English - Journalist | October 6, 1939 -
The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it.
Melvyn Bragg
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Film has changed the way we look at the past.
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One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.
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I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.'
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The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.
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I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat.
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Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.
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There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way.
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I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.
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I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.
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Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it.
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Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.
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