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Frederick Richard Dimbleby CBE (25 May 1913 – 22 December 1965) was an English journalist and broadcaster, who became the BBC's first war correspondent, and then its leading TV news commentator. As host of the long-running current affairs programme Panorama , he pioneered a popular style of interviewing that was respectful but searching.
May 21, 2024 · Richard Dimbleby, pioneer radio news reporter and the first of Britain’s great broadcast journalists. He was the first war correspondent for the BBC. He also was host of Panorama, an influential BBC public-affairs weekly documentary program. Learn more about Dimbleby’s life and career.
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Apr 15, 2020 · Listen to the 10-minute radio report by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who was the first broadcaster to witness the liberation of Belsen by the British Army in 1945. Read the transcript of his vivid and horrifying description of the camp and its prisoners.
Learn about the life and work of Richard Dimbleby, the 'Voice of the Nation', who reported from warfronts, coronations, funerals and more. Find out how he became a household name, a charity founder and a TV pioneer.
Oct 23, 2022 · In April 1945, the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Belsen concentration camp. His report describing the unimaginable horror he found, was the first time many...
Richard Dimbleby ensconced in the tiny commentator’s box in the Triforium of Westminster Abbey, from which he covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953.
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Richard Dimbleby was born on 25 May 1913 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Libel (1959), This Is the BBC (1959) and School for Sinners (1965). He died on 22 December 1965 in London, England, UK.
