Jonathan Dimbleby
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Dimbleby at a charity event in support of Book Aid International in 2016
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| Born |
31 July 1944 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Writer, broadcaster |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Bel Mooney (1968-2003; divorced) Jessica Ray (m. 2007) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) |
Richard Dimbleby Dilys Thomas |
| Relatives | David Dimbleby (brother) |
Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, an author and historian. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of British TV presenter David Dimbleby.
Dimbleby was educated at Charterhouse School, a boys' independent school in Surrey. Later, he studied Farm Management at the Royal Agricultural College and graduated in 1965. He studied philosophy at University College London and graduated in 1970. He was later elected an Honorary Fellow but resigned in 2015 in protest as the dismissal of Professor Emeritus Tim Hunt. In July 2007 received an honorary degree from the University of Exeter.
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 and over the following six years reported on 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.
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