Richard Dimbleby Lecture
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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture (also known as the Dimblebly 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 (with gaps in 1981, 1991 and 1993).
| Year | Title | Speaker | Speaker's position | Transcript |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Defense of the Realm in the 21st Century | General Sir Mike Jackson | Former Chief of the General Staff | |
| 2005 | What Kind of Police Service Do We Want? | Sir Ian Blair | Metropolitan Police Commissioner | [1], [2] |
| 2004 | Engineering the Difference | James Dyson | Vacuum cleaner tycoon | [3] |
| 2003 | The path towards a new world | Dominique de Villepin | French foreign minister | [4], [5], [6] |
| 2002 | Nations, Markets and Morals | Dr Rowan Williams | Archbishop of Canterbury | [7] |
| 2001 | The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century | Bill Clinton | Former President of the United States of America | [8] |
| 2000 | Who's Afraid of Modern Art | Sir Nicholas Serota | Director of the Tate Gallery | |
| 1999 | The Future Could be Too Much Fun | Susan Greenfield | Professor of pharmacology | |
| 1998 | Principles of Peace | George J. Mitchell | Former U.S. Senator and chair of the talks leading to the Belfast Agreement | |
| 1997 | Public Life, Public Confidence | Lord Nolan | Former law lord | |
| 1996 | Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder | Richard Dawkins | Professor of biology | |
| 1994 | Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict? | Stella Rimington | Director-general of MI5 | |
| 1992 | The Judiciary in the Nineties | Lord Taylor of Gosforth | Lord Chief Justice | |
| 1990 | Europe in the Nineties | Helmut Schmidt | Former Chancellor of Germany | |
| 1989 | Living Off the Land | Prince Philip | Duke of Edinburgh | |
| 1988 | Knowledge Itself is Power | Sir George Porter | Professor of chemistry | |
| 1987 | British Television: Who are the Masters Now? | Sir Denis Forman | Deputy Chairman of the Granada Group | |
| 1986 | Does Industry Matter? | Sir John Harvey-Jones | Former chairman of ICI | |
| 1985 | Teacher, Teach Thyself | Baroness Warnock | Professor of philosophy | |
| 1984 | The Other Britain | David Sheppard | Bishop of Liverpool and cricket umpire | |
| 1983 | Missing Our Connections | Sir Peter Parker | Former chairman of British Railways Board | |
| 1982 | Irish Identities | Garret FitzGerald | Former (and later, again) Taoiseach of Ireland | |
| 1980 | Misuse of Power | Lord Denning | Master of the Rolls | |
| 1979 | Home Thoughts from Abroad | Roy Jenkins | President of the European Commission | |
| 1978 | Risk | Lord Rothschild | Zoologist and security adviser | |
| 1977 | The Human Face of Labour | Jack Jones | Former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union | |
| 1976 | Elective Dictatorship | Lord Hailsham | Former (and later, again) Lord Chancellor | |
| 1975 | The British Experience in Television | Sir Huw Wheldon | Broadcaster | |
| 1974 | Housing - Who is to Blame? | Lord Goodman | Former chairman of the Arts Council | |
| 1973 | Minority Verdict | Sir Robert Mark | Metropolitan Police Commissioner | |
| 1972 | What are Universities for, Anyway? | Lord Annan | Provost of University College, London |
