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The Reith LecturesThe Reith Lectures in pictures

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series.

  • Bertrand Russell (1948)
  • Bertrand Russell and WM Newtown (1948)
  • Lord Reith
  • Sir Robert Birley (1949)
  • John Zachary Young (1950)
  • Professor Arnold Toynbee (1952)
  • J Robert Oppenheimer (1953)
  • Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1955)
  • Bernard Lovell (1958)
  • Dame Margery Perham (1961) pictured on the BBC programme The Brains Trust
  • George Carstairs (1962)
  • Robert Gardiner (1965)
  • John K Galbraith (1966)
  • Sir Frank Fraser Darling (1969)
  • Andrew Shonfield (1972) pictured on the BBC programme The Nation Tomorrow
  • Rev Dr Edward Norman (1978)
  • Professor Ali Mazrui
  • Daniel Barenboim (2006)
  • Michael Sandel (2009)
  • Lord Professor Martin Rees (2010)
  • Aung San Suu Kyi (2011)
  • Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller (2011)
  • Prof Niall Ferguson (2012)
  • Grayson Perry (2013)

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