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Billy Bragg - the so-called 'Bard of Barking' - came to widespread attention as a sort of one-man Clash, busking around Britain, with a guitar and portable amp. Having briefly joined the Army, Bragg formed a punk band, Riff Raff, but it was not until he released his first mini-LP, "Life's a Riot" on the small Utility label... See full bio »

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Stephen William Bragg
in Barking, Essex, England, UK
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2012 Fringe (TV series)
– Welcome to Westfield (2012) (performer: "California Stars" - uncredited)
 
2010 Love & Other Drugs (writer: "Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key" / as Stephen William Bragg / performer: "Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key")
 
2010 Made in Dagenham (writer: "Made In Dagenham")
 
2010 House M.D. (TV series)
– Lockdown (2010) (performer: "Birds and Ships" - uncredited)
 
2008 Religulous (documentary) (performer: "Christ For President")
 
2008 The Strangers (performer: "At My Window, Sad and Lonely")
 
2008 War, Inc. (performer: "Blood of the Lamb")
 
2007 Mama's Boy (writer: "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty", "She's Got a New Spell" / performer: "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty", "She's Got a New Spell")
 
2007 King of California (performer: "California Stars")
 
2006 Half Nelson (performer: "A New England")
 
2004 Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (documentary) (writer: "There Is Power In A Union" / performer: "There Is Power In A Union")
 
2003 Monkey Dust (TV series)
– Episode #3.3 ("The Ballad of Ivan Dobsky" - uncredited)
 
2001 Chelsea Walls (performer: "When the Roses Bloom Again")
 
2001 Gilmore Girls (TV series)
– The Breakup: Part 2 (2001) (performer: "From Red To Blue")
 
1999 Mumford (writer: "Hoodoo Voodoo" / performer: "Hoodoo Voodoo")
 
1999 A Room for Romeo Brass (performer: "Everywhere")
 
1996 Children of the Revolution (writer: "Tender Comrade" / performer: "Tender Comrade")
 
1996 Walking and Talking (writer: "She's Got a New Spell", "Fourteenth of February", "Must I Paint You a Picture", "You Woke Up My Neighborhood" / performer: "She's Got a New Spell", "Fourteenth of February", "Must I Paint You a Picture", "You Woke Up My Neighborhood")
 
1995 Mad Love (writer: "As Long As You Hold Me")
 
Show ShowComposer (2 titles)
1996 Walking and Talking
 
1993 Screenplay (TV series)
– Safe (1993)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
2011 Falling Out (short) (musician)
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2011 Way of the Morris (documentary) (special thanks)
 
2010 Made in Dagenham (thanks)
 
2008 Fossil Detectives (TV series documentary) (thanks - 1 episode)
– South of England (2008) (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (64 titles)
2013 Loose Women (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #17.165 (2013) … Himself
 
2012 Q&A (TV series)
Himself - Panelist
– Folk Music, Five Years & Funding (2012) … Himself - Panelist
 
2012 Let Fury Have the Hour (documentary)
Himself
 
2011-2012 Democracy Now! (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 4 July 2012 (2012) … Himself
– Episode dated 5 September 2011 (2011) … Himself
– Episode dated 1 August 2011 (2011) … Himself
 
2012 Punk Britannia (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Pre-Punk: 1972 - 1976 (2012) … Himself
 
2012 10 O'Clock Live (TV series)
Himself - Musician
– Episode #2.10 (2012) … Himself - Musician
 
2010-2011 This Week (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 1 December 2011 (2011) … Himself
– Episode dated 13 May 2010 (2010) … Himself
 
1999-2011 Question Time (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 6 October 2011 (2011) … Himself
– Episode dated 20 January 2005 (2005) … Himself
– Episode dated 6 February 2003 (2003) … Himself
– Episode dated 18 March 1999 (1999) … Himself
 
2011 Way of the Morris (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Dispatches (TV series documentary)
Himself
– What's the Point of the Unions? (2010) … Himself (uncredited)
 
2010 Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– Which Side Are You On? (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Newsnight (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 11 August 2010 (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Strummerville (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Panorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Are the Net Police Coming for You? (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Late Review (TV series)
Himself - Panelist / Performer
– Episode dated 12 February 2010 (2010) … Himself - Panelist / Performer
 
2009 Breaking Rocks (documentary)
 
2009 The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (documentary)
Himself
 
2009 The ONE Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 12 May 2009 (2009) … Himself
 
2007-2008 The Wright Stuff (TV series)
Himself - Guest Panelist
– Episode #9.217 (2008) … Himself - Guest Panelist
– Episode dated 17 May 2007 (2007) … Himself - Guest Panelist
 
