English - Journalist | October 6, 1939 -
It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.
Melvyn Bragg
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Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
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I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy.
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The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.
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I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day.
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I've been writing since I was 19.
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I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
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Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.
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It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good.
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Britain is undoubtedly becoming more cultural. No question of it. People who say it is dumbing down simply don't look around enough. They don't know enough.
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The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.
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The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.
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