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The Reith Lectures were begun in 1948 by the BBC in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith.

Reith Lecturers

This is an incomplete list:

1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
1952 Arnold Toynbee, The World and the West
1953 Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding
1965 Robert Gardiner, World of Peoples
1966 J. K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State
1990 Jonathon Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
1991 Steve Jones, The Language of the Genes
1999 Anthony Giddens, Runaway World
2000 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Population and Health
2002 Onora O'Neill, A Question of Trust
2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, The Emerging Mind

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