Jonathan Dimbleby - TV and Radio Career

TV and Radio Career

Dimbleby began his career at the BBC in Bristol in 1969. In 1970 he joined The World at One as a reporter where he also presented The World This Weekend. In 1972 he joined ITV's flagship current affairs programme This Week. Over the following six years he reported from crises in many parts of the world. His coverage of the 1973 Ethiopian famine - The Unknown Famine - was followed by TV and radio appeals which raised a record sum nationally and internationally. His report (for which he won the SFTA Richard Dimbleby Award) contributed to the overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1978 he wrote and presented the ITV series Jonathan Dimbleby In South America. In 1979 he joined Yorkshire Television where he wrote and presented three ITV network series - The Bomb (1979), The Eagle and The Bear, (1980) and The Cold War Game (1981). He also presented the ITV documentary series First Tuesday. In 1985 he joined TV-am as presenter of Jonathan Dimbleby on Sunday. In 1986 he returned to ITV as presenter of This Week. In 1988 he joined the BBC to present the new flagship political programme On the Record (1988–93). In 1995 he wrote, presented and co-produced two documentary series, The Prince of Wales - The Private Man, The Public Face (ITV 1994) and The Last Governor - the story of the last five years of British rule in Hong Kong (BBC 1, 1997). In 1995 he re-joined ITV to present the new flagship political programme, Jonathan Dimbleby (1995–2006). He also anchored ITV's general election coverage in 1997, 2001 and 2005. He wrote and presented Russia with Jonathan Dimbleby (BBC2 2008), 'An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby' (2010), and A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (2011).

For BBC Radio 4 he has presented Any Questions? since 1987 and Any Answers? from 1988 to 2012.