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 Read Quote
In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture. Melvyn Bragg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that’s a wonderful starting point. Melvyn Bragg Read Quote
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 Read Quote