There was a time when the ABC’s Boyer Lectures made sense. Based on the Reith Lectures sponsored by the BBC, they have been presented each year since 1959. Radio National’s blurb states that ‘the Boyer Lectures is a series of talks by prominent Australians chosen by the ABC board to present ideas on major social, scientific or culture topics’.
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