The Richard Dimbleby Lecture — Season 1, Episode 35: Michael Morpurgo: Set Our Children Free

Episode synopsis

In this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Michael Morpurgo explores the increasingly urgent issue of children's rights, and investigates the wrongs that young people have to endure. One of Britain's most popular children's authors, Morpurgo has written over 120 books and more recently he has become a campaigner on behalf of children, both at home and abroad. In this role he visited the Middle East where he witnessed, first hand, the difficulties children face in times of conflict. His most well known book, War Horse, was recently dramatised to great critical acclaim and it is now being made into a Hollywood feature film by Stephen Spielberg.

About The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture was founded in the memory of Richard Dimbleby, the BBC broadcaster. It has been delivered by an influential business or political figure almost every year since 1972.

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• E51976: Lord Hailsham - Elective Dictatorship
• E6Jack Jones - The Human Face of Labour
• E71978: Lord Rothschild - Risk
• E8Roy Jenkins - Home Thoughts from Abroad
• E91980: Lord Denning - Misuse of Power
• E101982: Garret FitzGerald - Irish Identities
• E111983: Sir Peter Parker - Missing Our Connections
• E121984: David Sheppard - The Other Britain