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Securing Freedom: 2011
Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom
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Available since Fri, 4 Nov 2011.
5/5. Ex M15 boss Eliza Manningham-Buller discusses foreign policy in her third Reith Lecture.
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Securing Freedom: 2011
Eliza Manningham-Buller: Security
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Available since Fri, 4 Nov 2011.
4/5. Assessing the role of security and intelligence services in a democracy.
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Securing Freedom: 2011
Eliza Manningham-Buller: Terror
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Available since Fri, 4 Nov 2011.
3/5. Eliza Manningham-Buller reflects on 9/11 in the first of her Reith Lectures 2011.
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Securing Freedom: 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent
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Available since Tue, 12 Jul 2011.
2/5. Aung San Suu Kyi examines what drives people to dissent in the second Reith Lecture 2011.
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Securing Freedom: 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty
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Available since Tue, 5 Jul 2011.
1/5. Aung San Suu Kyi explores what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lectures.
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Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010
The Runaway World
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Available since Tue, 22 Jun 2010.
4/4. Prof Rees calls for the UK to stay at the forefront of scientific research and discovery.
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Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010
What We'll Never Know
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Available since Tue, 15 Jun 2010.
3/4. Professor Martin Rees explains where the limits of our scientific knowledge lie.
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Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010
Surviving the Century
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Available since Tue, 8 Jun 2010.
2/4. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet?
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Martin Rees: Scientific Horizons: 2010
The Scientific Citizen
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Available since Tue, 1 Jun 2010.
1/4. Prof Martin Rees asks who we should trust to explain the risks we face.
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Michael Sandel: A New Citizenship: 2009
A New Politics of the Common Good
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Available since Tue, 30 Jun 2009.
4/4. Professor Sandel makes the case for a moral and civic renewal in democratic politics.
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Michael Sandel: A New Citizenship: 2009
Genetics and Morality
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Available since Tue, 23 Jun 2009.
3/4. Professor Sandel considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge.
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Michael Sandel: A New Citizenship: 2009
Morality in Politics
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Available since Tue, 16 Jun 2009.
2/4. Michael Sandel asks what role, if any, there is for moral argument in politics.
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Michael Sandel: A New Citizenship: 2009
Markets and Morals
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Available since Wed, 17 Jun 2009.
1/4. Prof Michael Sandel considers the expansion and moral limits of markets.
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Jonathan Spence: Chinese Vistas: 2008
The Body Beautiful
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Available since Mon, 30 Jun 2008.
4/4. Spence discusses how Chinese ideas of sport and athleticism have slowly evolved.
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Jonathan Spence: Chinese Vistas: 2008
American Dreams
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Available since Mon, 23 Jun 2008.
3/4. Spence explores the relationship between China and the US over two centuries.
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Jonathan Spence: Chinese Vistas: 2008
English Lessons
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
2/4. Spence examines China's relations with the United Kingdom through three centuries.
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Jonathan Spence: Chinese Vistas: 2008
Confucian Ways
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
1/4. Spence reflects on China's most enduring thinker, Confucius.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Bursting at the Seams: 2007
Global Politics in a Complex Age
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
5/5. Jeffrey Sachs calls for a new Enlightenment to help make globalisation work for all.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Bursting at the Seams: 2007
Economic Solidarity for a Crowded Planet
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
4/5. Jeffrey Sachs delivers the fourth of five lectures. He considers the challenges of poverty
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Jeffrey Sachs: Bursting at the Seams: 2007
The Great Convergence
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
3/5. Jeffrey Sachs talks about the need for international cooperation to achieve peace.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Bursting at the Seams: 2007
Survival in the Anthropocene
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
2/5. Sachs discusses China's emergence as an economic superpower and the effect on climate.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Bursting at the Seams: 2007
Bursting at the Seams
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
1/5. Jeffrey Sachs delivers the first of five lectures, recorded at The Royal Society in London
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Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning was Sound: 2006
The Power of Music
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Available since Thu, 5 May 2011.
5/5. Daniel Barenboim considers the difference between power and strength in music and in life.
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Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning was Sound: 2006
Meeting in Music
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
4/5. Daniel Barenboim examines how music has the power to bring people together.
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Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning was Sound: 2006
The Magic of Music
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
3/5. Daniel Barenboim argues that classical music can and should be accessible to all.
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Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning was Sound: 2006
The Neglected Sense
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
2/5. Daniel Barenboim examines what he calls 'the neglected sense'; the ear.
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Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning was Sound: 2006
In the Beginning was Sound
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
1/5. Musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim examines the physical phenomenon of sound.
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Alec Broers: The Triumph of Technology: 2005
Risk and Responsibility
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
5/5. In his final lecture, Lord Broers explores the responsibilities of the technologist.
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Alec Broers: The Triumph of Technology: 2005
Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
4/5. Lord Broers explores the origins and impact of nanotechnology.
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Alec Broers: The Triumph of Technology: 2005
Innovation and Management
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Available since Wed, 4 May 2011.
3/5. Does modern innovation demand new approaches to product development?


