Hello, I'm Sue Lawley. Thank you for downloading the 2011 Reith Lectures podcast.

For this year's lectures entitled Securing Freedom, the BBC has invited two speakers,

the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and Eliza Manningham Buller, the former Director-General of MI5.

In the second of two lectures recorded in Burma,

Aung San Suu Kyi explores what drives people to dissent, drawing on her personal experience

as a pro-democracy campaigner. Hello and welcome to the radio theatre in Broadcasting House,

London. For the past 23 years, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, has been fighting for freedom against the military dictatorship that rules her country. Today, she's giving the second of her two BBC wreath lectures entitled Securing Freedom, which have been recorded in secret at her

home in Burma.

In her first lecture, Ansan Suu Kyi

discussed what she called the

unfreedom in which the people of

Burma live, and described the passion

with which she and her supporters

like those who've recently taken

to the streets in the Middle East,

seek the right to liberty and democracy. In this second lecture, Ansan Suu Kyi describes

how her party, the National League for Democracy, the NLD, has survived despite being

officially ignored by the regime since it won a landslide election victory in 1990.

She draws parallels with dissidents throughout the world

for whom, like her, Struggle has been their life's work.

Ladies and gentlemen, the BBC's first wreath lecturer of 2011,

Aung San Suu Kyi.

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