Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Our squandered national treasure

Torn with grief, Melvyn Bragg has produced a condolence book for the South Bank Show (born 1978, died of neglect, 2010).

  • The South Bank Show: Final Cut

    Melvyn Bragg

    Hodder, pp. 307

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