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.

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

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.

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.

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 ".

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.

The report was made more believable through its voiceover by respected broadcaster Richard Dimbleby.

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.

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.

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

Adie was awarded an OBE in 1993 and won the Richard Dimbleby Award from BAFTA in 1990.

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 ).

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.

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 ".

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

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

Dimbleby hosted the third of three televised election debates featuring the leaders of the three main political parties held in the run up to the 2010 general election.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

* Jonathan Dimbleby, British presenter

The scenes that greeted British troops were described by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who accompanied them:

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

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.

In 1995 he re-joined ITV to present the new flagship political programme, Jonathan Dimbleby ( 1995 – 2006 ).

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 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.

* David Dimbleby ( 1938 – ), TV commentator, who included the town as a destination in his 2007 TV series How We Built Britain ; and Denis Healey ( 1917 – ), politician and writer, both have links with the town.

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

In 1978 he wrote and presented the ITV series Jonathan Dimbleby In South America.

During its run, the series ' presenters included Ludovic Kennedy, James Cameron, Jonathan Dimbleby, Robert Kee, Dan Farson, Jeremy Thorpe ( who became leader of the Liberal Party ), Kenneth Harris, Desmond Wilcox, Llew Gardner, Bryan Magee, Peter Taylor ( noted for his coverage of Northern Ireland ), Denis Tuohy, John Morgan, Peter Williams, Yvonne Roberts and John Edwards.

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.

In 2001, Theroux was awarded the Richard Dimbleby Award for the Best Presenter BAFTA for his work on the series.