The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Episode 1

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

1972-10-31

Episode 2

1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict

1973-11-06

Episode 3

Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?

1974-10-22

Episode 4

1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television

1976-02-26

Episode 5

1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship

1976-10-14

Episode 6

Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour

1977-12-06

Episode 7

1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk

1978-11-23

Episode 8

Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad

1979-11-22

Episode 9

1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power

Episode 10

1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities

Episode 11

1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections

Episode 12

1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain

Episode 13

1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself

Episode 14

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

Episode 15

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

Episode 16

1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power

Episode 17

1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land

Episode 18

1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties

Episode 19

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

Episode 20

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

1994-06-12

Episode 21

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

1996-11-12

Episode 22

1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence

Episode 23

1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace

Episode 24

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

Episode 25

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

Episode 26

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

Episode 27

2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals

Episode 28

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

Episode 29

James Dyson: Engineering the Difference

Episode 30

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

Episode 31

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

2006-12-06

Episode 32

Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World

2007-12-04

Episode 33

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future

2009-07-08

Episode 34

Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death

2010-02-01

Episode 35

Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free

2011-02-15

Episode 36

Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science

2012-02-28

Episode 37

Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist

2013-01-29

Episode 38

Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century

2014-02-04

Episode 39

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

2015-03-30

Episode 40

Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?

2016-03-16

Episode 41

John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World

2017-04-04

Episode 42

Jeanette Winterson

2018-06-06

Episode 43

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

2019-11-17

Episode 44

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

2021-12-06