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Reith Lectures
The Reith Lectures are a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, and broadcast by the BBC. They were begun in 1948, in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith.
Past Reith lectures
- 1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
- 1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe
- 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science
- 1951 Lord Radcliffe, Power and the State
- 1952 Arnold Toynbee, The World and the West
- 1953 Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding
- 1954 Sir Oliver Franks, Britain and Tide of World Affairs
- 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art
- 1956 Sir Edward 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 Man
- 1960 Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy
- 1961 Margery Perham, The Colonial Reckoning
- 1962 Prof. George Carstairs, This Island Now
- 1963 Dr Albert Sloman, A University in The Making
- 1964 Sir Leon Bagrit, The Age of Automation
- 1965 Robert Gardiner, World of Peoples
- 1966 J. K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State
- 1967 Edmund Leach, A Runaway World
- 1968 Lester Pearson, Peace In The Family of Man
- 1969 Dr Frank Frazer Darling, Wilderness and Plenty
- 1970 Dr Donald Schon, Change and Industrial Society
- 1971 Richard Hoggart, Only Connect
- 1972 Andrew Schonfield, Europe: Journey To An Unknown Destination
- 1973 Prof. Alistair Buchan, Change Without War
- 1974 Prof. Ralf Dahrendorf, The New Liberty
- 1975 Dr Daniel Boorstin, America and The World Experience
- 1976 Dr Colin Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind
- 1977 Prof. A. H. Halsey, Change In British Society
- 1978 Rev. Dr E. Norman, Christianity and the World
- 1979 Prof. Ali Mazrui, The African Condition
- 1980 Ian Kennedy, Unmasking Medicine
- 1981 Prof. Laurence Martin, The Two Edged Sword
- 1982 Prof. Denis Donoghue, The Arts Without Mystery
- 1983 Sir Douglas Wass, Government and the Governed
- 1984 Prof. John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science
- 1985 David Henderson, Innocence and Design
- 1986 Lord McCluskey, Law, Justice and Democracy
- 1987 Prof. Alexander Goehr, The Survival of The Symphony
- 1988 Prof. Geoffrey Hosking, The Rediscovery of Politics
- 1989 Jacques Darras, Beyond The Tunnel of History
- 1990 Rabbi Jonathon Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
- 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of the Genes
- 1992 There were no Reith Lectures in 1992
- 1993 Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual
- 1994 Marina Warner, Managing Monsters
- 1995 Sir 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, Runaway World
- 2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Brown, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vanada Shiva, HRH Prince of Wales, Respect For The Earth
- 2001 Prof. Tom Kirkwood, The End Of Age
- 2002 Onora O'Neill, A Question of Trust
- 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, The Emerging Mind
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