor Atkinson will argue we can do much more about inequality than skeptics imagine. Tony Atkinson is a Centennial Professor at LSE and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Tom Clark (@guardian_clark) writes for The Guardian and is the author of Hard Times: the divisive toll of the economic slump. Ruth Lister is Baroness Lister of Burtersett and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government at LSE and...2015-04-301h 20

Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoInequality: what can be done?Contributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Tom Clark, Professor Baroness Lister | Introducing his new book, Inequality: what can be done?, Professor Atkinson will argue we can do much more about inequality than skeptics imagine. Tony Atkinson is a Centennial Professor at LSE and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Tom Clark (@guardian_clark) writes for The Guardian and is the author of Hard Times: the divisive toll of the economic slump. Ruth Lister is Baroness Lister of Burtersett and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government at LSE and...2015-04-301h 20

Centre for Analysis of Social ExclusionInequality: What can be done? [Video]Contributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson | Increasing inequality is a salient issue in public discourse, but debate often centres on the causes rather than any possible solutions. Introducing his new book, Inequality: what can be done? Professor Atkinson argues we can do much more about inequality than the skeptics might imagine.2015-04-2035 min

Summer 2012 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLSE Growth Commission: Evidence Session 2 - MeasurementContributor(s): Sir Tony Atkinson, Paul Schreyer, Jean-Paul Fitoussi | In this session, Tony Atkinson, Paul Schreyer and Jean-Paul Fitoussi will give their views on the best ways of defining and measuring economic growth, including distributional considerations and sustainability issues, drawing on state of the art academic literature.2012-05-021h 56

Summer 2012 | Public lectures and events | VideoLSE Growth Commission: Evidence Session 2 - MeasurementContributor(s): Sir Tony Atkinson, Paul Schreyer, Jean-Paul Fitoussi | In this session, Tony Atkinson, Paul Schreyer and Jean-Paul Fitoussi will give their views on the best ways of defining and measuring economic growth, including distributional considerations and sustainability issues, drawing on state of the art academic literature.2012-05-021h 56

More or Less: Behind the StatsWho are the 1% and the 99%?Tim Harford on income inequality in the UK, and elsewhere. He speaks to Professor Sir Tony Atkinson of Oxford University; Stewart Lansley, author of 'The Cost of Inequality'; and Professor Donald Boudreaux of George Mason University. Also, David Spiegelhalter, the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University explains why he took on what could be his riskiest venture to date - appearing on BBC One's Winter Wipeout. Plus, the magic of maths with magician and Stanford maths professor Persi Diaconis.2011-12-2330 min

Is the planet full? Seminar Series 2011Population, inequality and global justice"Optimum population" is a subject long discussed in welfare economics. The talk will first discuss the framework for analysis of policy. This leads to a discussion of the implications of population growth for justice at a global level and the evolution of global inequality. The final part of the talk is concerned with population growth and the setting of global goals post-2015. Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Deputy Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking @ Oxford; Professor of Economics, Oxford University.2011-11-1852 min

Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoPublic Policy, Equity and Growth: a panel discussionContributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Peter Diamond, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Professor Sir James Mirrlees, Professor Lord Stern | This event is part of a celebration of 25 years on from the LSE project on Taxation, Income Distribution and Incentives run in STICERD by Sir Tony Atkinson, Mervyn King and Professor Lord Stern. The panel brings together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss what we have learned in the intervening period about how public policy can best be structured to support equity and growth. Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, is centennial professor in the Department of Economics at LSE. Peter A...2011-05-191h 26

Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfPublic Policy, Equity and Growth: a panel discussionContributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Peter Diamond, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Professor Sir James Mirrlees, Professor Lord Stern | This event is part of a celebration of 25 years on from the LSE project on Taxation, Income Distribution and Incentives run in STICERD by Sir Tony Atkinson, Mervyn King and Professor Lord Stern. The panel brings together a distinguished panel of experts to discuss what we have learned in the intervening period about how public policy can best be structured to support equity and growth. Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, is centennial professor in the Department of Economics at LSE. Peter A...2011-05-191h 26

Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoBritain: a country divided?Contributor(s): Professor John Hills, Dr Polly Vizard, Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, David Darton | At the centre of CASE's work is the understanding of different aspects of inequality and the impacts of public policy on them. At this event, John Hills and Polly Vizard will present findings from the detailed analysis of economic inequalities carried out by the National Equality Panel, and across wider dimensions using the Equality Measurement Framework, as developed by CASE and its partners for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Government Equalities Office. With "fairness" and "equality of opportunity" at the heart of the aspirations...2011-03-031h 39

Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfBritain: a country divided?Contributor(s): Professor John Hills, Dr Polly Vizard, Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, David Darton | At the centre of CASE's work is the understanding of different aspects of inequality and the impacts of public policy on them. At this event, John Hills and Polly Vizard will present findings from the detailed analysis of economic inequalities carried out by the National Equality Panel, and across wider dimensions using the Equality Measurement Framework, as developed by CASE and its partners for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Government Equalities Office. With "fairness" and "equality of opportunity" at the heart of the aspirations...2011-03-031h 39

Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoIncome Distribution and Social Change after 50 yearsContributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson | Fifty years ago, it was believed that income inequality was falling and that poverty had largely been eliminated. This lecture returns to Richard Titmuss' masterly crossexamination of the evidence about income inequality and argues that we have much to learn, but also to add. Tony Atkinson is the centennial professor at LSE. His most recent book is Top Incomes: a global perspective.2011-03-011h 14

Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfIncome Distribution and Social Change after 50 yearsContributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson | Fifty years ago, it was believed that income inequality was falling and that poverty had largely been eliminated. This lecture returns to Richard Titmuss' masterly crossexamination of the evidence about income inequality and argues that we have much to learn, but also to add. Tony Atkinson is the centennial professor at LSE. His most recent book is Top Incomes: a global perspective.2011-03-011h 14