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Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA (born 6 October 1939) is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978–2010, 2012–2023), and the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time.
For thirty-three years Melvyn Bragg was the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show and the controller of Specialist Factual and Arts programmes at ITV Studios in...
Melvyn Bragg is probably best known to the British public as a radio and television broadcaster. Yet he is also a prolific novelist, having produced on average, a novel almost every eighteen months, in a writing career spanning almost forty years.
Aug 1, 2021 · The renowned British radio and television broadcaster Melvyn Bragg is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the host of “In Our Time,” his long-running BBC Radio 4 program and podcast, in which he...
Jul 22, 2022 · Melvyn Bragg: ‘Oxford was great. But it wasn’t as good as Wigton’. The British broadcaster and novelist on the secrets of his Cumbrian childhood, his 50 years of championing the arts —...
May 17, 2024 · The broadcaster and author talks to Tina Lofthouse about his life, career and coming to Clapham Book Festival…. One of television and radio’s most prolific and respected broadcasters, Melvyn Bragg’s career is one in which the word illustrious could be readily applied.
Listen to In Our Time. Go deeper with host Melvyn Bragg and his guests as they delve into the ideas linking philosophy, science, history, religion, and culture in this long-running, insightful program.
May 20, 2022 · Melvyn Bragg's new memoir, Back in the Day, centres around his upbringing in Wigton - austerity Britain was grey but Bragg’s Wigton is a place of energy and colour. ‘I remember most...
Aug 26, 2023 · Writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg is a prolific and bestselling author, having written 22 novels, many set in the Cumbrian communities in which he grew up.
Sep 20, 2023 · In the 1000th edition of In Our Time (BBC Radio 4, 21 September 9am), Melvyn and guests discuss arguably the most celebrated film of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007).
