BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures

This year's Reith Lectures will feature pro democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi

One of our Southeast Asia country specialists, Mark, has just emailed me to point out that this year’s Reith Lectures will feature Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

It was only back in Nov last year that she was released by the Burmese government after 15 years under house arrest and I wrote a corresponding blog about it, which you can read here.

Entitled Securing Freedom, the Reith Lectures will be part of a wider series which will also feature former MI5 Director-General Baroness Manningham-Buller. The lecture presented by Aung San Suu Kyi will be broadcast on Radio 4 and the BBC World Service on Tuesday, 28 June 2011.

Tickets for Aung San Suu Kyi’s lectures will be available through BBC audience services.