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Reith Lectures

January 31, 2023

The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day. They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4 and the World Service. The lectures were inaugurated in 1948 to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Lord Reith, the corporation's first director-general.

The Reith Lectures are named in honour of John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, the BBC's first director-general

Reith maintained that broadcasting should be a public service that aimed to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the nation. It is in this spirit that the BBC each year invites a leading figure to deliver the lectures. The aim is to advance public understanding and debate about issues of contemporary interest.[1]

The first Reith lecturer was the philosopher and later Nobel laureate, Bertrand Russell. The first female lecturer was Dame Margery Perham in 1961.[2] The youngest Reith lecturer was Colin Blakemore, who was 32 in 1976 when he broadcast over six episodes on the brain and consciousness.[3]

The Reith Lectures archive

 
Excerpt from a lecture
Part of a lecture by Martin Rees, recorded June 2010
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In June 2011 BBC Radio 4 published its Reith Lectures archive.[4] This included two podcasts featuring over 240 lectures from 1948 to the present day as well as streamed online audio, and the complete written transcripts of the entire Reith Lectures archive:

  • Podcast 1: Archive 1948–1975[5]
  • Podcast 2: Archive 1976–2012[6]
  • Transcripts 1948–2010 [7]
  • In pictures[8]

The BBC found that some of the audio archive of the Reith Lectures was missing from its library and appealed to the public for copies of the missing lectures.[4]

The Reith Lectures 1948–2020

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

References

  1. ^ "Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures - About Reith". BBC. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Margery Perham: The Colonial Reckoning: 1961, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  3. ^ "Colin Blakemore: Mechanics of the Mind: 1976, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  4. ^ a b "BBC Radio 4 unveils 60 years of Reith Lectures archive". BBC News. 26 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Archive 1948-1975 - The Reith Lectures - Downloads - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  6. ^ "Archive 1976-2012 - The Reith Lectures - Downloads - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  7. ^ "BBC - Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures Transcripts 2011".
  8. ^ "In Pictures: The Reith Lectures". BBC News. 2 December 2014.
  9. ^ BBC (2011) “Radio 4 opens The Reith Lectures archive to public”, 26 June. https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/06_june/26/reith.shtml
  10. ^ "Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel to give Radio 4's Reith Lectures 2009". BBC. 5 February 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
  11. ^ "Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  12. ^ "Securing Freedom: 2011, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  13. ^ "Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  14. ^ "Democracy Has Bad Taste, Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  15. ^ "Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  16. ^ "Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine, The Reith Lectures - Dr Atul Gawande - 2014 Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  17. ^ "Stephen Hawking's BBC Reith Lectures postponed through illness". TheGuardian.com. 10 November 2015.
  18. ^ "Stephen Hawking: Do Black Holes Have No Hair?, The Reith Lectures - BBC World Service". BBC.
  19. ^ "Creed, Kwame Anthony Appiah: Mistaken Identities, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  20. ^ "Hilary Mantel: Resurrection: The Art And Craft, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  21. ^ "Margaret MacMillan: The Mark of Cain, The Reith Lectures - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  22. ^ "BBC - Law and the Decline of Politics - locations announced for the 2019 Reith Lectures - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  23. ^ "2020: Mark Carney - How We Get What We Value - From Moral to Market Sentiments - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  24. ^ "2021: Stuart Russell on living with Artificial Intelligence - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  25. ^ "BBC Reith Lectures 2022 – The Four Freedoms". BBC. Retrieved 28 December 2022.

