Richard Dimbleby's guest appearances

Richard Dimbleby

Witness History

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959

WSMF Broadcast Day Podcast

History Now Podcast

Alfred Hitchcock

Dave Brubeck

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Benny Hill

John Osborne

Leopold Stokowski

Fred Streeter

Tex Ritter

Kirsten Flagstad

Doris Waters

Elena Gerhardt

Judy Grinham

Joan Sutherland

Dennis Brain

John Paddy Carstairs

OwlTail

The BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His report describing the unimaginable horror he found was for many listeners around the world the first time they had heard the truth of what it was like to have endured life and death under the Nazis. An estimated 70,000 people died in the camp. The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby reflects on the impact of the report on his father and why the BBC was reluctant to broadcast it at first. Produced by Josephine McDermott.This programme contains distressing details.(Photo: Prisoners at Belsen. Credit: Getty Images)

The BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His report describing the unimaginable horror he found was for many listeners around the world the first time they had heard the truth of what it was like to have endured life and death under the Nazis. An estimated 70,000 people died in the camp. The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby reflects on the impact of the report on his father and why the BBC was reluctant to broadcast it at first. Produced by Josephine McDermott. This programme contains distressing details. (Photo: Prisoners at Belsen. Credit: Getty Images)

Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Richard Dimbleby.Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Richard Dimbleby. Luxury: Piano