The veteran presenter, 81, has hosted every episode of the programme since it first launched in 1998, taking listeners through conversations with expert guests to explore characters, events and ...

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Veteran broadcaster Lord Melvyn Bragg is to step down from hosting BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time after more than 1,000 episodes. Lord Bragg, 85, has presented the programme since its 1998 launch, guiding ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's poems, which he prized far above the novels which made him famous and rich, and his ...

Veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg has said he left Radio 4’s In Our Time programme before he was pushed. The 85-year-old announced he was leaving the Radio 4 show, which he has fronted since its launch ...

Melvyn Bragg makes an eloquent call to 'put the arts at the heart of our national life' - Rii Schroer/The Telegraph ...

Lord Melvyn Bragg will rejoin the BBC in 2011 to front two new documentaries following the end of his long-running ITV1 arts programme The South Bank Show. In his first major TV work for the ...

Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture is a British documentary series about class and popular culture in the United Kingdom from 1911–2011. It is presented by Melvyn Bragg and was shown on BBC Two in 2012 ...

Lord Melvyn Bragg will receive an Academy Fellowship from BAFTA at Sunday night's BAFTA TV Awards. Bragg will be recognised at the ceremony for his "outstanding and exceptional" contribution to ...

IN HIS essays on “Culture and Anarchy”, Matthew Arnold argued that the only thing which could prevent industrial societies from disintegrating into warring tribes was high culture. High culture pulls ...

Celebrity Birthdays for Oct. 6: British broadcaster and writer Melvyn Bragg is 86. Actress Britt Ekland is 83. Singer-guitarist Thomas McClary (The Commodores) is 76. Musician Sid McGinnis is 76.