A weekly discussion programme also began on that date: Campaign 2010 with Jonathan Dimbleby.

After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford in 2000, with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE ), he began his working life answering the phones on the ITN newsdesk, before working as a researcher and then producer on LWT's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief period in between on BBC1's The Politics Show.

Pilger has received human rights and journalism awards, including the Richard Dimbleby Award for factual reporting at the 1990 BAFTA Awards, as well as many honorary doctorates.

An " elective dictatorship " ( also called executive dominance in political science ) is a phrase popularised by the former Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, Lord Hailsham, in a Richard Dimbleby Lecture at the BBC in 1976.

Dimbleby was born in Surrey and educated at two independent schools, the then Glengorse School in Battle, East Sussex, and Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey ( where he was a contemporary of Adam Raphael ).

Dimbleby has also covered outside broadcast events of national importance, such as the State Opening of Parliament, the Trooping the Colour, the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, royal weddings, and visits of US presidents.

On 12 November 2009, Dimbleby missed his first Question Time in over 15 years, having been taken to hospital as a precaution after being briefly knocked out by a rearing bullock at his farm in Sussex.

He gave the Romanes Lecture, entitled " Science and the human purpose ", at the University of Oxford in 1978 ; and in 1988 he gave the Dimbleby Lecture, " Knowledge itself is power ".

Dimbleby was educated at Charterhouse School, a boys ' Independent school in Surrey.

* Jonathan Dimbleby biography at BBC Radio 4

The 12 November 2009 edition was the first time in over 15 years that David Dimbleby did not host the show, having been taken to hospital as a precaution after being briefly knocked out by a rearing bullock at his farm in Sussex.

According to his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby ( for whom Prince Charles himself arranged access to unpublished royal diaries and family correspondence ), at that time he was contemplating an eventual marriage to Hon.

Dimbleby returned for Election 2001 and Election 2005, aided both times by ITV News ' political editors John Sergeant ( in 2001 ) and Nick Robinson ( in 2005 ) and a team of correspondents and newscasters around the country at polling stations.

Mayne was refused leave to attend the funeral and a story has him embarking on a drinking binge and rampage in central Cairo in an effort to find and beat up Richard Dimbleby, although Richard Dimbleby may have been in London at the time.

In February 2010 Robinson, described as the ' stunt Pratchett ', read the main part of Terry Pratchett's BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture.

BBC presenter Richard Dimbleby, who broadcast the president's funeral from Washington, said that the regular programme was scrapped when news of the assassination was received and that the programme was a good expression of the sorrow felt in Britain.

* youtube. com, Richard Dimbleby demonstrates the new BBC Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus in an edition of Panorama in April 1958.

Trethowan moved to the BBC around 1963 and was part of Grace Wyndham Goldie's group of heavy hitting journalists which included Richard Dimbleby and Robin Day.

David Dimbleby hosts the BBC coverage with Tom Fleming narrating the service inside Westminster Abbey.

David Dimbleby ( born 28 October 1938 ) is a British BBC TV commentator and a presenter of current affairs and political programmes, most notably the BBC's flagship political show Question Time, and more recently, art, architectural history and history series.

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.

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.

Dimbleby anchored his first General Election Night results programme for the BBC in 1979, when he presented alongside Bob McKenzie, David Butler, Sir Robin Day, and Angela Rippon.

There were reports in 2004 that Dimbleby was shortlisted for the Chairmanship of the BBC.

David Dimbleby has, as of February 2010, recently started to present a new series on BBC One, Seven Ages of Britain.

On the night of the 2010 Election, Dimbleby hosted the BBC coverage, along with Jeremy Vine, Jeremy Paxman, Nick Robinson, and Emily Maitlis.

Dimbleby is the son of the World War II war correspondent Richard Dimbleby, who was later to become presenter of the BBC TV current affairs programme Panorama, and a younger brother of David Dimbleby, also a current affairs commentator and presenter of BBC programmes.

Panorama has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby and Jeremy Vine.

Raworth has presented several BBC specials, including coverage of the Queen's Golden Jubilee and Our Monarchy-the Next 50 Years, both alongside David Dimbleby.

The first known recording of Killaloe was made by Richard Dimbleby when serving as a BBC war correspondent in Northern France shortly before Dunkirk.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

Mountbatten was a strong influence in the upbringing of his grand-nephew, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and later as a mentor —" Honorary Grandfather " and " Honorary Grandson ", they fondly called each other according to the Jonathan Dimbleby biography of the Prince — though according to both the Ziegler biography of Mountbatten and the Dimbleby biography of the Prince, the results may have been mixed.

On 22 November 1979 Jenkins delivered the annual Dimbleby Lecture which he called " Home Thoughts from Abroad ", detailing what he saw as the reasons for Britain's persistent underperformance as a failure of adaptability and problems associated with the two party system.

Richard Dimbleby interviews Sheila van Damm.

In 1996 Paxman received BAFTA's Richard Dimbleby Award for " outstanding presenter in the factual arena.

He got another Richard Dimbleby Award in 2000 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2002.

In his 2000 Dimbleby lecture, Who's afraid of modern art, Sir Nicholas Serota advocated such kinds of " difficult " art, while quoting opposition such as the Daily Mail headline " For 1, 000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces.

The first public broadcast featured CBS's Cronkite and NBC's Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC's Richard Dimbleby in Brussels.

A few days later ( on 29 February 2004 ) Short appeared on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme.

Turnbull's confidential letter ( which Short showed to Dimbleby, and which was quoted on the programme ) formally admonished her for discussing intelligence matters in the media, and threatened " further action " if she did not desist from giving interviews on the issue.

However in the same interview on the Jonathan Dimbleby programme, Short backtracked on her claim about British agents bugging Annan.

The actress Diana Dors resided for much of her life in the town, in several properties, while the broadcaster Richard Dimbleby lived for sometime on Boulter's Island.

Sven-Göran Eriksson, David Dimbleby, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Charles Kennedy, Iain Duncan Smith, Mark Lawson, David Starkey, Des Lynam, Michael Howard, Harry Potter, James Naughtie, Kenneth Clarke, Andrew Marr, Bill Oddie, Michael Palin, Andrew Neil, Adrian Chiles, President Josiah Bartlet, Boris Johnson, John Simpson ( on radio ), Rev.

Jon Snow won the Richard Dimbleby British Academy Television Award in 2005 for outstanding contribution to the world of news and current affairs.

The documentary, produced by Roger Bolton and presented by Jonathan Dimbleby, investigated Operation Flavius, an SAS mission in Gibraltar which ended in the deaths of the three Provisional IRA members.

The Bridport Literary Festival has been running since 2005 and has played host to the biggest literary lions including Elizabeth Jane Howard, Victoria Glendinning, Claire Tomalin, Jonathan Dimbleby, Max Hastings, Julian Fellowes, Alexander Waugh, John Julius Norwich, Minette Walters, Fay Weldon, Bill Oddie, Robin Hanbury – Tenison, Katharine Whitehorn, Kate Summerscale, Michael Dobbs and Ann Leslie DBE.

The weekday editions are usually presented by Eddie Mair, although Carolyn Quinn takes over when he deputises for Jonathan Dimbleby on Any Questions.

Two of the most famous former residents were Jonathan and David Dimbleby.

Richard Dimbleby interviews Sheila van Damm, Dickie Grout the Stage Director and Sally Crow a Windmill dancer.