6.1K views · 90 reactions | LAST CHANCE to join the ballot to attend the 2023 Christmas Lectures! Become a member and get: ️ Free or better than half-price science lectures  Early access, ad-free videos ‍ Exclusive events ️ Heaps of discounts Learn more: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/join-us-christmas-lectures-live-filming | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook

"My first instinct, on learning that a book has been banned, is to seek it out and read it." Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives the first of the 2022 Reith Lectures. Chimamanda’s lecture, recorded in London in front of an audience, discusses freedom of speech and is the first of four lectures inspired by President Franklin D Roosevelt's four freedoms speech of 1941. In this clip, Chimamanda discusses the banning of books. In the other Reith Lectures, due to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 through

3K views · 24 reactions | "You can't really understand our world without understanding the part that war has played." Professor Margaret MacMillan is giving the Reith Lectures this year. Her theme is war. https://bbc.in/2PwEfqA | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

10K views · 152 reactions | "As soon as we die, we enter into fiction." Hilary Mantel on the power of art to bring the dead to life. Listen to the full Reith Lecture  https://bbc.in/31GCj43 | BBC Radio 4 | Facebook

Rutger Bregman’s 2025 Reith Lectures, Moral Revolution, explore the decline of today’s elites and how small groups can spark big change. In his final talks, he calls for a ‘conspiracy of decency,’ bold ideas like UBI and fair taxation—and warns of AI’s risks. The Reith Lectures | Listen on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4

40K views · 1.6K reactions | This Saturday, on Lectures in History, Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt shares the story of her 1996 lawsuit against Holocaust denier David Irving – which was turned into the 2016 movie, "Denial." Watch her class on 9/14 at 8pm ET on C-SPAN 3. | American History TV | Facebook