Reith Revisited: Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner
'The Englishness of English Art' was the theme of the 1955 ±«Óãtv Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with artist Grayson Perry.
'The Englishness of English Art' was the theme of the 1955 ±«Óãtv Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with Grayson Perry, the artist who himself was a Reith Lecturer in 2013.
In Reith Revisited, Radio 4 assesses the contributions of great minds of the past to public debate, in a dialogue across the decades with contemporary thinkers. In 1948, households across Britain gathered before the wireless as the pre-eminent public intellectual of the age, the philosopher Bertrand Russell delivered a set of lectures in honour of the ±«Óãtv's founder, Lord Reith. Since then, the Reith Lectures on the ±«Óãtv Service and subsequently Radio 4 have become a major national occasion for intellectual debate. In this series Radio 4 revisits five of the speakers from the first ten years of the Reith Lectures.
Producer: Neil Koenig
Researcher: Josephine Casserley
New to the Reith Lectures? Here’s where to start
Four lectures recommended by the series producer.
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The Reith Lectures
Significant international thinkers deliver the ±«Óãtv's flagship annual lecture series.
