This year’s Reith lecturer is the historian and activist Rutger Bregman. Given the way things work in the BBC, ...

This year's BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer is historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman. Titled Moral Revolution, the lectures will delve into the current 'age of immorality', ...

Immorality and Unseriousness. These are the two defining traits of today’s leaders. Today it’s not the most capable who rise but the least scrupulous…” In the first ...

4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine. 9 December 2025 57 minutes Available for over a year Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the ...

A historian and author says he is "genuinely dismayed" after a comment about Donald Trump was removed from a lecture he delivered on BBC Radio 4. Rutger Bregman, who is presenting this year's Reith ...

Do individuals or broader forces shape history? In the 2025 Reith lectures on BBC Radio 4, Rutger Bregman argues that small groups of individuals can have an outsize influence and he looks to examples ...

Author and historian Rutger Bregman has said “the irony could not be bigger” as he accused the BBC of censoring a sentence about Donald Trump in a lecture he gave. Dutch academic Bregman said the ...

Author and historian Rutger Bregman has accused the BBC of censorship after the corporation removed a line about the US president from a broadcast of his Reith Lecture, A Time Of Monsters. It comes in ...

Author and historian Rutger Bregman has accused the BBC of censorship after the broadcaster removed a line about Donald Trump from his Reith Lecture, 'A Time Of Monsters'. The corporation cut a ...