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" If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now! "

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" You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it! "

Melvyn Bragg

American

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You

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

" The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society. "

Melvyn Bragg

Culture

Class

" 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. "

Melvyn Bragg

You

People

" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "

" 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. "

" Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work. "

" What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that. "

" Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. "

" It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more? "

" I don't feel like I'm slowing down. "

Melvyn Bragg

Slowing

Feel

" Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?' "

Melvyn Bragg

Dangerous

Attitude

" I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now. "

Melvyn Bragg

Now

Job

" People in jobs that they hate must be worn out. "

" Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator. "

Melvyn Bragg

Curiosity

Control

" 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. "

Melvyn Bragg

Falling

Him

" In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music. "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

" 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. "

" I'm a class mongrel. "

Melvyn Bragg

Mongrel

Class

" I'm addicted to 'Game Of Thrones.' "

" I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No. "

" I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop. "

" 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. "

" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. "

" That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else. "

" I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't. "

Melvyn Bragg

Remember

You

" Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s. "