jga · @jga
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Social Censure is a major issue… anyone who engages in social media should listen to this lecture. Profound, enlightening, inspiring and insightful castro.fm/episode/xo5oKC

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Delia · @feijoatrees
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A mate put me onto the bbc annual Reith lectures last year and they are amazing (the back catalogue is fascinating - 1996’s topic was The World Wide Web, and another in 1999 covered biodiversity). This years theme is freedom and if you have an hour to listen to a Glaswegian break down how left and right wing ideologies have both left people trapped, and what we must do to break free- here it is podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/

#reith #glasgow

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Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
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bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fw1l On now +then : Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, gives second of 2022 , discussing and . In his lecture, he cites Lord Acton, the 19th Century thinker on who said that freedom is the basis of all freedom. Only does this. Funded by <44p a day per household licence fee. Food for thought+discussion. Because we’re worth it.

#bbcradio4 #BBCSounds #reith #lectures #faith #liberty #freedom #religious #political #bbc

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Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
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Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
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Author said she worries society is suffering from an "epidemic of self-".
In lecture on of , (30.11.22 ) she said young people were growing up "afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions".
Such a climate cld lead to "the death of curiosity, the death of learning+the death of creativity", award-winning warned.
"No human endeavour requires as much as does”

#chimamandangoziadichie #censorship #bbc #reith #freedom #speech #bbcradio4 #BBCSounds #nigerian #author #creativity

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Kriszta Satori · @fulelo
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News - Ngozi Adichie warns about 'epidemic of self-censorship' in this year's lectures
bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-a

#bbc #chimamanda #reith

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