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ReviewTelevision
Celebrating David Hockney, Sky Arts review — a joyous portrait of an artist
...While the Yorkshireman declares that he “can’t stop” working, a four-part series, Celebrating David Hockney, is set to be Melvyn Bragg’s final outing as host of The South Bank Show after nearly half a century...
August 25, 2023
Lunch with the FT
Melvyn Bragg: ‘Oxford was great. But it wasn’t as good as Wigton’
...“Might be difficult to manage with a clean shirt.” His name, after the suave American actor Melvyn Douglas, was “like calling somebody Tyrannosaurus rex”....
July 22, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
OutlookHarvey Nriapia
Why has Leeds, birthplace of the tram, ground to a halt?
...“We’re still waiting,” says Melvyn Reuben, who chairs the Leeds Transport Historical Society. “I’m 81 years old,” he says. “And I can see a pig flying over there.”...
September 25, 2023
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: Rishi Sunak and London’s failures of ambition Premium content
...It has survived the dumbing down of the BBC thanks to the popularity and longevity of presenter Melvyn Bragg. Enjoy your weekend, whatever you are reading or listening to. Jonathan GuthrieHead of Lex...
October 6, 2023
ReviewHistory books
The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today
...Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn P Leffler, OUP, $27.95/£21.99, 368 pages Robert Zoellick is the author of ‘America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and...
January 17, 2023
Letter
Letter: No flag burning, just high-profile war protests
...As a former FT luncher and a regular FT reader, I enjoyed Jan Dalley’s discussion with Melvyn Bragg (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, July 23)....
July 29, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
The Aesthete
Illustrator Fee Greening: ‘I have delusions of grandeur about paper’
...I love In Our Time; I’m obsessed with Melvyn Bragg. I think he’s hilarious. There’s one episode on unicorns that I’ve listened to about 36 times....
August 5, 2023
FT Magazine
The puzzling afterlife of Britain’s last executioner
...In January 1977, he appeared on a BBC chat show presented by Melvyn Bragg, along with guests who included the footballer Rodney Marsh....
February 9, 2024
Film
James Wong Howe — unsung hero of Golden Age Hollywood
...Wong Howe later spoke of lighting each actor to channel their “inner quality”, including Melvyn Douglas’s weathered patriarch, sombre in shadow....
April 27, 2022
London
London politician quits over cost of ‘rubbish’ Marble Arch Mound
...“With regret, I have accepted the resignation of my deputy leader, Melvyn Caplan, who led the mound project....
August 13, 2021
Fashion accessories
In the bag — what your commuter tote says about you
...That being said, he’s more than happy to blare back episodes of Radio 4’s In Our Time at full tilt (who could possibly take umbrage at a loud Lord Melvyn Bragg?)...
October 29, 2021
InterviewTelevision
Sky Arts’ Phil Edgar-Jones: on a mission to make the arts accessible to all
...“Yes, and Melvyn got pissed with Francis Bacon!” he replies. “They both dedicated their lives to the broadening of the arts, and making them accessible to all people.”...
September 13, 2021
Ayala Corp
Ayala Corp to invest $238m in companies controlled by Myanmar tycoon
...“We always felt that it was important to leverage partnerships with the right skill sets so that we would be a leader in the businesses we run,” Melvyn Pun said....
November 13, 2019
Melvyn Krauss
Change intra-EU trade to counter US currency aggression
...The writer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University A rising euro and a weak economy is what European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde will have on her plate at the bank...
October 21, 2020
ReviewTelevision
Author Bernardine Evaristo opens up on the South Bank Show
...With Melvyn Bragg she retraces her roots as one of eight siblings growing up in Woolwich, south-east London....
November 27, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Letter
Letter: US made troops move to undermine Merkel
...Melvyn Krauss Hoover Institution, Stanford University, CA, US...
August 2, 2020
HTSI
The HTSI culture guide to summer 2021
...Bay Garnett, stylistThe podcast I’ve been listening to is Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time – especially if I’m a bit bored or restless....
July 28, 2021
Letter
Letter: Court ruling makes a bold fiscal response more vital
...Melvyn Krauss Senior Fellow, Hoover InstitutionStanford University, CA, US...
May 6, 2020
Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest after Myanmar putsch
...“Things are still fresh and raw and so we are still assessing,” said Melvyn Pun, chief executive of Yoma Strategic Holdings, a conglomerate with businesses in real estate, financial services and consumer...
February 2, 2021
ReviewTelevision
Simon Armitage shares memories of Marsden on the South Bank Show
...“I’ve always been a kitchen sink poet,” he tells Melvyn Bragg....
December 11, 2020
Letter
Letter: Don’t get stranded in your own imaginary Atlantis
...Alain de Botton tells us of “essentially wondrous inner continents” (“Travels on my sofa”, Life & Arts, March 21) but E T A Hoffmann got there earlier in his novella Der goldne Topf (“the golden pot”),...
March 27, 2020
Letter
Letter: If the ammunition runs low, relax constraints
...Melvyn Krauss Senior Fellow,Hoover Institution,Stanford University, US...
February 7, 2020
FTWeekend Live Q&A
Which TV show is getting you through the lockdown?
...So it was a double risk that the show’s presenter Melvyn Bragg took in choosing the former Beatle to baptise his new series: first, Bragg was profiling a figure from popular culture, when a more “serious...
April 10, 2020
Europe Express
European parliament fails to strike gender balance in top EU jobs Premium content
...As the stalemate over the plan drags on, Melvyn Krauss of the Hoover Institute says that — even though the spat has grabbed all the headlines — the budget package’s biggest achievement is alleviating the...
November 25, 2020
Global InsightMartin Arnold
ECB faces uphill struggle in efforts to talk down the euro
...This new phase of “beggar-thy-neighbour dollar devaluation policy” is one of the big challenges confronting Ms Lagarde, according to Melvyn Krauss, an emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of...
September 22, 2020

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