Melvyn Bragg: Gary Lineker is paid 27 times more than me

Melvyn Bragg says Gary Lineker’s salary leaves BBC open for an ‘attack’

Veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg has said Gary Lineker’s more than £1.3 million salary with the BBC opens the broadcaster up for an “attack” on how it is spending licence fee money.

Melvyn Bragg takes a pop at Gary Lineker

Radio 4 show In Our Time celebrates its landmark 1,000th episode this week. Host Melvyn Bragg is one of the Beeb’s biggest stars, but it seems his salary hardly puts him on level pegging with some of the corporation’s other big names. In an interview marking In Our Time‘s millennial episode, Bragg gently points out that

Melvyn Bragg: Gary Lineker is paid 27 times more than me

As he celebrates the 1,000th episode of In Our Time, the broadcaster and author tells Ben Dowell why BBC pay is a problem