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4. Freedom from Fear

The Reith Lectures

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Freedom From Fear

2022 is the centenary of the BBC. It's also the hundredth anniversary of the creation of the USSR from the remnants of the Russian Empire. The 100-year time span we acknowledge today is infused with an eerie parallelism. In 1922, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks cemented power in Russia after five years of revolution and civil war all against the backdrop of World War I and the Great Influenza. Today, we're in a similar period of turmoil. Our world is disrupted by a multi-year global pandemic, mounting climate disasters, and rucked by the fear of a nuclear conflict sparked by Vladimir Putin’s efforts to refour to the Russian empire. To restore

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