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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...
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  • broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience. In 2023, it was announced that Bragg would be leaving...
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  • It is presented by Melvyn Bragg and was shown on BBC Two in 2012. Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture at BBC Online Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture...
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  • The previous regular presenters were Richard Baker, Russell Harty, Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Marr It is broadcast (usually) live on Monday...
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  • drama film directed by Norman Jewison, and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg, based on the 1970 concept album of the same name written by Tim Rice...
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  • Melvyn is a masculine given name that may refer to: Melvyn Betts (born 1975), English cricketer Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), British broadcaster and author...
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  • variety of historical, scientific and philosophical topics, presented by Melvyn Bragg, since 15 October 1998. It is one of BBC Radio 4's most successful discussion...
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  • Melvyn Bragg and his first wife, writer and artist Marie-Elisabeth Roche, who died when Marie-Elsa was aged six. In the late 1990s early 2000s, Bragg...
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    patients. In August 2013, Bragg's relative, the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, presented a BBC Radio 4 programme "Bragg on the Braggs" on the 1915 Nobel Prize...
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  • and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited...
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  • popular success. The 20 poets were chosen by a panel of judges comprising Melvyn Bragg (non-voting chair), poets Michael Longley and Vicki Feaver, literary...
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  • biographical drama film directed by Karel Reisz from a screenplay written by Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, and Clive Exton adapted from the books My Life by...
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  • 12 Books That Changed the World (category Books by Melvyn Bragg)
    book by Melvyn Bragg, published in 2006. Upon its release, it was screened on ITV, and received generally negative reviews. In the book Bragg discusses...
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  • Tash Aw Paul Bailey Nina Bawden John Berger Carol Birch William Boyd Melvyn Bragg Anita Brookner NoViolet Bulawayo Graeme Macrae Burnet A. S. Byatt J....
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    the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, presented a BBC Radio 4 programme ("Bragg on the Braggs") on the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics winners. Bragg was elected a...
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    contracts of the three directors, who were said to have "resigned". Melvyn Bragg in a 1984 study of Olivier, and John Miller in the authorised biography...
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    village, where she met and married her husband. According to biographer Melvyn Bragg, Richard is quoted saying that Daddy Ni was a "twelve-pints-a-day man"...
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  • The Adventure of English (category Books by Melvyn Bragg)
    history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, written by Bragg. The series ran in November 2003. The series and...
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  • associations, etc. That sociological term was made popular usage by the writer Melvyn Bragg, who said that mass intelligentsia conceptually explains the popularity...
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  • the 80th birthday of Sir Norbert Smith, a celebrated British actor. Melvyn Bragg, the real-life presenter of The South Bank Show, plays himself, visiting...
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  • Credo (novel) (category Books by Melvyn Bragg)
    the Dark Ages is a historical fiction novel written by Melvyn Bragg and published in 1996. Bragg's sixteenth novel, it is set in the Celtic Christianity...
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  • broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Since 2011, all episodes have been available to download as individual...
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  • Arthur Lowe, Geraldine James, Daphne Oxenford, Tim Pigott-Smith and Melvyn Bragg. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same title by Beryl Bainbridge...
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  • directed and produced by Irshad Ashraf, and commissioned and narrated by Melvyn Bragg. The documentary is about the Islamic view of Jesus. It was broadcast...
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    of "Dark Road" were deeply critical of the war. In conversation with Melvyn Bragg in 2006, she expressed her anger at how the UK was misled over Iraq's...
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    Wayback Machine. Multiverse – an episode of the series In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, on BBC Radio 4. Why There Might be Many More Universes Besides Our Own...
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  • It was director Andre de Toth's last film, based on a screenplay by Melvyn Bragg and Lotte Colin. The film's story is inspired by the exploits of units...
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  • The Hired Man (category Novels by Melvyn Bragg)
    The Hired Man is a novel by Melvyn Bragg, first published in 1969 by Secker and Warburg. It is the first part of Bragg's Cumbrian Trilogy. The story is...
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    Curlie BBC Radio 4: Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations: Ashoka. BBC Radio 4: Melvyn Bragg with Richard Gombrich et al., In Our Time, Ashoka the Great. Portals:...
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  • film director Timothy Bateson, actor Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor Melvyn Bragg, television broadcaster and writer Simon Brett, writer Jess Cartner-Morley...
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