Melvyn Bragg
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Society
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.
Selected by Robert Taylor
Politics
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
Books
A nail in the coffin of humanity. The genetic revolution is in its infancy but its effects will define the next century. So who will monitor the scientists? A humanist polemic warns of the dangers ahead
- 22 January 1999
Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience
Bryan Appleyard HarperCollins, 188pp, £16.99
