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The Reith Lectures: The Four Freedoms: 4. Freedom from Fear

4. Freedom from Fear

The Four Freedoms

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Foreign affairs expert Dr Fiona Hill gives her BBC Reith Lecture on Freedom from Fear.

In the final programme in a series of four examining what freedom means, foreign policy and intelligence expert Dr Fiona Hill gives her BBC Reith Lecture on Freedom from Fear.

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

The Reith Lectures: The Four Freedoms

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This year four lecturers take up the themes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms"

This year four lecturers take up the themes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms": freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

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