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8 April 2014updated 04 Oct 2023 10:33am

Melvyn Bragg at the Cambridge Literary Festival

Melvyn Bragg on learning that his mother was illegitimate, autobiographical fiction and the power of misremembering.

By New Statesman

(Photo By Melvyn Bragg says the driving force behind “In Our Time” is that he wants an education. Photograph: Abigail Zoe Martin/BBC)

Alex Clark talked to Melvyn Bragg at this year’s Cambridge Literary Festival about his new novel Grace and Mary, learning that his mother was illegitimate, and his inability to write a memoir.

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