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', ...

BBC Radio 4 has released hundreds of hours of The Reith Lectures from its archives to coincide with the broadcast of this year's first lecture. The archive includes 240 recordings and provides a ...

Anita Anand will present this year’s Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4, taking over from long-running host Sue Lawley. Lawley, who previously hosted Desert Island Discs, announced she was stepping down ...

Dame Hilary Mantel is to give a series of lectures around the UK which will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. As part of the BBC's flagship series The Reith Lectures, Mantel will ...

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 ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, will deliver the 2011 BBC Reith Lectures. Her two lectures will discuss the themes of dissent and liberty and will be broadcast on BBC Radio from 28 ...

Man’s inability to dominate machines was laid bare, Philippa Perry got to the bottom of desire, and a Bullseye tribute bridged the generation gap The Reith Lectures (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds Consumed By ...

Physicist thought to be longest living motor neurone disease survivor pulls out of lectures due to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 because he is unwell Professor Stephen Hawkinghoped his lectures would ...

BBC Radio 4 has confirmed further details for the 2019 Reith Lectures, to be given by Jonathan Sumption. The five lectures entitled Law and the Decline of Politics will broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4 ...

Dr Atul Gawande is 2014's Reith lecturer Credit: Photo: BBC Medicine is the science we all live with. We trust a pill to help a headache. We ask the doctor why a back aches or a cough won’t go. This ...