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Esteemed presenter Melvyn Bragg is your host for Reel History of Britain.

Melvyn was born in 1939 in Wigton, Cumbria. He won a scholarship to Oxford to read history, and in 1961 he gained a coveted traineeship with the 蜜芽传媒.

Melvyn presented on between 1988 and 1998. In his 1998 series On Giants' Shoulders he interviewed scientists about their eminent predecessors, and from 1999 to 2001 he presented , a series celebrating 1,000 years of the spoken language. He also presents The South Bank Show and Radio 4's , a series where he and his expert guests discuss the history of ideas, and explore subjects across culture and science.

Melvyn Bragg was made a life peer in 1998. He is a prolific writer and has published over twenty novels, the latest of which, Remember Me, was published in 2008.