Melvyn Bragg: Young people are being ‘deprived’ of the riches of the Bible – Christian Today October 6, 2017 by Fulcrum Author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg has denounced the declining number of young people who read the Bible as 'disgraceful' and called those who find the King James translation too complicated 'wimps'. Florence Gildea. Christian Today. 5 October 2017 FulcrumShareTweetShare