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font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div><div class="fn">The Lord Bragg</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of Honour">CH</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Honorary_Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society">HonFRS</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg/330px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg/440px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Bragg_crop_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1554" data-file-height="2072" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Official portrait, 2017</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1939-10-06</span>) </span>6 October 1939<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 85)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Carlisle" title="Carlisle">Carlisle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cumberland" title="Cumberland">Cumberland</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford" title="Wadham College, Oxford">Wadham College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol 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title="married">m.</abbr> 1961; died 1971)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Cate_Haste" title="Cate Haste">Catherine Haste</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1973; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2018)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Gabriel Clare-Hunt</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2019)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3; including <a href="/wiki/Marie-Elsa_Bragg" 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/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/Melvyn_Bragg_BBC_Radio4_Front_Row_1_May_2013_b01s4qr3.flac/Melvyn_Bragg_BBC_Radio4_Front_Row_1_May_2013_b01s4qr3.flac.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Melvyn_Bragg_BBC_Radio4_Front_Row_1_May_2013_b01s4qr3.flac" type="audio/flac" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Melvyn_Bragg_BBC_Radio4_Front_Row_1_May_2013_b01s4qr3.flac" title="File:Melvyn Bragg BBC Radio4 Front Row 1 May 2013 b01s4qr3.flac">Recorded May 2013</a> from the BBC Radio 4 programme <i><a href="/wiki/Front_Row_(radio_programme)" title="Front Row (radio programme)">Front Row</a></i></div></div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg</b> (born 6 October 1939) is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the editor and presenter of <i><a href="/wiki/The_South_Bank_Show" title="The South Bank Show">The South Bank Show</a></i> (1978–2010, 2012–2023), and the presenter of the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> documentary series <i><a href="/wiki/In_Our_Time_(radio_series)" title="In Our Time (radio series)">In Our Time</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-iot1000_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iot1000-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <i><a href="/wiki/Start_the_Week" title="Start the Week">Start the Week</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>. After his <a href="/wiki/Ennoblement" title="Ennoblement">ennoblement</a> in 1998, he switched to presenting the new <i>In Our Time</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to more than one thousand broadcast editions and is also a podcast.<sup id="cite_ref-iot1000_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iot1000-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_(education)" title="Chancellor (education)">Chancellor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">University of Leeds</a> from 1999 until 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bragg was born on 6 October 1939 in <a href="/wiki/Carlisle" title="Carlisle">Carlisle</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of Stanley Bragg, a stock keeper turned publican, and Mary Ethel (née Park), who worked alongside her husband in the pub.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both the Braggs and Parks, <a href="/wiki/Cumberland" title="Cumberland">Cumberland</a> families, were agricultural labourers, also working at collieries and in domestic service.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_2007_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph_2007-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was given the name Melvyn by his mother after she saw the actor <a href="/wiki/Melvyn_Douglas" title="Melvyn Douglas">Melvyn Douglas</a> at a local cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was raised in the small town of <a href="/wiki/Wigton" title="Wigton">Wigton</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he attended the Wigton primary school<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later <a href="/wiki/The_Nelson_Thomlinson_School" title="The Nelson Thomlinson School">The Nelson Thomlinson Grammar School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was Head Boy.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was an only child, born a year after his parents married. His father was away from home serving with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> for four years during the war. His upbringing and childhood experiences were typical of the working-class environment of that era.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When he was a child, he was led to believe that his mother's foster mother was his maternal grandmother. His grandmother had been forced to leave the town owing to the stigma of her daughter being born illegitimately.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the age of 8 until he left for university, his family home was above a pub in Wigton, the Black-A-Moor Hotel, of which his father had become the landlord.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Into his teens he was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Scouts_(The_Scout_Association)" title="Scouts (The Scout Association)">Scouts</a> and played rugby in his school's first team.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Encouraged by a teacher who had recognised his work ethic, Bragg was one of an increasing number of working-class teenagers of the era being given a path to university through the grammar school system.