Luke McMahon
Director
Simon Schama's Story of Us (2025)
Series 1
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.
Released Jan. 8, 2025
Episode 59 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.history, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series
Production Companies: Oxford Film and Television
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Who Are We Now?
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.
Jan. 8, 2025, midnight
S1E2 - Whose Britain Is It Anyway?
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.
Jan. 15, 2025, midnight
S1E3 - Our Contested Land
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.
Jan. 22, 2025, midnight
BBC Two
59 min/ep
177 min
Jan. 8, 2025
Jan. 22, 2025, midnight
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