Melvyn Bragg Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg (born 6 October 1939) is a British author, television and radio presenter and journalist.

He was born in Wigton, Cumbria, England. He studied Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford.

He is famous for his TV arts programme The South Bank Show and his many programmes on BBC Radio 4, including Start the Week, In Our Time, and The Roots of English.

He was appointed to the House of Lords in 1998 as a Labour life peer, under the title Baron Bragg, of Wigton in the County of Cumbria. He is a friend of Tony Blair, the current Labour Prime Minister.

In 1999 he became Chancellor of Leeds University.

Table of contents

1 Books 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Non-fiction 1.3 Children's books 2 External links

Books

Fiction

• For Want of a Nail 1965
• The Second Inheritance
• 1986
• The Maid of Buttermere 1987
• Without a City Wall 1988
• Josh Lawton 1989
• The Nerve
• The Silken Net
• Love and Glory
• The Second Inheritance 1990
• A Time to Dance 1991
• The Silken Net 1991
• Autumn Manoevres 1993
• Crystal Rooms 1993
• Credo 1996 also known as The Sword and the Miracle
• The Soldier's Return

Non-fiction

• Land of The Lakes 1983
• Speak For England 1987
• Laurence Olivier 1989
• Cumbria in Verse (ed)
• 1989
• King Lear in New York 1994
• Giants' Shoulders 1998
• 1999
• Two Thousand Years Part 2 1999
• The Adventure of English 2003

Children's books

• My Favourite Stories of Lakeland (ed) 1988
• A Christmas Child 1991

External links

• Internet Movie Database entry
• Biography
• Radio 4 biography

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