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The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it.
— Melvyn Bragg
Tags: great, me, work, success

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More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
— Melvyn Bragg
Tags: than, more, go, people
The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.
— Melvyn Bragg
Tags: trying, more, job, sky
The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence.
— Melvyn Bragg
Tags: excellence, determination, good, success
I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.
— Melvyn Bragg
Tags: things, someone, doing, live
I'm a class mongrel.
— Melvyn Bragg
Tags: class
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