http://www.wikio.com/search=Melvyn Bragg Wikio - Melvyn Bragg http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=68501154 Time for our regular round-up of tele events at the BFI. Despite the presence of part two of the "Time Machine" season in October, there's still nothing timey-wimey. But there is this: 1st: Michael Parkinson in conversation. He's going to be interviewed by Melvyn Bragg and sign his autobiography, too. 13th: Roger Moore in conversation. No celebrity interviewer as far as I can see, but he's going to be chatting about just about everything exciting in his TV career. There'll be screenings beforehand of The Saint episode The Miracle Tea Party , which Moore also directed, and The Persuaders! 's The Time and The Place . Members' priority postal booking opens 26 August Members' online and phone booking opens 1 September Public booking opens 5 September There'll also be free drop-in screenings in the Studio on 4, 5, 11 and 12 of the 1963 documentary West Indians , which looks at a working-class Caribbean migrant's search for accommodation in London. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:10:04 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=68501154 2008-08-21T14:10:04Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=68248645 On Sunday 31 August, the UK TV station ITV will air the first in a 10-part series on religious art. The series is called Faith in the Frame. The TimesOnline have also run a story on it. Each each episode will focus on one painting. The ten chosen are: The Resurrection, Cookham, by Stanley Spencer The White Crucifixion, [...] Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:19:35 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=68248645 2008-08-19T14:19:35Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=67706472 After 25 years in the business showbiz agent Melanie Cantor is throwing in the towel to write a no-holds-barred novel about the shallow industry and says being a star is hellish. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:49:27 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=67706472 2008-08-14T06:49:27Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=67034062 It has been something of a shock to be reminded that ITV is still a public service broadcaster. For some reason, the idea that the channel responsible for The Jeremy Kyle Show, Golden Balls and Bingo Night Live is providing a service to the public has become difficult to grasp. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:00:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=67034062 2008-08-07T23:00:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=66885957 Some of ITV's best-loved arts and current affairs programmes could be cancelled after the broadcaster reported a 28 per cent fall in profits. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:30:29 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=66885957 2008-08-06T19:30:29Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=65903547 Holding my interest all the way was Melvyn Bragg’s The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. He tells how English began around AD 500, then evolved by borrowing words from the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, and French. Then Americans, Australians, and Indians contributed to changes. Now how widespread the language is! He predicts further alterations [...] Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:15:43 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=65903547 2008-07-29T09:15:43Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=65656841 Matt sez, "Michael Moorcock agreed to let me post the introduction to his work in progress, a memoir of Mervyn Peake, author of the "Gormenghast" books and his wife Maeve. It's going to be called "Lovers: Mervyn and Maeve Peake. A Personal Memoir." As a fan of both Moorcock and Peake, this is a big thing for me, as I suspect it will be for many other readers." Peake completely torqued my head around backwards when I was about 14. The Peake parties were lush and rich but never self-conscious. The PreRaphaelite enthusiasms of the 60s, which brought Melvyn Bragg into a room dressed as if for the set of Isodora, which he was then writing, in black velvet, with silver rings, married well with the dark Fitrovian colours of Mervyn’s canvasses, though Peake had no particular enthusiasm for the previous century. His preference was for the present, for Soho and the post-war world of eccentric Londoners whose portraits he collected in what he called his head-hunting sessions. At this stage of his life, however, because it reflected the concerns of his generation, his painting was somewhat out of fashion. England had entered one of her uncertain, self-examining periods of nostalgia, looking back to the fin-de-siecle and Edwardian social certainties. Mervyn was dramatically handsome and his wife Maeve was dramatically beautiful. They had been a remarkable couple for years, though they had not mixed a great deal with the fashionable bohemians of their day. They had spent quite a lot of time away from London, in Sark in particular. They had come to prefer each other’s company. Although an accomplished painter, she had put aside her own work for the most part, concentrating on her children. He drew her and painted her a lot. She is there in everything he did. He wrote her poems when he was taken into the army during the second world war, he produced fictional versions of her in his Titus Groan, which he wrote when he was drafted into the army. On leave, he would draw her and the children. He was an inexpert soldier. He had a mild breakdown, which kept him away from overseas conflict. Eventually, he was commissioned as a war artist. His pictures of Maeve are not exaggerated any more than the poems for and about her, of which he wrote so many Link (Thanks, Matt!)... Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:06:06 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Melvyn+Bragg?rinfoid=65656841 2008-07-27T05:06:06Z