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Series · 2025–2025Ended

Simon Schama's Story of Us

7.0·1 season·3 episodes·59 min avg.·United Kingdom

Art and culture define us - but in an age of change, who are we now? In divided times, Simon Schama asks whether art, music and words can be the threads that bind us together.

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Who Are We Now?Up next
Jan 8, 2025

Simon Schama meets Sir Cliff Richard, Jarvis Cocker, Ali Smith and Frank Cottrell-Boyce in an effort to understand how artists, writers and performers have charted the huge changes in Britain.

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Whose Britain Is It Anyway?
Jan 15, 2025

Simon Schama examines how artists and writers, ranging from James Bond creator Ian Fleming to two-tone band The Specials, have responded to the changing face of post-imperial Britain.

03
Our Contested Land
Jan 22, 2025

Simon Schama looks at artists who've explored why the landscape matters to people's sense of who they are. From Philip Larkin to Seamus Heaney and Derek Jarman. Featuring U2's Bono.

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Simon Schama
Self - Presenter
David Attenborough
Self - Reader

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