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.

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.

He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and elder brother of Jonathan Dimbleby.

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 ".

Jonathan Dimbleby ( born 31 July 1944, Aylesbury ) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, a political commentator and a writer.

He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of British TV presenter David Dimbleby.

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 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.

Question Time is presented by David Dimbleby.

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

The " Famous Irish Regiment " Dimbleby reports playing as they march past is not named, but would have been either the Royal Irish Fusiliers or the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

The chairman is currently Jonathan Dimbleby.

* Jonathan Dimbleby from July 1987 ; on the occasions when he is unable to chair the programme, others have substituted, including Nick Clarke, Eddie Mair and Martha Kearney.

The sculpture was commissioned by Hambleton District Council and is the work of sculptor Nicholas Dimbleby.

The movie is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley ( played by Grant ), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In response to Pickles's comments that he " had to be there House of Commons on time ", Question Time host David Dimbleby, replied " Like a job, in other words?

During the same programme, chairman David Dimbleby quoted to Hitchens comments made by John Bercow that The Mail on Sunday was " a bigoted, sexist, homophobic comic strip ".

Within a few months of taking over he accepted an invitation to give the annual Dimbleby Lecture on " The judiciary in the nineties " in which he cast himself as a reformer.

Guest presenters were used on rare occasions, among them Jonathan Dimbleby, Sandy Gall, Martyn Gregory, Sue Lawley and Lynn Faulds Wood.

Powell confirmed the quotation on Jonathan Dimbleby's " Dimbleby " program on April 30, 2006.

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.

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.

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

In 1985 he joined TV-am as presenter of Jonathan Dimbleby on Sunday.

Dimbleby wanted to be a farmer when he left school and he worked on the Royal Farm, Windsor and trained as a showjumper.

* Jonathan Dimbleby on IMDB

On one memorable occasion during the results of the 1997 general election he was told on air by Jonathan Dimbleby that Labour had taken the seat, only for the result to give Hughes a good majority.