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6 Barton St, London SW1 Reith's home 1924–30. Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, [2] Reith was the fifth son and the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Rev. George Reith, a Scottish Presbyterian minister of the College Church at Glasgow and later Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland.
The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day. They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4 and the World Service . The lectures were inaugurated in 1948 to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Lord Reith , the corporation's first director-general.
Baron Reith / ˈ r iː θ /, of Stonehaven in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created in 1940 for Sir John Reith, the first Director-General of the BBC. His only son, the second Baron, disclaimed the peerage for life in 1972. Since 2016, the title is held by the latter's son, the third Baron.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lord Rowan Williams, Darren McGarvey and Dr Fiona Hill will give the lectures on the topics of freedoms. Four speakers for the 2022 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures announced ...
The Reith Lectures, broadcast annually on the BBC, founded in honour of Lord Reith; The Romanes Lectures, on "any topic in the Arts, Science, or Literature", given annually at the University of Oxford founded by George Romanes; The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have presented scientific ideas to young people in an entertaining manner ...
As the BBC approaches its 90th birthday, arch scrutiniser and listeners' champion Roger Bolton examines the genesis of Reithian values and finds out how well Lord Reith - the first Director General of the BBC - lived up to his own exacting standards. Memos and diary entries reveal Reith's spotless fingerprint on daily transmissions.
The BBC's radio studio in Birmingham, from the BBC Hand Book 1928, which described it as "Europe's largest studio" John Reith and the BBC, with support from the Crown, determined the universal needs of the people of Britain and broadcast content according to these perceived standards. [36]
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics is a 2019 book by UK author, historian, former Justice of the UK Supreme Court, and former Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption, in which the content of his BBC's Reith Lectures have been published in book form. [1]