The Reith Lectures

3/5. Human Rights and Wrongs

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

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2/5. In Praise of Politics

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

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1/5. Law's Expanding Empire

Jonathan Sumption argues that the law is taking over the space once occupied by politics. Lord...

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War's Fatal Attraction

Historian Margaret MacMillan looks at representations of war: can we really create beauty from...

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Managing the Unmanageable

Historian Margaret MacMillan assesses how the law and international agreements have attempted to...

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Civilians and War

Historian Margaret MacMillan dissects the relationship between war and the civilian. Speaking to...

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Fearing and Loving: Making Sense of the Warrior

Historian Margaret MacMillan asks why both men and women go to war. "We are both fascinated and...

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War and Humanity

Is war an essential part of being human? Are we destined to fight? That is the central question...

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Angela Stent on George Kennan

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

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Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

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Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

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Anand Menon on Robert Birley

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

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Michael Sandel on Bertrand Russell

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

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Adaptation

Hilary Mantel on how fiction changes when adapted for stage or screen. Each medium, she says,...

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Can These Bones Live?

Hilary Mantel analyses how historical fiction can make the past come to life. She says her task...

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Silence Grips the Town

The story of how an obsessive relationship with history killed the young Polish writer Stanislawa...

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The Iron Maiden

How do we construct our pictures of the past, including both truth and myth, asks best-selling...

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The Day Is for the Living

Art can bring the dead back to life, argues the best-selling novelist Hilary Mantel, starting...

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Culture

The philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah says the idea of "Western...

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Colour

The philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for a world free of racial...

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