Reith Lecture

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A Reith Lecture is a lecture in 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.

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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 J. 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 Fraser 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 Edward 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 Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vandana 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
2004 Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear
2005 Lord Broers, The Triumph of Technology
2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound