Over Christmas, I listened to and was intrigued by the annual Reith Lectures.
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the contribution made to public service broadcasting by Lord Reith, the corporation’s first director-general.
Four speakers featured in this year’s Reith Lectures: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lord Rowan Williams, Darren McGarvey, and Dr. Fiona Hill.
The lectures were inspired by Franklin D Roosevelt’s famous “Four Freedoms” speech, where he argued that these freedoms were fundamental human rights that should be protected and promoted by governments worldwide.
Each speaker explored one of Roosevelt’s themes: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Four freedoms that we should hold dear if we wish to create a better world.
You can listen to the lectures in the Reith Lectures archive and watch Roosevelt’s original speech on YouTube.
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