4. Freedom from Fear

The Reith Lectures

BBC

Society & Culture, Science, Government, Technology

4.2 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In the last in a series of four lectures examining what freedom means, the foreign affairs and intelligence expert Dr Fiona Hill gives her BBC Reith Lecture on Freedom from Fear. Dr Hill is one of the world’s leading experts on Russia, and served as director for European and Russian affairs on President Trump’s National Security Council, and in senior intelligence roles for both Presidents Bush and Obama. She will talk about the fear she felt growing up as teenager in the Cold War and living with the threat of nuclear war. Then, she says, the culture of fear was about the Soviet Union, a largely unknown enemy. 40 years later, have we come full circle? She also analyses Russia's war in Ukraine, and what it means for the world.

The programme and question-and-answer session is recorded at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC in front of an audience. The presenter is Anita Anand.

The year's series was inspired by President Franklin D Roosevelt's four freedoms speech of 1941 and asks what this terrain means now. It features four different lecturers: Freedom of Speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Freedom to Worship by Rowan Williams Freedom from Want by Darren McGarvey Freedom from Fear by Fiona Hill

Producer: Jim Frank Sound Engineers: Rod Farquhar and Neil Churchill Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Hugh Levinson

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Nicola Cocklin.
0:02.8	Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them.
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0:31.4	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:35.8	Hello and welcome from Washington, D.C. to the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
0:42.2	International Studies, known as SICE.
0:45.1	It was founded in 1943 by Paul H. Knitzer and Christian A. H. H. H. H. H. H.
0:50.9	statesmen who sought to prepare the next generation of leaders to meet the complex
0:55.4	challenges the United States and indeed the world would face following World War II.
1:00.9	And they've been teaching the art of diplomacy here ever since. So really an excellent place
1:06.9	to conclude this series, inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedom Speech,
1:12.4	in which he set out what he saw as the foundations of a democratic and free society.
1:18.2	Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and our subject today, freedom from
1:24.5	fear. We ask what this means in a year when we've seen war returned to Europe.
1:31.0	So far, the invasion of Ukraine has created hundreds of thousands of casualties,
1:35.2	forced more than 7 million people to leave their homes and stirred fears of nuclear conflict.
1:42.0	To address this is a woman born and bred in the northeast of England
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