Since the 1960s, during Nobel Week, Nobel Prize laureates have gathered for a television roundtable discussion, renamed Nobel Minds in 2004. The programme, since then jointly produced by BBC World News and Swedish Television, is broadcast internationally and available for streaming online. The esteemed one-hour-long show is a highly regarded annual science programme in which the year’s laureates speak about their backgrounds and the early influences that led them to receive the Nobel Prize.

The purpose of the programme is to provide a public platform for Nobel laureates to discuss their groundbreaking research and its implications for humanity. The show covers science, research, and literature. Laureates discuss their work, careers, motivations, and visions for the future. A top BBC moderator leads the discussion, recorded at the Bernadotte Library in Stockholm’s Royal Palace before an invited audience, often including students.

Nobel Minds has been engaging audiences continuously since 1959, initially as a radio programme before transitioning to television in the mid-1960s. It provides a less formal platform for Nobel laureates to share their insights in an accessible format, and complements the regular Nobel Prize lectures.

According to the statutes, each Nobel Prize laureate must give a public lecture on their prize-related subject within six months of the award. These lectures are typically held in December, at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm. Researchers and the public attend the formal lectures, which focus on the work that led to the award. Universities or academies, such as the Karolinska Institutet for Physiology or Medicine, Stockholm University for Physics, Chemistry, and Economic Sciences, and the Swedish Academy for Literature, usually host the lectures as public events.

While the radio and TV shows traditionally were the only widely accessible way to access laureate discussions from afar, today, the regular live lectures are made available online. The Nobel Prize events page lists the official schedule of live broadcasts for the 2025 lectures. You can also visit the Nobel Prize Museum website for information on both past and future live-streamed events. You can also look for local events such as the Nobel Calling series organised by institutions like Stockholm University.