
The Reith Lectures
Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series

Episodes (52 available)

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
58 mins

Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 BBC Reith Lectures called Moral Revolution.
58 mins

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the third of his 2025 BBC Reith Lectures.
57 mins

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.
57 mins

Michael Buerk chairs a debate examining Rutger Bregman’s call for a moral revolution.
57 mins

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if violence is normal.
58 mins

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks: Aren't they all evil?
58 mins

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if trauma causes violence.
58 mins

In her final Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if we can change violent minds.
58 mins

Professor Ben Ansell delivers the first 2023 Reith Lectures on Our Democratic Future.
58 mins
