Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?' -Melvyn Bragg Attitude
Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis. -Melvyn Bragg Poetry
Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly. -Melvyn Bragg Romantic
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. -Melvyn Bragg Imagination
