The Reith Lectures
BBC Radio 4In this year's lectures, Professor Ben Ansell asks how we can make politics work for all of us as we face the challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to AI.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 302 | Founded | 15 years ago |
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| Category | Society & Culture | ||||
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This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University and author of “Why Politics Fails.” In four lectures called “Our Democratic Future,” he asks how we can build a poli... more
This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University and the author of "Why Politics Fails." He will deliver four lectures in a series called “Our Democratic Future.” Th... more
This year's BBC Reith Lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He will deliver four lectures called “Our Democratic Future.” more
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- Ben Ansell - tell me something I don’t know
This year’s Reith Lectures were full of platitudes and a reiteration of current topics in politics and society without any innovative analysis or suggested solutions. Dr Ansell uses the term “we” with abandon, and it seems to encompass everything from fellow academics to fellow voters to fellow humans in a confusing way that conflates individuals and structured polities, while obscuring the structural mechanisms that diffuse any “we” to atomised individuals and how “we” can solve the worlds prob... more
Apple Podcasts1Keith Duddy
Australia4 months ago - Excellent
Really well explained and thoughtful.
Apple Podcasts5KSFJLC
Spain4 months ago - The 4 freedoms
Thoroughly insightful so far and looking forward to the last instalment. Highlights have been the discussion of social censure as the preventive to true freedom of expression. Low light was Rowan Williams too esoteric exploration on faith: I will try to listen to it again, but simply gave up before.
Apple Podcasts4pete from winchester
United Kingdoma year ago - Fantastic
I thoroughly enjoyed this series of lectures. Very very very interesting indeed. Eve time I listen back to them I catch a little nugget of information I had missed before. Absolutely marvellous
Apple Podcasts5sideshow bbobUnited Kingdom2 years ago - Carney Greenery
Trump will be back in four years and this mythology will be out the window.
Apple Podcasts2nicwgUnited Kingdom3 years ago
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