Reith Lectures
# Reith Lectures

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 Horizons
* 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi und Baroness Eliza 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
* 2016 (Jan–Feb) 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
