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Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg
English Journalist
Born: Oct 6, 1939
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The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society. Melvyn Bragg
Class Culture Will Made Society Broad Individuals Forces Been Up Decided Which Clusters Themselves Who
As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. Melvyn Bragg
Class Down Melted Characteristics Cultural Frozen Century Warming Many
In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music. Melvyn Bragg
Music Time Musicians Racism Black Black And White White Out City Brought Between Celebration Bombed Second
We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since. Melvyn Bragg
Great Library World School Three Every Other Statesman Out Table Mint Magazines Week Since New Along Read Fresh Got Came Grammar Grammar School Then Unimaginable Sat Ever Started Copy Two
In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. Melvyn Bragg
Politics Flame Films Has-Been Only Pursued David He Outstanding Industry Known Been Years Film Now Keeper Film Industry Career British
Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis. Melvyn Bragg
Comedy Become Crisis Constitutional Magna Poetry Never Front Far Pages Tony
Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown. Melvyn Bragg
Book World Free Changed Way Latin Magna Clause Could Free World Said Still Which Them Grown Two Numbers
Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?' Melvyn Bragg
Attitude Dangerous Stupid Think Seem Magna Rather Take Very Us Much Granted English Many
Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century. Melvyn Bragg
Future Great Science Country Think Earn Way Point Could Adventure Prime Economically Like How Provider Intellectual Prizes Departments Arts Newborn Which Century Riches Show Shown Two Imaginative University
There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed. Melvyn Bragg
Army More Wanting Informed
It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary. Melvyn Bragg
Time Difficult Back Out Given Fair Fair Play Well Males Very Revolutionary Done Subsidy Middle-Aged Realise Much Who Play
Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers. Melvyn Bragg
People World Live Worse Television See Above Without Arts Where Place Much Viewers
A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.' Melvyn Bragg
Admire Lot Provincial Novels
The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it. Melvyn Bragg
Success Work Great Me Theatre World Trouble Our Sides Those About Indifferent Seems Thriving Football Always Test Front Noses Crap Story Apart Interested Success Story Who Agonize Teams Deeply
One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country. Melvyn Bragg
Great Me History Class People Great Things Made Country British People Meeting System London About Over Making Different Realise Things British
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. Melvyn Bragg
Thought Imagination Other Having Sort Stimulate Provoke Done Arts Happen Then Things Things Happen
I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. Melvyn Bragg
Party Supporter Democrat Also Labour Labour Party
I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No. Melvyn Bragg
Writing Enjoy Would Rather Fishing Golf Playing
I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter. Melvyn Bragg
You Yourself Christ Think Everybody Television Out Vanity Look Does Go Get Maybe Oh Certain Tease Why
I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me. Melvyn Bragg
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Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it. Melvyn Bragg
Music Me Enough Kids Echo Obsessed Reminds Like Sort Lot Very Sixties Liverpool Near Early
Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time. Melvyn Bragg
Time Will Long Long Time Failed Supporters Disaster Him Because His Labour Us Now Zone
If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world. Melvyn Bragg
You Creative World Country Other Way Per Economy Look Than Any Bigger
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