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The Booksmith: Melvyn Bragg

  • 06 December 2007

Taken from The New Statesman 8 April 1977
For more than 40 years, Melvyn Bragg has been a kind of Renaissance man of radio and television, conversant with science and philosophy, history and literature. In this affectionate and then anonymous profile of him, written for the New Statesman in 1977, Julian Barnes accurately predicted that Bragg would move on to a career in politics. Now a Labour peer, Bragg continues to thrive in the media, enthusiastically spreading culture to the masses.
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Luvvies, stop moaning

  • 24 May 1999

Middle-aged males who have done well out of subsidy want even more. But their apocalyptic imaginings of a world without culture do the arts no favours

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