Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRS, FBA, FRSA, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939) is an English broadcaster and author, best known for presenting The South Bank Show (ITV, 1978–2010, Sky Arts 2012–present). Since 1998, he has presented over 900 weekly episodes of the BBC Radio 4 discussion programme In Our Time.

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 * Two Thousand Years—The First Millennium: The Birth of Christianity to the Crusades (as quoted in Watchtower)


 * I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years.
 * Christianity also owes me an explanation... For the bigotry, the wickedness, the inhumanity and the wilful ignorance which has also characterized much of its history.