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Dimbleby joined the BBC as a news reporter in Bristol in the 1960s and has appeared in news programmes since 1962, early on co-presenting the televised version of the school quiz Top of the Form.

In 1974, he became the presenter of Panorama, which had been presented by his father, Richard Dimbleby, and was involved in a number of projects which combined his established role as presenter and interviewer with documentary making.

An early example of this was Yesterday's Men ( 1971 ), a film held to have ridiculed the Labour opposition and led to a major conflict between the BBC and the Labour Party ; Dimbleby had his name removed from the credits for concessions that were made.

Later films were not the source of such controversy, they include The White Tribe of Africa ( 1979 ), an award-winning four-part history of South Africa's Afrikaans community and the rise of apartheid, An Ocean Apart ( 1988 ), an examination of the history of Anglo-American relations, and Rebellion!

( 1999 ), a history of Britain's troubled relations with Zimbabwe ).