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“ The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. ”

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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?'

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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

~ Melvyn Bragg

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.

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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