Reith Lectures Transcripts

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Reith 1960 - Edgar Wind: Art and Anarchy

• 1. Art and Anarchy: Our Present Discontents
• 2. Aesthetic Participation
• 3. Critique of Connoisseurship
• 4. The Fear of Knowledge
• 5. The Mechanization of Art
• 6. Art and the Will

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Reith 1961 - Margery Perham: The Colonial Reckoning

• 1. The Colonial Reckoning: Anti-Colonialism and Anti-Imperialism
• 2. African Nationalism
• 3. The Politics of Emancipation
• 4. The Problem of White Settlement
• 5. The Colonial Account
• 6. The Colonial Reckoning; Prospects for the Future

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Reith 1962 - George Carstairs: This Island Now

• 1. Stability and Change in Social Environment
• 2. The First Years
• 3. Vicissitudes of Adolescence
• 4. The Changing Role of Women
• 5. 'Living and Partly Living'
• 6. The Changing British Character

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Reith 1963 - Albert Sloman: A University in the Making

• 1. A University in the Making; Tradition and Innovation
• 2. The Pursuit of Learning
• 3. The Training of Minds
• 4. The Fulfilment of Lives
• 5. A University Town
• 6. The Need for Renewal

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Reith 1964 - Leon Bagrit: The Age of Automation

• 1. The Extension of Man
• 2. The Range of Application
• 3. Education for an Age of Automation
• 4. Industrial And Economic Consequences
• 5. New Opportunities for Social Enrichment
• 6. Automation: political considerations

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Reith 1965 - Robert Gardiner: World of Peoples

• 1. Racism
• 2. Patterns of Race Relations
• 3. Contemporary Racial Moods
• 4. Economic Meetings
• 5. Political Meetings
• 6. Roberto Burle Marx

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Reith 1966 - J K Galbraith: The New Industrial State

• 1. Planning and Technological Imperatives
• 2. The Modern Corporation
• 3. Control of Prices and People
• 4. The Role of the State
• 5. The Bearing on Socialist Developmente
• 6. The Cultural Impact

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Reith 1967 - Edmund Leach: A Runaway World

• 1. Men and Nature
• 2. Men and Machines
• 3. Ourselves and Others
• 4. Men and Morality
• 5. Men and Learning
• 6. Only Connect...

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Reith 1968 - Lester Pearson: In the Family of Man

• 1. Peace in the Family of Man
• 2. Balance of Fear
• 3. The United States of the World
• 4. Co-operation through Economics
• 5. A Poor Thing, But Our Own
• 6. Which way will it go?

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Reith 1969 - Frank Fraser Darling: Wilderness and Plenty

• 1. Man and Nature
• 2. Impact of Man on His Environment
• 3. The Technological Exponential
• 4. Global Changes - Actual and Possible
• 5. The Forward Look in Conservation
• 6. Where Does Responsibility Lie?

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