Reith Lectures

Die Reith Lectures der BBC sind seit 1948 bestehende jährliche Radio-Vortragsreihen bedeutender Wissenschaftler, Politiker und anderer Personen des öffentlichen Lebens. Sie werden auf BBC Radio 4 und BBC World Service ausgestrahlt.

Sie sind nach dem ersten Direktor der BBC Sir John Reith benannt, der sie einführte.

Liste der Vorträge

1940er

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

1950er

• 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science
• 1951 Cyril Radcliffe (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 the Tide of World Affairs
• 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art
• 1956 Edward Victor 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

1960er

• 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, In the Family of Man
• 1969 Frank Fraser Darling, Wilderness and Plenty

1970er

• 1970 Donald Schon, Change and Industrial Society
• 1971 Richard Hoggart, Only Connect
• 1972 Andrew Shonfield, Europe: Journey to an Unknown Destination
• 1973 Alastair 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 A. H. Halsey, Change in British Society
• 1978 Edward Norman, Christianity and the World
• 1979 Ali Mazrui, The African Condition

1980er

• 1980 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 John 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

1990er

• 1990 Jonathan Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
• 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of Genes
• 1992 gab es keine Reith Lectures in 1992
• 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, The Runaway World

2000er

• 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 Alec Broers, The Triumph of Technology
• 2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound
• 2007 Jeffrey Sachs, Bursting at the Seams
• 2008 Jonathan Spence, Chinese Vistas
• 2009 Michael Sandel, A New Citizenship

2010er

• 2010 Martin Rees, Scientific Horizons
• 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi und Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Securing Freedom
• 2012 Niall Ferguson, The Rule of Law and Its Enemies
• 2013 Grayson Perry, Playing to the Gallery
• 2014 Atul Gawande, The Future of Medicine
• 2016 (Jan–Feb) Stephen Hawking, Do Black Holes Have No Hair?
• 2016 (Okt–Nov) Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mistaken Identities
• 2017 Hilary Mantel, The Day is for the Living
• 2018 Margaret MacMillan, War and Humanity
• 2019 Jonathan Sumption, Law and the Decline of Politics

2020er

• 2020 Mark Carney, How We Get What We Value - From Moral to Market Sentiments
• 2021 Stuart J. Russell, Living with Artificial Intelligence
• 2022 The Four Freedoms: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Freedom of speech"; Rowan Williams, "Freedom of worship"; Darren McGarvey, "Freedom from want"; Fiona Hill, "Freedom from fear"
• 2023 Ben Ansell, Our Democratic Future

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