The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

PG-13

October 1972

Documentary

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.

First Air Date:

1972-10-31

Last Air Date:

2021-12-06

Status:

Returning Series

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Cast

1. 1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway?

2. 1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict

3. Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?

4. 1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television

5. 1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship

6. Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour

7. 1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk

8. Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad

9. 1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power

10. 1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities

11. 1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections

12. 1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain

13. 1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself

14. 1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter?

15. 1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now?

16. 1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power

17. 1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land

18. 1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties

19. 1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties

20. 1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?

21. 1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

22. 1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence

23. 1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace

24. 1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun

25. 2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art

26. 2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century

27. 2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals

28. 2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world

29. James Dyson: Engineering the Difference

30. Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?

31. General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century

32. Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World

33. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future

34. Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death

35. Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free

36. Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science

37. Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist

38. Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century

39. Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You

40. Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?

41. John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World

42. Jeanette Winterson

43. Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction

44. Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One