Reith Lectures Transcripts

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Reith 1990 - Jonathan Sacks: The Persistence of Faith

• 1. The Environment of Faith
• 2. The Demoralisation of Discourse
• 3. The Family
• 4. Paradoxes & Pluralism
• 5. Fundamentalism
• 6. A Community of Communities

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Reith 1991 - Steve Jones: The Language of the Genes

• 1. A Message From Our Ancestors
• 2. Change or Decay
• 3. Cousins Under the Skin
• 4. The Evolution of Utopia

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Reith 1992 - No Lectures

Reith 1993 - Edward Said: Representation of the Intellectual

• 1. Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay
• 2. Intellectual Exiles
• 3. Professionals and Amateurs
• 4. Speaking Truth To Power
• 5. Gods That Always Fail

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Reith 1994 - Marina Warner: Managing Monsters

• 1. Monstrous Mothers
• 2. Boys Will Be Boys
• 3. Little Angels, Little Devils: Keeping Children Innocent
• 4. Beautiful Beasts: The Call of the Wild
• 5. Cannibal Tales: The Hunger for Conquest
• 6. Home: Our Famous Island Race

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Reith 1995 - Richard Rogers: Sustainable City

• 1. The Culture of Cities
• 2. Sustainable Cities
• 3. Sustainable Architecture
• 4. London, the Humanist City
• 5. Cities For A Small Planet

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Reith 1996 - Jean Aitchison: The Language Web

• 1. A Web Of Worries
• 2. A Web Of Deceit
• 3. Building the Web
• 4. A Web Of Words
• 5. The World Wide Web

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Reith 1997 - Patricia Williams: The Genealogy of Race

• 1. The Emperor's New Clothes
• 2. The Pantomime of Race
• 3. The Distribution Of Distress
• 4. The War Between The Worlds
• 5. An Ordinary Brilliance: Parting the Waters, closing the wounds

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Reith 1998 - John Keegan: War In Our World

• 1. War And Our World
• 2. The Origins Of War
• 3. War and the State
• 4. War And The Individual
• 5. Can there be an end to war?

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Reith 1999 - Anthony Giddens: Runaway World

• 1. Globalisation: London
• 2. Risk: Hong Kong
• 3. Tradition: Delhi
• 4. Family: Washington DC
• 5. Democracy: London

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