We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. — 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
A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if… — 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