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He read <a href="/wiki/Modern_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern History">Modern History</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford" title="Wadham College, Oxford">Wadham College, Oxford</a>, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_2007_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph_2007-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Broadcasting">Broadcasting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Broadcasting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bragg began his career in 1961 as a general trainee at the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the recipient of one of only three traineeships awarded that year.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He spent his first two years in radio at the <a href="/wiki/BBC_World_Service" title="BBC World Service">BBC World Service</a>, then at the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Third_Programme" title="BBC Third Programme">BBC Third Programme</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Home_Service" title="BBC Home Service">BBC Home Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mensa1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mensa1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined the production team of <a href="/wiki/Huw_Wheldon" title="Huw Wheldon">Huw Wheldon</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Monitor_(arts_programme)" class="mw-redirect" title="Monitor (arts programme)">Monitor</a></i> arts series on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television" title="BBC Television">BBC Television</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mensa1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mensa1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He presented the BBC books programme <i>Read All About It</i> (and was also its editor, 1976–77)<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Lively Arts</i>, a <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> arts series.<sup id="cite_ref-Bignell_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bignell-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then edited and presented the <a href="/wiki/London_Weekend_Television" title="London Weekend Television">London Weekend Television</a> (LWT) arts programme <i><a href="/wiki/The_South_Bank_Show" title="The South Bank Show">The South Bank Show</a></i> from 1978 to 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His interview with playwright <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Potter" title="Dennis Potter">Dennis Potter</a> shortly before his death is regularly cited as one of the most moving and memorable television moments ever.<sup id="cite_ref-IndyProfile2014_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndyProfile2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His interest in popular as well as classical genres is credited with making the arts more accessible and less elitist.<sup id="cite_ref-IndyProfile2014_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndyProfile2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was Head of Arts at LWT from 1982 to 1990 and Controller of Arts at LWT from 1990. He has made many programmes on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>, including <i><a href="/wiki/Start_the_Week" title="Start the Week">Start the Week</a></i> (1988 to 1998),<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Routes of English</i> (mapping the history of the English language), and <i><a href="/wiki/In_Our_Time_(BBC_Radio_4)" class="mw-redirect" title="In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)">In Our Time</a></i> (1998 to present), which in March 2011 broadcast its 500th programme. Bragg's pending departure from the <i>South Bank Show</i> was portrayed by <i>The Guardian</i> as the last of the ITV grandees, speculating that the next generation of ITV broadcasters would not have the same longevity or influence as Bragg or his ITV contemporaries <a href="/wiki/John_Birt" class="mw-redirect" title="John Birt">John Birt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greg_Dyke" title="Greg Dyke">Greg Dyke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Grade" title="Michael Grade">Michael Grade</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Bland" title="Christopher Bland">Christopher Bland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ITVGrandees_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ITVGrandees-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012 he brought <i>The South Bank Show</i> back to <a href="/wiki/Sky_Arts#Sky_Arts_1" title="Sky Arts">Sky Arts 1</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2012, he began <i>The Value of Culture</i>, a five-part series on BBC Radio 4 examining the meaning of culture, expanding on <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a>'s landmark (1869) collection of essays <i><a href="/wiki/Culture_and_Anarchy" title="Culture and Anarchy">Culture and Anarchy</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2013 Bragg wrote and presented <i>The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England</i>, broadcast by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>. This told the dramatic story of <a href="/wiki/William_Tyndale" title="William Tyndale">William Tyndale</a>'s mission to translate the Bible from the original languages to English. In February 2012, he began <i><a href="/wiki/Melvyn_Bragg_on_Class_and_Culture" title="Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture">Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture</a></i>, a three-part series on BBC2 examining popular media culture, with an analysis of the British social class system.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bragg appeared on the <a href="/wiki/Front_Row_(radio_programme)" title="Front Row (radio programme)">Front Row</a> "Cultural Exchange" on <a href="/wiki/May_Day" title="May Day">May Day</a> 2013. He nominated a self-portrait by <a href="/wiki/Rembrandt" title="Rembrandt">Rembrandt</a> as a piece of art which he had found especially interesting.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, Bragg was appointed as a Vice President of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Television_Society" title="Royal Television Society">Royal Television Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing">Writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Having produced unpublished short stories since the age of 19, Bragg had decided to become a writer after university. He recognised that writing would not, initially at least, earn him a living, and he took the opportunity at the BBC that arose after he had applied for posts in a variety of industries.