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Equality

Simon Schama's History of Now Series 1
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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.

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Christmas Eve 2022 02:15
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Music Played

  • Nina Simone

    Mississippi Goddam (Album Version)

  • Agnes Obel

    Riverside

  • Agnes Obel

    Falling, Catching

Credits

Presenter Simon Schama
Director Hugo Macgregor
Executive Producer Nicolas Kent
Executive Producer Charlotte Sacher
Production Company Oxford Film and Television

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