And it's 70 years since From Our Own Correspondent - or FOOC = was first broadcast on the BBC, giving a space for long-form, single-voice reports from correspondents all over the world. Editor Richard ...

In this third of four lectures, Bregman argues for a new "realist utopia," calling for people to join what he labels" a conspiracy of decency." He says that in the face of rapid technological change, ...

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution." History, he says can ...

The Reith Lectures have a long tradition of showcasing leading thinkers from across a variety of disciplines including science, economics, history, the arts and philosophy, as well as politics, and ...

From "cancel culture" to the threat of nuclear war, the 2022 BBC Reith Lectures analyze the state of freedom around the world. The Reiths are the BBC's flagship lecture series, and usually feature one ...

One significant advantage, in my mind, of the BBC over a commercial broadcaster is that Auntie Beeb has a duty to the public rather than to its advertisers. The fact that their sole concern is not the ...

The four speakers who will deliver this year’s BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures have been announced. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lord Rowan Williams, Darren McGarvey and Dr Fiona Hill will give the lectures ...

This year's Reith Lectures are given by Onora O'Neill, who was born in Northern Ireland in 1941. She studied philosophy, psychology and physiology at Oxford, and went on to complete a doctorate at ...

The longevity revolution is the subject of this year's Reith Lectures, to be delivered by one of the world's foremost authorities on the ageing process. Professor Tom Kirkwood, head of the Department ...

This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim. A child prodigy as a pianist, Barenboim has since branched out into conducting and matured to become one of the ...