Season 1 episodes1972-10-31

Season 1

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.

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Season 1

Episode 1

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

45m

Episode 2

1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict

45m

Episode 3

Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?

45m

Episode 4

1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television

45m

Episode 5

1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship

45m

Season 1

Season 1

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

1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict

Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?

1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television

1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship

Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour

1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk

Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad

1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power

1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities

1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections

1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain

1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself

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

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

1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power

1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land

1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties

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

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

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

1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence

1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace

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

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

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

2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals

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

James Dyson: Engineering the Difference

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

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

Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future

Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death

Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free

Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science

Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist

Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century

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

Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?

John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

David Harewood: 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in this country

Sir Gareth Southgate: The Beautiful Game: Building Belief and Resilience in a Younger Generation