TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bragg,Melvyn
TI  - Back in the day: a memoir 
SN  - 9781529394450 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR6052.R263 
U1  - 920 BRA 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Sceptre
KW  - Bragg, Melvyn,
KW  - Broadcasters
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Biography & non-fiction prose
KW  - thema
KW  - Autobiography: literary
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - Rural communities
KW  - England, Northern
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Illustrations on lining papers
N2  - Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world. In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at fifteen yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe breakdown when he was thirteen, he developed a passion for reading and study - though that didn't stop him playing in a skiffle band or falling in love. It is equally the tale of the people and place that formed him
ER  -