He has served as a Labour peer in the House of Lords since 1998. He is also close friends with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, although he publicly opposed his government's legislation against fox hunting.
He studied Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford.
He was awarded the CH (Member of the Order of the Companion of Honour) in the 2018 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Arts and Broadcasting. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Society.
He was born at 12:10am-BST.
Father with his first wife, Marie-Elisabeth Roche, of writer, Anglican priest, and therapist Marie-Elsa Bragg.
Started on television in 1962.
Officially he is Lord Bragg of Wigton having been made a life peer in1998,.