SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lord Bragg goes back in time for tale of privations in his new book 

He has a peerage to his name and lives in splendour in a £5million house in Hampstead, the leafy enclave favoured by the north London intelligentsia. But broadcasting and literary grandee Melvyn Bragg has never forgotten, still less attempted to disguise, his earliest years in Wigton, Cumbria, when he and his parents lived in a … Read more