Collaboration
This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished engineer, Lord Broers. He is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. In the s...
13 Apr 200542min
Technology will Determine the Future of the Human Race
This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished engineer, Lord Broers. Alec Broers is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee....
6 Apr 200542min
I am Right; You are Dead
In his fifth and final Reith Lecture, the Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist Wole Soyinka examines the causes and impact of fanaticism.When Osama Bin Laden declares that the world...
5 Maj 200442min
A Quest for Dignity
The Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist Wole Soyinka explores the notion of dignity within a climate of fear.Even in defeat, negotiating terms of surrender, a defeated nation plead...
28 Apr 200443min
Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds
In his third Reith Lecture, the Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist Wole Soyinka examines the power of political and religious rhetoric.Between God and Nation, and Sieg Heil, a com...
21 Apr 200442min
Power and Freedom
In his second Reith Lecture, the Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist Wole Soyinka examines how difficult it can be to tell friend from foe in a climate of fear. Organisations that ...
14 Apr 200442min
The Changing Mask of Fear
The Nigerian born writer, Wole Soyinka, is a playwright, poet and a political activist. His novel, The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka, recounts his experience of his unlawful imprisonment ...
7 Apr 200442min
Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
This year's Reith Lecturer is Vilayanur S Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition. He has lectured widely on art and visual perception of the brain and is Editor-in-chief of the E...
30 Apr 200342min
