The 60th anniversary Reith Lectures take China as their subject, and are given by the eminent historian Professor Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. A Reith Lecture is a lecture in a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. They were begun in 1948, in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith.
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BBC Radio 4 1948 Bertrand Russell
The Reith Lectures
The philosopher, mathematician and social reformer Bertrand Russell gives the inaugural Reith lecture series on the subject of Authority and the Individual.
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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 Lecturer of the year 2003 was Professor Vilayanur Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Programme at the University of California, San Diego.
