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Last broadcast on Sat, 2 Jul 2011, 19:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, explores what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lecture series, 'Securing Freedom'.
Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in Burma, she explores the universal human aspiration to be free and the spirit which drives people to dissent.
She also comments on the Arab Spring, comparing the event that triggered last December's revolution in Tunisia with the death of a student during a protest in Burma in 1988.
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READ THE TRANSCRIPT : LECTURE ONE: LIBERTY
Read the transcript of Aung San Suu Kyi's first Reith Lecture, entitled 'Liberty', in which she examines the universal human aspiration to be free.
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Broadcasts
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Tue 28 Jun 201116:05
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Wed 29 Jun 201102:05
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Sat 2 Jul 201119:05
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