Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978–2010, 2012–2023), and for the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host Start the Week on Radio 4. After his ennoblement in 1998, he switched to presenting the new In Our Time, an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to over 900 broadcast editions and is a popular podcast. He was Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1999 until 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvyn Bragg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2017Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's — Executive Producer
• 2016Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach — Self - Editor and Presenter, South Bank Show
• 2013The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England — Himself - Presenter, Writer
• 2011John Steinbeck: Voice of America — Host/Narrator
• Reel History of Britain
• 2009Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out — Narrator, Writer
• Melvyn Bragg's Travels In Written Britain — Creator
• 2006Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic — Executive Producer
• The Adventure of English
• 2002R.E.M. — Presenter
• 1999Countertenors — Presenter
• The Garden Party
• 1997Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid — Self/Narrator
• 1996No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich — Director
• TFI Friday
• Johnny and the Dead — Executive Producer
• 1994An Interview with Dennis Potter — Interviewer
• 1993Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary — Editor
• A Time to Dance — Writer, Novel, Creator
• 1992Naked Making Lunch — Presenter
• Plunder
• 1989A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
• 1989It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story — Editor
• 1989Norbert Smith: A Life — Interviewer
• 1988Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor' — Presenter
• 1988Ken Russell's ABC of British Music — Producer
• 1988Toulouse-Lautrec — Editor, Presenter
• 1987J.M.W. Turner: Turner at the Tate — Presenter
• 1985David Lean: A Life in Film — Narrator
• 1985Francis Bacon
• 1983David Hockney: Joiner Photographs — Narrator, Editor
• 1982Laurence Olivier: A Life — Self (Interviewer ), Editor
• 1981Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree — Presenter, Editor
• 1980Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical — Editor
• Clouds of Glory — Writer, Creator
• 1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures — Executive Producer, Editor
• 1978Ingmar Bergman at 60 — Host, Editor
• The South Bank Show — Self - Presenter, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• 1977Orion — Book
• 1977Whose Doctor Who — Presenter
• The Lively Arts — Presenter
• 1973Jesus Christ Superstar — Screenplay
• 1972Zinotchka — Writer
• 1971The Music Lovers — Screenplay
• 1969Play Dirty — Screenplay
• 1968Isadora — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1966Familiar Spirits — Producer
• 1965Always on Sunday — Scenario Writer
• 1965JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli — Director
• 1965The Debussy Film — Scenario Writer, Screenplay
• Monitor — Writer
• Norbert Smith – a Life

Appearances as themselves (31)

• 2024Art Matters — Self
• 2023David Hockney: A Celebration — Self
• 2023David Hockney: In London — Self
• 2023David Hockney: In Normandy — self
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2013The Mystery Of Mary Magdalene — Self
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2003Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher — Himself
• Believe Nothing — Self
• 2002Cinema of Fire: Iranian Cinema — Himself (Presenter)
• 2000Emir Kusturica — Himself (Presenter)
• 1998Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Salon of Dreams — Self
• 1997Keppel Road: The Life and Music of the Bee Gees — Self
• 1994Portrait or Bust — Himself (uncredited)
• 1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage — Self
• 1992The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper — Self - Presenter
• 1991Bernard and the Genie — Himself
• 1991Roy Lichtenstein — Himself
• Have I Got News for You — Self
• 1990Vivienne Westwood — Self
• 1989The Tall Guy — Himself
• 1988Hockney at the Tate — Self
• 1988In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton — Self
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Self
• 1980Sweet William — Self
• 1979The Who: The Kids Are Alright — Self
• An Audience with... — Self
• 1974An Artist's Story — Himself - Presenter
• 2nd House — Himself - Presenter, Himself - Host
• Great Performances — Self