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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

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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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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

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