Richard Dimbleby Lecture
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture is an annual television lecture founded in memory of Richard Dimbleby, the BBC broadcaster.
It has been delivered by an influential business, scientific or political figure almost every year since 1972. The lecture is introduced in alternate years by his sons David Dimbleby and Jonathan Dimbleby, both broadcasters for the BBC, and delivered in front of an invited audience of guests, often with a link to the specialism of the speaker.
| Year | Title | Speaker | Speaker's position | Listing | Venue |
| 2019 | The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction | Sir Tim Berners-Lee | Inventor of the World Wide Web | Design Museum | |
| 2018 | Don't Protect Me - Respect Me | Jeanette Winterson | Writer and broadcaster | House of Lords, Palace of Westminster | |
| 2017 | Staying Safe in a Turbulent World | John O. Brennan | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 2013 to 2017 | LSO St Luke's | |
| 2016 | Is Shakespeare Chinese? | Gregory Doran | Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company | University of Warwick at The Shard | |
| 2015 | Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You | Martha Lane Fox | Co-founder of Lastminute.com, digital entrepreneur and peer | Science Museum, London | |
| 2014 | A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century | Christine Lagarde | Managing Director of International Monetary Fund | Guildhall, London | |
| 2013 | The Impatient Optimist | Bill Gates | Entrepreneur and Philanthropist | Royal Institution | |
| 2012 | The Wonder of Science | Sir Paul Nurse | Geneticist and Nobel laureate | Royal College of Physicians | |
| 2011 | Set Our Children Free | Michael Morpurgo | Children's author and campaigner | King's College London | |
| 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 | , | Royal College of Physicians |
| 2009 | Facing The Future | Prince Charles | Prince of Wales | St James's Palace | |
| 2007 | A DNA-Driven World | Craig Venter | Gene pioneer | ||
| 2006 | Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century | General Sir Mike Jackson | Former Chief of the General Staff | , | The London Scottish Regiment Headquarters |
| 2005 | What Kind of Police Service Do We Want? | Sir Ian Blair | Metropolitan Police Commissioner | , | |
| 2004 | Engineering the Difference | James Dyson | Vacuum cleaner tycoon | Wilton's Music Hall | |
| 2003 | The path towards a new world | Dominique de Villepin | French foreign minister | , , | |
| 2002 | Nations, Markets and Morals | Dr Rowan Williams | Archbishop of Canterbury | Westminster School | |
| 2001 | The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century | Bill Clinton | Former President of the United States of America | ||
| 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 | Banqueting House, Whitehall | |
| 1992 | The Judiciary in the Nineties | Lord Taylor of Gosforth | Lord Chief Justice | ||
| 1990 | Europe in the Nineties | Helmut Schmidt | Former Chancellor of Germany | Banqueting House, Whitehall | |
| 1989 | Living Off the Land | Prince Philip | Duke of Edinburgh | The Brewery, Chiswell Street | |
| 1988 | Knowledge Itself is Power | Sir George Porter | Professor of chemistry | Royal Institution | |
| 1987 | British Television: Who are the Masters Now? | Sir Denis Forman | Deputy Chairman of the Granada Group | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1986 | Does Industry Matter? | Sir John Harvey-Jones | Former chairman of ICI | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1985 | Teacher, Teach Thyself | Baroness Warnock | Professor of philosophy | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1984 | The Other Britain | Rt Rev. David Sheppard | Bishop of Liverpool and former cricketer | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1983 | Missing Our Connections | Sir Peter Parker | Former chairman of British Railways Board | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1982 | Irish Identities | Garret FitzGerald | Former Taoiseach of Ireland | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1980 | Misuse of Power | Lord Denning | Master of the Rolls | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1979 | Home Thoughts from Abroad | Roy Jenkins | President of the European Commission | , | Royal Society of the Arts |
| 1978 | Risk | Lord Rothschild | Zoologist and security adviser | Royal Society of the Arts | |
| 1977 | The Human Face of Labour | Jack Jones | Former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union | Clothworkers' Hall | |
| 1976 | Elective Dictatorship | Lord Hailsham | Former Lord Chancellor | BBC Television Centre | |
| 1975 | The British Experience in Television | Sir Huw Wheldon | Broadcaster | BBC Television Centre | |
| 1974 | Housing - Who is to Blame? | Lord Goodman | Former chairman of the Arts Council | BBC Television Centre | |
| 1973 | Minority Verdict | Sir Robert Mark | Metropolitan Police Commissioner | BBC Television Centre | |
| 1972 | What are Universities for, Anyway? | Lord Annan | Provost of University College, London | BBC Television Centre |