After four years as Professor of Commerce, Michael had yet another chance to talk at Gresham College, thanks to the June 2009 City of London Festival, in what only Michael could possibly describe as a “funky gig”: Metamorphoses: The Terrible Beauty of Change.

Encompassing subjects such as Pan with his pipe, Niobe turning to stone and Narcissus great beauty, Michael was accompanied with musical interludes from Benjamin Britten’s “Six Metamorphoses After Ovid” from the acclaimed saxophonist, John Harle. Talking in both English and Latin (the later making Michael sound off like the Roman God of Commercial Sustainability) it was like a cross between 1960’s San Francisco Beatnik and 2000’s Professorial Rap. If this item has tweaked your curiosity, the performance is online.

Next up – Ian Harris will sing extracts from The Road To Long Finance to the tune of The Long and Winding Road accompanied by Leo Fishman on the kazoo. Groovy.