Simon Schama's History of Now

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Simon Schama reflects on a life in culture - and its enduring power in shaping our world.

Simon Schama reflects on a life in culture - and its enduring power in shaping our world. From The Handmaid's Tale to The Thick of It, how has art defined what matters to us all?

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Simon Schama's History of Now: Series 1: Equality

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Equality

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Simon Schama explores the artists who have been at the vanguard of the fight for equality.

Simon Schama explores how artists and writers have led the fight for equality, generating empathy and mobilising resistance against injustice.

Simon Schama explores the artists at the vanguard of the fight for equality in the decades after the Second World War. He revisits his childhood as a Jewish boy in Southend and his memories of seeing James Baldwin debate William Buckley at the Cambridge Union, explores the story behind Nina Simone's classic civil rights song Mississippi Goddam, and meets Coleman Woodson Junior, who was part of the historic Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.

Simon Schama's History of Now: Series 1

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Simon Schama looks back over his lifetime at the power of culture in shaping the present.

Simon Schama looks back over his lifetime at the vital power of culture in shaping the defining issues of the present: democracy, equality, and the promise of prosperity for all.

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