Bragg, Melvyn 1939-

A son of war by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

23 editions published between 2001 and 2016 in English and held by 712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"After returning from the campaign in Burma, Sam Richardson was determined to leave his small hometown of Wigton for the promised land of Australia. Yet now, a few months later, he has settled for a job in Wigton's paper factory, and believes he has put both his aspirations and his memories of the war behind him. His wife, Ellen, knows better, realizing how close their marriage has come to disaster. Caught between them, their young son Joe strives to fulfill their conflicting expectations for him, as he faces the challenges of childhood and adolescence and confronts his own demons."--Jacket

The sword and the miracle : a novel by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

6 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A 7th century Irish priestess is torn between love for the warring British prince Pedric and her duty to spread the word of God. She chooses God and is immortalized as Saint Begga

Playing Shakespeare( Visual )

4 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in English and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity

Kes( Visual )

4 editions published between 1969 and 2011 in English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters," Billy wanders the countryside, pokes about the town, and secretively trains his kestrel, where his intelligence and imagination are as free as the bird. Because ever present in Billy's mind is fear and hatred of the pit--the local mine where he is destined to spend his adult life digging coal

Laurence Olivier by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

11 editions published between 1984 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A biography of stage and film actor Laurence Olivier, first published in the United States in 1985

The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

29 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Novel based on the historical crime case of John Hatfield, convicted of fraud and hanged in England in 1803

A time to dance : a novel by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

21 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 522 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A fifty-four-year-old bank manager, struggling against the confines of his over-controlled world, and an eighteen-year-old woman, seeking to heal wounds from a troubled past, find unlikely love together

Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

12 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her receding memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions about their past, taking her back to the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for - Grace, the woman she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history, delving into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother." --Publisher description

The seventh seal = Det sjunde inseglet by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

25 editions published between 1993 and 2020 in English and held by 502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through with bright flashes of peace and joy, symbolised in the milk and wild strawberries offered to the knight by an innocent family of actors. In his compelling appreciation, Melvyn Bragg describes his own first encounter as a student with this extraordinary film, and how it revealed to him another cinema, quite different from the Hollywood he had grown up with. He recounts too his later meeting with Bergman himself, and how the marks of the director's powerful personality are everywhere in this troubling and inspiring masterpiece

Vision : 50 years of British creativity by Melvyn Bragg( Book )

13 editions published in 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Vision explores the many factors that have contributed to the special character of British art and design over five decades: the creative ferment of the art schools, where students are tutored by practising artists rather than academic art teachers; the inspiration of music, fashion and the ever-shifting profile of the international art world. It reveals the impact of political and social developments on the arts throughout the period, from the blend of optimism and anxiety of postwar Britain to the radicalism of the late 1960s, feminism, and the triumph of consumerism in the Thatcher years; from the social engineering of public architecture and state support for the arts to the populism of postmodernism."--Jacket