Melvyn Bragg

Lord Melvyn Bragg: The Book of Books The Radical Impact of the King James Bible Monday 25 July Wesley Chapel | 2.30pm A lecture event by Lord Melvyn Bragg to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Lord Bragg sets out to persuade us that the King James Version has driven the making of the ... (more)English-speaking world over the last 400 years, often in the most unanticipated ways. He argues that while many think our modern world is founded on secular ideals, it is the King James Version which had a greater legacy. The King James Bible not only influenced the English language and its literature more than any other book, it was also the seedbed of western democracy, the activator of radical shifts in society such as the abolition of the slave trade, the debating dynamite for brutal civil wars in Britain and America and a critical spark in the genesis of modern science. Tickets: £10

Tickets £8 To a degree all creative writing is autobiographical. Most writers draw to some extent on their own experience to create character and narrative. But when does fact become fiction and fiction fact? The narrative arc of Melvyn Bragg's most recent quartet of novels (The Soldier's Return to ... (more)Remember Me) closely mirrors the author's own well-publicised story. Here the broadcaster, writer and novelist explores the subtle interplay between the imagined and the real in the creation of fictions and telling of stories.