"Instead of trying to solve the question of whose bronze-age argument is best ... he points us in the direction of what really matters."
Are you convinced? Are you sceptical? Open University experts will be in the forum - join the debate
This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished musician Daniel Barenboim. A child prodigy as a pianist, Barenboim has since branched out into conducting and matured to become one of the foremost musical figures of his age.
The Reith Lectures will be broadcast on Fridays at 9am, repeated Saturdays at 10.15pm. There are five lectures, the first broadcast being 7 April 2006 and then on the following Fridays until 5 May 2006.
Listen to an extended version of lecture 5
