More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“We shall fight on the beaches,” said Churchill in 1940, “we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not words on… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
