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23 July 2015

Humble beginnings: an unnervingly moving portrait of Melvyn Bragg

Yes, Melvyn Bragg is charming, handsome, luxuriantly haired, articulate, a quick study. But there is something questing about him, too – and it is this that made him such a fine interviewee.

By Rachel Cooke

Melvyn Bragg: Wigton to Westminster
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Cake Bakers and Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley’s 100 Years of the WI
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