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This year's Reith lecturer is Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, Wole Soyinka, who was imprisoned in Nigeria for his opposition to dictatorship.
Lecture 1: The Changing Mask of Fear Lecture 2: Power and Freedom Lecture 3: Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds Lecture 4: A Quest for Dignity Lecture 5: I am Right; You are Dead
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first director-general.
Lecture audio(MP3) and transcripts (PDF)
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