Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 1972: Lord Annan - What are Universities for, Anyway?
- Season 1 1973: Sir Robert Mark - Minority Verdict
- Season 1 Lord Goodman - Housing - Who is to Blame?
- Season 1 1975: Sir Huw Wheldon - The British Experience in Television
- Season 1 1976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship
- Season 1 Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour
- Season 1 1978: Lord Rothschild - Risk
- Season 1 Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad
- Season 1 1980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power
- Season 1 1982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities
- Season 1 1983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections
- Season 1 1984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain
- Season 1 1985: Baroness Warnock - Teacher, Teach Thyself
- Season 1 1986: Sir John Harvey-Jones - Does Industry Matter?
- Season 1 1987: Sir Denis Forman - British Television: Who are the Masters Now?
- Season 1 1988: Sir George Porter - Knowledge Itself is Power
- Season 1 1989: Prince Philip - Living Off the Land
- Season 1 1990: Helmut Schmidt - Europe in the Nineties
- Season 1 1992: Lord Taylor of Gosforth - The Judiciary in the Nineties
- Season 1 1994: Stella Rimington - Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
- Season 1 1996: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
- Season 1 1997: Lord Nolan - Public Life, Public Confidence
- Season 1 1998: George J. Mitchell - Principles of Peace
- Season 1 1999: Susan Greenfield - The Future Could be Too Much Fun
- Season 1 2000: Sir Nicholas Serota - Who's Afraid of Modern Art
- Season 1 2001: Bill Clinton - The Struggle For The Soul of The 21st Century
- Season 1 2002: Dr Rowan Williams - Nations, Markets and Morals
- Season 1 2003: Dominique de Villepin - The path towards a new world
- Season 1 James Dyson: Engineering the Difference
- Season 1 Stella Rimington: Security and Democracy - Is There a Conflict?
- Season 1 General Sir Mike Jackson: Defence of the Realm in the 21st Century
- Season 1 Dr J Craig Venter: A DNA-Driven World
- Season 1 His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales: Facing the Future
- Season 1 Sir Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands with Death
- Season 1 Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free
- Season 1 Sir Paul Nurse: The Wonder of Science
- Season 1 Bill Gates: The Impatient Optimist
- Season 1 Christine Lagarde: A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century
- Season 1 Martha Lane Fox: Dot Everyone - Power, the Internet and You
- Season 1 Gregory Doran: Is Shakespeare Chinese?
- Season 1 John O. Brennan: Staying Safe in a Turbulent World
- Season 1 Jeanette Winterson
- Season 1 Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction
- Season 1 Dame Sarah Gilbert: Vaccine Vs Virus: This Race - and the Next One
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture - Season 1 Episode 8 Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad
0.00 45 minutes 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 the present state of the British political system. He questions whether our traditional stability has now turned into rigidity, and asks how we could improve the form and content of our politics.
