The Reith Lectures

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore t... more

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral ... more

Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay a... more

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, whose BBC Reith Lectures start this week, is calling f... more

In her final lecture, the forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead, assesses how we deal with... more

How best do we understand how to manage powerful emotions such as rage, fear and shame? Wi... more

In her second Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if there’s such a thing as “evil.”? In a... more

In her 2024 Reith Lectures, Dr Gwen Adshead, addresses four questions that she has most co... more

This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institut... more

This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institut... more

This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institut... more

This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institut... more

In the last in a series of four lectures examining what freedom means, the foreign affairs... more

Author and musician Darren McGarvey gives the third of four BBC Reith Lectures on the them... more

Rowan Williams cyn Archesgob Cymru a Chaergaint yn traddodi ei ddarlith Reith i'r BBC yn y... more

Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, gives the second of the 2022 Reith Le... more

Best-selling Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives the first of four 2022 Reith L... more

Stuart Russell suggests a way forward for human control over super-powerful artificial int... more

Professor Stuart Russell explores the future of work and one of the most concerning issues... more

Stuart Russell warns of the dangers of developing autonomous weapon systems - arguing for ... more

Stuart Russell explores the future of Artificial Intelligence and asks; how can we get our... more

Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England, argues that the roots of the clim... more

Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England, observes that the pandemic has fo... more

Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England, takes us back to the high drama o... more

Mark Carney’s Reith 2020 Lectures chart how we have come to esteem financial value over hu... more

Jonathan Sumption argues against Britain adopting a written constitution as a response to ... more

Jonathan Sumption assesses the US and UK’s constitutional models. He describes Britain's u... more

Jonathan Sumption argues that judges - especially those of the European Court of Human Rig... more

Jonathan Sumption explains how democratic processes have the power to accommodate oppositi... more