ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Reith Lectures 2025

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4

This year's ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Reith lecturer will be historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman.

°Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð»åÌýMoral Revolution, the lectures will delve into the current 'age of immorality', explore a growing trend for unseriousness among elites, and ask how we can follow history’s example and assemble small, committed groups to spark positive change.

Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures will reflect on moments in history, including the likes of the suffragette and abolitionist movements, which have sparked transformative moral revolutions, offering hope for a new wave of progressive change. Across four lectures, he will also consider the explosive technological progress of recent years - placing us at a moment of immense risk and possibility, and will look ahead to how we might shape the future.

The lectures will be chaired by presenter, journalist and author, Anita Anand.

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Rutger Bregman
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In Liverpool, Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 Reith Lectures

Liverpool
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In Edinburgh, Bregman will argue for a new realist utopia.

Edinburgh