Social Censure is a major issue… anyone who engages in social media should listen to this #bbc #reith lecture. Profound, enlightening, inspiring and insightful https://castro.fm/episode/xo5oKC
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 https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-reith-lectures/id318705261?i=1000590141993 #Reith #Glasgow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fw1l On now #BBCRadio4+then #BBCSounds: Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, gives second of 2022 #reith #Lectures, discussing #faith and #liberty. In his lecture, he cites Lord Acton, the 19th Century thinker on #freedom who said that #religious freedom is the basis of all #political freedom. Only #bbc 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
2022 #reith #lectures start today 30.11.22 9am #bbcradio4 then #BBCSounds. Inspired by #President #Franklin D #Roosevelt's 4 #freedoms #speech 1941, they ask what this means now.
4 different lecturers.
#Freedom of #Worship by #rowanwilliams (former #Archbishop of #Canterbury)
#freedom from #Want by #author+#musician #darrenmcgarvey
#Freedom from #Fear by #fionahill expert on #Russia, on #Trump’s National #security Council,+in senior #intelligence roles for both #presidents #Bush and #obama.
#reith #lectures #bbcradio4 #BBCSounds #president #franklin #Roosevelt #freedoms #speech #freedom #worship #rowanwilliams #Archbishop #Canterbury #want #author #musician #darrenmcgarvey #fear #fionahill #russia #trump #security #intelligence #presidents #bush #obama
Author #chimamandangoziadichie said she worries society is suffering from an "epidemic of self-#censorship".
In #bbc #reith lecture on #freedom of #speech, (30.11.22 #bbcradio4 #BBCSounds) 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 #nigerian #author warned.
"No human endeavour requires #freedom as much as #creativity does”
#chimamandangoziadichie #censorship #bbc #reith #freedom #speech #bbcradio4 #BBCSounds #nigerian #author #creativity
#BBC News - #Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns about 'epidemic of self-censorship' in this year's #Reith lectures
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63797087