Die Reith Lectures der BBC sind seit 1948 bestehende jährliche Radio-Vortragsreihen bedeutender Wissenschaftler, Politiker und anderer Personen des öffentlichen Lebens. Sie werden auf BBC Radio 4 und BBC World Service ausgestrahlt.
Sie sind nach dem ersten Direktor der BBC Sir John Reith benannt, der sie einführte.
Liste der Vorträge
1940er
- 1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
- 1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe
1950er
- 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science
- 1951 Cyril Radcliffe (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 Man
1960er
- 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 Plenty
1970er
- 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 Condition
1980er
- 1980 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 John McCluskey, Law, Justice and Democracy
- 1987 Alexander Goehr, The Survival of the Symphony
- 1988 Geoffrey Hosking, The Rediscovery of Politics
- 1989 Jacques Darras, Beyond the Tunnel of History
1990er
- 1990 Jonathan Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
- 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of Genes
- 1992 gab es keine Reith Lectures in 1992
- 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 World
2000er
- 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 Alec Broers, The Triumph of Technology
- 2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound
- 2007 Jeffrey Sachs, Bursting at the Seams
- 2008 Jonathan Spence, Chinese Vistas
- 2009 Michael Sandel, A New Citizenship
2010er
- 2010 Martin Rees, Scientific Horizons
- 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi und Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Securing Freedom
- 2012 Niall Ferguson, The Rule of Law and Its Enemies
- 2013 Grayson Perry, Playing to the Gallery
- 2014 Atul Gawande, The Future of Medicine
- 2016 (Jan–Feb) Stephen Hawking, Do Black Holes Have No Hair?
- 2016 (Okt–Nov) Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mistaken Identities
- 2017 Hilary Mantel, The Day is for the Living
- 2018 Margaret MacMillan, War and Humanity
- 2019 Jonathan Sumption, Law and the Decline of Politics
2020er
- 2020 Mark Carney, How We Get What We Value - From Moral to Market Sentiments
- 2021 Stuart J. Russell, Living with Artificial Intelligence
- 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"
- 2023 Ben Ansell, Our Democratic Future
- 2024 Gwen Adshead, Four Questions about Violence
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