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

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.

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.

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 began his career at the BBC in Bristol in 1969.

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.

* Jonathan Dimbleby biography at BBC Radio 4

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.

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

The book cover, showing George VI of the United Kingdom | King George VI, radio news reporter Richard Dimbleby and flag-waving crowds

Richard Dimbleby took over in 1955 and presented it during the late 1950s and 1960s.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.