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Name: Melvyn Bragg
Field:
Writer
Productions:
An Audience With Melvyn Bragg
Biography: Broadcaster, writer and novelist Lord Melvyn Bragg was born on 6 October, 1939 in Cumbria. He went to Wadham College, Oxford and began his broadcasting career as a producer for the BBC in 1961. Since 1967 he has pursued a distinguished career as both a writer and broadcaster. He has been writer, editor and presenter of The South Bank Show for London Weekend Television (LWT) since 1978 and presented BBC Radio 4's Start the Week for ten years. He was made a life peer in 1998.
A prolific novelist, he is also the author of a number of television scripts and film screenplays, including Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973 (with Norman Jewison), Isadora, and Clouds of Glory with Ken Russell. His novels include The Hired Man (1969), adapted as a musical in 1984, and winner of the Time/Life Silver Pen Award; The Maid of Buttermere (1987); A Time to Dance (1990), adapted for television in 1992; and The Soldier's Return (1999), winner of the WH Smith Literary Award, which, together with its sequel, A Son of War (2001), follows the fortunes of a working-class Cumbrian family during and after the Second World War. His most recent books are his novel, Crossing the Lines, a continuation of the saga, set during the 1950s, and The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language, a revised account of his widely acclaimed ITV series about the English language.
Melvyn Bragg is available for after dinner and corporate events.
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