Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir

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I understand what a huge thing this was at the time but I still found myself exacerbated by young Melvyn and his tortuous indecision about what to do ! Will usually dispatch within same working day if paid before 14:00 GMT (excludes weekends and holidays).

One of the generation of working- and lower middle-class children for whom a post-war grammar school education was the key to unlocking a future far beyond what their parents and grandparents had ever been able to aspire to, his impact on the cultural life of the UK from the Sixties until now has been immeasurable.In his new memoir, a book I was about to have to put aside for a few moments, Melvyn Bragg was describing the funeral of his publican father, Stanley, in Wigton, Cumbria, some time in the 1990s. It’s still a powerful retelling of hardships endured in postwar Britain, and how that imbued him with the qualities many generations now enjoy. Setting the speed to 80% and listening to sections several times does make it possible to hear the lines.

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However, I feel we were better nourished mentally without the pressures that youngsters have today from social media and societal expectation. This leading to an entrance exam and interview for Queens College, Oxford, with an offer for a scholarship after his National Service.