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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