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

Titled Moral 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 four lectures will span:

A Time of Monsters
How to Start a Moral Revolution
A Realist's Utopia
The Strange Shape of our History and Future

Apply below for a chance to be part of the studio audience for the first lecture in this year's series, A Time of Monsters, recording in London on Tuesday 28 October.

Tickets will be allocated byÌýrandom draw.

You can register at any time untilÌý10pm on Sunday 5 October.

You can apply for aÌýmaximum of two tickets.

Good luck!