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Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

From Melvyn Bragg

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

From Melvyn Bragg

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

From Melvyn Bragg

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

From Melvyn Bragg

There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.

From Melvyn Bragg

What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.

From Melvyn Bragg