The Reith Lectures

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The philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah argues against a mythical, romantic...

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Creed

Philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that when considering religion we...

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Black holes ain't as black as they are painted

The Cambridge cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking delivers the second of his BBC Reith Lectures...

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Stephen Hawking: Do black holes have no hair?

Professor Stephen Hawking delivers the first of his two BBC Reith Lectures on black holes....

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The Idea of Wellbeing

The surgeon and writer Atul Gawande calls for a new focus on medical systems to ensure doctors...

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The Problem of Hubris

Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande calls for a new approach to the two great unfixable problems in...

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The Century of the System

The surgeon and writer Atul Gawande argues that better systems can transform global healthcare by...

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Why Do Doctors Fail?

Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores the nature of fallibility and suggests that preventing...

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I Found Myself in the Art World

In the last of his four Reith Lectures, recorded in front of an audience at Central St Martins...

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Nice Rebellion, Welcome In!

In the third of four lectures, recorded in front of an audience at The Guildhall in Londonderry,...

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Beating the Bounds

The award-winning artist Grayson Perry asks whether it is really true that anything can be art....

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Democracy Has Bad Taste

In the first of four lectures, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the...

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Civil and Uncivil Societies

The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside the political, economic and legal...

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The Landscape of the Law

The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture at Gresham College in the heart of legal London,...

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The Darwinian Economy

The eminent economic historian Niall Ferguson travels to the world's financial centre to deliver...

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The Human Hive

The eminent economic historian Professor Niall Ferguson argues that institutions determine the...

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Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom

In this third and final Reith lecture the former Director General of the security service (MI5),...

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Eliza Manningham-Buller: Security

The former Director-General of the Security Service (MI5), Eliza Manningham-Buller gives the...

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Eliza Manningham-Buller: Terror

The former Director-General of the Security Service (MI5), Eliza Manningham-Buller gives the...

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent

The pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines what drives people to dissent in the second...

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