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Melvyn Bragg explains why he left Radio 4’s In Our TIme

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The Independent UK

Melvyn Bragg says he left Radio 4’s In Our Time before he was pushed

‘One way or another, we’ve all got to go sometime,’ presenter said

The Independent UK

Thursday mornings won’t be the same without Melvyn Bragg

Letters: Steve Brown reveals how In Our Time has provided a superb resource for his teaching, plus letters from Robert McNulty, Helen Read and Moxley Cooper

The Guardian - UK

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Hilary Lloyd review: on Dennis Potter’s trail through an enchanted forest of film

The artist’s exhaustive engagement with the singular playwright leads us through landmark shows via midair screens, cat-videos and lunch with Richard E Grant

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg has proved that media can be both serious and popular

Editorial: After 27 years, the presenter is leaving one of BBC Radio’s finest programmes. He never talked down, and never dumbed down either

The Guardian - UK

In Our Time: Who will replace Melvyn Bragg on the much-loved Radio 4 programme?

Presenter announced he’s stepping down as host of much-loved show after nearly three decades

The Independent UK

Melvyn Bragg steps down from BBC’s legendary ‘In Our Time’ – with new presenter to be announced

The presenter has reportedly suffered a string of health issues over the years

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‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years

The broadcaster is leaving the hit BBC programme after presenting more than 1,000 episodes and having ‘enriched the lives of millions’

The Guardian - UK

Melvyn Bragg steps down from hosting BBC series In Our Time

Lord Bragg has presented the programme since it first launched in 1998, taking listeners through conversations with expert guests.

Evening Standard

‘He is the BBC!’ Alan Yentob, the eternally curious creative who made TV no one else could have dreamed up

From extraordinary interviews with Bowie to green-lighting Ab Fab and Have I Got News For You, Yentob changed the course of not just arts programming but television itself

The Guardian - UK

Churchill in Moscow review – the British bulldog’s gripping meeting with Stalin

There are laugh-aloud gags and spiky dialogue as Roger Allam and Peter Forbes share the stage in Howard Brenton’s play about the 1942 encounter

The Guardian - UK

Jack Bond obituary

Film director and producer who worked with Salvador Dalí and the Pet Shop Boys

The Guardian - UK

Controversy over Match Of The Day star Gary Lineker’s top salary

Lineker is the only star paid more than £1 million at the corporation.

Evening Standard

James Joyce’s glorious lists and pop’s place at the Proms

Letters: Mary Adams says nobody compiled lists in literature quite like the Irish novelist. Plus a letter from Dr Richard Carter

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BBC arts chief hits back at accusations from Dimbleby and Bragg

Suzy Klein defends BBC’s ‘incredibly strong and passionate’ commitment to culture programming

The Guardian - UK

‘They were all talking about dying, but they were telling us how to live’

In this weekend’s magazine: Sven-Göran Eriksson and others with terminal illnesses give Simon Hattenstone their life advice

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

Melvyn Bragg makes an impassioned plea to save the arts in Britain; wronged subpostmasters tell their story; a medieval romp channels Covid and The White Lotus. Plus, a time-travelling Lisa Kudrow

The Guardian - UK

Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money

This chummy, ineffective look at the arts crisis offers no solutions. And by featuring only one contributor aged under 50, it is itself part of the problem

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The Guardian - UK

‘The quality of the writing was clear as a bell’: the astonishing talent of Dennis Potter

The trailblazing dramatist, who died in 1994 at 59, was celebrated for his extraordinary creativity, but also had work banned by the BBC. His peers discuss his legacy – and that extraordinary final interview

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt’: Melvyn Bragg on breakdowns, bust ups and 1,000 episodes of In Our Time

The broadcaster’s Radio 4 programme has been running for 25 years, was the first ever BBC podcast and is its most downloaded ever weekly show. Not bad for being stuck in the ‘death slot’…

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Woman in the Wall; David Hockney: A Celebration; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Starstruck – review

A blazing Ruth Wilson elevates a turbulent drama about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries; Hockney and Bragg make a classy double act; and a female revenge fantasy goes to the dark side

Evening Standard

David Hockney says he is ‘just getting going’ in Melvyn Bragg’s new Sky Arts documentary

Bragg is concluding 45 years of The South Bank Show with four-part series Celebrating David Hockney

The Guardian - UK

Melvyn Bragg to step down from South Bank Show after 45 years

Broadcaster says ‘it’s about time’ after launching series in 1978

The Independent UK

David Beckham, Bear Grylls and Lord Bragg among stars at day three of Wimbledon

Several stars were pictured in the royal box on centre court at the All England Club.

Evening Standard

David Beckham: red card in World Cup 1998 made me a ‘cold person’

Beckham also spoke about welcoming Lionel Messi to Inter Miami

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