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at the BBC, he continued writing. Publishing his first novel in 1965, he decided to leave the BBC to concentrate full-time on writing. </p><p>A novelist and writer of non-fiction, Bragg has also written a number of television and film screenplays. Some of his early television work was in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Ken_Russell" title="Ken Russell">Ken Russell</a>, for whom he wrote the biographical dramas <i>The Debussy Film</i> (1965) and <i><a href="/wiki/Isadora_Duncan,_the_Biggest_Dancer_in_the_World" title="Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World">Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World</a></i> (1967), as well as Russell's film about <a href="/wiki/Tchaikovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Tchaikovsky">Tchaikovsky</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Music_Lovers" title="The Music Lovers">The Music Lovers</a></i> (1970). Most of Bragg's novels are <a href="/wiki/Biography_in_literature" title="Biography in literature">autobiographical fictions</a>, set in and around the town of Wigton during his childhood.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1972, he co-wrote the script for <a href="/wiki/Norman_Jewison" title="Norman Jewison">Norman Jewison</a>'s film <i><a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(film)" title="Jesus Christ Superstar (film)">Jesus Christ Superstar</a></i> (1973). Although Bragg published several works, he was unable to make a living, forcing a return to television by the mid-1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bragg received a variety of reviews for his work, some critics declaring it outstanding and others suggesting it was lazy. Many suggested that splitting his time between writing and broadcasting was detrimental to the quality, and that his media profile and his known sensitivity to criticism made him an easy target for unjust reviews. <i>The Literary Review</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s prize mocking his writing of sex in fiction, according to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>, was awarded not on readers' nominations, but simply because it would be good PR.<sup id="cite_ref-IndyProfile1993_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndyProfile1993-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1996 to 1998 he also wrote a column in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> newspaper; he has also occasionally written for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peerage">Peerage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Peerage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bragg's friends include the former <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> leaders <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a>, and former deputy leader <a href="/wiki/Roy_Hattersley" title="Roy Hattersley">Roy Hattersley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of 100 donors who gave the Labour Party a sum in excess of £5,000 in 1997, the year the party came to power under Blair in <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">the general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCdonors_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCdonors-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year he was appointed by Blair to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> <b>Baron Bragg</b>, <i>of Wigton in the County of Cumbria</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one of a number of Labour donors given peerages. This led to accusations of <a href="/wiki/Cronyism" title="Cronyism">cronyism</a> from the defeated <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCdonors_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCdonors-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Lords he takes a keen interest in the arts and education.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i>The Guardian</i> in 2004, he voted 104 times out of a possible 226 in the 2002/3 session, only once against the government, on the <a href="/wiki/Hunting_Act_2004" title="Hunting Act 2004">Hunting Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He campaigned against it on the grounds that it could affect the livelihoods of Cumbrian farmers.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2014, Bragg was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> opposing <a href="/wiki/Scottish_independence" title="Scottish independence">Scottish independence</a> in the run-up to September's <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">referendum on that issue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advocacy">Advocacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Advocacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bragg has defended Christianity, particularly the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="King James Bible">King James Bible</a>, although he does not claim to be a believer, seeing himself in <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>'s term as a "believing unbeliever", adding that he is "unable to cross the River of Jordan which would lead me to the crucial belief in a godly eternity."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, Bragg criticised what he claimed to be the "Animus and the ignorance" of the atheism debate.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2016, Bragg publicly accused the <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty" class="mw-redirect" title="National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty">National Trust</a> of "bullying" in its "disgraceful purchase" of land in the Lake District, which could threaten the <a href="/wiki/Herdwick" title="Herdwick">Herdwick</a> rare breed of sheep as well as the Lake District's historic farming system, for which the region was nominated as a Unesco World Heritage site.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1961<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bragg married his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche b. 1939), and in 1965 they had a daughter, <a href="/wiki/Marie-Elsa_Bragg" title="Marie-Elsa Bragg">Marie-Elsa Bragg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roche was a French <a href="/wiki/Viscountess" class="mw-redirect" title="Viscountess">viscountess</a> studying painting at Oxford.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971, Roche died by suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_20-6-16_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph_20-6-16-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in 1998, Bragg said, "I could have done things which helped and I did things which harmed. So yes, I feel guilt, I feel remorse."