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', ...

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

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 ...

Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded ...

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 ...

We have received complaints that Rutger Bregman's first lecture has been edited to remove a reference to President Trump. The Reith Lectures have a long tradition of showcasing leading thinkers from ...

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 ...

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 ...