Melvyn Bragg
Acting · Born 1939-10-06 · age 86 · Carlisle, UK
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978–2010, 2012–2023), and for the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host Start the Week on Radio 4. After his ennoblement in 1998, he switched to presenting the new In Our Time, an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to over 900 broadcast editions and is a popular podcast. He was Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1999 until 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Bragg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Titles
Jesus Christ Superstar
Play Dirty
The Music Lovers
Isadora
The Debussy Film
TFI Friday
Naked Making Lunch
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
The South Bank Show
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Always on Sunday
The Adventure of English
Francis Bacon
A Time to Dance
Norbert Smith: A Life
Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic
Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's
Johnny and the Dead
Monitor
Whose Doctor Who
Norbert Smith – a Life
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical
An Interview with Dennis Potter
R.E.M.
Reel History of Britain
Orion
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England
Laurence Olivier: A Life
Clouds of Glory
J.M.W. Turner: Turner at the Tate
Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'
John Steinbeck: Voice of America
Ingmar Bergman at 60
Countertenors
Melvyn Bragg's Travels In Written Britain
Toulouse-Lautrec
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
David Hockney: Joiner Photographs
Familiar Spirits
JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary