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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Season 1 Episode 8: Home Thoughts from Abroad

Nov 22, 1979NR45m7

The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins, President of the European Commission and formerly Home Secretary, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, gives the eighth in this annual series of lectures. 'As a forum of national debate, the House of Commons has declined. The great clashes of party principle and the conflicting convictions of major personalities have mostly given way to a sterile exchange of unconvincing slogans and mutual recrimination, to a background of unedifying noise. Roy Jenkins examines...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 2 Minority Verdict

2. Minority Verdict

Aired: Nov 5, 1973

Sir Robert Mark, Britain's top policeman, tonight critically examines our sys...

Episode 5 Elective Dictatorship

5. Elective Dictatorship

Aired: Oct 14, 1976

David Dimbleby introduces Lord Hailsham's lecture, in which he proposes a wri...

Episode 7 Risk

7. Risk

Aired: Nov 22, 1978

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Episode 32 A DNA-Driven World

32. A DNA-Driven World

Aired: Dec 3, 2007

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Episode 33 Facing the Future

33. Facing the Future

Aired: Jul 8, 2009

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Episode 42 Jeanette Winterson

42. Jeanette Winterson

Aired: Jun 6, 2018

Jeanette Winterson, award-winning writer and acclaimed author of Oranges Are ...

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Info about The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary