The BBC Reith lectures are on again, as they are every year. This year poet and playwright Wole Soyinka takes on big issues in humanity. He starts with a lecture titled The Changing Mask of Fear, in which he comments:

Terror against Terror may be emotionally satisfying in the immediate, but who really wants to live under the permanent shadow of a new variant of the world’s – Mutual Assured Destruction?

Transcripts, real audio streaming and MP3 downloads are available. Good on the BBC! The MP3 downloads are new and are DRM-free. Pop em on you iPod.

thanks Cory at boingboing