Guildhall Lectures

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The Guildhall Lectures were an annual series of talks on the theme of communication, organised by the

British Association
.

The lectures, held in the

List of lectures

Year Theme Speakers
1959 Communication in the Modern World
Edward Murrow
1960 Communication in the Modern World
George W. Beadle, Hans Eysenck
1961 Communication in the Modern World
John Wolfenden
1962 Communication in the Modern World John Kenneth Galbraith, Yoshinori Maeda, Yigael Yadin
1963 Communication in the Modern World
Patrick Blackett
, J. Zacharias
1964 Communication in the Modern World
William Holford, George Miller, Stein Rokkan
1965 Communication in the Modern World
J. B. Rhine, Hyman G. Rickover
1966 Telecommunications: The Next Ten Years
Sebastian De Ferranti, Francis McLean
1967 Only Connect
Fred Friendly
1968 Communication in the Modern World Lawrence Alloway, Paul Chambers, Richard Crossman
1969 Universities: Boundaries of Change Paul Doty, Jack Straw, Albert Sloman
1970
1971
1972 The Future of Broadcasting in Britain Hugh Greene
1973
1974 The Freedom of the Press Harold Evans, Katharine Graham, David Windlesham
1975 Government, Broadcasting and the Press Roy Jenkins
1976
1977 Television Today and Tomorrow
Charles Curran
, Brian Young
1978
1979
1980 The Role of the Trade Unions
Jim Prior
1981
1982 The Liberty of the Citizen John Hunt, John Mortimer, Franklin A. Thomas
1983
1984 The Right to Know Floyd Abrams, Michael Kirby, Leslie Scarman
1985
1986
1987 Will Cabinet Government Survive? Quintin Hogg
1988
1989 Europe: Our Sort of Community Leon Brittan

References

  1. ^ Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Vol. 5, p.457
  2. ^ Charles Curran et al, Television Today and Tomorrow, p.5