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	Reith, John C.W. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Reith was born the fifth son of a Scottish minister and trained in Glasgow as an engineer.
		Reith felt increasingly under-utilized at the BBC by the late 1930s--the system he had built and the key people he had selected were all doing their jobs well and the system hummed relatively smoothly.
		In a mid-1938 managerial coup, however, Reith was eased out as director general by the BBC's Board of Governors (acting in consort with the government) which had grown weary with his self-righteous inflexibility within the organization as well as his political stance.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/reithjohnc/reithjohnc.htm (615 words)

	John Reith (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Reith specialized in radio communication and in December 1922 was appointed general manager of the British Broadcasting Company, an organization was set up by a group of executives from radio manufacturers.
		Reith had a mission to educate and improve the audience and under his leadership the BBC developed a reputation for serious programmes.
		Reith also insisted that all radio announcers wore dinner jackets while they were on the air.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Jreith.htm (826 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - Reith 2004: The Climate of Fear
		Read more about this year's lecturer, Wole Soyinka, get summaries of each lecture, and learn about the history of the lectures with Reith 2004 on BBC Radio 4.
		Reith lecturer Wole Soyinka draws parallels between Bush and Bin Laden: a case of I am right; you are dead?
		Explore the mysteries of consciousness and phantom limbs in the 2003 Reith Lectures on The Emerging Mind.
	www.open2.net /reith2004 (229 words)

	WIFLblog
		The purpose of the lectures is "to advance public understanding and debate about significant issues of contemporary interest".
		The first Reith Lectures were given by Bertrand Russell and notable contributors have consented to participate ever since.
		This year's Reith Lecturer was Professor Vilayanur Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Programme at the University of California, San Diego.
	blogs.salon.com /0001455/categories/netradio/2003/12/17.html (216 words)

	John Reith, 1st Baron Reith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Revd Dr George Reith, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland.
		Reith was an indolent child who had used his intelligence to escape hard work but he was genuinely disappointed when his father refused to support any further education and apprenticed him an engineer at the North British Locomotive Company.
		Reith oversaw the vesting of the company in a new organisation, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), formed under royal charter and became its first Director-General from 1 January 1927 to 30 June 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Reith (2145 words)

	Reith Lectures 2000: Respect for the Earth - Governance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The "sustainable development" to which this series of lectures is devoted is a phrase first coined by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - The Stockholm Conference - in 1972.
		Behind these organisational and political shifts is a reaffirmation of the democratic spirit, the understanding that democracy is an adventure in dialogue, the attempt to persuade and secure consent, the belief in Adlai Stevenson's memorable phrase that average men and women are a great deal better than the average.
		Throughout these lectures one of the common strands will be that an earth which is limited can only handle so many people - it can handle more people if they consume less and very much less people if they consume more.
	www.nssd.net /references/Reith2000/reith1.htm (6061 words)

	Reith Lectures 2000: Respect for the Earth - A Royal view and Conclusion
		With me are the Prince of Wales and the five Reith lecturers, who over the past few weeks have dealt with our theme of sustainable development.
		You talk in your lecture about a spasm of extinction greater than any we've known since the age of the dinosaurs - the polar ice caps starting to melt in 20 years - pretty alarming stuff.
		And I think it is terribly important to re-establish the moral and the practical, the expedient case in relation to the environment, in relation to our political stability of good old fashioned development assistance - spending money on people, on their health, on their education as well as on their environment.
	www.poptel.org.uk /nssd/references/Reith2000/reith6.htm (7012 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2006
		In this year's Reith Lectures musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim discusses the interplay between music and society.
		This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished musician Daniel Barenboim.
		This year the Reith Lectures will be introduced and chaired by Sue Lawley, best-known to Radio 4 listeners as the presenter of Desert Island Discs.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/reith2006 (429 words)

	PsyBlog: Psychology Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		10:22 AM The Emerging Mind - Reith Lectures 2003 - Vilayanur Ramachandran is Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California.
		Last year he gave the BBC's Reith lectures on neuroscience in which he gave a flavour of his research and wide-ranging interests.
		The lectures start with examples of neurological anomalies - phantom limbs, synesthesia and pain asymbolia - investigating what these tell us about the workings of the brain.
	www.spring.org.uk /2004/01/emerging-mind-reith-lectures-2003.htm (162 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures
		Reith Lectures 2006 - In the Beginning was Sound
		This year's lectures were given by the eminent musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim
		Go to Reith 2006 for lecture transcripts, to listen online, to download as an mp3 file and to have your say.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/reith (134 words)

