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Melvyn Bragg on the 'song that changed him' and the 'girl he left behind in Cumbria'

Melvyn Bragg has opened up a 'song that changed me' in a candid new interview with The Times.

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Melvyn Bragg has opened up a 'song that changed me' in a candid new interview with The Times.

9 hours ago·Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

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News & Star broke the news in Cumbria, United Kingdom 9 hours ago on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.

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Bragg said his parents’ songs and Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal shaped him, as he discussed his Cumbrian upbringing on Rosebud.