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David Dimbleby
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David Dimbleby is BBC Television's senior anchorman and main presenter of BBC's coverage of political events ranging from British and American elections to special programmes on a wide range of current affairs. His TV documentary series 'The White Tribe of Africa', a history of the Afrikaner, won the Supreme Documentary Award of the Royal Television Society in 1979. In addition to his television work, he is a newspaper proprietor, with a group of local papers in London, where he lives with his wife and three children.

HOW WE BUILT BRITAIN

BLOOMSBURY (4 Jun 07)

Published to tie in with a major new BBC 1 series, a full and gloriously colourful social history of the nation through its buildings


In this meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated book, David Dimbleby tells the dramatic and heroic story of Britain’s architecture — the extraordinary buildings that define a nation and which grew out of the experiences and beliefs of the British people. How did we get from the fortified tower to the grand open mansion and back again to the gated communities of today? When did it become so important how libraries and prisons look? What does the way we arrange our city centres say about us? Can architecture really make a difference to our quality of life? This fascinating and authoritative account of a thousand years of change in Britain’s buildings tackles these questions and many more.

ISBN: 978 0 7475 8871 9

A PICTURE OF BRITAIN

BBC WORLDWIDE (24 May 05)

Accompanying a major BBC1 series and an exhibition at Tate Britain, A PITURE OF BRITAIN is a celebration of the British landscape and the art that it has inspired.

ISBN: 1 85437 566 0

AN OCEAN APART: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

HODDER (Jan 88)

In An Ocean Apart, David Dimbleby and David Reynolds combine their skills to give a vivid and clear account of the special relationship between Britain and America, both alliance between friends and rivalry between a declining empire and a rising superpower.

Carried up to President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher, this is history told through the memories of those who influenced or witnessed great events as well as through official documents and private letters. It traces the extraordinary influence the two English speaking peoples have on each other in cultural and social life. The movies, music, make-up and the monarchy all play their part. And it shows how in war and peace the two countries have shaped the twentieth century.

Libya and the Falklands War, the recriminations after Suez, the conflict over the repeated 'invasion' of Britain by American big business, the growing supremacy of the dollar over sterling, the internal divisions that made America initially reluctant to fight in two World Wars, the wartime disputes over strategy and peacemaking, all play their part in this complex story. So do the relationships between Presidents and Prime Ministers, between Chiefs of Staff, between diplomats and between ordinary people on both sides of the Atlantic, bonds that have held the two countries close together, despite the decline of Britain as a world power and the rise of America.