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Two years ago, during the lockdown, I wrote that I had become addicted to those little bird-box libraries that make walking here something of a literary pilgrimage.

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Melvyn Bragg: 'I regret a great deal... I could have behaved a little better'

Back in the Day, he describes cycling there as a boy from his home town of Wigton and experiencing a kind of Wordsworthian epiphany (though he doesn’t call it that) as he watched the sun set over the Solway and felt himself part of the landscape. Not just then and there, but inalienably. ‘I doubt if I had ever felt more complete,’ he writes.

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Billy Connolly to be Accorded BAFTA Fellowship

Naman Ramachandran Comedian, actor, artist, writer, musician and presenter, Billy Connolly (“Mrs. Brown”), will be honored with the BAFTA Fellowship at this year’s Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards.The fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA in recognition of an individual’s contribution to film, television or games across their career. Previous TV honorees include Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Jon Snow, Bruce Forsyth, Joanna Lumley, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Palin, Trevor MacDonald, David Attenborough, Julie Walters, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Katie Adie and Joan Bakewell.In 1995, Connolly won the BAFTA Scotland entertainment category for “Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Scotland.” He has since received five BAFTA nominations, and has been presented with a BAFTA special award in 2002 and the BAFTA Scotland outstanding contribution to television and film in 2012.

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Melvyn Bragg slams 'ignorant' Government over claims of 'wanting to weaken the BBC'

BBC "weaker" than ever before, ahead of its new licence fee negotiation settlement, which is set to take place in April.