	University of California, San Diego: External Relations: News & Information: News Releases : Awards
		While many of the lectures are taking place in England, the final lecture in the series will be held in La Jolla, April 8, at The Neurosciences Institute.
		The Reith lectures will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 throughout the month of April.
		The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John Reith, the corporation’s first director-general.
	ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/awards/dramareithbbc.htm (356 words)

	The Reith Lectures 2006: In the Beginning was Sound
		As a piece of light entertainment it was fine; as a serious attempt at a Reith lecture it was poor stuff.
		Not that I don't agree with his anti-muzak rant, but Reith Lectures shouldn't be dumbed down to this level.
		The whole point of the Reith lectures is that the subject matter be rendered accesible, the whole educating the masses thing.
	www.footstompin.com /forum?threadid=53329 (217 words)

	Laurel Reith - [Sunday Herald]
		His five Reith lectures – the first will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Wednesday – may strike the Telegraph as coming just as the BBC is “trying to prove that it is not institutionally biased against the war in Iraq or Mr Bush”.
		Given the international platform that the Reith lectures provide, he will note that “Any fool, any moron, any psychopath can aspire to the exercise of power” if they are sufficiently ruthless.
		As he said in his Nobel lecture: of those “imperatives that challenge our being, our presence, and human definition at this time, none can be considered more pervasive than the end of racism, the eradication of human inequality, and the dismantling of all their structures.”
	www.sundayherald.com /40972 (1634 words)

	The 1999 Reith Lectures on Radio National
		In keeping with the theme of globalisation, some of this year’s Reith Lectures are being delivered to audiences in New Delhi, Hong Kong and Washington, as well as London.
		For the first time in the history of the Reith Lectures, the internet will be the site of an international debate.
		The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the BBC's first director-general.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/events/reith99.htm (195 words)

	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He was invited by the BBC to give the Reith lectures for 2003 ; and is the first physician/experimental psychologist to be given this honor since the series was begun by Bertrand Russel in 1949.
		In 1995, he gave the Decade of the Brain Lecture at the 25th annual (Silver Jubilee) meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and more recently, the Inaugural keynote lecture at the Decade of the brain conference held by NIMH at the Library of Congress and a public lecture at the Getty museum in Los Angeles.
		He also gave the first Hans Lucas Teuber lecture at MIT, the D.O Hebb lecture at McGill, The Rudel-Moses lecture at Columbia, The Dorcas Cumming (inaugural keynote) lecture at Cold Spring Harbor, the Raymond Adams neurology grand rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and the Jonas Salk memorial lecture, Salk Institute.
	psy.ucsd.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /chip/ramabio.html (373 words)

	Reith Lectures 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		My own philosophical position about consciousness accords with the view proposed by the first Reith lecturer, Bertrand Russell, there is no separate "mind stuff" and "physical stuff" in the universe, the two are one in the same, the formal term for this is neutral monism.
		The main theme of our lectures so far has been the idea that the study of patients with neurological disorders has implications far beyond the confines of medical neurology, implications even for the humanities, for philosophy, maybe even for aesthetics and art.
		In this lecture what I'd like to do is propose a third approach which is radically different from either of these but in a sense complements them.
	www.porjes.com /articles/reith_lectures_2003.html (20536 words)

	Amazon.com: Minds, Brains and Science (1984 Reith Lectures): Books: John Searle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I recently attended a lecture by a university professor on 'Philosophy of the Mind'.
		Thinking back to these BBC Reith Lectures which I heard in 1984 (on radio, not TV, by the way) I asked him about models for the brain other than the computer, such as water mills.
		In the fourth and fifth lectures, Searle reflects on the nature of action and the difficulties inherent in the social sciences.
	www.amazon.com /Minds-Brains-Science-Reith-Lectures/dp/0674576330 (2653 words)

	Reith Lectures 2005 - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
		The famous Reith Lectures are scheduled for another broadcast over at BBC Radio starting today.
		This year's Reith Lecturer is the distinguished Lord Alec Broers who is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
		Our readers will also be interested in the 2003 lecture series by Vilayanur S Ramachandran, a neuroscientist who rather intuitively describes the strange and idiosyncratic workings of the brain.
	www.medgadget.com /archives/2005/04/reith_lectures.html (229 words)

