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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. "

Melvyn Bragg

Know

People

Science

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" In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. "

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

" I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together. "

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Together

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it. "

" If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. "

" I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable. "

" The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence. "

" 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. "

" Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. "

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

Melvyn Bragg

Curiosity

Control

" 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. "

" I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter. "

" Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. "

" I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am. "

" I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. "