2008 Fossil Detectives (TV series documentary)
Himself
– South of England (2008) … Himself
 
2008 The Interface (TV series)
– Billy Bragg (2008)
 
2008 Sunday AM (TV series)
Himself - Musician
– Episode #3.29 (2008) … Himself - Musician
 
2006-2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 17 March 2008 (2008) … Himself
– Episode dated 15 March 2006 (2006) … Himself
 
2008 Q with Jian Ghomeshi (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Episode #1.18 (2008) … Himself - Guest
 
2007 British Film Forever (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– Bullets, Bombs and Bridges: The Story of the War Film (2007) … Himself
– Hardship, Humour and Heroes: The Story of British Realism (2007) … Himself
 
2007 The Sunday Programme (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 10 June 2007 (2007) … Himself
 
2006-2007 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series)
Himself / Himself - Musical Guest
– Episode #3.91 (2007) … Himself
– Episode #3.19 (2006) … Himself - Musical Guest
 
2006 Canada A.M. (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 9 March 2006 (2006) … Himself
 
2006 Glastonbury (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Folk Britannia (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Breakfast (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 7 November 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2005 If I Were Prime Minister (TV short)
Himself
 
2005 This Machine Kills Fascists (video documentary)
Narrator
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
– We Are the World (2003) … Himself - Interviewee
– What's Going On (2003) … Himself - Interviewee
– Say It Loud (2003) … Himself - Interviewee
– Fight the Power (2003) … Himself - Interviewee
– We Shall Overcome (2003) … Himself - Interviewee
 
2003 Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.27 (2003) … Himself
 
1996-2002 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #11.5 (2002) … Himself
– Episode #3.7 (1998) … Himself
– Episode #2.3 (1997) … Himself
– Episode #1.4 (1996) … Himself
 
2002 The Punk Years (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
1997-2002 Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series)
Himself / Himself - Audience Member
– Monarchy v. Republic (2002) … Himself
– Devolution '97 - The Future of the Union (1997) … Himself - Audience Member
 
1985-2002 Top of the Pops (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 31 May 2002 (2002) … Himself
– Episode dated 11 July 1991 (1991) … Himself
– Episode dated 19 May 1988 (1988) … Himself
– Episode dated 21 March 1985 (1985) … Himself
 
2002 Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Vote 2001 (TV movie)
Himself
 
2001 The Life and Lyrics of Kirsty MacColl (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
2000 The Internationale (documentary short)
Himself
 
1999 Unzipped (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Politics … Himself
 
1999 The Panel (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #2.9 (1999) … Himself
 
1999 Austin City Limits (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Billy Bragg/Lucinda Williams (1999) … Himself
 
1999 Man in the Sand (video documentary)
Himself
 
1997 The Radio One Story (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Sessions at West 54th (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode #1.4 (1997) … Himself
 
1997 Harry Hill (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.4 (1997) … Himself
 
1997 The Jack Docherty Show (TV series)
Himself - Guest
– Episode #1.34 (1997) … Himself - Guest
 
1997 TFI Friday (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 16 May 1997 (1997) … Himself
– Episode dated 9 May 1997 (1997) … Himself
 
1996 Later with Jools Holland (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #8.7 (1996) … Himself
 
1996 Garbage (documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Without Walls (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The National Alf (1994) … Himself
 
1994 The All New Alexei Sayle Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.3 (1994) … Himself
 
1990 Time Capsule (video documentary)
Himself
 
1989 Great Journeys: Silver Tracks (documentary)
Himself - Presenter
 
1988 Scoff (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.3 (1988) … Himself
 
1988 Which Side Are You on Billy Bragg? (video documentary)
Himself
 
1986 Turn It Up: Days Like These
Himself
 
1986 TV Eye (TV series)
Himself
– Pop Into Politics (1986) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
2012 Democracy Now! (TV series)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Brewing up with Billy Bragg (Album on Go! Discs) See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Interviews  | 1 Article  | See more »

Official Sites:

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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

One of the great things about the 1980s was that there was a return to lyrics. Bands like the Smiths were writing more literate pop. Sometimes too much emphasis is put on hook and melody. Some bands' songs are totally vacuous. See more »

Trivia:

Supported the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 UK general election. See more »

Nickname:

Bard of Barking See more »

Star Sign:

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