Photos from the BBC archives reveal some of the many illustrious figures who have delivered the Reith Lectures, from Bertrand Russell in 1948 to Dr Atul Gawande in 2014. Image caption, The first Reith ...

Michael Sandel '75, who is well known for his enganging oratory, was recently selected by the BBC to deliver its esteemed Reith Lectures for 2009. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of ...

From the attack on the U.S. Capitol building, to the gilets jaunes movement in France, to the convoy encampment in Ottawa, people throughout the democratic world are angry. Public opinion polls in the ...

This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim. A child prodigy as a pianist, Barenboim has since branched out into conducting and matured to become one of the ...

The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first director-general.

This year's Reith Lectures are given by Onora O'Neill, who was born in Northern Ireland in 1941. She studied philosophy, psychology and physiology at Oxford, and went on to complete a doctorate at ...

Longtime Burmese political prisoner recorded two lectures in secret to be delivered next month. By Mimi Turner LONDON — Burmese opposition leader and longtime political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has ...

According to Atul Gawande medicine lies at “the messy intersection of science and human fallibility”. Named as one of the world’s most influential thinkers by Time in 2010, Gawande is a world renowned ...

Man’s inability to dominate machines was laid bare, Philippa Perry got to the bottom of desire, and a Bullseye tribute bridged the generation gap The Reith Lectures (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds Consumed By ...

The first Reith Lecturer was Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and Nobel laureate. He delivered a series of talks about the individual and ...