Melvyn Bragg

Culture Shock - 'The South Bank Show' Will Return

PA | Posted 30.11.2011 | UK Entertainment

Melvyn Bragg is to revive his long-running arts series The South Bank Show, after it was axed by ITV. The programme, which tackled an array of well...

Melvyn Bragg shows that effective broadcasters aren't always effective public speakers

Max Atkinson | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK
Max Atkinson

In his autobiography, the late Professor A.J. Ayer, noted that he'd been surprised to discover, when appearing long ago on BBC Radio's The Brains Trust, that broadcasting was very different from lecturing - in that it worked perfectly well for him and the other participants to speak at their normal conversational speed.