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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lord Bragg goes back in time for tale of privations in his new book 

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He has a peerage to his name and lives in splendour in a £5million house in Hampstead, the leafy enclave favoured by the north London intelligentsia. But broadcasting and literary grandee Melvyn Bragg has never forgotten, still less attempted to disguise, his earliest years in Wigton, Cumbria, when he and his parents lived in a … Read more

MELVYN BRAGG: To axe poetry from the syllabus has no rhyme or reason

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Rage, rage against the dying of the Light. These eight words from Dylan Thomas’s magnificent tirade against the unforgiving power of death are, and will forever be, memorable because they are part of a poem. For the word ‘light’ in that short masterpiece, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, we can now substitute … Read more