Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978–2010), and for the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host Start the Week on Radio 4. After his ennoblement in 1998, he switched to presenting the new In Our Time, an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to over 900 broadcast editions and is a popular podcast. He was Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1999 until 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Bragg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Carlisle, UK, 1939-10-06

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	An Artist's Story	Himself - Presenter	0
2	1977	Whose Doctor Who	Presenter	20
3	1978	Ingmar Bergman at 60	Host	0
4	1979	The Kids Are Alright		73
5	1980	The South Bank Show: Roman Polanski	Host	0
6	1980	The South Bank Show: William Golding	Host	0
7	1981	The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman	Self - Presenter	0
8	1981	The South Bank Show: Bob Fosse	Self	0
9	1981	Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree	Presenter	0
10	1983	The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'	Host	0
11	1985	David Lean: A Life in Film	Narrator	60
12	1985	From the West Down to the East: Billy Bragg on The South Bank Show, March 1985	Self - Presenter	0
13	1986	The South Bank Show: John Cleese		0
14	1986	The South Bank Show: Michael Powell	Host	0
15	1987	J.M.W. Turner: Turner at the Tate	Presenter	0
16	1988	Francis Bacon		60
17	1988	Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'	Presenter	0
18	1988	In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton	Self	60
19	1988	Hockney at the Tate	Self	0
20	1989	The Tall Guy	Himself	57
21	1989	Sir Norbert Smith, a Life	Interviewer	80
22	1990	Vivienne Westwood	Self	0
23	1991	Roy Lichtenstein	Himself	60
24	1991	The South Bank Show: Terry Gilliam		0
25	1991	Bernard and the Genie	Himself	72
26	1992	The South Bank Show: Noël Coward	Host	0
27	1992	The South Bank Show: Terence Davies	Interviewer	0
28	1992	The Making of Sgt. Pepper	Self - Presenter	62
29	1993	The South Bank Show: Ken Loach	Presenter	60
30	1994	Portrait or Bust	Himself (uncredited)	0
31	1994	An Interview with Dennis Potter	Interviewer	0
32	1994	Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage	Self	0
33	1997	Keppel Road: The Life and Music of the Bee Gees	Self	90
34	1998	Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Salon of Dreams	Self	0
35	1999	Countertenors	Presenter	0
36	2000	Emir Kusturica	Himself (Presenter)	0
37	2002	R.E.M.	Presenter	5
38	2002	Cinema of Fire: Iranian Cinema	Himself (Presenter)	0
39	2003	Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher	Himself	60
40	2006	The South Bank Show: Spamalot		0
41	2011	John Steinbeck: Voice of America	Host/Narrator	0
42	2013	The Mystery Of Mary Magdalene	Self	0
43	2013	The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England	Himself - Presenter	90
44	2013	Muse of Fire	Self	65
45	2016	Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach	Self - Editor and Presenter, South Bank Show	66
46	2023	David Hockney: A Celebration	Self	0
47	2023	David Hockney: In Normandy	self	0
48	2023	David Hockney: In London	Self	0
49	2024	Art Matters	Self	0
50		Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out	Narrator	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Great Performances	Self	52
2	1973	2nd House	Himself - Host	70
3	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
4	1978	The South Bank Show	Self - Presenter	53
5	2002	Believe Nothing	Self	67
6	2003	The Adventure of English		82
7		Norbert Smith – a Life		80
8	1973	2nd House	Himself - Presenter	70
9	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Self	0
10	1990	Plunder		0
11	1998	The Garden Party		0
12	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
13	2008	Melvyn Bragg's Travels In Written Britain		0
14	2011	Reel History of Britain		60