Melvyn Bragg
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Emerging from a working-class family in Carlisle and educated in modern history at Oxford, he entered the BBC as one of three trainees in 1961, moving from the World Service to the Third Programme before joining the production team of the arts series Monitor. His profile rose through presenting the books programme Read All About It and the arts show The Lively Arts, and he became the long-standing…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources