Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, that's what you've got.
You've got to make decisions.
Actually, what you said convinces me that I made the right decision for the programme, but it's a pity we didn't.
On the other hand, this podcast is going to millions of people, so bang away about poetry.
Do you... I mean, do you see how her play's put on these days?
It's very hit and miss.
I saw, I'm not going to name it because I don't want to put down the directive, but I saw, seen a couple of restorations in the last few years.
And they've been very unconvincing.
I think a lot of it is... Because it's all powder and that, I've got to go... It's artificial from the start in a way that it misses the point.
But it could be... It sounds like I didn't see the RSC thing, but these things could be reimagined.
We've got some very good, indeed, directors and actors who are taking older plays and saying, let's redo it like this.
I mean, and it's working very well.
For instance, so many people have taken a lump out of Chekhov and turned it into that eight-hour play, the first play he wrote, which has been cut into by...
David Hare, by Michael Frayn, by many others.
But you have to have the audience, don't you?
Well, you could do that by having a starry cast.
That would solve that.
Especially this morning with what's on the news.
I think you've got your say in about the poetry.
I think that is the... Plenty of people will hear that.
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