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This year's lecturer is the current Assistant Director General of UNESCO, Richard Hoggart. The British cultural academic has worked at the Universities of Birmingham, Hull and Leicester.

Hoggart, known for his work on modern culture, was an expert witness at the Penguin 1960s trial over the publication of DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. His argument that it was an essentially moral work, which merely repeated words he had heard on a building site on his way to the court, is sometimes viewed as having had a decisive influence on the outcome of the trial.

Richard Hoggart explores how we communicate in his Reith lecture series entitled 'Only Connect'.

In his first lecture, entitled 'Taking for Granted', he discusses how people keep in touch in their own society via a subtle, non-stop symphony of verbal and non-verbal nuances. He explores the social readings, interpretations of manners and styles that are typically relevant to the English.