Esteemed presenter Melvyn Bragg is your host for Reel History of Britain. Melvyn was born in 1939 in Wigton, Cumbria. He won a scholarship to Oxford to read history, and in 1961 he gained a ...

It doesn’t take long for Melvyn Bragg to start speaking his mind. We are sitting in the spacious front room of his Hampstead ...