Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2010

The Annual Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2010 was delivered this year by Dr Garrett O'Connor is the President of the Betty Ford Institute - a leading centre for education, research and prevention of addictive disease - and is also Chief Psychiatrist in the Betty Ford Centre for Drug and Alcohol Treatment.

The lecture was broadcast Sunday 26th December.

Click here to listen to the lecture

The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture

The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture is a most prestigious annual public lecture hosted and broadcast by RTÉ Radio in honour of the station's late Features and Arts Editor. Previous lectures in the series have been delivered by Mary Robinson (2003), Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (2004), Prof David McConnell (2005), Prof Brendan Drumm (2006) and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (2007).

Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2008

When: Tuesday 2nd December 2008

This year's Michael Littleton Memorial lecture was delivered by Dr. Patrick Honohan, Professor of International Financial Economics, Trinity College Dublin.

Listen to the lecture

Read the text of the 2008 lecture

Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2009

The Annual Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2009 was delivered this year by leading Irish actress and theatre director, Fiona Shaw. Her lecture was entitled "The Elephant and the Nightingale - the Enduring Nature of Language in the Theatre" and was recorded in Studio 1 in the RTE Radio Centre on 23rd December, 2009.

The lecture was broadcast Saturday 26th December.

Click here to listen to the lecture

Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2007

Monday 31st December: 2.00pm
The 2007 Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and entitled A Transforming Africa; Opportunities and Challenges.

Listen to the lecture

Click here for pictures.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is Nigerias former Finance Minister and Foreign Minister and has, in October 2007, been appointed as Managing Director of the World Bank. Among the recognitions she holds, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is/has been a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups in the public, private and non-governmental sectors including DATA, the World Resources Institute, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nelson Mandela Institution, the African Institutes of Science and Technology, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance Prize Committee, and Friends of the Global Fund Africa. The lecture will be followed by a Questions and Answers session.

Producer: Peter Mooney

For more information on Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala please click here.

The lecture will be broadcast on New Year's Eve (Monday Dec 31st) at 2pm for one hour.

Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2006

"Access, Confidence and Pride - The key foundations for a World Class Health Service"

Read the lecture

Listen to the lecture

On 12 December, the Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2006 was delivered by Professor Brendan Drumm. The lecture was entitled "Access, Confidence and Pride - The key foundations for a World Class Health Service".

        

Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2005

When: Monday 26 December 2005, 2.30pm
Producer: Peter Mooney

Listen to the 2005 lecture.

"The greatest success story of our time - making sense of science in the 21st century"

On 12 December, the Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2005 was delivered by Professor David McConnell at 8pm in Studio 1, RTÉ Radio Centre. 

The lecture, entitled "The greatest success story of our time - making sense of science in the 21st century", was delivered before a live audience and followed by a questions and answers session, highlights of which can be heard today.

The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture is an annual public lecture for radio on topics of wide-ranging interest and concern.

David McConnell, BA, PhD, SFTCD, MRIA, FZSI, and member of European Molecular Biology Organisation, is Professor of Genetics at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin. Educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA, 1966) and the California Institute of Technology (PhD, 1971), David McConnell has been a member of the faculty of Trinity College since 1970.  A molecular geneticist and author of more than 100 scientific papers, he introduced the science and technology behind genetic engineering to Ireland.

Read the text of the 2005 lecture

Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture 2004

The Christian In The Public Square

When: Monday 27 December 2004 1.30pm
Producer: Mary Curtin

This year's Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture - entitled "The Christian in the Public Square" - was delivered by The Most Reverend Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin. It was recorded live in RTÉ Radio and was followed by questions and answers from the audience. 

Michael Littleton, who died in August 2002, was one of the most influential and innovative broadcasters in the history of Irish radio. Much that is taken for granted in daily broadcasting is attributable to him and he is often referred to as the 'father of the daytime schedule'.

The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture is an annual public lecture for radio on topics of wide-ranging interest and concern recorded in front of a live, interactive audience for broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1.

Read the text of the 2004 lecture