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January 31, 2023
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The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4 and the World Service The lectures were inaugurated in 1948 to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Lord Reith the corporation s first director general The Reith Lectures are named in honour of John Reith 1st Baron Reith the BBC s first director general Reith maintained that broadcasting should be a public service that aimed to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the nation It is in this spirit that the BBC each year invites a leading figure to deliver the lectures The aim is to advance public understanding and debate about issues of contemporary interest 1 The first Reith lecturer was the philosopher and later Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell The first female lecturer was Dame Margery Perham in 1961 2 The youngest Reith lecturer was Colin Blakemore who was 32 in 1976 when he broadcast over six episodes on the brain and consciousness 3 Contents 1 The Reith Lectures archive 2 The Reith Lectures 1948 2020 2 1 1940s 2 2 1950s 2 3 1960s 2 4 1970s 2 5 1980s 2 6 1990s 2 7 2000s 2 8 2010s 2 9 2020s 3 References 4 External linksThe Reith Lectures archive Edit Excerpt from a lecture source source source Part of a lecture by Martin Rees recorded June 2010 Problems playing this file See media help In June 2011 BBC Radio 4 published its Reith Lectures archive 4 This included two podcasts featuring over 240 lectures from 1948 to the present day as well as streamed online audio and the complete written transcripts of the entire Reith Lectures archive Podcast 1 Archive 1948 1975 5 Podcast 2 Archive 1976 2012 6 Transcripts 1948 2010 7 In pictures 8 The BBC found that some of the audio archive of the Reith Lectures was missing from its library and appealed to the public for copies of the missing lectures 4 The Reith Lectures 1948 2020 Edit1940s Edit 1948 Bertrand Russell Authority and the Individual 1949 Robert Birley Britain in Europe1950s Edit 1950 John Zachary Young Doubt and Certainty in Science 1951 Lord Radcliffe Power and the State 1952 Arnold J Toynbee The World and the West 1953 Robert Oppenheimer Science and the Common Understanding 1954 Oliver Franks Britain and the Tide of World Affairs 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner The Englishness of English Art 1956 Edward Victor Appleton Science and the Nation 1957 George F Kennan Russia the Atom and the West 1958 Bernard Lovell The Individual and the Universe 1959 Peter Medawar The Future of Man1960s Edit 1960 Edgar Wind Art and Anarchy 1961 Margery Perham The Colonial Reckoning 1962 George Carstairs This Island Now 1963 Albert Sloman A University in the Making 1964 Leon Bagrit The Age of Automation 1965 Robert Gardiner World of Peoples 1966 John K Galbraith The New Industrial State 1967 Edmund Leach A Runaway World 1968 Lester Pearson In the Family of Man 1969 Frank Fraser Darling Wilderness and Plenty1970s Edit 1970 Donald Schon Change and Industrial Society 1971 Richard Hoggart Only Connect 1972 Andrew Shonfield Europe Journey to an Unknown Destination 1973 Alastair Buchan Change Without War 1974 Ralf Dahrendorf The New Liberty 1975 Daniel Boorstin America and the World Experience 1976 Colin Blakemore Mechanics of the Mind 1977 A H Halsey Change in British Society 1978 Edward Norman Christianity and the World 1979 Ali Mazrui The African Condition1980s Edit 1980 Professor Sir Ian Kennedy Unmasking Medicine 1981 Laurence Martin The Two Edged Sword 1982 Denis Donoghue The Arts Without Mystery 1983 Douglas Wass Government and the Governed 1984 John Searle Minds Brains and Science 1985 David Henderson Innocence and Design 1986 Lord McCluskey Law Justice and Democracy 1987 Alexander Goehr The Survival of the Symphony 1988 Geoffrey Hosking The Rediscovery of Politics 1989 Jacques Darras fr Beyond the Tunnel of History1990s Edit 1990 Jonathan Sacks The Persistence of Faith 1991 Steve Jones The Language of Genes There was no lecture in 1992 because the BBC simply couldn t find anyone to do them 9 1993 Edward Said Representation of the Intellectual 1994 Marina Warner Managing Monsters 1995 Richard Rogers Sustainable City 1996 Jean Aitchison The Language Web 1997 Patricia Williams The Genealogy of Race 1998 John Keegan War in Our World 1999 Anthony Giddens The Runaway World2000s Edit 2000 Chris Patten Sir John Browne Thomas Lovejoy Gro Harlem Brundtland Vandana Shiva Charles Prince of Wales Respect for the Earth 2001 Tom Kirkwood The End of Age 2002 Onora O Neill A Question of Trust 2003 Vilayanur S Ramachandran The Emerging Mind 2004 Wole Soyinka Climate of Fear 2005 Lord Broers The Triumph of Technology 2006 Daniel Barenboim In the Beginning was Sound 2007 Jeffrey Sachs Bursting at the Seams 2008 Professor Jonathan Spence Chinese Vistas 2009 Michael Sandel A New Citizenship 10 2010s Edit 2010 Martin Rees Scientific Horizons 11 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi and Baroness Manningham Buller Securing Freedom 12 2012 Niall Ferguson The Rule of Law and Its Enemies 13 2013 Grayson Perry Playing to the Gallery 14 2014 Atul Gawande The Future of Medicine 15 16 2015 Stephen Hawking s lecture was postponed because of illness 17 2016 March Stephen Hawking Do Black Holes Have No Hair 18 2016 October Kwame Anthony Appiah Mistaken Identities 19 2017 Hilary Mantel Resurrection The Art And Craft 20 2018 Margaret MacMillan The Mark of Cain 21 2019 Jonathan Sumption Law and the Decline of Politics 22 2020s Edit 2020 Mark Carney How We Get What We Value From Moral to Market Sentiments 23 2021 Stuart J Russell Living with Artificial Intelligence 24 2022 The Four Freedoms Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Freedom of speech Rowan Williams Freedom of worship Darren McGarvey Freedom from want Fiona Hill Freedom from fear 25 References Edit Radio 4 The Reith Lectures About Reith BBC 1 January 1970 Retrieved 2 November 2013 Margery Perham The Colonial Reckoning 1961 The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Colin Blakemore Mechanics of the Mind 1976 The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC a b BBC Radio 4 unveils 60 years of Reith Lectures archive BBC News 26 June 2011 Archive 1948 1975 The Reith Lectures Downloads BBC Radio 4 BBC Archive 1976 2012 The Reith Lectures Downloads BBC Radio 4 BBC BBC Radio 4 The Reith Lectures Transcripts 2011 In Pictures The Reith Lectures BBC News 2 December 2014 BBC 2011 Radio 4 opens The Reith Lectures archive to public 26 June https www bbc co uk pressoffice pressreleases stories 2011 06 june 26 reith shtml Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel to give Radio 4 s Reith Lectures 2009 BBC 5 February 2009 Retrieved 25 February 2009 Martin Rees Scientific Horizons 2010 The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Securing Freedom 2011 The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Niall Ferguson The Rule of Law and Its Enemies 2012 The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Democracy Has Bad Taste Grayson Perry Playing to the Gallery 2013 The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Dr Atul Gawande The Future of Medicine The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Dr Atul Gawande The Future of Medicine The Reith Lectures Dr Atul Gawande 2014 Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Stephen Hawking s BBC Reith Lectures postponed through illness TheGuardian com 10 November 2015 Stephen Hawking Do Black Holes Have No Hair The Reith Lectures BBC World Service BBC Creed Kwame Anthony Appiah Mistaken Identities The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Hilary Mantel Resurrection The Art And Craft The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC Margaret MacMillan The Mark of Cain The Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 BBC BBC Law and the Decline of Politics locations announced for the 2019 Reith Lectures Media Centre www bbc co uk Retrieved 1 May 2019 2020 Mark Carney How We Get What We Value From Moral to Market Sentiments BBC Radio 4 BBC 2021 Stuart Russell on living with Artificial Intelligence BBC Radio 4 BBC BBC Reith Lectures 2022 The Four Freedoms BBC Retrieved 28 December 2022 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media 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