Editing Reith Lectures (section)

==The Reith Lectures archive==

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In June 2011 BBC Radio 4 published its Reith Lectures archive.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13891740 | work=BBC News | title=BBC Radio 4 unveils 60 years of Reith Lectures archive | date=2011-06-26}}</ref> This included two podcasts featuring over 240 lectures from 1948 to the present day as well as streamed online audio, and the complete written transcripts of the entire Reith Lectures archive:

* Podcast 1: Archive 1948–1975<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p8ttc/episodes/downloads|title=Archive 1948-1975 - The Reith Lectures - Downloads - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}}</ref>
* Podcast 2: Archive 1976–2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p8xh7/episodes/downloads|title=Archive 1976-2012 - The Reith Lectures - Downloads - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}}</ref>
* Transcripts 1948–2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-reith-lectures/transcripts/|title=BBC - Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures Transcripts 2011}}</ref>
* In pictures<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-13647943|title=In Pictures: The Reith Lectures| work=BBC News |date=2 December 2014}}</ref>

The BBC found that some of the audio archive of the Reith Lectures was missing from its library and appealed to the public for copies of the missing lectures.<ref name="bbc"/>