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" The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. "
Melvyn Bragg
Slavery
Bible
King
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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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Great
People
History
" Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century. "
Melvyn Bragg
Think
Great
Future
" 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
" 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
Us
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Think
Arts
Always
" Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling. "
Melvyn Bragg
Thinking
You
Work
" 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
" I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No. "
Melvyn Bragg
Golf
Enjoy
Fishing
" Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it's getting people nowhere. "
Melvyn Bragg
Mystery
Science
People
" I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try. "
Melvyn Bragg
Admire
Me
I Can
" We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice. "
Melvyn Bragg
Comedy
Drama
Love
" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "
Melvyn Bragg
World
Born
Got
" Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly. "
Melvyn Bragg
Listen
Her
Romantic
" Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator. "
Melvyn Bragg
Like
Curiosity
Control
" I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live. "
Melvyn Bragg
Get
Nervous
Someone
" I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. "
Melvyn Bragg
Try
Seriously
Going
" 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
Success
Work
Great
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
You
Writing
Time
" I've been writing since I was 19. "
Melvyn Bragg
Been
Writing
Since
" I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. "
Melvyn Bragg
Some
Fan
Class
" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "
Melvyn Bragg
Sometimes
Think
News
" Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a wonderful starting point. "
Melvyn Bragg
Life
Looking
Own
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Trying
Sky
Year
" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "
Melvyn Bragg
Literature
Lake
Earth
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Think
Doing
Educated
" To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short. "
Melvyn Bragg
Religion
Space
Short
" People in jobs that they hate must be worn out. "
Melvyn Bragg
Out
Hate
Jobs
" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
Difficult
Back
Fair
" Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him. "
Melvyn Bragg
Through
Real
Own
" A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. "
Melvyn Bragg
You
People
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