Simon Schama’s World View

Huffduffed by Clampants on May 9th, 2011

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/04/13/simon-schamas-world-view

Simon Schama is a brilliant thinker and writer on a very wide palette of human affairs. Revolutions: French and Egyptian. Leaders: from Churchill to Obama. Art: from Dutch masters and Rubens to Martin Scorcese and Richard Avedon. Life: from ocean crossings to the joys of ice cream.

He’s a scholar, historian, big-picture narrator — and a free-thinker who can link the far flung pieces of what has been and what is right now. With everything going on today, we could use that voice, that mind.

This hour On Point: a conversation on a world in turmoil with Simon Schama.

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