The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

1

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

Oct 31, 1972

2

1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict

Nov 06, 1973

3

Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?

Oct 22, 1974

4

1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television

Feb 26, 1976

5

1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship

Oct 14, 1976

6

Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour

Dec 06, 1977

7

1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk

Nov 23, 1978

8

Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad

Nov 22, 1979

9

1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power

TBA

10

1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities

TBA

11

1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections

TBA

12

1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain

TBA

13

1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself

TBA

14

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

TBA

15

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

TBA

16

1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power

TBA

17

1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land

TBA

18

1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties

TBA

19

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

TBA

20

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

Jun 12, 1994

21

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

Nov 12, 1996

22

1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence

TBA

23

1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace

TBA

24

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

TBA

25

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

TBA

26

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

TBA

27

2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals

TBA

28

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

TBA

29

James Dyson: Engineering the Difference

TBA

30

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

TBA

31

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

Dec 06, 2006

32

Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World

Dec 04, 2007

33

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future

Jul 08, 2009

34

Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death

Feb 01, 2010

35

Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free

Feb 15, 2011

36

Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science

Feb 28, 2012

37

Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist

Jan 29, 2013

38

Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century

Feb 04, 2014

39

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

Mar 30, 2015

40

Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?

Mar 16, 2016

41

John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World

Apr 04, 2017

42

Jeanette Winterson

Jun 06, 2018

43

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

Nov 17, 2019

44

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

Dec 06, 2021

45

David Harewood: 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in this country

Jun 20, 2023

46

Sir Gareth Southgate: The Beautiful Game: Building Belief and Resilience in a Younger Generation

Mar 19, 2025