Hello, I'm Edward Sturton. Thank you for downloading this podcast. For her third Reith Lecture called Freedom, Eliza Manningham Buller, the former Director-General of MI5, the British Security Service, discusses policy priorities since 9-11.

Welcome to the last of the 2011 BBC Reith Lectures. We're in the British Library in London, and this great engine of ideas

is a fitting place to end what's been a truly remarkable wreath series. The series is called

Securing Freedom, and it began with two lectures by the pro-democracy leader, Unsan Suu Kyi,

which had to be smuggled out of Burma, underlying the realities behind what she had to say

about dissent and the struggle for freedom and democracy.

Eliza Manning and Buller, who closes the series today, has had the job of protecting the freedoms

that people in democracies are lucky enough to enjoy. She was head of Britain's Security Service,

MI5. What she's already said about the war on terror, about torture and about Iraq has become a significant part of the public

debate prompted by the 10th anniversary of 9-11, which we've recently marked. We look forward

to equally provocative views on the broader foreign

policy questions she plans to address today. Please welcome the BBC Reith Lecture for

2011 Eliza Manning and Buller. It's fair to say, Eliza Manning and Bull, isn't it, that you are used to working in the shadows, at least discreetly.

And yet, by doing these lectures and by the things that you've said in the course of the lectures, you've put yourself very much in the spotlight.

Are you comfortable there?

Well, the last lecture was in Leeds,

and I had a dream the night before

where the Cabinet Secretary rang me on a mobile

and said, you mustn't give this lecturer, Eliza.

And I said, why not?

He said, you'll be arrested and prosecuted

under the Official Secrets Act.

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