Last updated April 2005
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David Dimbleby is a major presenter of current affairs
programmes and documentaries for BBC Television.
In June 2002 David chaired the BBC ONE debate Our Monarchy
- The Next 50 Years; in February 2003 he chaired the BBC ONE debate
Iraq: Britain Decides.
In March 2003 he presented the two-part BBC ONE documentary
Mandela: The Living Legend.
He has been the Chairman of BBC ONE's Question Time
since January 1994.
He joined the BBC as a news reporter in Bristol after
leaving university and appeared in network programmes from 1962.
During his BBC career he has presented Panorama, 24
Hours, People And Power, The Dimbleby Talk-In and This Week Next Week.
He wrote and presented the award-winning TV series The
White Tribe Of Africa and An Ocean Apart.
David Dimbleby has also been the commentator for a wide
range of special outside broadcast events for BBC Television, including
the State Opening of Parliament, Trooping the Colour and the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at The Cenotaph.
He has presented many Budget Specials and a number of
BBC Election programmes.
He was anchor man for the 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997
and 2000 General Election night coverage, and the US Presidential Election
programmes in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000.
He was a commentator during the funeral of Diana, Princess
of Wales in 1997, during the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother, and for the BBC's programmes to mark the Golden Jubilee of HM
Queen Elizabeth in 2002.
He was born in 1938 and educated at Glengorse School,
Battle, and Charterhouse.
He learnt French in Paris and Italian at Perugia and
studied politics, philosophy and economics at Christ Church, Oxford,
where he also edited Isis.
