Jennifer Clarke
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Eliza Manningham-Buller's second Reith Lecture: Security
Editor's note: This Tuesday morning Radio 4 broadcasts Eliza Manningham-Buller's second Reith Lecture, Security, at 09.00 BST. It will be repeated on Saturday 17 September at 22.15 BST - PM. In Security, recorded last week in Leeds, Baroness Manningham-Buller argues that the securi...
Eliza Manningham-Buller's first Reith Lecture: Terror
Editor's update: The first of Eliza Manningham-Buller's first Reith Lecture is now available as a transcript and as a podcast to download - PM. Tomorrow Radio 4 broadcasts Eliza Manningham-Buller's first Reith Lecture, Terror, at 09.00 BST. It will be repeated on Saturday 10 Septemb...
Reith lectures 2011, lecture two - Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent
This morning we held a live chat during Aung San Suu Kyi's second Reith Lecture, Dissent. Lots of people joined in, by typing comments directly into the live chat, by emailing the programme via the Reith pages on the Radio 4 website and by tweeting using the hashtag #reith. You can replay the...
Reith lectures 2011, lecture one - Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty
This morning, during the broadcast of Aung San Suu Kyi's first Reith Lecture, Liberty, we hosted a live chat about the lecture and the topics discussed here on the blog. Lots of you joined in, by typing comments directly into the live chat, by emailing the programme via the Reith pages on the Ra...
Being multiplatform
It used to be so simple when people asked what I do. "I work for the BBC," I would say. "I'm a radio producer, making programmes for Radio 4." Simple. But since last summer, it's not been quite such a straightforward question to answer. "I'm a senior multiplatform producer." Cue puzzled look. ...
Reith 2009 in the Twitterverse
As I've explained in my previous blog posts, the 2009 Reith Lectures team was keen to extend the reach of the programmes beyond the traditional Radio 4 and World Service listeners. A key part of our strategy was social networking site Twitter. We wanted to find people already talking about Pro...
Professor Michael Sandel on the 2009 Reith Lectures
Like so many of his predecessors, the 2009 Reith Lecturer Michael Sandel says he was "honoured and excited" when he was first asked to accept this year's Reith wreath. Professor Sandel spent four years at Balliol College, Oxford, as a graduate student, and says he was therefore aware of what he...
'Multiplatforming' the Reith Lectures
The Reith Lectures are amongst the most venerable of BBC institutions. Our first director-general famously believed that the corporation should enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the nation. In this spirit, each year the BBC invites a leading figure to deliver a series of lectures wh...