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was in part a reference to his infidelities which included <a href="/wiki/Cate_Haste" title="Cate Haste">Cate Haste</a>, whom he married in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also a television producer and writer, whose literary work includes editing the 2007 memoir of <a href="/wiki/Clarissa_Eden" title="Clarissa Eden">Clarissa Eden</a>, widow of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden,_1st_Earl_of_Avon" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon">Anthony Eden</a>, and collaborating with <a href="/wiki/Cherie_Booth" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherie Booth">Cherie Booth</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, on a 2004 book about the wives of British prime ministers. They had a son and a daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2016 it was reported that Bragg and Haste had separated amicably, and that Bragg now shared a home with former film assistant Gabriel Clare-Hunt, with whom he had an affair that began in 1995. She is 16 years younger than him.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_20-6-16_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph_20-6-16-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The marriage between Haste and Bragg was dissolved in 2018 and Haste died in April 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another reported affair was with Lady Jane Wellesley between 1979 and 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_20-6-16_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph_20-6-16-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2019 he married Clare-Hunt at St Bega's Church in <a href="/wiki/Bassenthwaite" title="Bassenthwaite">Bassenthwaite</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Lake_District_National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Lake District National Park">Lake District National Park</a>. His eldest daughter, Marie-Elsa, a priest, conducted the service. His second daughter, Alice, read a lesson, while his son, Tom, was an usher. Guests included Cumbrian mountaineer <a href="/wiki/Chris_Bonington" title="Chris Bonington">Chris Bonington</a> and the ceremony featured the premiere of music specially written by Bragg's friend, composer <a href="/wiki/Howard_Goodall" title="Howard Goodall">Howard Goodall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bragg has publicly discussed two <a href="/wiki/Nervous_breakdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Nervous breakdown">nervous breakdowns</a> that he has suffered, one in his teens and another in his 30s.<sup id="cite_ref-smh.com.au_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smh.com.au-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first breakdown began at the age of 13. Inspired by a passage in Wordsworth's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prelude" title="The Prelude">The Prelude</a></i>, he found ways to cope, including exploring the outdoors and the adoption of a strong work ethic, as well as meeting his first girlfriend.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second followed his first wife's suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-IndyProfile2014_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndyProfile2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He traces the origin of a lifelong nervousness of public speaking to the experience of giving a reading from the lectern as a <a href="/wiki/Choirboy" title="Choirboy">choirboy</a> at the age of six.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the age of 75, he was profiled in the BBC Two television programme <i>Melvyn Bragg: Wigton to Westminster</i>, first broadcast on 18 July 2015. He lives in <a href="/wiki/Hampstead" title="Hampstead">Hampstead</a>, London,<sup id="cite_ref-IndyProfile2014_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndyProfile2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but still owns a house near his home town of <a href="/wiki/Wigton" title="Wigton">Wigton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCTwo18July2015_10-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCTwo18July2015-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Club" title="Garrick Club">Garrick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Arts_Club" title="Chelsea Arts Club">Chelsea Arts</a> clubs.<sup id="cite_ref-IndyProfile2014_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndyProfile2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also takes an interest in football, supporting both <a href="/wiki/Carlisle_United_F.C." title="Carlisle United F.C.">Carlisle United</a><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Arsenal_F.C." title="Arsenal F.C.">Arsenal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the vice president of the Carlisle United Supporters Club London Branch.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bragg is a relative of <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Bragg" title="William Henry Bragg">William Henry Bragg</a> and his son <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Bragg" title="Lawrence Bragg">Lawrence Bragg</a>, who were awarded the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> in 1915 for their work in <a href="/wiki/X-ray" title="X-ray">x-ray</a> <a href="/wiki/Crystal_structure" title="Crystal structure">crystal structure</a> analysis. He presented a Radio 4 programme on the subject in August 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Positions_and_memberships">Positions and memberships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Positions and memberships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President of the Words by the Water literary festival<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President of the <a href="/wiki/National_Campaign_for_the_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="National Campaign for the Arts">National Campaign for the Arts</a> (since 1986)</li> <li>Domus Fellow, <a href="/wiki/St_Catherine%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Catherine's College, Oxford">St Catherine's College, Oxford</a> (1990)</li> <li>Chairman of <a href="/wiki/Border_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Border Television">Border Television</a> 1990–96 (deputy chairman 1985–90)<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Fellowship from <a href="/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford" title="Wadham College, Oxford">Wadham College, Oxford</a> (1995)</li> <li>Governor of the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a> (since 