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Friday 10 June 2016, 16:46
Radio 4
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and Dame Hilary Mantel to deliver BBC Reith Lectures in 2016 and 2017
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Thursday 21 January 2016, 07:26
Inside the mind of Professor Stephen Hawking is a short animation created by Aardman Studios. Rhian Roberts, Digital Editor for Radio 4 and Radio 3 talks about how animation can stir us to tackle difficult scientific ideas.
Monday 08 July 2013, 16:03
Grayson Perry will be the first visual artist to deliver the Reith Lectures.
Tuesday 30 October 2012, 08:50
Mukul Devichand
Editors note: You can hear The Public Philosopher on Radio 4 at 9am on 23 and 30 Oct 2012. Here, Mukul Devichand who worked on the programme with Professor Sandel talks about the issues raised in the second programme. PMcD "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you ...
Wednesday 25 July 2012, 14:35
Gwyneth Williams
I was privileged to edit the 2006 Reith Lectures with Daniel Barenboim; working with him on that series altered forever the way I listen to music. Last night, inspired again by the Beethoven symphonies being performed at the Proms by his pioneering West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, I re-listened...
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 08:36
Richard Fenton-Smith
Editor's note: In the Reith Lecture this week, Niall Ferguson talked about Civil and Uncivil Societies . The programme is available to listen to online or to and keep - PMcD ""Over the past 50 years governments have encroached too far on the realm of civil society," says Nial...
Tuesday 03 July 2012, 09:03
Editor's note: In the Reith Lecture this week, Niall Ferguson talked about The Landscape of the Law. The programme is available to listen to online or to and keep - PMcD "Some score of the... bar... are mistily engaged in one of ten thousand stages of an endless cause,...
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 08:30
Editor's note: In the Reith Lecture this week, Niall Ferguson talked about The Darwinian Economy. The programme is available to listen to online or to and keep - PMcD There will always be greedy people around banks," says Niall Ferguson "after all they are where the money is -...
Tuesday 19 June 2012, 09:00
"Society is a contract… the state is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born." This quote from the 18th Century political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke summarises much of the argument pu...
Monday 12 September 2011, 17:30
Jennifer Clarke
Editor's note: This Tuesday morning Radio 4 broadcasts Eliza Manningham-Buller's second Reith Lecture, Security, at 09.00 BST. It will be repeated on Saturday 17 September at 22.15 BST - PM. In Security, recorded last week in Leeds, Baroness Manningham-Buller argues that the securi...
