Melvyn Bragg: C/D?

i'd like to hear/read some of his speeches from the house of lords though...eg i wonder what his position is on fox-hunting ?

Anybody watch his Class and Culture series? I'm starting it this evening.

cozen thoughts?

Whoever the present that caught my eye as a topic -- how ws it?

I enjoyed it. Necessarily broad, and the first two parts had a much clearer line than the third (which only proves you could do a whole multi-part programme trying to unpack popular culture and class in modern Britain). I'm sure those more informed about this stuff will be able to pick it apart more than I could (I wanted to pause it during the brief Punk section and say "well..."). Worth the time, and I do like Melvyn.

Although since my only real exposure to him is through In Our Time, where he spends most of his time trying to corral the academics to get to a point, so him giving his own opinions felt a bit odd.

I've only heard one EP of In Our Time". On Richard Burton - I can report it was ok.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/escape-the-news-with-the-british-podcast-in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg

I got quite obsessed with it last year and rinsed the In Our Time archive. There is a ridiculously good amount of A+ radio content in there.

I enjoy in our time. Bragg gets kind of ornery, but in an entertaining way.

Sorry its Robert Burton LOL, of Anatomy of Melancholy fame.

Looking through the archive and my god I could just dive in for a long long time.

i enjoy in our time also. i just heard a good one about prester john, an imaginary christian king that was supposedly hiding out in india and then maybe the interior of africa, who was going to come to aid the crusaders. coming from, say, nowadays npr or cbc, melvyn bragg's snippiness is refreshing. like, the p vs np episode, he's very good on things like that, where he keeps asking questions even after i've wrapped my head around a concept (he asks three times "why do they call it an algorithm?" relax, melvyn that's just what they call it).