ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Reith Lectures 2025: "Moral Revolution" By Rutger Bregman - How to start a Moral Revolution

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Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives the second of his 2025 Reith Lectures, titled How to start a Moral Revolution.

In his series Bregman argues that people are being let down by corruption and un-serious elites. How then, he asks, do we effect real change?

History, he says is not always a “graveyard of disasters†and can be "a reservoir of hope."  In Liverpool he will outline how small groups of people have changed the course of history such as Elizabeth Fry, who brought compassion into the prison system; Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes who won the vote for women and Norman Borlaug, whose Green Revolution saved millions from famine. And he argues that this is as relevant now as it ever was: that small groups of committed citizens can still change the world.

The evening is presented by Anita Anand who chairs a Q and A following the lecture. 

Rutger Bregman

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