The Reith Lectures
Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series
In the Beginning was Sound—Daniel Barenboim - In the Beginning was Sound
Musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim examines the physical phenomenon of sound.
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The Darwinian Economy—Niall Ferguson - The Rule of Law and Its Enemies
Niall Ferguson reflects on the causes and lessons of the global financial crisis.
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Governance—Respect For The Earth
Chris Patten examines how governance affects sustainable development.
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Markets and Morals—Michael Sandel - A New Citizenship
Prof Michael Sandel considers the expansion and moral limits of markets.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty—Securing Freedom
Aung San Suu Kyi explores what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lectures.
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The Divinest Part of Us—Colin Blakemore - Mechanics of the Mind
Neurobiologist Colin Blakemore explores the historic concepts of the brain.
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The Sciences and Man's Community—Robert Oppenheimer - Science and the Common Understanding
Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms.
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Confucian Ways—Jonathan Spence - Chinese Vistas
Spence reflects on China's most enduring thinker, Confucius.
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Social Cohesion and Human Nature—Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual
In the inaugural Reith lecture, Bertrand Russell examines the impulses in human nature.
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