In this fourth and final lecture, he zooms out to reflect on humanity’s strange historical trajectory, warning of the existential risks posed by unchecked tech and AI. He urges privileged individuals ...

This year’s Reith lecturer is the historian and activist Rutger Bregman. Given the way things work in the BBC, ...

This year's BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer is historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman. Titled Moral Revolution, the lectures will delve into the current 'age of immorality', ...

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, ...

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 ...

From the attack on the U.S. Capitol building, to the gilets jaunes movement in France, to the convoy encampment in Ottawa, people throughout the democratic world are angry. Public opinion polls in the ...

Rutger Bregman said his speech was about 'universities, corporations and media networks, bending the knee to authoritarianism' ...

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 ...

Michael Sandel '75, who is well known for his enganging oratory, was recently selected by the BBC to deliver its esteemed Reith Lectures for 2009. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of ...

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 ...

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 ...