Reith Lectures

Reith Lectures adalah serangkaian kuliah radio tahunan di BBC yang diberikan oleh tokoh-tokoh terkemuka pada saat itu. Para tokoh ini diserahi tugas oleh BBC dan disiarkan di Radio 4 dan World Service. Kuliah tersebut bermula pada tahun 1948 untuk memperingati kontribusi bersejarah yang dilakukan bagi dunia penyiaran publik oleh Lord Reith, direktur jenderal pertama BBC.

Reith berpendapat bahwa penyiaran harus menjadi layanan publik yang bertujuan untuk memperkaya kehidupan intelektual dan budaya bangsa. Didorong oleh semangat ini, BBC mengundang tokoh-tokoh terkemuka untuk menyampaikan kuliah radio setiap tahunnya. Kuliah ini bertujuan untuk memajukan pemahaman dan perdebatan publik terkait isu-isu kontemporer.

Pengajar Reith pertama adalah filsuf dan calon peraih Nobel, Bertrand Russell. Pengajar wanita pertama Reith adalah Margery Perham pada tahun 1961, sedangkan pengajar termuda adalah Colin Blakemore, yang berusia 32 tahun pada tahun 1976, ketika ia memberikan kuliah lebih dari enam episode mengenai otak dan kesadaran manusia.

1940-an

1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe

1950-an

1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science
1951 Lord Radcliffe, Power and the State
1952 Arnold J. Toynbee, The World and the West
1953 J. 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

1960-an

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

1970-an

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

1980-an

1980 Professor 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 Lord 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

1990-an

1990 Jonathan Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
1991 Steve Jones, The Language of Genes
1992 Tidak diselenggarakan
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

2000-an

2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vandana Shiva, Charles, Pangeran 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 Lord Broers, The Triumph of Technology
2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound
2007 Jeffrey Sachs, Bursting at the Seams
2008 Profesor Jonathan Spence, Chinese Vistas
2009 Michael Sandel, A New Citizenship

2010-an

2010 Martin Rees, Scientific Horizons
2011 Aung San Suu Kyi dan Baroness Manningham-Buller, Securing Freedom
2012 Niall Ferguson, The Rule of Law and Its Enemies
2013 Grayson Perry, Playing to the Gallery
2014 Atul Gawande, The Future of Medicine
2015 Stephen Hawking, ditunda karena sakit
2016 (Maret) Stephen Hawking, Do Black Holes Have No Hair?
2016 (Oktober) Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mistaken Identities
2017 Hilary Mantel, Resurrection: The Art And Craft
2018 Margaret MacMillan, The Mark of Cain
2019 Jonathan Sumption, Law and the Decline of Politics

2020-an

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"

Reith Lectures 1948–2020