Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

Season 1 Episode 15: Ugly Ears: Simon Schama

Interview with Simon Schama, British historian (in a room at The Ritz hotel on Piccadilly in London, overlooking Green Park). Schama talks about the beauty of history that he recognized as a child, his Jewish background, the necessity of history, because it offers a counterbalance to the dangerous limitations of the present and his poetic approach to history instead of finding out historical facts. Schama discusses a passage from his book 'Landscape and Memory' that is about his journey through Poland, from which his family was expelled.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

27

Cast:

Wim Kayzer

Quality:

HD

Duration:

93 min

First Air:

2000

Rating:

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