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Securing Freedom

Eliza Manningham-Buller: Terror

Eliza Manningham-Buller reflects on 9/11 in the first of her Reith Lectures 2011.

• 45 mins

Securing Freedom

Eliza Manningham-Buller: Security

Assessing the role of security and intelligence services in a democracy.

• 43 mins

Securing Freedom

Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom

Ex-M15 boss Eliza Manningham-Buller discusses foreign policy in her third Reith Lecture.

• 43 mins

Niall Ferguson - The Rule of Law and Its Enemies

The Human Hive

Niall Ferguson argues that institutions determine the success or failure of nations.

• 42 mins

Niall Ferguson - The Rule of Law and Its Enemies

The Darwinian Economy

Niall Ferguson reflects on the causes and lessons of the global financial crisis.

• 42 mins

Niall Ferguson - The Rule of Law and Its Enemies

The Landscape of the Law

Niall Ferguson asks if different systems of law are key to economic success.

• 42 mins

Niall Ferguson - The Rule of Law and Its Enemies

Civil and Uncivil Societies

Niall Ferguson asks what constitutes a vibrant and independent civil society.

• 58 mins

Grayson Perry - Playing to the Gallery

Democracy has Bad Taste

The artist Grayson Perry on how to judge quality in contemporary art

• 42 mins

Grayson Perry - Playing to the Gallery

Beating the Bounds

Grayson Perry questions the often-heard assertion that anything can be art.

• 42 mins

Grayson Perry - Playing to the Gallery

Nice Rebellion, Welcome In!

The artist Grayson Perry discusses art and revolution.

• 42 mins

Grayson Perry - Playing to the Gallery

I Found Myself in the Art World

Grayson Perry discusses the painful yet rewarding process of becoming an artist.

• 42 mins

Dr Atul Gawande - The Future of Medicine

Why Do Doctors Fail?

Surgeon and writer Dr Atul Gawande explores the nature of fallibility in medicine.

• 42 mins

Dr Atul Gawande - The Future of Medicine

The Century of the System

Atul Gawande calls for a radical rethink of medical systems to transform healthcare.

• 42 mins

Dr Atul Gawande - The Future of Medicine

The Problem of Hubris

Atul Gawande calls for a new approach to the 'great unfixables' - ageing and death.

• 42 mins

Dr Atul Gawande - The Future of Medicine

The Idea of Wellbeing

Atul Gawande calls for a new focus on systems to ensure doctors work more effectively.

• 42 mins

Professor Stephen Hawking - Black Holes

Do black holes have no hair?

Professor Stephen Hawking delivers the first of his Â鶹Éç Reith Lectures on black holes.

• 28 mins

Professor Stephen Hawking - Black Holes

Black holes ain't as black as they are painted

Professor Stephen Hawking delivers the second of his Â鶹Éç Reith Lectures on black holes.

• 28 mins

Kwame Anthony Appiah - Mistaken Identities

Creed

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah says we overestimate scripture in our view of faith.

• 60 mins

Kwame Anthony Appiah - Mistaken Identities

Country

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argues against a mythical and romantic view of nationhood

• 60 mins

Kwame Anthony Appiah - Mistaken Identities

Colour

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for a world free of racial fixations.

• 43 mins

Kwame Anthony Appiah - Mistaken Identities

Culture

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah asks us to give up the idea of western civilisation.

• 58 mins

Reith Revisited: Michael Sandel on Bertrand Russell

Michael Sandel revisits the inaugural Reith Lectures given by Bertrand Russell.

• 21 mins

Reith Revisited: Anand Menon on Robert Birley

Sarah Montague and Anand Menon revisit Robert Birley's Reith Lectures, Britain in Europe.

• 15 mins

Reith Revisited: Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer

Sarah Montague and Brian Cox reconsider Robert Oppenheimer's 1953 Reith lectures.

• 28 mins

Reith Revisited: Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner

Sarah Montague and Grayson Perry discuss Nikolaus Pevsner's lectures on 'English Art'.

• 15 mins

Reith Revisited: Angela Stent on George Kennan

A re-examination of George Kennan's 1957 Reith Lectures, 'Russia, the Atom and the West'.

• 14 mins

Hilary Mantel

The Day Is for the Living

Art can bring the dead back to life, argues the late novelist Hilary Mantel.

• 42 mins

Hilary Mantel

The Iron Maiden

How do we construct our pictures of the past asks Hilary Mantel.

• 42 mins

Hilary Mantel

Silence Grips the Town

The story of how historical obsession killed a Polish writer, told by Hilary Mantel.

• 42 mins

Hilary Mantel

Can These Bones Live?

Hilary Mantel on how historical fiction can make the past come to life.

• 42 mins