Reith Lectures

2013 Grayson Perry: "Playing to the Gallery"

2012 Niall Ferguson: "The Rule of Law and Its Enemies"

2011 Aung San Suu Kyi and Baroness Manningham-Buller: "Securing Freedom"

2010 Martin Rees: "Scientific Horizons"

2009 Michael Sandel: "A New Citizenship"

2008 Jonathan Spence: "Chinese Vistas"

2007 Jeffrey Sachs: "Bursting at the Seams"

2006 Daniel Barenboim: QIn the Beginning was Sound"

2005 Alec Broers: "The Triumph of Technology"

2004 Wole Soyinka: "Climate of Fear"

2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran: "The Emerging Mind"

2002 Onora O'Neill: "A Question of Trust"

2001 Tom Kirkwood: "The End Of Age"

2000 "Respect For The Earth"

1999 Anthony Giddens: "Runaway World"

1998 John Keegan: "War In Our World"

1997 Patricia Williams: "The Genealogy of Race"

1996 Jean Aitchison: "The Language Web"

1995 Richard Rogers: "Sustainable City"

1994 Marina Warner: "Managing Monsters"

1993 Edward Said: "Representation of the Intellectual"

1991 Steve Jones: "The Language of the Genes"

1990 Jonathan Sacks: "The Persistence of Faith"

1989 Jacques Darras: "Beyond The Tunnel of History"

1988 Geoffrey Hosking: "The Rediscovery of Politics"

1987 Alexander Goehr: "The Survival of The Symphony"

1986 John McCluskey: "Law, Justice and Democracy"

1985 David Henderson: "Innocence and Design"

1984 John Searle: Minds, "Brains and Science"

1983 Douglas Wass: "Government and the Governed"

1982 Denis Donoghue: "The Arts Without Mystery"

1981 Laurence Martin: "The Two Edged Sword"

1980 Ian Kennedy: "Unmasking Medicine"

1979 Ali Mazrui: "The African Condition"

1978 Edward Norman: "Christianity and the World"

1978 A.H. Halsey: "Change in British Society"

1976 Colin Blakemore: "Mechanics of the Mind"

1975 Daniel Boorstin: "America and the World Experience"

1974 Ralf Dahrendorf: "The New Liberty"

1973 Alastair Buchan: "Change without War"

1972 Andrew Shonfield Europe: "Journey to an Unknown Destination"

1971 Richard Hoggart: "Only Connect"

1970 Donald Schon: "Change and Industrial Society"

1969 Frank Fraser Darling: "Wilderness and Plenty"

1968 Lester Pearson: "In the Family of Man"

1967 Edmund Leach: "A Runaway World"

1966 J K Galbraith: "The New Industrial State"

1965 Robert Gardiner: "World of Peoples"

1964 Leon Bagrit: "The Age of Automation"

1963 Albert Sloman: "A University in the Making"

1962 George Carstairs: "This Island Now"

1961 Margery Perham: "The Colonial Reckoning"

1960 Edgar Wind: "Art and Anarchy"

1959 Peter Medawar: "The Future of Man"

1958 Bernard Lovell: "The Individual and the Universe"

1957 George Kennan: "Russia, the Atom and the West"

1956 Edward Appleton: "Science and the Nation"

1955 Nikolaus Pevsner: "The Englishness of English Art"

1954 Oliver Franks: "Britain and the Tide of World Affairs"

1953 Robert Oppenheimer: "Science and the Common Understanding"

1952 Arnold Toynbee: "The World and the West"

1951 Cyril Radcliffe: "Power and the State"

1950 John Zachary Young: "Doubt and Certainty in Science"

1949 Robert Birley: "Britain in Europe: Reflections on the Development of a European Society"

1948 Bertrand Russell: "Authority and the Individual"