The Guildhall Lectures were an annual series of talks on the theme of communication, organised by the British Association.

The lectures, held in the London Guildhall, were sponsored and broadcast by Granada Television. The first set of three lectures were held in 1959,Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Vol. 5, p.457 and they continued until at least 1984. Broadly on the theme of "Communication in the Modern World", they concerned the arts, sciences, politics and mass media.Charles Curran et al, Television Today and Tomorrow, p.5

List of lectures YearThemeSpeakers1959Communication in the Modern WorldEdward Appleton, Eric Ashby, Edward Murrow1960Communication in the Modern WorldEdgar Adrian, George W. Beadle, Hans Eysenck1961Communication in the Modern WorldHermann Bondi, James Gray, John Wolfenden1962Communication in the Modern WorldJohn Kenneth Galbraith, Yoshinori Maeda, Yigael Yadin1963Communication in the Modern WorldA. J. Ayer, Patrick Blackett, J. Zacharias1964Communication in the Modern WorldWilliam Holford, George Miller, Stein Rokkan1965Communication in the Modern WorldAlistair Cooke, J. B. Rhine, Hyman G. Rickover1966Telecommunications: The Next Ten YearsKenneth Clark, Sebastian De Ferranti, Francis McLean1967Only ConnectAsa Briggs, Hugh Cudlipp, Fred Friendly1968Communication in the Modern WorldLawrence Alloway, Paul Chambers, Richard Crossman1969Universities: Boundaries of ChangePaul Doty, Jack Straw, Albert Sloman197019711972The Future of Broadcasting in BritainHugh Greene19731974The Freedom of the PressHarold Evans, Katharine Graham, David Windlesham1975Government, Broadcasting and the PressRoy Jenkins19761977Television Today and TomorrowNoel Annan, Charles Curran, Brian Young197819791980The Role of the Trade UnionsTony Benn, Len Murray, Jim Prior19811982The Liberty of the CitizenJohn Hunt, John Mortimer, Franklin A. Thomas19831984The Right to KnowFloyd Abrams, Michael Kirby, Leslie Scarman198519861987Will Cabinet Government Survive?Quintin Hogg19881989Europe: Our Sort of CommunityLeon Brittan

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