🎧️ These two #podcast episodes are essential listening. They are eloquent, interesting, and powerful.

* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2023 #ReithLectures: Freedom of Speech https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fmtz

* Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to Lose Anger by Studying Morality https://tim.blog/2022/12/21/jonathan-haidt/

#noxp

It's never a hardship to encounter the staggering eloquence of Darren McGarvey.

#DarrenMcGarvey #ReithLectures

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001g2zf?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

RT @liambyrnemp@twitter.com

This year’s #ReithLectures brilliantly tell the story of the #FourFreedoms

But what freedoms do we aspire to now?

Today my @thefabians@twitter.com pamphlet argues for a new 21st century settlement - & why it’s time for the Left to reclaim Freedom from the right

⬇️ https://bit.ly/3v2AK14

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1604825741148901378

RT @ConStelz@twitter.com

On December 21, Hill gave the final of four #ReithLectures — themed, on the occasion of the centennial of the @BBC@twitter.com, around FDR’s Four Freedoms — on “Freedom from Fear.” Expected audience: 200 million. And she’s not even on Twitter. 14/30
https://www.brookings.edu/on-the-record/freedom-from-fear/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ConStelz/status/1608475979789500416

“The freedom not to be lied to and the freedom not to be turned into a commodity.” I realise the irony of posting this on social media but for me two important take aways from this year’s Reith Lectures. #reithlectures

RT @liambyrnemp@twitter.com

This year’s #ReithLectures brilliantly tell the story of the #FourFreedoms

But what freedoms do we aspire to now?

Today my @thefabians@twitter.com pamphlet argues for a new 21st century settlement - & why it’s time for the Left to reclaim Freedom from the right

⬇️ https://bit.ly/3v2AK14

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1604825741148901378

@lauraphillips His empathy shone through. What an amazing person. #ReithLectures

Was disappointed that Miranda Sawyer was so negative @ObsNewReview@twitter.com about Rowan Williams' contribution to the #ReithLectures. Surely the point of spreading it between 4 speakers is the opportunity for diversity? Anyway, his gently incisive clarity was welcome for challenged ears.

"But if it is in fact the case that we do live in a meritocracy, and that all the best people are in all the top jobs, then why, one might ask, is the country such an unmitigated binfire?" asks Darren McGarvey in his episode of this year's #ReithLectures.
#ukpolitics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g2zf 9am #bbcradio4+#BBCSounds Author and musician Darren McGarvey gives the third of four #bbc #reithlectures on theme of #liberty, addressing "#freedom from #want." McGarvey argues that the present system isn't working for many but that it is incumbent on #citizens to confront that+rise to the #challenge of what #inequality means. Individuals, he says, need to take personal #responsibility +reject the apathy which many working-class communities experience.

RT @Somewhataldente@twitter.com

Really looking forward to this tomorrow #ReithLectures #bbcradio4 @BBCRadio4@twitter.com @lokiscottishrap@twitter.com #DarrenMcGarvey #freedomfromwant https://t.co/7YewCwFQgq

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Somewhataldente/status/1602710942046887944

“While social media has reshaped the traditional power dynamic by giving some access to the powerless, it has also made it very easy to mistake the loudest voices for the truest.”
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie: first BBC Reith Lecture 2022 - “Freedom of Speech.”
Wise words from an impressive speech - heartfelt, balanced, witty, thought-provoking. But, listen for yourselves.
#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie. #BBCSoundsApp. #BBCRadio4
#ReithLectures. #FreedomOfSpeech

Impassioned, humane, and pointedly internationalist defence of free speech and plurality of thought from the great Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the #ReithLectures. Stick around for the Q&A, it’s worth it. FreeSpeech #Society #HumanRights #FreeExpression #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dhrlhm/the-reith-lectures-2022-the-four-freedoms-1-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-freedom-of-speech

Impassioned, humane, and pointedly internationalist defence of free speech and plurality of thought from the great Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the #ReithLectures. Stick around for the Q&A, it’s worth it. FreeSpeech #Society #HumanRights #FreeExpression #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dhrlhm/the-reith-lectures-2022-the-four-freedoms-1-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-freedom-of-speech

I think I can date my understanding of the ecological crisis to the 1969 Reith Lectures by Frank Fraser Darling. He even mentioned the build up of CO2. The main learning for me was that ecosystems are indeed interconnected systems. Impacts of dams on soil fertility, public health, fisheries and nutrition, was the paradigmatic case for me.

Transcripts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-reith-lectures/transcripts/1960/

Recordings: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h3xk5

#EcologicalCrisis #FraserDarling #SystemTheory #ReithLectures #GreenhouseGasses