- 1948 Bertrand Russell , ''Authority and the Individual''
- 1949 Robert Birley , ''Britain in Europe''
- 1950 John Zachary Young , ''Doubt and Certainty in Science''
- 1951 Lord Radcliffe , ''Power and the State''
- 1952 Arnold J. Toynbee , ''The World and the West''
- 1953 Robert Oppenheimer , ''Science and the Common Understanding''
- 1954 Sir Oliver Franks , ''Britain and Tide of World Affairs''
- 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner , ''The Englishness of English Art''
- 1956 Sir Edward Appleton , ''Science and The Nation''
- 1957 George F. Kennan , ''Russia, The Atom and The West''
- 1958 Bernard Lovell , ''The Individual and The Universe''
- 1959 Peter Medawar , ''The Future of Man''
- 1960 Edgar Wind , ''Art and Anarchy''
- 1961 Margery Perham , ''The Colonial Reckoning''
- 1962 Prof. George Carstairs , ''This Island Now''
- 1963 Dr Albert Sloman , ''A University in The Making''
- 1964 Sir Leon Bagrit , ''The Age of Automation''
- 1965 Robert Gardiner , ''World of Peoples''
- 1966 J. K. Galbraith , ''The New Industrial State''
- 1967 Edmund Leach , ''A Runaway World''
- 1968 Lester Pearson , ''Peace In The Family of Man''
- 1969 Dr Frank Fraser Darling , ''Wilderness and Plenty''
- 1970 Dr Donald Schon , ''Change and Industrial Society''
- 1971 Richard Hoggart , ''Only Connect''
- 1972 Andrew Schonfield , ''Europe: Journey To An Unknown Destination''
- 1973 Prof. Alistair Buchan , ''Change Without War''
- 1974 Prof. Ralf Dahrendorf , ''The New Liberty''
- 1975 Dr Daniel Boorstin , ''America and The World Experience''
- 1976 Dr Colin Blakemore , ''Mechanics of the Mind''
- 1977 Prof. A. H. Halsey , ''Change In British Society''
- 1978 Rev. Dr Edward Norman , ''Christianity and the World''
- 1979 Prof. Ali Mazrui , ''The African Condition''
- 1980 Ian Kennedy , ''Unmasking Medicine''
- 1981 Prof. Laurence Martin , ''The Two Edged Sword''
- 1982 Prof. Denis Donoghue , ''The Arts Without Mystery''
- 1983 Sir Douglas Wass , ''Government and the Governed''
- 1984 Prof. John Searle , ''Minds, Brains and Science''
- 1985 David Henderson , ''Innocence and Design''
- 1986 Lord McCluskey , ''Law, Justice and Democracy''
- 1987 Prof. Alexander Goehr , ''The Survival of The Symphony''
- 1988 Prof. Geoffrey Hosking , ''The Rediscovery of Politics''
- 1989 Jacques Darras , ''Beyond The Tunnel of History''
- 1990 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks , ''The Persistence of Faith''
- 1991 Steve Jones , ''The Language of the Genes''
- 1992 There were no Reith Lectures in 1992
- 1993 Edward Said , ''Representation of the Intellectual''
- 1994 Marina Warner , ''Managing Monsters''
- 1995 Sir Richard Rogers , ''Sustainable City''
- 1996 Jean Aitchison , ''The Language Web''
- 1997 Patricia Williams , ''The Genealogy of Race''
- 1998 John Keegan , ''War In Our World''
- 1999 Anthony Giddens , ''Runaway World''
- 2000 Chris Patten , Sir John Browne , Thomas Lovejoy , Gro Harlem Brundtland , Vandana Shiva , HRH Prince Of Wales , ''Respect For The Earth''
- 2001 Prof. Tom Kirkwood , ''The End Of Age''
- 2002 Onora O'Neill , ''A Question of Trust''
- 2003 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran , ''The Emerging Mind''
- 2004 Wole Soyinka , ''Climate of Fear''
- 2005 Lord Broers , ''The Triumph of Technology''
- 2006 Daniel Barenboim , ''In the Beginning was Sound''
- 2007 Jeffrey Sachs , ''Bursting at the Seams''
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