Reith fyrirlestrarnir
Reith fyrirlestrarnir eru árlegir útvarpsfyrirlestrar sem fluttir eru af forustumönnum hvers tíma, haldnir á vegum BBC og útvarpað á BBC Radio 4. Fyrsta fyrirlestrinum var útvarpað 1948. Þeir eru nefndir eftir fyrsta útvarpsstjóra BBC John Reith honum til heiðurs og er ætlað að vera upplífgandi og fræðandi.
Listi yfir fyrirlestrana
[breyta | breyta frumkóða]- 1948 Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
- 1949 Robert Birley, Britain in Europe
- 1950 John Zachary Young, Doubt and Certainty in Science
- 1951 Lord Radcliffe, Power and the State
- 1952 Arnold J. Toynbee, The World and the West
- 1953 Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding
- 1954 Sir Oliver Franks, Britain and Tide of World Affairs
- 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art
- 1956 Sir Edward Appleton, Science and The Nation
- 1957 George F. Kennan, Russia, The Atom and The West
- 1958 Bernard Lovell, The Individual and The Universe
- 1959 Peter Medawar, The Future of Man
- 1960 Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy
- 1961 Margery Perham, The Colonial Reckoning
- 1962 Prof. George Carstairs, This Island Now
- 1963 Dr Albert Sloman, A University in The Making
- 1964 Sir Leon Bagrit, The Age of Automation
- 1965 Robert Gardiner, World of Peoples
- 1966 John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State (þýtt á íslensku sem Iðnríki okkar daga og gefið út sem Lærdómsrit Hins íslenzka bókmenntafélags)
- 1967 Edmund Leach, A Runaway World
- 1968 Lester Pearson, Peace In The Family of Man
- 1969 Dr Frank Fraser Darling, Wilderness and Plenty
- 1970 Dr Donald Schon, Change and Industrial Society
- 1971 Richard Hoggart, Only Connect
- 1972 Andrew Schonfield, Europe: Journey To An Unknown Destination
- 1973 Prof. Alistair Buchan, Change Without War
- 1974 Prof. Ralf Dahrendorf, The New Liberty
- 1975 Dr Daniel Boorstin, America and The World Experience
- 1976 Dr Colin Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind
- 1977 Prof. A. H. Halsey, Change In British Society
- 1978 Rev. Dr Edward Norman, Christianity and the World
- 1979 Prof. Ali Mazrui, The African Condition
- 1980 Ian Kennedy, Unmasking Medicine
- 1981 Prof. Laurence Martin, The Two Edged Sword
- 1982 Prof. Denis Donoghue, The Arts Without Mystery
- 1983 Sir Douglas Wass, Government and the Governed
- 1984 Prof. John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science
- 1985 David Henderson, Innocence and Design
- 1986 Lord McCluskey, Law, Justice and Democracy
- 1987 Prof. Alexander Goehr, The Survival of The Symphony
- 1988 Prof. Geoffrey Hosking, The Rediscovery of Politics
- 1989 Jacques Darras, Beyond The Tunnel of History
- 1990 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Persistence of Faith
- 1991 Steve Jones, The Language of the Genes
- 1992 Engir fyrirlestrar voru haldnir
- 1993 Edward Said, Representation of the Intellectual
- 1994 Marina Warner, Managing Monsters
- 1995 Sir Richard Rogers, Sustainable City
- 1996 Jean Aitchison, The Language Web
- 1997 Patricia Williams, The Genealogy of Race
- 1998 John Keegan, War In Our World
- 1999 Anthony Giddens, Runaway World
- 2000 Chris Patten, Sir John Browne, Thomas Lovejoy, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vandana Shiva, HRH Prince of Wales, Respect For The Earth
- 2001 Prof. Tom Kirkwood, The End Of Age
- 2002 Onora O'Neill, A Question of Trust
- 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, The Emerging Mind
- 2004 Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear
- 2005 Lord Broers, The Triumph of Technology
- 2006 Daniel Barenboim, In the Beginning was Sound
- 2007 Jeffrey Sachs, Bursting at the Seams