Novelist and Labour peer, 85, will host new programme for the BBC next year

Novelist and Labour peer, 85, will host new programme for the BBC next year

We first began working together in 1988; the presenter’s career in television and radio has been astonishing

Lord Bragg, 81, has presented every episode of the programme since it first launched in 1998, taking listeners through conversations with expert guests.

Editorial: After 27 years, the presenter is leaving one of BBC Radio’s finest programmes. He never talked down, and never dumbed down either