Season
- Season 1 1972-10-31
Episode
- Episode 1: 1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway?
- Episode 2: 1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict
- Episode 3: Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?
- Episode 4: 1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television
- Episode 5: 1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship
- Episode 6: Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour
- Episode 7: 1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk
- Episode 8: Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad
- Episode 9: 1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power
- Episode 10: 1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities
- Episode 11: 1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections
- Episode 12: 1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain
- Episode 13: 1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself
- Episode 14: 1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter?
- Episode 15: 1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now?
- Episode 16: 1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power
- Episode 17: 1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land
- Episode 18: 1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties
- Episode 19: 1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties
- Episode 20: 1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
- Episode 21: 1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
- Episode 22: 1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence
- Episode 23: 1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace
- Episode 24: 1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun
- Episode 25: 2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art
- Episode 26: 2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century
- Episode 27: 2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals
- Episode 28: 2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world
- Episode 29: James Dyson: Engineering the Difference
- Episode 30: Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
- Episode 31: General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century
- Episode 32: Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World
- Episode 33: His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future
- Episode 34: Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death
- Episode 35: Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free
- Episode 36: Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science
- Episode 37: Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist
- Episode 38: Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century
- Episode 39: Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You
- Episode 40: Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?
- Episode 41: John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World
- Episode 42: Jeanette Winterson
- Episode 43: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction
- Episode 44: Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture Season 1 Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture was founded in the memory of Richard Dimbleby, the BBC broadcaster. It has been delivered by an influential business or political figure almost every year since 1972.