1997)</li> <li>Peerage – Baron Bragg (since 1998)</li> <li>Chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">University of Leeds</a> (1999–2017)</li> <li>President of the charity <a href="/wiki/Mind_(charity)" title="Mind (charity)">MIND</a> (2002)<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Fellowship of the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> (2010), for "public understanding of the arts, literature and sciences"<sup id="cite_ref-ba2010_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ba2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Fellowship of <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Fellowship from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cumbria" title="University of Cumbria">University of Cumbria</a> 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Doctorate of Literature (D.Litt.), <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a> (2014)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Writing" class="mw-redirect" title="National Academy of Writing">National Academy of Writing</a></li> <li>Vice President of the <a href="/wiki/Friends_of_the_British_Library" title="Friends of the British Library">Friends of the British Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ar0607_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ar0607-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Arts_Council_of_Great_Britain" title="Arts Council of Great Britain">Arts Council</a> Literature Panel</li> <li>Vice President of the Carlisle United Supporters Club London Branch</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Order_of_the_Companions_of_Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour">Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour</a> (CH) (2018)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Literary prizes</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Writers%27_Guild_of_Great_Britain" title="Writers' Guild of Great Britain">Writers' Guild Screenplay Award</a> (1966)<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mail_on_Sunday/John_Llewellyn_Rhys_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize">Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize</a> for <i>Without a City Wall</i> (1968)</li> <li>Time/Life Silver Pen Award for <i>The Hired Man</i> (1970)<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Northern Arts Association Prose Award (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bad_Sex_in_Fiction_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Bad Sex in Fiction Award">Bad Sex in Fiction Award</a> for <i>A Time to Dance</i> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WH_Smith_Literary_Award" title="WH Smith Literary Award">WH Smith Literary Award</a> for <i>The Soldier's Return</i> (2000)</li> <li><i>Crossing The Lines</i> was long-listed for the <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> in 2003<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt>Film & television awards</dt></dl> <ul><li>Broadcasting Guild Award (1984)</li> <li>British Academy of Film and Television Arts Dimbleby Award (1986)<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAFTA" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA">BAFTA</a> TV Award for <i>An Interview with <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Potter" title="Dennis Potter">Dennis Potter</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Academy_Fellowship_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award">BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award</a> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Best New Radio Series for <i>Routes of English</i> (2000)<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianProfile2004_11-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianProfile2004-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Royal Television Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)</li> <li>Sky Arts Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (2024)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Other awards</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ivor_Novello_Awards" title="Ivor Novello Awards">Ivor Novello Musical Award</a> (1985)<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Degree from the <a href="/wiki/Open_University" title="Open University">Open University</a> as Doctor of the University. (1989)</li> <li>Namesake of <a href="/wiki/Millom_School" title="Millom School">Millom School Drama Studio</a> (2005)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The South Bank Show Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)</li> <li>Sandford St.Martin Trust Personal Award (2014)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>For Want of a Nail</i> (1965)</li> <li><i>The Second Inheritance</i> (1966)</li> <li><i>Without a City Wall</i> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbrian_Trilogy" title="Cumbrian Trilogy">The Cumbrian Trilogy</a>: <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hired_Man" title="The Hired Man">The Hired Man</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Place_in_England" title="A Place in England">A Place in England</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(Bragg_novel)" title="Kingdom Come (Bragg novel)">Kingdom Come</a></i> (1980)</li></ul></li> <li><i>The Nerve</i> (1971)</li> <li><i>Josh Lawton</i> (1972)</li> <li><i>The Silken Net</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>Autumn Manoeuvres</i> (1978)</li> <li><i>Love and Glory</i> (1983)</li> <li><i>The Maid of Buttermere</i> (1987) (based on the life of <a href="/wiki/Mary_Robinson_(Maid_of_Buttermere)" title="Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere)">Mary Robinson</a>)</li> <li><i>A Time to Dance</i> (1990)</li> <li><i>Crystal Rooms</i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Credo_(novel)" title="Credo (novel)">Credo</a></i> (1996) also known as <i>The Sword and the Miracle</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Soldier%27s_Return" title="The Soldier's Return">The Soldier's Return</a> Quartet: <ul><li><i>The Soldier's Return</i> (1999)</li> <li><i>A Son of War</i> (2001)</li> <li><i>Crossing the Lines</i> (2003)</li> <li><i>Remember Me...