This year’s BBC Radio Reith Lectures are being given by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.

These are a series of five lectures on a variety of topics given in London, Beijing and New York over a period of five weeks. Each lecture is presented broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and then archived as an MP3 available for seven days after the broadcast.

The schedule and topics are:

Lecture 1: Wednesday 11 April 2007, 9am
Bursting at the Seams

Lecture 2: Wednesday 18 April, 8pm
Survival in the Anthropocene

Lecture 3: Wednesday 25 April, 8pm
The Great Convergence

Lecture 4: Wednesday 2 May, 8pm
Poverty in the Midst of Plenty

Lecture 5: Wednesday 9 May, 8pm
A New Politics for a New Age