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VOICES OF THE POWERLESS - SERIES 2 MISSED A PROGRAMME? Go to the Listen Again page THE LATEST PROGRAMME Begins Thursday 24 July 2003, 9.02 am - 9.30 am. Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with another series of Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years. GO TO THE LATEST PROGRAMME More information and images relating to programme 6 on Miners in the Depression: Coal and Dole SERIES TWO Find out about the programmes featured in series 2 of Voices of the Powerless. New series on air: 24 July 2003 MELVYN BRAGG Listen and watch a slide show as Melvyn Bragg talks about Voices of the Powerless. BEHIND THE SCENES Listen and watch a slide show as Executive Producer Simon Elmes gives a unique insight into the programme. PROGRAMME MUSIC Listen to the signature music. The music is from the film Little Women and is by Thomas Newman. The version used in the programme is a special arrangement by Simon Elmes. SERIES 1 Find out about the programmes featured in the first series. Audio Help DON'T MISS Thursday 9.00-9.45am, rpt 9.30-10.00pm. Melvyn Bragg explores the history of ideas. Listen again online or download the latest programme as an mp3 file. RELATED PROGRAMMES This Sceptred Isle USEFUL LINKS www.bbc.co.uk/history news.bbc.co.uk AUDIO BOOKS You can purchase audio books of series one and two at the online retailers below. BBC Shop Foyles WH Smiths PRESENTER Melvyn Bragg Melvyn Bragg presents In Our Time for BBC Radio 4, a series where he and his guests discuss the "Big Ideas" of cultural or scientific significance. He also presented The Routes of English, his millennial series celebrating 1,000 years of the English language. Melvyn Bragg was born in 1939 in Wigton, Cumbria - where many of his books are set. He won a scholarship to Oxford to read history, and in 1961 he gained a coveted traineeship with the BBC. He has presented a number of television series including: Read All about It, Two Thousand Years, and Who's Afraid of the Ten Commandments? and createdThe South Bank Show. Melvyn presented Start the Week between 1988 and 1998. In his 1998 series On Giant's Shoulders he interviewed scientists about their eminent predecessors. As well as presenting for Radio 4, he is Controller of Arts for London Weekend Television. He's written 17 novels, the latest of which, The Soldier's Return, won the WH Smith Literary Award. Melvyn Bragg was made a Life Peer in 1998 and he took the title of Baron Bragg of Wigton in the County of Cumbria. News & Current Affairs | Arts & Drama | Comedy & Quizzes | Science | Religion & Ethics | History | Factual Back to top About the BBC | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy & Cookies Policy