Reith Lectures
| HE BBC has established an annual | series of broadcast lectures, to be | known as the Reith Lectures, Each year | some acknowledged authority in a particular field-it might be sociology, literature, history, public affairs or econo-mics-will be invited to undertake some study or original research on a given subject and give listeners the results in some four to seven broadcasts. It is hoped that by thoughtful selection of speaker and subject the broadcasts will not only be the peak of the BBC’s effort each year in the field of serious talks, but will also become a valuable national institution. Each speaker will be invited a year ahead, and the first series will be broadcast in the autumn of 1948. Sir William Haley, Director-General of the BBC, made the announcement at the opening dinner of the summer school of the Central Council for School Broadcasting. Speaking of the decision of the Governors to name the lectures after Lord Reith, he said, "In the history of British Broadcasting there is one name that stands above all others. What the people of this country owe to the vision of the man who first guided British broadcasting has yet to be adequately assessed."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 9
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200Reith Lectures New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 9
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