Author: Melvyn Bragg

Quotes

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

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

- Melvyn Bragg

In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.

In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.

- Melvyn Bragg

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.

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

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

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

- Melvyn Bragg

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

- Melvyn Bragg

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

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

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

- Melvyn Bragg

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