“I was in Shepherds Bush Tube station, going home from Lime Grove [BBC studios] and I heard the train in the tunnel and I knew I was going to throw myself in front of it.
Lord Melvyn Bragg has opened up about his struggles with depression, which almost led him to throw himself in front of a Tube train in the 1970s.
And I walked up the stairs and have never taken the Tube since.”
Asked if he had ever contemplated suicide by The Times, he replied: “Several times.