Simon Schama's Story of Us
2025 · 1 season · 3 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Documentary
TMDB 7.0 · 1 votes
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.
Episodes
- S01E01Who Are We Now?2025-01-0859m
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.
- S01E02Whose Britain Is It Anyway?2025-01-1559m
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.
- S01E03Our Contested Land2025-01-2259m
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.
