
BBC One • 1972–present·Documentary
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture
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Overview
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture was founded in the memory of Richard Dimbleby, the BBC broadcaster. It has been delivered by an influential business or political figure almost every year since 1972.
Seasons & Episodes
46 episodes • 1972
1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway?
45m · 1972-10-31
1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict
45m · 1973-11-06
Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?
45m · 1974-10-22
1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television
45m · 1976-02-26
1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship
45m · 1976-10-14
Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour
45m · 1977-12-06
1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk
45m · 1978-11-23
Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad
45m · 1979-11-22
1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power
45m
1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities
45m
1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections
45m
1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain
45m
1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself
45m
1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter?
45m
1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now?
45m
1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power
45m
1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land
45m
1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties
45m
1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties
45m
1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
45m · 1994-06-12
1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
45m · 1996-11-12
1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence
45m
1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace
45m
1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun
45m
2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art
45m
2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century
45m
2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals
45m
2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world
45m
James Dyson: Engineering the Difference
45m
Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
45m
General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century
45m · 2006-12-06
Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World
45m · 2007-12-04
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future
45m · 2009-07-08
Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death
45m · 2010-02-01
Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free
45m · 2011-02-15
Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science
45m · 2012-02-28
Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist
45m · 2013-01-29
Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century
45m · 2014-02-04
Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You
45m · 2015-03-30
Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?
45m · 2016-03-16
John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World
45m · 2017-04-04
Jeanette Winterson
45m · 2018-06-06
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction
45m · 2019-11-17
Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One
45m · 2021-12-06
David Harewood: 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in this country
2023-06-20
Sir Gareth Southgate: The Beautiful Game: Building Belief and Resilience in a Younger Generation
2025-03-19
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