The Reith Lectures Lectures 1948 - 2011

Over sixty years of lectures by leading figures of their day

Bertrand Russell delivered the first series of Reith Lectures in 1948

1940-1949

• 1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
• 1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe

1950-1959

• 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science
• 1951 Lord Radcliffe, Power and the State
• 1952 Arnold J. Toynbee, The World and the West
• 1953 Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding
• 1954 Oliver Franks, Britain and Tide of World Affairs
• 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art
• 1956 Edward Appleton, Science and The Nation
• 1957 George F. Kennan, Russia, The Atom and The West
• 1958 Bernard Lovell, The Individual and The Universe
• 1959 Peter Medawar, The Future of Man

1960-1969

• 1960 Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy
• 1961 Margery Perham, The Colonial Reckoning
• 1962 George Carstairs, This Island Now
• 1963 Albert Sloman, A University in The Making
• 1964 Leon Bagrit, The Age of Automation
• 1965 Robert Gardiner, World of Peoples
• 1966 John K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State
• 1967 Edmund Leach, A Runaway World
• 1968 Lester Pearson, Peace In The Family of Man
• 1969 Frank Fraser Darling, Wilderness and Plenty

1970-1979

• 1970 Donald Schon, Change and Industrial Society
• 1971 Richard Hoggart, Only Connect
• 1972 Andrew Shonfield, Europe: Journey To An Unknown Destination
• 1973 Alistair Buchan, Change Without War
• 1974 Ralf Dahrendorf, The New Liberty
• 1975 Daniel Boorstin, America and The World Experience
• 1976 Colin Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind
•       1977 - No lectures broadcast
• 1978 A. H. Halsey, Change In British Society
• 1978 Edward Norman, Christianity and the World
• 1979 Ali Mazrui, The African Condition

1980-1989

• 1980 Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, Unmasking Medicine
• 1981 Laurence Martin, The Two Edged Sword
• 1982 Denis Donoghue, The Arts Without Mystery
• 1983 Douglas Wass, Government and the Governed
• 1984 John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science
• 1985 David Henderson, Innocence and Design
• 1986 Lord McCluskey, Law, Justice and Democracy
• 1987 Alexander Goehr, The Survival of The Symphony
• 1988 Geoffrey Hosking, The Rediscovery of Politics
• 1989 Jacques Darras, Beyond The Tunnel of History

1990-1999

• 1990 Jonathan Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
• 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of the Genes
•       1992 - No lectures broadcast
• 1993 Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual
• 1994 Marina Warner, Managing Monsters
• 1995 Richard Rogers, Sustainable City
• 1996 Jean Aitchison, The Language Web
• 1997 Patricia Williams, The Genealogy of Race
• 1998 John Keegan, War In Our World
• 1999 Anthony Giddens, Runaway World

2000-2009

• 2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland,                Vandana Shiva, Charles, Prince of Wales, Respect For The Earth
• 2001 Tom Kirkwood, The End Of Age
• 2002 Onora O'Neill, A Question of Trust
• 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, The Emerging Mind
• 2004 Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear
• 2005 Lord Broers, The Triumph of Technology
• 2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound
• 2007 Jeffrey Sachs, Bursting at the Seams
• 2008 Professor Jonathan Spence, Chinese Vistas
• 2009 Michael Sandel, A New Citizenship

2010-

• 2010 Martin Rees, Scientific Horizons
• 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi & Eliza Manningham-Butler, Securing Freedom