Reith Lectures Transcripts

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Reith 1980 - Ian Kennedy: Unmasking Medicine

• 1. The Rhetoric of Medicine
• 2. The New Magicians
• 3. Suffer Little Children
• 4. If I Were You, Mrs B
• 5. The Doors Of Mental Illness
• 6. Let's Kill All The Lawyers

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Reith 1981 - Laurence Martin: The Two Edged Sword

• 1. If You Knows of a Better 'ole...
• 2. Plausibility and Horror
• 3. Shadow Over Europe
• 4. Conflicts of the Third World
• 5. Not For The Sake of Their Blue Eyes
• 6. Who's Moving The Goal Post?

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Reith 1982 - Denis Donoghue: The Arts Without Mystery

• 1. The Zealots of Explanation
• 2. The Domestication Of Outrage
• 3. The Parade of Ideas
• 4. A Cherishing Bureaucracy
• 5. The Anxious Object
• 6. A Talent For Conviction

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Reith 1983 - Douglas Wass: Government and the Governed

• 1. United Thoughts and Counsels
• 2. Cabinet: Directorate or Directory?
• 3. The Privileged Adviser
• 4. Critical Opposition - Part of the Policys
• 5. Opening Up Government
• 6. Participation - the Sole Bond

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Reith 1984 - John Searle: Minds, Brains and Science

• 1. A Froth on Reality
• 2. Beer Cans & Meat Machines
• 3. Grandmother Knew Best
• 4. Walk To Patagonia
• 5. A Changing Reality
• 6. The Freedom of the Will

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Reith 1985 - David Henderson: Innocence and Design

• 1. The Power of Do-it-Yourself Economics
• 2. Soap Operas in High Places
• 3. Needs, Centralism & Autarchy
• 4. Orthodox Economists versus the People
• 5. DIYE plus the Lobbies: Counting the Cost
• 6. Markets, States & Economics

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Reith 1986 - John McCluskey: Law, Justice and Democracy

• 1. The Chill and Distant Heights
• 2. The Clanking of Medieval Chains
• 3. Hard Cases and Bad Law
• 4. Trusting the Judges
• 5. An Enormous Power
• 6. Lions Under the Throne

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Reith 1987 - Alexander Goehr: The Survival of The Symphony

• 1. The Old Warhorse
• 2. An Orchid in the Field of Technology
• 3. Past and Present
• 4. A Licence for Licence
• 5. Let the People Sing
• 6. Stand Up and Be Understood

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Reith 1988 - Geoffrey Hosking: The Rediscovery of Politics

• 1. A Great Power in Crisis
• 2. The Return Of The Repressed
• 3. A Civil Society In Embryo
• 4. The Flawed Melting Pot
• 5. Religion and the Atheist State
• 6. The Paradox of Gorbachev's Reforms

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Reith 1989 - Jacques Darras: Beyond The Tunnel of History

• 1. The Time Traveller
• 2. The Golden Fleece
• 3. Highways of Freedom
• 4. Remembering the Somme
• 5. Towards the Light

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