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We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since.

I'm addicted to 'Game Of Thrones.'

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We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice.

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We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

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I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try.

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I've been writing since I was 19.

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Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it.

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I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

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I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day.

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Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

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I'm a class mongrel.

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I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

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Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.

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Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.

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Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a wonderful starting point.

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

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In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

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

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One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

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There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.

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I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.

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

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I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat.

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In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry.

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Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

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There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.

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I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.

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It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good.

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Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

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I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.'

Melvyn Bragg

We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since.

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Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

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I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.

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I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

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I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

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I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.

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We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

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