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.
1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway?
1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict
Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?
1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television
1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship
Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour
1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk
Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad
1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power
1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities
1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections
1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain
1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself
1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter?
1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now?
1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power
1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land
1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties
1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties
1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence
1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace
1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun
2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art
2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century
2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals
2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world
James Dyson: Engineering the Difference
Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century
Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future
Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death
Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free
Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science
Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist
Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century
Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You
Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?
John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World
Jeanette Winterson
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction
Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One
American Experience
Transformations of Myth Through Time
Amol Rajan Interviews
Zembla
2Doc
Storyville
Controversially: That Was the Year That Was
Al Jazeera World
Landline
Dispatches
Anatomy for Beginners
Enquête
Mythos
NHK Special
Great Minds
La soirée de l'info
CNN Special Report
La Case du siècle
C dans l'air
Réseau d'enquêtes