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Lord Melvyn Bragg, 'Arts and the Media,' the Annual Bagehot Lecture.

Date: 2 June 2009
Arrive: 6.00pm
Starts: 6.30pm
Location: Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft building, Queen Mary, University of London

Lord Melvyn Bragg, a broadcaster and author, will discuss the relationship between arts and the media at the upcoming MEG. Throughout nearly four decades of pioneering broadcasting, Melvyn Bragg has edited, produced and presented a wealth of award-winning documentaries and programmes across the cultural spectrum.

He is well known for his Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, In Our Time and The Routes of English. After starting his career at the BBC as a general trainee, he became a broadcaster and writer at the BBC World Service. He is probably best known for the London Weekend Television (LWT) arts programme, The South Bank Show, which he edited and produced since 1978. Through the show he made a sustained effort to present literature to the wide public in a popular and informal manner. He then went on to become Controller of Arts at LWT.

He has written a large number of screenplays for television and film, and is President of the National Academy of Writing. In 1995 he won a BAFTA TV award for An Interview with Dennis Potter. A prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, his most recent publication, Remembering Me, is a largely autobiographical story.

He was appointed to the House of Lords in 1998 as a Labour life peer under the title of Baron Bragg of Wigton. In 1999, Bragg was appointed Chancellor of the University of Leeds, is a Governor of the LSE and is the President of Mind.

Although admission to the lecture is free, advanced booking is required. To reserve seats, please contact the Events Office. Tickets will be issued for this event.

Email: events@qmul.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7882 5147

For more information please contact meg@qmul.ac.uk