Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.
From Melvyn Bragg
Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.
I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.
It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.
Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.
I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.
Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.
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