Richard Dimbleby Lecture

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture (also known as the 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 (with gaps in 1981, 1991, 1993 and 2008).

Year	Title	Speaker	Speaker's position	Transcript
2013	The Impatient Optimist	Bill Gates	Entrepreneur and Philanthropist	[1]
2012	The Wonder of Science	Sir Paul Nurse	Geneticist and Nobel laureate	[2], [3] (video)
2011	Set Our Children Free	Michael Morpurgo	Children's author and campaigner
2010	Shaking Hands With Death	Sir Terry Pratchett	Author & Person with Alzheimer's. Read by Tony Robinson on speaker's behalf owing to his condition	[4], [5]
2009	Facing The Future	Prince Charles	Prince of Wales	[6]
2007	A DNA-Driven World	Craig Venter	Gene pioneer	[7]
2006	Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century	General Sir Mike Jackson	Former Chief of the General Staff	[8], [9] (video)
2005	What Kind of Police Service Do We Want?	Sir Ian Blair	Metropolitan Police Commissioner	[10], [11]
2004	Engineering the Difference	James Dyson	Vacuum cleaner tycoon	[12]
2003	The path towards a new world	Dominique de Villepin	French foreign minister	[13], [14], [15]
2002	Nations, Markets and Morals	Dr Rowan Williams	Archbishop of Canterbury	[16]
2001	The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century	Bill Clinton	Former President of the United States of America	[17]
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	[18]
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 former cricketer
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

External links

• Richard Dimbleby Lecture at IMDb