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.

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.

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.

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.

During the same period ( beginning in 1979 ), Dimbleby has also been the anchor for the BBC's European Elections results programmes and in 2008 anchored the BBC's coverage of the US Election night.

Since 1994, Dimbleby has been chairman of Question Time, the BBC's flagship programme of topical debate.

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

Since 1994, David Dimbleby has been the programme's presenter.

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.

He has also been a regular presence in ITV's national election coverage, co-anchoring their network coverage of the general elections of 2005 ( with Jonathan Dimbleby ), 1997 ( with Dimbleby and Michael Brunson ), 1992 ( with Jon Snow ) and 1987 with Alastair Burnet.

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.

A Picture of Britain is a 2005 BBC television documentary series presented by David Dimbleby, which describes the British landscape and the art which it has inspired.

The series was produced in association with Tate Britain ; the accompanying 2005 book authored by Dimbleby has been published by Tate Publishing.

She also was the first woman to receive a Dimbleby Award from BAFTA for factual presentation.

Keating also compared his stature as a radio journalist with those of Richard Dimbleby and Alistair Cooke.

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.

He is also Vice-President ( and past President ) of the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) and a trustee of Dimbleby Cancer Care.

Dimbleby is also Chairman of Index on Censorship.

Dimbleby is also President of the South Hams Society South Hams Society.

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.

He was also worked as a researcher on election programmes for both David Dimbleby and Jonathan Dimbleby.

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

* Richard Dimbleby ( 1913 – 1965 ); covered World War II

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.

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

Dimbleby was the main presenter of the BBC's flagship 1980s political series This Week Next Week, broadcast on Sunday early afternoons from 1984 to 1988, as a competitor to ITV's long-running Weekend World series.

is still broadcast and is chaired by Dimbleby's brother Jonathan Dimbleby.

Milne was one of the so-called " Goldie Boys ", a group of producers and presenters, which included Huw Wheldon, Robin Day, David Frost, Cliff Michelmore, Ian Trethowan and Richard Dimbleby.

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.

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.

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

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 ).

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.

Dimbleby began his career at the BBC in Bristol in 1969.

* 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.