Talk:Richard Dimbleby

40-a-day habit
You are quite right, the reference I gave didn't say it. I saw it somewhere else first and then tried to find a better reference, which I misread. I've found a valid one now: http://www.ash.org.uk/html/policy/rcp40threport.html

"Dimbleby, who was to die of lung cancer within four years, said he had quit his 40-a-day habit just six weeks earlier." --JRawle 18:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

MINCED OATH having read the Wikipedia definition of a 'minced oath', I do not understand why "Jesus wept" is described as such an oath. Sorry if I am not doing this in the correct way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.130.42 (talk) 23:08, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

"Did not attend a major public school"?
According to the article, he went to Mill Hill School, which makes the later assertion that he did not attend a major public school rather odd. I have no particular axe to grind about this school, but it is clearly a public (i.e. independent) school of long standing. Albeit a nonconformist school in the religious sense, attendance there hardly makes a person not an establishment figure. Rachel Pearce (talk) 10:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Honours
It is surely untrue that knighthoods were only awarded to people who had served government or held high public office? Henry Irving, for instance, was the first of many actors to be knighted, receiving the honour back in 1895. Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, was knighted in 1952. The footballer, Stanley Matthews received a knighthood in the 1965 NY Honours - almost a year before Dimbleby died. Delete this sentence? Ioan_Dyfrig (talk) 21:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Sentence now deleted Ioan_Dyfrig (talk) 21:47, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Last State Occasion Broadcasts
This page states Winston Churchill's funeral in January 1965 was the last state occasion on which he commented. However later, under subsection Controversy and Comedy, it places the state visit of the Queen to Germany on which he made the Jesus wept outburst in the same year. The probability is it was a later event than the funeral in London (attended by Royal Family members). It would be useful to put a date to the visit to Germany in view of it being the last year of his life.

BTW the Jesus wept controversy was subject of a cartoon by Daily Express newspaper cartoonist Carl Giles, which showed Dimbleby at a deserted studio where he finds graffiti saying "Dimbleby must go". My father, commenting on it for my benefit, said "He did go", referring to Dimbleby's subsequent death. It is only today I discover Dimbleby had been covertly terminally ill during his last broadcasts, being diagnosed in 1960.Cloptonson (talk) 20:40, 14 June 2015 (UTC)