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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 ...
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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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1 set 2023 · 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...
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15 apr 2020 · Listen to the 1945 radio broadcast by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who was the first to report from the liberation of Belsen by the British Army. Read the transcript of his eyewitness account of the horrors and the humanitarian crisis in the camp.
The Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund is a charity established in 1966 to support people affected by cancer in the UK, following the death of the BBC's first frontline radio reporter and his wife, Dilys. The charity offers care and support services, such as counselling, information and advice, and provides a Cancer Care Map for people with cancer in the UK.
Learn about the life and work of Richard Dimbleby, the first frontline radio reporter and the leading television commentator for the BBC. Discover his coverage of wars, coronations, funerals and hoaxes, and his legacy through the charity and awards named after him.
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.
