Reith Lectures

The Reith Lectures archive

• Podcast 1: Archive 1948–1975
• Podcast 2: Archive 1976–2012
• Transcripts 1948–2010
• In pictures

The Reith Lectures 1948–2019

1940s

• 1948 Bertrand Russell, '
• 1949 Robert Birley, '

  1950s

• 1950 John Zachary Young, '
• 1951 Lord Radcliffe, '
• 1952 Arnold J. Toynbee, '
• 1953 Robert Oppenheimer, '
• 1954 Oliver Franks, '
• 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, '
• 1956 Edward Victor Appleton, '
• 1957 George F. Kennan, '
• 1958 Bernard Lovell, '
• 1959 Peter Medawar, '

  1960s

• 1960 Edgar Wind, '
• 1961 Margery Perham, '
• 1962 George Carstairs, '
• 1963 Albert Sloman, '
• 1964 Leon Bagrit, '
• 1965 Robert Gardiner, '
• 1966 John K. Galbraith, '
• 1967 Edmund Leach, '
• 1968 Lester Pearson, '
• 1969 Frank Fraser Darling, '

  1970s

• 1970 Donald Schon, '
• 1971 Richard Hoggart, '
• 1972 Andrew Shonfield, '
• 1973 Alastair Buchan, '
• 1974 Ralf Dahrendorf, '
• 1975 Daniel Boorstin, '
• 1976 Colin Blakemore, '
• 1977 A. H. Halsey, '
• 1978 Edward Norman, '
• 1979 Ali Mazrui, '

  1980s

• 1980 Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, '
• 1981 Laurence Martin, '
• 1982 Denis Donoghue, '
• 1983 Douglas Wass, '
• 1984 John Searle, '
• 1985 David Henderson, '
• 1986 Lord McCluskey, '
• 1987 Alexander Goehr, '
• 1988 Geoffrey Hosking, '
• 1989 Jacques Darras, '

  1990s

• 1990 Jonathan Sacks, '
• 1991 Steve Jones, '
• There were no Reith Lectures in 1992
• 1993 Edward Said, '
• 1994 Marina Warner, '
• 1995 Richard Rogers, '
• 1996 Jean Aitchison, '
• 1997 Patricia Williams, '
• 1998 John Keegan, '
• 1999 Anthony Giddens,

  2000s

• 2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vandana Shiva, Charles, Prince of Wales, '
• 2001 Tom Kirkwood, '
• 2002 Onora O'Neill, '
• 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, '
• 2004 Wole Soyinka, '
• 2005 Lord Broers, '
• 2006 Daniel Barenboim, '
• 2007 Jeffrey Sachs, '
• 2008 Professor Jonathan Spence, '
• 2009 Michael Sandel, '

  2010s

• 2010 Martin Rees, Scientific Horizons
• 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi and 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
• 2016 Stephen Hawking Do Black Holes Have No Hair?
• late 2016 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