To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.

- Melvyn Bragg

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

- Melvyn Bragg

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

- Melvyn Bragg

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

- Melvyn Bragg

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and…

- Melvyn Bragg

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

- Melvyn Bragg

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

- Melvyn Bragg