Simon Schama's Story of Us

2025 - 2025

Who Are We Now?

8th January 2025

Episode 1

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.

Whose Britain Is It Anyway?

15th January 2025

Episode 2

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.

Our Contested Land

22nd January 2025

Episode 3

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.

Top Cast

Simon Schama•David Attenborough

Director

Luke McMahon

Documentary

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.

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Full Cast

Simon Schama

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David Attenborough

Self - Reader

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Luke McMahon

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Charlotte Sacher

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Nicolas Kent

Executive Producer

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