The Richard Dimbleby Lecture (1972)

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture was founded in memory of Richard Dimbleby, the BBC broadcaster. It has been delivered by an influential business or political figure almost every year since 1972.

Original Release

10/31/1972 on BBC

Links

Website

Cast

Name

Character

David Dimbleby

Himself - Host / Himself / Himself - Introduction / Himself - Audience Member

Jonathan Dimbleby

Himself - Host / Himself - Introduction

Alasdair Milne

Himself - Host

David Attenborough

Himself - Host

Paul Nurse

Himself - Lecturer (as Sir Paul Nurse)

Tony Robinson

Himself

Martha Lane Fox

Herself - Lecturer (as Baroness Lane-Fox)

Michael Swann

Himself - Host

Stuart Young

Himself - Host

Michael Checkland

Himself - Host

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	What Are Universities for, Anyway?	Tuesday, 31 October 1972
2	Minority Verdict	Tuesday, 06 November 1973
3	Housing: Who Is to Blame?	Tuesday, 22 October 1974
4	The British Experience in Television	Thursday, 26 February 1976
5	Elective Dictatorship	Thursday, 14 October 1976
6	The Human Face of Labour	Tuesday, 06 December 1977
7	Risk	Thursday, 23 November 1978
8	Home Thoughts from Abroad	Thursday, 22 November 1979
9	Misuse of Power	Thursday, 20 November 1980
10	Irish Identities	Thursday, 20 May 1982
11	Missing Our Connections	Thursday, 31 March 1983
12	The Other Britain	Tuesday, 17 April 1984
13	Teacher, Teach Thyself	Friday, 22 March 1985
14	Does Industry Matter?	Thursday, 03 April 1986
15	British Television: Who Are the Masters Now?	Wednesday, 15 July 1987
16	Knowledge Itself Is Power	Sunday, 10 April 1988
17	Living Off the Land	Tuesday, 07 March 1989
18	Europe in the Nineties	Thursday, 03 May 1990
19	The Judiciary in the Nineties	Monday, 30 November 1992
20	Security and Democracy: Is There a Conflict?	Sunday, 12 June 1994
21	Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder	Tuesday, 12 November 1996
22	Public Life, Public Confidence	Wednesday, 05 November 1997
23	Principles of Peace	Wednesday, 02 December 1998
24	The Future Could be Too Much Fun	Wednesday, 01 December 1999
25	Who's Afraid of Modern Art	Wednesday, 22 November 2000
26	The Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century	Sunday, 16 December 2001
27	Nations, Markets and Morals	Thursday, 19 December 2002
28	The Path Towards a New World	Sunday, 19 October 2003
29	Engineering the Difference	Wednesday, 08 December 2004
30	What Kind of Police Service Do We Want?	Wednesday, 16 November 2005
31	Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century	Wednesday, 06 December 2006
32	A DNA-Driven World	Tuesday, 04 December 2007
33	Facing the Future	Wednesday, 08 July 2009
34	Shaking Hands with Death	Monday, 01 February 2010
35	Set Our Children Free	Tuesday, 15 February 2011
36	The New Enlightenment	Tuesday, 28 February 2012
37	The Impatient Optimist	Tuesday, 29 January 2013
38	A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century	Tuesday, 04 February 2014