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.

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?

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

On 12 November 2009 he became the only person to replace David Dimbleby as the host of Question Time when Dimbleby was recovering from a minor farming injury.

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.

One of the most memorable moments from Question Time was when Dimbleby accidentally referred to Robin Cook as " Robin Cock ", to which Cook responded by jokingly referring to Dimbleby as " David Bumblebee ".

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

* 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.

Mooney was married to the television journalist Jonathan Dimbleby for thirty-five years when they lived on an organic farm.

It was initially hosted by Stewart MacPherson but in 1950 Richard Dimbleby took over its presentation until 1955, then Franklin Engelmann until his death in 1972 when Brian Johnston took over until 1987.

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

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

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.

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 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 is also Chairman of Index on Censorship.

* 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.

He won the BAFTA ( British Academy of Film and Television Arts ) Richard Dimbleby award in 1981 and Britain's prestigious Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year award in 2001 for the second time in a row.

In 1982 Sebastian was awarded the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Richard Dimbleby Award and was named Television Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.