Editing Jonathan Dimbleby (section)

==TV and radio career==
[[File:Any Questions, Nexus Methodist Church, Bath.jpg|thumb|Dimbleby presenting an ''[[Any Questions?]]'' broadcast on 15 January 2016 at the Nexus Methodist Church, Bath, during the church's 200th anniversary year]]
[[File:BBC World Questions - Hungary.jpg|thumb|Dimbleby presenting a World Question broadcast from Budapest]]
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 (1956 TV 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, was used by the incoming regime to justify the overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor [[Haile Selassie I|Haile Selassie]].<ref>{{citation |title=Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia |author=Alexander De Waal |publisher=Human Rights Watch |year=1991 |isbn=9781564320384 |page=58}}</ref>

In 1978 he wrote and presented the ITV series ''Jonathan Dimbleby in South America''. In 1979 he joined [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]], where he wrote and presented three ITV network series: ''Jonathan Dimbleby In Search of the American Dream'' (1976), ''The Bomb'' (1979), ''The Eagle and The Bear'' (1980) and ''The Cold War Game'' (1981). He also presented the ITV documentary series ''[[First Tuesday (documentary strand)|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''. 

In 1988 he joined the BBC to present the new flagship political programme ''[[On the Record (BBC TV series)|On the Record]]'' (1988–1993). He wrote, presented and co-produced two documentary series: ''The Last Governor'' (BBC1 1997) about the final five years of British rule in [[Hong Kong]], and ''[[Charles: The Private Man, the Public Role]]'' (ITV 1994), in which (the then) [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] spoke about his first marriage and his relationship with [[Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall|Camilla Parker Bowles]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Prince vows to keep silent about his private life |first=Andrew |last=Alderson |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1327842/Prince-vows-to-keep-silent-about-his-private-life.html |access-date=2021-11-23 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=25 March 2001 }}</ref> now his wife and Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms.

From 1994 to 2006 he presented ITV's political programme, ''[[Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series)|Jonathan Dimbleby]]''. He anchored ITV's general election coverage in 1997, 2001 and 2005. He wrote and presented ''Russia with Jonathan Dimbleby'' (BBC2, 2008), ''An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby'' (2010), and ''A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby'' (2011). In 2013 he wrote and presented ''Churchill's Desert War'' (BBC2) based on his book, ''Destiny in The Desert''. In 2015 he wrote and presented the two-part series ''The BBC At War'' (BBC2).

From 1987 to June 2019 he presented ''[[Any Questions?]]'' on [[BBC Radio 4]]. He presented ''[[Any Answers?]]'' from 1989 to 2012.<ref name=who/><ref name="bbc-pr-aa">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/anyanswershost.html |title=Jonathan Dimbleby hands Any Answers? baton to Anita Anand on Radio 4 |publisher=BBC Media Centre |date=23 May 2012 |access-date=11 August 2012}}</ref> From 2016 to 2019, he was the main presenter of the BBC World Service monthly series ''World Questions''.

In April 2020, Dimbleby wrote and presented the ITV documentary ''Return to Belsen with Jonathan Dimbleby'' about the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]].

In 2022, following the death of Queen [[Elizabeth II]], Dimbleby wrote and presented the documentary ''Charles, the Monarch and the Man'', which aired on ITV on 13 September 2022.