Podcast Episodes featuring Simon Schama

Intelligent Times: Dean Baquet and Simon Schama on Trump, Politics and The Future of News

Intelligence Squared - November 15, 2019 18:21 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Earlier this week we were joined by executive editor of The New York Times Dean Baquet and historian Sir Simon Schama for an examination of the role of the media in today’s increasingly polarised politics. Baquet is the first African-American editor of the world’s most influential news organisati...

Amanpour: Nancy Pelosi, Simon Schama and Mitchell S. Jackson

Amanpour - April 16, 2019 19:29 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
In an exclusive interview Speaker Nancy Pelosi sits down with Christiane Amanpour in Dublin, Ireland to discuss the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and antisemitism. Simon Schama talks about the fire at the Notre-Dame in Paris and the Cathedral's legacy. Our Alicia Menendez talks to...

Simon Schama | The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900

Free Library Podcast - February 02, 2018 10:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Watch the video here. In conversation with Carlin Romano, Critic-at-Large, The Chronicle of Higher Education, former literary critic The Philadelphia Inquirer and author of America the Philosophical  Lauded historian Simon Schama is the author of The Embarrassment of Riches; Scribble, Scribbl...

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Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS - January 16, 2009 15:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 363 ratings
Bill Moyers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who spent months traveling across America in the run-up to an historic election to discover what events in our nation's past can tell us about how we live today and what's in store for the future. Then, find out more about the Born Again American fi...