Photos from the BBC archives reveal some of the many illustrious figures who have delivered the Reith Lectures, from Bertrand Russell in 1948 to Dr Atul Gawande in 2014. Image caption, The first Reith ...

BBC Radio 4 has released hundreds of hours of The Reith Lectures from its archives to coincide with the broadcast of this year's first lecture. The archive includes 240 recordings and provides a ...

Choosing the Reith lecturer every year is one of the privileges of the job. It is a rather wonderful piece of patronage (for me, at any rate) and poses numerous challenges. I look every year for ...

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Historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman is calling for a moral revolution to counter our current "age of immorality." He argues history has proven how small groups have catalysed profound ...

Longtime Burmese political prisoner recorded two lectures in secret to be delivered next month. By Mimi Turner LONDON — Burmese opposition leader and longtime political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has ...

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Michael Sandel '75, who is well known for his enganging oratory, was recently selected by the BBC to deliver its esteemed Reith Lectures for 2009. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and historian Rutger Bregman has accused the BBC of censorship after the corporation removed a line about the US president ...

Author and historian Rutger Bregman has accused the BBC of censorship after the corporation removed a line about the US president from a broadcast of his Reith Lecture, A Time Of Monsters. It comes in ...