Quotes About Melvyn Bragg

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

Thou art a monument without a tomb And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.