"They were like theatre costume, " said Judy Reith, one of the band's stage wardrobe team.
The Conservatives respect the paternalistic ideals of Lord Reith, a founder of the corporation, but are warier of the institution itself.
The second of Eliza Manningham-Buller's Reith Lectures, which is entitled Security, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 13 September.
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As a Scotsman, it was a proud moment for Reith, whose legacy of public service broadcasting remains with the BBC to this day.
John Reith, the BBC's general manager, then bent to the microphone and announced that 5SC, the Glasgow station of the British Broadcasting Company, was calling.
The BBC issued an invitation to give the prestigious Reith lectures.
Yet in the summer of 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi declared in the first of her Reith Lectures that she wanted foreign travellers to visit Burma.
John Reith, commander of the NATO force in Albania, said he wanted to see all refugees moved from the northern border town of Kukes to shelter deeper inside the country.
The Harvard professor, who recently delivered the BBC's Reith lectures on banking and the financial crisis said the Bank of England should be all powerful but the rules should not be completely clear.
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In one of his recent Reith lectures entitled the Darwinian economy , Professor Ferguson argued the financial crisis was not the result of de-regulation but rather a failure to enforce the regulations that existed.
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"Smartphones and tablets are growing at a pace that PCs can't realistically keep up with because of device prices and to some extent disposability, " explained Ryan Reith, program manager, Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers at IDC.
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