</i> (2008)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Grace and Mary</i> (2013)</li> <li><i>Now is the Time</i> (2015)</li> <li><i>Love Without End: A Story of <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9lo%C3%AFse" title="Héloïse">Heloise</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Abelard" title="Peter Abelard">Abelard</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction_books">Non-fiction books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Non-fiction books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Speak For England</i> (1976)</li> <li><i>Land of The Lakes</i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i>Cumbria in Verse</i> (editor) (1984)</li> <li><i>Rich: The Life of Richard Burton</i> (1988)</li> <li><i>The Seventh Seal</i> (<i>Det Sjunde Inseglet</i>) (1993)</li> <li><i>King Lear in New York</i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Giants%27_Shoulders" title="On Giants' Shoulders">On Giants' Shoulders</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i>Two Thousand Years Part 1: The Birth of Christ to the Crusades</i> (1999)</li> <li><i>Two Thousand Years Part 2</i> (1999)</li> <li><i>The Routes of English</i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventure_of_English" title="The Adventure of English">The Adventure of English</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/12_Books_That_Changed_the_World" title="12 Books That Changed the World">12 Books That Changed the World</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Our_Time_(radio_series)" title="In Our Time (radio series)">In Our Time</a>: A Companion to the Radio 4 series</i> (editor) (2009)</li> <li><i>The Book of Books</i> (2011)</li> <li><i>William Tyndale: A Very Brief History</i> (2017)</li> <li><i>In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation</i> (2018)</li> <li><i>Back In The Day. A Memoir</i> (2022)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children's_books"><span id="Children.27s_books"></span>Children's books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Children's books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A Christmas Child</i> (1977)</li> <li><i>My Favourite Stories of Lakeland</i> (editor) (1981)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Screenwriting">Screenwriting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melvyn_Bragg&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Screenwriting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Debussy_Film" title="The Debussy Film">The Debussy Film</a></i> (1965)<sup id="cite_ref-mbceotv_7-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mbceotv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Isadora_(film)" title="Isadora (film)">Isadora</a></i> (1968) (with <a href="/wiki/Clive_Exton" title="Clive Exton">Clive Exton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Drabble" title="Margaret Drabble">Margaret Drabble</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Play_Dirty_(1969_film)" title="Play Dirty (1969 film)">Play Dirty</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Music_Lovers" title="The Music Lovers">The Music Lovers</a></i> (1970) (directed by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Russell" title="Ken Russell">Ken Russell</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(film)" title="Jesus Christ Superstar (film)">Jesus Christ Superstar</a></i> (1973) (co-written and directed by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Jewison" title="Norman Jewison">Norman Jewison</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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Frost">David Frost</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Puttnam" title="David Puttnam">David Puttnam</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Loach" title="Ken Loach">Ken Loach</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anne_V._Coates" title="Anne V. Coates">Anne V. Coates</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Will_Wright_(game_designer)" title="Will Wright (game designer)">Will Wright</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins" title="Anthony Hopkins">Anthony Hopkins</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Forsyth" title="Bruce Forsyth">Bruce Forsyth</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dawn_French" title="Dawn French">Dawn French</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Saunders" title="Jennifer Saunders">Jennifer Saunders</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Gilliam" title="Terry Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell" title="Nolan Bushnell">Nolan Bushnell</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto" title="Shigeru Miyamoto">Shigeru Miyamoto</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melvyn Bragg</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lee" title="Christopher Lee">Christopher Lee</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Molyneux" title="Peter Molyneux">Peter Molyneux</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Trevor_McDonald" title="Trevor McDonald">Trevor McDonald</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><s><a href="/wiki/Rolf_Harris" title="Rolf Harris">Rolf Harris</a></s> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Parker" title="Alan Parker">Alan Parker</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gabe_Newell" title="Gabe Newell">Gabe Newell</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Palin" title="Michael Palin">Michael Palin</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rockstar_Games" title="Rockstar Games">Rockstar Games</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julie_Walters" title="Julie Walters">Julie Walters</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Leigh" title="Mike Leigh">Mike Leigh</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Braben" title="David Braben">David Braben</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jon_Snow_(journalist)" title="Jon Snow (journalist)">Jon Snow</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Poitier" title="Sidney 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Schoonmaker</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joan_Bakewell" title="Joan Bakewell">Joan Bakewell</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Kennedy_(producer)" title="Kathleen Kennedy (producer)">Kathleen Kennedy</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hideo_Kojima" title="Hideo Kojima">Hideo Kojima</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ang_Lee" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siobhan_Reddy" title="Siobhan Reddy">Siobhan Reddy</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Billy_Connolly" title="Billy Connolly">Billy Connolly</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Powell_(costume_designer)" title="Sandy Powell (costume designer)">Sandy Powell</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shuhei_Yoshida" title="Shuhei Yoshida">Shuhei Yoshida</a> (2023)</span></li> 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