	Radio 4's Reith Lecture's: "The Emerging Mind" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A series of audio lectures broadcast on BBC's Radio 4 earlier this year offer a fantastic insight into the brain and neuropsychology for layman...
		Lecturer Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is funny and interesting, DEFINATELY worth listening to.
		UC Berkeley has a series of famous lectures/interviews like this too, unfortunately the only relevant one I could find was Noam Chomsky.
	cognews.com /1057082812/index_html (199 words)

	WarnerClassics : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the lectures, he argues that music lies at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human and that music provides a way of making sense of the world: our politics, our history, our future and our very essence.
		He is the first performer to deliver the lectures and, in a break with tradition, the lectures will have musical illustrations played by him.
		In another change from the usual pattern, the lectures will be broadcast in a morning slot at 9.00am (with a repeat in the evening).
	www.warnerclassics.com /news.php?news=72 (561 words)

	No. 1599: Reith Lectures 2006: Daniel Barenboim
		In these lectures he'll be drawing on a lifetime of musical experience to demonstrate that music, as he puts it, is a way to make sense of the world - our politics, our history, our future, and our very essence.
		In his first Reith lecture he explained how he believed music was a metaphor for life.
		I had gone to London to give a concert, and ironically he was there to give the 1993 Reith Lectures, which explored the changing role of the intellectual in today's world.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/1599.html (20448 words)

	Reith Lectures 2005: The Triumph of Technology \| macdaraconroy.com
		Reith Lectures 2005: The Triumph of Technology
		You are reading Reith Lectures 2005: The Triumph of Technology, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy.
		It is filed under Technobabble, and was published in December 2005.
	macdaraconroy.com /micro/2005/12/002473.html (99 words)

	Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent
		But to the point: every year the BBC put on the Reith Lectures.
		It is immensely impressive stuff, but more to the point, this year for the first time, instead of the usual Real stream, you can download the Reith Lectures in MP3.
		Merge those two shorthand rhetorical triggers and we arrive at the zone of gospeling that claims that All life is theft, and thus may be restored to its legitimate owner by any true believer, and as rapidly as possible.
	www.benhammersley.com /weblog/2004/04/29/reith_in_mp3.html (487 words)

	Faith Lectures - Revelation: Torah from heaven
		I said to you in a previous lecture that marriage for Judaism is the supreme example of a relationship which binds us to somebody else while respecting the dignity and independence of that other person.
		Somebody got up and told me this story of how he had been in a concentration camp and how he had said to his friend throughout their years of surviving that it was humour that had kept them alive.
		The next lecture is on the 8th May on the subject of "Jewish identity - The concept of a chosen people".
	www.chiefrabbi.org /faith/revelation.html (11929 words)

	BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures 2004 MP3 take-away goodness
		This year's Reith Lectures are also available as MP3 downloads on a trial basis.
		The lectures will be available for download until June 7th 2004.
		The lectures remain the copyright of the BBC.
	www.scotandrews.com /C3255423/E973972642/index.html (142 words)

	Reith Lecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Reith Lecture is a lecture in a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, and broadcast by the BBC.
		They were begun in 1948, in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith.
		1992 There were no Reith Lectures in 1992
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reith_Lectures (302 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - Reith 2005: The Triumph of Technology (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This year, lecturer Lord Broers will argue that technology can and should hold the key to the future of the human race.
		Lord Broers concludes the 2005 lecture series addressing the technologist's risk and responsibilities.
		BBC Radio 4's Reith Lectures site includes a full guide to the lectures and a profile of Lord Broers.
	www.open2.net.cob-web.org:8888 /reith2005 (157 words)

	The Golden Hammer » Blog Archive » Thoughts on the Reith Lectures
		I knew that Lord Broers was an inveterate tech booster, and his first two lectures have failed to disappoint on that front.
		The lectures include a question period with the audience which is often critical of the ideas put forth in the lectures.
		Much of the question period after the first lecture seemed to be composed of a bunch of engineers whingeing about how, like some latter day Rodney Dangerfield, they just don’t get any respect.
	goldenhammer.darusha.ca /?p=37 (445 words)

	Reith Lectures 2005 (part 2) - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
		The second Reith lecture in the series The Triumph of Technology presented by the BBC, is scheduled for broadcast today at 8.00pm GMT.
		The lecture is titled Collaboration and will be presented at the University of Cambridge by Lord Alec Broers, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
		Once the lecture audio and transcripts become available, we will provide the link.
	www.medgadget.com /archives/2005/04/reith_lectures_1.html (184 words)

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