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Choosing the 2011 Reith lecturer
Mark Damazer
Choosing the Reith lecturer every year is one of the privileges of the job. It is a rather wonderful piece of patronage (for me, at any rate) and poses numerous challenges. I look every year for something original - and someone who is a good communicator. Topicality can be an advantage, but wit...
Reith Lectures 2010 - lecture four: The Runaway World
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The Reith Lectures - Lecture 4 - The Runaway World The 2010 Reith Lectures are now at an end. Four lectures with a science theme by Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society Professor Martin Rees. And for each lecture we organised a live chat here on the Radio 4 blog. Across the four l...
Reith Lectures 2010 - lecture three: What We'll Never Know
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Reith Lectures 2010 - lecture three: What we'll never know The third of Professor Martin Rees' 2010 Reith Lectures was recorded in the Royal Society's lecture theatre in front of an audience of fellows of the society, working scientists, journalists and public figures. Listen to the lecture and...
Reith Lectures 2010 - lecture two: Surviving the Century
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The second of this year's Reith Lectures, 'Surviving the Century', is now over. You can replay our live chat here in the this blog post. Do so while listening to the lecture itself. Many listeners joined in with the conversation about the lecture and its themes, here in the live chat, on Twitter...
Reith lectures 2010 - lecture one: The Scientific Citizen
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
This morning, during the first of this year's Reith lectures, we hosted a live chat about the lecture and the topics discussed here on the blog. Lots of listeners joined in, by typing comments directly into the live chat here, by sending email to thereithlectures@bbc.co.uk and by tweeting using ...
Reith Lectures 2010
Mark Damazer
Editor's note: keep up with the lectures and contribute to the discussion on Twitter. Follow @reith_lectures and use the hashtag #Reith - SB We have just finished recording this year's Reith lectures - given by Lord Rees - or Martin Rees as he prefers to be called. There are four of them - broa...
'Multiplatforming' the Reith Lectures
Jennifer Clarke
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...
