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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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Only
Write
Broadcasting
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" There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. "
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" We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords. "
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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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" I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee. "
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" Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work. "
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Compared
Got
" I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now. "
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Now
Job
" I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. "
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" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "
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Think
News
" A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine. "
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Obscure
My Life
" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "
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Supporter
Party
" We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me. "
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Sand
Universe
Time
" Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists. "
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About
Enjoy
Love
" In the 1990s, from the estates of Scotland came the phenomenon of Irvine Welsh. 'Trainspotting' demanded its place not only in the high ranks of contemporary fiction but as a describer of a Britain that literally and metaphorically was in a deep mess. "
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Deep
High
Scotland
" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "
Melvyn Bragg
Labour
Arts
Funding
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Great
People
History
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Life
Theatre
Team
" There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama? "
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Seriously
Why
Music
" We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since. "
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New
Week
World
" I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different. "
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Different
Superior
Get
" 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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Look
Down
Enough
" My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22. "
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Life
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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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Know
People
Science
" It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good. "
Melvyn Bragg
Our
Good
Culture
" 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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Profound
Arts
Dead
" Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis. "
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Comedy
Never
Become
" It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary. "
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Difficult
Back
Fair
" 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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Early
Music
Me
" Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love. "
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Falling
Him
Us
" In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture. "
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Where
Culture