Melvyn Bragg
speaker
1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was Mark Amalis.
I didn't introduce him at the beginning of my question.
No Judith.
Well, that's a rather bleak ending, but uh n none the worse for that.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Jonathan, Jonathan Morris, uh Markman Ellis and Judith Hawley next week.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone as we'll be d discussing W.
H.
Orden and his poetry from the dark days of the nineteen thirties.
Thank you very much for listening.
What's the given that it was early thought that coffee kept the workers awake to do the real work of that time which was prayer, um why didn't they think coffee kept workers awake to do the essential work which was picking coffee beans?
What about Italy?
We missed out Italy.
I'm gonna claim
you have on mind.
but I think we can
Where did the cognac go in your top one?
I for a while, uh when I was uh seventy and a half worked in Paris with the Abbey Pierre and we went round in the morning uh collecting stuff from the back of big houses and such.
on these great lorries and the guys stopped and you nipped into a bar and they had and they had coffee and cognac.
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