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The Reith Lectures

The 2011 BBC Reith Lectures will be delivered by two speakers – Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former director-general of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller.

The lectures, entitled Securing Freedom, arise out of an extraordinary period of global convulsion.

Aung San Suu Kyi's lectures from Burma will focus on the struggle for democracy inside an authoritarian regime.

Back in the UK, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Eliza Manningham-Buller discusses how, once secured, a country maintains its freedom.

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    Eliza Manningham-Buller Lecture 3: Freedom

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    Available since Tue, 27 Sep 2011.

    Former M15 director-general Eliza Manningham-Buller discusses foreign policy since 9/11.

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    1. Eliza Manningham-Buller Lecture 2: Security

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      Available since Tue, 20 Sep 2011.

      Assessing the role of security and intelligence services in a democracy.

    2. Eliza Manningham-Buller Lecture 1: Terror

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      Available since Tue, 13 Sep 2011.

      Eliza Manningham-Buller reflects on 9/11 in the first of her Reith Lectures 2011.

    3. Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture 2: Dissent

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      Available since Tue, 12 Jul 2011.

      Aung San Suu Kyi examines what drives people to dissent in the second Reith Lecture 2011

    4. Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture 1: Liberty

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      Available since Tue, 5 Jul 2011.

      Aung San Suu Kyi explores what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lectures

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