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In Pictures: The BBC Reith Lectures

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 ...
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Press Release

This year's annual BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures will be delivered by two speakers – Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former Director-General of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller. They ...
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Is free speech under attack? Eight key points from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s BBC Reith Lecture

Inspired by President Franklin D Roosevelt’s famous "Four Freedoms" speech, the 2022 Reith Lectures examine freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Against the ...