Bragg to promote book in First Derry

Bragg is one of Britain’s pre-eminent broadcasters, writers and cultural commentators.

He will be discussing his new work at First Derry Presbyterian Church in the city on Friday (June 14) at 7.30pm.

‘Grace & Mary’ is a story of remarkable scope, stretching across three generations, telling the story of John and his elderly mother Mary. As Mary’s grip on the present declines, John reawakens her memories through music and photographs only to discover her painful longing for the mother she barely knew – Grace.

Supplementing Mary’s childhood memories with his own imagination, John reconstructs Grace’s life and gives Mary the chance to get to know the mother who had been absent from her life for so long.

Melvyn Bragg’s four decade-long career has been punctuated by a series of media milestones from his 30-year stewardship of ‘The South Bank Show’ to a series of BBC Radio Four staples including ‘Start The Week’, ‘The Roots of English’ and the station’s weekly history programme ‘In Our Time’.

Melvyn Bragg’s discussion of ‘Grace & Mary’ at First Derry Presbyterian Church on June 14 is presented by Culture Company 2013.

Tickets, priced £6.50, are available from the Culture Company box office at www.millenniumforum.co.uk.