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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Season 1 Episode 35: Set Our Children Free

Feb 15, 2011NR45m7

In this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Michael Morpurgo explores the increasingly urgent issue of children's rights, and investigates the wrongs that young people have to endure. One of Britain's most popular children's authors, Morpurgo has written over 120 books and more recently he has become a campaigner on behalf of children, both at home and abroad. In this role he visited the Middle East where he witnessed, first hand, the difficulties children face in times of co...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 2 Minority Verdict

2. Minority Verdict

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Episode 5 Elective Dictatorship

5. Elective Dictatorship

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Episode 7 Risk

7. Risk

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Episode 32 A DNA-Driven World

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Episode 33 Facing the Future

33. Facing the Future

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Episode 42 Jeanette Winterson

42. Jeanette Winterson

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Info about The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary