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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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On Reith and his sexuality, I take issue with the description of Reith as bi-sexual. Having researched the early history of the BBC in PhD-level depth and breadth, including reading Reith's UNEDITED diaries in the BBC Written Archive at Caversham, Berkshire, in my estimation as a properly trained historian, Reith was a homosexual.
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.