“ The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. Melvyn Bragg
“ Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly. Melvyn Bragg
“ Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis. Melvyn Bragg
“ I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. Melvyn Bragg
“ Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?' Melvyn Bragg
