Die Reith Lectures der BBC sind seit 1948 bestehende jährliche Radio-Vortragsreihen bedeutender Wissenschaftler, Politiker und anderer Personen des öffentlichen Lebens. Sie werden auf BBC Radio 4 und BBC World Service ausgestrahlt.
Sie sind nach dem ersten Direktor der BBC Sir John Reith benannt, der sie einführte.
Liste der Vorträge 1940er 1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual 1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe
1950er 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science 1951 Cyril Radcliffe (Lord Radcliffe), Power and the State 1952 Arnold J. Toynbee, The World and the West 1953 Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding 1954 Oliver Franks, Britain and the Tide of World Affairs 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art 1956 Edward Victor Appleton, Science and the Nation 1957 George F. Kennan, Russia, the Atom and the West 1958 Bernard Lovell, The Individual and the Universe 1959 Peter Medawar, The Future of Man
1960er 1960 Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy 1961 Margery Perham, The Colonial Reckoning 1962 George Carstairs, This Island Now 1963 Albert Sloman, A University in the Making 1964 Leon Bagrit, The Age of Automation 1965 Robert Gardiner, World of Peoples 1966 John K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State 1967 Edmund Leach, A Runaway World 1968 Lester Pearson, In the Family of Man 1969 Frank Fraser Darling, Wilderness and Plenty
1970er 1970 Donald Schon, Change and Industrial Society 1971 Richard Hoggart, Only Connect 1972 Andrew Shonfield, Europe: Journey to an Unknown Destination 1973 Alastair Buchan, Change Without War 1974 Ralf Dahrendorf, The New Liberty 1975 Daniel Boorstin, America and the World Experience 1976 Colin Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind 1977 A. H. Halsey, Change in British Society 1978 Edward Norman, Christianity and the World 1979 Ali Mazrui, The African Condition
1980er 1980 Sir Ian Kennedy, Unmasking Medicine 1981 Laurence Martin, The Two Edged Sword 1982 Denis Donoghue, The Arts Without Mystery 1983 Douglas Wass, Government and the Governed 1984 John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science 1985 David Henderson, Innocence and Design 1986 John McCluskey, Law, Justice and Democracy 1987 Alexander Goehr, The Survival of the Symphony 1988 Geoffrey Hosking, The Rediscovery of Politics 1989 Jacques Darras, Beyond the Tunnel of History
1990er 1990 Jonathan Sacks, The Persistence of Faith 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of Genes 1992 gab es keine Reith Lectures in 1992 1993 Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual 1994 Marina Warner, Managing Monsters 1995 Richard Rogers, Sustainable City 1996 Jean Aitchison, The Language Web 1997 Patricia Williams, The Genealogy of Race 1998 John Keegan, War in Our World 1999 Anthony Giddens, The Runaway World
2000er 2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vandana Shiva, Charles, Prince of Wales, Respect for the Earth 2001 Tom Kirkwood, The End of Age 2002 Onora O’Neill, A Question of Trust? 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, The Emerging Mind 2004 Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear 2005 Alec Broers, The Triumph of Technology 2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound 2007 Jeffrey Sachs, Bursting at the Seams 2008 Jonathan Spence, Chinese Vistas 2009 Michael Sandel, A New Citizenship
2010er 2010 Martin Rees, Scientific HorizonsScientific Horizons 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi und Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Securing FreedomSecuring Freedom 2012 Niall Ferguson, The Rule of Law and Its EnemiesThe Rule of Law and Its Enemies 2013 Grayson Perry, Playing to the GalleryPlaying to the Gallery 2014 Atul Gawande, The Future of MedicineThe Future of MedicineDr Atul Gawande - 2014 Reith Lectures 2016 (Jan–Feb) Stephen Hawking, Do Black Holes Have No Hair?Do Black Holes Have No Hair?2016 Reith Lectures: Stephen Hawking—"Do Black Holes Have no Hair?" 2016 (Okt–Nov) Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mistaken Identities 2017 Hilary Mantel, The Day is for the Living 2018 Margaret MacMillan, War and Humanity 2019 Jonathan Sumption, Law and the Decline of Politics
2020er 2020 Mark Carney, How We Get What We Value - From Moral to Market Sentiments 2021 Stuart J. Russell, Living with Artificial Intelligence 2022 The Four Freedoms: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Freedom of speech"; Rowan Williams, "Freedom of worship"; Darren McGarvey, "Freedom from want"; Fiona Hill, "Freedom from fear" 2023 Ben Ansell, Our Democratic Future 2024 Gwen Adshead, Four Questions about Violence 2025 Rutger Bregman, Moral Revolution
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