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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46 episodes • 1972
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway? | Oct 31, 1972 | 0.0 |
| 2 | 1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict | Nov 6, 1973 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame? | Oct 22, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television | Feb 26, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship | Oct 14, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour | Dec 6, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 7 | 1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk | Nov 23, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad | Nov 22, 1979 | 0.0 |
| 9 | 1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power | TBA | 0.0 |
| 10 | 1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities | TBA | 0.0 |
| 11 | 1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections | TBA | 0.0 |
| 12 | 1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain | TBA | 0.0 |
| 13 | 1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself | TBA | 0.0 |
| 14 | 1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter? | TBA | 0.0 |
| 15 | 1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now? | TBA | 0.0 |
| 16 | 1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power | TBA | 0.0 |
| 17 | 1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land | TBA | 0.0 |
| 18 | 1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties | TBA | 0.0 |
| 19 | 1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties | TBA | 0.0 |
| 20 | 1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict? | Jun 12, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 21 | 1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder | Nov 12, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 22 | 1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence | TBA | 0.0 |
| 23 | 1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace | TBA | 0.0 |
| 24 | 1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun | TBA | 0.0 |
| 25 | 2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art | TBA | 0.0 |
| 26 | 2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century | TBA | 0.0 |
| 27 | 2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals | TBA | 0.0 |
| 28 | 2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world | TBA | 0.0 |
| 29 | James Dyson: Engineering the Difference | TBA | 0.0 |
| 30 | Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict? | TBA | 0.0 |
| 31 | General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century | Dec 6, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 32 | Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World | Dec 4, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 33 | His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future | Jul 8, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 34 | Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death | Feb 1, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 35 | Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free | Feb 15, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 36 | Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science | Feb 28, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 37 | Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist | Jan 29, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 38 | Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century | Feb 4, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 39 | Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You | Mar 30, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 40 | Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese? | Mar 16, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 41 | John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World | Apr 4, 2017 | 0.0 |
| 42 | Jeanette Winterson | Jun 6, 2018 | 0.0 |
| 43 | Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction | Nov 17, 2019 | 0.0 |
| 44 | Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One | Dec 6, 2021 | 0.0 |
| 45 | David Harewood: 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in this country | Jun 20, 2023 | 0.0 |
| 46 | Sir Gareth Southgate: The Beautiful Game: Building Belief and Resilience in a Younger Generation | Mar 19, 2025 | 0.0 |
